Lots of treatment options are available for the ones who are suffering from these disorders. One is psychotherapy by talking to a psychologist, about 50% of these patients are suffering from depression. Another kind of treatment is a cognitive behavioral therapy where you set goals and helps change unhealthy thought patterns. Nutritional counseling is also a treatment by eating healthier to maintain your body healthy. However, some patients need a medically supervised diet to get back to a healthy weight.

There are several types of eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. Anorexia nervosa is pretty self explained but for the ones who don't know it is characterized by starvation and massive weight loss. Bulimia nervosa is characterized as eating a lot of food in a short period of time then getting rid of the food or calories by making yourself throw up, laxatives, or anything that helps to release the food. Binge eating is known as eating uncontrollably passing your hunger limits after being full.

For the people that know of someone who may have an eating disorder, these signs and symptoms may help you identify these problems. Such as depression, hiding food, switching from overeating to fasting, isolating from family and friends. One more is also constantly switching rapid weight.

There are many risk factors to eating disorder, however they are not what cause the disorder but can contribute to developing an eating disorder. Psychological risk factors are low self-esteem, lack of control on life, anxiety, anger, stress. Some social factors to eating disorder are wanting to obtain the "perfect body", the cultures definition of beauty.

Explore information about eating disorders, including signs and symptoms, treatment, research and statistics, and clinical trials. Examples of eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder.