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prevalence of disordered eating  

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  • Disordered eating is a general term that describes the numerous types of abnormal or unhealthy eating behaviors experienced by people with and without an eating disorder. Some of the most common disordered eating behaviors include binge eating, chronic dieting and restrictive eating, emotional eating, general overeating, and night eating. [Source: Encyclopedia of Obesity; Prevalence of Disordered Eating]

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