Binge eating is an eating disorder in which a person repeatedly binges, usually due to a psychological trigger.
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By eliminating the blood sugar swings that accompany carbohydrate binges, the South Beach Diet aims to make dieting easier.
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Cultural attitudes towards beauty and thinness may also be a factor in whether a person binges.
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Many causes are known to trigger individual binges, but almost all emotional eating can be traced to some trauma that a person was not able to effectively cope with at the time it occurred.
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One lesson the patient learns in therapy is to accept that binges will happen.
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Some binges may result in the consumption of more than 3,000 calories in a single incident.