Disordered eating and how to break the cycle
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By Talia Cecchele, Registered Dietitian
Unlike eating disorders which are classified using The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), disordered eating has no official definition. Generally, it refers to disturbed and abnormal eating behaviours which might include skipping meals, restrictive dieting or rigid rules around eating e.g. removing a major food group from the diet.
The eating disorders charity Beat estimates that approximately 1.25 million people in the UK ha...
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