An eating disorder is a compulsion in which the main problem is a person eats in a way which disturbs their physical health.
The eating may be too excessive (compulsive over-eating), too limited (restricting), may include normal eating punctuated with episodes of purging, may include cycles of binging and purging, or may encompass the ingesting of non-foods.
The best-known eating disorders are Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa, and Pica..
For more information about the topic Eating disorder, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
Note: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Eating disorder at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.

