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It describes individuals whose symptoms do not match the criteria for traditional eating disorder diagnoses (no fear of weight gain), but who experience clinically significant struggles with eating and food: difficulty digesting certain foods, avoiding certain colors or textures of food, eating only very small portions or being afraid to eat to the extent that they are not getting enough to eat and/or become impaired psycho-socially.

ARFID is more than just “picky eating”; children do not grow out of it and often become malnourished because of the limited variety of foods they will eat.

Who gets it?

• The true prevalence of ARFID is still being studied, but preliminary estimates suggest it may affect as many as 5% of children. 
• ARFID is the second most common eating disorder in children 12 years and younger. 
• Roughly 20% of individuals with ARFID are males. 
• 80% of the children with developmental disorders have symptoms of ARFID.
• It's mainly a disorder of early childhood but can be diagnosed past age 6 and in adolescents and adults.

What are the symptoms of Night Eating Syndrome?

How do you know when you’ve crossed the line between after-dark snacking and disordered eating habits? Night eating syndrome is associated with a number of unhealthy behaviors, including:

• Eating very little during the daylight hours
• Consuming most of your calories in the evening or at night
• Waking in the middle of the night to binge eat
• Losing sleep because of late-night eating habits
• People with NES may have difficulty getting to sleep or falling asleep. They overeat partly to be able to fall asleep. They may eat during episodes of insomnia but they are always awake during their binges.

Health Risks and Complications

NES is a serious eating disorder that can have a negative impact on your diet and your sleeping patterns. Many of those who struggle with this syndrome become overweight or obese as a result of their late-night eating habits, according to Obesity Reviews. Obesity can lead to a number of severe, chronic health complications.

Getting up to eat interrupts your sleep, which could affect your mood, memory and cognitive performance. The loss of sleep can interfere with concentration, increase your risk of accidental injury, and contribute to depression or anxiety disorders. . If you’ve been eating in the middle of the night for more than a week or two, your eating patterns should be evaluated by an eating disorders specialist.

It’s characterized by an intense fear that one is insufficiently muscular no matter how muscular he is in the reality:

• An excessive drive to enhance the visible appearance of muscularity.
• Accompanying behaviors include excessive working out behavior (oriented towards both building muscularity and reducing body fat, which obscures the visibility of muscularity), which takes precedence over other important areas of life,
• Excessive regulation of dietary intake (over-regulation of protein intake, and/or the reduction of carbohydrates and fats), 
• Use of appearance enhancing substances such as anabolic androgenic steroids.
• Extreme muscularity is not a defining feature of MD, and the core features may occur along a spectrum of widely varying degrees of muscularity.

Who gets it? 


Although men are most susceptible, both men and women can be affected by this disorder. Approximately 10% of the men who are obsessive gym-goers have this disorder

What are the Symptoms?

• Frequent episodes of consuming very large amount of food followed by behaviors to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting.
• A feeling of being out of control during the binge-eating episodes.
• Purging after a binge, typically by self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives, diet pills and/or diuretics, excessive exercise, or fasting.
• Frequent diets and or very restrictive eating habits.
• Extreme concern with body weight and shape. 
• Self-esteem overly related to body image.

The chance for recovery increases the earlier bulimia nervosa is detected. Therefore, it is important to be aware of some of the warning signs of bulimia nervosa.

What are the symptoms of orthorexia?

• Not everyone will show the same symptoms, but the most common are:
• An obsession with healthy food

• Increase in the amount of time spent daily n obsession with healthy food
• Increase in the amount of time spent daily eating only food that’s considered “pure”.
• Distancing from friends or family members who do not share similar views about food
• Regular advance planning of meals for the next day.
• Fear that eating away from home will make it impossible to comply with diet
• Feeling like certain foods are dangerous or disgusting (such as meat, products which include preservatives, artificial ingredients and processed foods).
• Avoiding eating food bought or prepared by others
• A strong and uncontrollable desire to eat emotionally (when feeling excited, guilty or nervous.)
• Feeling critical of and superior to individuals who don’t eat as healthy.
• Experiencing extreme pleasure in eating “correctly” but feeling intense despair when failing to do so, which could lead to additional exercise and eating right.
• Worsening depression, mood swings or anxiety

Bingeing goes beyond feeling “stuffed” or overeating on occasion. Binges become a regular occurrence, feel out of control and are followed by distress, shame and embarrassment. Binge eating disorder is a severe, life-threatening and treatable eating disorder. Common aspects of BED include functional impairment, suicide risk and a high frequency of co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Binge eating disorder is the most common eating disorder in the United States, affecting 3.5% of women, 2% of men,1 and up to 1.6% of adolescents.

Who gets it?

• A big majority of anorexia nervosa sufferers are girls and women
• Anorexia nervosa can also affect men: the last decade has witnessed a significant increase in the numbers of men suffering from it: the current female to mal ratio is 4 to 1 and was 10 to 1 10 years ago
• Between 0.5–1% of American women suffer from anorexia nervosa.
• Anorexia nervosa is one of the most common psychiatric diagnoses in young women.
• Anorexia Nervosa is the deadliest of all mental health disorders: between 5-20% of individuals struggling with the disorder will die from it.
• Anorexia nervosa typically appears in early to mid-adolescence in women and appears slightly later in men.

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