Diagnosing

Learn how eating disorders are formally diagnosed by healthcare professionals. Find information about assessments, medical tests, and the diagnostic criteria that help specialists identify different types of eating disorders.

Diagnosing Anorexia

Anorexia nervosa also known simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder in which an individual becomes so afraid of gaining weight and/or having body fat that...

Diagnosing Binge Eating Disorder

Binge eating disorder is a common eating disorder in which an individual regularly consumes a large amount of food in one sitting, or “grazes” constantly...

Diagnosing Bulimia

Bulimia nervosa more commonly called bulimia is an eating disorder marked by binges and then purges. During a binge a bulimic will eat a great amount of food...

Diagnosing Geophagy

Geophagy is the practice by which an individual routinely eats soil substances such as chalk, soil, mud and clay. The cause of geophagy is unknown, but in so...

Diagnosing Pica

Pica is an eating disorder in which an individual has an appetite and is drawn to eating, non-nutritive substances such as chalk, soil, paper, sand, plaster,...