Visit restaurants, delis, fast-food establishments, and eateries. Chances are you would see several people who are overweight and consuming overly huge amounts of food. This is the general stereotype of someone who has an eating disorder. However, binge eating or overeating is not just the only disorder in the world. Indeed, there are several kinds of eating disorders that millions of folks are suffering from.

Here are some of the most common eating disorders that medical specialists have identified:

1. Anorexia Nervosa
This extremely serious disorder generally affects females although males are not exempt. The disease begins when the person believes she is too fat. She then begins to attempt losing weight by eating very little or exercising excessively. This soon becomes a habit, and she would feel very guilty if she eats something or if she misses an exercise session. Eventually, her body weight drops to dangerously low levels. Because of the lack of nutritious food and due to the body's overexertion, her starts begins to deteriorate.

2. Bulimia Nervosa
People afflicted with this eating disorder are mostly young females. A bulimic person develops a huge craving for food. She then devours more food than her body really needs. However, once she gets full, she becomes quite guilty about overeating. She then purges out the food she just ate through a variety of self-induced ways such as vomiting, taking laxatives, or administering enemas. This constant cycle of eating and purging disrupts the normal functioning of the body's digestive system. Additionally, the vomitous that the patient expels contains hydrochloric acid from the stomach, which eats through the enamel of the teeth, causing tooth decay.

3. Binge eating
One of the most common eating disorders, binge eating is about consuming more food than the body really requires. Because the extra nutrients are unused, they are either expelled away by the body's digestive system or converted into fat. Most obese people have a problem of binge eating. The build-up of fat and cholesterol in the body leads to cardio-vascular diseases such as hypertension, high blood pressure, or heart attacks.

If you know a loved one who is suffering from any of the eating disorders mentioned above, contact any drug rehab clinics to remedy the problem.