The activity or action that is carried out in abundance, in an exaggerated or disproportionate manner is called a binge . The concept is linked to the verb atracar , which can refer to eating extra food and drinks.
For example: “Yesterday I binged on hamburgers and today my belly hurts” , “After the Christmas binge, I'm going to take care of myself with meals” , “Rugby lovers will be able to enjoy a binge of matches in the coming days since “All tournament matches will be televised live.”
The idea of binge eating is usually associated with a binge. If a person eats an entire pizza, three hamburgers, and a kilogram of chocolate ice cream in the same dinner, they will have binged. On the other hand, if you eat just one slice of pizza, a hamburger, and two scoops of ice cream, your dinner will be much smaller.
Binge eating has physical consequences . Anyone who eats too much can suffer from stomach problems, vomiting and other problems. Furthermore, if repeated frequently, binge eating leads to overweight or obesity .
In relation to what eating is, we have to highlight the existence of the term binge eating disorder. It is an eating disorder that causes a person to periodically eat in an absolutely uncontrolled manner, being able to ingest up to 6,000 calories in a single day.
Weight gain leading to overwhelming obesity is one of the main consequences of this disorder, which has become the most common nutritional disorder in the entire United States.
It is considered that it may be caused by some genetic factor that predisposes it, although it is usually common in people who have some emotional, mental or even psychiatric circumstance.
At the end of the 1950s, specifically in 1959, people began to talk about the aforementioned binge eating disorder. The psychiatrist Albert Stunkard was the one who began to develop it, to investigate it, which is characterized by a notable series of symptoms, such as these:
-The person eats, above all, that way when he is sad, when he is stressed or when he is bored.
-Those who suffer from it have an absolute inability to control food.
-The person is able to eat food without stopping until they feel nauseated or experience symptoms of indigestion.
-It must be established that, in addition, the individual with this disorder feels really bad, on an emotional level, after having eaten all that food. Most of all, he feels guilty.
When there is a wide variety of offers or alternatives of the same class , we can also talk about binge eating. Movie buffs, in this context, can binge watch movies at a festival where four films are screened a day. Similarly, a soccer team that wins a game eight to zero can be said to have gone on a goal binge.