Found some eating disorder stats that the American Psychiatric Association came up with from their own research:
- Between 1.1% and 4.2% of women suffer from bulimia.
- Approximately 2-5% of males and females exhibit symptoms of a binge eating disorder.
The fact that up to 5% of the population exhibits symptoms of binge eating disorder is very interesting. When you convert that to numbers it's 1 in 20 people. That means that one out of the last 20 people you interacted with is a binge eater, or at least has the symptoms.
On a related note, if you are wondering what are binge eating symptoms then check out this post I wrote: 7 Signs You are Binge Eating
