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Strange eating addictions is an area that a lot of people probably keep secret. And
in eating disorder clinics, we often more traditionally see eating problems like anorexia
nervosa and bulimia nervosa and we're probably still a little bit trying to find out more
about some of the other types of strange eating problems that are in the community.
There are television shows that are now devoting a whole half hours to filming people, in real
life, with these types of problems. And I've seen anything from, you know, from people
who are drinking their urine to people who are drinking case loads of diet coke or ingesting
other non nutritive substances. All of these things may fall under the umbrella of strange
eating problems or strange eating addictions, although, I do like to shy away from the term
addictions when it comes to eating since it's still somewhat controversial and may only
have limited applicability.
If there's an eating problem like that going on as one can imagine, especially if there's
something non nutritive that's being ingested, this can really be medically potentially dangerous
and even if the person got motivated to help with a strange eating problem for these unusual
ingestion, I can't emphasize how strongly enough how at least there should be some medical
monitoring in place to make sure you're not doing harm to your body by some of these eating
behaviors. So, that would be recommendation number one that I would make about certain
types of eating behaviors that don't fall under some of these categories: Anorexia nervosa
and bulimia nervosa. So, if you do have an unusual eating problem like the one I discuss
going on in your life or know someone that does, the good news is that like other eating
problems there are professionals out there that are willing to try to help and recovery
from these types of problems is possible if you can take the first step to get into treatment.