Women who engage in binge eating gain an extra 5 pounds

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Women who engage in binge eating gained 5 pounds more in next 8-12 years than women who did not according to a study from researchers Harvard Medical School.

This was independent of weight cycling, age, or body mass index (BMI).

The data was taken from 2476 young and middle-aged women in the Nurses’ Health Study II who provided information on intentional weight losses between 1989 and 1993 and then completed a questionnaire in 2000-2001 about recent intentional weight losses, weight control practices, and weight concerns.

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Field A, Manson J, Taylor C, Willett W, Colditz G. Association of weight change, weight control practices, and weight cycling among women in the nurses’ health study ii. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004 Jul 20,

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