When thinking about eating disorders, there is no doubt that the first ones that come to mind are bulimia and anorexia, since awareness around them has developed considerably in the last two decades. However, these food-related behavioral diseases unfortunately present an even wider range. One of them, more unknown, is the so-called night eating syndrome.
It is not about delaying dinner time excessively, much less snacking late at night, this eating disorder is something much more serious than all that. And, since it does not present such extreme and easily recognizable symptoms as other related diseases, it is easy to suffer from it and not know that you are suffering from an eating disorder.
Night eating syndrome is an eating disorder that occurs in people who eat a disproportionate amount of food later than dinner. Furthermore, it is very common for them to even do it when waking up in the middle of the night for this purpose. Those who suffer from this syndrome experience a feeling of lack of appetite throughout the day and, however, at night is when they suffer from an urge to binge that they are unable to control.
The result of this is an alteration in the rhythm of people's lives, which negatively affects their work performance and also their social life. The impact it has on your health is also very relevant, because it is related to sleep alterations and disorders and, in general, the quality of life is reduced.
It is not always so easy to identify night eating syndrome as what it is, an eating disorder, since it can be attributed to other reasons. To do this, it will be necessary to look at behavior and a series of signs that will reveal whether it is this type of health problem. The health psychologist María del Mar Cinto lists some of them.
