No. This behavior doesn't meet DSM criteria for an eating disorder
Yes, it is, definitely. Eating junk foods is unhealthy. It should not be encouraged especially to children. It is only an eating disorder when the diet solely consists of these non-food, vitamin free chewable items. Junk foods are mostly made of appetite-triggering substances such as salt and sugar and can become a vicious cycle.
No. Salt and sugar have very different properties. Also, salt is used to discourage small children from eating the playdough, which would certainly be a problem if sugar were used.
A lot of them have high sugar and salt content
Yes. I crave salt and sugar.
Bulimia and obsessive compulsive eating can cause diabeties because of the large amount of sugar being consumed
Eating salt after eating sugar is more or less a learned behavior. It could be, though, that, since the salt stimulates a different set of taste buds on the tongue, it might remove the brain's negative reaction to "Too Sweet".
Why is what considered an eating disorder
Why is what considered an eating disorder
In the world more people enjoy eating foods with salt but more children like sugars.
An eating disorder with binge eating is bulimia nervosa.
Any eating disorder can be fatal is the eating habit is continued for a prolonged period of time. One in five people who have an eating disorder, die from it.
Tharun Rameshbabu has an eating disorder