Eating disorder Treatment can be effective for many eating disorders. Typically, it involves counselling, a proper diet, a normal amount of exercise, and the reduction of efforts to eliminate food. Hospitalization is occasionally needed. Medications may be used to help with some of the associated symptoms. About 70% of people with anorexia and 50% of people with bulimia recover at five year. Recovery from binge eating disorder is less clear and estimated at 20% to 60%. Both anorexia and bulimia increase the risk of death. In the developed world binge eating disorder affects about 1.6% of women and 0.8% of men in
Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale height, sex and age. The EDDS questionnaire is used for researchers to provide some cures for the three types of eating disorder. It is more efficient than having an interview because it's easier to get a result, from a group of participants, with the 22-questions questionnaire. Having to interview each participant is a harder and more time-consuming way to get a result. This questionnaire is also useful for primary care/ clinical purposes to identify patients with eating pathology. In follow up studies of the reliability and validity of the EDDS, it was shown to be sufficiently sensitive to detect the