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- People who binge eat often choose highly processed foods.
- Many binge episodes often include sweets and salty snacks.
- Common items are cake, ice cream, cookies, pastries.
- Chocolate, pizza and chips show up in binges too.
- It is rare to binge on plain whole foods.
- Researchers looked at studies across many past years.
- The pattern could often help change treatment and care.
- Families and doctors may use this new information now.
Difficult words
- binge — eating a large amount of food quicklybinge episodes, binges
- processed — food changed by machines or factories
- snack — a small food eaten between mealssalty snacks
- pastry — a sweet baked good with doughpastries
- researcher — a person who studies things carefullyResearchers
- treatment — medical care or steps to help illness
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Discussion questions
- Do you like cake or ice cream?
- What is your favorite snack?
- Would you tell a doctor if you ate a lot at once?
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