Statistically speaking, it has been found that one-third women who seek treatment to lose weight suffer from the binge eating disorder. Yet, this most common of the eating disorders, - is much less recognized than the eating disorders of Anorexia and Bulimia.
If you wish to find out if a person suffers from this disorder look for the following signs in a person -

Has voracious appetite, eats very large amounts of food fairly quickly.

Feels hungry as quickly as two hours or so after a meal.

The subjects believe that this tendency is out of their control.

This eating tendency has a biweekly frequency and continues for a period of more than six months.