There is a study that took place at Yale University during 2002 on the Disorder of Binge Eating. Binge Eating, if you haven't already guessed it, is when some one puts as much food in their gut as possible. The plans of the administrators at Yale, were to not treat the disorder with drugs, but rather therapy. I find this interesting. These guys didn't make it easy on themselves by just creating a drug of some sort to put in there subjects, if you will.
They took the time to take these people in and try a certain therapeutic technique. That very technique was called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This is where they monitor and take in too mind the triggers that set these people into an eating craze. Then they take there notes and discuss ways to to turn CBT into BWL (Behavioral Weight Loss).
Now, for your information, not every binge eater is obese. They can be small, even unhealthily under-weight. The BWL technique tries to change their behavior. Simple right ? What it basically does is return people to there normal weight, and life style, whether they have to gain or loose their weight. But it's just an experiment though, just have to see how it works.
On a personal note, I think it might just work for these patients. I hate to admit it, but I too had a problem with this disorder in february of 2010. Right after State wrestling. I could NOT stop eating, because for the 4 months that season gave me, I couldn't hardly eat a darn thing because I was wrestling at a low weight class. But any way, once season was over i told myself, I wouldn't bee like the others and the temptation of being able to finally eat what ever you wanted, was just to much. Now, I have adjusted back, and gotten back to regular life style. And can't I wait for wrestling season to start agian.
But what i'm trying to get at is that I did the BWL on my own. It really just consists of people getting a grip on the important things in life, and then living it. O and the study was a success by the way....
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