Hey, it's Wendy!

And it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.

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Hey everyone! Thanks so much for tuning into another episode of the Food Heaven Podcast with Wendy and Jess.

Today we have Malini Rogers joining us and Malini is a recognized expert on eating disorders

as a certified eating disorder registered dietitian and supervisor. She is dedicated to supporting

others in their quest to achieve long-term recovery. She is the founder and executive director

of Balance and Eating Disorder Treatment Center and Malini Rogers Nutrition LLC which are both

based in New York City. Yes and I actually saw a presentation Malini did on binge eating disorder

in sleep as a part of a dietitian eating disorder symposium and it was excellent and I knew from

then I really wanted to talk about this on the show because we haven't really talked about binge

eating disorder specifically and we do see this with a lot of our patients so we thought it would be

perfect to have Malini to kind of give us some good information on this so welcome to the podcast

Malini. Oh it's a pleasure to be here thanks for the invitation. Of course so for those

listeners who don't know can you just start off by defining what binge eating disorder is?

Sure binge eating disorder is basically it is when someone is overeating a large volume of food

and by large I know that can be quite subjective but more than the average person would eat

they're eating that large amount of food in a short period of time and they're feeling very very

distressed and out of control in that in that episode. So binge eating disorder has those kind of

three key traits to them as opposed to if someone just over ate let's say thanksgiving I think many

of us overeat at thanksgiving so the food is delicious we're talking oh I have to have some of that

pie and next thing you know you're really really out full and you may feel that I did I just binge

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