Is Your Overeating a Psychiatric Disorder? Big Pharma Hopes So

Is Your Overeating a Psychiatric Disorder? Big Pharma Hopes So
Martha Rosenberg
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More than two-thirds of U.S. adults are now overweight and it is fair to say that almost all of them overeat. Now pharma marketers have made overeating a real disease that can be treated with a real medicine.

Binge Eating Disorder, for which the FDA recently approved the drug Vyvanse, now appears in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Martha Rosenberg
Martha Rosenberg
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Martha Rosenberg is a nationally recognized reporter and author whose work has been cited by the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Public Library of Science Biology, and National Geographic. Rosenberg’s FDA expose, "Born with a Junk Food Deficiency," established her as a prominent investigative journalist. She has lectured widely at universities throughout the United States and resides in Chicago.
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