Table 1.

Feeding and eating disorders diagnostic criteria

Disorder	Diagnostic criteria
Anorexia nervosa	• Food intake restriction • Significantly low body weight in relation to age and sex • Intense fear of weight gain • Body image distortion
Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder	• Significant weight loss • Significant nutritional deficiency • Interference with psychosocial functioning • Not explained by lack of food or culturally accepted practice • It does not occur in the course of another eating disorder or medical condition
Bulimia nervosa	• Recurrent binge eating at least once a week • Compensatory behaviors (self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives, fasting, excessive exercise, etc.) at least once a week • May not have alterations in nutritional values
Pica	• Persistent ingestion of non-food substances for a minimum period of one month outside the culturally and socially accepted context
Ruminative disorder	• Repeated regurgitation for a minimum period of one month not associated with another medical condition or eating disorder
Binge-eating disorder	• Recurrent binge eating (at least once a week for three months) not associated with inappropriate compensatory behavior outside of the course of bulimia nervosa