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CPOY 73 Interpretive Project Silver: "There must be a reason why I eat so much."

They hide their extreme eating habits. They hide the groceries, the food and the empty packaging. They have tried every diet but every time it ends in failure. And for every pound lost there are more gained. Nobody sees it and very few knows about the phenomena, but 40.000-50.000 Danish people are suffering from binge eating disorder (BED). An eating disorder that is not accepted in the European health system (ICD-10) even though it is the most widespread.

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January 25, 2018
Hans Henrik Loberg Jensen. 34 years old. Cand.scient. Works at SKAT, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration. “When I was 20 years old I was so heavy that I was afraid of getting bigger. That was when I figured out that if I just vomited after binging then I wouldn’t gain any weight. I guess I weighed about 190 kilos at that time. Because of all the vomiting I quickly lost a lot of weight. And the more I lost the more positive my surroundings responded to it. And that is when an eating disorder is really dangerous because then it really gets a hold of you: I vomited, ate less and trained more which just meant that I instead developed bulimia also. When I was 28-years old I sought help. That was the first time I went to my doctor. But he rejected me. He said it wasn’t true what I was telling. That men don’t vomit and that I just had to quit doing that. That is of course not what I hoped for and I didn’t seek any help for a long time after that”.
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