Food avoidance emotional disorder (FAED)

Food avoidance emotional disorder (FAED) is a childhood emotional disorder in which food avoidance, in quantity and range, is the prominent feature, resulting in weight loss. This is primarily a mood, rather than food, disturbance. Children with FAED tend to be, on average, younger than those with early onset anorexia nervosa.  FAED is more common in boys than girls.  Source.


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