An eating disorder accompanied by frequent sleep interruptions to eat, it often affects those who are overweight and might require medical intervention.
Buttered popcorn and candy at the cinema late in the evening. Takeaway fish and chips on the way home from a party at night. Almost everyone indulges in some nighttime noshing now and then. An estimated 1.5 million people in Germany alone even wake up during the night to cop some munchies, according to Dr Martin Teufel, director of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Essen University Hospital and former president of the German Society on Eating Disorders (DGESS). There are