Emily and her boyfriend had just had a fight. She felt alone and hopeless. Then she went into the kitchen and grabbed what she needed before going back up to her room quietly. She switched on the TV and started eating...and eating...for hours, until it was all gone. 

What Emily didn't know at the time was that she was suffering from an illness called binge-eating disorder(BED) . 

For years, Emily didn't tell anyone what she was doing. She felt ashamed, alone, and out of control. Why don't famous people confess to BED, as they do to _ ? It's simple: There's a stigma involved. "Overeating is seen as very bad, but dieting to be skinny is seen as positive and even associated with determination," says Charles Sophy, a doctor in Beverly Hills , California. 

"Some parents or friends may look at a teen with BED and think, 'Oh, a good diet and some will-power will do the trick.' But that's not true," says Dr.Ovidio Bermudez , a baby doctor at the Eating Recovery Center in Denver. "Eating disorders are real physical and mental health issues; it's not about willpower." The focus in treating BED shouldn't be on weight, because as with all eating disorders, the behaviors with food are a symptom of something deeper. 

Like most other diseases, genetics may play a big part in who gets BED and who doesn't. If you have a close relative with an eating disorder, that means you're more likely to develop an eating disorder of your own. 

Besides, many people with BED have tried at some point or another to control it by going on a diet, but paying more attention to food doesn't help. And it might even make things worse, like it did for Carla, who's 15 now and is recovering from BED. "My parents would always tease me about my weight, so when I was 14, I went on a very restrictive diet," she says. When you can't have something, you only want it more, so every time Carla would have a bite of something that wasn't allowed on her strict diet. She would quickly lose control and binge . QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who is the subject of the article at the beginning?
2. What is the name of the girl whose life the article dicusses at the start?
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Q2:
1. How did Emily feel?
2. What were Emily's emotions?
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Q3:
1. How did Emily cope?
2. How did Emily try and deal with her hopelessness?
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Q4:
1. What was Emily suffering from?
2. Which illness afflicted Emily?
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Q5:
1. Did Emily talk to her family?
2. Did Emily admit to her illness to her family?
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Q6:
1. Why didn't Emily discuss her disorder with her family?
2. What prevented Emily from admitting to her eating disorder with her family?
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Q7:
1. Who has a job at the eating recovery center?
2. Who does the Eating Recovery Center employ?
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Q8:
1. How do people attempt to manage Binge Eating Disorder?
2. What do folks do to try and keep their BED at bay?
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Q9:
1. Is dieting an effective way of combatting BED?
2. Does dieting work to manage Binge Eating Disorder?
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Q10:
1. Why can't one manage a Binge Eating Disorder via dieting?
2. Why isn't dieting an effective way of combatting BED?
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