Sleep-related eating disorders can be disruptive, costly, unhealthy and dangerous. It can also be challenging to know if you are experiencing this since you're asleep when it happens.

Sleep-related eating disorder (SRED) is a condition that causes people to eat and prepare food while sleeping. Experts Kara Becker and Kelly Baron discuss symptoms, risks and treatments.

Night eating syndrome (NES) is an eating disorder that causes people to eat most of their daily food intake at night. A person who experiences this may have frequent sleep interruptions.

Sleep-eating disorders, like nocturnal eating syndrome (NES) and sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), may cause people to eat more than they desire at night. However, treatments are available.

Night Eating Syndrome (NES) is a complex disorder that disrupts normal eating and sleeping patterns, typically manifesting as excessive consumption of food during the evening or nocturnal periods ...

Night Eating Syndrome (NES) was first identified back in 1955 by University of Pennsylvania obesity researcher, Albert Stunkard. Stunkard observed that people with NES compulsively eat more than ...

Note: Night eating syndrome is not to be confused with nocturnal sleep-related disorder (NSRED), or sleep-eating, a rare condition that affects only a small subset of sleepwalkers.

Journal reference: Blouchou, A., et al. (2024). Beat the Clock: Assessment of Night Eating Syndrome and Circadian Rhythm in a Sample of Greek Adults.