{
  "id": 14649527,
  "title": "Forty percent of high school students report binge eating in new CDC survey",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/forty-percent-of-high-school-students-report-binge-eating-in-new-cdc",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-15T08:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "STAT News",
    "slug": "stat-news",
    "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/15/teenage-binge-eating-cdc-survey-finds-alarming-rate/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new CDC survey reveals that about 40% of high school students in the U.S. reported binge eating in the past month, highlighting the prevalence of disordered eating among young people. This is the first time the biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey has asked about binge eating, and the first data on disordered eating collected in a decade. The survey, which included nearly 7,000 students, also found that 17% of students engaged in binge eating within the last three days. Experts are expressing alarm at the high numbers, with Ariel Beccia, a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital, noting the \"extremely alarming\" findings.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}