What Constitutes a Binge?

I'm asking this question for a friend of mine who doesn't have a CC. We were talking about eating disorders and the question came up of what a binge exactly is.

My book's answer was that it was a much larger amount of food than that normally consumed in a discrete time frame, such as a few hours.

I explained this, but my friend asked, for example, if someone ate 1,500 total between 6AM and 7PM, then ate the same amount from 7PM to 9PM, would that be binging? The friend explained that the question came from the classic example they got for an answer was "a binge is more like 3,000 calories in 3 hours."

I said yes, I think that counts, but I'd ask more people to make sure.

So . . . Any answers much appreciated.

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