The night eating syndrome and bulimia in the morbidly obese

The relationship between two pathological eating syndromes, the night eat- ing syndrome (NES)and bulimia, was examined in a sample of 1 74 morbidly obese adults. The prevalence of NES (15%) and bulimia (2%) was greater among the morbidly obese compared to the normal weight sample (under 1 % for both syndromes). The scales measuring NES and bulimia were posi- tively correlated and both were positively related to measures of psychoneu- roticism.