過食

• 読み: かしょく
• ローマ字: kashoku
• 漢字の分解: 過 (ka) — excess, over, surpass; 食 (shoku/ta) — eat, food, meal
• 発音: /ka.ɕo.kɯ/

意味

Overeating; binge eating; consuming excessive amounts of food beyond what the body needs.

Used in both medical and psychiatric contexts, notably in 過食症 (binge eating disorder or bulimia nervosa). Often contrasted with 拒食 (food refusal/anorexia) when discussing eating disorders (摂食障害). May also be used in everyday conversation without clinical implication to describe simply eating too much. Stress eating (ストレス過食) is a frequently discussed pattern.

例文

1. ストレスが溜まると過食になりやすいと医師に言われた。
2. 過食と絶食を繰り返す不規則な食習慣が体を壊していった。
3. 過食症の治療には、心理的なアプローチが不可欠だ。

使い方ガイド

場面: medicine, psychiatry, eating disorders, daily life, health

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 過 (ka, excess/over) and 食 (shoku/ta, eat/food). Together they mean eating in excess, literally going beyond the normal amount of eating.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: General