Binge drinking is a growing problem among women in Australia, according to Eating Disorders Foundation spokeswoman Naomi Crafti.

"We also know there is an increase in the number of people suffering from eating disorders and disordered eating and there is no reason to believe that their alcohol intake is any different to their food intake," Dr Crafti told News.com.au.

Many young Australian women were "drunkorexics". The resource doctor lent her professional description of drnkorexia:

"They are not eating all day because they know they are going to drink at night so they are saving their calories," she said.

"Then they are drinking large quantities of alcohol which has no nutrients, getting excessively drunk because they have no food in their stomach and often engaging in promiscuous sexual activity because they have no control over their behaviour and later on purging to rid themselves of the calories of alcohol."

Dr Crafti stressed to News.com.au the health consequences from drunkorexia, such as lack of nutrients on the body, liver failure, hypertension, and other health hazards to one's heart and psychological well-being, among others.