What is the difference between binge eating and overeating?

Everyone overeats from time to time, yet not everyone describes the experience of overeating as a “loss of control” or a compulsion. Most people overeat due to the addictive quality of modern foods, which are low in nutrients while combining salt, fat, and sugar to an enticing effect. Binge eaters, however, express more defenselessness in the face of food, perceiving weekly or even daily binges as both inevitable and out of their control. There is thus thought to be both a psychological and a physiological component to binge eating that exists less, if at all, in typical overeating.