Eating disorders are responsible for more loss of life than any other type of psychological illness.
In the past ten years the amount of children with eating disorders has increased by one third.
In 2006, the NHS treated 58 children under the age of 10 for eating disorders, 35 of which, were male. And the amount of females under the age of 18 that were admitted to hospitals due to eating disorders in 2006, was the highest it had ever been in the past 10 years.
This is only a minortiy of people who are suffering, a large amount of people who are affected by eating disorders will suffer in silence for years as they do not know where, or simply do not want to be helped.
Someone i have spoken to was dismissed of having a disorder as her doctor said she did not yet look "ill enough".
