ED Awareness Information
Eating disorders are behavioral conditions characterized by severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviors and associated distressing thoughts and emotions. They can be very serious conditions affecting physical, psychological and social function. Types of eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorder, pica and rumination disorder.
9%
of all Americans struggle with an eating disorder
10,200
deaths each year as a result of an eating disorder, roughly 1 every 52 minutes
<6%
of people with eating disorders are underweight
ANY SIZE, ANY GENDER, ANY RACE, ANYBOBY
Eating disorders can affect anyone. Males, people of color, and those who may be deemed as over weight, are less likely to receive help than conventionally thin white females are. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate among mental illnesses, and continue to be the least funded and least researched. All bodies are beautiful and all bodies matter. We can spread awareness together.