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HAPPY NATIONAL EATING DISORDER AWARENESS WEEK, EVERYONE! :)

 

      ‎- Approximately 1 in 200 people have either anorexia or bulimia. 10% of these cases are males.

- Eating disorders are DISEASES not DIETS.

- Anorexia will kill as many as 1 in 5 of its victims.

- Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.

- Per sufferer, only $1.50 is spent annually on eating disorder research efforts, compared to the $170 spent per sufferer on mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s.

- 50% of American’s personally know somebody who has struggled with an eating disorder.

- Eating disorders don’t discriminate. They affect people of all races, religions, ages,cultures, and economic classes.

- Only 30% of those diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia will ever fully recover. It is a life-long battle for most.

- Only about 1/3 of those with even the most severe of eating disorders are actuallyunderweight. People with bulimia are often a healthy weight and can even be overweight.

- No, they can’t “just eat.”

- At their roots, eating disorders are never about weight or food. Binging, purging, restricting, etc. are merely symptoms of the underlying disease.

- Infertility; osteoporosis; organ failure; heart failure; hair loss; dry, grey/yellow skin; brain damage; seizures; tooth decay and loss; esophageal or gastric rupture; laxative dependency; loss of bowel control; vision/hearing loss; malnutrition; extreme dehydration; black outs and fainting; paralysis; coma; and death… These are just a few of the (sometimes irreversible) physical consequences of anorexia and bulimia. Still glamorous?

- People seem to think that anorexia takes such great will power. They are wrong. Self-starvation does not take will power, it takes self-hatred.

- For more information, visit nationaleatingdisorders.org.

(via ilikerunningandboys)