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Eating Disorder
Facts
"Among female high school athletes in aesthetic sports, 41.5% reported disordered eating. They were eight times more likely to incur an injury than athletes in aesthetic sports who did not report disordered eating."
-NEDA
"Several more recent studies in the US have used broader definitions of eating disorders that more accurately reflect the range of disorders that occur, resulting in a higher prevalence of eating disorders."
-NEDA
"Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness."
-ANAD
"A 2007 study asked 9,282 English-speaking Americans about a variety of mental health conditions, including eating disorders. The results, published in Biological Psychiatry, found that 3.5% of women and 2.0% of men had binge eating disorder during their life"
-NEDA
"Males represent 25% of individuals with anorexia nervosa, and they are at a higher risk of dying, in part because they are often diagnosed later since many people assume males don’t have eating disorders."
-NEDA
"Between 0.9% and 2.0% of females and 0.1% to 0.3% of males will develop anorexia. Subthreshold anorexia occurs in 1.1% to 3.0% of adolescent females."
-NEDA
All facts and statistics are taken from the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) and The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD).
"A 2007 study asked 9,282 English-speaking Americans about a variety of mental health conditions, including eating disorders. The results, published in Biological Psychiatry, found that 0.9% of women and 0.3% of men had anorexia during their life."
-NEDA
"Young people between the ages of 15 and 24 with anorexia have 10 times the risk of dying compared to their same-aged peers."
-NEDA
"Female high school athletes reporting disordered eating were twice as likely to incur a musculoskeletal injury as athletes who did not report disordered eating."
-NEDA
"At any given point in time, 1.0% of young women and 0.1% of young men will meet diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa."
-NEDA
"An ongoing study in Minnesota has found incidence of anorexia increasing over the last 50 years only in females aged 15 to 24. Incidence remained stable in other age groups and in males."
-NEDA
"Subclinical eating disordered behaviors (including binge eating, purging, laxative abuse, and fasting for weight loss) are nearly as common among males as they are among females.."
-NEDA