“Eating disorders are a female problem.” This is a commonly held misconception based on the assumption that eating disorders are about vanity. Girls are subjected to pressure to look a certain way so surely only girls will suffer eating disorders?
Would a shocking (low) weight give my story more gravity? Would you believe I’d been more ill? Numbers are the painful truth but also irrelevant!
“Bad” has been assigned to so many foods that it’s now considered shameful to eat them. There is nothing inherently bad about cake it’s our labelling of it that’s caused the problem.
