Nutrition & Healing · Better Off (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) · August 26, 2021

We're better off when we unstick the stereotypes around eating disorders

Eating disorders affect a population the size of the state of Texas, cost the economy tens of billions of dollars, and kill 10,000 Americans per year. If eating disorders are so common, expensive, and deadly, why don't we talk about them more? Bryn Austin, director of the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED), says we need to start by getting rid of our "st

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