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Male Anorexia on the Rise

New statistics provided by Butterfly Foundation, an eating disorder support, indicate that 25 percent of Australian children with anorexia are boys. This is a significant increase that has prompted calls for the government to take eating disorders among males more seriously.
"...these young guys are getting more involved with what I would call significant disordered eating, self harm behaviors, high risk behaviors, excessive exercise, purging and those types of behaviors which very much go with bulimic activity."
The Australian government has acknowledged the problem not only of increased eating disorders but also of emaciated body images that have become popular in the media. Australia's Youth Minister has been tasked with creating a voluntary code for the media to regulate the images it portrays. Source: ABC News Australia

Labels: manorexia, men

Posted By: Aspen Education Group