The problem? There are an estimated 1.25 million people suffering with an eating disorder in the UK, according to eating disorder charity BEAT, and many, many more with disordered eating habits.
, and many, many more with disordered eating habits. A focus on calorie consumption - and specifically keeping it low - is textbook eating disorder behaviour, and one that is extremely dangerous.disorders, and is an illness that we should all be careful to avoid triggering at all costs.
Now imagine that being your day-to-day reality, and hearing the Prime Minister urge people to ‘lose five pounds’ or going out to eat in your favourite restaurant and suddenly seeing a calorie count slapped next to your normal meal. Triggering. Massively. You’re thrown into a hostile environment. Triggers aside, I have to point out that calories aren’t an accurate way to measure health. Somebody may consume the ‘recommended’ amount of calories, but they are made up of non-nutrient dense foods, whereas somebody may eat over the amount, but their diet is chock-full of nutrient-dense foods. Does that mean the former is healthier? Absolutely not. The same goes for the assumption that thinner people are healthier. Simply not true.
It’s also incredibly important to understand that eating disorders don’t just look like a very thin woman. Many males live with eating disorders, as do many, many fat people, and people above the dreaded ‘BMI of 25’ mark . Just because you can’t see an eating disorder doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And the fact that fat people living with eating disorders are now faced with a brutal message that their body is wrong and needs changing breaks my heart.
Fat people are currently being splashed across the news as headless bodies accompanied by accusatory headlines. This campaign is shrouded in shaming - shaming against fat people. Fat people who might not even be fat ‘because they eat too much’ - a person’s weight is down to a multitude of factors, some including mental health, illness, disability, poverty, genetics and ethnicity. It isn’t as simple as ‘eat less, move more’.
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