By Jeanette Beebe — 2018
"The assumption that eating disorders primarily affect young, affluent white women was based on research that was conducted on young, affluent white women."
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Society has also conditioned us to believe eating disorders afflict only young, white, thin, and affluent women. But in reality, they can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, or weight.
Aging can be a challenge to body image. For some women, it may bring on — or rekindle — an eating disorder.
“Diet” is a strange word, used to describe both a deviation from the norm and the norm itself: the foods that make up a day, a week, a lifetime.
Self care supports to reduce purging behaviors.
The stereotypic image of those suffering from eating disorders is not as valid as once thought.