Anorexia KILLS- why choose thin over freedom?

Hello, thank you for reading my blog! This blog is here to raise your awareness about Anorexia Nervosa. I am supporting ‘BEAT’ which is a charity helping eating disorders throughout the UK.

Beat supports many disorders, but mainly Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia. Anorexia is a disease or condition when people under eat or starve themselves. People who suffer from Anorexia usually lose extreme amounts of weight, an average of 15% of their original weight in total.

People with Anorexia feel that they are overweight even though they are obviously not. They adopt an extreme dieting pattern to the point where they stop eating altogether. They disguise the fact that they are not eating by lying to their family and friends saying things like ‘I’ve already eaten’ or ‘I had a late lunch’ when they haven’t eaten at all.

Anyone could suffer from Anorexia, even men but the most common is in women and girls in their teens. This is usually to do with the media and modelling. The media take a big part in this by hiring thin models.

People with Anorexia believe that they have to look like these models and believe that the only way that they can control their lives is to eat almost nothing and that people only like them because they’re thin. However this is almost certainly untrue and all they are doing is worrying their family and friends.

Why should you care?
Anorexia is a terrible illness and over 10 million people suffer from it in the UK. Very sadly, 20% of those people die.

If you would like to know more about beat, you can visit www.b-eat.co.uk to find out more.

Please can you take a moment to answer these questions? Have you heard about Anorexia Nervosa before?
 Do you feel that you are more informed about the causes and symptoms of anorexia?
 Would you be prepared to…?

• Make any amount of donation towards Beat?
• Support Beat in the future?
• Take part in any fundraising events towards this charity?
• Campaign for this charity?
• Inform others about beat?
• Find out more?

I will again thank you for reading my blog. You post the answers to my questions and add a comment on how good you think my blog is. Finally, could you tell me your home town and country (if not UK)

Thanks!
Maya