Despite eating disorders having the highest premature mortality rate of any psychological illness, it is one of the least funded. It is estimated that 10 million women and 1 million men are suffering from these horrible psychiatric disorders in the United States alone. While eating disorders have 200% higher diagnosis rates as Alzheimer's disease, it receives less than 2% of the funding. With the death rates of eating disorders being so high, this seems simply outrageous to me.
Something is clearly amiss if the funding for such a disastrous epidemic is so very scant. Unfortunately, not much seems to be changing to correct this.
These statistics and more can be found at the National Eating Disorders Association website.
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