“Eating disorders are serious and have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness,” Vincent Atchity, CEO of Mental Health Colorado, said in a statement on the bills. Eating disorders are not invariably linked to body weight or BMI, said Claire Engels, program coordinator for the Eating Disorder Foundation, which supported the bill. That means those with eating disorders who fall outside the BMI prescription struggle to get proper care or are expelled from treatment prematurely. The same law will also limit the sale of diet pills to minors after experts argued that they can exacerbate, or even instigate, eating disorders. Other proposals across the U.S. include restricting social media algorithms from promoting potentially harmful content and including curriculum on eating disorders in middle and high schools.

Source: Daily Sun June 01, 2023 01:04 UTC