Eating Disorder Prevention Training

Now more than ever, the prevalence* of eating disorders, diet culture, and body ideals are interrupting whole-person development in our students, as well as their academic performance. Your Life Nutrition’s Eating Disorder Prevention Training (EDPT) is committed to making a measurable, lasting difference in the lives of students, families, faculty, and staff in middle schools, high schools, and colleges.  Not only is EDPT aligned with what research and experience show are effective for preventing students’ years long entanglement in these dangerous conversations, beliefs, and behaviors, but equally impactful is our interactive programs are grounded in fostering individual and social awareness, cultivating compassion, building knowledge, and transforming conversations.  Our EDPT team is here to partner with your school to tailor the program to your campus community.

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*The Stats

• 9% of the U.S. population, or 28.8 million Americans, will have an eating disorder in their lifetime

• Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental illnesses, second only to opioid overdose

• Less than 6% of people with eating disorders are medically diagnosed as “underweight.”

• 42% of high school athletes struggle with some form of disordered eating

• 35-57% of adolescent girls engage in crash dieting, fasting, self-induced vomiting, diet pills, or laxatives

• Gay men are seven times more likely to report binge-eating and twelve times more likely to report purging than heterosexual men

• Black teenagers are 50% more likely than white teenagers to exhibit bulimic behavior, such as binge-eating and purging, but are significantly less likely than white people to have been asked by a doctor about eating disorder symptoms

Stats from anad.org and eatingdisorderhope.com

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