Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) will be back 27 February – 5 March 2023.
This year Beat, the eating disorders charity, is focusing on eating disorders in men.
Around 1.25 million people in the UK suffer from these illnesses, many in secret. They are of all ages, genders and backgrounds – eating disorders do not discriminate. Eating disorders include bulimia, binge eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED), and anorexia, which tragically has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, though all eating disorders can be deadly.
Did you know that at least 1 in 4 people affected by eating disorders are men? Yet many struggle to ask for help (and are often met with disbelief when they do).
This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, you can help Beat set the record straight.
You can start conversations, share the Beat video and spread the word.
