Whether this is directed to you as or to someone else, you may hear this a lot, "oh you're too skinny! You need to eat!" or "You're getting a little chubby, maybe you should cut back on the sweets." Well, even my own mother has told me that I was "gaining a little weight." If you haven't been there yet, you may come across it later on, especially as you get older!

Eating disorders can stem from extreme eating behaviors that can cause a person to become either extremely sick, end up in the hospital, or even die.

KidsHealth.org from your reading states that every 1 or 2 out of every 100 students will struggle with an eating disorder. In the middle school/high school that I went to, there were just over a hundred of us in my graduating class and I knew of at least one person that had developed an eating disorder.

Please realize (and this too is in your reading) that an eating disorder is NOT the same as going on a diet, exercising, or trying to come up with a healthy meal plan to lose weight. Eating disorders are where people take eating, exercising, or body image to a whole knew level to the point where it becomes dangerous.