For how we live.
Disordered eating is far more common in adolescents than most parents realise, and weight is a poor guide. A pooled analysis found about 22% of children and teens screen positive, and girls far more than boys.
US national survey data put lifetime binge eating disorder at 2 percent of men and anorexia at 0.3 percent. Men are underdiagnosed, and the male-specific presentation often hides as gym dedication.
Extreme-leanness culture rebrands restriction as discipline. The evidence is a mental-health story: eating disorders carry among the highest mortality in psychiatry, and under-fuelling harms the body first.