As each hour passes a person has died from an Eating Disorder. At least 30 million people of all ages, different race, and different genders suffer from an eating disorder in the US alone, and within those thirty million suffers 1 in 5 of those will die from Anorexia. With those terrifying Facts you would think we would be focusing and rushing to lower and prevent them. The reality is that Eating Disorders are one of the most underfunded illness by the Federal government.
According to resent research, “U.S federal funding for Eating Disorder research is twenty-eight million dollars a year, which is about ninety-three cents per person diagnosed with an Eating Disorder.” (Eating Disorder Hope) Eating disorders are one of the most fetal mental disorders holding rank to the highest amount of mortality rates for females. Eating Disorders are funded twenty-eight million dollars a year while sleeping disorders are funding hundred and eighty seventy Million dollars a year
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There so many misunderstandings over eating disorders, and these misconceptions are stopping suffers and doctors from getting proper funding. For example, most people think that “eating disorders are a choice.” Even though this has been proven untrue by therapy analyses and also by genetic research. “Researchers have discovered biological evidence of a genetic under printing to anorexia nervosa genetic linkage on chromosome 1 for the complex psychiatric disorder.” Another huge miscomputation is that the treatment process for eating disorders. Mass majority of society think that how you treat an eating disorder is that you just must eat more, when eating disorder treatment is a lifelong battle. So many people not understand that relapse is almost certain at least once during the treatment process and typically takes up to at least seven years to just get basic control