Kids and Eating Disorders

Humans need food and water to live. Kids especially need to eat healthy food and enough of it  to grow and develop. But for some kids, they hear about food making them "too fat" or they start to worry about food and some kids stop eating right, eat too little, or try to make themselves throw up after they eat

Doing this can make kids get very sick without enough food, or if a kid keeps throwing up it makes our bodies stop growing and developing in a healthy way. If this goes on for a long time, kids can get very sick and need to go to hospital to be fed through a tube in their nose. Sometimes people can't stop their bodies getting so sick, and it can even lead to death. Why, then, would anyone do it? Well, there isn't just one answer  there are many.

Some say it's because there are lots of too-thin models and movie or TV stars. We see these people's bodies on TV, the computer, or in a magazine and might feel that we want to look like that too because they seem rich and happy all the time. A lot of us like the way that TV stars and sports celebrities look, or they wish their own bodies looked different.
But that's probably not the whole story. Most kids just enjoy looking at pictures of famous people and seeing them on TV, but it doesn't make them change their own lives. Some might start trying to eat healthy and exercise, or ask their parents if they can help them to be more healthy.
But some people go on a diet, which means they start eating less food  and sometimes dieting can get out of control. Some kids at school might start competing about how little they have eaten that day. Some brag about having a diet soda for breakfast. But this can be the start of unhealthy eating problems.