SD | UK Universities
A paper led by academics at Northumbria University… points to figures outlining the scale of the challenges and increasing numbers of people impacted:
– Approximately 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder
– 12.5% of 17 to 19-year-olds in England reported having an eating disorder in 2023, compared with 0.8% in 2017
– The financial cost of eating disorders to the English economy was estimated as £8 billion in 2020