What to do if your friend has an eating disorder
Source: Kidshealth

In our food- and image-obsessed culture, it can be hard to tell whether someone has an eating disorder. It doesn't help that many of the actors on your favorite TV shows and the models in the magazines you read are extremely thin.

Lots of teens are critical of their bodies and lots of them diet or exercise to try to change them. Constantly talking about food and your body and striving to be skinny to fit into that bathing suit or prom dress can start to seem normal.

It crosses the line when a person starts to do things that are physically and emotionally dangerous and could have long-term health consequences. This could mean going on a starvation diet and getting down to an unhealthy weight (like with anorexia nervosa) or it could be bingeing and purging, either through forced vomiting, compulsively exercising, taking laxatives, or a combination (also known as bulimia nervosa). And although they're more common in girls, guys get eating disorders, too.

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