We must stop normalizing disordered eating habits in college

We must stop normalizing disordered eating habits in college


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By Gabriella Spina
Mar 10, 2021 11:16 PM
You have drunk too much. It happens. But what happens next doesn’t have to. Your friends casually suggest you “pull trig” — self-induce vomiting — to avoid a hangover. After mulling it over in your head for a while, you decide to. But the next morning, your hangover is still there, and you have, without realizing it, normalized an eating disorder tendency.
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week passed just more than a week ago, but we should not only spend a few days educating ourselves on the issue – especially as college-aged students. The difficult transition from a largely dependent life to independent life laced with an incredibly persistent diet culture, harmful party culture and toxic academic culture is a breeding ground for eating disorder symptoms that cannot go unnoticed. We must continue to analyze these harmful personal and cultural tendencies that happen right on campus and work to quash them.

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