For boys with eating disorders, treatment can be hard

By thinkadvisor | October 07, 2013 at 01:32 PM

The assumption that eating disorders overwhelmingly affect women could be shifting.

With an estimated 10 million American men struggling with eating disorders, the conventional assumption that it is a disease that overwhelmingly affects women, could be shifting. With the prevalence of eating disorders among men and teenage boys on the rise, admitting that they have a problem and finding a support network can be extremely difficult.

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