Submitted on Tuesday 28th July 2020
Rejected on Thursday 6th August 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop calorie-shaming and instead fund physical and mental health services
The current ‘war on obesity’ is undoubtedly going to have devastating impacts on those suffering with eating disorders. Instead of shaming people for eating ‘unhealthily’, which contributes to disordered eating, physical and mental healthcare need to be funded more adequately.
Children in the UK are more likely to develop an eating disorder than to develop diabetes. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric illnesses.
Policies like making restaurants label their menus with the calories in each item contribute to vulnerable people’s eating disorder tendencies (e.g. obsessing over calories and losing weight).
Eating disorders are becoming more common than ever due to campaigns like this, but treatment is becoming more hard to access.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Review proposed obesity measures to help those with eating disorders: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/333039
Stop the plan to include calorie counts on menus: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/332940
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