Submitted on Thursday 30th July 2020
Rejected on Thursday 6th August 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Consult with Eating Disorder specialists about new weight loss guidance.
The government should be consulting with eating disorder and nutritional specialists to make decisions about how to encourage the UK public to make healthy food choices. The plans should be supportive of all people, and should not have a detrimental effect on the most vulnerable in society.
Displaying calorie information on restaurant menus enables and encourages eating disorder behaviours, and harms the recovery plans that those in recovery have put in place with their ED specialists. Between 1.25 and 3.4 million people in the UK are experiencing an eating disorder (this doesn’t include those suffering alone), and diagnosis rate is on the rise every year. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder, making those suffering very vulnerable.
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