Eating disorders cost US $65 billion a year: Here’s what agencies can do

Cynthia Bulik, Christine Peat, and S. Bryn Austin | These are tough times. Our health care system is overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing already existing barriers to mental health care and creating a mental health epidemic of depression and anxiety. We now have good evidence that eating disorders are worsening too and our government can do something about it.