Stop calorie-shaming and instead fund physical and mental health services

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Review proposed obesity measures to help those with eating disorders: Review proposed obesity measures to help those with eating disorders

Stop the plan to include calorie counts on menus: Stop the plan to include calorie counts on menus

Timeline

28 Jul 2020	Petition opened for signatures
6 Aug 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 15

Status Rejected

Rejected 6 Aug 2020

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