Make school students more aware of eating disorders

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

When studying mental health, talk about all types of mental illness! Most schools focus on sport helping mental health and stopping us from being overweight. Sport and a "healthy" diet can make us feel good, but it can also become part of an eating disorder and becoming dangerously underweight.

By discussing the problems with being overweight and ignoring issues with being underweight, eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia, AFRID and orthorexia could be triggered, and cause serious issues including death. Being over- or underweight should not be glamourised, especially not by the government! This problem has worsened during lockdown, cases of eating disorders have increased by 20% in young people, raising awareness about these mental illnesses could save lives and NHS resources.

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 this petition calling for a similar action: Implement teaching of eating disorders into science curriculum for key stage 3+

Timeline

24 Feb 2021	Petition opened for signatures
3 Mar 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 3 Mar 2021

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