The Canadian Institute for Health Information has released a study that is cause for concern for physicians, adolescents and their parents.
The report discovered that over the past two years, the rate of eating disorders that require hospitalization among children between 10 and 19 has jumped by 42 per cent.
It also found that for every three Canadians who show up an emergency room with eating disorder concerns, one is admitted to the hospital.
More scientific research is required to find out exactly why the spike is occurring, but one thing appears quite certain: eating disorders are not going away.
Dr. Mark Norris, an adolescent health physician at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, is the incoming president of the Eating Disorder Association of Canada and has been grappling with both the causes and the effects of eating disorders for much of his life.
RCI spoke with him by phone from his office in Ottawa.
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