Body Image statistics
Over one person's lifetime, at least 50,000 individuals will die as a direct result of their eating disorder.

Eating Disorders affect a large number of people in the United States. The statistics state that:

• Approximately 7 million girls and women struggle with eating disorders
• Approximately 1 million boys and men struggle with eating disorders

Unfortunately, the media pushes an unnatural body type, making it difficult for us to accept natural beauty:

• The average American woman is 5'4" tall and weighs 140 pounds
• The average American model is 5'11" tall and weighs 117 pounds
• Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women

Children are influenced by their parents, peers and the media:

• 42% of elementary school students between the 1st and 3rd grades want to be thinner
• 80% of children who are ten years old are afraid of being fat

Calorie restriction and other diets are common:

• 25% of men and 45% of women are on a diet on any given day
• 80% of women are dissatisfied with their appearance
• 51% of 9 and 10 year old girls feel better about themselves if they are on a diet 35% of "normal dieters" progress to pathological dieting.
Of those, 25% will progress to partial or full syndrome eating disorders
• 91% of women recently surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting, 22% dieted "often" or "always"
• Americans spend over $40 billion on dieting and diet related products each year

The diet industry is a 40 billion dollar industry. This figure is amazing considering 95% of all dieters will regain their lost weight within 1-5 years.

[Source: The National Eating Disorders Association]