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Eating disorders are themselves understudied within the mental health field, where conditions like anorexia have incorrectly been stereotyped as only affecting teenage girls.

A woman who recovered from anorexia has become a fitness coach to help inspire other women grappling with their body image.

A woman who was diagnosed with anorexia at 19 had to travel as far away as Glasgow to receive intensive treatment.

"It was almost as if I was getting treated like an animal," one young patient, being treated for anorexia, said.

The "alarming" rise in disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, over the past decade, has now become an "emergency", the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eating Disorders says in a report.