What sports have more susceptibility to anorexia?

What sports have more susceptibility to anorexia?

Divya Kakaiya (Program Founder and Clinical Supervisor) gives expert video advice on: Why are athletes susceptible to anorexia?; What sports have more susceptibility to anorexia?; What is the female athletic triad? and more...

Cross-country runners tend to be very high risk for anorexia, because if you look at running you know, it's a very individual kind of, you have your own drive, sort of a sport and it requires less lean muscle mass. Other sports are gymnastics, very high risk for eating disorders. We have wrestling, and swimming - synchronized swimming. Synchronized swimming, tend to, if you look at the symmetry, the exactness, the perfection - they're obviously in their swimsuits, you know they have to look just so, how the body looks. Sports that have a lot of aestheticism to them, well you'll find that's the sport - gymnasts - that's why classically, gymnasts tend to be so prone to anorexia. Because that, that likeness that they can have, and then, another sport are jockeys. Jockeys will be very high risk for developing eating disorders.