How does an eating disorder start?

How does an eating disorder start?

Usually, people feel pressurized to fit into a particular image. If you look at magazines, most of the children on children's television, for example, and in magazines and in the media, are of a certain shape and if you don't fit that shape then people can feel very inadequate, and feel that they don't fit in. It starts as simply as that. The other way it can start is if a child has no power in their own life. This is something that they can control, which is how much food they take in.