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How to protect your child from inheriting your eating disorder

My eating disorder is flaring up and my 9-year-old daughter has started commenting on food and body size and I can see my sickness spreading to her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Children absorb parental relationships with food and body image through observation, making recovery a family protection issue.

Worth thinking about

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