British food writer Nigella Lawson has expressed concern on how an increasing number of young people are suffering from eating disorders as they try to maintain a thin figure.

She also said that watching her mother, Vanessa, struggle with eating disorders throughout her life, made her determined not to follow in her footsteps, and to instead have a positive relationship with food.
"I think that's probably very much the basis of my anti-diet stance," the Telegraph quoted her as saying.
"As a consequence, my act of teen rebellion was not being skinny... in my experience, enjoying food is probably a good way of not getting into that binge mentality.
"It's not that I think it's good to eat unhealthily, I don't, but I can see how corrosive obsessive dieting can be.
"And what I would say now as a parent - you know, I've got teenage children - is that I'm quite taken aback how much anorexia now seems to be pretty much equal in both sexes. I notice both male and female.
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"So, of course, you don't have to extrapolate very far and that gets to be a celebration of excessive thinness," she stated.