National Eating Disorders Awareness Week Feb. 22-28

The Bella Vita and TAABOO are hosting a Walk at Pierce College in Woodland Hills on Sunday March 1 @ 1:00pm to help raise money for research, awareness and treatment of Eating Disorders. This is important because nearly 10 million females and 1 million males across the United States are struggling with the active, destructive eating disorders anorexia and bulimia. Another 25 million suffer from binge eating disorder.

For females between fifteen to twenty-four years old who suffer from anorexia nervosa, the mortality rate associated with the illness is twelve times higher than the death rate of ALL other causes of death.

Eating disorders affect people from all walks of life, including young children, middle-aged women and men and individuals of all races and ethnicities.

Although eating disorders are potentially lethal, they are treatable.