Welcome to the Runner's World Show, where each week we entertain you, inspire you, and inform you about all things running.

I'm David Willey, editor-in-chief of Runner's World.

Do you eat to run or do you run to eat?

If you're like me, it's a little bit of both, but it's clear that there is an inextricable

link between food and running.

The vast majority of the time, that's a healthy connection, but sometimes it's not.

This is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and we are devoting the entire show

to a roundtable discussion on eating

disorders and on disordered eating, which are two related but different things, and on how these

things sometimes affect runners, how runners deal with those problems and talk about them, or more

to the point, don't talk about them.

And with me now is executive editor Tish Hamilton, who moderated that conversation.

Hey Tish.

Hi, David.

So beyond the obvious, why is it so hard to talk about things like eating disorders and

disordered eating?

Yeah, it's a really good question that I've been giving a lot of thought to because this

was a really hard conversation for us to have.

And I think there are a couple of reasons.

And one of them, first and foremost, Runner's World is a magazine whose mission is to give

runners healthy eating advice.

And implicit in that, I think, you know,

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