Parenting: Eating Disorders
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The number of boys receiving treatment for eating disorders has doubled in recent years, according to NHS figures. Since 2012, the number of boys going into hospitals in England, Scotland and Wales increased from 235 to 466. Jenni is joined by Samuel Pollen, author of ‘The Year I Didn’t Eat,’ a teen novel about a boy with anorexia. Samuel had anorexia from age 12. And Dr Sandeep Ranote, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at the North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to talk about why the incidences of boys with eating disorders appear to be rising, the impact of eating disorders on boys and advice for any parent who may be worried about their son.
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| 0:34.4 | Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to the podcast for Parents for Wednesday, the 27th of February. |
| 0:40.5 | Now, it's not unusual to hear about girls and young women who suffer from an |
| 0:45.0 | eating disorder whether it be anorexia or bulimia. It's rare to hear about a boy or a young |
| 0:51.5 | man. But the number of boys receiving treatment has doubled in recent years. |
| 0:57.0 | Since 2012 the number of boys going to hospital in England, Scotland and Wales increased from 235 to 466. |
| 1:06.8 | Professor Sandeep Renote is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Northwest |
| 1:11.9 | Borough's Health Care, NHS Foundation Trust, and joins us from Salford. |
| 1:17.0 | Samuel Pollan is the author of The Year I Didn't Eat, a novel for teenagers about a boy with anorexia. Samuel became anorexic |
| 1:27.5 | when he was 12. But why did he decide to write a novel for other young people. |
| 1:33.0 | It was something that I wish had existed when I was going through an eating disorder. |
| 1:37.0 | It can be very hard to relate to a factual story, I think. |
| 1:42.0 | You kind of |
| 1:43.0 | certainly when I was going through it I sort of dismissed any story that was |
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