Disordered Eating: Maintaining Mental and Physical Health at Union University

....Wilson has been working with students through fitness and health classes for quite some time now. He articulates that disordered eating is more of a mental issue that many don’t think about here at Union, and disordered eating is a major preliminary symptom to future, and more serious, eating disorders....
....Wilson also notes that men are victims to disordered eating as well, much more than you’d think.
“For men, disordered eating could be just an intense fascination with working out. Male athletes are often in this spectrum, where they think they need to perform and increase their volume, or bulk up rapidly to be a specific weight. This lends itself to disordered eating,” he said....   ...more

Bethany`s Notes: This article is not specifically about student athletes but it certainly applies. Disordered eating is a symptom to future eating disorders. If you have athletes who eat things in a certain way or do not eat certain types of food/food groups...it is time to educate them on food as fuel.