60% of adult women have engaged
in pathogenic weight control

40% are restrained eaters, 40% are overeaters, only 20% are instinctive eaters, 50% say their eating is devoid of pleasure and causes them to feel guilty, 90% worry about their weight.

Eating disorder prevalence 

is similar among non-Hispanic whites, Hispanics, African-Americans and Asians in the United States with the exception that anorexia nervosa is more common among non-Hispanic whites.

Over ½ of teen girls
and nearly 1/3 of teen boys

use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives.