BBC elite British sportswomen study 2024: Impact of disordered eating and body image on athletes
“I never looked ill, I just looked like an athlete.” This elite sportswoman says she “became a bit obsessive with counting calories and weighing things” until she realised she had become “dangerously light”. More than a third of 143 respondents to a BBC questionnaire sent to elite British sportswomen said they have experienced disordered eating….
