In honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, representatives from the Counseling Center were on campus Monday looking for students who could have a problem.
Skylar Eadler, a junior physical and health education major, said he and a friend were screened as a part of a class.
"It's a serious problem," Eadler said. "America is becoming overweight, and people are trying to counteract that by not eating at all, and that leads to even more health problems."
According to the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, the most common behavior that will lead to an eating disorder is dieting, and four in every 10 Americans either has or knows someone who has an eating disorder.
Matt Jackson, a second-year master's counseling and psychology student, helped conduct the screenings and said eating disorders are a problem on college campuses.
"I think what we're out here trying to do is educate people on what eating disorders are," Jackson said. "It's just knowledge. Knowledge of what an eating disorder is could help you better define that line of what's OK and what's not OK — what's healthy and what's not healthy."
Nehad Sandozi, a second-year master's student studying clinical psychology, said she isn't sure what will become of the information they gather. However, if they see a questionnaire that looks like a student who could be at risk, they will pull that student aside and encourage him or her to visit the Counseling Center.
Eating disorder statistics - The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness
• The risk of developing an eating disorder is 50 to 80 percent determined by genetics.
• Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder.
• One in four people with an eating disorder is male.
• Ten percent of all eating disorder cases involve children under 10.
• The most rapidly growing group of people with eating disorders is women in midlife.
• The most common behavior that leads to an eating disorder is dieting.
• Four in every 10 Americans either have or know someone who has an eating disorder.
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