There are some eating disorders truths, such as you can have an eating disorder and look healthy, families are not to blame, it is a health crisis that disrupts personal and family functioning, and eating disorders are not choices.

Dr. Paula Levine, Psychologist and Founding Director of the Miami Counseling Resource Center, says families are not to blame, but they do need to be involved, and the support system is not necessarily the parents, it is a husband.