From: ABC News Australia
Midlife Women With Perimenopause Suffer From a ‘Lack of Awareness’ When It Comes To Disordered Eating
June 3, 2025
Sue Cody’s decades-long battle with an eating disorder began when she was 22 years old and in love.
That was when she suddenly became self-conscious about her figure.
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That prompted Gemma Sharp, the director of Consortium for Research in Eating Disorders, to develop an online resource for health professionals and those impacted by a midlife eating disorder.
“Often the stories we’ve heard are people reaching out for support for eating issues in midlife and being met with, ‘You should have grown out of this by now. You should know better by now.’ And that is a completely inappropriate, unhelpful response,” she says.
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