Eating Disorders in Childhood: Educators' conceptions

The modern world has surrendered to the idea that our health is deeply linked to our diet. Knowing and understanding the whole process of choosing food, including the nutrients it contains, is a crucial part of unraveling eating habits. In this sense, observing the first years of life is of great value in providing information about nutrition and promoting positive attitudes towards food. Eating habits have changed and, aided by the practicality of everyday life, they are completely permissive. The consequent Eating Disorders are obscure to parents and educators, who can only identify the obvious ones, even if they are unaware of their origins and the real factors that maintain them. In general, the subject of Eating Disorders is erroneously related to the idea of bad habits, based on the discourse that today's children eat inadequately, which ends up reducing the problem to the characteristics of childhood obesity.