Malika Ayane speaks: “Guys, thinness is overrated”

During the pandemic, eating disorders increased by 30%, bringing back to the center of the debate, including the medical-scientific one, the most urgent issues – in particular for the younger generations – related to obesity, anorexia and the obsession with thinness in general. The prestigious English medical journal The Lancet has framed a trend that seems to reveal an inefficiency of society to respond to this emergency: according to a 2020 report, prepared by Beat, the British charity for eating disorders, also the obesity prevention campaigns carried out to preventing the many diseases related to it, and informing about the related risks to public health, can unintentionally amplify the risk of eating disorders.