Here’s an interesting article published by Hal Herzog, PhD, on the prevalence of eating disorders among vegetarians.
Eating Disorders: The Dark Side of Vegetarianism?.
Things were going fine until I asked Staci why she quit eating meat in the first place. She said that she became a vegetarian when she was a teenager. Then she dropped the bombshell: “My vegetarianism was tied up with my eating disorder.”
She went on: “Being a vegetarian was a way for me to have more control over my body by taking the fat out of my diet. Fat was the big evil. Emotionally I was in a tough position in my life at seventeen. Vegetarianism gave me something to hold onto.
A follow-up article claims that most vegetarians who return to eating meat do so for health reasons.
