Status of Women committee  Thanks, Jennifer. The issue of access is so critical. It's one that I'm really passionate about. The work we've done here in Nova Scotia has been exactly on that. It's been looking at removing barriers to access to care for folks with eating disorders. What we found to be workin

Status of Women committee  Is this question for Shaleen Jones?

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely we can follow up with numbers on that. We know that eating disorders generally tend to start in adolescence, but for a variety of reasons, including lack of access to treatment, people still have them in mid-life and late life. This isn't an illness that appears

Status of Women committee  That's a great question. I think you've hit upon something really important here, which is that we have to look at young people in the context in which they lead their lives. While it's important to do health promotion in the schools, early intervention for eating disorders and

Status of Women committee  That's the million-dollar question. In the 2014 report on eating disorders of women and girls, one of the witnesses said that if eating disorders were an illness that affected men like prostate cancer, there would be an eating disorders clinic on every street corner. I think it's

Status of Women committee  Thank you all so much for inviting us here to speak about this really important issue. I want to echo what we've heard from a lot of the panellists. I am a survivor of an eating disorder, and we know that eating disorders are complex, common, serious illnesses with the highest