According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), 20 million American women and 10 million American men grapple with “a clinically significant” eating disorder at some time in their lives. The number of new cases of eating disorders has increased every year since 1950, and anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder.

“These illnesses do not discriminate,” Claire Mysko, NEDA’s director of programs, tells Mashable. “We’re talking about people of all ages, of all ethnicities. We’re talking about men and women. We’re talking about people of all sizes.”

Youth are especially impressionable. NEDA states that 40-60% of elementary school girls (between the ages of six and 12) are concerned about their weight or about becoming too fat, and females with anorexia nervosa between the ages of 15 and 24 have a mortality rate 12 times higher than that all other causes of death.