Rome is currently making people sit up and pay attention with an exciting bill: According to it, “incitement to anorexia” should in future be punishable by up to two years in prison. Fines of up to 60,000 euros are also possible.
The ruling party “Fratelli d’Italia”, the group around Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has submitted a bill to parliament that provides for a punishment for “incitement to anorexia”. Italian media reports that people who glorify obsessions with slimness on websites should be sentenced to two years in prison.
More and more girls suffer from eating disorders
According to experts, more and more girls suffer from eating disorders. The design focuses on prevention campaigns in schools with the help of psychologists and nutritionists. The initiators want to make it clear that eating disorders are a psychiatric pathology that must also be recognized as a social disease.
Experts warn of websites that promote the weight-loss craze and give young women advice on how best to go hungry. More than five percent of the Italian population, or five million people, suffer from eating disorders.
When the soul cries
Anorexia nervosa is classified as a serious mental illness. Those affected lose a lot of weight due to unhealthy diet and sometimes a life-threatening condition develops. One of the main symptoms is a distorted body image – this is how patients, even if they are already severely underweight, are still overweight. The disease is said to have an addictive character, as patients feel an irresistible urge to starve.
Source: Krone
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