SJR76 Summary

• Recognizes February 26 through March 4, 2018, as National Eating Disorders Awareness Week in Alabama with the theme "Let's Get Real."

• Notes that 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States suffer from clinically significant eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.

• Emphasizes that eating disorders are serious, potentially life-threatening illnesses with the highest mortality rate among mental illnesses, and that anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.

• Highlights that less than one-third of youth with eating disorders receive treatment, but prompt intensive treatment significantly improves recovery chances.

• Directs copies of the resolution to be provided to the National Eating Disorders Association and the Alabama Department of Public Health.