It's fine to be interested in nutrition and keeping your weight at a healthy number. However, if you or a friend become too worried about eating and begin to have negative feelings about your body, you may be headed toward an eating disorder. This is when you have problems around food that can harm your mental and physical health. If you have any of these symptoms, please talk with a parent, guidance counselor, school nutritionist or nurse, or a family friend. They can help you find out more information from one of the many organizations that help tweens and teens overcome this condition. Eating disorders are serious but treatable if you get help.

Signs of a possible eating disorder:

-Intense fear of getting fat

-Extreme preoccupation with your body shape and weight

-Feeling fat even if you have lost a lot of weight

-Frequent dieting

-Out of control eating, even until feeling sick, followed by throwing up the food.

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