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Missing link

t is something of a paradox that people in the throes of a serious eating disorder will swear that they’re overweight. This is often hard for others to make sense of. Surely, if your Body Mass Index (BMI) is less than 18.5 (objectively underweight) and everyone else looking at you thinks you’re skinny as, you must

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