FRESH fruit and vegetables are off the menu, as we put our health on the back-burner in favour of a diet of junk food and ready meals.

NO national public beds are dedicated in hospitals to people with eating disorders.

THE celebrity-driven “size zero” phenomenon is having “serious effects” on Ireland’s young people with more than 7,000 Irish teenagers now suffering from eating disorders, a leading expert will tell a conference in Cork today.

AT LEAST two Irish children under the age of seven develop an eating disorder every month, according to one of the country’s main resource centres for those with anorexia and bulimia.

A GROWING number of overweight people are looking for professional help to battle obesity, experts have revealed.