60% of teenage girls trying to lose weight as 121 children hospitalised with anorexia in 2020

In 2020, there were 10 admissions with bulimia and 237 people were admitted with anorexia. Of these, 94% of them were female.

There were 121 children under the age of 16 hospitalised with anorexia last year.

New figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show the condition affects far more girls than boys.