The Lilac Palace against eating disorders

Monza, 09 March 2021. The Royal Palace of Monza it turns lilac for one night. it will happen Monday March 15 on the occasion of the national day of «Lilac bow» which aims to combat eating disorders.

All together to fight the isolation of young people. "By joining the "Lilac Bow" day – declared the Mayor Dario Allevi - we want to relaunch an important message in the area to help fight a pathology that affects a growing number of people, especially young people, at a time of great expansion of eating disorders also due to the pandemic. Girls and boys who, with the lockdown and restrictive measures to contain Covid, are often alone with their fears and uncertainties. At this moment, the isolation of young people is the worst disease that we must all fight together - schools, families and institutions - because it is often the alarm bell for the development of other pathologies, starting from eating disorders».

The numbers of eating disorders. The topic of nutrition and eating disorders has a profound generational impact. It is, in fact, the second cause of death in the female population Italian teenager after road accidents and hits a growing number of young people. Predominantly 1% of adolescents are affected nervous anorexia and 3% for bulimia nervous; Subclinical forms characterized by a lower severity of the condition seem to affect an average of 10% of female subjects. In adolescence, the male/female ratio for anorexia nervosa is 1 to 9. In Italy, women with anorexia would be around 25 thousand, while those with bulimia around 100 thousand. The data have significantly worsened during the pandemic, thanks above all to the lockdown and the loneliness produced by distance learning, with a number of cases that more than doubled in the last semester and mainly affected 14 and 15 year old students.