coronavirus pandemic, doctors and mental health experts are shedding light on what they’re calling a new “shadow pandemic” — a surge in eating disorders in young people.Dr.
Debra Katzman, professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto and SickKids hospital, and Christina Bartha, executive director of the brain and mental health program at SickKids, spoke with Global News Radio 640 Toronto’s Mike Stafford on the Morning Show on Thursday.According to SickKids, social isolation and limits on extra-curricular activities caused by the pandemic are taking a toll on young people, with the hospital seeing children as young as nine and 10 being diagnosed with an eating disorder (ED).The hospital said not only are patients suffering from EDs.