The COVID-19 pandemic is fueling another medical condition – eating disorders are at an all-time high. CBS 2’s Sabrina Franza met Friday with a college freshman at Northwestern University who told her story of her road to recovery.
While many things seem to be returning to some degree of pre-pandemic normal, Sayah said she is not confident that some habits started in the pandemic will go just as easily.
“If people start like avoiding events with food, or missing out on birthday parties or things like that, or telling their friends, you know, ‘Oh, I’m not hungry,’ or if you notice them like suddenly gaining interest in working out when they didn’t really have an interest like that before – it’s usually, it can be a very subtle change,” Sayah said. “It can be things that people wouldn’t think twice about.