24-02-2025
Bicentennial Tower lighting up for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
The Bicentennial Tower is lighting up this evening for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
White Pine Center for Healing is celebrating Eating Disorder Awareness Week in an effort to bring awareness, understanding, and support to a vast majority of community people who experience eating disorders.
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental health issue, second to opioid abuse.
'A person in this country dies from an eating disorder every 52 minutes. The top two causes of death are cardiac issues and suicide so these are serious serious mental health issues they're not a choice they're not a lifestyle they are a range of diseases that really affect the entire body,' said Mary Machuga the executive director of White Pine Center for Healing.
The Bicentennial Tower will light up Monday evening at 6:30 p.m.
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