Eating disorders in sport

A look at the problems and causes of eating disorder in sport.
Non-functional weight, decreases performance in many sports. The knowledge of this is a potential driver leading to personality disorders and/or coach-system abuse based around the need to quantify success through competition outcome rather than individual performance. This is not just an elite problem as sports organisations use athlete trajectories to gain governmental funding meaning the problem occurs at all levels of performance. It would be easy for world sporting organisations to say athletes who do not meet a healthy criteria are not allowed to compete but that's not happening and countries like Norway lead the way in red-lighting those that don't meet their criteria no matter who you are. It's about duty of care to athlete's and sport.