Ms Kathy Downes:

Sometimes when we think of eating disorders we think quite quickly of anorexia nervosa. Some 30% of people who use our services have a binge eating disorder. We have heard back from the services with regard to "Operation Transformation" of the sense of people being told to go on a diet and that they would get better if they go on a diet. As we know, eating disorders are far more complex than that. We felt that we needed to respond to that in some way.