Bronwyn Black always felt like a happy and confident child — until she turned 13 and, for the first time, started to feel insecure about her body.

“I kind of innocently, I think, started to look into how could I lose a little bit of weight. And it really did start so innocently. You know, what's healthy? What's this recipe swap on Pinterest that has grapes instead of X?” Black, 24, told CBC News.

“That's how it started. And it just snowballed so quickly.”

For the rest of her adolescence, Black struggled with various forms of disordered eating. She was deluged with social media content that equated thinness with health, and drew a hard line between “good” and “bad” food. When she sought help from her family doctor, she was dismissed.

It’s a problem the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS)

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