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Calorie counter and fitness app MyFitnessPal could fuel eating disorders among vulnerable people

Calorie counter and fitness app MyFitnessPal could fuel eating disorders among vulnerable people

Health experts and charities have warned people with eating disorders to "do anything you can to avoid" calorie counting apps. They claim the devices, such as MyFitnessPal, can be dangerous for those trying to fight the mental illness. Evie Walker became so unwell after using MyFitnessPal to record her food she could no longer walk to the shops – and was eventually hospitalised. Evie is still dangerously underweight. She has been living with an eating disorder for more than a decade. Dangerously underweight – she says she used the calorie counting app Myfitnesspal to record what she ate. But, […]

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