SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Eating disorders affect 30 million Ameri-
cans during their lifetime and have the highest mor-
tality rate of any psychiatric illness. 
(2) Eating disorders affect people of all body 
sizes, ages, races, sexual orientations, ethnicities, 
and socioeconomic statuses. 
(3) Eating disorders are complex, biologically 
based serious mental illnesses that include the spe-
cific disorders of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, 
binge eating disorder, avoidant-restrictive food in-
take disorder, and other specified feeding or eating 
disorders. 
(4) Eighty percent of people with an eating dis-
order are normal or higher weight, and 81 percent 
of people with binge eating disorder are clinically 
higher weight or have obesity. 
(5) One in 4 people seeking obesity treatment 
has an underlying eating disorder that is often 
undiagnosed. 
(6) Children in higher weight bodies are more 
likely to engage in unhealthy weight-control meas-
ures, and 2⁄3 are at risk of an eating disorder. 
(7) Research shows that focusing on weight 
talk, weight stigma, and dieting does not result in 
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long-term reduction in weight; 2⁄3 of dieters will re-
gain more weight than lost from dieting. 
(8) Studies show that shifting prevention fo-
cuses from weight and dieting towards long-term 
health practices, including a focus on body positivity, 
nutrition, decreasing weight-based bullying or har-
assment, and physical activity, without a focus on 
weight, BMI testing, or negative weight talk, re-
duces risk factors for populations affected by eating 
disorders and populations affected by obesity. 
SEC. 3. EATING DISORDERS PREVENTION. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 28 of the Food and Nu-
trition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036a) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) of 
subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and’’ and inserting ‘‘, 
eating disorders prevention, or’’, 
(2) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(b) GRANT
PROGRAMS.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the National Institute of Food and 
Agriculture, in consultation with the Administrator of the 
Food and Nutrition Service, shall implement an evidence- 
based nutrition education, eating disorders prevention, or 
obesity prevention program for eligible individuals that 
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promotes healthy food choices and physical activity with 
a focus on long-term health practices.’’, 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in the heading by striking ‘‘AND’’ and 
inserting ‘‘, EATING DISORDERS PREVENTION, 
OR’’, 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘evidence-based’’ after 
‘‘deliver’’, and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ and inserting ‘‘, 
eating disorders prevention, or’’, 
(C) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A) by striking 
‘‘and’’ and inserting ‘‘, eating disorders 
prevention, or’’, and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in clause (iii) by striking ‘‘ 
and’’ at the end, 
(II) in clause (iv) by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’, and 
(III) by adding at the end the 
following: 
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‘‘(v) ensure that interventions encour-
age screening for eating disorders and in-
clude long-term health practices.’’, 
(D) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in clause (i) by inserting ‘‘eat-
ing disorders prevention and screen-
ing,’’ after ‘‘education,’’, and 
(II) in clause (iii) by inserting 
‘‘and long-term health practices’’ after 
‘‘nutrition’’, and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i)— 
(aa) by inserting ‘‘and eat-
ing disorders prevention,’’ after 
‘‘education’’, and 
(bb) by inserting ‘‘, Assist-
ant Secretary of the Substance 
Abuse and Mental Health Serv-
ices Administration,’’ after ‘‘Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention’’, and 
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