They do not; eating disorders affect people of all races, but whether they receive proper treatment, research shows, may have a great deal to do with race. This has been traced to a bias among practitioners that eating disorders are primarily a concern of young, privileged white women. In practice, research finds, this has meant that men and women of other racial groups have been underdiagnosed and failed to receive treatments that could benefit them, because clinicians are less likely to ask them questions about their eating habits, even when they are equally symptomatic to white counterparts.