This week on Wellbeing, we speak with Dr Elysa Roberts from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Dr Roberts joined the University of Newcastle team in 2013 after moving from the USA. She received her PhD in occupational therapy in 2000 from Florida International University. Having gone through her own eating disorder journey, Dr Roberts' focus is on eating disorders and recovery.  

In this episode, Dr Roberts speaks about what types of eating disorders there are, how people of all sizes can have eating disorders, how eating disorders affect the internal body, eating disorders in younger people, their effects on relationships, the genetic links of eating disorders, and some of the daily struggles those with eating disorders go through.  

“Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are not represented enough in (eating disorder) research. We have very little studies, but one of the more recent studies that we do have basically suggests that the rates of eating disorders are the same.”  - Dr Elysa Roberts on this episode of Wellbeing  

Tune in next week when we speak with Prof. Nikola Bowden about cancer.  

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