Fat Free Schooling: the discursive production of ill-health.

The article presents information on eating disorders, essentially anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. It is particularly afflicting young people, particularly young women. It assesses the relationships between discourses of food refusal and those of obesity. In addition, it examines their effect on curricular concerned with the education of the "body" in schools. Eating disorders have received lot of attention in recent years in the popular media as well as the scientific literature across the disciplines. Focusing attention on eating disorders raises many queries about how young women and men generally experience and are treated in the contemporary conditions of schooling. In addition, the issues related to the social production of the body, the curriculum of sport, health and physical education. In Great Britain, the Eating Disorders Association estimate that about 165,000 people have eating disorders and are held accountable for the highest number of deaths from psychiatric illness.