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Canada’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week is February 1-7, 2026, a week dedicated to bringing important information to light about the reality of eating disorders and the impact they have on people of all ages, genders, ethnicities and body types. The theme of this week is “Health Doesn’t Have a Look” which aims at challenging harmful ways that thinness has been equated with health in modern culture. This messaging that a thin body is the ideal has contributed to significant mental, physical and emotional health issues for those who have been taught to strive after that standard. Diet culture and even what seems like a benign focus on healthy eating can lead to an unhealthy preoccupation with making the right food choices, limiting certain foods or exercising to compensate for consuming something. Eating disorders are estimated to affect over 2.9 million Canadians, and many more who don’t fall into the clinical threshold of an eating disorder diagnosis struggle with thoughts and behaviours related to food, their body and exercise that impact their functioning on some level.