Around 1.25 million people in the UK alone including myself suffer from eating disorders of many kinds…anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder to name a few. I and many others find comfort and ease in eating out as I don’t know what i’m consuming and there is no way of calculating calories in my head, which I could do if i am having a home cooked meal. This causes so much distress  and agony for people like me. Numbers destroy a mind and pushes sufferers further back in their recovery as they are terrified to consume x amount of calories, eating out should be enjoyed and a pleasure, not feared. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate, of all mental health disorders, and everyday the number is growing and growing. I myself looked death in the eyes only a few short months ago, that has scarred me for life, and something I will never be able to let go. Eating disorders destroy relationships, trust, and happiness. More has to be done to prevent, innocent, impressionable people, like myself. Recovery with the right treatment is possible, but these disgusting and traumatising new laws do not help anything. These laws have been brought in to help obesity. There is scientific evidence from a study in 2015 (PMID: 25790388) found menu labelling did not produce any significant changes in what people ordered and research (PMID: 26526247) has shown that with time, people tend to ignore the calorie labelling on their menus, which never impacted their choices in the first place. So this will not help obese nor eating disorder sufferers, and something has to change. The trauma we suffer is like no other, don’t prolong our agony.