After testimony from Bart De Wever’s daughter: are eating disorders hereditary?

Are eating disorders hereditary? And is there scientific evidence for this? These are questions that arise now that Liesbet, the 17-year-old daughter of Prime Minister Bart De Wever, admitted that she also had an eating disorder. Her mother Veerle Hegge still struggles with it. “I often see in my practice that two members of the same family suffer from an eating disorder,” says dietitian Inneke Meeusen.

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