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A health group in Japan worried about people with eating disorders. The Japan Society for Eating Disorders (JSED) that most people who too much or too little do not any support. The JSED said hundreds of thousands of people have health problems because of overweight or underweight. It said few of these people any medical help. The president of JSED, Dr. Toshio Ishikawa, said: "Hundreds of thousands of people are in silence. There are very few services available to people." He added: "It's often too late by the time the patient is in a hospital. Their condition is very severe. Sometimes they even close to death."

The Japanese government said it was difficult to out how many people are with eating disorders. It said many women were too embarrassed to go to a doctor about eating problems. Some women do not to they have a problem. Takanobu Matsuzaki of Japan's Ministry of Health said the government was to more information about eating disorders. He said: "We want to up local systems of support where their illness can be up early, so people can be helped sooner." Statistics show that in 2014, only 10,000 people in Japan treatment for eating disorders. This compared to 725,000 people in the United Kingdom, which almost half the population of Japan.