World Eating Disorders Action Day
World Eating Disorders Action Day is held on June 2. This event in the first decade of the month June is annual. Help us
Eating disorders are an often invisible disease. Our society understands perfectly well that a person can have different diseases but when it comes to eating disorders, diseases such as anorexia, bulimia etc ... are seen from the point of view of the sufferer as something to be endured in privacy or to be ashamed of.
For this reason, the Day of Action for EDs is celebrated worldwide on June 2, a day on which everyone, all clinics, professionals, families and patients who know about eating disorders, join forces to give visibility to this disease.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
World Milk Day on June 1 (is a day established by the Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] of the United Nations to recognise the importance of milk as a global food. It has been observed on June 1 each year since 2001);
National Health and Fitness Day in Canada on June 1 (the first Saturday in June);
International Sex Workers Day on June 2 (In 1975, on 2nd June, about 100 sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, France, to express their anger about their criminalised and exploitative living conditions. On 10th June at 5 o'clock the Church was brutally raided and cleared by police forces. This action sparked a national movement, and the day is now celebrated in Europe and around the world);
International Cancer Survivors Day on June 2 (Date for 2024);
The day of healthy eating and refusal of excess eating in Russia on June 2 (celebrated since 2011);
Day of patients with myasthenia gravis in Argentina on June 2 (Myasthenia gravis is a neurological disorder characterized by pathologically rapid fatigue of striated muscles);
World Clubfoot Day on June 3 (an initiative of the Ponseti International Association to commemorate the birthday of Ignacio Ponseti [1914-2009], the pioneer of the Ponseti technique for clubfoot);
European Bicycle Day on June 3 (celebrated since 1998);
World Responsible Tourism Day on June 3 (Celebrated since 2012 on the first working day of June)