Whereas National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is designated as the calendar week commencing the last Sunday in February; Whereas eating disorders affect 30,000,000 individuals in the United States during their lifetimes; Whereas eating disorders affect people of all ages, races, sizes, sexual orientations, ethnicities, and socioeconomic statuses; Whereas eating disorders, including the specific disorders of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, and other specified feeding or eating disorders, are complex, biologically based illnesses; Whereas persons with eating disorders have amongst the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses; Whereas eating disorders have a high prevalence amongst active military servicemembers and veterans; Whereas health professionals receive limited or no formal training about eating disorders or the identification and treatment of such disorders; Whereas eating disorders can be successfully treated with interventions at the appropriate durations and levels of care, yet only one-third of persons with eating disorders receive any medical, psychiatric, or therapeutic care; Whereas best practice treatment of eating disorders includes patients, their families, and a comprehensive team of professionals such as social workers, mental health counselors, primary care practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, dietitians, art therapists, and other specialty providers; Whereas substantially more research is needed with respect to eating disorders to inform evidence-based treatments, promote prevention efforts, facilitate early identification, and provide insight on illness causation and the damaging effects of eating disorders upon minds and bodies; and Whereas every 62 minutes someone dies as a result of an eating disorder: Now, therefore, be it