1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Nutrition Counseling Aiding Recovery for Eating Disorders Act of 2019 or the Nutrition CARE Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) 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 severe biologically based mental illnesses caused by a complex interaction of genetic, biological, social, behavioral, and psychological factors. (2) Over 30,000,000 individuals in the United States of all ages, races, sizes, sexual orientations, ethnicities, and socioeconomic statuses, are affected by eating disorders during their lifetimes. (3) Eating disorders have one of the highest mortality rates of all mental illnesses, as eating disorders can become fatal due to heart failure, kidney failure, stroke, hypoglycemia, and gastric rupture. Additionally, longitudinal studies have found that the suicide risk for those with an eating disorder is 23 times the expected risk. (4) 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. 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. (5) Studies examining the prevalence of eating disorders and insulin restriction among people with diabetes show that up to 35 percent of women with diabetes restrict insulin in order to lose weight at some point in their life. (6) Research shows that disordered eating among older adults consistently find that rates of disordered eating among the elderly are similar to those of younger persons. (7) Weight loss in the elderly may signal an