Kerrie Jones, Orri CEO & Founder, spoke with The Independent about ‘fussy’ eating in children and the rise of ARFID:
“Kerrie Jones, a psychotherapist and founder of Orri, a specialist eating disorder service in London, says that they have had a “highly significant” increase in Arfid of late. But they attribute it to the fact that Arfid is relatively new to be recognised as an eating disorder. “Sometimes Arfid is explained as ‘extreme picky eating’, but this is an unhelpful description as it is very different to normal picky eating,” she says. “The key difference is the level of physical and mental distress that eating causes.””