Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent

Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Jump to content
Sign up to our newsletters
Independent
More
Voices
Best
TV

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

Ilona Burton

@ilonacatherine

Ilona Burton is a researcher and journalist writing on eating disorders and other mental health issues.

Features

'Your BMI isn't low enough for treatment': the deadly approach Britain

Features

'Your BMI isn't low enough for treatment': the deadly approach Britain

We are already cloaked in insecurities, and this kind of thinking can only encourage appearance to take yet another step ahead of achievement in a battle that shouldn't exist
Features

Digital slimming in graduation photos? The long road to perfection

Comment

Beckham's got balls

Jonny Benjamin (left) and Neil Laybourn meet after Mr Benjamin launched a campaign to find the stranger who saved him from taking his life in 2008.
Comment

How #FindMike helps to break suicide stigma

Comment

Social media sites need to do more to eliminate pro-anorexia messages,

Comment

If they really want to help young people with mental health problems,

Comment

Don't blame celebrities or pro-ana websites for the rise in eating

Weighty issue: Pictures of people from the neck down are often used for stories about obesity
Comment

How to tackle obesity: Treat patients as individuals, regardless of

Comment

World Mental Health Day: Nobody should ever be alone with a mental

The Psycho Ward costume that Tesco has removed from its website
Comment

If it’s not okay to dress as a cancer patient for Halloween, it’s

Comment

Laxative abuse may be difficult to police, but that doesn't mean we

Comment

Beating eating disorders – three years on...

Comment

Beating eating disorders – three years on...

Claire Squires collapsed in Birdcage Walk, a mile from the finish line in the 26.2 mile event, on April 22 last year
Voices

Marathon runner Claire Squires' tragic death shows the danger of

Comment

The pro-anorexia sites that offer deadly 'thinspiration'

Comment

Standardised food labels won't end 'calorie confusion'

Comment

Obesity operations should not be a 'quick fix' - we're failing to

Comment

Obesity operations should not be a 'quick fix' - we're failing to

Binge eating is believed to be twice as common as bulimia nervosa
Comment

As eating disorders are on the rise, it's important to remember that

Comment

Lady Gaga: Why are we picking on her weight gain?

Comment

People with mental health history should be allowed to serve on a jury

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in