The number of children and young people who seek care due to eating disorders has increased from 2,000 to 5,000 in the last ten years.
Nine out of ten who fall ill are girls.
Those who suffer from the most dangerous variant, anorexia nervosa, risk starving themselves to death.
It is the psychiatric diagnosis that has the highest mortality rate of all.
Life threatening condition
Common complications of severe anorexia are heart rhythm disturbances, acute heart failure and low blood sugar levels, which are life-threatening.
In these cases, patients may need to be force-fed via tube, according to the Act on Forced Psychiatric Care.
The UN wants to ban seat belts
The belting of children in Sweden has received very harsh criticism from the UN.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child writes, among other things, in its latest report that Sweden should ban the method by law.
This is also what the Children's Ombudsman and Save the Children want.
Hear reporter Björn Tunbäck explain what the law says about seat belts for children in care - in the clip above.