
stress and also a lot of cis women are basically taught to eat like crap. so many other girls i know are either under nourished or malnourished because when they were teens or pre teens they were discouraged from eating their full and not encouraged to eat well like boys are which leads to all kinds of issues with stunted growth, bone density problems, under developed muscle, health problems later in life, gut problems from long term malnutrition
it’s so so so so important to eat lots and eat properly when you’re going through the early stages of puberty from like 11 or 12 to 16 and to be active and those are things that little girls are actively discouraged from which can be damaging to your health. not to mention the lack of emphasis on women’s health means a lot of young women aren’t taken seriously when it comes to health problems that crop up when they’re teenagers which could be easily resolved if a doctor just listened instead