Eating disorders among children in the UK have risen sharply during the CCP virus pandemic, child health experts have said, attributing it in part to increased stress, isolation, and increased social media use. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said on Monday that a “huge rise in cases of anorexia nervosa and other food restriction disorders” among children compared to last year had been reported by paediatricians around the country, particularly in the past few months. “They all put this down to the effects of the pandemic on young people’s lives,” the College said in a statement. Some paediatricians have seen a two-, three-, or four-fold increase in cases of some eating disorders in children over the last year. Dr. Simon Chapman, a consultant paediatrician at King’s College Hospital and South London and the Maudsley, said he had been busier than he had ever been in 10 years of treating …