In my opinion “force feeding” have useful and can help the patient to engage in eating disorder. Symptoms are far more inhumane than force-feeding a patient to save their life, improve their health, and propel them toward full recovery. Food is essential to life, as are fluids, air and warmth. There are medications and treatment that can be life saving. Why something so essential as complete nutrition can be considered optional in an eating disorder victim is incomprehensible. And, as many of their parents of these victims have discovered, a united front of parents and health care professionals that allows for no restriction of food, is often all that is needed to get the sufferer to start eating. The alternative is way too horrible for a patient to endure or for a parent to observe.