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«It can't, it cannot happen again to anyone else. My daughter's death must be a reminder to all those people and families who are living such a tragedy. The tragedy of seeing that your beloved one slowly passes away, doesn't smile anymore, doesn't eat anymore or vomits. They don't accept treatment and you have just the feeling you haven't don't enough for them. She didn't make it, but there mustn't be any other children dying while they could be saved." (STEFANO TAVILLA, Mi Nutro Di Vita's President and Giulia's father, died aged 17 due to bulimia)
On March 15, 2011 Giulia Tavilla passes away at a step to hospitalization in a treatment facility suitable for her serious Eating Disorder. Even after a short time, her father Stefano shows himself willing to remember her in a constructive way, with a sports event for families. Thus, supported by the organizers of the Trail di Santa Croce, after only a month and a half after Giulia's death, the first sports event in her memory is organized, as a mini-trail running around the 'creuzes' in Pieve Ligure Alta (Genoa, Italy): the “mini-trail di Santa Croce” is the forerunner of the “Corri con Giulia” event. This first event marked the beginning of a long membership path, which results in Mi Nutro di Vita, an Eating Disorders non-profit organization, on August 2, 2011, whose corporation purposes are the following: “to disclose and provide information on Eating Disorders, to foster contacts between organizations having a similar purpose, in order to create a cooperative network on this topic; to favour free expression and discussion on this topic among individuals and families; to organize, when possible, leisure activities alternative to those mass actions which create addiction or distort the reality, to offer alternatives and create consciousness”. These aims immediately show the clear intention to make this phenomenon known to and recognised by the institutions and by people in general, in a way proportionate to its serious impact on teenagers, but not only on them. The achievement of this goal immediately turns into a public petition, presented to the Italian Parliament in 2012, asking for an institutionalization of the "National Day of the Lilac Ribbon" each 15 March, in opposition to Eating Disorders (DCA), to share information, prevention, and create an auto-mutual-help network, as well as to obtain recognition of this phenomenon at the level of public, unsuitable and mostly inappropriate, healthcare service. …this is how everything began! These steps were those leading several characters, each with their own personal motivations, to meet and give a start to this story of solidarity, sharing and disclosure.
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