Childhood recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is very common, affecting around 10% of children, and highly co-morbid with anxiety. The link between anxiety and eating disorders is well established, and clinically I have noticed that many adolescents with eating disorders suffered from RAP in childhood. A theory underpinning childhood RAP is that children develop a fear of normal somatic gut sensations, and similarly one of the core features of eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, is a fear of somatic sensations. I would like to analyse the ALSPAC dataset to assess whether childhood RAP predicts later eating disorder cognitions and behaviours.