Hi ! Sorry English is not my mothertongue, but I will have a guess anyway. From what I understand, the narrator is saying that the girls at the hospital would sometimes have what they considered to be excessive amounts of food, and wished that someone prevented them to eat them. But the nurses, instead of forbidding them to eat that much, and in what they considered to be a helping attitude, would "close their eyes" to these "excesses", letting the girls "destroy themselves" with the food, in what the narrator sees as a hypocritical if not dangerous complicity with the girls cravings/ obligations to eat what they see as a lot. The pleased well-meaningness of the nurses is seen as absurd, if not criminal by the narrator. She sees it as a shocking "permission to destroy yourself" policy. She reproches them to be pleased of themselves because they use their authority to be "nice", instead of helping the girls to control their food intakes, so that situation seems absurd to her. "Unequivocal" emphasizes the fact that it was Obvious" what their wishes were (that the girls "stuff" themselves - she deplores it). "Nonjudgemental" denounces the "apalling" lack of judgement from the nurses with regards to the "abysmal" quantities of food taken, when they really should, for the good of the girls, stop them from harming themselves with what they see as bad and dangerous. The self-satisfaction of the nurses thinking they're being "nice", when they're helping the girls destroy themselves, irritates the narrator. (Anorexics often judge themselves and food as "disgusting", and think being otherwise is being unhealthy, dirty, vulgar and weak.) Just thought I would develop... :) If I made any mistakes, please don't hesitate to correct me :)

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