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A Relationship That Needs Some Work And Extra TLC
November 16, 2008 in Adult Women & Eating Disorders, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder (BED), blog, Bulimia Nervosa, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Cognitive Processing and Effects of Dieting, Diet Breaking, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorders, Empowered Families, Genetic and Environmental causes of ED's, Healing Families and Eating Disorder Treatment, Health & Wellbeing, Jean Kristeller PhD, Mind & Body, musings, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Public Health and Nutrition, Ruth Quillian Wolever PhD, Self-Care, Society and Weight Related Issues | Tags: Body+Soul, Celina Ottaway, Center for Mindful Eating, Consicous-Mindful Eating, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Food, Food&Appetite, Food&Hunger, Integrative Medicine | Leave a comment
-Melissa Punch
Blogger and writer Celina Ottaway (her blog-life is a wonderful and conscious journey!) wrote a nice piece for November’s issue of body+soul regarding an important component that is essential to all of our lives, eating disordered or not: FOOD – and how mindful eating (I’m partial to the term “conscious eating”) can help reconnect and form a healthier relationship to that which sustains us.
I don’t have an eating disorder. But like many women I know, somewhere along the way, eating — what, when, how much, in front of whom, how fast — got complicated. The sensation of hunger went from a physical signal with a simple response (“eat”) to a mixed emotion that has no clear solution. Should I, shouldn’t I? I’m being bad, I’m being good. I deserve this. I will hate myself in the morning. And on and on
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How did our appetites — for nourishment and pleasure — become suspect? Is it possible to listen to our bodies the way we did when we were children? The answers lie somewhere in the tangle of emotional, cultural, and neurological reactions that shapes our desire to eat. “Hunger is complicated,” says Jean Kristeller, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Indiana State University and president of The Center for Mindful Eating. Besides the actual physical sensation, “it has to do with a complexity of psychological cravings that may have very little to do with your physical need for food.”
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I love Celina’s parting thoughts:
Whether we move toward our deepest hungers or simply recognize them, we begin inhabiting ourselves more fully. And this moves us closer to feeling ourselves from the inside out, like we did once upon a time.
Sharing Stories…
October 15, 2008 in anorexia, blog, Bulimia, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Community Health Education, Constructs of Psychological Health, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disoders and Media Publications, Eating Disorder Hope & Recovery, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, ED advocacy, ED Recovery-Education-Support, EDNOS, eliminating stigma, Empowered Families, Engaged Families, Health & Wellbeing, Men-boys and Eating Disorders, Personal Narratives, Personal Recovery Stories, Society and Weight Related Issues, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, Tara Parker-Pope/Well Blog, Women-Girls and Eating Disorders | Tags: Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Documentaries, Eating Disorder News, Education & Prevention-Eating Disorders, NYTimes, Public Health | Leave a comment
-NY Times
… and putting real faces and voices to the lives of those with Eating Disorders. The NYtimes Health Guide along with Well column/blog by Tara Parker has a wonderful piece documenting a variety of brave and courageous individuals who share their journey of Hope and Healing.
–shanti
Australia Diggin’ Maudsley
June 3, 2008 in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Australian Eating Disorder Treatment/Programs, Behavioral Health, Behavioral Strategies and Eating Disorders, Binge Eating Disorder (BED), Blogs, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Community Health Education, Dr Daniel leGrange, Dr Sloane Madden, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Hope & Recovery, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorder Treatment, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, EDNOS, Empowered Families, Engaged Families, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, family, Family Based Therapy, Family Education/Resources, Family supported ED treatment, Family-Based Therapy and Eating Disorders, FBT/Family-Based Therapy, Health & Wellbeing, Healthy Communities, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Parent/Family Support and Eating Disorders, Public Health, Society and Weight Related Issues, University of Chicago ED treatment | Tags: Australian Eating Disorder Treatment/Programs, Community Health Education and Eating Disorders, Dr Daniel leGrange, Dr Sloane Madden, Eating Disorder News, Family Intervention & Eating Disorders, Family Therapy, Family Therapy vs Individual Therapy for Adolescents wi, Family-Based Therapy and Eating Disorders, Maudsley Method, Skills-Based Workshops/Training for Eating Disorder Car, University of Chicago ED treatment | Leave a comment
With Dr Daniel leGrange taking his sabbatical in Australia there has been a hub of conference presentations and various skills-based workshops and training for implementing the Maudsley Method into eating disorder treatment and care as well as informing and assisting families and caregivers of utilizing this Family-Based approach to help their loved one.
The collaboration and gathering of these individuals, families and professionals probably could not have arrived at a better time since Australia has recently been highlighting an increase of younger children diagnosed with anorexia.
On a positive note, one Sydney mother describes their experience using the Maudsley Method for their adolescent daughter as valuable and further stated, “It’s not a quick fix. But we’re absolutely stronger as a family. We’ve always been strong.”
Go Maudsley!
: Bonne Fete des Meres :
May 11, 2008 in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Art, Blogs, Body Acceptance, Books, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Creativity, Culture, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Hope & Recovery, eating disordered, Eating Disorders, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, EDNOS, eliminating stigma, Emotional Healing, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Engaged Families, Family & Culture, Health & Wellbeing, Largesse, Literary Genres, Love, Love Your Body, Mind & Body, Mother's Day, Mother/Daughter Relationships, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Parent/Family Support and Eating Disorders, Personal Stories, Poetry, Poetry/Literature, Psychology and Myth, Relationships, Self-Care, Self-Love, Size Accpetance, Social Bonding, Society and Weight Related Issues, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, Traditions/Holidays, Writing & Healing | Tags: Adolescent Eating Disorders and Recovery Stories, anorexia, Art, Eating Disorders, ED Recovery and Hope, Engaged Families and Eating Disorder Treatment/Recovery, family, Family & Culture, Family Support and ED's, Life, Love, Love Your Body, Mother's Day, Mothers & Parenting, Parent Empowerement and ED Recovery, Poetry/Literature, Spirituality&Healing, Traditions/Holidays, Women as the Goddess Archetype | Leave a comment
Subcutaneous… you are my Friend
May 10, 2008 in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Anti- Diet Campaign, Behavioral Strategies and Eating Disorders, Blogs, Body Acceptance, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Cognitive Processing and Effects of Dieting, Community Health Education, Diet Breaking, Dieting Behaviors, Dieting Industry, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorder Research, Eating Disorders, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED Hope & Recovery, ED recovery, EDNOS, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Environmental factores influencing ED's, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, Evidence-Based Medicine, Family & Culture, Genetic Analysis and Eating Disorders, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Imprinting and Addictive Processes, Love Your Body, meta-analysis, Mind & Body, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Personal, Personal Stories, Public Health, Research and Recovery, Size Accpetance, Size Esteem, Society and Weight Related Issues, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, Symbolic Imagery, Thoughts | Tags: BDD, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Diets Don't Work, DNA & ED's, Eating Disorder Recovery/Support, Eating Disorder Research, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, Effects of Dieting, environmental factors influencing ED's, Epigenetic Inheritance, Evolutionary Biology and our Bodies, Fat & Metabolism, Fat Acceptance, Genetic Analysis and Eating Disorders, Genetic and Environmental causes of ED's, Gentetic Analysis and Eating Disorders, Health & Wellbeing, Health at Every Size, Karolinski Institute and Obesity Study, Love Your Body, neo-Lamarckian Researchers, Parent Support and Eating Disorders, Pathophysiology of Eating Disorders, Size Acceptance, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, Weight and Self-Perception | Leave a comment
Most of us realize that we need “fat” not only in our diet, but within our bodies– I say most since when you have an eating disorder, know someone with an ED, or care for someone suffering with this illness, specifically anorexia nervosa, which is hallmarked by the intense fear of gaining weight, this is a very difficult truth to swallow as well as visually accept within ones’ physical body.
There are also some studies that suggest for some this “fear” can be a precusor to eating disorders among the array of environmental, behavioral influences as well as genetic and/or biochemical predeterminers that scientists are still compiling and discovering that can leave some individuals much more susceptible than others to either severe eating disordered behavior, EDNOS, or a severe diagnosed eating disorder that requires serious and comprehensive treatment.
What’s also intriguing is the work by researchers continuing to unfold in evolutionary biology, genetic imprinting, and epigenetic inheritance which I’m certain there are correlations within these findings and eating disorders that have yet to be fully available and utilized, but may be able to provide us with a much more inclusive picture behind the illness and how to improve prevention and treatment.
There was a recent study highlighting the benefits (mostly catching everyone’s eye with the glorification of our ever evolving rump, or as writer Debra Dikerson slammed in Salon.com last year about mainstreaming “Gi-normous butts”) of subcutaneous fat, which produces hormones known as adipokines found to boost metabolism (of course, I’m assuming this study will also fuel the weight-loss industry and war-on-obesity too) found in the booty area as well as belly and showing to be protective against type2 diabetes, but also reaffirming the adage that “diets don’t work” and briefly explains why this is part of the reason it’s difficult to keep that weight off once lost; and that our fat cells are set during adolescence and don’t decrease, but do actually expand in size.
And while I don’t embrace the the good/bad dichotomous thinking and categorization of really anything when it comes to our daily living and Life– you tend to find things more in shades of gray or muted with other colors vs just a pigment of one– the study is looking at two types of fat: subcutaneous and visceral , and where they are found within the body. Subcutaneous tends to be in the booty and stomach area, and has more benefits vs visceral, which tends to be the gunk blocking arteries, causing damage to organs– sorry to say you’re bad visceral, or maybe scientists just haven’t fully found out what you’re doing and why you are getting such a bad wrap.
Another study that continues in similar dialogue and highlights the complications of metabolic syndrome and that this can be triggered by overeating, which is correlated with weight gain, especially if done consecutively over a sustained period of time, and makes me wonder about endocannabinoids and their role cause/effect in obesity and how this, if at all correlates. The study also points to our fat cells being set during adolescence, but Dr Stephen O’Rahilly of Cambridge remains unconvinced, and isn’t prescribing to this determination just yet.
Maybe another more basic message to keep at forefront is that it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature– she rises up with a vengeance. Our bodies have evolved over time and there is inherit wisdom to what we carry around with us everyday.
-Love Thyself
Bon Anniversaire INDD!
May 6, 2008 in Adolescent Eating Behaviors, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Anti- Diet Campaign, Behavioral Health, Behavioral Strategies and Eating Disorders, Blogs, Body Acceptance, Books, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, Cheri Erdman EdD, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Cognitive Processing and Effects of Dieting, Community Health Education, Constructs of Pyschological Distress, Culture, Diet Breaking, Dieting Behaviors, Dieting Industry, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorder Research, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, ED's and the Media, EDNOS, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Engaged Families, Environmental factores influencing ED's, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, Evidence-Based Medicine, Family & Culture, Family Based Therapy, Fat Acceptance, Genetic Analysis and Eating Disorders, Genetic and Environmental causes of ED's, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Imprinting and Addictive Processes, INDD, International No Diet Day, Karen Stimson, Largesse, Love Your Body, Mary Evans Young, Mind & Body, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Parent Support, Personal, Personal Narratives, Public Health, Public Health and Nutrition, Raj Patel, Self-Care, Size Accpetance, Size Esteem, Society and Weight Related Issues, Socio-Cultural Factors and Advertising to Promote ED's, Stuffed and Starved, Thoughts | Tags: "No Diets", anorexia, Anti- Diet Campaign, Body Acceptance, Books, Cheri Erdman EdD, cognitive processing and Eating Disorders, Cognitive Processing and Effects of Dieting, Community Health Education, Constructs of Pychological Stress, Diet Addiction & Society, Diet Breaking, Dieting Behaviors, Eating Disorder Recovery/Support, Eating Disordered Behaviors, Eating Disorders, Empowered Parents, environmental factors influencing ED's, Evidence-Based Medicine, Fat Acceptance, Genetics and Body Composition, Health, INDD, International No Diet Day 2008, Karen Stimson, Largesse, Life, Love Your Body, Marketing and Diets, Mary Evans Young, Media and Promotion of Dieting, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Adovcates and ED's, Parents Against Diets, Public Health and Nutrition, Public Health News and Information, Raj Patel, Recovery, Self-Care, Self-Esteem and Dieting Behaviors, Size Acceptance, Size Esteem, Society and Weight Related Issues, Socio-Cultural Factors and Dieting Behavior, Stuffed and Starved, The Network For Size Esteem, Thoughts, Weight-Loss Industry | 2 comments
I love how the birth of International No Diet Day began “from a picnic in Mary’s living room” in the early ’90’s and fertilized it’s magnitude world-wide. Ms Evans-Young is herself a recovered anorexic and wrote the book Diet Breaking: Having it all Without Having to Diet and it couldn’t be a better time than now to let the message sink in– deep and with reflection.
Largesse gives the background on the term: size esteem which was initially coined by Richard Stimson, husband to a contributing director/writer at the site, Karen Stimson who explains it perfectly:
– Feeling acceptance of, respect for, and pride in one’s body, whatever its size or shape –
But I like this analogy even more highlighted by Cheri Erdman EdD who wrote the book Live Large! and thought about it as a simple yet poignant equation: Size Acceptance + Self Esteem = SIZE ESTEEM
Either way you think about it, the insanity of dieting, wanting to force our bodies to be a size/shape it was not genetically determined to be– and thankfully so for the beautiful variety of shapes, sizes, colors, we all add to the collage of life, is quite dubious.
It’s even further magnified when you or a loved one suffer from an eating disorder and are trying to regain your health and follow through with recovery and maintaining wellness in a seemingly endless fat-phobic, diet-crazed, fashion-consumed environment. Our daughter at times can take on this incessant self-doubt and accusational inquiries about why she has to eat what she has to when others, her classmates, etc. eat less than she does and are constantly discussing “fat” laden topics— it’s enough to make anyone go a little bonkers. Advertisers, marketing, the health ins field, even health care (hey, let’s face it– those mega-million dollar hospitals that now look more like shopping malls want to treat the ill business) and the all time winner: the diet industry.
Stuffed and Starved is a title from researcher Raj Patel more about food prices, the global-glut, etc. but I had to think about this a little bit more this morning how it really ties into so many other layers of Life– and will be worth dissecting and playing off the similar as well as dissimilar dualities we can only pretend don’t exist, or just think is someone else’s “problem” to fix, get over, medicate– like the cliched remark I’ve heard countless times since our daughter was diagnosed with anorexia- “why doesn’t she just eat?!”, then the instant turn against parents when our children don’t eat = it’s your fault, you did something “wrong”, etc.
Yes, INDD is a day we find relative and meaningful in our family. And with the weather reaching low 70’s, sun shining– I think a picnic is just what we’ll do to celebrate this day!
-shanti
“The Disorder Next Door”
April 23, 2008 in Access to ED Care/Treatment, Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, Adolescent Eating Behaviors, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Body Acceptance, Body Image & Writing, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Carer Support, Carer Support/Healing, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Community Health Education, Constructs of Pyschological Distress, Consumer Alert, Culture, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Dr Cynthia Bulik, Dr Margo Paine, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorder Research, Eating Disorder Treatment, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, ED recovery, ED's and the Media, EDNOS, eliminating stigma, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Engaged Families, Environmental factores influencing ED's, family, Family & Culture, Family Education/Resources, Family supported ED treatment, Genetic and Environmental causes of ED's, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Imperfect Bodies, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Mental Health, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Support, Personal, Power of the Media & Perception, Public Health, Research and Recovery, Society and Weight Related Issues, Socio-Cultural Factors and Advertising to Promote ED's, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, thin idealization, women/psychology | Tags: American Consumerism and Dieting, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Body Acceptance, Body Image and the Media, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Calorie Prisoners, Career Dieters, Carer Support, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Community Health Education and Eating Disorders, constructs of psychological distress, Culture/Society and Dieting, Disordered Eaters, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Dr Cynthia Bulik, Dr Diane Mickley, Dr Margo Paine, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorders, ED News, ED-NOS, environmental factors influencing ED's, Food Addicts, Malnutrition in a Modern World, Media Overkill, Medical News Today, Mental Health, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Adovcates and ED's, Parent Support and Eating Disorders, Personal Stories, Power of the Media & Perception, Psychological Harm of Dieting, Public Health and Nutrition, SELF Magazine, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program, Women's Health | 5 comments
Tula Karras
When your child is diagnosed with an eating disorder your life changes- permanently. There is no looking back (though you do, and weep and grieve for the child you once knew and still know lies underneath the ED just waiting to find his/her way back– and they do!) there is no denying the obvious even when this illness can completely blindside and throw you off your center until you fully understand and grapple with its complexity– and even then you can still be utterly perplexed.
But you take action, keep your son/daughter safe, provide nutritional sustenance, comfort and support. You find the appropriate medical care, treatment facilities and resources that will help him/her, as well as yourself, find their way back to health, well being and continuing to work towards their full recovery– however that needs to happen- you just do it. We’re parents, Moms&Dads, families, grandparents, cousins, all taking those measures and lending a hand because we love each other and want to see those suffering find their way back to their true selves, living their dreams, passions and finding happiness- not perfection- in what gift of our Lives we have been given. Life is certainly not an easy journey, and growing up, becoming an adult, raising a family, fumbling through difficulties– these are all illuminating lessons to help bring us back to grace and compassion, wisdom and understanding.
Something within my own inner perspective and thinking is having a bit of a snag though. Maybe because I know how damn hard it is to wrestle with an illness our daughter was diagnosed with over a year ago. Knowing how hard she has worked to get to where she is now, how much more persistence and vigilance she will continue to have, especially now that she is fully discharged from the eating disorder program she has been intensely involved with for several months, and facing a culture and society that seems to be ironically having increased insecurities, issues and numbers of individuals (especially within older adult populations) with “disordered eating” patterns and behaviors, which to me on the outside look and behave just like our daughter did prior to her being diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa.
There is this surreal sensation that comes over me when I briefly skim over an article in SELF Magazine that highlights a partnered survey studythat was done in collaboration with Dr Cynthia Bulik and the University of North Carolina that states that “3 out of 4 American Women have disordered eating” and the magazine survey whose participants numbered over 4000, and probably still counting on both the survey, forum and follow up, continue to show an increase in disordered eating patterns and ranges of destructive habits that clearly as Dr Margo Paine boldly states exemplifies, “Dieting is a national pastime for women” and “as a society, we don’t see the problem“.
The survey also goes further into describing additional categories that 6 out of 10 (1 out of 10 have eating disorders) women who are categorized as “disordered eaters” describe themselves into specific subsets:
* Calorie Prisoners
* Secret Eaters
* Career Dieters
* Purgers
* Food Addicts
* Extreme Exercisers
Of course, none of these descriptors are new. But while some studies and stats have been pointing towards an increase of younger individuals being diagnosed with eating disorders, which may indeed be on the rise, though it’s always difficult to know whether we are only getting better at earlier diagnosing and intervention; and if some of the outcry and attention to the issue is creating the continued awareness, discussion, research and treatment standards. But this survey, as some previous others, is showing the age range to be in the adult category of a 25-45 year old female base, and from what I’ve read in some previous studies, this seems to be more consistent and increasing if you are to follow the conclusions.
Yes, I’m perplexed and even angry. I don’t want to see anyone needlessly suffering with any disordered eating behavior(s) that can have even the subtlest of impact upon ones’ health- period. But I also have another irritating irk in thinking about the continued impact these findings, if they are showing continued rises in eating-disordered behavior have upon our youth and young adults who are watching, reading, and taking in this information too. What, if anything does this ultimately translate to and what can be done to counteract this deranged preoccupation with dieting, body-dissatisfaction, and just overkill of the human body? When will the craziness stop just long enough to take a step back, breathe, and find acceptance and compassion for who you are as you are being enough, being worthy– because we all are.
And our kids need us to model and reinforce these strong capabilities and common-sense practicalities. When I see a book titled: My Beautiful Mommy I think this is a joke, right? But I find that it’s written by a plastic surgeon, and really set on promoting this “upkeep” ideal while cunningly proclaiming under a guise of “help”. Are we so far gone into our self-absorbed psyches that we are so easily swayed and coerced into finding this worthy of publication to begin with? Apparently so, as the book is being sold and bought, joke or not– some are taking the bait and seem to be biting hard, though not into much that will keep one nutritionally and mentally stable.
Our daughter has to not only find safety, stability and assurance within her home environment, but the world outside as well. And this rant of a thread I’ve lowered myself to in this post just proves what an apparently obnoxious mother on a mission I am (imperfections and all- silicon free and able to eat minus fear thankfully) to keep my daughter moving towards a healthy, happy and internally sustained recovery and passionately what that means to me.
Ladies and Gentlemen, can this insanity please begin to find it’s way back in the hole from where it came? Like a fire out of control, can we begin to find some means of putting this insatiable flame to some simmering rational end? Will these studies and polls just continue to bloom, boggle and frustrate so many of us, while invoking the opposite within others to think less of themselves, and to possibly court a potential ED, especially for those who are either biologically, physiologically and/or genetically predisposed and vulnerable?
To continued Health, Strength & Insight for us all.
Charte d’engagement voluntaire sur l’image du corps…
April 16, 2008 in anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Body Image & Film, Carer Support, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Community Health Education, Constructs of Pyschological Distress, Consumer Alert, Culture, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorder Treatment, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, ED Hope & Recovery, ED recovery, ED's and the Media, EDNOS, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Engaged Families, Environmental factores influencing ED's, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, F.S.P., family, Family & Culture, Family Based Therapy, Family supported ED treatment, France Legislataion & ED's, Government, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Health Care, Hope & Recovery for ED's, Marketing scams for ED's, Mental Health, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Personal Empowerment, Personal Narratives, Policy & Action, Power of Media & ED's, Public Education of ED's, Public Health, Public Policy, Self-Care, Society, Society and Weight Related Issues, Socio-Cultural Factors and Advertising to Promote ED's, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, thin idealization, Thoughts, U.M.P., Valerie Boyer lawmaker | Tags: Add new tag, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Body Wars, Bouches-du-Rhone, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), constructs of psychological distress, Eating Disorder Recovery, ED News International, ED-NOS, Environmental Factors in ED's, Europe and Media Censorship, F.S.P., Family Empowerment and ED, France Legislation and ED's, France Legislation on Body Weight/Images and Anorexia, French Lawmakers, Government & Health Policy, Health Law Advocates, Health Policy & Action & Legislation, Image/Body Perception and the Media, Mass Communication, Media discourse and debate, news, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Perpetuation of Idealized Media Images, Personal Empowerment, Policy & Action, Power of the Media and ED's, Profit/Media & Eating Disorders, Promotion of Thin-spiration and Legislation, Society and Weight Related Issues, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, U.M.P., Valerie Boyer lawmaker | Leave a comment
APF/Getty Images Bertrand Guay
There is quite a bit of debate heating up lately, even over at ATDT parents are sharing their thoughts on this topic, regarding recent legistlation created by France lawmaker Valerie Boyer that France is passing towards imposing strict fines, even imprisonment against the proliferation and promotion of “pro-ana/mia” within websites, media images, the fashion industry and beyond that continue to hightlight clearly unhealthy anorexic/ED’d-looking, emaciated ultra-thin bodies– “legislating body weight” some are finger-waging.
The reviews and feedback are certainly mixed, some downright misinformed– stiil -and so sorely one-sided which to me only illuminates just how complex these issues are; and more importantly how much more of this conversation and dialogue needs to keep happening and developing.
I haven’t delved into a full exploration of my opinions on this yet, but I do think while we can’t police every site, ban every image, twisted ideal there certainly is something that we are all responding and reacting to when we see someone who looks so severely malnourished, skeletal and unwell.
As a mother of a daughter who suffers from Anorexia Nerovsa I do have an immediate heartwrenching reaction to this issue, and do believe there is not just a “personal” responsiblity but public and social conscience we all need to be connected to and address at some basic level without turning a blind-eye and pretending none of this has any impact on society whatsoever– clearly it does.
: America The Beautiful :
April 9, 2008 in America The Beautiful, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Bodies and Film, Body Acceptance, Body Image & Film, Chicago Film Makers, Chicago Films, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Community Health Education, Constructs of Pyschological Distress, Culture, Darryl Roberts, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED Hope & Recovery, ED recovery, EDNOS, eliminating stigma, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Environmental factores influencing ED's, Family & Culture, Family Education/Resources, Film & Society, Film and Critique/Review, Film Documentary, Film Genres, Health & Wellbeing, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Mental Health, news, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Support, Parent/Family Support and Eating Disorders, Personal, Personal Empowerment, Personal Stories, Public Health, Self-Help Narratives, Society and Weight Related Issues, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, Symbolic Imagery, Thoughts | Tags: America The Beautiful, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Bodies & Film, Body Acceptance, body image, Body Image & Film, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Chicago Film Makers, Chicago Films, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Collective Discussion of Film and Weight Related Issues, Community Events, Community Health Education, Constructs of Pychological Stress, Darryl Roberts, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Film and Critique/Review, Film Documentary, Film Genres, Health Issues, IAEDP, Mental Health, news, Obsessive Preoccupation with Weight, Parent Advocates, Parent Support/Education and ED's, Personal, Personal Empowerment, Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders, Thoughts, Weight & Stereotypes, Weight Issues and Film Documentaries | Leave a comment
Oh yeah! May 9th (or from what others have been stating but I haven’t found listed: April 25th) heading to the ‘Windy City’- Chicago to check out this city’s native film-maker, Darryl Roberts documentary that has gotten plenty of accolades; and additional kudos from those who attended last week’s IAEDP conference.
It’s interesting that within the past year two male film-makers (perhaps more– feel free to share if you know) the other is Glenn Gers and his film: Disfigured (which a Cali friend of mine got to see during the film festival and loved) have dared to dig deeper into our culture’s preoccupations within this topic– I say it’s bloody fantastic and about time!
Join the caravan if you are able.
ciao-
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