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Are you worried about a Friend who might have an eating disorder?
What are the Signs (ERT Associates, 2002):
- A person may not be happy with his or her body
- Hate the thought of any body fat
- Exercise often to burn calories
- Use steroids or supplements
- A person may have odd eating habits
- Skip meals often
- Eat at meal times, but cut back a lot on food at one or all meals
- Eat the same thing day after day or meal after meal
- Have conflicts with family and/or friends over how much or when to eat
- A person may have issues with food
- Think about food all the time
- Have secret eating binges and feel unable to stop
- Vomit or use laxatives and/or diuretics after eating
How you can Help your Friend (ERT Associates, 2002):
- Focus on the Positive.
- Express concern. Talk about your friend’s health and happiness rather than their eating behavior
- Be patient and be there.
- Encourage your friend to seek professional help. Go with them to their first visit.
- Don’t give advice. Don’t be part of the talk that focuses just on food, body size or weight.
- Change doesn’t happen overnight. Change takes time.
Eating disorder Assessment
http://www.health.uci.edu/services/nutrition/edtest.aspx
Check out these websites for more information on eating disorder and body image issues:
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
www.eatingdisordersanonymous.org
Peer Group concerned with body image and eating disorders
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
IMAGE Taskforce
(Image Management Awareness Growth and Education )
Mission Statement: The goals of this student task force are to advocate for positive self image and acceptance, to educate through dispelling inaccurate representations of an ideal body and to reduce the prevalence of disordered eating behaviors on the UCI campus.
IMAGE Events and Programs
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2007.
February 26th through March 2nd, 2007 the IMAGE group led the efforts to put on National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. We put together an amazing passive display and hosted a booth on ring road. Many students participated in the interactive display and eating disorder self assessments (which can also be found on the web page). We conducted the "Great Jeans Giveaway" and collected jeans for the Women’s Transitional Living Center all week long. We collected about 75 donations. Aimee Liu was invited to campus to speak about her recovery from an eating disorder and the research she had done for writing her new book "Gaining:the truth about life after eating disorders." It was a success with about 80-90 people attending the event.
http://www.newu.uci.edu/showArticle.php?id=5521 |
February 26th through March 2nd |
Pictures from this event |
| Evolution of Women |
May 23rd, 11am until 2pm |
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