Guelph, Ontario – The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders Coalition is taking this year’s International No Diet Day celebrations downtown.
For the second year in a row, downtown Guelph businesses will join the Eating Disorders Coalition in celebration of International No Diet Day. More than two dozen stores in the downtown area have agreed to host window displays from May 3 to May 10, promoting healthy body image and acceptance of our natural body shapes and sizes. Last year’s window campaign was well-received, and business owners are enthusiastic about the opportunity to participate again.
Established in 1992 by British anti-diet campaigner Mary Evans Young, International No Diet Day is now recognized world-wide as a day to raise awareness about the dangers and futility of dieting and to proclaim independence from society’s narrow standards of beauty.
The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders Coalition works to increase public awareness of eating disorders and unhealthy body images and to provide eating disorder resources to the community. For more information about the Coalition, visit www.eatingdisorderscoalition.ca. For information about the treatment and prevention of eating disorders, visit www.nedic.ca.
The Eating Disorders Awareness Coalition of Waterloo Region presents
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FRIDAY, October 16, 2009
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To celebrate National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders Coalition hosts the ever-popular annual event Faces of Recovery. This panel of women and family members in recovery from an eating disorder takes place on Wednesday, February 4 at Guelph’s Italian Canadian Club, 135 Ferguson Street, from 7 to 9 p.m. This event includes a body activism event, No Fat Talk!, which will challenge the damaging impact of fat talk and society’s thin ideal.
The University of Guelph also celebrates Eating Disorder Awareness Week with the following activities:
A screening of Travis Mathews’ documentary Do I Look Fat?, highlighting body image issues encountered by the gay (male) community, will be held in Rosanski Hall, Room 105. Tues. Feb. 3, 6:30-9:30.p.m.
Guest speaker and therapist Candy MacNeil addresses body image issues in her talk, Oprah’s a Victim of Thin Thinking: Are You, Too?, at the University Centre, Room 103, Wed.Feb.4, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Elora photographer Sophie Hogan features her body image collection, Photographs of REAL Women and a New Way of Looking at Body Image, in Peter Clark Hall on February 9 and 10, with a reception being held on February 9 at 6:00 p.m.
All events are free of charge.
For additional information on these events, contact April Gates at 519-824-1010 ext. 2292.
For more information on National Eating Disorder Awareness Week,
which runs from February 1–7, 2009, visit www.nedic.ca.
The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph
Eating Disorders Coalition celebrates InternationalNo
Diet Day on Tuesday, May 6. Established in 1992 by British
anti-diet campaigner Mary Evans Young, International No Diet Day
is now recognized around the world.
International
No Diet Day was created to challenge the cultural attitudes
and values that contribute to chronic dieting, weight and size preoccupation,
eating disorders and size discrimination. It is a day to intentionally
stop obsessing about dieting and weight loss, to celebrate the diversity
of body shapes and sizes and to proclaim our independence from society's
narrow standards of beauty.
Some of the ways
you can participate in International No Diet Day include:
Take a break
from dieting. Eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full.
Listen to your body's signals.
Put the lid
on diet products. Take food off the "good" and "bad"
or "junk food" lists. Taste, savour and enjoy all foods
to the fullest!
Affirm that
weight loss is unnecessary to obtain health and happiness. Reclaim
health - not weight loss - as a lifestyle change goal.
Give up, or
better still, smash your weigh scales. They do nothing for your
self-esteem!
Cleanse your
closet of everything you've been saving until you "get thin,"
and donate items to a charitable organization.
Ask local
bookstores to display anti-diet and size acceptance books this
week.
Refrain from
focussing on appearance. Stop saying "You look great! Have
you lost weight?" Each of us possesses many praise-worthy
qualities that are unrelated to personal appearance.
End weight
discrimination by celebrating size diversity. Beauty, health and
fitness come in all sizes.
TVO Parents'
website has posted helpful information about body image issues
here.
Listen
to a telephone interview with individual and family therapist
Candy MacNeil as she warns about the consequences of a
poor body image in our children.
Listento
a telephone interview with April
Gates,
Program Co-ordinator of the Eating Disorders Program at Homewood
Health Centre, about the treatment and prevention of eating disorders.
Follow
up to our Public Lecture:
Listen to the tiltle track of Jenni Schaefer's Life Without
Ed - How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder
and How You Can Too. Click here
to visit her site.
Coalition Sponsored Events Raising Awareness
About Eating Disorders
2008
Coalition
Sponsors Events to Raise Awareness About Eating Disorders
Guelph,
Ontario - The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders
Coalition is serving up some food for thought as National
Eating Disorder Awareness Week approaches.
The Coalition,
which consists of representatives from various community agencies,
is proud to sponsor two events this year. Faces of Recovery
is a community panel discussion taking place on Wednesday,
January 30, 2008. The panel will include individuals on
the road to recovery from an eating disorder, as well as family
members who have helped their loved ones cope with this problem.
The discussion runs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Guelph Community
Health Centre, 176 Wyndham Street North. Admission is
free, and no registration is required.
On Wednesday,
February 6, the Coalition also presents Declaring Independence
from Eating Disorders: A Personal Journey, featuring Jenni
Schaefer, author of Life Without Ed: How One Woman
Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You
Can Too. Jenni is a unique speaker who reaches any
audience through an interesting presentation that includes
an inspirational story of her struggle with anorexia and bulimia,
intertwined with poetry, humour and song. She has been featured
in Cosmopolitan, Woman's World and The Washington Times and
has also appeared on The Dr. Phil Show and Entertainment Tonight.
She shares a lifetime of experience - from intimate thoughts
written in personal journals to the ultimate freedom that
she experiences today, inspiring hope within the hearts of
her listeners.
Declaring
Independence from Eating Disorders: A Personal Journey
takes place on Wednesday, February 6 at the Italian
Canadian Club, 135 Ferguson Street, Guelph. It runs from
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Admission for this event is also free, and
no registration is required.For additional information on
either of these events, contact April Gates at 519-824-1010
ext. 2292.
For more
information on National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, which
runs from February 3-9, 2008, visit www.nedic.ca
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