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International No Diet Day is May 6, 2010

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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.

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Coming to the Bookshelf Cinema February 4, 2010 at 6:45 pm !

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The Eating Disorders Awareness Coalition of Waterloo Region presents

FAMILY-BASED  TREATMENTS  FOR ADOLESCENT

   
with

Dr. Daniel le Grange. Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience
Department of
 Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience;
Director, Eating Disorders Program
 University of Chicago

 

 FRIDAY, October 16, 2009

 Kitchener Holiday Inn
 30 Fairway Road South
 Kitchener, Ontario
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Free screening on Wed. May 6, 2009 at 7pm
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Coalition Celebrates Eating Disorder Awareness Week
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.

 


 

 
 


For more information on
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
visit the National Eating Disorder Information Centre


www.nedic.ca

 

 
     
     
 
International No Diet Day is May 6, 2008

The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders Coalition celebrates International No 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:

  1. Take a break from dieting. Eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. Listen to your body's signals.
  2. 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!
  3. Affirm that weight loss is unnecessary to obtain health and happiness. Reclaim health - not weight loss - as a lifestyle change goal.
  4. Give up, or better still, smash your weigh scales. They do nothing for your self-esteem!
  5. Cleanse your closet of everything you've been saving until you "get thin," and donate items to a charitable organization.
  6. Ask local bookstores to display anti-diet and size acceptance books this week.
  7. 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.
  8. End weight discrimination by celebrating size diversity. Beauty, health and fitness come in all sizes.


 
 
  • Read and respond to Victoria Brunet's Review ofyear's Faces of Recovery Presentation click here to visit U of G's Cannon Website
  • 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.
  • Listen to 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

     

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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 [see ad below]

 

 
 


For more information on
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
visit the National Eating Disorder Information Centre


www.nedic.ca.

 

 

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