Eating Disorders Week

WISHES SHE WERE BLOND

Beauty of a Woman
Written by Sam Levinson for his grand-daughter

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed. Never throw anyone out.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, and one for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but the true beauty in woman is reflected in her soul.

It is in the caring that she lovingly gives, that the beauty of a woman grows with passing years.

STATISTICS - A SERIOUS PROBLEM

You're either part of the problem, or part of the solution.
Be aware of what your intentions are.

1. 2 out of 5 women, and 1 out of 5 men would give 3-5 years of their life to achieve their weight goals.
2. In 1970, the average age a girl started dieting in the US was 14. By 1990, the average dieting age had fallen to 8.
3. A study found that women overestimate the size of their hips by 16% and their waists by 25%, yet the same women were able to estimate correctly the width of a box.
4. After viewing images of female fashion models, 7 out of 10 women felt more depressed and angry than prior to vieweing the images.
5. The "ideal" woman, portrayed by models, Miss America, Barbie dolls and movie actresses is 5'5", weighs 100 lbs. and wears a size 5.
6. Young girls in the US who were surveyed were more afraid of becoming fat than they were of nuclear war, cancer, or losing their parents.
7. A 55 year old woman taken to the ER with a stroke, attributed to her habitual
use of ephedra, said, when cautioned against its continued use: "I don't care.
I'd rather die than be fat." "Why," asked the doctor. "Because my husband will leave me if I get fat," she replied.
8. 1 out of 3 women and 1 out of 4 men are on a diet at any given time. 2/3rds
of dieters regain the weight within one year and virtually all regain it within
5 years.
9. 35% of occasional dieters progress into pathological dieting. The diet industry (diet foods, die programs, diet drugs, etc.) takes in over $40 billion each year and continues to grow.
10. When given pictures, 40% of women chose an ideal body that was 20% underweight, and an additional 44% chose an ideal body that was 10% underweight.
11. The average US woman is 5'4" and weighs 140 lbs. The average US modelis 5'11" and weighs 117 lbs.
12. About 5,000,000 people in the US, most of them teenage girls, have anorexia.
One in 10 die of it, half from suicide, and half from medical complications related to the anorexia.
13. Men account for less than 10% of reported cases of anorexia and bulimia, but this figure is on the increase.

From: BODY AWARENESS as part of their campus Body and the Student Wellness Program.

National Eating Disorders and Body Acceptance Week this year is February 26 - March 4.

At CU-Boulder, the goal is to raise awareness about issues related to body image and eating disorders, explore sources of negative body image, and encourage people to accept all individuals (including themselves) as a whole person regardless of appearance.

RESOURCES:
Check out Dove's wonderful Self-Esteem site.
Dove's REAL BEAUTY Campaign
Beautiful ad for little girls

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