2007年6月27日水曜日

what makes people want to be slim?

Why more and more people want to be thinner nowadays?

Advertising is one of the big influence to make people think to be skinny is cool.

2007年6月19日火曜日

Even Stars....

Even "Stars" that seem perfect in every way have problems with Eating Disorder....
It is not ONLY you.


Reasons --

Eating disorder is one of the serious problems that many people are suffering.

I chose this topic because I actaully have some friends who have a problem with eating disorder. They each have different reasons and problems, but what they want is the same- to be thinner. I want to understand about eating disorder and support healthy diet.


It is true that almost of all my girl friends care about how they look and watch their weights. They all complain that they are too fat and want to be slimmer. Some of them are trying not to eat and lose their weights. On the other hand, there are people who eat a lof of food and take many diet supplemets to burn the calories they had.


I'm always worried about my weight and if I look fat. I always imagine if I were thinner I would be happier. When I try to control meals and eat less, I feel a lot of strees from not eating as much as I want. Then, once I eat too much out of the stress, I can't stop eating and I get fat so fast. It makes me think if I would throw up, I would have no worries for how much I eat. I don't acually do that though, I sometimes think that way.


I believe everybody who wants to be slim has the possibility to become a eating disorder.

Let's study about eating disorder and be beatiful by healthy way.



Eat and be beautiful.


2007年6月14日木曜日

Strange behaviors of eating disorder people..

Because of eating disorder, their minds become so unstable, so there are many cases to make some problems. I'll introduce some of the behaviors.

* be infant---the way of talking, and fashion will be infantile suddenly. They nestle up to their mother, and be fretful. They have too much stress, and they can not endure. So this cause to get love from people around them. For this case, if you scold them, they will be more infantileto attract people's attention. So you should expose with them kindly.

*shoplift---This happens because they try to attract their parents' attention, and also, they shoplift foods because they do not want to pay money even though they vomit them. They can not understand which is right and wrong.

*domestic violence---The patients are showing their rage by domestic violence. This means that they are in hard situation. They can not show their emotion by words, so they become violent.

alcoholic---Especially for patients of bulimia are tend to be alcoholic. About 30% of patients become this. They feel strongly calculate on alcohol. Bulimia patients can not control themselves, so it is easily to be alcoholic. For them, vomiting, and pleasure from drinking is similar. This is really dangerous for them.

mendacity---Since they are trying not to bother people around them, they lie many times.

sexual deviation---Patients feel that they want to be attracted from several men.

News on eating disorder...

Eating Disorder is a big problem with some models...
Of course among any person...


2007年6月9日土曜日

Why are models skinny??

Do models eat or have time to eat??




Find out by watching this video....

2007年6月6日水曜日

CFDA


So what is CFDA??
This is what is calld the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
I believe every model will know this association!!

According to the official hompage of the CFDA (http://www.cfda.com/),
"The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc. (CFDA) is a not-for-profit trade association of over 280 of America’s foremost fashion and accessory designers. " They "promote appreciation of the fashion arts through leadership in quality and aesthetic discernment".

However, this well known association put a stop to some models.
In mid-January, the CFDA announced that there are too many dangerously thin models.

However, this announcement may not be enough to protect models who are having trouble with eating disorders.

Some health experts are now trying to make new guidlines for this issue.
What will come next....

NGO relating to our topic

The NGO which I found related to Eating disorder was called the
"National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorder".

....ANAD....

According to this site, this organization is "one of the oldest national non profit organization dedicated to allevaiting the problems of eatind disorders and promoting healthy lifestyle".

The purpose of this site is to help ppl who is struggling with eating disorders such as Anorexia, Bulimia and Compulsive Over-eating. It even gives a phone number to call for special counseling. The calss are fee in charge too.

This site also gives out what is called a "Healthy Body Image Pledge". This pledge is for people who want to look better, go through a product advertrising and promises to support the company for what they are promoting.

Volunteering jobs can be done for this site too.

The ANAD, National Association of Nervosa and Associated Disorders has generous sponsors such as...
*Timberline Knolls LLC
*REMUDA
*Linden Oaks Hospital at Edward
*Eating Disorder Services Of Rogers Memorial Hospital
*Alexian Brothers

I personally thought this is a good site overall since it has great sponsors.
However, I felt a little uncomfortable about the advertisement.
Even though it will help you look good,
sometimes it can be bad for the inner body.

What do you think???
http://www.anad.org/site/anadweb/