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announcing b.eat -- you are beautiful week.
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Posted on January 18, 2011 at 02:45:35 AM by georgia
In aid of www.b-eat.co.uk.
Five facts about eating disorders:
1. Eating disorders can be beaten.
2. An eating disorder is serious.
3. An eating disorder is not a dieting craze.
4. An eating disorder is not attention seeking.
5. An eating disorder is an illness.
Food and eating play a very important part in our lives. We all vary in the foods we like, how much we need to eat, and when we like to eat. Food is essential for our health and development. It’s not unusual to experiment with different eating habits, for example you may have decided to become a vegetarian or tried changing your diet to improve your health. However, some eating patterns can be damaging.
Problems with food can begin when it is used to cope with those times when you are bored, anxious, angry, lonely, ashamed or sad. Food becomes a problem when it is used to help you to cope with painful situations or feelings, or to relieve stress perhaps without you even realising it. If this is how you deal with emotions and feelings and you are unhappy about it, then you should try to talk to someone you trust. Try not to bottle things up - this is not helpful to you or other people around you, it won’t make you feel any better and the problem is unlikely to go away.
It is unlikely that an eating disorder will result from a single cause. It is much more likely to be a combination of many factors, events, feelings or pressures which lead to you feeling unable to cope. These can include: low self-esteem, family relationships, problems with friends, the death of someone special, problems at work, college or at university, lack of confidence, sexual or emotional abuse. Many people talk about simply feeling ‘too fat’ or ‘not good enough’.
Often people with eating disorders say that the eating disorder is the only way they feel they can stay in control of their life, but as time goes on it isn’t really you who is in control – it is the eating disorder. Some people also find they are affected by an urge to harm themselves or misuse alcohol or drugs. You may find that in common with many other people you experience feelings of despair and shame. You may have a feeling of failure or lack of control because you cannot overcome these feelings about food on your own.
Who do eating disorders affect and when?
Anyone can develop an eating disorder, regardless of age, sex, cultural or racial background, although the people most likely to be affected tend to be young women, particularly between the ages of 12-25. It is not unusual, however, for an eating disorder to appear in middle age.
-- taken from www.b-eat.co.uk.
Eating disorders are extremely common in the western world. The majority of RPers (certainly on this game) are exactly the type of people who typically succumb to eating disorders - younger western women in their late teens and twenties.
Most people feel uncomfortable with their weight or body image at some point in their lives. Confidence tends to be particularly low at this age, despite the fact that all young people are naturally beautiful.
From the 7th to the 14th of February, we're going to remind you that you are beautiful.
Some things we'll be doing to raise awareness for people with eating disorders are:
- Putting up information about the most common eating disorders including how to recognise that you've got an eating disorder and what you can do about it. We will also put up real, healthy dieting advice.
- Optional free character HTMLs which promote awareness for eating disorders.
- In character competitions in a you are beautiful week theme.
- At the end of the week, an amount of money will be donated in Shaman's name to beat charity dependant on the amount of posts made. Just by posting, you'll generate money which will go to helping people turn their lives around.
If you want to help organise competitions or make HTMLs, please email me with your ideas.
7th-14th February.
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.
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