College Students & Friends
Body Image
Media & Misc.
Culture and Eating Disorders
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How do you help a friend who may be struggling with an eating disorder?
(Do’s)Do learn as much about eating disorders as you can. Be prepared to give your friend information about eating disorders such as campus resources. -Do talk directly to the person with the eating disorder about your concerns in a private comfortable setting. - Do use “I” statements such as “I’m concerned about your health” - Do calmly tell the person all the specific observations that have aroused your concerns such as, “I have noticed that you leave the table abruptly after every meal”. -Be prepared to offer support when your friend wants to talk about their problem. -Seek out help for yourself. There are counselors on campus that you can talk to if you are having trouble with your friend’s eating disorders.
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What is the definition of body image?
How you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind, what you believe about your own appearance, how you feel about your body, and how you sense and control your body.
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What is the JADE mission statement?
To raise eating disorder awareness and prevention while promoting healthy body image and acceptance through classroom presentations and campus activities.
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What are symptoms of Bulimia?
Repeated episodes of binging and purging, feeling out of control, purging after a binge, frequent dieting, extreme concern with body weight and shape.
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What should you not do when talking to a friend with an eating disorder?
(Don’ts) Don’t offer simple advice or accuse your friend -Don’t confront the person in front of other people -Don’t exclude your friend from social activities that include food. -Don’t mention size or weight to your friend. -Don’t be judgmental, use scare tactics, or threats. -Don’t take responsibility for your friend’s recovery. -Don’t promise to keep what you know a secret or wait until the situation is so severe that your friend’s life is in danger
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What are ways to increase body image?
Replacing critical thoughts with positive affirmation, working out, hanging out with positive friends.
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What are the responsibilities of a JADE peer educator?
Present programs in classes, residence halls, Greek housing, student clubs and orgs., Give accurate info on ED ,develop educational materials and handouts, respond non-judgementally and offer support to students, listen and be understanding, respect individual differences, role model appropriate behavior, learn/make appropriate campus referrals, participate in EDAW, help out with on-campus jade activities, publicize jade events, help solicit JADE presentations
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What are eating disorders?
Eating disorders include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues experienced by both men and women. They include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. All are serious emotional and physical problems that can have life threatening consequences.
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How many CSUN students know someone who has an eating disorder?
60%
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What is one distorted image people with negative body image have?
Their sense of how other's view them.
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What can you do about the media’s influence on Eating Disorders?
Educate. Encouraging the media to present more diverse and real images of people with positive messages about health and self-esteem may not eliminate eating disorders entirely, but it would help reduce the pressures many people feel to make their bodies conform to one ideal, and in the process, reduce feelings of body dissatisfaction and ultimately decrease the potential for eating disorders.
300
In the U.S., approx. how many males and how many females suffer from eating disorders?
7 million females and 1 million males
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What can cause a college student to develop an Eating Disorder?
The transition to college (pressure to fit in, new expectations, adapting to the college environment, individual characteristics and personal history the student is bringing to college) -The belief that the only way someone would be accepted us if they are thin -Competition among students to gain attention of the same dating partner. -The belief that appearance is the key to success. -Access to unlimited amounts of food in dining halls -Fear of the dreaded “freshman 15” myth. -Academic and financial stress. -Participation in sports where weight and appearance are perceived to affect success. -Certain majors (nutrition, journalism, kinesiology) - Inappropriate coping mechanisms: ED serves as a means of coping with stress -Peer influences: binge eating parties, sharing diet pills, laxatives, diuretics, and dieting strategies. -High self expectation/perfectionism, extreme need for approval, “all or nothing” thinking. -Transitional Factors: academic pressures, competing demands, new gained independence and responsibilities, role overload: academic, work, family, and friends. Loneliness and homesickness, missing family and friends, difficulty establishing new relationships, need for acceptance an approval.
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What are the characteristics of negative body image?
A distorted perception of your shape- you perceive your body unlike you really are. -You are convinced that only other people are attractive and that your body size or shape is a sign of personal failure. -You feel ashamed, self-conscious, and anxious about your body. -You feel uncomfortable and awkward in your body.
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How does the media contribute to eating disorders?
Media messages help to create the context within which people learn to place a value on the size and shape of their body. To the extent that media messages, like advertising and celebrity spotlights, help our culture define what is beautiful and what is “good,” the media’s power over our development of self-esteem and body image can be incredibly strong.
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What are 6 warning signs of an eating disorder?
1) Develops unusual eating patterns 2) Focuses on appearance 3) Body image: sees self as fat, extreme concern about appearance 4)Energy level: easily fatigued, performance in physical activity is weakened over time, complains of feeling cold. 5) Thinking problems: Rigid, perfectionist, illogical about eating habits, obsessed about gaining weight, impulsive 6) Feelings: Handles stress by being preoccupied with food, becomes moody and irritable, low self esteem, looks sad or depressed.
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What are the most vulnerable students/majors?
1. College athletes/body builders 2. Majors: Kinesiology, nutrition, and journalism 3. Victims of sexual abuse or assault/abusive relationships 4. Students with low self-esteem and low self-confidence 5. Students who are rigid and perfectionistic
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What are self-esteem and body image important?
They can affect your mental and how you behave.
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How are Anorexia and Bulimia similar?
1. Conviction that a slender shape and a low body weight are crucial for high self-esteem 2. Strong drive to be thin and/or become thinner. 3. Strong and irrational fear of body fat and becoming fat. 4. Negative and distorted body image. 5. Inability to interpret accurately and to express internal feelings and impulses such as hunger, anger, and sexuality. 6. Low self-esteem, coupled with a strong need to achieve and appear “perfect”. 7. Refusal to eat in a healthy manner. 8. Use of unhealthy and even dangerous methods of loosing weight and/or purging after eating. 9. Symptoms of starvation.
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What causes eating disorders? (give examples of each factor)
Psychological, Biological, Social, Familial factors.
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