August 2011 Archive
Share your story now!
08.31.11
The Academy for Eating Disorders Worldwide Charter Task Force is collecting stories for a short video. We want to hear how guidelines put forth in the WW Charter helped you!
The Charter outlines six rights patients and carers can expect when getting treatment. These rights include:
I. Right to communication/partnership with health professionals
II. Right to comprehensive treatment and assessment planning
III. Right to accessible, high quality, fully funded specialized care
IV. Right to respectful, fully informed, age appropriate, safe levels of care
V. Right of carers to be informed, valued and respected as a treatment resource
VI. Right of carers to accessible, appropriate support and educational resources
How did one of these rights help you? OR How would have one of these rights helped you if your practitioner had been aware of them? Please share your story! Submit video clips or a written story to kvazzano@mindfullness.com
Your voice is needed to improve Eating Disorder Treatment!
08.31.11
A few years ago, professionals of the Academy for Eating Disorders queried eating disorder patients and their families about their experiences seeking and receiving eating disorder treatment. The responses they received consistently outlined a need for improvement in several common areas. As a result, the group developed the Worldwide Charter for Action on Eating Disorders, a document which outlines six Rights Of People With Eating Disorders And Their Carers:
I. Right to communication/partnership with health professionals
II. Right to comprehensive treatment and assessment planning
III. Right to accessible, high quality, fully funded specialized care
IV. Right to respectful, fully informed, age appropriate, safe levels of care
V. Right of carers to be informed, valued and respected as a treatment resource
VI. Right of carers to accessible, appropriate support and educational resources
The Charter was published and is now available for free use throughout the world. Currently, the AED Charter Task Force is working to promote the Charter so that it is available and its rights are enacted in every country and region acorss the world. To do this, we need your help! To help spread the word and demand approrpoate treatment for everyone, please:
· Send your story of how one of the Rights listed was important to you or your loved one’s care. Alternately, tell us how one of the Rights, if followed, would have changed the care you or your family member received. Tell us why the Charter matters, and some way it could be enacted in your country.
· Send your story to Kristine Vazzano, Worldwide Charter Task Force Co-Chair. Please send your story in written form or as a short video clip (preferred). Send it as soon as you can so we can include it in a short film we are creating to help people understand the Charter and how it can be used - and why it is needed.
Jenny Craig vs. Feeding the Hungry
08.15.11
Chef Julie Goodwin turned down a lucrative deal to represent Jenny Craig as a celebrity spokesperson. She indicated she is not interested in losing weight as she embraces her curves and feels others have too. Rather than work toward weight loss she has pledged to help feed the hungry through involvement with Oxfam Grow. “I am less concerned about my weight than about the fact that one in seven people do not have enough food to eat each day and that is why I wanted to be an ambassador for Oxfam Grow,” she was quoted to say in The Sunday Telegraph.
Additionally, Ms. Goodwin demonstrates her healthy relationship with food through her rejection of the diet mentality and good/bad food dichotomy, “You can enjoy the stuff they call bad, I don’t think anything is truly bad unless you are eating it all the time,” she said. “I am not afraid of butter because if I am using it to make something myself, I know how much I am using.”
Kudos to Ms. Goodwin for being such a positive celebrity role model. We can all learn a lot about the way she has embraced herself and rejected the harmful societal pressures to lose weight and diet.
To read the full article: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/this-is-me-i-dont-want-to-be-thin/story-e6freuy9-1226114455458