I wanted to take a look at how culturally and ethnically there are divergent ideas of what beauty is and what is considered the preferred female body type. There are numerous ways this manifests here I address the common and glaring contrast that faces us in America- African American and Latina compared to that of Caucasian American.
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What is the difference between Disordered eating and Eating disorders?
I am so excited about this post. First because I wanted to address the absence of the “Eating Disorder” discussion here (which I address at the beginning of the video) and because personally I think that the topic is seldom discussed. This is a 4 part series that will be posted every 2 days so check in or subscribe so that you can get the update when the next post is up. I look forward to you comments.
In this first section Dietitian Natalie Gaurnaschelli defines the medical criteria for Eating disorders. this series is chock full of important information.
Real Women Don’t Have Perfect Bodies
I loved what Dr. Wurtman had to say mainly because it’s true especially about the health magazines using perfectly toned models to show you how to do exercises. When you are far from being in shape and trying to stay motivated and engaged, it can be just as depressing as reading a fashion magazine to see a perfect image that you don’t relate to used as an example. Hey Real Women work out too!!!
by Judith J. Wurtman, PhD Co-author, “The Serotonin Power Diet, Eat Carbs, Nature’s Own Appetite Suppressant, to Stop Emotional Overeating”
Excerpt- The models had arms so thin they could fit through a doughnut hole and it was obvious that they were as curveless as a Q-tip. “Why,” I asked myself, “do magazines still feel it necessary to display clothes, shoes, and even jewelry on bodies that are so unrepresentative of the typical woman?”
Bethenny Frankel knows what she’s talking about
Think what you will of the former Real Housewife of New York, but she does know her stuff when it comes to healthy eating and erasing the word DIET out of your vocabulary by changing your thinking about food. I’m feeling Ms. Bethenny and might be sharing some of her recipes. Listen to the great tips she has for sensible eating.
Look What’s Coming Up!!
I am so incredibly excited, not not only about the amount of support the blog has received over these first 5 months (we are on track to reach 15,000 hits!!! we were quoted on NBC’s Today Show ) but also for the things we have on tap for the next couple of months!
So I thank you all so much. Thank you for the positive feedback and for spreading the word!!!
I have been working diligently to keep bringing you good, interesting and informative content and next month I have some juicy things on tap!
First I am so psyched to kick of my Dancer’s Dish segments where dancers talk about their experiences not only with their bodies weight, diet but with injury, maintenance and the general antic of being a dancer. The dynamic and elegant Ms. Elizabeth Roxas who was a principal dancers with The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater of 13 years is my first guest. It was a fascinating discussion. I have had the privilege of knowing, and becoming friends with “Liz” for about 4 years now and I learned so much about her in this interview. She shares her “young dancer” body image experiences, and dancing through disability due to knee injuries. We talk about her post dance career body, and the changes she experienced both mentally and physically. On January 2nd she graced the City Center stage once again to honor Judith Jamison and her stepping down as Artistic director of the Ailey company. Roxas talks about what it was like to get back in shape and stage ready at the tender age of 52, and much more!!! (6 Parts)
Our Nutritionist/Dietitian Natalie Gaurnaschelli comes back (yay) and helps define the difference between Disordered eating and having an Eating Disorder. This is some great information. I reveal where I, hence the blog stands in terms of Eating Disorders- why I have yet to address it in this forum. We talk in depth about food restriction not just as an eating disorder but a a component of disordered eating. I share my restrictive behaviors, and how to come to a balance. Good stuff love Natalie!
We have Mental health specialist Courtney Veazey coming on board to add another voice to the dialogue on My Body My Image. Courtnay will address emotional eating, Natalie will be following up with the nutritional aspects of emotional eating.
We have a physical therapist coming on board to discuss body maintenance and health including how to get the most out of your physical therapy and cross-training. Very important stuff to know…
I am also starting a Teacher’s Talk Segment where dance teachers will share there thoughts on the body- technique and training I am so looking forward to these, Elizabeth Roxas as contributed and I am looking forward to talking to Horton Master teacherAna Marie Forsythe as a companion to the interview we did for Dance Magazine’s Teacher’s Wisdom.
Leslie Journet will be continuing up the body from the pelvis to the alignment of the back. How awesome it that?
All this and more, now doesn’t that make you want to get it as soon as it’s posted?
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‘Am I Too Fat?’
BY TINA KELLEY
WHITE PLAINS — THE two friends shopping at The Westchester mall figured the serious talk about dieting started about a year ago.
The two, Catherine Gray, 14, of Eastchester, and Maria Fufidio, 15, of Larchmont, say that they have tried dieting, and that they have a friend who, before she got her navel pierced, lost 10 pounds on the South Beach diet, which limits bread, potatoes and other carbohydrates.
”We go to an all-girls school,” Catherine said, reciting what she said was a typical dialogue at the Ursuline School in New Rochelle:
”I think I’m going to get a bag of chips.”
”I’m so fat.”
23year old dies after 6th breast augmentation surgery
This is precisely what I posted about earlier. How is it even possible to have this many surgeries at such a young age, sad so sad.
German porn star and “Big Brother” participant Carolin Berger a.k.a. “Sexy Cora” died last Thursday after her sixth breast enlargement operation to go from a 34F to a 34G, Sky News reports. She was 23.
Cora has been in an artificial coma since January 11 at a clinic in Hamburg. Sky News explains, “She went under the knife for the last time at the Alster Clinic and was having 800g (28oz) of silicon injected into each breast. But her heart stopped beating during the operation. She suffered brain damage and was put into an induced coma.” Cora’s husband Tim Wosnitza remarked, “The doctors told me that she wouldn’t make it. The brain damage was too big.”
Teens and Plastic Surgery
How young is too young? I can remember being 13 and girls getting their noses “done” for their Bat Mizvahs, or having their ears tacked back. No one blinked an eye. For some it was, in way a cultural rite of passage, akin to orthodontia. As a parent it was the right thing to do, you don’t let your kid run a round with a jacked up mouth, dumbo ears or a honker that would get them teased. No Biggie.
That was in the eighties, things have changed. Teens are not merely getting the bump taken of of their noses but getting them implanted in their breast before graduation. They are having lips, noses, chins, breasts and lipo before they are legally allowed to DRINK!
My question: Is buying a better body really the way to create a better body image? After all of the healing to you really feel better about yourself- not when your out wearing the Vicky Secret “Now I can rest my chin on my chest” bra and thigh highboots kicking it in the club, but when you are alone in your solitude, in those vulnerable, facade free moments before you drift off to sleep, does the work change the way you truly feel about yourself? Do you like who and what you are?
Not a Judgment- just a question
What REALLY makes a Woman Beautiful?
By JANE E. BRODY
One of my most beautiful friends is hardly what our society would call a classic beauty. At 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 120 to 125 pounds, she is absolutely average, statistically speaking. Clearly, she is not centerfold material: her belly protrudes a bit, her waist and neck are somewhat foreshortened, her thighs are slightly flabby and her face is round but lacks the delicacy of a cherub.
Yet nearly all who know her see her as beautiful. Why? Because she sees herself as an attractive woman who looks good for her 40 years. She is pleased with her physical persona and it shows in how she walks, talks, dresses, laughs and listens. Her dazzling smile projects beauty from the inside out.
The Athletic Body as an Ideal for Girls
By Tina Kelley
HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON — JEAN ZIMMERMAN and Gil Reavill, who live in Hastings-on-Hudson, traveled around the country interviewing girls before writing ”Raising Our Athletic Daughters,” (1998, Doubleday), about the impact of sports on girls’ lives. In an interview at their home, joined by their 12-year-old daughter, Maud, they discussed how athletic activity can protect girls from eating disorders, provided they do not take it to extremes.
The couple have seen girls who are less than svelte gain confidence by excelling in sports, as did one basketball player Mr. Reavill said he knew.
”She was out there, a leader on that team,” Mr. Reavill said of the ballplayer. ”I thought about what her life would be like normally, with kids in the halls poking fun at her. She did not have a supermodel image, but she did find an arena where her body was a positive and effective thing.”