Showing posts with label issues: eating disorders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label issues: eating disorders. Show all posts
top Madrid fashion show rejects 5 underweight girls
Great news - things are happening. When's the last time you read anything like this? Note the models came from our own NYC. How rich - the NYC fashion industry needs slapped down.
AP: Madrid, Spain - The organizers of Spain's top annual fashion show on Sunday rejected five out of 69 fashion models as being too thin to appear in this year's event, acting on a decision to bar underweight women from the catwalk.
The show, known as the Pasarela Cibeles, decided in September 2005 not to allow women below a body mass to height ratio of 18 to take part.
One of the rejected models had only reached a ratio of 16, the equivalent of being 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing less than 110 pounds, said Dr. Susana Monereo, of Madrid Getafe hospital's endocrinology and nutrition department, who along with two other doctors was in charge of assessing the models.
Monereo said this represented "extreme thinness."
ages 12, 10, 7 - diagnosed with anorexia
This article by Deborah Haynes for Reuters raises awareness on how young children can get caught up with eating disorders. Body issues aren't just for teens and adults anymore. We're well aware that obesity is rampant in toddlers and children, so this shouldn't be a total shock.
If nothing else, please take away from this news item the idea that it can be a life-and-death powderkeg to say anything to anyone about their body.
I'm especially sensitive to this as a trainer. I've watched too many people plummet into self-destructive cycles because of an offhand remark from someone who wasn't even trying to be mean. Something that seems obvious to one person about another's physique may not be that person's reality or desire. It may be his or her demon.
No matter how well-meaning or casual the comment, if you don't know the person well, my advice is stop and hold your tongue. There's just no good reason to remark on how thin, thick, skinny or fat a person is. You have no idea how your comment may be taken and what may come of it.
model dies from anorexia
To the powers that be in the model and image industries, who keep these ideals going, publicly deny there is any problem, and fight reform tooth-and-nail: Shame, Shame, Shame.
21-year-old Ana Carolina Reston weighed 88 pounds
Reuters, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - The mother of a Brazilian fashion model who died from complications of anorexia has made an emotional appeal for parents to take better care of aspiring young models.
The death of Ana Carolina Reston, 21, follows growing criticism of the use of underweight models in the fashion world, an issue given new significance after the death in August of Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos of heart failure during a fashion show in Montevideo.
Reston died on Tuesday in a Sao Paulo hospital from a generalized infection caused by anorexia, an eating disorder in which sufferers obsessively deprive themselves of food in pursuit of an ultra-slim look.
Reston weighed only 88 pounds (40 kg) and was about 5 feet 8 inches tall (1.72 meters) tall. Doctors consider this weight normal for a 12-year-old girl no more than about 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall.
...“Dictatorship of skinny look kills a model,” said the front-page headline of O Dia tabloid, which carried a picture of the dark-haired, big-eyed girl in lingerie....
Boxer battles bulimia
Eating disorders get most of their media spotlight on young females - the too-typical skinny high school girl squirreling away her lunches, or eating several and then secretly purging in the bathroom. But like osteoporosis, this insidious disease group also takes down males every day, while dodging the mainstream radar. I applaud Kirk Lang for writing a fascinating story on a recent boxer who battled bulimia.
Many physical fitness disciplines are breeding grounds for eating disorders, from anorexia to "bigorexia". Bodybuilders injure themselves and die under unhealthy regiments (see mightykat.net for more information); wrestlers, boxers and weightlifters commonly diet and do outlandish things to "make weight".
On the other hand, extreme disciplines can have just the opposite effect as well. Within an environment with good information, training, guidance and encouragement, people battling these demons have found their cure.
For instance, ex-anorexics make excellent bodybuilders. With the right guidance, bodybuilding can be a life-changing experience that can actually help anorexics recover, because it doesn't try to change them. It gives them the lifestyle they crave but in a healthy structure, bringing it out into the open as a badge of honor. It's a natural progression for them, calling on their unrelenting diet micomanagement, scrupulous discipline that militants dream of, and demanding exhausting, organized exercise. Their efforts are rewarded with social and physical acceptance, health, beauty, and public adoration. Now they look good, are healthy and proud. Mind you, it all hinges on being in the right hands - trainer, dietician, coach, etc.
Anyhow, here is the lead to Lang's article.
Former Fighter’s Toughest Battle was his Bout with Bulimia
By Krik Lang, for EastSideBoxing.com -- Peter Joseph Alindato was a promising contender in the early 1980s. He was a frequent face on ESPN and had a boyish smile that belied his killer instinct in the ring. Great things were expected of the bantamweight with the flying fists. In the prime of his career, he was trained by Tommy Parks and Oscar Suarez and later spent time training at legendary manger Cus D’Amato’s training facility in Catskill, New York, where a young Mike Tyson was transformed from a raw young teenager into a world-class fighter.
Alindato, however, never lived up to his potential. He never achieved his dream of becoming a champion. What the viewers who saw him on television never knew, and what his trainers didn’t even know for years, was that Alindato, also known as the Durango Kid, was battling a far more dangerous opponent than any man he ever met in the ring – bulimia.
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