St. Lawrence Centre Forum presents

BEYOND DENIAL: Identifying and Coping with Disordered Eating

Most women and many men struggle with body image, food and weight preoccupation. Because of the 'normality' of abnormal attitudes and
behaviours around food and weight, serious problems can be missed by families, friends and health care workers. With 27% of 12-18 year olds
in Ontario struggling with dangerous eating attitudes and behaviouirs, isn't it time to act?
- How can you achieve a healthy weight and body image?
- How can you identify an eating disorder in yourself or someone else?
- How well served are we by health and education
systems?
- What leads to the development of eating disorders?

Speakers:
Zahra Dhanani: Immigration Lawyer and Co-host of
CKLN's Masala Mixx will speak of her experiences.
Karin Jasper: Psychotherapist, Hospital for Sick
Children Easting Disorder Programme. Co-editor of Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Weight Preoccupation and Eating Disorders.
Brian Pronger: Professor, Physical Education and
Health, University of Toronto

Tuesday, February 5, 2002
7:30-9:30 pm
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front Street East
(2 blocks south of King subway, one block east of Yonge)

ADMISSION IS FREE
first come, first seated - capacity 500
wheelchair accessible

Sponsored by the St. Lawrence Centre Forum and the
National Eating Disorder Information Centre

But now, in the twentieth century western world, when fast food abounds and virtually all people have more than enough to eat, overweight women are the norm and skinny waif-like women are considered the most beautiful. Certainly all the rich, famous and most handsome men all marry thin women these days.

Is there a conection between what we perceive as beauty and what we perceive as difficult to achieve - i.e, plumpness in the middle ages; and skinnyness in today's world?

I don't know, but it's an interesting social phenomenon.

[ January 23, 2002: Message edited by: Rabid Gerbil ]