Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Do You Have an Eating Disorder? Take Our Test

Deanne has created a quick and simple quiz to determine whether you have an eating disorder. If you have problems with food, you may deal with them quickly and effectively via our self help programme, or try telephone and personal counselling with a practitioner trained to know how to listen to you and how to take things forward. You deserve a relaxed and healthy relationship with food. Do the quiz by clicking on the title above.

Monday, July 10, 2006

Posh Spice and her weight

Posh Spice is said to have a 23 inch waist. Deanne comments on why some people strive to be so thin, and can we make sense of their claims that they eat "like a pig". Deanne suggests that their claims defy physics and human biology. To read more please click on the title above and you may read the full article and some comments from people who have followed the story

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Online Self Help Supports People Waiting for Treatment

The Scotsman reports on our online self help programmes for bulimia and compulsive eating, which can assist people on long waiting lists for eating disorders treatment on the NHS.  Working while waiting is known to cut recovery times and enhance the effects of treatment elsewhere.  In some cases, people recover fully and don’t need to follow on.  Deanne Jade, Principal, calls for GPs to be aware of this programme, which is the first of its kind in the UK.  You can access our online self help programmes at any time via the website www.eating-disorders.org.uk  and read the article by following this link

http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=946682006

 

 

 

The Cult of Anorexia

Deanne Jade offers an opinion about pro anorexia web sites in the Daily Mail. On the one hand she recognises that they have a part to play in helping people with anorexia to find friendship and support, but on the other hand she describes many of these sites as a pornography of eating disorders.  To find out more, follow the link below

www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article?_id=393037&in_page_id=1879