Advertisments produced by the National Eating Disorder Association to raise awareness:
The efforts to raise the awareness of eating disorders are increasing every year. Two main events that take place are Eating Disorder Awareness week and International No Diet Day.
Eating Disorder Awareness week (EDAW) takes place the first week of February. It is an international effort by the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. The goal of EDAW is to decrease the prevalence of eating disorders, dieting, and body image problems through public education programs that focus on the social factors that cause them to develop. The slogan for EDAW is “celebrating our natural sizes!” The week encourages individuals to steer away from one narrow ideal of beauty and focus more on living a healthy life style and celebrating natural diversity.
International No Diet Day (INDD) was founded by a lady in England who was inspired by her frustration towards the social standards that pressure people to be thin which often have devastating results. It is celebrated May 6th of every year. The goals of INDD are to stop food/weight obsessions, increase public awareness of the dangers of dieting, affirm everyone’s right to fitness, health and emotional well being, celebrate beauty and diversity that comes in all shapes and sizes, increase public awareness on damage done to emotional, physical, and financial health by societies obsession with thinness, help change prejudice of fat people, and honors the victims of an eating disorders or weight loss interventions.
There is many ways to get involved in both of these annual events or to raise the awareness of these issues. Public Forums and speak outs, posting videos or articles on your personal sites, information booths in the community, or events at schools and colleges are all very effective ways to get the message out about the growing epidemic of eating disorders. For more ideas on ways to get involved, this site is very helpful:
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