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CHOPPER HUNT FOR Oh my Cod,
chippie sign TWO SCOTS AMONG RISING NUMBER OF MALE SUFFERERS Dope sends
his drugs
MISSING MOYRA, 16 is replaiced
Docs said
A CHIPPIE owner
to Oxfam
removed “Oh My Cod”
Record Reporter
sign from the front of CHARITY workers found a
AN RAF helicopter yesterday By Lucinda Cameron his shop after a bag of cannabis with a street
joined the search for a complaint that it was value of £7000 in clothes
missing 16-year-old girl. teams and a dog handler have “tasteless”. handed in at an Oxfam shop.
Mountain rescue teams, been joined by a Rescue 137 Del Athwal moved Police have now taken
anorexia
Coastguards, police and helicopter from RAF Kinloss, it to the side of his custody of the drugs, which
search and rescue dogs are along with four search and takeaway after had been dropped off at
also looking for Moyra Liz rescue dogs. Christine Inskip went the charity’s Wastesaver
As-Chainey. Dundonnel and Assynt to the council in centre in Huddersfield,
She was reported missing mountain rescue team, Coast- Tenterden, Kent. Yorkshire.
on Wednesday. The search guards and Kinloss mountain She said: “It was Lorraine Needham-Brinley,
focused on the Edderton area rescue team joined the hunt. tasteless – it was production manager at the
of Easter Ross. Moyra is about 5ft 7in, with advertising fish and national depot, said: “What
would kill
Moyra, from Edderton, was long, brown hair and green chips for £2.99.” was surprising was that it
last seen waiting for the bus eyes. She was wearing a navy But Del said: “I’m not was so fresh it must only
to Tain Royal Academy, five blue fleece, black leggings taking it down.” have been picked off the
miles away. Police search and Ugg boots. J DISAPPEARANCE Moyra plant that morning.”
The depot sorts waste
clothing donated to all
Oxfam shops across the
J HAPPY CHILD Jonathan as a boy before he Z STRUGGLE country and the drugs could
was hit by anorexia, left, and, right, yesterday Jonathan Hill, have come from anywhere.
me by age
pictured at his A West Yorkshire Police
Jonathan tells of battle lowest weight
of four and a
half stone
spokesman said the drugs
had been seized and
destroyed.
with eating disorder
30.. I’m 29
JONATHAN Hill has a year to By Karen Bale
start eating or he could die. reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk
That is the stark warning he was
given by doctors trying to help him hopes he is winning his fight with the
overcome anorexia. illness is Jamie, 22, from Glasgow.
And he is an example of a worrying The science student first became ill in
trend, with a rising number of males 2007 after he was attacked by a gang in
fighting the disorder which is usually an unprovoked incident.
now and
associated with young women. He said: “I was really shaken up and
Jonathan, 29, has battled an eating lost a lot of confidence. I decided to J PORTRAIT Campbell
Worthy
disorder since he was 12. take up running and eat healthier to
His weight is currently six and a half boost my self-esteem.
stone – he used to be as low as four and “I was over 17st at the time and, at 6ft
a half – and hopes he is doing enough 2in, I was classed as obese.”
of notes
to see his fourth decade. Jamie began running four times a
“I’ve accepted I’ll always have this week and the weight dropped off.
I know I’ll
illness. I won’t get better,” said He said: “In no time I reached my
Jonathan. target weight of 12st but I didn’t stop
“But I’ve learnt to live with it. When there. I got so many compliments I put A PORTRAIT of the
my consultant diagnosed me with myself on a 1200 calories-a-day diet Scot whose face
chronic anorexia, she told me I had and soon became trapped in a vicious appears on every Royal
halved my lifespan and I would be cycle of calorie counting.” Bank of Scotland note
lucky to reach 30. Jamie’s weight plummeted to a sold at auction
“I try not to think about it and I take dangerously thin seven stone. yesterday for £32,450.
every day as it comes. I’ve got to a stage He said: “I was oblivious. I saw a Allan Ramsay’s 1748
never beat
broad, big male body in the mirror, oil painting of
which was far from reality. I became Archibald Campbell,
snappy and moody and my hair became the 3rd Duke of Argyll,
increasingly thin and brittle. Looking was bought by a
back, I was a walking skeleton.” Scottish collector at
Friends became increasingly worried B o n h a m s i n
about Jamie, who was surviving on a Edinburgh.
diet of cup-a-Soups and vegetables. Campbell was the
He said: “I felt miserable but in
this illness
bank’s first governor.
control simultaneously. I was diagnosed
with anorexia not long after I went for
a six-mile run and collapsed less than
five minutes in. I finally plucked up the
courage to tell my mum.”
Smokers’
J DISEASE Jamie takes pic of skeletal frame
Jamie’s mum rushed him to his GP,
who told him his liver was badly
damaged and his organs failing.
excuses for
where I keep my body mass index out
of the danger zone so I’m not admitted,
or sectioned, to hospital.
He said: “He couldn’t believe that, at
7st, I was still alive. He told me my
blood-sugar levels were so low he didn’t industry and how that can damage
cig at work
“When it gets to 13, they aren’t happy think I’d survive another week.” the body image of young women. support and have been a huge wearing a rubber suit. So I’ve made
By Mike Swain
with me being in the community, so I Jamie struggled to start eating but Jamie feels the same thing has influence.” the choice – I stay out of hospital, MORE than a third of
try to keep it at 14. was motivated to get better when he happened to men in recent years. For Jonathan, things haven’t been just, and I function. smokers admit making up an
“Just now my weight is about six and saw the pain he was causing his mum. He said: “There have been more and quite so successful. “When it gets to night and it’s time excuse so they can nip out of
a half stone. I hope I’m doing enough to He said: “I wanted to make my mum more men with eating disorders as Already this year, he has been to switch off the light, I feel a huge work for a sneaky cigarette.
get past the age of 30. happy as seeing her only son fading the amount of men’s magazines have admitted to hospital twice. sense of relief because I don’t have to T h ey c o m e u p w i t h
“But don’t get me wrong, I worry away was breaking her heart. I upped a massive influence on body image, He said: “One time I collapsed, think about food, worry about my “errands” so they can go for
about my weight every day. I worry that my calorie intake for her.” with models posing shirtless. another time I tore my gullet through body, about how I look or whether I a cigarette.
my heart might pack in one day and Over the past three years, Jamie has “And many clothes lines now sell vomiting. I was also admitted twice have put on weight.” And a third offered to do
that I’m not going to wake up.” managed to get his weight back up to a designer gear that is targeted at thin last year as my weight was too low.” But Jonathan believes doctors extra jobs outside their role
Jonathan is not alone. healthier 11st. males such as skinny jeans and tight Although Jonathan is managing his tend to dismiss men with eating so that they could go for an
The number of men admitted to But he’s been shocked by the lack of T-shirts. That all helps to trigger male disorder, he worries every day about disorders, saying: “Men tend to additional break.
hospital with eating disorders has support for men with eating disorders. eating disorders.” having to eat. find it hard to talk about and so Smoking errands included
soared by 16 per cent in the last year. He said: “I’ve had my ups and downs Jamie has now recovered and is in “I make sure I eat something three many struggle with it. nipping to the shop to buy
In fact, it’s estimated that a fifth of the but I’ve got here in the end. But, during his second year of studying applied times a day and I know it’s something “The response they get milk, tea or coffee and going
1.5million Brits suffering from eating my recovery, I’ve been horrified by the bioscience at Strathclyde University. that I have to do, or I’ll suffer. But I from GPs, like I did, is, to the postal room.
disorders are men, and last year there sheer lack of support provided by the He said: “It’s been a huge factor in find it difficult. ‘Eat a Mars bar and People who smoked 16 to
were 228 hospital admissions. NHS for men with eating disorders. my recovery and I am living proof “I can’t bear to stay in hospital and drink a glass of milk.’ 20 cigarettes a day took an
And experts believe that’s only the tip “As a result, many men remain silent, that you can recover if you set your work to get to a weight they would “I think it’s average of four work breaks
of the iceberg. with shocking results.” mind to it. I’ve also had huge support call healthy. predominantly seen each lasting six minutes.
Thousands of men are too ashamed to We are used to hearing the debate from the only eating disorder group “When I was in The Priory a few as a female illness, More than half of people in
admit they have an eating disorder and about the images of women in in Scotland, called No Bodies Perfect. years ago my weight went up to 9st so many males the Co-operative Pharmacy
keep it to themselves. One man who magazines, on TV and in the fashion “They have provided excellent 10lb and I hated it. I felt like I was are overlooked.” poll said they chain smoked
or puffed faster than normal
For info on No Bodies Perfect, email i_would_like_to_enquire@ yahoo.com or see www.meetup.com/nbp-eating-disorders or www.b-eat.co.uk during their breaks.