This document discusses healthy eating, body image, and self-esteem. It begins by outlining what normal eating entails, such as listening to internal hunger cues and including enjoyable foods. Disordered eating behaviors like skipping meals or excessive dieting are also defined. The document emphasizes practicing normal eating, developing a positive body image by focusing on health rather than weight or size, and building self-esteem through caring relationships and recognizing individual strengths. Media literacy is presented as a tool to help analyze media messages that can influence body image and self-perceptions.

1. NORMAL EATING,
POSITIVE BODY IMAGE
AND SELF ESTEEM
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2. OUTLINE
What is healthy eating?
What is disordered eating?
Positive body image
Healthy self esteem
Media
Where to go for more
information
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3. HEALTHY EATING
Your body decides
What
How much, and
How often of eating
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4. NORMAL EATING
 Normal eating is the:
When
Where
Why of eating
 Flexible and enjoyable
 Making your own choices
 Include your favourite foods
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5. NORMAL EATING IS…
 Going to the table hungry and eating until you
are satisfied
 Eating foods you like and …
Not stopping because you think you should
 Choosing nutritious and enjoyable foods
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6. NORMAL EATING IS…
 Sometimes it’s okay to eat ‘just because’
 Eating three meals a day – four or five – or it can
be choosing to munch along the way
 Leaving some cookies on the plate for tomorrow
or eating more now because they taste so
wonderful!
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7. NORMAL EATING IS…
 Feeling overfull sometimes
 Under-eating sometimes
 Trusting your body
 Takes time and is enjoyable
 Flexible – depends on :
 your hunger
 your schedule
 your feelings
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8. SUPPORTING NORMAL EATING
 We are born to eat instinctively
 If you change your eating habits, be gentle:
Drop the guilt
 Eat slowly
 Eat with others
 Enjoy meal time! 8

9. Do You Have a Healthy Relationship with Food?
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10. DISORDERED EATING
 Unhealthy attitudes about your body:
Weight concerns
Poor body image
Unhealthy thoughts and behaviours:
 skipping meals
 chronic or crash dieting
 excessive eating (binge eating or
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11. DISORDERED EATING - STATISTICS
 Females:
One in four teen girls have disordered eating
53% of teen females with a healthy BMI try to
lose weight
 Males:
25% of teen males are dieting
20% want to loose weight
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12. EATING DISORDERS
 Most eating disorders start with a diet
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13. BULIMIA NERVOSA
 Binge eating = eating a large amount of food in
a short amount of time
 Then, getting rid of the calories by:
Purging (vomiting) and/or
Laxatives, diuretics
Excessive exercise
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14. ANOREXIA NERVOSA
 Obsessive fear of gaining weight
 Refusal to eat enough to maintain weight
 Often with a distorted self image
 5-8% mortality rate
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15. OTHER EATING DISORDERS
 Examples:
A woman restricts her eating and is very
underweight but still gets her menstrual
period
 She has an eating disorder, but it isn’t anorexia
 Binge-eating disorder
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16. WHAT CAN WE DO
ABOUT
DISORDERED
EATING?
Practice normal eating…
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17. BOOKS, WEBSITES, RESOURCES &
LINKS
My Food Guide
 http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-
aliment/index-eng.php
BC Dairy Foundation
 www.bcdairyfoundation.ca
Michelle May, Founder of Am I Hungry?
www.amihungry.com
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18. MORE RESOURCES
 HealthLinkBC Factsheet: Supporting Someone with a
Eating Disorder
 http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/kb/content/special/hw48146.html
 Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
http://keltyeatingdisorders.ca/
 Looking Glass - Provincial Online Support
 www.looking_glass.meetsupport.com/register/
 Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous 12 Step Program
 www.anorexicsandbulimicsaba.org
 Overeaters Anonymous 12 Step Program www.oa.org
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19. EATING DISORDERS
PROGRAM
EATING DISORDER
PROGRAM
oTalk with Dietitians and Counselors
oAnyone can call
oGroup education and support
oPhone: 250-387-0000
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20. FOSTERING HEALTHY
BODY IMAGE
What does body image mean to you?
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21. BODY IMAGE
 …the mental picture you have of your body and the
feelings you have about that picture
 Healthy body image:
Feeling "at home" in your body
Knowing how to take care of yourself
Feeling energetic
Able to do the things you want
Not trying to have the "perfect" body
Feeling good about yourself
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22. BODY DYSMORPHIC
DISORDER
 People who are obsessed with what they believe are
defects in the way they look
 They spend hours every day fixing, checking,
hiding appearance ‘flaws’
 Interferes with happiness
 Needs professional help
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23. FOSTERING HEALTHY BODY
IMAGE
 Be aware of what you are saying to yourself
and to others
Hurtful comments can last a lifetime
 Focus on health - not weight, not size
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24. FOSTERING HEALTHY BODY
IMAGE
 Respect yourself
Everyone grows and develops at a different rate
Healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes
 Puberty is a time of rapid growth and development
 Your body is just one part of you
 Recognize your strengths and
celebrate your talents
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25. WHAT DO YOU SAY?
 A friend asks you how to lose weight and get a
flat tummy again.
What do you do?
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26. ENJOYING THE OCCASIONAL
TREAT
 You brought cookies for the class and one student
says to the another, “you shouldn’t eat that… it
will make you fat.”
What do you do?
What do you say?
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27. FOSTERING HEALTHY SELF
ESTEEM
What does self esteem mean to you?
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28. WHAT IS SELF ESTEEM?
 A person’s overall evaluation of his/her own
worth
 Includes beliefs
 “I am competent”, “I am worthy”
 Includes emotions, including:
Triumph
Despair
Pride
Shame
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29. WHAT INFLUENCES SELF ESTEEM?
For many people, body image can be closely linked to
self-esteem.
As kids develop into teens, they care more about
how others see them
 Early experiences
 Outside influences
 Puberty
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30. ACTIVITY
 What is needed for a person to build a healthy
self esteem and positive body image.
 Consider:
Individual and peer factors
Family and cultural factors
Community and societal factors
 What role do we play as:
Friends
Parents
Teachers
Community members
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31. RESILIENCY
 People who believe in themselves :
 are better able to recognize mistakes, learn from
them and bounce back from disappointment
 Skills can be fostered through:
Caring relationships
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32. MEDIA LITERACY
What does media literacy
mean to you?
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33. MEDIA LITERACY IS…
 Being able to analyze, evaluate,
and create messages in different
forms of media modes
 Ask:
 What do you watch?
 What do you hear?
 What do you read?
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34. WE ARE BOMBARDED… WITH
MESSAGES
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36. MEDIA LITERACY - EDUCATION
 Education addresses the negatives of
mass media and popular :
Media violence
Gender and racial stereotypes
Sexualization of youth
Loss of privacy
Cyber bullying
Internet predators
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37. MEDIA LITERACY - EDUCATION
 Goal:
To help you make good choices in your use of
media
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38. MEDIA LITERACY: TOOLS AND
RESOURCES
 Fat Talk (3 min. 19 sec.)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CuMJybvAh8
 Dove Evolution (1 min. 15 sec.)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U
 Dove Beauty Pressure (1 min. 15 sec.)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Ei6JvK0W60I&feature=related
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39. FINAL THOUGHTS…
The purpose of eating
is to fuel living.
I have more time and energy
when I’m not consumed by
food, eating, and weight.
Where will I invest my energy today?
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MichelleMay,AmIHungry?
aihungry.com