 Eating Disorders and Body Image |
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Eating disorder is the term used to describe a group of illnesses where someone has a distorted view of body image and extreme disturbances in eating behaviour. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder are all different types of eating disorders. You may want to check out the factsheets for more information on other eating disorders:
Body image is your attitude towards your body - how you see yourself, how you think and feel about the way you look and how you think others perceive you. An unhealthy body image is thinking your body is bigger or smaller that it is in reality, believing that you aren't perfect on the outside, and thinking that how you look on the outside is your entirety. Reach Out factsheets: A healthy body image is being comfortable in your own skin, being happy with the way you look, and feeling good within yourself. For more info on body image issues specific to guys check out the Body image + blokes fact sheet. The 2010 national survey conducted by Mission Australia of more than 50,000 young people between 11-19 years old. Concern about body image was evenly split between young people worried about their personal appearance and the unrealistic portrayal of ‘the perfect body’ in the media and elsewhere. The Butterfly Foundation is a community based charitable organisation that supports eating disorder sufferers and their carers through direct financial relief, advocacy, awareness campaigns, health promotion and early intervention work, professional training in primary and secondary schools and we support research into eating disorders and body image. |