Promoting Healthy Body
Image and Preventing
Disordered Eating
Video Introduction
August 25th, 2011
www.youtube.com/user/TriDeltaEO#p/a/u/0/4CuMJybvAh8
Hing Tse, Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
Jill Shaw, Health Promotion Consultant
Mimi Hudson, Jessie’s Legacy
Sarah Carten, Vancouver Coastal Health
Definitions
Eating disorders
Disordered eating
Body image
Self-esteem
Objectives
1.
First do no harm
2.
Health at Every Size
Health Promotion Approach
3.
4.
Explore the role of school culture and environment
in supporting students to be healthy and develop
and maintain a positive body image
Learn about available resources and classroom
activities for promoting a positive body image
preventing disordered eating
Learn about guidelines and available resources for
students with a suspected eating disorder
Explore adult influencers on the development of
students’ body image and self-esteem
Being Me: Promoting Positive Body Image
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCJe42LGnB4&feature=relmfu
Guess Who? Icebreaker (pulled from Grade 3
lesson of same resource)
Comprehensive School Health
Resources
To promote healthy body image or prevent
disordered eating
Yale Rudd Centre Weight Bias at Home &
School video preview
As role models and influencers what can
teachers/administrators do to combat weight/
bias in schools?
Discussion Topics
Social and Physical Environment
1. School Culture
2. Teasing/ Bullying
Teaching and Learning
3. Classroom Resources
BC’s Information Source
for Children, Youth & Families
A one stop system navigation, information and resource hub for BC
children, youth and families with mental health and substance use
concerns including eating disorders for all ages
Support from a professional, an eating disorders peer support worker
or F.O.R.C.E. Parent in Residence
Options for treatment and support in BC
Tips for self-help and prevention
Free Pinwheel educational events for families, educators and clinicians
http://www.keltymentalhealth.ca/
http://www.keltyeatingdisorders.ca
Teaching Resources - Tips
Health Promotion approach
Positive self-esteem, body image
Media Awareness
Communication, Self-assertion
Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Teaching Resources – Lesson Plans
Avoid
Calorie counting or weighing in class
Discussing dieting tips or signs and symptoms of eating
disorders
Kindergarten - 7
Being Me - www.actionschools.ca
Grades 4 - 6/8
The Student Body
http://research.aboutkidshealth.ca/thestudent
body/home.asp
Go to Jessie’s Legacy website Educators
Curriculum
NEDIC - get website
All ages
Objectives
1.
2.
3.
4.
Explore the role of school culture and environment
in supporting students to be healthy and develop
and maintain a positive body image
Learn about available resources and classroom
activities for promoting a positive body image
preventing disordered eating
Learn about guidelines and available resources for
students with a suspected eating disorder
Explore adult influencers on the development of
students’ body image and self-esteem
Questions?
Wrap Up
Addendum – Extra Slides
“What will you do in your
classroom, school, or district
as a result of what you learned here today?”
Weight Bias
Being Me – Key Messages
Percent who were discriminated against in the
past year because of their physical
appearance:
25% of overweight youth
43% of obese youth
A Picture of Health, McCreary Centre Society,
2009
Consider your values, beliefs, and choice of
language about body weight, shape and
health.
Promote health at every size through inclusive
physical activities.
Role model positive body image and a healthy
lifestyle.
Being Me –Key Messages continued
When you discuss bullying in your classroom,
include weight and shape related teasing.
Teach students how to look at media
messages more critically.
Avoid using weight tables or charts, or calorie
counting in classroom activities.
It is normal for children to gain weight in
advance of the rapid growth period that occurs
during puberty.
Girls usually have their major growth spurt at
12.5 to 13 years
Boys have theirs at 14 to14.5 years
Each person’s body is different and we should
respect, accept, and celebrate these
differences.
MEDIA PRESSURES TO LOOK
UNHEALTHY AND UNREALISTIC!
The Great Divide
The Great Divide
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The Average Model:
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5’ 10½”
114 pounds
10 – 15% body fat
Sizes 4 – 6
Thinner than 98% of women
The Buff Guy:
The Average North American
Woman:
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• 6’
• 200 – 220 pounds
• 6% body fat
5’ 4½“
140 pounds
22 – 32% body fat
Sizes 12 - 14
The Average North American
Guy:
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5’ 9.1”
181 pounds
19.7% body fat
Waist of 38.8 inches
Other Resources
NEDA Educator Toolkit, 2008
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
Teaching Students with Mental Health Disorders; Resources
for Teachers Ministry of Education, 2000
www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/edi/ed1.pdf
Schools as a setting for promoting positive mental health:
Better practices and perspectives, 2010
http://eng.jcsh-cces.ca/