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Hello and welcome to
Health For A Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don MacKintosh.
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We're glad you joined us today.
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We're gonna be
talking about a very important
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subject today, anorexia
and bulimia, eating disorders.
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Many times they affect
ladies, women but also some
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men are affected. It's
not the largest problem
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in America, because many
people are suffering from
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diseases of over
abundance but there are a few
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that really struggle with
this and joining us to talk
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about this is the
survivor of this very problem.
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Survivor of anorexia,
Jennifer Jill Schwirzer
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and she has a
webpage jenniferjill.org and
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we're excited about the
material that she is sharing
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and about the book
that you've written,
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Dying To Be
Beautiful. Excellent book,
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you have put a lot of
research into this and pulled
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together a multidisciplinary
team, a registered
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dietitian and a psychologist
and you've got some very
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good reviews on this
book and what I like about
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it is that it comes
from your own personal
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perspective as well.
Yeah I wove a lot of stories
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in and out of the
main text that was more
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you know research, I've
put ten stories of survivors
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woven into the books so
there is a lot of personal
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interest and it reads
well. And you've told me
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that this is a problem
for what percentage of people
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in America? Well,
we're looking at a lifetime
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prevalence rate for
anorexia of about 0.5%,
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so that's not a large percent,
bulimia is higher 1 to 3%
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lifetime prevalence but
that prevalence drastically
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increases for a
certain age population and a
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certain gender. And
that is young women,
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women between the
ages of 15 and 25.
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And we've talked about
how this came as result
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of just a movement in
people's minds from fat being
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where was it was at so
to speak in other words
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that was a sign of
affluence then the thin being
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in and that wasn't
always the case. Okay.
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I mean when he looked
at those pictures of the
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Mona Lisa and others
you see that hey there
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has been a big
shift in what people
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think is beautiful. Right.
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Social revolution,
industrial revolution,
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sexual revolution all
those things factored in.
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Until today our
young women are beholding
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this images of catwalk
models and I specified before
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that the thinness
isn't in everywhere but
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it's particularly in,
in the fashion industry
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and particularly the
catwalk fashion industry
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where these woman are
showcased the new fashions
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and they value very thin
bodies because the clothes
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simply hang on their
bodies like they would on a coat
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hanger so the focus
is on the clothes and not
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on the girl. And so
the young women are seeing
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these images and
taking this in and that's what
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they idealize and partly
as a result of that eating
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disorders are much more
common among young women.
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So, today we wanna kind
of grapple with the causes
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and affects of these
eating disorders and you
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wanna give us some
definitions on eating disorders.
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That's right I wanna
define anorexia and bulimia
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for you, according to
the American Psychiatric
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Associations diagnostic
manual we're gonna look
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at the criterion.
First of anorexia, lets
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look at the next graphic.
These have been paraphrased
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but if you get the point
these are characteristics
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of Anorexia Nervosa. A
refusal to maintain body weight
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of more than 85%
of normal weight,
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in other words you're
15% underweight or more.
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Intense fear of
becoming fat is a characteristic
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of anorexia. Denial;
obsession with body weight;
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self-worth is
tied unduly to weight.
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And so as people are in
denial of their condition
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and not only that but
they're very focused on
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attaining this low
weight and that it consumes
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them and they define
themselves in those terms.
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Amenorrhea.
Amenorrhea is the loss of
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the monthly cycle that is
a characteristic of Anorexia
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Nervosa and that has to
happen for 3 consecutive
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months in order
for them to qualify.
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The diagnosis. That's right,
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and so those for
criterion are what constitute
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a diagnosis, all of
them have to be in place with
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this cavia that there
are two types of anorexia.
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One is the binging
purging type and the other
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is the restricting
type. The binging purging type
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can some times be
mistaken for bulimic because
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they binge and
purge. But, bulimics aren't
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generally underweight.
So, what does Nervosa mean.
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You know what I don't
know I was thinking about that,
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I need to look
that up, you caught me.
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Okay anorexia. I
think it has to do with
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nerves, but I'm not
sure I need to look that up,
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anorexia means a loss of
appetite which is not true
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because
anorexics obsess about food
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they're always
hungry, they're like
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starvation
victims, so it's a misnomer.
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Okay, so what is the
impact of anorexia on the body?
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On the body, okay
lets look at that,
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everything in the body
slows down and in a sense
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it dries up. Okay,
because you are not fueling
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your body, you are not
really hydrating your body
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and so it's getting
ratchet itself down into what
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is basically survival
mode. Blood pressure lowers,
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pulse lowers, respiration
slows down, digestion
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slows down. People
become constipated.
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They become dehydrated;
they are kind of like
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a fish out of water. And
all of this is an attempt
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on the body's part
to slow down to ratchet
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everything down,
because they are in conservation
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mode. Okay, we're
starving now and we need to slow
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everything down just to
get through this starvation
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period until there is food
available again that's what
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the body is saying. Often
there is a cold intolerance
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that's because of
very little body fat.
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But it's also because of
thyroid changes inability
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of the body to keep itself warm.
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There is very dry skin
and hair, body doesn't wanna
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waste any extra oil
or any extra resources
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on keeping the hair
moist and the skin moist,
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so that becomes dry. In
severe cases you can develop
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something called
Lanugo, which is a fur that
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develops on the body
and it's in fact the bodies
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last attempt stay warm. Hmm.
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Kinda like when you
have that one before
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you're born in the
womb. That's right, similar.
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Estrogen drops and
there is a lot of consequences
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as a result of
the dropping Estrogen.
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One being that the
lining of the uterus,
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this is not shed
every month as it is in the
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monthly cycle. And that
sets a women out for female
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types of cancers.
Another consequence of Estrogen
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loss is osteoporosis,
everybody knows about the
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correlation between
menopause and increased
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incidents of osteoporosis
because of a drop in
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Estrogen. Estrogen is
the bone building hormone.
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So, if you take a
woman who is in the formative
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stage of life
which young women are,
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they are still building
their bones and you take away
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the Estrogen or a
lot of the Estrogen,
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they're gonna have osteoporosis.
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In fact I have osteoporosis,
I believe as a result of.
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Of going thorough
that. Yes, I do. Then there
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is insomnia. The body is
basically trying to wake you
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up to get something to
eat women have difficulty
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or people have
difficulty sleeping and there is
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actual brain shrinkage.
The brain is a physical organ
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and we have to
remember that the mind is housed
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in a physical organ
and so what often happens
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with anorexics is they
have to force feed them to bring
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their nutrient levels
up so that they will even
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respond to counseling,
or respond to any form of
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mental therapy. Because
they just won't respond because
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their brain is in
kind of a paralyzed state.
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So your electrolytes
probably go off too,
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your potassium, magnesium
all those different things?
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That right and that's also
a characteristic of bulimia
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and let's look at the diagnostic
criterion for bulimia.
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Here on the next
slide, this is again the
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American Psychiatric
Association's diagnostic manual
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and here are the
criterion for Bulimia Nervosa.
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And we need to
look up that Nervosa,
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I should have known
that. Recurrent binging,
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eating extreme quantities
and feeling out of control.
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And then self-induced
vomiting or some kind of
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purging behavior
using either vomiting.
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Most often vomiting, but
sometimes laxatives diuretics,
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enemas, fasting or
exercise. So, there is a binging
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purging pattern. This
must happen 2 times per week
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for 3 months. And again
self-worth is tied unduly
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to weight. These
people become obsessed
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with this pursuit of the
perfect body and with food
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and that is becomes
who they are and it can
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be very challenging
to try to talk to someone
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in that condition.
So, 2 to 3 times per week
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for 3 months. I
think that's what it said.
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Yeah. Yeah, so. And so
do you wanna look at the way
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that bulimia impacts the body.
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Yeah I wanna see, we
looked at how anorexia
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does that, what does bulimia do.
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Okay, you mentioned a
few moments ago about.
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Electrolytes.
Electrolyte imbalances,
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there are heart irregularities
that can come about
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as a result of bulimia
because of the throwing off
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of the electrolytes. Potassium.
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Particularly
potassium and that can cause
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something called
malignant cardiac arrhythmia.
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This is what Karen Carpenter,
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the singer died of.
Ironically she was in her closet
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getting ready to go
out and celebrate a recent
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weight gain. I believe
she was an anorexic 'cause
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she was quite
underweight, but she I believe a
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binging, purging type
of anorexic and she had
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a potassium imbalance.
That led to heart attack
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and she dropped
dead in her closet.
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This is also what is
believed to have happened to
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Terri Schiavo. She had
a binging, purging pattern
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going and it was believed
that she had a heart problem
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because of that.
Another consequence of bulimia
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is over
expansion of the stomach.
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These people are eating
huge quantities of food.
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The largest quantity I've
heard of is 50,000 calories.
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50000 calories. And
so the average intake
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of calories is 2000,
right, right around 2000
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so that's how many
types more that's like.
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That like off the charts.
Like 25 times more. Yeah.
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So, it's huge. So we're
talking huge quantities of food
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binging and purging,
50,000 calories in a day's time,
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many different binges.
So, there is over expansion
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of the stomach
because of the contact of
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stomach acid with the
esophagus, it sets person
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of first esophageal
cancer, they can also develop
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hoarseness. I met a
girl in the course of my
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research whose singing
voice had been affected
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by bulimia. And she was a
singer and enjoyed singing
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but she says my voice
will never be the same.
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The parotid glands for
some reason they don't know
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why but the parotid
glands on the sides of the
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neck swell in bulimia
and the person develops
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a chipmunk cheek appearance.
So, that's a give away
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sign sometimes. Soars
on the backs of the finger
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that's a result of putting
the fingers down the throat,
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the fingers push up
against the teeth and often
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bulimics will develop
sores. And then tooth decay
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as a result of the
stomach acid coming in contact
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with the teeth and
wearing away the enamel.
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Serious impact on the body.
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Right, so for both
anorexia and bulimia
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you can see
some tell-tell signs.
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What about the
psychological factors?
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Okay, well let's
talk about the causes;
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I think the causes
are multiple. I think we
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have three basic categories
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or I break it down
into the three categories.
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One is biological,
things in people's genetic codes
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so to speak and I'm
gonna talk about that
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for a moment. But,
then there are psychological
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factors, there are
things that can set a person out
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for developing
an eating disorder.
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That are in
their family of origin,
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that are in their individual
psyche and then the third
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factor is of
course cultural factors
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which we've been talking about.
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Okay so what about
the biological again,
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we talked about
what are those factors.
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Okay, there is an
association between particularly
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bulimia and major affective
disorder which affective
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disorder has to
do with the mood.
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So, like bipolars is
what we usually call that?
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Well, it's not just
bipolar major affective
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disorder is kind of
an over arching category
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and under that
category comes bipolar,
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comes depressive
disorder anything that affects
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the mood or the
emotions, effective means mood.
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Okay. That means emotion,
so there is an association
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between particularly
bulimia and major affective
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disorder. In other
words if the person has
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major affective disorder
in their family they are
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gonna have a greater
likelihood of developing
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bulimia. And that's
good news, because...
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That can be
treated. That's right,
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and bulimia does respond
to antidepressant use so.
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And then psychological factors.
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Okay, psychological
factors when I say that I mean
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specifically things in
the individual or in their
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past history or in
their family of origin.
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I am not talking about
the psychological impact
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of cultural factors.
Okay. In fact I'm putting
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in a separate category
just for the sake of organizing
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all the information.
So, what I found in my study
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was that there
was a relationship;
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there was a greater
incidence of eating disorders
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developed in women
who had been the victims
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of incest. It was much
greater than the incidence
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of eating disorders
in women who had been
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victims of abuse.
Just abuse, somehow incest
00:14:04.21\00:14:08.24
is a greater invasion
and I, in one study that
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I read broke it down this
way, it said that women develop
00:14:11.21\00:14:14.59
people develop their
social skills in their family
00:14:14.62\00:14:18.30
of origin. If there is
incest in a family it's a good
00:14:18.33\00:14:21.55
indication that the family
relationships are so esque
00:14:21.58\00:14:25.02
that the family is
not a good environment
00:14:25.05\00:14:28.10
for the development of
social skills and as a result
00:14:28.13\00:14:30.23
they come into
adulthood without social skills.
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There is isolation
from you know relationships
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in general because they've
never developed that ability
00:14:35.92\00:14:37.93
and as a result
they set themselves up
00:14:37.96\00:14:40.25
for all kinds of addictions
including eating disorders.
00:14:40.28\00:14:42.79
We're talking with
Jennifer Schwirzer,
00:14:43.67\00:14:45.28
she has done a book
on anorexia and bulimia
00:14:45.31\00:14:48.81
called 'Dying To Be Beautiful.'
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We're gonna continue
looking at the causes but
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then also some good
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Welcome back we
have been talking with
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Jennifer Schwirzer
she is written a book
00:16:01.94\00:16:04.11
Dying To Be Beautiful.
And a lot of the information
00:16:04.14\00:16:06.82
that we have been
covering you can access
00:16:06.85\00:16:08.94
on her website
jenniferjill.org and how's
00:16:08.97\00:16:15.09
that spelled Jennifer, JENNIFER.
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Traditional
spelling jenniferjill.org
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Okay, and they can find
information about the book
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which was published
by Review and Herald,
00:16:25.32\00:16:27.39
excellent book.
Did a lot of research,
00:16:27.42\00:16:29.53
fascinating to see
some of the things you have
00:16:29.56\00:16:31.43
been saying about the
factors, the biological factors,
00:16:31.46\00:16:34.59
you know I used to of
course from time to time work
00:16:34.62\00:16:38.68
on a eating disorders unit
and we saw a lot of people,
00:16:38.71\00:16:41.87
16 years old, 17
years old, people coming
00:16:41.90\00:16:45.23
with heart
attacks all from this.
00:16:45.26\00:16:47.57
Significant problem then
you also talked about the
00:16:47.60\00:16:50.26
psychological factors,
you were describing the
00:16:50.29\00:16:53.41
connection between
specifically incest
00:16:53.44\00:16:56.67
and an increase. That's right.
00:16:56.70\00:16:59.03
Level those that
are struggling with
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anorexia or bulimia,
that's associated with
00:17:02.11\00:17:04.37
that because of the
just invasion of the personal
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privacy. What else
about psychological factors.
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Okay there are
certain characteristics,
00:17:10.29\00:17:12.38
psychological
characteristics that have been
00:17:12.41\00:17:14.37
identified in women
with eating disorders
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and they would be
body dissatisfaction,
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not surprisingly, they are
not happy with their bodies.
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We've dwelt pretty
heavily on that previously.
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Something called
negative emotionality
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which is just feeling
bad. You know negative
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emotions
depression, anxiety, anger,
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negative emotions,
that's consistent among women
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who and men who
struggle with eating disorders
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and then
something called lack of
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interoceptive awareness.
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What's that mean, interoceptive?
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And interoceptive
awareness is the ability
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to read what's
going on inside of you.
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Like I can sit here
and talk to you and I can
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tell you I'm a little nervous.
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Or I can tell you
I'm getting hungry.
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But, they aren't in
touch with their feelings.
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They aren't in
touch with their feelings
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and are not able to
articulate them and this is
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consistently present
among those that are prone
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to develop eating disorders.
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So, what are then
are the cultural factors,
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you talked about
biological, psychological.
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Are there cultural factors?
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Well, the reason I keep
coming back to this issue
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is because that is
the over arching causative
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factor is what's going
on in our culture today.
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In relationship to the
idealization of a very,
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very thin ideal of
beauty plus the pressure
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that's on women
to look a certain way
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and to be beautiful
and a combination of those
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things creates a
scenario where there is a much
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higher rate of
anorexia and bulimia in western
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cultures or
western influence cultures.
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In fact eating disorders,
these two types of eating
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disorders are thought to
be western culture bound.
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Meaning that you just
don't find them in cultures
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that don't have
the western influence.
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And it's true that
wherever western culture invades
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or goes into a
culture then you start seeing
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a raise in eating disorders
because the overarching
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factor is there is a
pressure to look a certain
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way and this thin,
ultra thin ideal of beauty.
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Now the way it works
is this. You have this
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overarching factor,
this pressure on everybody,
00:19:13.32\00:19:15.69
but not everybody reacts
to it whether the individual
00:19:15.72\00:19:19.66
reacts in developing an
eating disorder is based
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on their individual...
Biological, psychological.
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And their individual psychology.
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So, those with the
weakness will develop an eating
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disorders other will
not. I think you have a
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graphic that shows this
changing shape of beauty.
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Yeah. Okay, lets look
at this, as the Weight
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of Miss America Winners
for instance and you can see
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this in fashion magazines,
you can see it in many
00:19:43.20\00:19:45.32
different forms but the
Weight of Miss America Winners
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has gone down
consistently since 1950
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to you know the year
2000, every year it's gone down,
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but at the same time
the weight of the average
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woman has increased.
And so again we come back
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to the fat gap, the
gap the between the ideal
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and the real. Reality.
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That's right. And this
sets women up for continual
00:20:05.95\00:20:08.99
frustration with
the way they look,
00:20:09.02\00:20:10.49
which is just a common nominator
00:20:10.52\00:20:13.31
among women today.
But, there are few women
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for whom that
pressure becomes overwhelming
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and they develop
an eating disorder,
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pathological
dieting. Most women diet,
00:20:21.16\00:20:23.46
some become pathological
in dieting and the dieting
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takes on a life of its own.
00:20:26.75\00:20:27.92
So, this is really
dangerous what you see on
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the news stands, what
you access in the media
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can just really you
don't know if its gonna
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be your child or your
wife or probably more of
00:20:36.72\00:20:40.84
your kids as
they're growing up I mean
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I have two young
daughters and what you're
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telling me just makes
me underline in my mind
00:20:44.75\00:20:47.45
that I wanna be very
specific about what they see;
00:20:47.48\00:20:52.38
the images they see or
don't see and help them
00:20:52.41\00:20:55.13
you know recognize the
difference between those.
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You know another
bigger factor probably
00:20:59.08\00:21:01.57
than anything they see on
television or in magazines
00:21:01.60\00:21:04.91
is what they see
in their own mother.
00:21:04.94\00:21:06.70
So you need to
just encourage your wife
00:21:06.73\00:21:08.89
that she is beautiful,
tell her whatever stage of life
00:21:08.92\00:21:11.99
she is at. You
know you affirm her;
00:21:12.02\00:21:13.97
you love her for who
she is as a total person
00:21:14.00\00:21:16.25
even Dobson
says don't compliment
00:21:16.28\00:21:19.90
your teenage daughter by
telling her she is pretty.
00:21:19.93\00:21:22.20
That's something that
she had nothing to do with.
00:21:22.23\00:21:23.87
Compliment her on
something that she developed
00:21:23.90\00:21:26.35
in herself or something
that she had some control over
00:21:26.38\00:21:29.08
and so the more you
do that for your wife,
00:21:29.11\00:21:31.25
the more your wife will
be satisfied in who she is
00:21:31.28\00:21:33.61
and she won't be prone
to scrutinize her appearance
00:21:33.64\00:21:36.82
and be overly idealistic
about the way she looks
00:21:36.85\00:21:38.98
and then she will
pass that contentment
00:21:39.01\00:21:41.02
on to her daughters, you know.
00:21:41.05\00:21:43.00
Well, honey I
believe you're beautiful
00:21:43.03\00:21:44.86
for who you are.
So, if you are watching
00:21:44.89\00:21:46.95
I believe that
and also my daughter.
00:21:46.98\00:21:48.65
That's easier for you
though because your wife
00:21:48.68\00:21:49.67
really is
beautiful. So, what about a guy
00:21:49.70\00:21:52.07
who is you know.
Yeah. Well, you know well,
00:21:52.10\00:21:54.78
you know that she is
beautiful but you know
00:21:54.81\00:21:57.32
I was drawn to
Luminitsa because of her mind,
00:21:57.35\00:22:00.11
her beauty was a bonus.
00:22:00.14\00:22:03.27
She is an architect right?
00:22:03.30\00:22:04.56
She is an architect but
she just very interesting
00:22:04.59\00:22:07.48
analytical you know
vivacious person so.
00:22:07.51\00:22:11.03
That's great. I was
really drawn to her by that.
00:22:11.06\00:22:13.00
Now the cost of
beauty you talk about.
00:22:13.03\00:22:15.34
Yeah, well you know we
can see this beauty obsession
00:22:15.37\00:22:19.00
and this appearance
obsession in women it
00:22:19.03\00:22:23.88
reflected in other areas.
Okay. For instance the plastic
00:22:23.91\00:22:26.75
surgery industry. Lets
look at the next graphic
00:22:26.78\00:22:29.78
here and we'll talk
about what women are spending
00:22:29.81\00:22:31.64
to be beauty, I mean
what do you see on television
00:22:31.67\00:22:33.43
anymore is makeover shows.
00:22:33.46\00:22:34.92
$9.4 billion. 2003, $9.4 billion
00:22:34.95\00:22:38.86
that's a 300%
increase over 6 years.
00:22:38.89\00:22:42.79
Someone's getting rich there,
probably the dermatologist.
00:22:42.82\00:22:44.62
That's right. Dieting ads, 2005,
00:22:44.65\00:22:47.45
Dieting aids, 2005,
aids okay, $40 billion.
00:22:47.48\00:22:51.14
Cosmetics, 2005
over $20 billion.
00:22:51.17\00:22:56.80
Beauty is expensive,
we're spending lots and lots
00:22:56.83\00:23:00.03
of money on it. We are
not happy with who we are.
00:23:00.06\00:23:02.48
And people are
taking advantage of that.
00:23:02.51\00:23:04.27
And they are
taking advantage of that,
00:23:04.30\00:23:05.47
that's right. They
create us a false reality
00:23:05.50\00:23:07.74
and then they
take advantage of us,
00:23:07.77\00:23:09.06
I mean this is the American way,
00:23:09.09\00:23:10.32
and I think the core
problem here is something
00:23:10.35\00:23:12.55
I like to call
Looksism. Looksism.
00:23:12.58\00:23:15.20
So, I wanna look at
the next graphic here,
00:23:15.23\00:23:16.47
okay what's that? The
core problem is Looksism,
00:23:16.50\00:23:18.39
which is characterized
by two main things.
00:23:18.42\00:23:22.15
One is an
overemphasis on physical beauty.
00:23:22.18\00:23:24.52
You know lets
not lie to ourselves,
00:23:24.55\00:23:27.10
physical attractiveness
is important and we don't
00:23:27.13\00:23:30.04
wanna
underemphasize it and pretend
00:23:30.07\00:23:32.20
that it doesn't matter
at all because then we come
00:23:32.23\00:23:34.29
across like we don't
care about ourselves.
00:23:34.32\00:23:35.75
So, we need to
look as beast we can,
00:23:35.78\00:23:37.41
but there is an overemphasis
on physical appearance
00:23:37.44\00:23:40.75
to the point where it
becomes obsession as a result
00:23:40.78\00:23:44.47
of these influences
I've been talking about,
00:23:44.50\00:23:46.30
the second characteristic
of Looksism is a distorted
00:23:46.33\00:23:50.22
ideal of beauty, in
other words we don't have
00:23:50.25\00:23:54.58
a normal concept
anymore even of what beauty
00:23:54.61\00:23:57.31
is and you can see
this throughout history
00:23:57.34\00:23:59.68
and it seems like women
are always the victims of this.
00:23:59.71\00:24:02.51
There is this idea
that comes in the culture
00:24:02.54\00:24:05.81
that a certain thing is
beautiful and then women
00:24:05.84\00:24:09.21
peruse that idea in
order to reach that standard
00:24:09.24\00:24:11.56
of beauty to their own harm.
00:24:11.59\00:24:13.60
Let's look at some examples.
00:24:13.63\00:24:14.79
Like high heels probably.
00:24:14.82\00:24:16.24
Well I'm gonna get to
that, you've given away
00:24:16.27\00:24:18.06
my punch line. Lets
look at your first graphic,
00:24:18.09\00:24:20.69
this a corset, now corset
wearing is still active today
00:24:20.72\00:24:24.45
in a very small
population, they will actually
00:24:24.48\00:24:27.10
have ribs taken out, we
talked about this before
00:24:27.13\00:24:29.94
that the internal
organs are compressed,
00:24:29.97\00:24:31.83
the smallest waist today
is by a corset wearers is,
00:24:31.86\00:24:36.82
owned by a corset
wearer name Cathie Jung,
00:24:36.85\00:24:38.95
who is 15 inches that the
size of a jar of mayonnaise.
00:24:38.98\00:24:42.73
So, her liver is
compressed everything else.
00:24:42.76\00:24:45.28
I don't know how the
body can function but
00:24:45.31\00:24:47.15
apparently it's worth
it to her, but this is,
00:24:47.18\00:24:49.13
this just gives you an
idea of the kind of harm
00:24:49.16\00:24:51.26
women will
subject themselves to.
00:24:51.29\00:24:52.89
Lets look at the next
graphic here in Asian cultures,
00:24:52.92\00:24:57.13
foot binding was once popular,
00:24:57.16\00:24:59.29
it's now illegal
because it's extremely harmful,
00:24:59.32\00:25:01.81
but the young female
foot was broken and bound
00:25:01.84\00:25:05.08
for many years until
it would fit into shoes
00:25:05.11\00:25:08.08
like these shoes. Oh man.
00:25:08.11\00:25:10.38
So, that they would have tiny,
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because small feet
are considered feminine
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and so they would have
these tiny feet and this very
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mincing gate and then lets
look at the next graphic here.
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This is popular in some
of the African countries.
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Oh! the neck,
the elongated neck.
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The neck rings, they
will add the rings gradually
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to elongate the neck, Oh! Man.
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Countries like
Burma and other places,
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the problem is that if
you took those neck rings
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out the women would
die because she would not
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be able to support
the weight of her head.
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Now you maybe thinking
well we're so civilized
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in the Western world,
but we have our own version
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of looksism in our own
distorted ideal of beauty.
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So, let's look in
particular at evening wear,
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let's look at the next
graphic, lets think about what
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men versus women wear in
a typical formal night out.
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The man is dressed in a suit.
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Which is what he usually wears.
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Which is what he
usually, man are always
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comfortable, have
you ever notice that?
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Are you uncomfortable right now?
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I'm very
probably too comfortable.
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You are
comfortable, so men are wearing
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you know double layers
sometimes in the cold night
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there, lets look
at that graphic again,
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they're in flat shoes.
But, this lady has high heels,
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she is on this dressed, she
is gonna trip down her hair.
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She has high
heels; she has long dress,
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now she can trip, she
is, her back, her chest,
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her arms. Her
shoulders are exposed to the
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cold night air, she
is wearing lots of makeup
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and she spent hours
on her hair and who know
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what chemicals she
has on her hair so.
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Each one of them meet
someone in the parking garage
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who pulls out a switchblade,
which one can defend
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themselves,
which one can run away,
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you now what I'm saying.
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Well if looks
could kill, I don't know.
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Yeah exactly, but they
really can, but they can.
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Yeah, right now
they're just totally esque.
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That's right and so
consistently health,
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let's look at the next
graphic here is sacrificed
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on the altar of beauty
and that's been the case
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throughout the ages
and women are typically
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the victims of that. So,
the real thing you're saying
00:26:54.10\00:26:56.77
I mean there is biological,
there is psychological,
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but really it's the
culture again that's toxic
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and so you know
and looking at these is
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there help? Is there
hope? How can we standup
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against a really
destructive culture.
00:27:05.79\00:27:08.66
There is help and there is hope,
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I'm an example of that,
I'm a survivor of anorexia
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and a person can; a
person can deal with it
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and they can go on
with their lives and develop
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a healthy attitude.
Well again you know thank you
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for being open
about the subject,
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I mean people that are
struggling with it are really
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struggling, they
are really in danger.
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I hope that if you
are watching today and
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you know someone
that's struggling with this,
00:27:30.08\00:27:32.05
that you refer them to
this program or they can go
00:27:32.08\00:27:34.41
to your webpage
jenniferjill.org.
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That's right.
And figure out how to
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find out about this
book 'Dying To Be Beautiful'
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and really get some
good tips and maybe a
00:27:41.78\00:27:44.86
context to help people
that are struggling with this.
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Thank you so much for
watching Health For A Lifetime
00:27:47.68\00:27:50.23
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program is a help to you or
00:27:50.26\00:27:52.55
someone you know and
love, don't let it slip by,
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