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“FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS FAT TALK”
Students at Eight Area Campuses Will Pledge to Stop FAT TALK!

October 19 to 23, 2009 will be the 2nd national FAT TALK FREE WEEK and the 1st in the St. Louis area.  College students will participate in national FAT TALK FREE WEEK by taking this pledge:

Today I promise to eliminate FAT TALK
from conversations with my friends, my family and myself.

Starting now, I will strive for a "healthy ideal,"
which I know looks different for every woman,
and focuses on HEALTH, not weight or size.

I will celebrate the things about myself
and the women in my life that have
nothing to do with how we look.

I decide to end Fat Talk NOW!

          This is a public awareness effort to draw attention to the damaging impact of the “thin ideal” on women’s self-esteem. Seeing first hand how these negative thoughts contribute to eating disorders, the clinicians in the Eating Disorders Program at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute invited local colleges and universities to participate.  The hope is that students joining this national effort may become “body activists” and change the way they think and talk about their bodies, and as a result, reduce eating disorder behaviors.
         
          Fat Talk Free Week was created by the Reflections Program of Tri Delta sorority.  More information will be available at www.bodyimageprogram.org including a link to a new video campaign to be released October 19, 2009 and an opportunity for women to sign the pledge on-line.

For more information on FAT TALK FREE EVENTS on St. Louis campuses

If you would like your college or university in the St. Louis area to participate in 2010 FAT TALK FREE WEEK, please contact Cathy Lander-Goldberg, MSW. LCSW at (636) 532-9188 Ext 712 or by e-mail at landergoldberg@aol.com.  If you would like to start a FAT TALK FREE campaign outside of the St. Louis area, please contact Sarah Williamson at Tri Delta at (817) 633-800 or at SWilliamson@trideltaeo.org.

Videos/Films Addressing Body Image:

VIDEOS:
Tri Delta Fat Talk Free Week 2008 Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKPaxD61lwo

Evolution of Beauty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TV_Avo4zg 

Beauty Pressure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I

True Colors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUsKIApTewQ

Pro-age Campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vilUhBhNnQc&feature=
PlayList&p=051344725FBFBF07&index=4

FILMS:
America the Beautiful

Real Women Have Curves

Killing Us Softly

Websites Addressing Body Image:

Reflections Body Image Program - http://www.bodyimageprogram.org/

True You Workbook - http://www.dove.us/#/offers/sweepstakes/makeadifference_downloads.aspx/

Special K
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teachable_moments/campaignrealbeauty.cfm

http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org

www.campaignforrealbeauty.com 

http://www.bodyimagehealth.org/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/perfectillusions/eatingdisorders/preventing_healthybody.html

Ten “Will-Powers” for Improving Body Image - http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=286&Profile_ID=41159

Building a Better Body Image - http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=1&compID=6

The Media, Body Image, and Eating Disorders - http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=286&Profile_ID=41166

National Institute on Media & the Family - http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_

mediaeffect.shtml

The Body Positive - http://www.thebodypositive.org/index.php

Body Image Health - http://www.bodyimagehealth.org/index.html

Finding Balance - http://www.findingbalance.com/

NAAFA – National Association to Advance Body Acceptance – http://www.naafaonline.com/dev2/

Articles & Books on Body Image

“5 Comments Parents Should Never Make About a Child’s Weight”      http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2007/08/31/five-comments-parents-
should-never-make.html
101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body, by Brenda Lane Richardson & Elane Rehr
200 Ways to Love the Body You Have, Marcia Germaine Hutchinson
Body Betrayed, Kathryn Zerbe
The Body Image Workbook, by Thomas Cash
Body Image International Journal scholarly journal published by Elsevier
The Body Myth, Margo Maine
The Body Project, Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Body Wars, Margo Maine
Fasting Girls, Joan Jacobs Brumberg
The Good Body, Eve Ensler
Life Doesn’t Begin 5 pounds from Now, Jessica Weiner
Love Your Body, Tami Brannon-Quan, Lisa Licavoli
Self-Esteem Comes in all Sizes, Carol A. Johnson
When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies, Jane Hirshman, Carol Munter

For additional books on body image and eating disorders, visit Gurze books at http://www.bulimia.com/index.cfm

Eating Disorders Organizations

AED – Academy for Eating Disorders – http://www.aedweb.org/

ANAD – National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders – http://www.anad.org/

ED Anonymous – http://www.eatingdisordersanonymous.org/

EDC – Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy, and Action – www.eatingdisorderscoalition.org

NEDA – National Eating Disorders Association – www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

IAEDP – International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals – http://www.iaedp.com/

Something Fishy - http://www.something-fishy.org/

St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Eating Disorders Program - http://www.slbmi.com/eating_disorders/index.htm

Eating Disorders Statistics: http://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/counseling/Eating_Disorder_Statistics.pdf