Seriously, feeding women at an eating disorder clinic POP TARTS? Why not just feed them healthy food like brown rice, lean proteins and veggies? America is nuts. Even the people who have eat disorders aren't taught how to eat healthy.
as someone recovering from anorexia, if i didn't have to face scary foods like poptarts, dessert, and other things i viewed as "bad" "fattening" or "unsafe" i wouldn't be challenging my eating disorder. everything in moderation, of course, and I WAS taught to eat a healthy and balenced diet. but if i only had to eat fruits, veggies, and lean proteins, it would only be a matter of time before my ED was alive and kicking again.
@frankied00m It's a psychological disorder, so eating healthy isn't really the purpose...for example, orthorexia is an eating disorder with symptoms of "eating healthily" to an obsessive and psychologically damaging degree.
If that girl had that big of a problem with pizza why did they try to make her eat it? I Love pizza 2 much it's a binge food for me i can't stop at just 1 so i just don't eat it! There's nothing wrong with not wanting to eat pizza it has no real heathey value just emty calories!
This is an excellent documentary which shows many faces of what leads to self hatred. These girls/women dealt with their feelings by becoming anorexic/bulimic, but what it all boils down to, is a rejection of self. All of us deal in different ways with self hatred, whether it is through anorexia or alcoholism or gambling - it is running to what makes us feel better. We need to learn to DEAL, to accept ourselves, and to learn that we are JUST FINE! And go live.
I don't think obesity compares at all to what's going on in this video. You can be obese and still healthy. You can't be healthy and abuse yourself like the women depicted here. Indeed, the cultural obsession with obesity and achieving the perfect body drives a lot of women like these to do what they're doing (see the girl at 6:10), and even allows them to fly under the radar, since we accept that we're all supposed to diet all the time. Obesity and ED are *not* two sides of the same coin!
hmmm. . . she should also make a documentary on how obesity kills. Just to show both sides of the coin. Both are unhealthy and obesity is a much bigger problem (and has become more or less socially acceptable) in the US.
I agree, both anorexia/bulimia and obesity are huge problems, but somehow where the former has been widely covered by media attention and health campaigns, the latter is only just began to be looked at as a "disease" to seek a cure for. If anyone might have suggestions for good documentaries on obesity, we'll be glad to hear about it. Thanks to jingsee211 for the good tip :-)
are you kidding? get your head out of your arse. Obesity issues are EVERYWHERE. Yet somehow its disgusting to have obesity, and its frowned upon and its "just a case of the fat person stopping eating everything" and yet anorexia/bulimia people are given compassion and sympathy, yet fat people are ridiculed. Both situations are not good for your body yet being overweight is the big taboo. Give me a break.
frankied00m: shut up. at least they are eating.
churchbellsaysno 2 years ago
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ForevereverHana 2 years ago
Seriously, feeding women at an eating disorder clinic POP TARTS? Why not just feed them healthy food like brown rice, lean proteins and veggies? America is nuts. Even the people who have eat disorders aren't taught how to eat healthy.
frankied00m 2 years ago 15
@frankied00m
as someone recovering from anorexia, if i didn't have to face scary foods like poptarts, dessert, and other things i viewed as "bad" "fattening" or "unsafe" i wouldn't be challenging my eating disorder. everything in moderation, of course, and I WAS taught to eat a healthy and balenced diet. but if i only had to eat fruits, veggies, and lean proteins, it would only be a matter of time before my ED was alive and kicking again.
crypticsecret08 1 year ago
@frankied00m
crypticsecret08 1 year ago
@frankied00m It's a psychological disorder, so eating healthy isn't really the purpose...for example, orthorexia is an eating disorder with symptoms of "eating healthily" to an obsessive and psychologically damaging degree.
straightfeminist 1 year ago
@frankied00m
straightfeminist 1 year ago
If that girl had that big of a problem with pizza why did they try to make her eat it? I Love pizza 2 much it's a binge food for me i can't stop at just 1 so i just don't eat it! There's nothing wrong with not wanting to eat pizza it has no real heathey value just emty calories!
nicolegreg84 2 years ago 4
I have this book. It's really great. I haven't seen the documentary yet, though. Will it come out on DVD?
LeanaJoH76 2 years ago
It is out on DVD. I ordered from Barnes and Noble.
123dsadee 2 years ago
its on youtube!
1UnbreakableAngel 2 years ago
polly was gorgeous
god bless them all :(
XxGreenDayzxX 3 years ago
polly died ?
Luzzci 3 years ago
yeah- so sad. :(
RIP polly- i hope you are in a much happier place now xxxx
tashalicious88xx 3 years ago
do you know something about the rest of them?
Poor polly =(
xbarbitchx 3 years ago
Since obesity is being discussed, compulsive overeating is considered an eating disorder. In the actual doc book there is an obese COE at Renfrew.
laurenasia 3 years ago 6
POLLY DIED? from what. someone unswer this please
babycee303 3 years ago
Unfortunately POLLY is no longer with us. At age 33 she took her own life. SAD.
ioisa 3 years ago
omg!! :_(
Antichica 3 years ago
That's what I heard..I thought she was doing somewhat better..she had a job. Poor Polly. That's really sad. I really liked her.
vidmastr26 3 years ago
RIP Polly
paigey44 3 years ago
This is an excellent documentary which shows many faces of what leads to self hatred. These girls/women dealt with their feelings by becoming anorexic/bulimic, but what it all boils down to, is a rejection of self. All of us deal in different ways with self hatred, whether it is through anorexia or alcoholism or gambling - it is running to what makes us feel better. We need to learn to DEAL, to accept ourselves, and to learn that we are JUST FINE! And go live.
nobodysgirlforever 4 years ago 4
I don't think obesity compares at all to what's going on in this video. You can be obese and still healthy. You can't be healthy and abuse yourself like the women depicted here. Indeed, the cultural obsession with obesity and achieving the perfect body drives a lot of women like these to do what they're doing (see the girl at 6:10), and even allows them to fly under the radar, since we accept that we're all supposed to diet all the time. Obesity and ED are *not* two sides of the same coin!
elizabethtwist 4 years ago
hmmm. . . she should also make a documentary on how obesity kills. Just to show both sides of the coin. Both are unhealthy and obesity is a much bigger problem (and has become more or less socially acceptable) in the US.
jingsee211 4 years ago
I agree, both anorexia/bulimia and obesity are huge problems, but somehow where the former has been widely covered by media attention and health campaigns, the latter is only just began to be looked at as a "disease" to seek a cure for. If anyone might have suggestions for good documentaries on obesity, we'll be glad to hear about it. Thanks to jingsee211 for the good tip :-)
ioisa 4 years ago
i agree
michellerua 4 years ago
I also agree. But you don't see people make such a big deal over obesity as you do Anorexia/Bulimia.
Narf0108 4 years ago
are you kidding? get your head out of your arse. Obesity issues are EVERYWHERE. Yet somehow its disgusting to have obesity, and its frowned upon and its "just a case of the fat person stopping eating everything" and yet anorexia/bulimia people are given compassion and sympathy, yet fat people are ridiculed. Both situations are not good for your body yet being overweight is the big taboo. Give me a break.
cheekyfemme 2 years ago