"Celebrate Every Body Week" — a University spin-off of National Eating Disorders Week — started yesterday at the Frist Campus Center.
University Health Services has set up an information table in the campus center and will run several programs this week.
"The presentations are relevant to everyone," said Dr. Susan Packer, who deals with eating disorders for health services.
Although in the past the University has devoted individual days to raising awareness about eating disorders, the entire week this year focuses on body image issues.
Brian Elliott '03, an eating concerns peer educator, said the week will help show support for students facing such problems.
"A major reason for this week's programming is to help show students that they are not alone in their struggles to live up to an unattainable ideal of a perfect body," he said.
It is also a concentrated attempt, he said, to encourage students with eating concerns to seek help from McCosh Health Center.
A number of day and evening events have been coordinated during the week to engage students in discussion about nutrition, eating disorders and general body health. Nutrition therapist Lisa Griefer discussed nutrition and diets last night at 7:30 p.m. in Frist 243.
Dr. Judith Ruskay Rabinor — director of the American Eating Disorders Center of Long Island — hosted a discussion tonight on body image and obsessions last night at 7:30 p.m. in Betts Auditorium.
Tomorrow, friends and family members of people with eating disorders will discuss experiences over lunch at 12:15 p.m. in Frist 243. This support session is part of a four-week workshop that ends March 13. The group is open to everyone in the student community.
Thursday is National Eating Disorders Screening day. University students can meet with a counselor at McCosh from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The screening is free.
In addition to the speakers coming to the University, two films concerning body image and popular culture will be shown this week. "Tough Guise" will be shown tomorrow, while "Killing Us Softly 3" by writer and lecturer Jean Kilbourne will be shown Friday. Both movies start at 7 p.m. in the Frist Multipurpose Room.
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