Participants: Don Mckintosh (Host), Jennifer Jill Schwirzer
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000187
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00:03 to promote good health and is not intended 00:06 to take the place of personalized professional care. 00:08 The opinions and ideas expressed are those 00:11 of the speaker. Viewers are encouraged to draw 00:14 their own conclusions about the information presented. 00:50 Hello and welcome to Health For A Lifetime. 00:52 I'm your host Don MacKintosh. 00:53 We're glad you joined us today. 00:54 We're gonna be talking about a very important 00:57 subject today, anorexia and bulimia, eating disorders. 01:01 Many times they affect ladies, women but also some 01:05 men are affected. It's not the largest problem 01:08 in America, because many people are suffering from 01:11 diseases of over abundance but there are a few 01:14 that really struggle with this and joining us to talk 01:17 about this is the survivor of this very problem. 01:21 Survivor of anorexia, Jennifer Jill Schwirzer 01:26 and she has a webpage jenniferjill.org and 01:29 we're excited about the material that she is sharing 01:32 and about the book that you've written, 01:34 Dying To Be Beautiful. Excellent book, 01:37 you have put a lot of research into this and pulled 01:40 together a multidisciplinary team, a registered 01:45 dietitian and a psychologist and you've got some very 01:48 good reviews on this book and what I like about 01:51 it is that it comes from your own personal 01:53 perspective as well. Yeah I wove a lot of stories 01:57 in and out of the main text that was more 01:59 you know research, I've put ten stories of survivors 02:03 woven into the books so there is a lot of personal 02:06 interest and it reads well. And you've told me 02:10 that this is a problem for what percentage of people 02:13 in America? Well, we're looking at a lifetime 02:16 prevalence rate for anorexia of about 0.5%, 02:19 so that's not a large percent, bulimia is higher 1 to 3% 02:22 lifetime prevalence but that prevalence drastically 02:27 increases for a certain age population and a 02:30 certain gender. And that is young women, 02:32 women between the ages of 15 and 25. 02:34 And we've talked about how this came as result 02:37 of just a movement in people's minds from fat being 02:41 where was it was at so to speak in other words 02:43 that was a sign of affluence then the thin being 02:46 in and that wasn't always the case. Okay. 02:49 I mean when he looked at those pictures of the 02:50 Mona Lisa and others you see that hey there 02:54 has been a big shift in what people 02:55 think is beautiful. Right. 02:57 Social revolution, industrial revolution, 02:59 sexual revolution all those things factored in. 03:02 Until today our young women are beholding 03:05 this images of catwalk models and I specified before 03:09 that the thinness isn't in everywhere but 03:12 it's particularly in, in the fashion industry 03:14 and particularly the catwalk fashion industry 03:18 where these woman are showcased the new fashions 03:20 and they value very thin bodies because the clothes 03:25 simply hang on their bodies like they would on a coat 03:27 hanger so the focus is on the clothes and not 03:28 on the girl. And so the young women are seeing 03:31 these images and taking this in and that's what 03:33 they idealize and partly as a result of that eating 03:37 disorders are much more common among young women. 03:40 So, today we wanna kind of grapple with the causes 03:43 and affects of these eating disorders and you 03:45 wanna give us some definitions on eating disorders. 03:49 That's right I wanna define anorexia and bulimia 03:51 for you, according to the American Psychiatric 03:54 Associations diagnostic manual we're gonna look 03:56 at the criterion. First of anorexia, lets 03:58 look at the next graphic. These have been paraphrased 04:02 but if you get the point these are characteristics 04:05 of Anorexia Nervosa. A refusal to maintain body weight 04:10 of more than 85% of normal weight, 04:12 in other words you're 15% underweight or more. 04:14 Intense fear of becoming fat is a characteristic 04:19 of anorexia. Denial; obsession with body weight; 04:24 self-worth is tied unduly to weight. 04:29 And so as people are in denial of their condition 04:33 and not only that but they're very focused on 04:36 attaining this low weight and that it consumes 04:39 them and they define themselves in those terms. 04:42 Amenorrhea. Amenorrhea is the loss of 04:43 the monthly cycle that is a characteristic of Anorexia 04:47 Nervosa and that has to happen for 3 consecutive 04:50 months in order for them to qualify. 04:52 The diagnosis. That's right, 04:54 and so those for criterion are what constitute 04:57 a diagnosis, all of them have to be in place with 05:00 this cavia that there are two types of anorexia. 05:03 One is the binging purging type and the other 05:06 is the restricting type. The binging purging type 05:08 can some times be mistaken for bulimic because 05:10 they binge and purge. But, bulimics aren't 05:13 generally underweight. So, what does Nervosa mean. 05:19 You know what I don't know I was thinking about that, 05:21 I need to look that up, you caught me. 05:23 Okay anorexia. I think it has to do with 05:26 nerves, but I'm not sure I need to look that up, 05:29 anorexia means a loss of appetite which is not true 05:32 because anorexics obsess about food 05:35 they're always hungry, they're like 05:36 starvation victims, so it's a misnomer. 05:39 Okay, so what is the impact of anorexia on the body? 05:44 On the body, okay lets look at that, 05:46 everything in the body slows down and in a sense 05:50 it dries up. Okay, because you are not fueling 05:54 your body, you are not really hydrating your body 05:56 and so it's getting ratchet itself down into what 05:59 is basically survival mode. Blood pressure lowers, 06:03 pulse lowers, respiration slows down, digestion 06:07 slows down. People become constipated. 06:11 They become dehydrated; they are kind of like 06:13 a fish out of water. And all of this is an attempt 06:16 on the body's part to slow down to ratchet 06:19 everything down, because they are in conservation 06:21 mode. Okay, we're starving now and we need to slow 06:24 everything down just to get through this starvation 06:26 period until there is food available again that's what 06:28 the body is saying. Often there is a cold intolerance 06:31 that's because of very little body fat. 06:34 But it's also because of thyroid changes inability 06:37 of the body to keep itself warm. 06:38 There is very dry skin and hair, body doesn't wanna 06:42 waste any extra oil or any extra resources 06:45 on keeping the hair moist and the skin moist, 06:48 so that becomes dry. In severe cases you can develop 06:52 something called Lanugo, which is a fur that 06:55 develops on the body and it's in fact the bodies 06:58 last attempt stay warm. Hmm. 07:01 Kinda like when you have that one before 07:03 you're born in the womb. That's right, similar. 07:05 Estrogen drops and there is a lot of consequences 07:08 as a result of the dropping Estrogen. 07:10 One being that the lining of the uterus, 07:12 this is not shed every month as it is in the 07:14 monthly cycle. And that sets a women out for female 07:18 types of cancers. Another consequence of Estrogen 07:22 loss is osteoporosis, everybody knows about the 07:26 correlation between menopause and increased 07:28 incidents of osteoporosis because of a drop in 07:31 Estrogen. Estrogen is the bone building hormone. 07:33 So, if you take a woman who is in the formative 07:36 stage of life which young women are, 07:37 they are still building their bones and you take away 07:40 the Estrogen or a lot of the Estrogen, 07:43 they're gonna have osteoporosis. 07:46 In fact I have osteoporosis, I believe as a result of. 07:50 Of going thorough that. Yes, I do. Then there 07:53 is insomnia. The body is basically trying to wake you 07:55 up to get something to eat women have difficulty 07:58 or people have difficulty sleeping and there is 08:00 actual brain shrinkage. The brain is a physical organ 08:03 and we have to remember that the mind is housed 08:06 in a physical organ and so what often happens 08:09 with anorexics is they have to force feed them to bring 08:13 their nutrient levels up so that they will even 08:15 respond to counseling, or respond to any form of 08:18 mental therapy. Because they just won't respond because 08:21 their brain is in kind of a paralyzed state. 08:26 So your electrolytes probably go off too, 08:27 your potassium, magnesium all those different things? 08:30 That right and that's also a characteristic of bulimia 08:32 and let's look at the diagnostic criterion for bulimia. 08:35 Here on the next slide, this is again the 08:38 American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual 08:41 and here are the criterion for Bulimia Nervosa. 08:43 And we need to look up that Nervosa, 08:45 I should have known that. Recurrent binging, 08:47 eating extreme quantities and feeling out of control. 08:51 And then self-induced vomiting or some kind of 08:56 purging behavior using either vomiting. 08:59 Most often vomiting, but sometimes laxatives diuretics, 09:02 enemas, fasting or exercise. So, there is a binging 09:06 purging pattern. This must happen 2 times per week 09:10 for 3 months. And again self-worth is tied unduly 09:14 to weight. These people become obsessed 09:16 with this pursuit of the perfect body and with food 09:19 and that is becomes who they are and it can 09:22 be very challenging to try to talk to someone 09:25 in that condition. So, 2 to 3 times per week 09:27 for 3 months. I think that's what it said. 09:30 Yeah. Yeah, so. And so do you wanna look at the way 09:33 that bulimia impacts the body. 09:34 Yeah I wanna see, we looked at how anorexia 09:37 does that, what does bulimia do. 09:38 Okay, you mentioned a few moments ago about. 09:41 Electrolytes. Electrolyte imbalances, 09:44 there are heart irregularities that can come about 09:46 as a result of bulimia because of the throwing off 09:51 of the electrolytes. Potassium. 09:53 Particularly potassium and that can cause 09:55 something called malignant cardiac arrhythmia. 09:58 This is what Karen Carpenter, 10:00 the singer died of. Ironically she was in her closet 10:04 getting ready to go out and celebrate a recent 10:08 weight gain. I believe she was an anorexic 'cause 10:10 she was quite underweight, but she I believe a 10:12 binging, purging type of anorexic and she had 10:15 a potassium imbalance. That led to heart attack 10:19 and she dropped dead in her closet. 10:20 This is also what is believed to have happened to 10:24 Terri Schiavo. She had a binging, purging pattern 10:28 going and it was believed that she had a heart problem 10:31 because of that. Another consequence of bulimia 10:34 is over expansion of the stomach. 10:36 These people are eating huge quantities of food. 10:39 The largest quantity I've heard of is 50,000 calories. 10:44 50000 calories. And so the average intake 10:46 of calories is 2000, right, right around 2000 10:50 so that's how many types more that's like. 10:52 That like off the charts. Like 25 times more. Yeah. 10:55 So, it's huge. So we're talking huge quantities of food 10:59 binging and purging, 50,000 calories in a day's time, 11:03 many different binges. So, there is over expansion 11:06 of the stomach because of the contact of 11:09 stomach acid with the esophagus, it sets person 11:13 of first esophageal cancer, they can also develop 11:16 hoarseness. I met a girl in the course of my 11:18 research whose singing voice had been affected 11:21 by bulimia. And she was a singer and enjoyed singing 11:24 but she says my voice will never be the same. 11:26 The parotid glands for some reason they don't know 11:29 why but the parotid glands on the sides of the 11:31 neck swell in bulimia and the person develops 11:34 a chipmunk cheek appearance. So, that's a give away 11:36 sign sometimes. Soars on the backs of the finger 11:39 that's a result of putting the fingers down the throat, 11:41 the fingers push up against the teeth and often 11:44 bulimics will develop sores. And then tooth decay 11:48 as a result of the stomach acid coming in contact 11:51 with the teeth and wearing away the enamel. 11:53 Serious impact on the body. 11:55 Right, so for both anorexia and bulimia 11:58 you can see some tell-tell signs. 12:00 What about the psychological factors? 12:02 Okay, well let's talk about the causes; 12:05 I think the causes are multiple. I think we 12:10 have three basic categories 12:12 or I break it down into the three categories. 12:13 One is biological, things in people's genetic codes 12:19 so to speak and I'm gonna talk about that 12:21 for a moment. But, then there are psychological 12:23 factors, there are things that can set a person out 12:28 for developing an eating disorder. 12:29 That are in their family of origin, 12:32 that are in their individual psyche and then the third 12:35 factor is of course cultural factors 12:36 which we've been talking about. 12:38 Okay so what about the biological again, 12:42 we talked about what are those factors. 12:44 Okay, there is an association between particularly 12:48 bulimia and major affective disorder which affective 12:52 disorder has to do with the mood. 12:54 So, like bipolars is what we usually call that? 12:56 Well, it's not just bipolar major affective 12:58 disorder is kind of an over arching category 13:00 and under that category comes bipolar, 13:02 comes depressive disorder anything that affects 13:05 the mood or the emotions, effective means mood. 13:08 Okay. That means emotion, so there is an association 13:11 between particularly bulimia and major affective 13:14 disorder. In other words if the person has 13:16 major affective disorder in their family they are 13:19 gonna have a greater likelihood of developing 13:21 bulimia. And that's good news, because... 13:24 That can be treated. That's right, 13:25 and bulimia does respond to antidepressant use so. 13:30 And then psychological factors. 13:31 Okay, psychological factors when I say that I mean 13:34 specifically things in the individual or in their 13:37 past history or in their family of origin. 13:40 I am not talking about the psychological impact 13:42 of cultural factors. Okay. In fact I'm putting 13:44 in a separate category just for the sake of organizing 13:46 all the information. So, what I found in my study 13:49 was that there was a relationship; 13:51 there was a greater incidence of eating disorders 13:54 developed in women who had been the victims 13:56 of incest. It was much greater than the incidence 14:01 of eating disorders in women who had been 14:04 victims of abuse. Just abuse, somehow incest 14:08 is a greater invasion and I, in one study that 14:11 I read broke it down this way, it said that women develop 14:14 people develop their social skills in their family 14:18 of origin. If there is incest in a family it's a good 14:21 indication that the family relationships are so esque 14:25 that the family is not a good environment 14:28 for the development of social skills and as a result 14:30 they come into adulthood without social skills. 14:32 There is isolation from you know relationships 14:35 in general because they've never developed that ability 14:37 and as a result they set themselves up 14:40 for all kinds of addictions including eating disorders. 14:43 We're talking with Jennifer Schwirzer, 14:45 she has done a book on anorexia and bulimia 14:48 called 'Dying To Be Beautiful.' 14:50 We're gonna continue looking at the causes but 14:52 then also some good news about how we can find 14:55 help and hope when we come back. 15:00 Have you found yourself wishing that you could shed 15:01 a few pounds, have you been on a diet for most 15:04 of your life, but not found anything that will really 15:06 keep the weight off, if you have answered yes 15:09 to any of these questions then we have a solution 15:12 for you that works Dr. Hans Diehl and Dr. Aileen Ludington 15:16 have written a marvelous book that's called Reversing 15:19 Obesity Naturally and we would like to send it to you 15:22 free of charge. 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And a lot of the information 16:06 that we have been covering you can access 16:08 on her website jenniferjill.org and how's 16:15 that spelled Jennifer, JENNIFER. 16:17 Traditional spelling jenniferjill.org 16:22 Okay, and they can find information about the book 16:25 which was published by Review and Herald, 16:27 excellent book. Did a lot of research, 16:29 fascinating to see some of the things you have 16:31 been saying about the factors, the biological factors, 16:34 you know I used to of course from time to time work 16:38 on a eating disorders unit and we saw a lot of people, 16:41 16 years old, 17 years old, people coming 16:45 with heart attacks all from this. 16:47 Significant problem then you also talked about the 16:50 psychological factors, you were describing the 16:53 connection between specifically incest 16:56 and an increase. That's right. 16:59 Level those that are struggling with 17:02 anorexia or bulimia, that's associated with 17:04 that because of the just invasion of the personal 17:08 privacy. What else about psychological factors. 17:10 Okay there are certain characteristics, 17:12 psychological characteristics that have been 17:14 identified in women with eating disorders 17:17 and they would be body dissatisfaction, 17:19 not surprisingly, they are not happy with their bodies. 17:21 We've dwelt pretty heavily on that previously. 17:25 Something called negative emotionality 17:28 which is just feeling bad. You know negative 17:31 emotions depression, anxiety, anger, 17:34 negative emotions, that's consistent among women 17:38 who and men who struggle with eating disorders 17:41 and then something called lack of 17:43 interoceptive awareness. 17:44 What's that mean, interoceptive? 17:46 And interoceptive awareness is the ability 17:49 to read what's going on inside of you. 17:52 Like I can sit here and talk to you and I can 17:55 tell you I'm a little nervous. 17:56 Or I can tell you I'm getting hungry. 17:58 But, they aren't in touch with their feelings. 17:59 They aren't in touch with their feelings 18:00 and are not able to articulate them and this is 18:02 consistently present among those that are prone 18:05 to develop eating disorders. 18:07 So, what are then are the cultural factors, 18:11 you talked about biological, psychological. 18:13 Are there cultural factors? 18:14 Well, the reason I keep coming back to this issue 18:16 is because that is the over arching causative 18:19 factor is what's going on in our culture today. 18:21 In relationship to the idealization of a very, 18:25 very thin ideal of beauty plus the pressure 18:29 that's on women to look a certain way 18:31 and to be beautiful and a combination of those 18:34 things creates a scenario where there is a much 18:38 higher rate of anorexia and bulimia in western 18:43 cultures or western influence cultures. 18:45 In fact eating disorders, these two types of eating 18:47 disorders are thought to be western culture bound. 18:50 Meaning that you just don't find them in cultures 18:54 that don't have the western influence. 18:56 And it's true that wherever western culture invades 18:59 or goes into a culture then you start seeing 19:01 a raise in eating disorders because the overarching 19:04 factor is there is a pressure to look a certain 19:08 way and this thin, ultra thin ideal of beauty. 19:11 Now the way it works is this. You have this 19:13 overarching factor, this pressure on everybody, 19:15 but not everybody reacts to it whether the individual 19:19 reacts in developing an eating disorder is based 19:23 on their individual... Biological, psychological. 19:26 And their individual psychology. 19:28 So, those with the weakness will develop an eating 19:31 disorders other will not. I think you have a 19:32 graphic that shows this changing shape of beauty. 19:35 Yeah. Okay, lets look at this, as the Weight 19:40 of Miss America Winners for instance and you can see 19:43 this in fashion magazines, you can see it in many 19:45 different forms but the Weight of Miss America Winners 19:47 has gone down consistently since 1950 19:50 to you know the year 2000, every year it's gone down, 19:54 but at the same time the weight of the average 19:57 woman has increased. And so again we come back 20:01 to the fat gap, the gap the between the ideal 20:04 and the real. Reality. 20:05 That's right. And this sets women up for continual 20:09 frustration with the way they look, 20:10 which is just a common nominator 20:13 among women today. But, there are few women 20:16 for whom that pressure becomes overwhelming 20:19 and they develop an eating disorder, 20:21 pathological dieting. Most women diet, 20:23 some become pathological in dieting and the dieting 20:26 takes on a life of its own. 20:27 So, this is really dangerous what you see on 20:30 the news stands, what you access in the media 20:33 can just really you don't know if its gonna 20:36 be your child or your wife or probably more of 20:40 your kids as they're growing up I mean 20:42 I have two young daughters and what you're 20:44 telling me just makes me underline in my mind 20:47 that I wanna be very specific about what they see; 20:52 the images they see or don't see and help them 20:55 you know recognize the difference between those. 20:59 You know another bigger factor probably 21:01 than anything they see on television or in magazines 21:04 is what they see in their own mother. 21:06 So you need to just encourage your wife 21:08 that she is beautiful, tell her whatever stage of life 21:12 she is at. You know you affirm her; 21:14 you love her for who she is as a total person 21:16 even Dobson says don't compliment 21:19 your teenage daughter by telling her she is pretty. 21:22 That's something that she had nothing to do with. 21:23 Compliment her on something that she developed 21:26 in herself or something that she had some control over 21:29 and so the more you do that for your wife, 21:31 the more your wife will be satisfied in who she is 21:33 and she won't be prone to scrutinize her appearance 21:36 and be overly idealistic about the way she looks 21:39 and then she will pass that contentment 21:41 on to her daughters, you know. 21:43 Well, honey I believe you're beautiful 21:44 for who you are. So, if you are watching 21:46 I believe that and also my daughter. 21:48 That's easier for you though because your wife 21:49 really is beautiful. So, what about a guy 21:52 who is you know. Yeah. Well, you know well, 21:54 you know that she is beautiful but you know 21:57 I was drawn to Luminitsa because of her mind, 22:00 her beauty was a bonus. 22:03 She is an architect right? 22:04 She is an architect but she just very interesting 22:07 analytical you know vivacious person so. 22:11 That's great. I was really drawn to her by that. 22:13 Now the cost of beauty you talk about. 22:15 Yeah, well you know we can see this beauty obsession 22:19 and this appearance obsession in women it 22:23 reflected in other areas. Okay. For instance the plastic 22:26 surgery industry. Lets look at the next graphic 22:29 here and we'll talk about what women are spending 22:31 to be beauty, I mean what do you see on television 22:33 anymore is makeover shows. 22:34 $9.4 billion. 2003, $9.4 billion 22:38 that's a 300% increase over 6 years. 22:42 Someone's getting rich there, probably the dermatologist. 22:44 That's right. Dieting ads, 2005, 22:47 Dieting aids, 2005, aids okay, $40 billion. 22:51 Cosmetics, 2005 over $20 billion. 22:56 Beauty is expensive, we're spending lots and lots 23:00 of money on it. We are not happy with who we are. 23:02 And people are taking advantage of that. 23:04 And they are taking advantage of that, 23:05 that's right. They create us a false reality 23:07 and then they take advantage of us, 23:09 I mean this is the American way, 23:10 and I think the core problem here is something 23:12 I like to call Looksism. Looksism. 23:15 So, I wanna look at the next graphic here, 23:16 okay what's that? The core problem is Looksism, 23:18 which is characterized by two main things. 23:22 One is an overemphasis on physical beauty. 23:24 You know lets not lie to ourselves, 23:27 physical attractiveness is important and we don't 23:30 wanna underemphasize it and pretend 23:32 that it doesn't matter at all because then we come 23:34 across like we don't care about ourselves. 23:35 So, we need to look as beast we can, 23:37 but there is an overemphasis on physical appearance 23:40 to the point where it becomes obsession as a result 23:44 of these influences I've been talking about, 23:46 the second characteristic of Looksism is a distorted 23:50 ideal of beauty, in other words we don't have 23:54 a normal concept anymore even of what beauty 23:57 is and you can see this throughout history 23:59 and it seems like women are always the victims of this. 24:02 There is this idea that comes in the culture 24:05 that a certain thing is beautiful and then women 24:09 peruse that idea in order to reach that standard 24:11 of beauty to their own harm. 24:13 Let's look at some examples. 24:14 Like high heels probably. 24:16 Well I'm gonna get to that, you've given away 24:18 my punch line. Lets look at your first graphic, 24:20 this a corset, now corset wearing is still active today 24:24 in a very small population, they will actually 24:27 have ribs taken out, we talked about this before 24:29 that the internal organs are compressed, 24:31 the smallest waist today is by a corset wearers is, 24:36 owned by a corset wearer name Cathie Jung, 24:38 who is 15 inches that the size of a jar of mayonnaise. 24:42 So, her liver is compressed everything else. 24:45 I don't know how the body can function but 24:47 apparently it's worth it to her, but this is, 24:49 this just gives you an idea of the kind of harm 24:51 women will subject themselves to. 24:52 Lets look at the next graphic here in Asian cultures, 24:57 foot binding was once popular, 24:59 it's now illegal because it's extremely harmful, 25:01 but the young female foot was broken and bound 25:05 for many years until it would fit into shoes 25:08 like these shoes. Oh man. 25:10 So, that they would have tiny, 25:11 because small feet are considered feminine 25:13 and so they would have these tiny feet and this very 25:15 mincing gate and then lets look at the next graphic here. 25:20 This is popular in some of the African countries. 25:23 Oh! the neck, the elongated neck. 25:24 The neck rings, they will add the rings gradually 25:26 to elongate the neck, Oh! Man. 25:29 Countries like Burma and other places, 25:30 the problem is that if you took those neck rings 25:33 out the women would die because she would not 25:35 be able to support the weight of her head. 25:38 Now you maybe thinking well we're so civilized 25:40 in the Western world, but we have our own version 25:43 of looksism in our own distorted ideal of beauty. 25:47 So, let's look in particular at evening wear, 25:50 let's look at the next graphic, lets think about what 25:53 men versus women wear in a typical formal night out. 25:56 The man is dressed in a suit. 25:58 Which is what he usually wears. 25:59 Which is what he usually, man are always 26:01 comfortable, have you ever notice that? 26:02 Are you uncomfortable right now? 26:04 I'm very probably too comfortable. 26:06 You are comfortable, so men are wearing 26:08 you know double layers sometimes in the cold night 26:10 there, lets look at that graphic again, 26:12 they're in flat shoes. But, this lady has high heels, 26:16 she is on this dressed, she is gonna trip down her hair. 26:18 She has high heels; she has long dress, 26:19 now she can trip, she is, her back, her chest, 26:22 her arms. Her shoulders are exposed to the 26:24 cold night air, she is wearing lots of makeup 26:26 and she spent hours on her hair and who know 26:29 what chemicals she has on her hair so. 26:30 Each one of them meet someone in the parking garage 26:32 who pulls out a switchblade, which one can defend 26:35 themselves, which one can run away, 26:37 you now what I'm saying. 26:38 Well if looks could kill, I don't know. 26:40 Yeah exactly, but they really can, but they can. 26:42 Yeah, right now they're just totally esque. 26:45 That's right and so consistently health, 26:46 let's look at the next graphic here is sacrificed 26:48 on the altar of beauty and that's been the case 26:51 throughout the ages and women are typically 26:54 the victims of that. So, the real thing you're saying 26:56 I mean there is biological, there is psychological, 26:58 but really it's the culture again that's toxic 27:01 and so you know and looking at these is 27:03 there help? Is there hope? How can we standup 27:05 against a really destructive culture. 27:08 There is help and there is hope, 27:10 I'm an example of that, I'm a survivor of anorexia 27:13 and a person can; a person can deal with it 27:16 and they can go on with their lives and develop 27:18 a healthy attitude. Well again you know thank you 27:20 for being open about the subject, 27:23 I mean people that are struggling with it are really 27:26 struggling, they are really in danger. 27:27 I hope that if you are watching today and 27:30 you know someone that's struggling with this, 27:32 that you refer them to this program or they can go 27:34 to your webpage jenniferjill.org. 27:37 That's right. And figure out how to 27:38 find out about this book 'Dying To Be Beautiful' 27:41 and really get some good tips and maybe a 27:44 context to help people that are struggling with this. 27:47 Thank you so much for watching Health For A Lifetime 27:50 and we hope today's program is a help to you or 27:52 someone you know and love, don't let it slip by, 27:55 use the information today. |
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