Comments on: Scary Things Teens Do that Parents Don’t Know They're Doing: Diabulimia

By: No Wonder Girls Are Confused: Body Image and Jennifer Love Hewitt « Kiss My Assets: The Body Image Resource Blog

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:35:13 +0000

[...] attractive. No wonder why so many girls (and boys) suffer from poor body image, eating disorders, scary eating practices, too much pressure, and low self [...]

By: Why Girls Are Confused about Body Size: Body Image Messages « Dr. Robyn Silverman’s Blog

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:26:40 +0000

[...] easy to figure out why so many girls (and boys) suffer from poor body image, eating disorders, scary eating practices, too much pressure, and low self [...]

By: Boys and Body Image: The Adonis Complex and Steroid Use in Teens « Kiss My Assets: The Body Image Resource Blog

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:16:46 +0000

[...] way, has become normalized. That means that those people who are NOT dieting, participating in some abnormal or disordered eating patterns, or trying to alter their body through surgery, drugs, or laxative [...]

By: Body Image and Boys: The Adonis Complex and Steroid Abuse among Teens « Dr. Robyn Silverman’s Blog

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:12:07 +0000

By: Sidney.

Sidney. — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:06:29 +0000

Good jobb.

By: Shaping Youth » Dr. Robyn Silverman Joins Shaping Youth As Body Image Pro

Shaping Youth » Dr. Robyn Silverman Joins Shaping Youth As Body Image Pro — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:36:28 +0000

[...] articles that featured articles about dieting were more likely five years later to engage in extreme weight-loss practices such as vomiting than girls who never read such articles. This result was not influenced by whether [...]

By: What kind of media makes an impact on girls’ body image? « Kiss My Assets: The Body Image Resource Blog

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:57:24 +0000

By: Shaping Youth

Shaping Youth — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:02:27 +0000

Robyn, great article. I read a lot about this last year around this time, when I was informed by one of our Shaping Youth board advisors that it was creeping onto the scene.

Here’s a great thread on Women’s Health News about it, that’s still going strong a year later (54 comments & counting) http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/diabulimia-new-eating-disorder-among-diabetics/

Also, agree on the overall body image front, and wanted to share this first person post about diabulimia too: http://www.about-face.org/blog/archives/131

Since this is so incredibly important on the life-saving front for teens, perhaps we should debut your new Shaping Youth correspondent status with a re-post of this later in the week and have you do an intro about the media’s role in this as a prelude to same.

What do you think? (that Joslin study is new to me, so I’ll leave the link on WHN to your article too…very helpful!)

By: drrobyn

drrobyn — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:15:26 +0000

Thank you, Laura. You are quite correct. You’ll see from some of my other articles on body image and children that eating disorders and dieting is a pervasive problem that has been brought on by societal standards or thinness.

We all need to help our children and teens gain an inner self confidence that will help them thrive despite societal pressures. That’s truly being a powerful parent!

Best regards,
Dr. Robyn

By: Laura Adkins

Laura Adkins — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:09:26 +0000

Laura Adkins wrote:

This issue of diabulimia is part of a larger problem of girls and women being unhappy with their body image because of external pressures. Our society imposes such an unattainable standard that girls and women are left feeling ugly and insufficient.

The root of the problem is in self confidence — we need to do all we can to convince girls that they look great just as they are and don’t need to try and conform to an unrealistic stereotype.

I found a great article that deals with what we can do to stay healthy and strong in a natural way at all phases of life. I’m trying to stick to that approach in the face of all the pressure.

I’d like to know what others are doing to deal with this issue…