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Eating Disorders in the Spotlight
An Interview With Eve Eliot
In an affluent society, where food is so available to the majority of the population, obesity is more of a problem. So in such a world, more value is placed upon extreme thinness. What is beautiful changes with each season it seems, because what is beautiful needs to reflect what is hard to achieve. Beauty has become a form of fashion instead of a sign of survival.
I like to ask myself the question, "In a blind and deaf world, what would be considered beautiful?"
Children feel very acutely what is going on beneath the surface. They are not as willing or as practiced as we are about pretense. Their guidance systems are much more highly attuned, like those of animals. Animals do not "believe" what we are saying with our words. They do not have dictionaries of alphabets. They "believe" what we say with our feeling tone. It is the same with children.
Want to see more?
- The Big Fat Truth: Is Obesity a Disease?
- Walking a Thin Line: Recognizing and Preventing Eating Disorders in Your Teen
- Hope for Overweight Teens
- Carrying the Weight: Helping Your Overweight Child
- Read more about Eve Eliot here.
- Have a question for Eliot? Ask it here!
- Making Fitness a Family Issue: Setting You and Your Children on the Path to Health
