October 20th
Join Us in celebrating National Love Your Body Day
October 20th 11am - 3pm
Come by tables at Lowry Mall (rain location: MSA/GPC Craft Studio)
Create your FREE Screen Printed Posters, Personal “@negativity” T-shirts and Buttons
Tell the world why you’re tweeting your beauty by picking up a free t-shirt and filling in the blank.
Join the hula hoop contest and win gift baskets.
Sponsored by the Dining Services, Feminist Student Union, MSA/GPC Craft
Studio, Office of Disability Services, Residential Life, Student Health Center,
Wellness Resource Center and The Women’s Center
Tweeting Their Beauty
Putting a little "funk" in their "fit," two students put childhood fun back into
exercise at the National Love Your Body Day events on cool, rainy October day.
The "Tweeting Your Beauty" theme was celebrated by students creating personalized
T-shirts, posters and buttons. For 20 students who hooped the longest,
Campus Dining Services awarded healthy snack baskets.
"A hundred T-shirts were gone in the first 30 minutes," says Kim Webb, SHC health educator.
"Students took time out of their day to decorate them on the mall using
stencils and other art supplies. They also created hundreads
of buttons throughout the day as well."
And to add to the fun, the MSA/GPC Craft Studio supplied materials and the equipment
for personal screen-printed posters. The single-day event celebrates the
National Love Your Body Day and brings attention to the Love Your Body Week held in February.
Events will be devoted to improving body image and preventing eating disorders. Professionals will be on hand to cover a variety of issues including improving body image, how to help a friend with an eating disorder, how to prevent disordered eating, society’s role in these issues and much more.
Eating Disorders are uncontrollable disturbances in eating behavior and thoughts, motivated by a fear of weight gain and other personal hurts and fears. They are psychological disorders that involve insufficient or excessive food intake. Studies have shown up to 8% of American women suffer from anorexia or bulimia (NIMH, 2001). Forty-million people are believed to deal with compulsive overeating. The number of men suffering from eating disorders is on the rise.
This site is designed to provide information for students at the University of Missouri on resources for dealing with or helping a friend who is dealing with an eating disorder.
Click here for an online screening: word or pdf (Courtesy of the Student Health Center)
