New PATSED 'Let Us Eat Cake' Podcast

by Amy Pezzente on Thu, 2019-05-09 10:24

The Provincial Adult Tertiary Specialized Eating Disorders (PATSED) Program dietitians Ali Eberhardt and Hannah Robinson are excited to announce the launch of their new podcast “Let Us Eat Cake”, coming this summer, 2019!

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Let Us Eat Cake Podcast

Couple to go the distance

by Amy Pezzente on Mon, 2013-05-06 14:02

FOR Ginny and Kerry Dennehy, enough is enough.

While the couple has tirelessly worked to do whatever it takes to prevent suicide in young people, this year, they're truly going the distance to make their dreams a reality.

Founders of The Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation, named for their son who died at age 17 in 2001, the result of a depression-related suicide, they've raised more than $5 million to combat mental illness, including helping finance the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre at B.C. Children's Hospital, which opened in 2008.

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North Shore News

School-based ‘healthy living’ programs triggering eating disorders in some children: Canadian study

by kishmael on Tue, 2013-04-09 13:18

School-based, obesity-prevention programs that push “healthy eating” are triggering disordered eating in some children, creating sudden neuroses around food in children who never before worried about their weight, Canadian researchers report.

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Global News

Empowered Health: Fighting eating disorders through dance

by Amy Pezzente on Thu, 2013-04-04 08:51

For years, Tannis Hugill endured eating disorders. Not that anyone around her knew.

“I was a choreographer, an experimental dance theatre artist, and I was fully in the world,” recalled Hugill. “The eating disorder was a hidden thing — which is very common.”

The Montreal-born Hugill was living in New York City at the time and seeing a psychotherapist about her condition. “But I knew in my gut talking was not helpful. I knew that I needed to see a dance movement therapist.”

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Vancouver Sun

Eating disorders not a problem solely of women and girls

by Amy Pezzente on Thu, 2013-03-28 07:59

Until relatively recently, heart disease was perceived as a man’s problem. Consequently, women were less likely than men to think of themselves as susceptible to heart disease, and therefore often delayed seeking treatment.

Even worse, the belief that heart disease was a man’s problem affected the way doctors treated female patients. If, for example, a woman presented with chest pains, doctors often looked for some cause other than heart disease. And this, of course, led to misdiagnosis, which in turn meant women did not receive proper treatment.

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Vancouver Sun Editorial

Surrey stylist cut and snip to help youth fight eating disorders

by Amy Pezzente on Wed, 2013-03-27 09:05

Champers Salon in Fleetwood is cutting hair for a cause on Thursday, March 21 - and it doesn't matter if you have a buzz cut, a pompadour or anything in between.

Fifteen stylists are volunteering their time, offering haircuts for a minimum donation of $20. Proceeds will go to the Looking Glass Foundation, a North Vancouver-based organization that provides counselling and support for young adults ages 17 to 24 with eating disorders.

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Surrey Now

PEDAW IS HERE!

by Amy Pezzente on Fri, 2013-02-08 09:41

The Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness Campaign (PEDAW) is HERE!

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PEDAW

Eating disorders survivor now helps others

by Amy Pezzente on Thu, 2013-01-31 08:06

As Amy Candido shopped for a dress for her wedding last June, her friends urged her to lose weight to ensure it would fit on the big day, to look her slimmest best as she walked down the aisle.
She ignored them.

"That dress is for me, no matter how I am," she thought.

That's a long way from 10 years ago, when Candido had to get her prom dress taken in a few times as she continued to lose weight.

Candido had an eating disorder.

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Burnaby Newsleader

Postdoctoral Scholar Opportunity: Psychosocial Aspects of Body Weight

by kishmael on Thu, 2013-01-17 09:58

 

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