Learn to celebrate the things about yourself that have nothing to do with how you look.

Don’t weigh your self-esteem!  It’s what’s inside that counts!

Operation Beautiful

Schedule of Events

Monday February 22, 2010 – ALL DAY

Location: Your Facebook!

“Don’t Let Friends Talk Fat” – Viral Campaign!

Post this on your Facebook status and tell all your friends how beautiful they really are!

Wednesday February 23 – Thursday 24, 2010

Location: WRC Union West 112

Documentaries and films about body image and the cultural message we receive about it today.

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Q & A with Abby Cooperman (University Counseling Center) and Marilyn Rotwein (Nutrition Educator)

For more information, please call 747-8896.

Eating Disorder / Body Image Statistics

•          The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate of ALL causes of death for females 15 to 24 years old.

South Carolina Department of Mental Health 2006

• The average woman is 5’4″ and weighs 140 pounds. The average model is 5’11″ and weighs 117 pounds.  Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women.

Smolak L. (1996). National Eating Disorders Association/Next Door Neighbors puppet guide book.

• 42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner (Collins, 1991).

Collins M.E. (1991) Body figure and preferences among pre-adolescent children. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 199-208.

• 51% of 9 and 10 year-old girls feel better about themselves if they are on a diet.

Mellin LM, Irwin CE & Scully S: Disordered eating characteristics in girls: A survey of middle class children. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 1992; 92:851-53

• 20% of people suffering from anorexia will die prematurely from complications related to their eating disorder.

The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders, “Eating Disorders 101 Guide: A Summary of Issues, Statistics and Resources,” published September 2002, revised October 2003, www.renfrew.org.

• Men constitute 40% of those exhibiting Binge Eating Disorder.

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Ed. (DSM-IV). Washington DC, 1994.

• The diet and diet related industry is a 50 billion dollar a year enterprise.

Garner, D.W., Wooley, S.C. (1991), “Confronting the failure of behavioral and dietary treatments for obesity.” Clinical Psychology Review, 11, pp. 727-780.

Operation Beautiful: From the Inside Out is sponsored by the UTEP-Women’s Resource Center, University Counseling Center and the UTEP-Student Health Center.

Please contact 915-747-8896 if you have any questions.