I’m writing this post in my capacity as Chair of the Welsh Assembly’s Cross-Party Group on Healthy Living. This Group is a bi-partisan organisation whose main aim is to promote the many benefits of a healthier lifestyle, as well as to raise awareness of the work of its various component parts amongst politicians and policy-makers in Wales.
It’s important to realise that we’re not just concerned with physical health and the need for more exercise to tackle obesity. We’re also very much about dietary, emotional, mental and sexual health. Since Bethan joined our Group after becoming an AM, we have also started to take an interest in how raising awareness of eating disorders is part of promoting a healthier lifestyle.
An eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia is very much an issue of dietary and physical health, but it equally affects a person’s emotional and mental health. In today’s world there seems to be an unrelenting pressure for young women to be a ‘size zero’ and for young men to be ripped with muscles. These social pressures can no doubt have an effect on one’s emotional and mental health, in some cases then leading to significant alterations in one’s dietary and physical health. These are the messages that the Group seeks to raise awareness of, and it should form an increasingly important part of our work in the future.
Jeff Cuthbert AM
Friday, 30 January 2009
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Thanks for your article. Struggling with an eating disorder can cause profound isolation, fear and hopelessness. Because this illness thrives in secret, people with anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating hide their behaviours from those closest to them, hoping that no one will notice whilst hoping that someone will.
In order to begin the process of recovery, secrecy must give way to self awareness and honesty, and this can only happen in a safe, structured and caring environment.
I would also like to suggest a website with lots more information about eating disorders as well as addictions . www.lifeworkscommunity.com
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