from eating disorders

CONFORMING to the national average, about 80 per cent
of North Shore women suffer from an eating disorder, says

a Vancouver therapist.

Sandy Friedman says the major-
ity of women are compulsive
dieters, who regularly gain and
lose an average of 15 pounds.

Friedman and therapist Doris
Maranda will speak on the subject
of eating disorders at the Interna-
tional Plaza Thurs., Feb. 27 at
7:30 p.m,

Both women have specialized in
the fieid of eating disorders for the
past 5% years, and this will be
their first talk on the North Shore.

Friedman explains that about 25
per cent of women suffer froin
bulimia, a condition in which
women follow binge-eating by
various means to contro! their
weight, such as fasting, laxatives

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or vomiting.

Friedinan says the most extreme
eating disorder is anorexia, which
affects about two per cent of
women. This condition is where
food intake is controlled and star-
vation is the result.

“We don’t control an eating
disorder,’ says Friedman.

“We look at a way of coping.
We need to look at what goes on
underneath.”

Friedman says she uses a three-
step approach in helping. women
who suffer from ang’ eating

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disorder.

The first step is to help women
rid themselves of negative feclings.

“When a woman starts to
recognize that what she’s doing is a
form of coping, she'll take steps to
change,’’ Friedman says.

The second step is to encourage
women to get on with their lives,
such as to find a job, she explains.

And the third step, which is also

the most difficult, is to examine

why an eating disorder was trig-
gered, Friedman says.

‘“‘The common reason behind
bulimia is that we live in a society
that makes a lot of demands on
women, especially young women.
They're taught they have to be
perfect and thin at the same time.”

For more information call
Friedman at 731-8752 or Maranda
at 736-7180.

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