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Friday, April 12, 2013
?Eating Disorders Make You Skinny? and Other Popular ED Myths ...
Anyone else seriously freaked out these t-shirts come in children?s sizes?? At least the girl on the left has enough sense to show her disapproval.?
Amanda Bynes tweeted something interesting. I know, I never thought I?d write those words either. And yet, in the midst of a whole bunch of crazy in which she literally told rapper Drake to ?murder? her ladybits (what does that even mean?!) she made a rather astute observation:
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??I have an eating disorder so I have a hard time staying thin.? I love her SO MUCH for saying this. First because you don?t often hear celebs talking about their eating disorders in the present tense ? it?s always about how they had an eating disorder in the past. Because we can only talk about our struggles after we?re done struggling? Second, because she tackles a very popular eating disorder myth.
Myth: An eating disorder automatically makes you skinny. (See also the correlating myth: If someone is very skinny then he/she must have an eating disorder.)?
In spite of the number of Lifetime movies you may have seen on the subject, having an eating disorder or engaging in disordered eating behaviors (yeah, there actually is a difference), does not guarantee you thin thighs and xylophone ribs. While I don?t have any stats to back this up, from personal experience it seems there are far more women with eating disorders who are of an average weight or overweight. You may recall that even at my very thinnest (and sickest), I just looked a little bony. Most people thought I looked great. One woman even stopped me to tell me I had ?the perfect body.? I was definitely not the walking skeleton you think of when you hear ?anorexic?. Yet I was terribly sick. And the public acclaim/denial of my problem didn?t help my recovery one bit.
The first issue is that anorexia is not the only eating disorder on the block. Bulimia, binge eating, and all the forms of ED-NOS (eating disorder ? not otherwise specified) allow for as many iterations of screwed up behavior as there are sufferers. In fact, binge eating is now ranked as the most common eating disorder.
The second problem is that eating disorders don?t live in stasis. It?s very hard to stay anorexic your entire life. It?s a tricky disease and while most people don?t die from it many don?t recover 100% either. There?s a lot of two steps forward, one step back. Plus, one eating disorder can morph into another.?Here?s a secret that many ED sufferers find very painful: Many anorexics end up becoming bulimic or binge eaters because after years of restriction your body wants food and because you?ve ignored your hunger signals so long, you don?t know how to feed yourself properly. The shame of going from ?perfect? control over your food to ?none? (we?re nothing if not black-and-white thinkers!) adds to awful mix, often causing cycles of restricting followed by periods of bingeing. I personally started out anorexic, then moved to orthorexia, then I added on over-exercising and finally ended up with some bingeing tendencies that were what finally made me seek out Intuitive Eating to end the insanity. Believe me when I say that my weight roller-coastered up and down during these transitions.
Busted: People with eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes. You can?t tell an eating disorder by looking at someone. Also, for anyone flirting with the idea of disordered eating, know this: It never works the way you think it will.?
Myth: Eating disorders only happen to white, teenage girls
Adult, middle-aged women are the fastest growing group of sufferers. In addition, rates of eating disorders in African Americans and Latinas are rising at an unprecedented rate. Often the ways the disorder manifests can look different in different populations but sick is sick, no matter your age or skin color. Since I?m white, I don?t feel qualified to speak to a person of color?s experience but check out this excellent NOVA documentary for more perspective. Not to mention that now it is estimated that nearly 20% of ED sufferers are men.
A survey of thousands of American women done by Self magazine and the University of North Carolina a few years ago had some interesting results:
- Fully 75% of adult American women reported disordered eating behaviors or a full-blown eating disorder.
-?In addition to this, as was found in the ?contagious eating disorder? study (it?s contagious! Panic!!), cultural context matters. Eating disorders cluster because we learn the behaviors from those who are closest to us: our friends and family.
-?67% of respondents (excluding those with active eating disorders) are trying to lose weight. 53% of dieters are already at a healthy weight and are still trying to lose weight. That is a recipe for an eating disorder if I?ve ever heard one.
Busted: Eating disorders afflict people from a wide range of cultural, socioeconomic and gender backgrounds.
Myth: People with eating disorder have food issues.
One of the things people said to me a lot when I told them about my eating disorders was??Oh, I could never have an eating disorder! I just love food too much!? For some reason I found this more hurtful than almost anything else. There are a lot of reasons people have an eating disorder and they generally have very little to do with the food itself:
1.?Genetics.?It?s hard to tease apart the effects of nature versus nurture in something so basic to our survival as food but I believe there is a strong genetic component. As the saying goes, ?Genetics load the gun, environment pulls the trigger.? Disordered eating has been passed down through my family from generation to generation, just like our recipe for ?goop rolls? and our distinctive ?Hilton squint.?
2.?Control.?And I do not mean self control. People always say to me ?oh, you must have had so much self control as an anorexic!? It?s fear, people. It?s about controlling the one thing you have absolute control over ? what goes in your mouth ? in a society that can feel very out of control. Every major flare up of my disordered eating has occurred around a great stressor in my life. It?s a coping technique. A bad one, but still a coping strategy.
3.?Perfectionism.?I?m a perfectionist. Always have been. My mother will tell you that I cried when I came out of the womb because I only got a 9 on my?APGAR. I?ve never got anything less than an ?A? in school (seriously). I?ll get sick or faint rather than drop out of a race. If I?m going to do something, I?m going to do in 100%. In some areas of life, this perfectionistic drive is a bonus but in a society that values thinness over almost anything else? Disaster.
4.?Black and White Thinking.?Despite all of my husband?s attempts to train it out of me, I?m still a notoriously black-and-white thinker. I understand the world is nuanced but when it comes to myself, well, I?m either good or bad. And food is either good or bad. When I hear advice like ?trans fats are bad for you? I take out all transfats from my diet. I don?t think ?well, they?re not great for me but I?m not going to die if I eat a ding dong.? It was this kind of thinking that led to my?orthorexia.
5.?Endorphins. The starvation cycle is self-reinforcing. Once you deprive yourself long enough, the body kicks in some extra energy which, if you were truly in an environment with no food, would give you an extra boost to go find some food. However, in an anorexic who is surrounded by food this hollow feeling can be rather addictive.
6.?Self punishment.?This probably goes along with black and white thinking but I?m very hard on myself and I think a lot of eating disordered people are too. So yes, sometimes I would use food as a reward for being good or take it away as a punishment for being bad.
7.?Depression.?When you are severely depressed, you may think ?What?s the point of eating anyhow?? Some depressed people overeat, some undereat but changes in eating patterns are often one of the first and best signs of depression.
8.?The desire to be thin.?Thin is?greatly rewarded in our society. I?m not saying it?s right ? in fact, I think it?s a travesty that is wreaking havoc in the souls of our daughters ? but it is the truth. And those of us who are perfectionistic people-pleasers will do our best to be what society deems acceptable. Even more so when many of our friends and/or family members are doing it.
?Busted:?It?s not about the food. Some of the anorexics I have known have been the most passionate people I?ve ever met about food. They spend hours combing through recipes and baking and serving and planning and cooking. They love food. They just don?t love themselves.
What do you wish people knew about eating disorders? (I know I missed a lot of good stuff!) What do you think about Amanda Bynes? tweet: Cry for help or attention seeking???
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Police: Ga. gunman lured firefighters into home
A group of people huddle together after an explosion and gunshots were heard near the scene where a man was holding four firefighters hostage Wednesday, April 10, 2013 in Suwanee, Ga. A police spokesman said the suspect was dead and none of the hostages suffered serious injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
A group of people huddle together after an explosion and gunshots were heard near the scene where a man was holding four firefighters hostage Wednesday, April 10, 2013 in Suwanee, Ga. A police spokesman said the suspect was dead and none of the hostages suffered serious injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
A police officer leaves the scene after an explosion and gunshots were heard near the scene where a man was holding four firefighters hostage Wednesday, April 10, 2013 in Suwanee, Ga. A police spokesman said the suspect was dead and none of the hostage suffered serious injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
A police officer leaves the scene after an explosion and gunshots were heard near the scene where a man was holding four firefighters hostage Wednesday, April 10, 2013 in Suwanee, Ga. A police spokesman said the suspect was dead and none of the hostage suffered serious injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
An EMT works in the back of an ambulance as it leaves an Suwanee, Ga., subdivision after an explosion and gunshots were heard near the scene where a man was holding four firefighters hostage Wednesday, April 10, 2013. A police spokesman said the suspect was dead and none of the hostages suffered serious injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
A police officer runs after an explosion and gunshots were heard near the scene where a man was holding four firefighters hostage Wednesday, April 10, 2013 in Suwanee, Ga. A police spokesman said the suspect was dead and none of the hostages suffered serious injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
SUWANEE, Ga. (AP) ? Police say a man who held firefighters hostage for hours in a suburban Atlanta home was heavily armed with a half-dozen guns, and told the firefighters that he targeted them so he wouldn't be shot.
Police on Thursday identified the man as 55-year-old Lauren Brown of Suwanee.
Police say Brown faked an illness to get firefighters and was lying in bed when they arrived. Gwinnett County Police Chief Charles M. Walters says when the five firefighters approached the bed, he pulled out a handgun.
Walters says Brown opened fire on a police officer who entered a bedroom when SWAT members stormed the house Wednesday evening.
Police say that officer was wounded in the left arm by one of the shots, but managed to return fire, striking and killing Brown.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Cookie Monster, Elmo get in Times Square trouble
NEW YORK (AP) ? Cookie Monster stands accused of shoving a 2-year-old. Super Mario was charged with groping a woman. And Elmo was booked for berating tourists with anti-Semitic slurs.
Times Square is crawling with entrepreneurs who dress up as pop-culture characters and try to make a few bucks posing for photos with visitors to the big city. But some of these characters are unlike anything you've seen on "Sesame Street" or at Disney World.
They smoke, they use foul language, and they can be aggressive. At least three of them have been arrested in the past seven months.
"He was using words that were really bad," said Parmita Kurada of Stamford, Conn., who told police she got into a dispute this week with a man in a Cookie Monster costume who demanded $2 for posing with her 2-year-old son, Samay.
Kurada said that when she told the Cookie Monster that her husband needed to get cash, the shaggy blue creature pushed the boy and began calling her and the child obscene names.
"It was very scary for us, and I was crying. I didn't want to provoke him, so I said, 'We'll give you the money, but stop yelling!'" she said.
Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez, 33, was charged with assault, child endangerment and aggressive begging. His lawyer did not immediately return a call for comment.
Asked by a WNBC-TV reporter why he no longer likes the character he sees on "Sesame Street," little Samay said: "Because Cookie Monster give me boo-boo."
In the wake of the latest arrest, the bustling "Crossroads of the World" was filled Tuesday with performers, including multiple versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Hello Kitty, a Transformer robot, Lady Liberty, Super Mario and Elmo.
Many of them are immigrants trying to eke out a living in what appear to be knockoff costumes.
As street performers protected by the First Amendment, they are free to roam Times Square and work for tips that average between $2 and $5 a photo as long as they don't block traffic, sell merchandise or demand payment, police say. That's a ticketable offense that can cost about $60.
"I don't think they should charge, but if they're unemployed or homeless, and this is the only way they can make money, it's OK," said Lauren Larcara of Oakland, N.J., who posed with a torch-carrying Statue of Liberty.
Laura Vanegas, a 45-year-old native of Ecuador, changes into her Liberty robes and applies copper-green face paint behind the Times Square military recruiting station. She said she picks up $30 to $50 on her eight-hour shift.
Steve Crass, dressed as a robot in fluorescent red and white plastic panels, said he has made as much as $280 during his six-hour stint in front of Toys R Us. He acknowledged: "Some of the characters are a little too aggressive."
Police spokesman Paul Browne said in an email that the department has had "occasional issues with the 'faux paws' in Times Square, but they're nominal."
The case against the Super Mario charged with groping is still pending. The Elmo accused of an anti-Semitic rant pleaded guilty in September to disorderly conduct and was sentenced to two days of community service.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called the Cookie Monster case "just horrible" and said lawmakers have been looking into how to regulate the characters. But she noted the issue is, well, fuzzy.
"It's very challenging legally because dressing up in a costume and walking around Times Square is, we believe, a First Amendment-protected activity," said Quinn, a candidate to be New York's next mayor.
Similar cases of misbehavior by costumed performers have been reported in Hollywood.
Disney did not respond to a request for comment, while the Sesame Workshop, the organization behind "Sesame Street," said it has not authorized such uses of any its characters in any city and is looking into what actions it can take.
Anthony Elia, a New York lawyer in the intellectual-property field, said the entertainment groups probably have a case for trademark infringement, but "the challenge probably would be getting a bunch of self-employed entrepreneurial individuals to stop."
It's not the easiest way to make a living. On a day when temperatures pushed 80, they sweated in their outfits, coming out from under their oversized costume heads only to grab a hot dog or a smoke. When one posed for a photo, two or three others dashed over and joined in.
"Want to take a picture?" a furry red Elmo asked a tourist. Moments later, he declined to speak to a reporter, saying through his costume, "I no speak English."
A Minnie Mouse offered a toddler in a stroller her hand and positioned herself at the handlebar. A Super Mario rushed over to join her.
"She said, 'Can you give us money?'" said the child's mother, Melanie Somogyi of Hamilton, Ontario. "And they grabbed the stroller!"
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AP reporters Colleen Long, Karen Matthews and Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cookie-monster-elmo-times-square-trouble-210557047.html
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Private manned Mars mission racing time
Progress made during the next year or so will determine whether a private manned Mars mission can get off the ground in 2018 as planned, its organizers say.
The pressure is on the nonprofit Inspiration Mars Foundation, which intends to launch two astronauts on a flyby mission around the Red Planet in January 2018. If the team misses this window, the next one won't open until 2031, when Earth and Mars are again suitably aligned for a fast roundtrip trek.
"We acknowledge the reach that this represents," Taber MacCallum, Inspiration Mars' chief technology officer, said of getting everything organized in less than five years. "The next year of effort on this is really going to tell, I think, whether or not we are able to close this as a mission."
Manned mission to Mars
Inspiration Mars, which was founded by original space tourist Dennis Tito, unveiled its ambitious plans in late February. The organization's proposed "Mission for America" would send two people ? a man and a woman ? on a 501-day roundtrip journey to Mars, punctuated by a close flyby of the Red Planet in August 2018. [Photos: Private Manned Mars Mission in 2018]
While the Inspiration Mars team wants to aid humanity's push out into the solar system, it also hopes to inspire the next generation of American scientists and engineers, much as NASA's Apollo moon program did in the 1960s and early 1970s.
"If we're not competitive as a nation in the sciences, we're going to continue to fall behind," MacCallum, who's also CEO of Arizona-based Paragon Space Development Corp., said Wednesday (April 3) during a presentation with NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group. "That's the only lever America has left internationally."
Making it happen won't be easy, as astronauts have never ventured beyond the vicinity of the moon, just 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) or so from Earth. If the Mission for America explorers succeed, they'll be about 38 million miles (61 million km) from home when they cruise past the Red Planet.
Big challenges ahead
One of the biggest challenges for Inspiration Mars is developing an environmental control and life support system (ECLSS) that can be counted on for 500 days in deep space, far from any help, MacCallum said. [Manned Mars Flyby Mission Explained (Infographic)]
"There has never really been an ECLSS system built that was designed without an abort option for these kinds of durations, and with the level of recycling that would be required for this kind of a mission," he said.
The Mission for America's ECLSS will likely be far less automated than the one aboard the International Space Station, with tasks such as the cleaning and replacing of filters being performed by hand.
"That simplifies the overall design, the idea being conferring more reliability," MacCallum said, adding that Inspiration Mars hopes to have an ECLSS test facility up and running by early next year.
The relatively high radiation levels of deep space also pose potential problems, which could be mitigated by a combination of factors. Water could be used as shielding, for example, and older astronauts ? people in their 50s, say ? could be selected (because their lifetime risk of dying from the radiation dose accumulated during the flight would be lower than that of younger folks).
The psychological impact of a 500-day spaceflight is also a concern. Inspiration Mars officials hope to minimize possible problems by launching a married couple whose relationship has weathered many storms over the years.
They're also studying how people have behaved during lengthy stretches of isolation, such as on Antarctic research trips, the Mars500 mock mission to the Red Planet and the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona.
"These range of environments taken together actually provide a pretty good idea of what the behavioral health issues might be like," said MacCallum, who spent two years inside Biosphere 2 in the early 1990s.
Coming home at record speed
The Mission for America astronauts will spend much of their time in a relatively roomy habitat module. But they'll need to return to Earth in a hardy capsule, which will hit our planet's atmosphere at about 31,700 mph (51,000 km per hour).
"No one's ever come back to our planet, that we know of, at that entry speed," said Mission for America team member John Carrico, of Applied Defense Solutions, Inc.
Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, Calif., are helping Inspiration Mars devise a thermal protection system that will enable the return capsule to survive the intense heat of re-entry, Carrico added.
Inspiration Mars officials recognize how difficult it will be to meet all of these challenges in less than five years. But Tito's deep pockets should help give the team a fighting chance to pull off history's first-ever manned Mars mission.
Tito "has committed to two years of funding to get the mission off the ground, so we've got runway and altitude, and we are really beginning to engage the industry now," MacCallum said.
Follow Mike Wall on Twitter?@michaeldwall.?Follow us?@Spacedotcom,?Facebook?or?Google+. Originally published on?SPACE.com.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Sony unveils 30-and 56-inch professional 4K OLED monitor prototypes, shipping in May
The 56-inch OLED TV Sony trotted out at CES may not be headed to the consumer market, but it is becoming a reality, at least in the professional sector. The company announced its A Series Trimaster EL monitors at NAB today, outing a 4,096 x 2,160 30-inch model as well as a 3,840 x 2160 56-inch display. Both panels boast of wide viewing angles and low color shift, promising accurate signal reproduction for industry professionals working with 4K content. No word yet on pricing, but professionals can look forward to upgrading sometime in May 2013. Hit the break for the official press release, item skus, and a quick break down of what products the A series will be replacing.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
New 'Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones' Trailer: Watch Now!
The film, based on the best-selling novel, opens August 23.
By Driadonna Roland
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1704763/mortal-instruments-city-of-bones-new-trailer.jhtml
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