Estamos na Semana de Alerta Contra os Transtornos Alimentares. Esta semana e de forte atuacao nos EUA, onde se localizam grande parte dos centros de estudos, clinicas de reabilitacao e grupos de apoio.Mas...nos aqui no Brasil tambem podemos fazer algo para ajudar aqueles que sofrem com essa doenca. Se voce conhece alguem que sofra com transtornos alimentares, ajude-o (a) a procurar umcentro de referencia neste tratamento. Esta doenca pode matar! E seria.No RJ - NUTTRA - Nucleo de Tratamento de Transtornos Alimentares Rua Visconde de Piraja 547 sala 404 - Ipanema - Rio de Janeiro Telefone para contato : 21- 2540-6184Eu, voce, todos nos podemos fazer a diferenca! Ajude, se ajude, procure um centro especializado! The Hidden Damage of Eating DisorderDr. Margaret Nagib11 million Americans battle eating disorders. Heres what Christians need to know.Millions of women look into their mirrors every day and hate what they see. They are profoundly dissatisfied with their appearancethe lips arent full enough, the cheekbones arent dramatic enough and, of course, they are certainly not thin enough. These women and girls want so desperately to look like the air-brushed models in the magazines or the painstakingly thin celebrities on the awards shows. Although they can do little about their lips and cheekbones without surgery or medical intervention, they can lose weight. So, they start dieting.This is often the first step to an eating disorder, which today afflict roughly 10 million females and 1 million males in our country. Anorexia and bulimia are serious psychiatric disorders that devastate lives and can result in death. More people die from anorexia each year than any other mental illness, including depression. These are equal opportunity disorders, meaning they affect people of every age, culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and religion.No one is immuneand in every case, eating disorders rob the individual of their divine identity and purpose in life.Identity Theft and the ImpostorIdentity theft is a crime in which an impostor obtains key pieces of personal identifying information, then uses that information for their own personal gain. This crime is rampant in the world today, usually through computer hacking or credit card theft.In my work as a clinical psychologist at a residential treatment facility for women, I see an even more insidious type of identity theft. I see women who have, in essence, had their divine identities stolen by eating disorders. The irony is that many of these women are incredibly physically beautiful, according to current societal standards; and yet they feel deficient, grossly inadequate on many levels. This inadequacy is due to the lie that resides beneath our cultural over-emphasis on physical beauty: "The only thing that is truly important or valuable about your identity is your appearance." This is why women spend billions of dollars a year on beauty treatments, fad diets and plastic surgery, striving to be young, thin and beautiful. By doing so, they have lost a sense of their true self. They have forfeited key pieces of their "identifying information" to "an impostor." They forfeit the truth about their bodies, identity and role in the worldthe truth