'Love Your Body Week' fights negative stereotypesQuando teremos no Brasil atividades como essa? Aqui tambem temos Transtornos Alimentares numa parcela grande da populacao! Precisamos nos organizar!Saint Marys College will host Love Your Body Week starting Monday with a series of events designed to help women eliminate negative stereotypes about their bodies. The awareness campaign coincides with National Eating Disorders Week. All the events are free and open to the public: 7 p.m. Monday in Student Center Lounge: Down the Rabbit Hole, a discussion by Saint Marys 2011 graduate Christina Grasso, who went through treatment and recovered from anorexia. Shes now an intern in the fashion industry inNew York City.7 p.m. Tuesday in Carroll Auditorium, Madeleva Hall:Where Do You Draw the Line?, a panel discussion featuring Catherine Pittman, a Saint Marys psychology professor; Stacy Davis, a Saint Marys religious studies professor; Valerie Staples, a licensed clinical social worker and coordinator of eating disorder services, University Counseling Center, University of Notre Dame; and Saint Marys senior Maureen Barrett. The panelists will examine cultural influences and expectations in college relating to body image dissatisfaction, spirituality and alcohol use/abuse.Noon Feb. 22 in Conference Rooms A and B, Student Center: Globalization and Beauty: The Prevalence of Whiteness Creams, Size 0 and Cosmetic Surgery, Saint Marys political science and womens studies professor Sonalini Sapra will lead a workshop examining the influence of globalization on beauty ideals.5 p.m. Feb. 22 in Conference Room F, Student Center: Intimacy, Friendship and Faith, campus ministry employees Judy Fean and Regina Wilson will lead a discussion about intimacy, friendship and relationships in the context of a spiritual life.5 p.m. Feb. 23 in Student Center Lounge: Barbie?! Love Her, Hate Her, Who Cares?!, discussion led by Saint Marys communications professor Terri Russ about associations society makes with being beautiful related to the popular doll Barbie. Russ is the author of Bitchin Bodies, a book of recorded dialogues of young women talking about dissatisfaction with their bodies.7:30 p.m. Feb. 23 in Carroll Auditorium, Madeleva Hall: True Beauty, presented by the cast of the TV show The Glee Project, is a show based on acceptance.Copyright 2012, South Bend Tribune O dado, de uma nova pesquisa da Unifesp, reforca um conceito que vem somando evidencias: o de que exercicios podem atuar como medicamentos, tanto prevenindo algumas doencas quanto ajudando no tratamento de outras. O estudo feito pela Unifesp, em parceria com o Celafiscs (Centro de Estudos e Laboratorio de Aptidao Fisica de Sao Caetano do Sul), acompanhou 271 mulheres com mais de 60 anos, muitas delas com doencas cronicas como diabetes e hipertensao. Foram consideradas ativas aquelas que praticavam mais de 150 minutos de atividade fisica por semana. As consideradas sedentarias nao faziam mais de dez minutos de esforco. O estudo mostra que a atividade fisica pode estar fazendo um pouco o papel dos remedios. Pesquisas mostram que um idoso com doencas cronicas consome entre quatro e cinco remedios por dia. O sedentario tem cinco vezes mais chance de ter hipertensao arterial, por exemplo.Sabe-se que pessoas fisicamente ativas tem menos risco de doencas do coracao como insuficiencia