Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, July 26, 1990, Page 4, Image 4

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( hrrvl rememtiers feeling ! 1 k<• .in atconotir
during licr binging period*
"1 always si,tried the day feeling so b.id that 1
told myself I wasn't going to do it again and then
I d go right ahead and do the same tiling she
said
(bowing up in a family w hit !i she desi rihes
as food oriented Cheryl said her family used
food for everything from celebrating to comfort
mg someone when the\ were upset
M\ family showed love with food. ’ Cheryl
said I wasn't taught what to do with feelings
so I ended up eating over them 1 didn't know
you ( mild ha\e feelings and express them
fating disorders ran usually be traced to
some life transition often or i urring in i hiltlhood
like the parents dtvort v. death, r lironii illness nr
mniiex i mu enis. said Kubel l.ating disorders are
one wax people have developed to cope with the
i i isis she said
The issues (tor people with different eating
disorders) .ire all very similar power control
comfort safety Kubel said
' When people trust us enough to tell us
about their eating disorder. Kubel said, thex
usuallx also tell us thex re lonely She said worn
cm tcdl bet that food is their best Iriend. it's al
x\ ax s there to turn to. it gives them comfort and is
never farther aw ax than the nearest 7 Klevcn
store
Kubel uses an iceberg an as analogy to ex
plain all the different fat tors that support eating
disorders The tip of the u eherg is the eating, or
dieting behaviol, but the majority of the iceberg
hi" underneath Hiologir.il. psychological, and
soi so . ultima! lac tors help i reate tin1 unhealthy
behavior hereditx and relationships max also
j i ontribute
While the mix of factors is different in differ
ent people the cultural factor is usually present
to some degree in most women
"We live m a i ulliire that glorifies thinness"
Kubel said 'When I xxas growing up xxe all
wanted to look like Marilyn Monroe and Ax a Cat
dimer Thex would he i onsidererl tat today Thir
t\ to id \ ears later soi letx has shifted the image
ol women from sob voluptuous and gentle to
muse iil.it hard and thin
Kubel said when women feel had about them
selves they go the the television m magazines
u iiu h tell them thin x\ ill make x mi hettei
Kubel said 'at pert ent of all fourth grade girls
in this country are on a diet because thex think
thex are too hit
< Tronic dieting is one lesidt of our i iilture s
emphasis on thinness "( hronu dieting is sut h a
xxax ot lite tot ■ o iijaiix prop < it's a xxax to
give meaning to life, Kubel said. One of Kubel s
patients told hot that she had thought if she were
thinner she'd have xx orth or he a good person
Sara said that she liked being obese in one
sense hei arise she felt lug and strong She said
mm* w.js intnmi^ un imi ii mm in 'muc i
hi1 valuable. she hud to he little
W hile eating disorders have been thought of
as .1 women's problem. the\ are Irecoming more
i ommon among men. espei ially in the guv com
munity where men are valued for their appear
am e just as women are. Rebel said
Male athletes who have to be at a certain
weight to compute in their sport are also vulner
able to eating disorders said Murphy
Sports like w resiling, i reu and ai ti\ dies like
dam e all emphasize bodv size and weight as do
traternities and sororities. Murphv said
Hubei estimates lh.it five to 10 percent of
American men have eating disorders Although
men occasionally attend her tree Wednesday
night information session on eating disorder,
none have ever attended the hospital's eating dis
orders program
rhev're just so terrified They i an t seem to
get past their feelings of shame and embarrass
meld .' Rebel said
Recovery is possible. Rebel said She defines
recovery bv signs such as being at a normal
weight no binging, no laxative abuse, no exces
sive even ising. weighing only one e a year at the
dor tor's office feeling reasonably comfortable
w it It your body three meals a day. a mi.ii k il nei
essarv . uni being ritualistic about what you eat
Rebel ( hecks up on former program portic i
pants and ( hums that two years after Sai red
Heart's JO week group. 8(1 pen rid ot the women
are fulls recovered or to a point where they II
keep on going ( )t the remaining JO percent, she
said either then patents dragged them III ot they
did d to please someone else
Some ot the JO pen eid who don't recover
will eventually come back into treatment and do
pretty well. Rebel said Research done at otllei
plar es indicates that some will stuv somewhat
impaired able to live life and him turn, but still
be obsessed with diet weight and food The rest
will sta\ chronic Those are the sail ones.
Ruhr! said
both Sara and Arlene found help in Overeat
ers Anonymous, a nonprofit group modeled altei
Ah oholii s Anonymous
Sara now at normal weight said it’s still
hard tin her to he objective about how she looks
1 get .1 more ac (.mate perspec tive of wdial 1
look like from pholographs. she said I look at
them ver\ hard and just tins! l ire fact that I we.u
really small < lollies tells me that I'm not obese
Sara attributes the i Images in her life to the
support of (here,ders Anonymous and the Higher
Row ei that is the basis ot the \iionvmous pro
grams
The I'mversitv Counseling cetdei also has a
support gioup tiir eating disorders (ailed "Stop
the weighting game Murphy said the group
doesn't emphasize weight, hut looks at feelings,
thoughts and behavioi
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