International Eating Disorder Action : Consumer Action: How about we DON'T "Rescue the Anorexia Girl" by throwing food at her?!

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Consumer Action: How about we DON'T "Rescue the Anorexia Girl" by throwing food at her?!

Thanks to a mom in the U.K. for alerting fellow parents at Eating Disorder Parent Support and International Eating Disorder Action for bringing this to our attention. The mocking of eating disorders is a direct contributing factor to societal lack of understanding that eating disorders are serious, genetic, brain-based illnesses with a psychosocial component related to temperament. These are treatable illnesses and yet anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness--and societal misunderstanding contributes to that.

Please join us in emailing Amazon through their "contact us" function and doing the same with the App Development company (scroll down) and in expressing your dismay on Twitter.

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International Eating Disorder Action is a coalition of carers, parents, survivors, sufferers, and other citizens with an interest in advocacy and ACTION around issues relating to Eating Disorders. Actions and advocacy efforts are undertaken with the following goals: to increase societal awareness and knowledge of EDs as treatable, biological, brain-based illnesses, to fight for regulation of groups with no medical credentials advising those with eating disorders; to broadly and internationally increase access to early diagnosis and aggressive evidence-based treatment, and to work toward research funding parity. We take NO funding and are 100% volunteer-run and independent from influence of any treatment providers/centers.Alongside initiating actions, we communicate and engage with other groups to join forces on advocacy movements. Our aim is to take the high road consistently while persistently asking tough questions and insisting on answers and transparency from all stakeholders. #IEDAction NEEDS your input and voice—it is with the raised voice of the collective that we will make worldwide change.Website: International Eating Disorder Action (iedaction.weebly.com)Blog: International Eating Disorder Action (internationaleatingdisorderadvocacy.blogspot.com)Twitter: @IEDAction (twitter.com/IEDAction)Contact: IEDAction.global@gmail.com IED Action (@IEDAction) Twittertwitter.com