NATIONAL EATING DISORDER AWARENESS WEEK 5TH - 11TH FEBRUARY 2007 .... TV channels will be showing documentaries exploring eating disorders and the size 0 trend in Hollywood

BY NEEMA

I'm a child anorexic - documentary

This was a documentary shown on BBC3 within the last week, a camera crew went to Rhodes Farm (located in Barnet) - a clinic in which teenagers are able to go to when overcoming anorexia.
The youngest patient was a girl of 12 and the oldest was 16, with lots of magazines within the clinic, she claims that the media did not influence her, as she developed anorexia by the image she had in her head, an idol. Once reaching her ideal weight she was free to leave the clinic.
Dr Dee Dawson who runs the clinic describes anorexia as one of the deadliest psychiatric illnesses, and runs group and individual sessions with patients.
Rhodes Farm can be described as a small boarding school where pupils can sit their GCSE's and A Levels.
Staffs prepare high calorie meals and patients are supervised when eating as some have previously tried to hide food in tissues or squeeze oil out of chips.
When eating some girls memorize the calories in certain foods such as chips, olive oil, and fish fingers and hesitate when eating.
Another girl exercises vigorously in her room, to burn the calories she had eaten for dinner, but when caught she was on constant supervision; she also refused to drink water thinking it had calories!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/slink/sexlovelife/reallife/child_anorexic.shtml

By neema

meeting with dietitian...

interview with dietitian on Wednesday 7Th Feb, she has asked for the list of questions we wish to ask her, and has previously done interviews for documentaries before.