BEDA’s annual online event, Weight Stigma Awareness Week, is September 26-30. The 2016 theme, Teaching Kids the Truth, will revolve around kids’ perceptions of weight bias and body image, and include personal narratives from adults discussing why it’s important to model healthy behaviors around developing minds and bodies. Some of the featured events include: Podcast hosted by Aaron Flores, […]
New EEOC Regulations Greatly Weaken Healthcare Privacy, Potentially Harmful Medically, and Trigger Heavy Financial Penalties on Employees and Families
The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) denounces new regulations by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that substantially weaken protections for invasions of medical privacy and employment discrimination. “The new EEOC regulations are a crippling financial blow to employees and potentially medically harmful to employees and their families nationwide who should be afforded privacy […]
3 Tips for Embracing Your Body This Summer
By Jennifer Rollin, MSW, LGSW As the weather gets warmer, we begin to be inundated with articles and advertisements that proclaim that we need to begin to work to achieve the perfect “beach body.” People have begun to fight back with a variety of videos and blogs, which proclaim that to get a bikini body […]
