eating disorders

Global childrenswear brand Pumpkin Patch on the Love Your Body wave

Mums can teach their children how to love their bodies. That’s the message leading childrenswear label Pumpkin Patch wants to get out there via its new partnership with EDEN’s Love Your Body Campaign.

Nibbles, networking and No Numbers

“How am I supposed to get better when everything around me tells me I’m not thin enough?” That’s a quote from one woman at the centre of compelling eating-disorder recovery documentary No Numbers: Identity Beyond Measure by Canadian filmmakers Sonja Ruebsaat and Dena Ashbaugh.

Auckland-based NGO’s have welcomed Health Minister Tony Ryall’s announcement that an eight-bed specialist residential service for eating disorders is to be created for Auckland. “There is a serious need for this and it is long overdue” says Maree Burns from the Eating Difficulties Education Network (EDEN). However only prioritizing an inpatient or residential services for funding and not increasing funding for early intervention, early identification and support in the community would undermine overall improvements to Auckland’s eating disorders services these organizations claim.