S.only in Italy i eating disorders concern at least 3 million people, especially teenagers. According to the data collected by the Center for eating disorders of the San Raffaele Hospital in MilanI’m especially the girls between 15 and 25 years to suffer from often combined forms of anorexia and bulimia, while while the binge eating disorder (BED, binge eating disorder) is more common between the ages of 35 and 50, both in males and females.
What is the Lilac Bow Day
To raise public awareness on the issue of eating disorders, the March 15, 2012 The Lilac Bow Day was established. Promoted for the first time byAssociation “Mi Nutro di Vita”since 2018 it has been institutionally recognized as the National Day against Eating Disorders by the Presidency of Ministers.
Initiatives, free services, listening and care centers are available to the public to disseminate information and offer support to people who suffer from it and their families.
Eating disorders: centers throughout Italy where to ask for help
Family support is essential for those with eating disorders. But it is necessary to act in the right way in order not to risk worsening the situation. That is why it is necessary not to underestimate the problem and turn to the professionals related to Specialized centers. There Italian Society of Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Eating and Weight Disorders has published a list of regional contacts with the name of the specialist, email and telephone number to make contact directly.
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Involve families
“The primary objective of our intervention is to be able to give support to all those who, having a family member with an eating disorder, do not know how to deal with the disease and their life which, necessarily, has changed”, explains the to Italian Society of Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Eating and Weight Disorders. “It is a large group of people who generally, for practical reasons, remain more on the sidelines of the therapeutic path, but who represent a great resource to activate and then continue the path towards healing. Working with the family, involving family members in the battle against the disease becomes decisive and assumes decisive importance for the outcome of the treatment “.
A day in Genoa against eating disorders
The March 19 the Lilla Movementthat gathers associations, people, professionals and stories, organizes an event national dedicated to these diseases in Genoa at The Ducal Cisterns for a day of prevention, awareness and information on eating disorders.
On stage, associations and mental health professionals will take turns to illustrate the current situation and understand how to manage and solve the critical points of the bureaucracy. But the stories of those who choose to tell an invisible disease and those of those who use their pain to give hope to those who are facing an eating disorder will also go up on stage.
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Carlotta Gagna, the personal trainer who overcame eating disorders with training
Carlotta Gagna, creator of the project Traininpink and the first personal trainer in Italy to talk about body positivity, he relaunches his motto, already known to the 20 thousand girls and women who follow his training and nutrition programs every month: «Let’s accept each other without ceasing to improve. I discovered the world of fitness during my adolescence and I was attracted by the feeling of well-being and gratification that training gave me ».
«Moments for myself, which helped me to overcome major eating disorder problems that I had developed at an early age. The painful path that I faced made me aware of physical and above all mental well-being, which must be the guiding thread of our life. I think it is really important to turn the spotlight on a problem like that of eating disorders, which afflict so many girls and boys. A way to talk about it, to clarify it, to let these young people know that they are not alone and that there is a way to get out of it “.
Carlotta Gagna also talks about the theme in her book, released on 25 January 2022, Traininpink – Fitness for everyone (yes, even for you!) (Mondadori).
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