“The Be-You-tiful contest began in 2009 as a fashion show for high school students to demonstrate what beauty means to them, Janice Bremis, founding member of the Eating Disorders Resource Center, said. As time went on, it expanded to different forms of media and how it affects young people’s self-esteem or appearance. There were over…
The Eating Disorders Resource Center (EDRC) of Silicon Valley is thrilled to announce the winners of the 15th annual Be-You-Tiful multimedia contest! The themes regarding this year’s contest were Mental Health, Self-Acceptance, and Social Media. Bay area students were invited to submit pieces that explored how social media and the world around them influences self-perception.…
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Congratulations to the 2024 Women of the Year including our own founder Janice Bremis! Every March, District 28 Assemblymember Gail Pellerin’s office recognizes Women’s History Month by holding the annual Women of the Year celebration and honoring extraordinary women across the 28th Assembly District for their service and leadership within the community. Read about all…
“Ms. Davis gained a following through posts that criticized diet culture as she built a career as a curve model — she wore up to a size 16 or XXL — most prominently for Dôen, a California fashion brand known for floral prairie dresses typically worn by more willowy women. Her feed was a running…
“TRUST, short for Trusted Response Urgent Support Team, is the only non-law-enforcement crisis team in the county that meets people where they are. The team is dispatched to offer services and resources, to listen and help de-escalate the situation. They stay as long as needed. The program launched in November 2023 and now operates throughout…
“Much has been made of the negative effects of social media sites, particularly those that promote the ‘thin ideal.’ In a recent study, exposure to body-positive imagery on social media was beneficial to young adult men and women alike. Body-positive images, or those that depict ‘normal’ individuals of varying weights, improved overall body satisfaction and…
“Pregnancy and early motherhood are times of increased risk for women with eating disorders. For example, women who experience persistent eating disorder symptoms during pregnancy and the early postpartum period tend to have greater depression and anxiety. Postpartum depression also seems to occur more often in women who currently have or have had an eating…
The Business of Body Hatred: How Meta Profits (Again) from Eating Disorders Blame it on the algorithm. It’s a sentiment most are familiar with in this age of clickbait, doom-scrolling, and digital footprints. The machinations of content dissemination to target audiences for profit have largely been regarded with a healthy dose of suspicion but ultimately…
“One of the first patients that I took care of as a student was a 16-year-old male wrestler, who had actually been struggling for years with an eating disorder before anyone recognized it as an eating disorder. By the time that we saw him, he was obsessed with his weight. He was checking his weight…