#306
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:41:01 -0400
From: "Allison, Kathleen G." <kallison@LHUP.EDU>
Subject: Student travel support applications for SOPHE Midyear Scientific conference
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Student travel support scholarships are being accepted by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) for the SOPHE Midyear Scientific Conference to be held May 21 - 24, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. The deadline to submit applications is April 15, 2008.
Details regarding application instructions and award eligibility are available at http://www.sophe.org/content/awards.asp
The completed applications should be addressed to: Student Scholarship, SOPHE, 750 First Street NE, Ste 910, Washington, DC 20002
Additional questions? Contact Tanya Maslak at tmaslak@sophe.org. Phone: (202) 408-9804; Fax: (202) 408-9815.
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#307
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:41:40 -0500
From: Kathy Kater <kathykater@ISD.NET>
Subject: Re: Help working with weight management issues
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Dear Jacqueline,
In response to your request for help in working with individuals who are overweight and obese, I strongly suggest you read the commentary I recently had published in the British Medical Journal http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/336/7638/244#190850 before you go a great deal further. I am a psychotherapist who has specialized in working with individuals who represent the full spectrum of body image, eating, fitness and weight concerns for over 30 years, and in addition have devoted much of the past 10 years to research and development of effective prevention initiatives and models. The first thing to remember in working with people in regard to weight is that weight is not a behavior, and as such, it resists being "managed" or "controlled," the most common approaches (and
mistakes) people make in regard to it. We can make choices about how we respond to our hunger and whether we are sedentary or active, both of which will influence weight, but the degree to which this occurs with the best or worst of habits will be strongly influenced as well by internal weight regulatory mechanisms. In fact, it turns out that a strong desire to lose weight is almost always self-sabotaging in the long run. Therefore the focus in working with people of any size or shape regarding weight should never be weight, but rather the healthy behaviors that enhance health and metabolic fitness regardless of size. When instead of BMI a sustainable, healthy lifestyle is the goal, then some of the people you work with will remain fat, some may become slimmer, but everyone will be healthier. For those of us in the field of health promotion, isn't this the point?
So in case it isn't obvious, I recommend that you avoid measuring weight like the plague. Instead, measure changes in behavior, attitudes, sense of self efficacy, strength, endurance, vital signs, etc.
Feel free to contact me back-channel if you have additional questions or would like to talk about resources that I have developed and/or borrowed from others over the years.
Kathy Kater, LICSW
Psychotherapist, Specialist in Prevention and Treatment of Body Image, Eating, Fitness and Weight Concerns
2497 7th Avenue East, #109
North St. Paul, MN 55109
651 770 2693
Author:
Healthy Body Image: Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too!
(2005, 1998; National Eating Disorders Association)
Real Kids Come in All Sizes: Ten Essential Lessons to Build Your Child's Body Esteem (2004; Broadway Books/Random House)
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#308
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:52:40 -0400
From: Robert Bensley <robert.bensley@WMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Help working with weight management issues
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An excellent commentray. Thank you for sharing, Kathy.
Bob
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