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How I Might Be Contributing to Another's Eating Disorder

BY BETSY REYNOLDS, M.S., R.D.

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1. Encouraging someone to pursue slenderness/diet/deprive themselves of "fattening" food
2. Teasing someone about their eating habits
3. Criticizing someone else's eating habits or choices
4. Admiring weight loss, diets, or weight loss dieting
5. Admiring rigidly controlled eating
6. Criticizing your own eating habits or choices
7. Making negative comments about your own or someone else's fatness
8. Supporting the assumption that no one should be fat
9. Disapproving of fatness in general
10. Saying or assuming someone is doing well because of weight loss
11. Saying something that presumes a fat person wants to lose weight
12. Saying something that presumes that fat people should lose weight
13. Saying something that presumes that fat people eat too much
14. Referring to "good" or "bad" foods
15. Talking about "being good" and "being bad" in regard to eating behavior
16. Admiring appearances
17. Admiring slenderness
18. Making weight important
19. Encouraging perfectionism
20. Admiring excessive exercise

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