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Webinar - Challenging the BMI: Body Mass Index or Body Myth Insanity?
Thu, 01/05/2012 - 10:59 — admin
In this webinar, Dr. Margo Maine, clinical psychologist, will challenge our nearly religious reliance on the BMI in attempts to prevent or treat eating disorders. Reviewing the lack of scientific basis for the BMI, Dr. Maine will illustrate how our culture’s obsession with thinness and dieting has contributed to the exponential and global increase of eating disorders.
Young or old, contemporary culture brainwashes us into believing that a woman’s self-worth is based on appearance, dietary control, and weight. Demonstrating that the current fascination with the Body Mass Index is based far less on science and much more on this Body Myth Insanity, Dr. Maine challenges the audience to join her in converting her (well-justified) anger regarding this misuse of science that the ensuing damage to our health into the service of love, through activism and advocacy.
This webinar is offered as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2012.
Challenging the BMI: Body Mass Index or Body Myth Insanity?
With Dr. Margo Maine
- February 29, 2012: 1–2:30 pm, EST
- Registration fee: $29.95