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Professional Support
ABOUT us
We provide online and in person training and mentoring for fitness professionals, health pratitioners, counsellors, teachers, sports coaches and business to learn more about nutrition, disordered eating and body image distress so they are able to understand how to promote a healthy relationship with food, spot the signs of disordered eating and support and signpost appropriately.
STATISTICS
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6.4% adults show signs of an eating disorder
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Around 25% of individuals with an eating disorder are male
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Eating disorders can develop as young as six as well as in older adults
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46% of individuals diagnosed with anorexia fully recover
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Eating disorders have the highest mortality rates among psychiatric disorders
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5.2% of the girls met criteria for DSM5 anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder
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Young people between the ages of 15 and 24 with anorexia have 10 times the risk of dying compared to their same-aged peers
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Among female high school athletes in aesthetic sports, 41.5% reported disordered eating. They were eight times more likely to incur an injury than athletes in aesthetic sports who did not report disordered eating.
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Among female college athletes surveyed, 25.5% had subclinical eating disorder symptoms
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13.2% of girls suffer from a DSM-5 eating disorder by age 20.
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An estimated 3% of gym-goers have a destructive relationship with exercise. Some studies have found that number may be even higher, including a 2008 Paris study that found that up to 42% of gym-goers have a destructive relationship with exercise.
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Over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives.
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Transgender individuals experience eating disorders at rates significantly higher than cisgender individuals.
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Teenage girls from low-income families are 153% more likely to be bulimic than girls from wealthy families.
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According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, up to 50% of individuals with eating disorders abused alcohol or illicit drugs, a rate five times higher than the general population.
For every 10 people around us, it is likely that at least one is struggling with an eating disorder, four are actively pursuing weight loss and six are feeling very negative about their body image.
Our online training has been designed give parents, practitioners, coaches, teachers and workplaces the knowledge and skills to promote a healthy, flexible daily diet; spot the signs of body image and eating distress and provide the support and referral skills if someone is struggling; as well as ways to prevent the development of disordered behaviours.
How do we work?
Nurture : Online Course
We offer a variety of ways to support our communities; we have our online programme "Nurture: Eating Disorder Awareness Training" designed by Rachel, our Registered Dietitian and Therapist which consists of short actionable videos, tools and quizzes around the subjects of:
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What are Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating?
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What are the risk factors, warning signs and symptoms of Eating Disorders?
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What are the misconceptions about Eating Disorders?
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What to do if we think someone is struggling with their relationship with food?
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What are the treatment options for Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating?
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What is a healthy relationship with food, and how do we promote a healthy relationship with food and our body in our school, workplace or home?
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What is a healthy diet for someone wanting to improve their relationship with food and their body?
We also add on specific populations modules; young people, fitness industry, workplace nutrition, working from home, sports teams and more.
Our online course is self paced and can be made available for all staff members; we provide a certificate of completion at the end which can be used as CPD.
Personalised workshops and presentations
We are also able to offer personalised workshops and presentations to support staff and schools with specific areas that they would like to gain greater knowledge and skills in; these have included meal planning and menu design, limiting the influence of diet culture, eating well when working from home, eating well when managing a high stress environment, performance nutrition and understanding nutrition basics. We aim to make our workshops as interactive as possible as we find this is the best way to support individuals to learn.