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		<title>Do these look like Plus-Sized Models to you?</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2012/01/27/do-these-look-like-plus-sized-models-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mamaV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average American woman is a size 14. Average size model is a size 0. Average &#8220;plus&#8221; sized model is sized 8-14. Check out the latest round of SuperModel&#8217;s for Ford, ranging in size from 8 to 18. This week Ford Modeling Agency unveiled Ford+ Models, its new division of plus-sized models meant to turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HUNGRY is not an attractive look on a woman….</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2012/01/24/hungry-is-not-an-attractive-look-on-a-woman%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn Hussa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great guest post from Chris &#8230; Someone posted a picture today that really made me stop and think about perceptions and the definition of beauty. Think about it, who do women dress for? Other women. How many women live on a diet? I don’t know about you, but practically every woman I know is striving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Life Like at Oprah&#8217;s Leadership Academy?</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/12/16/what-is-life-like-at-oprahs-leadership-academy/</link>
		<comments>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/12/16/what-is-life-like-at-oprahs-leadership-academy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[$40 million]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[girls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I applaud Oprah or anyone who can financially fund such a project but while reading the article I was asking myself if $40 million was a little extreme for a school with initial enrollment of 152 girls. What could $40 million do for underprivileged children here in the U.S? Or, could more schools have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Sit Back and Allow the Universe to Hold You Awhile</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/12/09/guest-post-just-sit-back-and-allow-the-universe-to-hold-you-awhile/</link>
		<comments>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/12/09/guest-post-just-sit-back-and-allow-the-universe-to-hold-you-awhile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn Hussa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Coping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affirmations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anorexia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body Image]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bulimia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disordered Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eating disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ednos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fat Acceptance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health At Any Size]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jodi Rubin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Borrowed from Robyn Hussa&#8217;s Recovery Yoga blog. I recently met Jodi Rubin at an outing for eating disorders clinicians in New York City.  Aside from being a clinician, Jodi creates the curricululm for eating disorders programming at NYU’s Silver School of Social work and is a frequent lecturer.  Below is a guest blog post – something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Poetry Jam to Raise Body Acceptance!</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/12/08/create-a-poetry-jam-to-raise-body-acceptance/</link>
		<comments>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/12/08/create-a-poetry-jam-to-raise-body-acceptance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn Hussa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expressive Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finding Your Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating disorder awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eating disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HAES]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NEDAwareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wearetherealdeal.com/?p=7771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Need to improve body image in your school or community? Consider hosting a poetry &#8220;jam&#8221; &#8212; or concert &#8212; to help raise awareness encourage others to embrace health at every size. This is a great way to bring together communities through the arts.  In the following example, individuals in recovery from eating disorders were encouraged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathing to Manage Stress</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/12/08/breathing-to-manage-stress/</link>
		<comments>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/12/08/breathing-to-manage-stress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn Hussa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wearetherealdeal.com/?p=7750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d never think it, but breathing exercises are great (and easy) ways to manage stress, stay balanced and find more joy in life.  Here are a few fun facts that might help you take a moment to breathe even deeper next time &#8230;  (Excerpts borrowed from my Eating Disorder Recovery Yoga blog and Healthy Selfitude) Benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ED 101 &#8212; A Film About Eating Disorders</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/11/27/ed-101-a-free-film-about-eating-disorders/</link>
		<comments>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/11/27/ed-101-a-free-film-about-eating-disorders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn Hussa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anorexia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Males with Eating Disorders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Body Image]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Broadway]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn Costin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kim Dennis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is our first post from Robyn Hussa, President of Normal in Schools (NIS). She started NIS driven to bring to our schools education about eating disorder through theater (or as Robyn would say &#8220;theatre&#8221; but I&#8217;m not so hip to the art scene). We all think we know everything about eating disorders, after all we are suffers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Disorders vs Breast Cancer: Which is more prevalent?</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/11/21/eating-disorders-vs-breast-cancer-which-one-is-more-prevalent/</link>
		<comments>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/11/21/eating-disorders-vs-breast-cancer-which-one-is-more-prevalent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mamaV</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[american heart association]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women in head scarves have become the norm, almost so much so we barely take a second look. Breast cancer surrounds us every day, we all have our own story of a friend or family member who is a survivor. Pink ribbons are everywhere, even on NFL football, something I never thought I would see. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Disorders and Binge Drinking</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/11/06/eating-disorders-and-binge-drinking/</link>
		<comments>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/11/06/eating-disorders-and-binge-drinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi_PsyD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drunkorexia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[binge drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college students]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wearetherealdeal.com/?p=7404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you combine an eating disorder with heavy or binge drinking? Nothing good, according to a recent study by professors at the University of Missouri. We have long known that both behaviors are prevalent among young people, especially college age young men and women. What has not been known until recently, however, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BEDA Launched First Annual National Weight Stigma Awareness Week</title>
		<link>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/10/17/beda-launched-first-annual-national-weight-stigma-awareness-week/</link>
		<comments>http://wearetherealdeal.com/2011/10/17/beda-launched-first-annual-national-weight-stigma-awareness-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi_PsyD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Binge Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bullying]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Revolution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wearetherealdeal.com/?p=7025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) launched launched its first annual National Weight Stigma Awareness Week, September 26-30, 2011. The objectives of this event were to build awareness of what weight stigma is, the harmful effects weight stigma can have on people of all ages in all environments, and what can be done to stop it. [...]]]></description>
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