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Trisha Gura
Keynote Fee : Up to $5,000 plus expenses Fee Note Travels From: MA |
Topics
- Eating Disorders
- Women's Health
- Children's Health
- High School / College
- Social Issues
- Obesity
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Programs
Parenting and Body Image1. "Am I Fat Mom?"
How Kids Develop Body Image, What Can Go Wrong, and What You Can Do to Help. Includes tips to increase parents' awareness of how their own comments and attitudes about weight are picked up by their children, and mock dialogues of what to say (and not say) when your child is struggling.
2. "Mirror Mirror, Moms and Kids:" How parents can model healthy eating and help build their kids' healthy body image. Covers infancy to teen years.
1. "Eating Disorders: Never Too Young, Never too Old"
While the media has long presented eating disorders as only occurring in teens, eating disorders are on the rise in women older than 25 and in children younger than 9. The trigger is stresses that occur at all major life transitions, i.e. puberty, marriage, pregnancy, parenting, mid and late life. Even the most astute health care practitioner can miss signs of an eating disorder because those afflicted are often highly skilled at hiding their symptoms.
2. "Girls in Women's Clothing"
How eating disorders stunt psychological development, and what you can do to help a teenager at risk.
3. "Her, Him and It: Eating Disorders and Couples"
When an eating disorder is present in a relationship, it acts like an affair, separating partners and destroying intimacy. This talk will focus on the latest on eating disorders and couples' therapy, including how to deal with a situation in which one partner has an eating disorder.
4. "My oh so BIG pregnant body"
How eating disorders and problems influence pregnancy and how pregnancy influences eating disorders. Includes the results from the latest studies showing that pregnancy increases the risk for binge eating disorders. Also, studies who women with eating disordered histories suffer post partum depression at 3-10 times the norm. As women try to achieve the latest pregnancy ideal, a body that looks like a "basketball on stilts," this talk will provide some strategies to accept a changing body and a new role as "mom."
5. "Boomers and Body Image: the New Aging Crisis"
As baby boomers age, their preoccupation with body is going over the top into eating disorders. Eating disorders are showing up in at least 25 million individuals, and their incidence has tripled and quadrupled in women in their 40's and 50's. This talk will describe the crisis, explain why it is happening, and offer suggestions for what boomers can do to age healthfully.
1. "The Worldwide E.D."
Eating disorders are spreading across cultures throughout the world. Why? Those who buy into western ideals of beauty and success are importing eating disorders. No culture or ethnic group, even within the U.S., is immune. How to spot individuals at risk within any given culture or ethnic group and prevent them from getting disorders.
2. "From Madison Avenue to Medical Mayhem: Got to Be Thin if You Want to Be In"
How advertising and the creation of unrealistic beauty ideals drives children, teens and adults of all ages to adopt eating-disordered behaviors. This talk will also address the healthcare consequences of people's desperate attempts to fit their bodies to cultural ideals.
1. "Eating and Weight: All in my Jeans?"
Are eating disorders a result of genetics or environment? This talk will provide an evenhanded overview of the current debate about the causes of eating disorders. Geared for general audiences. The presentation covers the latest scientific studies on the brain and body and outlines arguments for genetic, psychological and cultural causes.
2. "Out of Sight, Off the Scale"
This talk is focused on the different types of behaviors that people do to try to get thinner. Includes closeted habits such as chewing and spitting out food and diabulimia, in which diabetics purposely withhold insulin in order to maintain a lower weight.
3. "Eating Disorders On-the-Go"
Why females in the workplace are particularly susceptible to eating disorders and disordered eating at any stage in their career.
Speaker Information
Trisha Gura has been writing about molecules and medicine for 15 years. Her unique science and literary background gives her the rare ability to communicate even the most technical aspects of science - as story. Her readership is wide, from academics at Harvard to everyday mothers, worried about their children's health.
Trisha began her career pipetting DNA in a laboratory. In 1990, she earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology from Northwestern University in Chicago. Sensing the need for better translation of science for the general public, she embarked upon a career based on writing about the science that she loves.
In 1991, she won a Mass Media Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. That led her to the Chicago Tribune, where she became a staff reporter. As a freelancer, she later wrote news and features for scientific publications such as Science, Nature, New Scientist and Scientific American, as well as popular publications such as Health, Child Magazine, Yoga Journal and The Boston Globe.
In 2002, she won a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT and Harvard. That brought her to Boston, where she eventually earned a Visiting Scholar position at Brandeis University in Waltham.
In 2003, she embarked upon her most challenging project, Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women, (Harper Collins May, 2007). Part memoir, part state-of-the-art medical journalism, this book breaks new ground in its exploration of eating problems through a uniquely expert as well as accessible voice. Trisha just completed her second book, Body: the Complete Human, for National Geographic in October, 2007. She is currently working on print and multimedia projects for Parents, Prevention and other publications. Trisha writes and speaks extensively about eating disorders and related topics for HuffingtonPost.com and on her blog, Weighing in, in the Truth in Numbers resource section of her Web site.
Testimonials
"The NASWS would not have been so successful had Trisha not been such a high quality speaker."
- Harvard University
"I can't tell you how many positive comments I received about Trisha's discussion. This was definitely an event that reinvigorated the students in the department."
- Case Western Reserve University
"It is indeed rare to find someone so dedicated to her profession and so accessible to those interested in emulating her path."
- Cleveland State University