Current Events, 10/19 Exec. Meeting

* from the 10/19 Executive Meeting, presented by Thi Pham.
   
     At our last TDC Exec. Meeting, we discussed the Body Image Program's initiative to end "fat talk."  This program is especially important to our University as the sororities on campus were one of the test groups for the project that is now nationwide. Our athletics and sororities now participate yearly and part of the program is a Fat Talk Free Board- where students can celebrate their bodies by posting what they love about themselves for all to see. One of the issues that came up during our discussion was a question of whether or not this campaign was targeted at creating a healthy nutritional and fitness program to go along with a healthy image. However, Tri Delta we surmised that this project was more to raise self-esteem (as well as discourage "Fat Talk"), rather than to be a resource to a "healthy" lifestyle. Another point of discussion was at the source of "Fat Talk" in our society? Is it caused by parental or peer pressure or some other reason? We followed that media and fashion standards of beauty were partly to blame because they create unrealistic goals for human bodies with airbrushing and other image altering techniques.
     Check out the body image program website  as well as the youtube video for more information.