Main Category: Eating Disorders
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists' Eating Disorders Section is backing beat - the leading UK eating disorder charity - in calling for new guidelines to be adopted to change the way illnesses are reported in the media.
Commenting on the guidelines, Professor Ulrike Schmidt, chair of the Eating Disorders Section, said: "This is an absolutely outstanding and much needed set of guidelines which will go a long way in helping the media to achieve more balanced reporting of these devastating illnesses, and to avoid the dual pitfalls of either trivialising or hyping up eating disorders."
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Beat has produced the guidelines and a new report, 'This picture can seriously damage your health', to mark Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2011.
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
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