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Eating Disorder
Fitness challenges such as “wrap your arm around your waist and touch your belly button” and “coin layered collarbone” as well as hashtags like “square shoulders,” “manga waist” and “slim legs like a K-pop idol” have burst onto China’s social platforms, which are meant to show off a fit figure, according to some users who nailed the challenge or have certain body features. The bizarre trend also stirs up criticism as many are concerned it might lead to people’s misconception about beauty, health and weight. Some netizens who express strong disapproval of the trend even call it “a new wave of body shaming” and warn that it could promote unhealthy eating or even eating disorder. To tackle body shaming and raise awareness of eating disorder, Qinwe curated an exhibition entitled “About Body Shaming” at the Shanghai Himalaya Art Museum, the first exhibition on eating disorders in China.
“The number of patients of eating disorders triples every year in China,” noted Chen Jue, director of the Eating Disorders Center at the Shanghai Mental Health Center. “They are getting younger, and many girls avoid seeking mental help.”The medical resources available to each person are still limited in China, as there are only two specialist centers for eating disorders in the country – the Shanghai Mental Health Center and the Peking University Sixth Hospital.And precautions against eating disorders are needed.”There isn’t enough awareness around eating disorders as a whole and the kind of people that they can effect,” said Qinwen.
I fond ‘body shame’ was a general problem nowadays and it was a main cause for gluttony because when we were calculating and controlling each dishes’ calories, we would feel it was like a trouble when we were insist on doing that. We cared too much on the ‘fat’ of food and it easily caused bulimia because one day there would be out of control. Nobody is no body. Even though we all became dead skeletons in the end, we could not live with a skeleton body.
A recent #exhibition in #Shanghai is helping spread the word about the struggles of people who suffer from eating disorders.
WOMAN is a worldwide project giving a voice to 2000 women across 50 different countries. Despite its very large scale, the film offers an intimate portrait of those who constitute half of humanity. It is an opportunity to shed light on the injustices women are subjected to all over the world, but what WOMan would like to underline most is the inner strength of women and their capacity to change the world despite all the difficulties they are facing. In this new era where women’s voices resonate more and more, the aim of the film is not only to call for rights or focus on problems, but to find solutions and try to reconcile the two genders. The project deals with topics such as motherhood, education, marriage or financial independence but also menstruation or sexuality.
Some people like social appearance and beauty.
Each person has personal beliefs.
I am the way I am. I don’t want to be different.
I like to be natural.
Justine, raised as a rigorous vegetarian, arrives as a freshman at the reputable Saint-Exupéry Veterinary School. As she leaves the family home, Justine abruptly moves into a mad new world of strange school traditions and vicious initiation tests, and before long, she must chew over her unshakable herbivorous beliefs. More and more, as Justine descends deeper and deeper into a hidden world of uncharted animalistic tendencies, an unprecedented and equally morbid craving for meat will transform her into a very different being, but now that her corporeal awakening is finally complete, is there a point in denying her hunger for raw flesh?
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Pandemic Listening on food in Shanghai
Some residents under lockdown in Shanghai say they are running out of food, amid the city’s biggest-ever Covid outbreak. Residents are confined to their homes, banned from leaving for even essential reasons such as grocery shopping. Nearly 20,000 cases were reported on Thursday in China’s biggest city – another near-record high. Officials have admitted the city is facing “difficulties” but say they are trying to improve this.
- Shanghai Covid lockdown extended to entire city
But public anger is also being stoked by other drastic measures – such as the removal of children from their parents if they test positive. Shanghai officials later responded by allowing parents who were also infected to accompany their children to isolation centres. However, according to a Reuters report, there are still complaints over children separated from parents who were not Covid-positive. The city began another round of mandatory mass testing on Wednesday to identify and isolate every case. Shanghai residents who test positive can’t isolate in their homes even if their conditions are mild or asymptomatic. They have to go to mandatory quarantine facilities, which critics say have become crowded and have sub-par conditions.
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Residents under Covid lockdowns in areas across China are complaining of shortages of food and essential items.
Tens of millions of people in at least 30 regions have been ordered to stay at home under partial or full lockdowns.
“It’s been 15 days, we are out of flour, rice, eggs. From days ago, we run out of milk for kids,” said one resident in western Xinjiang.
Authorities are scrambling to contain local outbreaks ahead of the Communist party’s congress in October.
China’s zero-Covid policy requires strict lockdowns – even if just a handful of cases are reported. On Monday China recorded 949 new Covid cases across the entire country.
The policy has prompted rare public dissent from citizens and has also been accused of stifling economic growth.
In Xinjiang a weeks-long lockdown in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture near the border with Kazakhstan has seen desperate residents appeal for help on social media.
One post showed a video of an Uyghur man overcome with emotion, saying his three children had not eaten for three days.
In Yining city, the capital of Ili, a shared online document with over 300 urgent requests for food, medicine and sanitary pads was widely circulated.
“I’m out of money to buy supplies. My wife is pregnant and we have two kids. We are running out of gas. My wife needs a medical check,” said another resident.
The region has a mixed population of Han Chinese, Kazakh and Uyghur residents.
Earlier this month a long-awaited UN report accused China of “serious human rights violations” against Uyghurs and other mainly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Rights groups say that more than a million Uyghurs had been detained against their will. Beijing says its network of camps are a tool to fight terrorism.
In south-western Guizhou province, authorities locked down an area of the provincial capital Guiyang without warning, stranding 500,000 residents at home without any chance to prepare.
Lifts were switched off in buildings to stop people leaving, the Guardian newspaper reported.
“We can’t buy stuff online as they don’t deliver and supermarkets are closed. Is the government treating us like animals, or do they just want us to die?” asked one user on the Weibo microblogging platform, quoted by the Guardian.
Meanwhile Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, is the largest city to come under lockdown since Shanghai suffered two months of restrictions earlier this year.
Its 21 million people have been banned from entering or leaving the city, with only residents able to show evidence of a negative Covid test allowed out to buy necessities.
It follows a major heatwave in the region and an earthquake earlier this month which saw residents trying to flee their homes confronted by locked exits.
City officials say they are planning to lift restrictions in five areas of the city starting on Monday.
The multiple extended lockdowns come ahead of the National Party Congress in mid-October – a once-in-five-years event that will see top political members gather for the first time since the pandemic struck.
Party officials are under immense pressure to makes sure the event runs smoothly, and even small clusters of Covid are seen as a threat.
On Monday Chinese media said small numbers of cases were being detected on university campuses in Beijing as students returned from other provinces.
It is the world’s last major economy attempting to entirely stamp out Covid outbreaks, claiming this is necessary to prevent wider surges of the virus which could overwhelm hospitals.
China has officially recorded fewer than 15,000 deaths since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University.
For now I would limit myself in describing and appealing the desire of food for Shanghai. Citizens like homeless people beat their own bowls and chopsticks by way of venting, and convey their dissatisfaction with food shortage with sound. The city is suffering from hunger right now, not because the real hunger, no body is supposed to be satisfied with only carrots, potatoes and onions for one month. Food is eating human mind.