以前、取材で摂食障害の女性たちに話を聞きました。独身の方からお子さんがいらっしゃる方まで、彼女たちを支えるグループの方々のおかげで率直な気持ちを聞くことができ、いまでも取材時のことをよく憶えています。
その中で、特に印象的だったのは、多くの方が、長年摂食障害に悩まされていたということ。食べては吐くを繰り返す、怖くて一人では食べられないので皆が集う場所に行きお昼を食べる練習をする、など、ぱっと見ではわからない苦しみを抱えている方たちでした。
彼女たちの多くは思春期に摂食障害になっていました。人の目が気になる年頃に、とにかく痩せるために栄養を無視した方法で、カロリーさえ低ければいいというダイエットを行う結果、反動が起きてしまった方が多いのではという印象を受けました。体は自分が食べる物でできています。栄養を無視したダイエットを続けることはできません。正しい栄養の知識を伝えるためにも、教室をきちんと続けていきたいと、いま、改めて思います。
I had an opportunity to talk to women with eating disorder for a radio show production as part of work. We got to hear about how they became suffering from eating disorder or how they battled it with the support of a group of people helping them overcome the disorder. We talked to single women to mothers with children.
What's most impressive was that they had suffered for a very long time. They would eat so much at a time and vomit afterwords, or they couldn't eat at all by themselves because eating was a scary thing for them so they would need to go to the facility to eat lunch with others. You wouldn't be able to tell they have eating disorder, but they all suffered and hoped to overcome it.
Many of them developed it when they reached puberty. They were sensitive about how others looked at them and wanted to just lose weight without thinking about the importance of nutrition. And that unreasonable dieting could lead them to develop an eating disorder, I thought.
You are what you eat. You cannot continue eating without proper nutritions. I reckon how important it is for me to teach proper nutrition knowledge.
