October is EDEN’s Love Your Body month, a time to celebrate and enjoy bodies of all shapes and sizes. During October, New Zealanders will be hosting Love Your Body cupcake parties to celebrate.
EDEN promotes living actively and eating a range of nutrition… and remembering that food can be fun – like cupcakes.
EDEN is recruiting hosts to run cupcake parties at home, the office, their book club, school, or anywhere! While eating yummy, scrumptious cupcakes, party-goers will promote positive body image through fun activities, discussions and donations to EDEN.
Eighty percent of New Zealand women are dissatisfied with their bodies, and up to one in five struggles with disordered eating.
“Our bodies are amazing, yet we spend so much time criticizing them, rather than appreciating them. Love Your Body is a rare chance to appreciate and enjoy our bodies as they are. Boosting body image increases health practices, wellbeing and self-esteem,” says Deb Schwarz, EDEN manager.
To make October’s Love Your Body cupcake parties a success, EDEN is asking for help in the following ways:
- Donations or samples of goodies to go into host’s goody bags (cupcake ingredients, cupcake decorating supplies, sweets, savouries, coupons or vouchers, bottles of wine – anything to say thank you to volunteer hosts).
- Donation of prizes to be given to the most successful hosts.
- More people who would like to host a cupcake party within their home or office.
EDEN, the Eating Difficulties Education Network, is a small, not-for- profit organisation doing amazing work in the community. EDEN has been in operation since 1990 (making 2011 EDEN’s 21st birthday) and has celebrated Love Your Body Day in New Zealand since 2008. EDEN is dedicated to disordered eating prevention, early intervention, advocacy, support, information provision and referral in the North Island. EDEN is the only specialist NGO provider offering these services in the North Island. As well as providing information, services and resources to individuals and organisations, EDEN works at a wider social level to promote body satisfaction, body trust and diversity.
The Love Your Body cupcake parties will generate body-positive discussions and help New Zealanders to celebrate their bodies as they are. In addition, money raised from EDEN’s Love Your Body campaign will go towards the charity’s early intervention and prevention services for disordered eating.
For more information on how you can help support the Love Your Body cupcake parties, or to sign up to host a party yourself, please contact Erin at contractor@eden.org.nz or go to EDEN’s website: http://www.eden.org.nz/.
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