Status of Women committee  It is frightening, and thank you for asking that excellent question. It's something like what I mentioned. As a dietitian in the eating disorder area, I'm always having to say, “This message is not for you”. It's a message that we put out for the general public, and I'm even skep

Status of Women committee  It's a huge danger. I was really happy 20 years ago when I was doing this spiel that people did not have access to the calories and the grams of fat and of carb and of sugar. The more that information is out there and easily accessible, the more our patient population uses it, a

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I was trained as a dietitian to think that we need to get information to the public, let them know, let them make the choices. Maybe we don't, because that information can be used in very dangerous ways. To give you an example, there is a very popular app for iPhone

Status of Women committee  In our unique circumstance in Canada, with our publicly funded health care and with the different aspects of what we know about eating disorders, we need to start off knowing who our population is by having a database. I think this has been talked about before, having a database

Status of Women committee  A national registry and then the people who are providing the services.... But overall we need to know what is going to be most effective. We're so in the clouds that we don't know who we are servicing, who's doing the work, what they are doing, and what is efficacious. I know in

Status of Women committee  We absolutely do to coordinate it, to have a vision for Canada to do the best for its population.

Status of Women committee  I don't have the numbers at the tip of my fingers, but I can provide them to you. By region there are at least eight publicly funded outpatient clinics specific to eating disorders.

Status of Women committee  There are 14 beds for children and adolescents and six day treatment spaces in the Children's. In the adult system, I'm not 100% sure. I don't work as closely in that area, but there is an in-patient protocol and Dr. Josie Geller could speak more on that. They use the medical w

Status of Women committee  Yes. There's also a residence that's currently run by the Looking Glass in partnership with B.C. and I think there are 14 beds there. Half of it is private and half of it is provincially funded.

Status of Women committee  There is a cost to the family. The provincial government helps with the transportation for some of these people from away to attend the day treatment program because we only provide partial hospitalization. They fund them for hotels and to be part of the programming, so it's quit

Status of Women committee  Unfortunately, because of the limited time that the association has been active, we haven't got to those particular topics. One of our visions is to progress to the place where we can address some of those issues. Even this past year, we were talking about having sessions that c

Status of Women committee  Wholeheartedly, and in fact I was mentioning that I was coming to this meeting and one of my private clients said, “Yes, please tell them that it's really hard on us.” Healthy eating means what? It means that I have to watch my calories, that I have to cut my fat. So wholehearted

Status of Women committee  The best practices seem to be changing all the time. I was at the conference where Madame Champagne presented, and that's part of the excitement, to put together the Canadian.... A lot of really talented people are doing really good work across Canada. One of the things I like to

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm really honoured and excited to be able to present to you as you conduct this study on eating disorders in Canada. As mentioned, I am the 2014 president of Eating Disorders Association of Canada and a registered dietitian by profession. I have work

Status of Women committee  I'm Jadine Cairns and I'm here.