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Julia Vitagliano, BA
STRIPED Program Coordinator
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital

julia.vitagliano@childrens.harvard.edu

STRIPED News

URGENT Call for Advocates: Help end body size discrimination in MA — Please email your lawmakers NOW! Click HERE to receive talking points on this Amendment and how to take action.

On July 15, STRIPED Director Bryn Austin and family advocate, Cherie Monarch, discussed the recent groundbreaking report on the social and economic cost of eating disorders on a Facebook Live Event with The Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness. Watch the full recording of the Facebook Live event here.

STRIPED, in collaboration with the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) and Deloitte Access Economics, has conducted the most comprehensive examination to date of the social and economic burden of eating disorders in the United States. On Wednesday, June 24 at 5p ET, a press conference was held to release the results of this report. Click HERE to read the report and watch the press conference.

STRIPED is committed to working toward putting an end to weight stigma. To this end, we published a Roadmap, based on results of a Delphi expert consensus study with experts from the fields of eating disorders, fat activism, and public health to identify ideas and actions supported by high levels of consensus across fields. Check out our Roadmap here.

Exciting news! Massachusetts lawmakers heard your voice & voted in favor of H.1942. This means this important bill will move forward this legislative session, thanks to your powerful advocacy! The bill has been referred to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing and has been accompanied with a new draft (H.4783). Stay tuned for more updates for action alerts this summer.

Massachusetts youth surveyed nearly 500 of their peers across the state about weight-loss and muscle-building supplements. They uncovered alarming information on use of weight-loss & muscle-building supplements by minors. See the full results of the Massachusetts Youth Survey on Weight Loss and Muscle-building Supplements here and make sure to check out the press release on this youth-led survey.

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