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UNC Charlotte is joining universities and colleges across the country next week to host "Celebrate Your Body Week" with an array of activities.
The events, sponsored by the UNCC Wellness Matrix Team, are designed to raise awareness of eating disorders and help participants to recognize pressures, attitudes and behaviors that lead to those disorders.
To kick off the events, Stacy Nadeau of the Dove Beauty Campaign will speak at UNCC on Monday at 7 p.m. in McKnight Hall on the UNCC campus. Nadeau appeared on a Times Square billboard in New York City in 2005 with five other women wearing only her underwear as part of the campaign. Since then, she has been a national spokeswoman for healthy body images.
In her keynote program, she will speak about how men and women can change the message that young women receive. "Only when we start reinforcing positive body impage in our groups and in our communities, can we start a real wave of change," she said.
Her address is free and open to the public.
Other events will include a body image fair on Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Belk Tower on campus. If it rains, the site will be in the Student Activity Center, Salon B.
Katherine Wilson of the counseling center will present "Celebrate EveryBODY" on Wednesday from 3 to 4 p.m. in Cone 113.
And Amy Combs of the Center for Balanced Living will present a Yoga & Body Image workshop on Thursday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Cone 268. The school is also encouraging people to donate blue jeans to those in need in the "Be Comfortable in Your Genes Jeans Giveaway."
For more information, contact Katie Powers at 704-687-7382.
