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now facing noon. an unexpected hardships as the reason take measures to keep it in check. the news i'm british managing welcome to deed up the news asia glad you could join us. pressure to conform to conventional ideas about beauty is having dangerous consequences in china, particularly among women, if leading to increasing cases of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. a study from 2019 estimated more than 1500000 chinese was suffering from an eating disorder. i'll be talking to someone who's experienced this 1st hand in a moment. but 1st, this report, the junction one knows how to love and take care of her own body to day. but she

learned the hard way. the 23 year old still has fitted memories of the severe eating disorder that almost killed her. so that time i was around 20 kilograms. it was short, not long before i was hospitalized. so when i was being hospitalized junk says her self esteem was low affected by extreme beauty standards shared on the internet. like this one, women comparing their wastes to the width of an a full size paper. such challenges are common on chinese social media. they once convinced john that skinny, this will bring happiness, which only turned into a nightmare. i could walk by myself. my feet didn't have any strength, or my body couldn't function very well. and i couldn't even see very clearly. my hair was very fluffy and i hopefully had anything left. i knew that i was asleep. i'm well, i didn't go to the doctor. now recovered. show help

organized. this exhibition against body shaming. a phenomenon experts say has skyrocketed in recent years. this door plastered with abusive messages represent to pain and struggle. many participants used to have and this self marriage ceremony. a pledge to cherish themselves for the rest of their life. the jo moved every single one in the room. or is it a drill? i had, i thought i was an ugly girl since i was a kid. and for the people when we didn't girls, so comfortable what was in the process of my recovery. i feel that

a healthy skin tone, sturdy body, and a strong heart of the most important things in this place. out of all this is what john keeps reminding herself every day. that confidence is what makes one beautiful. so i mean from hong kong is stephanie and founder and executive director of body been to hong kong based nonprofit, the chairs, resources, and information on body image and mental health. stephanie, welcome this pursuit of the id body shape of any specific cultural factors in china, for instance, that are driving it. thank you for having me today, and i can speak a little bit about how there might be some cultural pressures on based on my own experience. and also in my research that i've learned about. and i think that's something that's really prominent is that there is, there is

a lake between the body, the way that it looks and morality. so, the way that we fundamentally are, and so as a lot of us are familiar with, there tends to be a belief that an individual who are a smaller bodies are more disciplined or more successful. and individuals and larger bodies are seen as left disciplined or more lazy. and this link seems to be more pronounced in chinese cultural settings. between physical appearance and morality in the sense that this association is really said to us from a really early age and is constantly reiterated in our daily life. and something important to note about this link is also that it's really reiterated and reinforced in neil time setting, particularly because neil time stuttering things are such crucial site of interpersonal connection in chinese context. so for example, a common idiom that used in tiny culture is that if you don't finish your bowl of

rice, you're going to marry someone who had pimples all over their face. and so it is through this kind of cultural belief that makes life outcomes with eating behavior that creates such a complex linkage between how we eat, how we look, who a fundamentally or an adult is. do these linkages extend to other areas of daily life as well, for example, in school or in your peer group for instance. yeah. so it seems that for, especially in fact, familial setting, it is pronounced because these are the places where you have this intergenerational on passing on of knowledge. but it definitely can extend to school settings as well because these are, this is common knowledge, common cultural knowledge that can be prevail, pervasive in all social setting. so if every child hasn't said this kind of beliefs and everyone in the peer group will reinforce it as well. so yes,

i would say that it is pervasive throughout different social groups. stephanie, how much of a link is there with social media, for instance? and the idea version of beauty that b c times, or is it just a case of the traditional linkages that you were referring to right now? yeah, this is a question that i thought a lot about to, which is that how much of it is social media and how much of it is to do with cultural beliefs or belief that we've been taught by our family. and i think that there is no, there is no one answer to this because with eating disorders and with all mental illness, all mental illnesses, it's a confluence factor that comes from. it depends on the person's individual temperament as well. so if this person is very engaged, that engages with social media a lot and takes these messages to heart. then social media messaging may be. ready more prominent as a risk factor for them. ready but if a person is more field,

more accountable to, let's say their family, families, expectations or, or other kinds of expectations that they receive. and then they would be influenced by those factors warm. and you know, in some cases, and in many cases, actually, both of these things will come together and reinforce each other to create a very complex, intricate kind of pressure and stuff. some of these struggles unique to just women, or do men go through these as well? eating disorders don't discriminate, the effect, anyone of any, any demographic trait, so any gender, any socio demographic and stuff, socio economic status, any and, and, and any background and any background. so there's definitely no specific group that it is exclusively impacted by eating. ready disorders, but there's obviously a different set of manifestations that affect each group. so for example,

with women, there may be a greater obsession with, than ideal with men. it may be manifested in the form of, of experiencing a session with the muscular ideal for the drug. so it manifest rightly, but everyone can experience it are using you spoke about your own experiences with eating disorders and i wonder if that can help inform other people about the warning signs to watch out for what is it that people can watch out for to allow themselves to what's happening with themselves or with others. absolutely, that's a great question. with warning signs, i think that there are a bunch of different symptoms that can, can manifest. but i think something that's very important is that linkage between morality and eating behaviors. so a big warning sign is when the person starts to say things like, you know, if i don't eat a certain way that i'm a bad person or the person expresses this kind of belief. because when that happens,

they can start to engage in disordered eating behavior. like good meals, like you know, bingeing and purging, these kinds of behavior become integrated into the person that's identity and then start becoming a pervasive pattern of behavior that becomes a part of how they behave and how they come to see themselves. so that is kind of a warning sign when you start to see the kinds of attachment that the personal attach it to the feel here, stephanie, and we'll have to leave it there for that. i mean, but thank you so much for joining us today. but though very insightful views on this, thank you very much for having me. oh, life for the transgender community in indian control kush meter has never been easy . despite their work as matchmakers and reading entertain as they faced a lot of facility and discrimination. but off late, their situation has become even worse as loc towns in the region prevent them from

going about their business, leaving some facing destitution you sub number me is that transgender woman living in india administered crush me. she finally remembers the days when she would dance at weddings. now she mostly stays at home. the disruptions caused by a corona wireless restrictions and the log down by indian authorities after daily the walks that agents autonomy in 2019 have taken their toll. our work has suffered a lot even before the lock downs. our earnings were meager. now they have dried up the community not only faces discrimination and hostility from the society. their self expression is also a boost object in the muslim majority region. where to go as a term gender in the place we live in. we cannot opt for 16 therapy. and our holy

book also doesn't allow that. does a much fun human rights activists for the l g b t. community english means he says, mental health issues are prevalent in the communities. they're not able to reconcile between religion and their sexuality. or for that matter, the agenda identity as well, and then starts the abuse. and if you will start from the families on, on lee, and this is all, you know it's, it's the word, but it's physical. it is sexual as well. in a month we would receive just one case of, you know, mental health issue from the community. now we are receiving a lot of cases did out about 4000 members in the community and few have received government aid. but chevron lives in the hope that'll work as a dancer and a match. mika will resume once again. love i could never make, but i work with dignity when i bring to families to get there during matchmaking,

i hope it continue after the government began eating logged down restrictions in cash meet over the weekend, that may have come a step closer. and that's it for today and this week there's other news in analysis from the region on our website dot com forward slash a share. and you can of course give the latest updates in our facebook and twitter profiles as well. rebecca again, on monday, at the same time, we will see you then by the the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say information and contact the corona virus because it 19 special next on dw,

rattling the express feelings. i not very creative yet, but i would love to be considered an artist one day looking for new perspectives on the door and cannot replace the cabinet doing things differently. come to the place where we reflect on society. 21 d w. what's the difference? it makes football enjoyed like this for like face it's clear what the organizers of your a 2020 preferred tens of thousands of famines will take the seats and sundays final

in london. put in japan. now it's a different view to the lympics to take place in empty venues. the crowds have supported seen as to risk in both regions. code 19 cases arising, one of the european scoring and the goal. i'm robots in berlin. welcome to this covey. 19 special. the panoramic ment, europe's football fans were made to wait an extra year for your a 2020 to kick off fence the confusing clash of name and date, but with the continent yet to rid itself of corona virus. the european championships still didn't come without risk. the joy of the euro 2020 summed up why scotland fans. they were euphoric when their team and a point against arch rivals england wimbly tournament came to an end soon after.

and there was another thing in the tale, a covert outbreak on and off the pitch midfielder billy gilmore tested positive, forcing him into quarantine, a post game chatman, england's been chill. well and mason mound also had to isolate even more worryingly . it was later revealed almost 1300 scottish friends were infectious when they went to london. the world health organization says supporters traveling to games would be a recipe for disaster. how are people getting the other traveling in large, crowded convoys of buses? are they taking individual measures when they're doing that? what's happening after the games? when people leave the stadiums, are they going into a crowded balls and pubs to watch the matches? if this mixing is happening among people who are not fully vaccinated, and there is the presence of the virus, there will be cases the problem isn't restricted to the u. k. financial 40 say at

least 300 fans were infected while following their national team. mostly at that 2 matches in st. petersburg. that's contributed to a sharp rise in cases at home. despite these connections between euro 2020 uncovered outbreaks, you wafer is pressing ahead with hosting over 60000 spectators for the final at wembley. and politicians in several countries are furious at this german interior minister horse, the hoover accusing the governing body of putting profits over public health. i think that you wafers position is utterly irresponsible. absolute for them to enter. but association should say, clearly we don't want it. this way and we're reducing the numbers of spectators. either italy or england will be celebrating a country sporting victoria wimbley on sunday, but without further restrictions in london, fears of a covert hangover will only rise. well let's speak to dr. hud. sure. he's

a former president of the international society aerosols in medicine. thanks for joining us on the cove in 1900 special. are you an advocate to getting football back up and running again? during the pandemic, the now we are seeing cases rising in part due to euro 2020. does that mean that torment was a bad idea? i think the tournament was not a bad idea. i think it depends on the instrument and in the different countries. and we saw, we saw large differences, you mentioned the english and scottish people that ranch to london got an attractive but then in england we haven't the incidence of 7 day incidence of about 300 right now. and in other countries that was much lower. so for example, in germany, we had mentioned as a 5 and we had no outbreaks when the saving unit

and under gary on the introduction went down and they had to stay met the beginning from the beginning. so they started with an incident of 10 and they are now $2.00 or something. so we can't say them that football is the real big risk. it really depends on the competition in the, in the different countries. yeah, the one match that remains now is the final which is going to be in the u. k, which as you say, has got one of the higher instance races rates in your so how risky of the stadium full of 60 plus 1000 people the stadium itself is not a problem. it's the, it's a travel to the stadium that you, as we saw or heard in this other discussions. it's

just, it's a traveling to the stadium. it's the celebration after and the bars. and it's not in the non just in the, in the stadium, the restrooms. and so we know that our society, we have very little infection, so it's an aerosol infection. and that happens most of the time in can allister rooms. and this can also be a bus or apple aim or any of the toilet. and i think the sound of the whisky place and so the sort of peripheral to the actual match itself. suppose you are 20 times an interesting case study because the must have been taking place in different countries. have we seen specific approaches in specific countries that have worked particularly well? i don't think so. i think, i think we saw the differences that are getting we should we

saw the differences in the different countries, but the, the, the numbers rates totally different now. so when you, when you start with an incident rate, or let's say 200, that means you have 200 people were getting in fact, 580-040-0000 people. so when you have now 50000 people in the, in the stadium and you would not make any chest, it can happen that you have 100 people which are in fact, in the stadium. if you haven't incidental 5 and your that's 20000 people into a stadium, then you have one person understands you may be in fact just from the statistic point of view. and, and so that makes a big difference. it makes a big difference. how many people get, in fact that in the, in this country, and there's some special area where you have to get all these matches

happen, outdoor venues, but the lympics would have been different. some of those events would have taken place indoors, but now they're not going to have any spectators have. they taken the right decision in time. i don't know the interest of japan, but they are more careful. i think it would be possible in the, in the, in the, in the b, b, every now outside that you have 10000 or 20000 people that are indoors. it's a little bit more difficult. but also that it depends on the size of the room and in very large rooms, the aerosol cloud is not very concentrated. don't use it by the surrounding air and in that way might have. so it's also that's all risky, but i think it's, it's the right decision when the instruments are rising and just write

an abundance of caution that i don't forget how show it. thanks so much for joining us on the curve in 1900 special 11. now is the part of the program where we put one of your questions to asked science correspondent derek williams. oh, lou big seems recruit a new boost issue. oh, no one really knows the answer to this question. yeah. because the very 1st recipients of vaccines approved for emergency use were only given those shots around a year ago in the course of the initial trials. but it wouldn't come as a surprise if booster shots proved necessary at some point down the line. after all . busy they are, for vaccines aimed at some other diseases. what's clear so far is that most people who receive approved vaccines that they're protected.

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