p42 s1 bill 61 b061ra e.pdf

Ontario — Bills

1ST SESSION, 42ND LEGISLATURE, ONTARIO ELIZABETH II, 2020 Bill 61 (Chapter of the Statutes of Ontario, 2020)

An Act to proclaim Eating Disorders Awareness Week Ms J. Andrew 1st Reading November 21, 2018 2nd Reading December 6, 2018 3rd Reading December 3, 2020 Royal Assent December 8, 2020 Bill

An Act to proclaim Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Preamble Understanding how the development of eating disorders , also referred to as eating problems, and access to treatment and prevention resources are influenced by structural conditions and the social determinants of health is crucial to promoting greater awareness of and providing effective education on eating disorders. The term eating disorder s suggests that disordered eating is solely a mental health and individualize d phenomena. Concepts such as “eating p roblems,” as coined by sociologist Dr. Becky W.

Thompson, allows for a more nuanced understanding of eating disorders or problems as responses to sociocultural phenomena. For example, factors such as visual culture, food and income security, access to housing, access to healthcare, acculturation and mental health supports influence the development, trajectory and treatment of eating disorders. Education on body -related issues such as size and appearance -based discrimination and harassment, body -shaming and bullying also promotes greater awareness of how these factors contribute to the development of eating disorders.

Common assumptions of who gets eating disorders leave out many complexities. Anyone can develop an eating disorder, and eating disorders impact different people in different ways. Sharing stories of how populations such as Indigenous, Black and racialized women and girls, immigrants, qu eer people, transgender people, people with disabilities, fat people, people with chronic illness, men and boys experience eating disorders is crucial to promoting greater awareness of diverse experiences of eating disorders.

Proclaiming Eating Disorders A wareness Week in Ontario makes a powerful statement about the value of building awareness around healthy relationships with our bodies and the need for culturally relevant and responsive resources for treatments, education and prevention of eating disorders. Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: Eating Disorders Awareness Week The week beginning February in each year is proclaimed as Eating Disorders Awarenes s Week.

Commencement This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short title The

short title of this Act is the Eating Disorders Awareness Week Act, 2020. ______________ EXPLANATORY NOTE This Explanatory Note was written as a reader’s aid to Bill and does not form part of the law. Bill has been enacted as

Chapter of the Statutes of Ontario, 2020. The Bill proclaims the week beginning February in each year as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

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