Schools across the country are issuing Fat Talk Free Week

By Staff Writer

According to the National Eating Disorders Association, as many as 10 million women are living with some type of eating disorder. In an effort to help women improve their self-esteem, the University of Missouri-Kansas City has issued a Fat Talk Free Week, which is a national campaign to eliminate language harmful to body image, KansasCity.com reports.

Campuses all over the country are joining in on the ban in an effort to increase self-esteem and reject unrealistic standards of beauty.

Beth Guinta, a student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is a designer who seeks to exaggerate the parts of the body that women are most insecure about to help them embrace their body with a positive outlook.

She told the news source that it is incredibly damaging to engage in fat talk, yet for some reason it has become an easy way for women to relate to each other.

The campaign stems from a program created by an associate professor of psychology at Trinity University in Texas, in collaboration with campus sororities as well as national women's fraternity Tri Delta.