As we all know, female athletes - especially Olympic athletes - are under tremendous pressure, and many of them will eventually have eating disorders. Although women are more likely to suffer from eating disorders, men are definitely not immune.
Adam Rippon is rudely frank about his struggles with body image and eating disorders. (Source: John Sciulli / Getty Images Entertainment / GettyImages) In the New York Times profile, Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon is very honest about his body image problem. And said that he is not strange to hunger. He is not the only one. The newspaper interviewed dozens of other male players who confirmed that in professional skating, both women and men like to be caused by bulimia
as early as 2016, 5-7 ( The current Rippon weighs 150 pounds and weighs only 140 pounds, mainly because he ate a lot of strict diet "three whole wheat" bread sprinkled with cockroaches, I can't believe it is not butter. "And be completely clear about this: it's not what he eats every meal - it's what he consumes every day. To avoid hunger, he supplements his "rice" with three cups of coffee, each cup is full. Six packs Splenda.
What drives high-performance athletes like Rippon to starve to death? According to the 28-year-old, he hopes to look like young Olympic athletes Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou. "I looked around and saw My competitor. They are all doing these quads and they are shorter than me. They are 10 years younger than me, and they are one size bigger than me," Rippon said.
His mother Kelly recalled that Adam’s first coach told her that her 10-year-old son was "heavily" The bottom of the "can never enterLine advanced jumping. As a survivor of eating disorders, she tried to educate him about the importance of healthy eating and exercise. Once, he even gained weight by doing more weight training.
But when he moved to Southern California in the fall of 2012, Rippon's coach Rafael Arutyunyan asked him to undergo strict aerobic training. The above diet of bread and margarine cuts his muscles. This led to overeating.
"I made a few days of bread, then I ate a whole loaf of bread, leaving 3,000 calories," he explained, and told his coach, "Raphael, this is what I am eating. He Say, 'I know. It's really hard.' "
After breaking his left foot in 2017 (he thought he didn't get enough nutrition), Rippon decided to solve his relationship with food. He began working with sports nutritionist Susie Parker-Simmons, who taught him to treat food as a fuel, not an enemy. Now, pay more attention when eating, athletes no longer feel "guilty" about eating food.
2017 US Women's Image Kate Champion and Olympic Medalist Gracie Gold seeks to treat eating disorders and encourage industry executives to take action. "We are very sensitive to what is going on. As we move forward, we will learn from this experience and hope that we can support all the forward athletes," explains American skating executive director David Luis. 123]
The important point is that all men - not just male athletes - are prone to eating disorders. According to one study, 10 million men in the United States (compared to 20 million women) will have clinically significant eating disorders at some point in their lives.
Adam Rippon (@adaripp) shared a post atWe praise Adam for bravely coming forward to his story. By using his platform to open up his experience, he provides much-needed education to the world on a somewhat taboo subject.
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