Ballet Dancer Health, Blood Sugar Balance, Depression and Hypoglycemia
Website design By BotEap.comYoung ballet dancers often throw in casual comments, referring to their self-esteem issues. Whether it’s a body image issue, a perfection issue, a weight management issue, or a slightly depressed low energy issue, they either don’t come out and say it, or they can’t really articulate what the issue is. Recently, when I started reading about hypoglycemia and blood sugar balance, I began to connect its symptoms to many of the statements I had heard.
Website design By BotEap.comI became more interested in hypoglycemia and its sometimes subtle symptoms because of a conversation I had with a non-dancer, a talented artist, in another field. This person has performed in many countries, all of her teachers push her forward, and yet he can’t accept the praise from teachers or peers, or the enthusiasm from fans, because he just can’t.
Website design By BotEap.comThe lack of self-esteem in this person confuses me. A person who won the number one state award for acting while still in high school? That’s like winning the ballet competition performing the Blue Bird or the Swan Lake pas de deux.
Website design By BotEap.comAn eating disorder is more broadly defined as behavior that results in an emotional outcome from controlling what you eat. This doesn’t necessarily mean anorexia or bulimia, but it can refer to a practice of self-control or self-approval in terms of the food you eat, the caloric content, and this doesn’t just apply to dancers.
Website design By BotEap.comIt could be a borderline situation like a teenager who insists on being vegan, where I have personally witnessed the result causing stress fractures in this dancer who still thought she was going to be able to get stronger on her points and have a professional career. in ballet, while she was looking at her X-rays.
Website design By BotEap.comI recently took a look at hypoglycemia and its symptoms. Now this is complicated. The symptoms are almost unique to the individual. But the dominant symptoms, as I have read, are:
- sadness
- self-criticism
- despair
- feelings of absolutely no self worth
- periodic complete lack of energy, dizziness, mental confusion
- suicidal thoughts, although there is not enough energy to think beyond that
- lack of nutrition education
- processed, fast food, frozen food products
- there is not enough time to serve fresh food indicating which foods are nutritious
- sugar addiction (nutritional ignorance)
- ignorance about cereals, transgenic cereals, glutin and transgenic sugars