Pool axe is blip to dips in the nip
NAKED swimmers need a new pool as theirs will not reopen when Covid curbs ease and is being turned into classrooms.
Every Sunday lunchtime since 2012, more than 100 swimmers had stripped off to do lengths of the 33m pool at the University of London in Bloomsbury.
Nude regular Colin said: “This is sad news and will cause widespread disappointment. If you have a pool, we have plenty of swimmers eager to use it.” The Queen and the Queen Mother watched galas at the 1952 pool, which was used in a 1963 Beatles photshoot. The swimmers were in costumes.
British Naturism’s Andrew Welch said: “Taboos around the naked body are eroding. People are beginning to acknowledge the health and well-being benefits of spending time without clothes.”
ANOREXIA sufferer Jodie Duffy, 30, was left suicidal after a hospital refused her treatment because she was too heavy.
Her GP had referred her to mental health services at Tees Esk and Wear Valley Foundation Trust in June 2018.
She recalls: “At the assessment I was told my BMI was too high and given an amount I would need to lose to get help. I was considering taking my own life.”
But her worried partner persuaded her to contact charity Beat who referred her to NIWE Eating Distress Service in Newcastle.
She was diagnosed with atypical anorexia where patients have fear of weight gain, but don’t meet a low BMI criteria. She had 12 weeks of counselling and says the charity “saved” her.
Refuge support worker Jodie said. “I’d like to see more support from the NHS and understanding that an eating disorder can happen no matter what your size.”
Tees Esk and Wear Valley Foundation NHS Trust said it could not comment.