Open the eyes
There is of course anorexia and bulimia, but there are also several other eating disorders, such as binge eating disorder and orthorexia, which are little talked about and can be just as dangerous and harmful. While, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the number of hospitalizations for these diseases has increased considerably, with a jump of almost 60% among teenage girls since the start of the pandemic, Sony’s documentary series Carpentier gives the floor to several young people and doctors in order to counter stereotypes and misinformation.
Presented in honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which takes place from 1er as of February 7, 2023, the issue Troubles. Growing up with an eating disorder is thus intended for young people and their families. The Dr Olivier Jamoulle, pediatrician and head of the adolescent medicine section at CHU Sainte-Justine, explains in particular that it is very complicated to understand eating disorders, because it is “something that is mysterious and hidden and that illness is neither a whim nor anyone’s fault. And while eating disorders can make those with them more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, for example, healing journeys are possible, evidenced by teens who aren’t shy about talking about their experience on camera. .
Disorders
Radio-Canada/MAJ and ICI Tou.tv, starting January 30
Selflessness
New Brunswick director André Roy highlights his personal story in documentary gifts of life. Or rather, he undertakes an intimate and moving quest, that of finding the people who received the organs of his big brother Jean-Benoît, who tragically died on January 26, 1990. To do this, he wonders about the evolution of the process. of organ donation in Canada and the repercussions it can have for recipients who, very often, see their lives saved in extremis.
More than 30 years after Jean-Benoît’s organ donations, are transplant recipients still alive? During his journey through the Atlantic provinces, André Roy stopped in Edmundston, where he heard about the story of Aline, who received a heart transplant in the late 1980s. However, she died in 2018… Indeed, after such an operation, life expectancy can increase by one or two decades, but rarely by more than three. No matter, the director continues his research at all costs, because he also wishes with his documentary to raise public awareness of the importance and inestimable value of this gesture which saves so many lives.
gifts of life
ICI Télé, Saturday, January 28, 10:30 p.m.
High-flying
Unis TV is interested in the new challenge of high-flying competitive diver Lysanne Richard in Always higher. On the eve of her 40th birthday, the Quebec mother intends to continue to surpass herself and prepares to dive 22 meters into an icy lake in the middle of winter. While this feat has never before been achieved in such extreme conditions, the short documentary wonders how far we can push the limits of the sport.
Always higher
Unis TV, Tuesday, January 31, 10 p.m.
Back to the biker wars
Hells Angels. The fall, the new docufiction series from Historia, dates back to the mid-1990s, when the biker war raged in Quebec. Hugo Giroux (District 31) plays Maurice “Mom” Boucher, the warrior chief of the Hell’s Angels in Montreal, determined to exclusively control the sale of narcotics in the province. The denunciations of Stéphane “Godasse” Gagné and Serge Boutin, respectively interpreted by Émile Schneider (Maria Chapdelaine) and Maxime Mailloux (Victor Lessard), will however bring about the fall of this clandestine empire…
Hells Angels. The fall
Historia, Saturdays, January 28 and February 4, 8 p.m.