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Other Web sites
The Web sites listed below are intended as resources. We are not endorsing them and we are not responsible for their content.
About Face
San Francisco-based group that combats negative and distorted images of women.
Andrea's Voice Foundation
Dedicated to promoting education and understanding toward the prevention, identification, diagnosis and treatment of disordered eating and related issues.
The Anna Westin Foundation
Focuses on education and advocacy for people with eating disorders. Includes information about The Anna Westin House, a long-term residential eating disorders treatment program for women, located in Minnesota, and developed in partnership with the Eating Disorder Institute (EDI) affiliated with Methodist Hospital/Park Nicollet Health Services.
BodiMojo
A health and wellness community for teenagers. Covers body image, nutrition and fitness, eating disorders, emotional life, dating, sexual health, alcohol and drugs, and more.
The Body Positive
Helps empower people of all ages, especially our youth, to celebrate their natural size and shape instead of what society promotes as the ideal body.
Caringonline Eating Disorders Site
Directory that includes news and information, support, treatment, research, and other
links.
Center for Young Women's Health, Children's Hospital, Boston
Empowers teenage girls and young women around the world to play an active role in their health care.
Eating Disorder Hope
Offers hope, information and resources to individual eating disorder sufferers, their family members and treatment providers.
Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
Provides referrals to eating disorder practitioners, treatment facilities, and support groups. Offers general information to the public about the treatment and prevention of eating disorders.
Eating for Life Alliance
Provides colleges with educational resources for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders.
The Family Dinner Project
A start-up grassroots movement of food, fun and conversation about things that matter. Through this movement, families will come together to share their experiences and insights to help each other realize the benefits of family dinners.
F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders)
An international organization of and for parents and caregivers to help loved ones recover from eating disorders.
girlshealth.gov
Created in 2002 by the Office on Women’s Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, this award-winning site promotes healthy, positive behaviors in girls between the ages of 10 and 16.
Gürze Books: Eating Disorder Resources
A publishing company that has specialized in publications and education on eating
disorders since 1980.
IEmily.com - The Place for Girls' Health
Provides balanced, in-depth, and respectful information that is easy to understand. Gives
girls the opportunity to become interested and stay interested in their physical health
and emotional well-being.
Mirror Mirror
Definitions, signs, symptoms, getting help, approaching loved ones.
National Association for Males with Eating Disorders (N.A.M.E.D.)
Provides support to males with eating disorders and educates the public on the subject.
New Moon Publishing
Produces media for every girl who wants her voice heard and her dreams taken seriously and
for every adult who cares about girls.
Something Fishy
Information on anorexia and bulimia, signs and symptoms, and what you can do to help.
Teen Voices
Challenges the mainstream media's image of girls. Provides an intelligent alternative
packed with original writing, poetry, and artwork. Readers are encouraged to write
articles on self-esteem, racism, sexism, feminism, popular culture, health, and other
issues important to them.
This page was updated on December 19, 2011.
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