Recommended Links for Eating Disorders

Publishers

New Moon Publishing

Dream/Girl Magazine: A magazine established in 1997 to provide girls with the most informative and interesting Arts and Literary information around.

Government Agencies

Girl Power: Girl Power! seeks to reinforce and sustain these positive values among girls ages 9-14 by targeting health messages to the unique needs, interests, and challenges of girls. The national public education campaign sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

National Institutes of Health.  Important information on all facets of health.

National Institutes of Mental Health: The NIH site on mental health.

Connecticut Managed Care Ombudsman. The Office of Managed Care Ombudsman can assist Connecticut residents who belong to managed care/HMO health plans.

Organizations

Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc.: A nonprofit organization that provides information about anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, compulsive exercising, and other less well-known food and weight disorders.

Body Image Health.org Designed to promote healthy body image attitudes and prevent eating and weight concerns before they start.

Dads & Daughters: Dads and Daughters is the national education and advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters. DADs strengthens father-daughter relationships and battles pervasive cultural messages that value daughters more for how they look than who they are.

Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action:  An organization To promote, at the federal level, further investment in the healthy development of children and all at risk for eating disorders, recognition of eating disorders as a public health priority, and commitment to effective prevention and evidence based and accessible treatment of these disorders.

Eating Disorders Information Network  Based in Atlanta, EDIN is committed to addressing the problem of eating disorders on a societal level. They are devoted to preventing eating disorders, increasing public awareness of the personal, familial, and cultural/media pressures which contribute to eating disorders, and helping those who are already suffering to find the therapeutic services they need.

GO GIRLS!™ empowers young women to become vocal consumers who speak out against the lack of body-shape diversity in the media, entertainment, and fashion industries.

Hartford Hospital Women's Health Services: Description of services provided by Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut.

Harvard University Eating Disorders Center: Dedicated to expanding knowledge about eating disorders, their detection, treatment, and prevention - and promoting the healthy development of children, women, and all at risk.

National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance: A non-profit human rights organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for fat people.

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders

National Eating Disorders Association

Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders: A good site with much information about eating disorders.

WINS: We Insist on Natural Shapes: Educating people about body shapes, eating disorders, and excessive dieting.
 

Sites Honoring Specific Women

Andrea's Voice

Anna Westin Foundation

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