Anorexia, Bulimia, &
Other Eating Disorders
About-Face
About-Face aims to combat negative and distorted images of women. And its
Gallery of Offenders names names. But the site comes with a caution: 'Extreme
sarcasm. Enter at your own risk
Anorexia
Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders We
are a nonprofit organization that provides information about anorexia nervosa,
bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other less-well-known food
and weight disorders. Our material includes self-help tips and information
about recovery and prevention.
Bellwood Health Services
Inc. Bellwood is the premiere Canadian addiction treatment
centre, accredited by the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation.
We continually evaluate the effectiveness of our programs and revise them
accordingly, so you can count on the best possible care.
Bulimia
Center For
Change - Center For Change is a private, inpatient
treatment facility for adolescent and adult women who suffer from anorexia
nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other related difficulties often associated
with eating disorders.
Center for
Eating Disorders
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The professionals at the Center for
Eating Disorders at St. Joseph Medical Center, in Towson, Maryland have
helped thousands of people confront their underlying stress and ease their
obsession with food, weight, and appearance.
Characteristics
of Bulimia
Dads and
Daughters Dads and Daughters is the national education
& advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters. DADs provides tools
to strengthen father-daughter relationships & transform pervasive cultural
messages that value daughters more for how they look than who they are.
Eating
Disorders Association Inc aims to improve the intervention,
education and support for all people affected by eating disorders, to raise
community awareness about the prevalence and seriousness of these disorders,
and to work toward the prevention of eating disorders in our society.
Eating Disorder
Recovery Online Provides information and programs
to help you recover from an eating disorder, regain self-esteem and empower
yourself.
Eating Disorder
Referral and Information Center are dedicated to the
prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Edreferral.com provides information
and treatment resources for all forms of eating disorders. Our goal is
to provide assistance, in the form of information and resources, to those
suffering with eating disorders to get them started on the road to recovery
and healthy living.
Eating Disorder
Resources
Family
Resources for Education on Eating Disorders (FREED) is
a parent-founded, non-profit, organization committed to educating our community
about the serious nature and growing prevalence of anorexia, bulimia, and
binge eating disorder; providing information about how to recognize and
treat eating disorders; and providing resources for support for persons
suffering from an eating disorder and for their families and friends.
HUGS
International Inc HUGS is an initiative built on a framework
of diet free lifestyles. It is Health focused, centered on Understanding
lifestyle behaviors, Group supported, and Self esteem building. HUGS offers
programs and workshops for adults and teens based on the publication of
three lifestyle books (You Count, Calories Don't; Staying Off the Diet
Roller Coaster; Tailoring Your Tastes). These resources are marketed to
clients in various settings of hospitals, health centers, workplaces, communities,
private counseling and schools.
Mirror-Mirror:
Eating Disorders
National Association to
Advance Fat Acceptance NAAFA is a non- profit human rights
organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for fat people.
NAAFA has been working since 1969 to eliminate discrimination based on
body size and provide fat people with the tools for self-empowerment through
public education, advocacy, and member support. NAAFA needs the support
of everyone who feels that size discrimination is unfair and unacceptable.
National
Center for Overcoming Overeating The National Center
for Overcoming Overeating is an educational and training organization working
to end body hatred and dieting. It was started in 1989 by Carol Munter
and Jane Hirschmann, authors of Overcoming Overeating and When Women Stop
Hating Their Bodies. Jane is also the co-author of Preventing Childhood
Eating Problems. Carol started the first anti-dieting group for women in
1970. Both are psychotherapists in New York City who have been working
with women with compulsive eating problems for twenty-five years. The National
Center for Overcoming Overeating has offices in New York City, Chicago,
Houston, New England, and Atlanta.
National
Eating Disorders Association Our name is new, but we
have been providing life-saving information to individuals affected by
eating disorders and reaching countless others with innovative prevention
and education programs for more than a decade.
National Eating Disorders
Information Centre is a Toronto-based, non-profit organization,
established in 1985 to provide information and resources on eating disorders
and weight preoccupation. NEDIC began as a result of the concerted efforts
of a group of health-care providers. Based on a national needs-assessment
undertaken in 1983 by the Health League of Canada, a proposal was made
for initial funding of an information centre which would focus on eating
disorders and socio-cultural factors influencing the health related behavior
of women.
National Eating
Disorders Screening Program (NEDSP) represents the first
large scale screening for eating disorders. The program includes an educational
presentation on eating disorders and/or related topics (body image, nutrition,
etc.), a written screening test and the opportunity to meet one-on-one
with a health professional. It also provides individuals with information
about how to help friends or family members who may be suffering from an
eating disorder. NEDSP’s national office provides each site with materials
for the screening and ideas for ways the program can be modified for use
by colleges, hospitals, schools, or eating disorders clinics.
Renfrew Center Foundation
By 1990, the Renfrew Center realized the epidemic proportions of the problem
and the need for public and professional education to increase awareness
of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Since the founding of
The Renfrew Center Foundation in that same year, we have developed a number
of programs designed to advance our mission.
Serotonin
and Eating Disorders
Sheena's
Place Sheena Carpenter did not survive her eating disorder.
In response to her death in 1993, friends and colleagues of Sheena's mother
Lynn, were motivated to create a place that would offer hope and support
to people like Sheena.
Something
Fishy's Eating Disorder Site An extensive resource on
eating disorders by a recovering sufferer of Anorexia Nervosa.
Transcripts
on Eating Disorders
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