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Eating Disorder Resources
www.anred.com- AnRed.com
A nonprofit organization that provides information about anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other less-well-known food and weight disorders. Their material includes self-help tips and information about recovery and prevention.
www.dadsanddaughters.org- Dads and Daughters
The national education and advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters. DADs provides tools to strengthen father-daughter relationships and transform pervasive cultural messages that value daughters more for how they look than who they are.
www.mirror-mirror.org/eatdis.htm- Eating Disorders Mirror Mirror
This website offers information about anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
www.something-fishy.org- SomethingFishy.org
This website offers many resources not only for people suffering from an eating disorder but also for family and friends of those afflicted. This website focuses on recovery and provides chats and bulletin boards related to this subject.
www.bodypositive.com- BodyPositive.com
Focuses on acceptance of your body at any size. There are many resources related to the dangers of dieting, dealing with overweight children, and reaching out to other larger women.
www.girlsinc.org- Girls Inc.
The replacement for the Girls Club website. It is an inspirational website dedicated to inspiring young girls to be strong, bold, and smart. This website provides many links to community resources.
www.goldinc.com/gogirls- GO GIRLS
Stands for Giving Our Girls Inspiration and Resources for Lasting Self-esteem. This program was designed to encourage teens to voice their opinions to advertisers, letting them know that beauty and success have little to do with the size of their jeans.
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org- National Eating Disorders Association
Provides general information, referral services, educational curriculum, and ways to help by volunteering, and/org advocating.
www.realwomenproject.com- Real Women Project
This website was designed by three women trying to figure out a way to looking to change the future of women's health. They tried to focus on the fact that women's health and vitality have much more to do with self-esteem. The website includes personal accounts, poems, and music, as well as, a set of sculptures of 13 women with real figures. The site provides pictures of all of the sculptures and biographies of the women who posed for them.