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- Eating Disorder Support Groups (EatingDisordersAnonymous.org)
"Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA) is a fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from their eating disorders. People can and do fully recover from having an eating disorder. In EDA, we help one another identify and claim milestones of recovery." 10-04
Lesson Plans
- Preventing Eating Disorders Lesson (PBS.org - NOVA)
Provides a lesson plan to help students avoid eating disorders.10-04
Papers
- Anorexia Nervosa (Anorexia-Nervosa-Treatment.com)
"Anorexia nervosa is an extremely dangerous eating disorder in which a person intentionally deprives herself or himself of food and can literally starve to death in an attempt to be what they consider "thin." The disorder involves extreme weight loss--at least 15% below the individual's "ideal" weight--and a refusal to maintain body weight that is even minimally normal for their age and height and body frame." 10-04
- Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia (FamilyDoctor.org)
"Anorexia nervosa is an illness that usually occurs in teenage girls, but it can also occur in teenage boys, and adult women and men. People with anorexia are obsessed with being thin. They lose a lot of weight and are terrified of gaining weight. They believe they are fat even though they are very thin. Anorexia isn't just a problem with food or weight. It's an attempt to use food and weight to deal with emotional problems." Visitors sometimes misspell as bolemia, bulemia, or bulemia. 10-04
- Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders (ANAD)
Provides information on anorexia nervosa. 10-04
- Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders (ANRED.com)
Provides information on anorexia nervosa. 10-04
- Anorexia and Other Eating Disorders More Diverse (CBS News)
"White women in their teens and 20s still account for most anorexia cases in the U.S. But experts say women in their 40s and 50s, men, black and Hispanic women, and even little girls as young as 8 or 9 years old are showing up in doctors' offices with anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders." 8-05
- DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria (Morrison)
Provides descriptions of personality disorders, including Anxiety (Panic Attacks, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, OCD, GAD, Phobias, Agoraphobia ... ), Adjustment, Dissociative, Eating ( Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa ... ), Factitious, Impulse-Control, Mood (Depression, Manic-Depression now called Bipolar I / II, Dysthymic, Cyclothymic ... ), Schizophrenia or Psychotic, Sleep, Sexual or Gender Identity, Somatoform, and Substance-Related. 10-04
- Eating Disorder Referral and Information (EdReferral.com)
"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." 10-04
- Eating Disorder Referral and Information (National Eating Disorders Association)
"Referral information is supplied solely by the facilities and providers themselves and is not checked or warranted by the National Eating Disorders Association. Service providers who register as a National Eating Disorders Association Professional Member pay specified annual membership dues. They are put on the Referral List as part of their membership benefits. Any and all professional members who request to be listed on the Referral List are listed and, as a general rule, no one is excluded." 10-04
- Eating Disorders (Morrison)
Provides DSM-IV diagnostic information on anorexia and bulimia. 10-04
- Preventing Eating Disorders - Tips for Parents (EDIN-GA.org)
Provides 10 tips for parents to help prevent eating disorders in their children. 10-04
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