Resources Needed

This lesson uses the following 20 websites.

• The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness
• American Fitness: Starve Wars
• ANRED: Athletes with Eating Disorders
• Body Cage: The Warning Signs Before The Warning Signs
• National Women's Health Information Center: Eating Disorders
• Bulimia: Ask the Dietitian
• Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorders
• The Do's and Dont's of Helping A Friend
• Something-Fishy Website on Eating Disorders
• Eating Disorders Thinkquest
• On the Teen Scene: Eating Disorders Require Medical Attention
• ED Definitions
• Myths and Facts About Eating Disorders
• Girl Power! Facts About Eating Disorders
• Understanding Eating Disorders
• Eating Disorders: Facts About Eating Disorders and the Search for Solutions
• Depression, Difficulty Expressing Feelings Associated with Eating Disorders
• Rader Programs: Influence of the Media
• The Cult - And Culture - Of Anorexia
• Therapists and Eating Disorders

In addition to the above-mentioned websites, the following four books are recommended, but not required. The links connect to Amazon's site, but the ISBN is included, if you want to look elsewhere.

• Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends
  by Michelle Siegel, Judith Brisman, and Margot Weinshel
  HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060952334
• When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers
  by Abigail H. Natenshon
  Jossey-Bass; ISBN: 0787945781
• Overcoming Binge Eating
  by Christopher Fairburn
  Guilford Press; ISBN: 0898621798
• Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
  by Marya Hornbacher
  HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060930934