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Web sites and books

This section provides Web site links and recommended reading about body image, eating disorders and media influences.

Web sites about body image, eating disorders and media

• About-Face
• Academy for Eating Disorders
• Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders (ANRED)
• Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
• Eating Disorders Coalition
• Ellyn Satter Institute
• Gurze, eating disorders publications and education
• National Eating Disorders Association
• Something Fishy: website on eating disorders

Recommended reading

Methodist Hospital Eating Disorders Institute. How Did This Happen? A practical guide to understanding eating disorders, 2nd edition, 2006. Available through the Stores @ Park Nicollet at parknicollet.com/stores or 952-993-2662. Order now Methodist Hospital Eating Disorders Institute. Journeys – True stories of hope and recovery from those who have lived through an eating disorder, 2004. Available through the Stores @ Park Nicollet at parknicollet.com/stores or 952-993-2662. Order now Methodist Hospital Eating Disorders Institute. The Journey Toward Freedom – Rediscovering the pleasure of normal eating. 2006. Available through the Stores @ Park Nicollet at parknicollet.com/stores or 952-993-2662. Order now

• Andersen, Arnold; Cohn, Leigh; and Holbrook, Thomas. Making Weight: Healing Men's Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape and Appearance. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze Books, 2000.
• Berg, Frances M. Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World. Hettinger, ND: Healthy Weight Network, 2001.
• Freedman, PhD, Rita. Body Love: Learning to Like Our Looks and Ourselves. Calsbad, CA: Gurze Books, 2002.
• Friedman, Sandra Susan. When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence. Firefly Books, 2000.
• Johnston, PhD, Anita. Eating by the Light of the Moon. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze Books, 2000.
• Lock, MD, PhD, James and Le Grange, PhD, Daniel. Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder. New York, N.Y., The Guilford Press, 2005.
• Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, Dianne. I’m, Like, So Fat! New York, N.Y., The Guilford Press, 2005.
• Satter, Ellyn. Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family. Kelcy Press, 1999.
• Schaefer, Jenni. Life Without Ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004.