Resource Links & Helpful Books

Resource Links:

How Family and Friends Can Help
This article outlines 10 ways you can help a loved one who is struggling with an eating disorder.

Signs and Symptoms of an Eating Disorder
This content is also available on our website on our Eating Disorders pages.

Parental Influence Takes Precedence Over Barbie and the Media
An insightful article by Abigail Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP, on the influences on a young adult's perception of their image and their body. The article includes suggestions on how parents can build their children's self image.

What Parents Need to Know
This provides an overview of eating disorders and eating disorder definitions. An article by Abigail Natenshon, MA, LCSW.

Eating Disorders & Gay Men
This article will focus on some of the issues that create this vulnerability and how eating disorders are often expressed in gay men. Article by: Miles Cohen, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C)

Eating Disorder Comparison Chart
An eating disorder chart that compares Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder and ED-NOS and their various symptoms and degrees of severity. This chart is an accurate generalization of eating disorder populations as a whole, but may not apply to individuals.

Helpful Books:

It's Not About the Weight > Dying to be Thin > Why She Feels Fat > Andrea's Voice...Silenced by Bulimia > Monster Within: Facing an Eat Disorder > Goodbye Ed, Hello Me > Life Without Ed > Anatomy of a Food Addiction > Breaking Free from Emotional Eating > Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes > 100 Questions and Answers About ED > Help Your Teenager Beat an ED >