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:
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It's Not About the Weight >
Andrea's Voice...Silenced by Bulimia > Monster Within: Facing an Eat Disorder > Breaking Free from Emotional Eating > Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes > |



