If someone you know and care about has an eating disorder, or if you think they might have an eating disorder, you may be looking for information on how you can help. Parents and friends of a person with an eating disorder may find supportive information here. Please browse the articles and resources in this helping others section.
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Helping Others -
Family and Friends
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Monday, 16 March 2009 10:57 |
The reality and the symbolism of a traffic light is an image to keep in mind in eating disorder recovery, especially when negotiating boundaries.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 04 June 2011 20:27 |
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Helping Others -
Educators
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Monday, 16 March 2009 11:26 |
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Encourage healthy growth by offering eating disorder education to the wildflower that is your teenager.
Sometimes parents are afraid that educational materials about eating disorders will stimulate an eating disorder in their teenager. Parents also fear such material will encourage a teenager with an eating disorder to try new and different methods of acting out the illness. Sometimes loving parents are afraid to know specific information about eating disorders themselves. They think that if they ignore the subject it will keep the disorder out of their lives.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 08 January 2011 20:42 |
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Helping Others -
Educators
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Monday, 16 March 2009 11:47 |
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by Lindsay Trowbridge
As the Outreach and Prevention Coordinator at Healthy Within, an eating disorders treatment center in San Diego, I have been providing presentations to high school students about eating disorders and body image issues for the past 3 years and have spoken to over 3,000 students. I would like to pass on to you what I have learned over the years about presentations concerning eating disorders, with the hope that it will enable you to choose the best speaker for your students.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 02 July 2009 14:02 |
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Helping Others -
Family and Friends
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Monday, 16 March 2009 11:21 |
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"When I was 12, a group of friends and I decided to go on diets. Sounds innocent, but I got carried away. After 3 months, long after my friends quit their diets, I still would not eat very much. What's so scary is
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 April 2010 11:49 |
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Helping Others -
Family and Friends
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Monday, 16 March 2009 10:46 |
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Eating is controlled by many factors, including appetite, food availability, family, peer, and cultural practices, and attempts at voluntary control. Dieting to a body weight leaner than needed for health is highly promoted by current fashion trends, sales campaigns for special foods, and in some activities and professions. Eating disorders involve serious disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme and unhealthy reduction of food intake or severe overeating, as well as feelings of distress or extreme concern about body shape or weight. Researchers are investigating how and why initially voluntary behaviors, such as eating smaller or larger amounts of food than usual, at some point move beyond control in some people and develop into an eating disorder.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:10 |
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