Eating-Related Issues
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body. -Simone de Beauvoir
A Chance to Heal (An information and advocacy organization).
Academy for Eating Disorders (AED)
ANAD (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders)
Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back. Simon, Michele. New York: Nation Books, 2006.
Bodypositive.com (Boosting self-image at any weight)
Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby. Mysko, Claire and Amadei, Magali. Deerfield Beach: Health Communications, Inc., 2009.
Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
Eating Disorders and Obesity Prevention (American Psychological Association)
Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy & Action
Eating Disorders Forum (Interactive forum website).
Eating Disorders Recovery: Information and Links
Eat Well Guide (A free online directory of thousands of family farms, restaurants and other outlets for fresh, locally grown food.)
Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World. Ludwig, David. Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 2007.
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World. Critser, Greg. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders. Fallon, P., Katzman, M. and Wooley, S. (eds.). New York: Guilford Press, 1993. (Includes a chapter by Jean Kilbourne)
Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America’s Obesity Crisis and What We Can Do About It. Brownell, Kelly D. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004.
The Hidden Faces of Eating Disorders and Body Image. Reel, Justine J. and Beals, Katherine A. Reston, VA: National Association for Girls and Women in Sports, 2009.
A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems. Thompson, Becky. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
IAEDP (International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals).
The Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital
Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry. Fraser, Laura. New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1997.
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
National Eating Disorder Information Centre (Canada)
NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association; A comprehensive list of resources is available on the website).
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat. Armstrong, Stephanie Covington. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2009.
The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, and Practice. Levine, Michael P. and Smolak, Linda. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005.
Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness. (A film version of Jean Kilbourne’s lecture).
Something Fishy (Popular recovery website).
