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General Eating Disorder Resources

Published by admin on July 24, 2020 November 23, 2025

Resources and research on eating disorder diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.

Books

Appetites: Why Women Want – Caroline Knapp

Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies – Margo Maine, PhD

Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family – Ellyn Satter

The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Reneee Taylor

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder by Carolyn Costin 

Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter 

A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women’s Eating Problems by Becky Thompson

Articles

“How to Help a Friend Who Has an Eating Disorder” – Nina Bahadur, The Huffington Post

“What You Need to Know About Men with Eating Disorders” – Nina Bahadur, The Huffington Post

Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) — a summary

Organizations:
National Eating Disorders Association 
Academy for Eating Disorders  
International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals 
Association for Size, Diversity, and Health
National Alliance for Eating Disorders
National Association for Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders 

Other: 

The Ellyn Satter Institute 

Eating Competence: A Model for Normal Eating | Ellyn Satter Institu

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