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1. How can you tell if you or someone you know has an eating disorder???

2. What a woman should know about their health? by The American Medical Woman's Association.

3. How to help a child with an eating disorder??

4. Eating Disorders: Background and Definitions.

 

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1. How can you tell if you or someone you know has an eating disorder was provided by the Office on Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services(OWH DHHS). OWH DHHS is an organization who specifically do research and provide health care services to women along with other organization to improve the women's health. This article listed signs and characteristics of someone who is suffered or starting to develope an eating disorder. It is really important recognize and know this sign so that we can send ourselves or someone we know to get professional help.

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2. What a woman should know about their health provides by The American Medical Woman's Association. AMWA is an organization of 10,000 women physicians and medical students dedicated to serving as the unique voice for women's health and the advancement of women in medicine. This site contains information about women's eating, eating exercises, and other health topics such as women and violence and women smoking. Although this site doesn't contain any information regards to eating disorders, the topics with in this site indirectly helping women from not getting eating disorder in a sense that providing the fact about exercises and food. If the women understand that food and exercises are really important for their body, there is a greater chance that they will suffering eating disorder.

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3. How to help a child with an eating disorder provided by The Harvard Eating Disorders Center, a national non-profit organization dedicated to research and education. They seek new knowledge to better understand eating disorders, their detection, treatment and prevention and to share that knowledge with the community-at-large. This site is mean to provide information about how to approach an eating disorder victim. Knowing someone who is suffering or about to develope an eating disorder can be hard, but approach her and try to convince her that she is having one can be a lot harder. As the result this page is a good reference information for helping the victim.

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4. Eating Disorders: Background and Defintions provided by Laureate is a private, not-for-profit, free-standing mental health clinic and hospital, located on a beautiful 47-acre site in south Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was founded in 1988 by the William K. Warren Foundation. Laureate's mission is to advance the knowledge and understanding of health care, with a focus on mental health, through the integration of patient care, prevention, education, and research. Laureate also exists as an advocate for effective, efficient, and compassionate services, provided by a skilled team, that is focused on the uniqueness of patient, family, and community. The purpose of this website is to bring you the most basic definitions of different types of eating disorders. Being able to recognize different types of eating disorder allow you to seek the right help with lesser amout of time. This page provide a good definition of Anorexia, Bulumia, Compulsive Eating Disorder, and treatment programs and options at Laureate.

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