Providing information about healthy body image and eating disorders involving African-American, Latina, Asian/Pacific Islander and Native American girls, this page of the more general Mysistahs.org website is specific to these issues.

Here you will find information on healthy eating and on eating disorders, including a resource list with relavant books, films, and organizations, and an advice section with recovery tips for eating disorder sufferers and their friends and families.

“This site combines textual narratives with powerful visual imagery to convey both the personal experience and the cultural pervasiveness of eating disorders. It provides a place for people to interactively incorporate their own stories about eating disorders, and includes a resource guide.”

This is an extensive site with many essays about different issues related to eating disorders, from self-injury to handling holidays to the ways eating disorders can strike specific groups of people: men, older women, teenagers, children. Very well done site, very informative.

This is an essay about anorexia on college campuses, written by Jen Charat of Harvard University.

Organized in a question and answer format, this article covers many aspects of anorexia, including recommendations for dealing with friends who have this disorder. Written by registered dietitian, Joanne Larson.