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Teenagers struggle with their body image and social pressures which can lead to eating disorders. These sites lead to more information about the link between EDs and youth.

Zap Health Talks to You About Eating Disorders
Zap Health is a web site for teenagers and young adults. They have a great web page that discusses various aspects of eating disorders.

Treatment Options for Teens
This web site discusses treatment options and what treatment is like for teens.

How Teenagers can Identify Body Image Issues & Improve Them
EDReferral has an excellent article on body image with tests to see how yours is. This is really good for teens so that they can improve theirs and hopefully prevent an ED.

Raising Your Children with a Healthy Body Image
About.com has a great article on how parents can raise children with a healthy body image. This will help to reduce the chance of eating diosrders.

For Teens In Trouble: Web Sites that Can Help
A web site dedicated to teens in trouble. This page gives lots of good web sites to find help if you have an ED or want to learn about it.

My Friend has an Eating Disorder
An excellent article that will help teenagers who find out a friend has an eating disorder.

A 17 Year Old Discusses Eating Disorders
This article was written by a 17 year old about what eating disorders are. Very insightful.

Find Out if You or a Teenager You Know Has an ED
This site discusses how you can figure out if you or some teenager you know has and eating disorder.

Increase in Teenage Eating Disorders
This article discusses reasons why there has been an increase in eating disorders in teens.

Web Sites for Support for Teens
Close to you has a list of excellent web sites for teenagers as they struggle with weight, body image, and food issues.

Changes During Teen Age Years and Eating Disorders
Mirror-mirror discusses how the changes that occur while we are teenagers are sometimes hard to handle and eating disorders can help us cope then.

Teenagers with Eating Disorders and How Parents can Help
This site talks about the increase in eating disorders in teenagers, how parents can identify and ED, and how treatment can help.

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