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Avoiding Purging - Your Responses to How to Avoid Purging
Readers' suggestions for how to avoid purging in bulimia nervosa.
Avoiding Purging Is Possible
Avoiding purging is a worthy goal for someone dealing with bulimia, whether the binge eating stops right away or not. Purging is part of the ritual that feeds the cycle of bulimia.
Online Eating Disorder Support: Refuge and Pitfall?
Those with eating disorders often seek support online. The advantages are many - and so are the disadvantages. Does online support for an eating disorder make sense for you?
The Eating Disorder Shopping Experience
You can find any number of articles on the holiday shopping experience. The problem is that if you have an eating disorder, those articles may not apply to you that well.
Giving Wisdom: Books on Eating Disorders

Eating disorder books are powerful introductions to reality (better than any reality show, in fact). Those who write on eating disorders generally offer hard-won wisdom. Before you choose a book for yourself or someone you know, it's helpful to understand how different books match different kinds of concerns. You might be interested in understanding relationships with family, learning how to e…

Eating Disorder Statistics
Eating disorder statistics are helpful, and they can be even more helpful when paired with investigations of why the statistics show what they do.
Mindful, Sensual Eating: How to Develop Food and Eating Awareness
Mindful eating, or sensual eating, is a term used to describe having intentional awareness about food and the process of eating. Often we pay little attention to what we are eating and how it tastes. Eating without awareness can lead to (or be a part of) eating disorders.
How a Billboard Face is Really Created
It's amazing how much time, energy, and digital manipulation it can take to create a face that advertisers think is worthy of appearing on a billboard or other ad. At this site is a fantastic video showing how it's done (and how unreal the faces we see in ads really are).
Cadwalder Behavioral Clinics
Cadwalder Behavioral Clinics, in Tomball, Texas, employ horses (equine assisted therapy), cognitive-behavioral therapy, and a twelve-step component to help eating disorder clients toward recovery.
Geri Karlstrom's Recovery Music
Inspirational music from someone who struggled with binging and purging for years.
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