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The Student Body: Promoting Health at Any Size
The Student Body is a teacher training module designed to help alert teachers (and parents) to the factors that can trigger unhealthy dieting among children, and ways to prevent it.
Student Body team members
Gail McVey, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Joanne Gusella, Ph.D., Co-Investigator
Stacey Tweed, MA. Research Coordinator
Manuela Ferrari, MSc. Graduate Student
Jennifer Roussel, Research Assistant
Lesley Colpitts, Research Assistant
Gurze Books
This website specializes in information about eating disorders, body image and obesity. Browse for books, articles and videos.
Treating Eating Disorders
A website specifically designed for health professionals and educators.
B.C. Government Resources for Teachers
A teacher's resource available for teaching students with Mental Health Disorders.
Body Sense
An education and outreach initiative dedicated to the promotion of positive body image in athletes.
Every Body is a Somebody: Facilitator's Guide
A manual designed to promote healthy body image, positive self-esteem, and a non-dieting
approach to eating.
The Student Body: Promoting Health at any Size
An excellent website that introduces a teacher training module designed to help alert teachers (and parents) to the factors that can trigger unhealthy dieting among children, and ways to prevent it.
http://research.aboutkidshealth.ca/thestudentbody/home.asp
