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AdiosBarbie
www.adiosbarbie.com
Learn how to feel proud and comfortable with your body, no matter what your natural size, shape, colour or sex.
Help and advice
http://www.channel4.com/health/
The Channel 4 Health site has lots of contact details for organisations that can help you if worries about your weight or food are getting you down. There is also lots of information and articles on associated subjects.
National Organisation for Woman Foundation (NOW)
www.nowfoundation.org
Devoted to furthering women's rights through education and the law, this American organisation holds a 'Love your Body' day each year, to counteract the negative images that impact women's and girls' health. Type 'body image' into the search box to get more information.
Radiance Magazine
www.radiancemagazine.com
Created to support women 'all sizes of large' in living proud, full, active lives, at whatever weight.
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Body Image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women
and children by Sarah Grogan (Taylor and Francis, 1998)
Presents a review of current literature and the results of research on body image. The author discusses the effect of media presentation
of the ideal body and other cultural influences.
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The Body Image Workbook: An 8-step program for learning to like
your looks by Thomas F Cash (New Harbinger Publications, 1997)
How to turn around negative images and attitudes, and create a more positive, affirming and lasting relationship with your appearance.
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Empowering Women: Every woman's guide to successful living by Louise L Hay (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998)
Focuses on how women have been brainwashed into believing that to be a 'good' woman, they need to put everyone else's needs before their own. The author
aims to help women become the most that they can, seeking equality with men.
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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers (Rider Books, 1997)
Find out how to conquer the fears that stop you from being the person you want to be and living life the way you want to live it.
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