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NEDA TOOLKIT for Educators Perfect Illusions www.pbs.org/perfectillusions/index.html These Public Broadcasting System (PBS) webpages are based on a NOVA television program documentary. The site provides information on eating disorders with personal stories and links to treatment resources. Project HEAL www.theprojectheal.org/ Project HEAL: Help to Eat, Accept and Live is a 501(c) not-for-profit organization that provides scholarship funding for people with eating disorders who cannot afford treatment. Websites to Beware of Some websites actually encourage people to become bulimic or to maintain their bulimic behavior by giving tips and emotional support on binge eating and purging or restricting behaviors. These sites are called “pro-mia” for “promoting or proactive bulimia nervosa” and there are also pro-ana (pro-anorexia) sites. Web searches for support sites may turn up pro-mia or pro-ana sites as well. The sites show pictures of very thin supermodels or “thinspiration” intended to invoke the desire to lose more weight. They encourage the behavior through chat rooms, poems, weight loss diaries, and personal stories. Although most of these sites give explicit warnings that they are pro-ana or pro-mia and may contain triggers for relapse, it is still very important to be aware of them because they may pose a threat to anyone who is in recovery. Many of these sites are transient and new ones emerge as older sites disappear online. Page  | 42