Prevention of Eating Disorders
Prevention aims to promote a healthy development before the occurrence of eating disorders. It also intends early identification of an eating disorder before it is too late to treat.
Internet and modern technologies provide new opportunities for prevention. On-line programs have the potential to increase the use of prevention programs. The development and practice of prevention programs via on-line sources makes it possible to reach a wide range of people at minimal cost. Such an approach can also make prevention programs to be sustainable. Those kind of programs can be examined under the category eHealth. For instance ProYouth is an on-line prevention program for eating disorders, which is funded by European Union Health Programme 2008 - 2013.
Read more about this topic: Eating Disorder
Famous quotes containing the words prevention of, prevention, eating and/or disorders:
“... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons, and eating only the top half of each one.”
—Barbra Streisand (b. 1942)
“It no longer makes sense to speak of “feeding problems” or “sleep problems” or “negative behavior” is if they were distinct categories, but to speak of “problems of development” and to search for the meaning of feeding and sleep disturbances or behavior disorders in the developmental phase which has produced them.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)