Activities
The charity runs two national helplines, one for adults and one for people under 25. The charity's website includes messageboards, a young persons section and a HelpFinder directory. It received 3.3 million hits in March 2007, after the charity's relaunch under the name "beat". The charity also runs conferences, awards and training events. It is involved in lobbying the UK government on issues relating to eating disorders and raising the profile of eating disorders in the media.
Read more about this topic: Eating Disorders Association
Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman’s involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent.”
—Faye J. Crosby (20th century)
“...I have never known a “movement” in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various “uplifting” activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.”
—Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)
“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)