Resources
General Body Image
GT Counseling Center
The Georgia Tech Counseling Center is dedicated to helping students reach their potential both academically and professionally.
GT Department of Health Promotion
The Department of Health Promotion provide students with information, resources, and individual support and skills to encourage healthy lifestyle choices.
GT Women's Resource Center
Mission is to enhance the academic performance and personal development of the women at Georgia Tech by striving to create a more inclusive and supportive campus environment for women, and by promoting understanding among Georgia Tech's diverse community of men and women.
Women's Health
The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) is the most reliable and current information resource on women's health today. We offer FREE women's health information on more than 800 topics through our call center and web site.
Body Positive
BodyPositive looks at ways we can feel good in the bodies we have.
Dove's Real Campaign for Beauty
This is a Worldwide Campaign to redefine beauty.
National Organization for Women's Love Your Body Day
For over a decade now the National Organization for Women Foundation's Love Your Body campaign has countered the unrealistic beauty standards, gender stereotypes and sometimes harmful images imposed by media and advertisers with a simple but powerful message to women and girls -- Love Your Body.
About-Face
About-Face's mission is to equip women and girls with tools to understand and resist the harmful stereotypes of women the media disseminates.
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
This is a non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to ending size discrimination in all of its forms.
Eating Disorders
GT Counseling Center
Atlanta Anti-Eating Disorders League
The Atlanta Center for Eating Disorders
ACE's mission is to provide individualized, intensive treatment while allowing participants to maintain their daily lives as much as possible.
Power Ferry Psychological Associates
Powers Ferry Psychological Associates is a private practice with 19 independent clinicians with locations in Marietta, Buckhead, and Canton. Each Atlanta psychologist listed here has expertise in a wide variety of psychological problems including Depression, Anxiety, Marital or Couples Counseling, Sex Therapy, Eating Disorders, ADHD, Child and Adolescent Psychological assessment and treatment, and Family Counseling.
National Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting individuals and families affected by eating disorders.
The Renfrew Center
The Renfrew Center is a women's mental health center that specializes in the treatment of eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder), trauma, anxiety, depression, and other women's issues.
Eating Disorders Information Network
EDIN is committed to preventing anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating and other eating disorders through outreach, awareness and action.
Physical Activity/Physical Fitness
GT Campus Recreation Center (CRC)
The Campus Recreation Center (CRC) is a 300,659 sq.ft. facility located off of Ferst Drive on the West side of campus, this state of the art facility is a unique expansion of the existing swimming and diving venue built for the 1996 Olympic Games.
American College of Sports Medicine
The American College of Sports Medicine promotes and integrates scientific research, education, and practical applications of sports medicine and exercise science to maintain and enhance physical performance, fitness, health, and quality of life.
The Exercise and Physical Fitness Page
Department of Kinesiology and Health at Georgia State University has the goal to provide research-based exercise and fitness information.
The Fitness Jumpsite
The mission of the Fitness Jumpsite is to provide quality fitness, health and nutrition related information and education across the globe.
Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
CDC reports on the benefits of physical activity and health.
Shape Up America
This is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising awareness of obesity as a health issue and to providing responsible information on healthy weight management.
Nutrition
GT Department of Health Promotion
American Diebetes Association
The American Diabetes Association is leading the fight against the deadly consequences of diabetes and fighting for those affected by diabetes.
Center for Science in Public Interest
CSPI has been a strong advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science.
Food Nutrition Information Center
The Food and Nutrition Information Center - a leader in food and human nutrition information dissemination since 1971. Provides credible, accurate, and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel and consumers.
National Cancer Institute's "5-A Day Program"
The National Fruit & Vegetable Program is a public private partnership. It is a confederation of government, not-for-profit groups and industry groups working collaboratively and synergistically to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables for improved public health.
Shape Up America
This is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising awareness of obesity as a health issue and to providing responsible information on healthy weight management.
The Vegetarian Resource Group
The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on vegetarianism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, ecology, ethics, and world hunger.