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.