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EVENTS
Healthy Weight Week. January 18-24, 2009
  Third full week in January. Encourages healthy living habits that last a lifetime and prevent eating and weight problems . Typically, Americans begin a New Year diet the first week and break it the second. Healthy Weight Week is a time to stop dieting for good and get on with living our lives in healthy ways, feeling good about ourselves and others. <MORE>
   
Rid the World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day. January 20, 2009
  Tuesday of Healthy Weight Week. Exposes weight loss fraud and quackery in effort to help educate consumers. Annual Slim Chance Awards highlight the "worst" weight loss products of the year. <MORE>
   
Women’s Healthy Weight Day. January 22, 2009
  Thursday of Healthy Weight Week. Honors businesses that respect and portray an appreciation of size diversity. Women’s Healthy Weight Awards announced. <MORE>
   
Eating Disorder Events
 

September 18-20, 2008, NEDA 2008 Eating Disorder Conference – Austin, TX
"Break the Silence: Tools for Help, Hope and Healing"
National Eating Disorders Association. Materials on treatment and prevention.
Conference Brochure on website: www.myneda.org

November 13-16, 2008, 18th Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Conference for Professionals - Philadelphia.
"The Power of Therapeutic Relationships in the Treament of Eating Disorders"; The Renfrew Center for eating disorders.
Featured speaker Jane Fonda, "Reflections on My Life So Far."

February 24 - March 1, 2008: National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, United States.
National Eating Disorders Association (in U.S.) www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

February 3 - 9, 2008: National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Canada.
National Eating Disorder Information Centre (in Canada) www.nedic.ca
   
No Diet Day. May 6, 2009
  May 6 of each year. A day to stop dieting, to celebrate body acceptance and size diversity. www.hugs.com ; www.eskimo.com/~largesse
 
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