This offers tips on how to focus on positive images of your body and to focus more on being healthy, than striving for a model-like figure.

This is an awesome site for a younger audience.  It is colorful and easy to use, with links to games like ‘Feed the model’ that are fun to play while emphasizing that today’s models are much too thin.  For all types of women with all sorts of interests, this site contains links to books you can read, articles that have been published as well as cases and other fun links (like stickers you can get).

This is a fact sheet on body image and self-esteem. There are several statistics related to self-esteem and how conditions such as eating disorders can result from low self-esteem. See how other continents compare to your own as this site is directed at Australia.

This is a great place to start research on body image, how it affects people, and what you can do to increase your body image, and it enforces the fact that your body is the only one you have.  It has links for parents as well as children, but it is more geared toward adults.  There are links to activism pages as well as resources in  your area and how you can find people just like you.

This site has a test that you can take, and then explains the answers to you.  It go through not only what self-esteem is, but how it develops and how it affects parts of daily life, such as relationships, work, and health.  It also contains list to help improve self esteem.

A good site for women to go to.  This site contains links for healthier eating as well as exercising, body image, general health, eating disorders, and how you can feel good mentally, emotionally, and physically.  A colorful site that is easy to use and follow, it is ideal for continuing, or starting, research on any of the above topics.

This site is somewhat user-friendly. There is good information, once you get to it, on self-esteem and confidence. There are helpful links to resources related to self-esteem. A site run by Child Youth Services is good and has a section for adolescents as well.

The site consists of several articles related to self-esteem. The site is somewhat user-friendly. There is useful information on self-esteem and what parents can do to help improve that of their children.

Body Image Task Force
P.O. Box 360196
Melbourne, FL 32936-0196

This works with people on how they view themselves, body image and fat acceptance.

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
By: Mary Pipher, Ph.D.

This book highlights the struggles young girls and women face today. They are not given the same opportunities as males. Their talents and intelligence get lost and often leads to self-esteem problems. The media, society and how our culture views the roles of women contribute to this problem everyday causing more and more females to develop eating disorders, body image issues, addictions, depression and make suicide attempts. Parents are informed of these troubles and given an idea of how to handle such issues.

Woman’s Health Hotline
1-800-994-WOMAN

The U.S. Public Health Service launched the National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC), a combination World Wide Web site and toll-free hotline that serves as a "one-stop shopping" resource for women's health information. NWHIC can be reached at www.4woman.gov or the above listed telephone number.

Women and Self-Esteem
By: Linda Tschirhart Sanford and Mary Ellen Donovan
480 pages, Penguin Books

This book offers tips and exercises for women to improve their self-esteem and change the way they view themselves.