This Resource Centre was created to help you extend your knowledge and skills in healing your relationship with food and your body.

We use DAT to ensure that our written resources are accessible, however, if you have any feedback on how to make it better please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Please note that our resources (with DDD’s logo and copyright) are for personal use only.

Dance Nutrition

• Dance Nutrition Guideline one-pager.

• Food groups and serving sizes. ( Screen-reader friendly version)

• Meal ideas & performance day do’s and dont’s.

  • Gluten free version is also available here.

  • Neurodivergent-supportive ideas here.

  • Japanese version here

• Recovery Nutrition - Supermarket ready made meal suggestions

• Budgeting tips for dancers

• How to build a good relationship with food and optimise performance.

• Dance Nutrition Myth busting!

• What is RED-S (relative energy deficiency in sport)?

• When your period stops… What is amenorrhoea?

If you would like to access our Dance Nutrition Research list, please complete this three-question form and you will directed to the list. This list started for our own professional use, and the form helps us understand who else is accessing and needing the research information and summaries so that we can further make specific resources to meet our audience’s needs.

Eating Disorders

Eating Disorder 101

• Eating Disorders - What is it?

• Types and Diagnosis

  • Japanese version here

• Signs and Symptoms

  • Japanese version here

• Risk Factors

  • Japanese version here

• Protective Factors

  • Japanese version here

• Treatment Options

  • Japanese version here

• Prevention

Eating Disorder Recovery

• Meals and Snacks for Eating Disorder Recovery

• Recovery Nutrition - Supermarket ready made meal suggestions

Recovery Stories (Lived Experiences)

• People Share How They Overcame Their Eating Disorder (VICE AU article)

• Fat and anorexic: Everyone praised me for my weight loss but I was sicker than I’d ever been (The Lily article)

• Eating Disorders in the Dance World (Interview, anonymous)

• 10 People Who Have Dealt With Eating Disorders Share What Recovery Looks Like for Them (Self article)

• Various articles on Beat UK website (here)

For Medical, Health, and Fitness Professionals

• Eating Disorders: a Professional Resource for General Practitioners (NEDC)

• Eating Disorders Recommendations for the Fitness Industry (Fitness Australia and InsideOut)

Social Media

DDD’s Recommended Social Media List is here!

It contains instagram accounts, TikTok accounts, podcasts, and youtubes, that we believe are helpful in creating safer social media feeds and experiences, inclusive of bodies of all sizes, shapes, colour, race, gender, sexuality, ability, disability, and background. 

Ballet and Performing Arts

Mental Health

The Arts Wellbeing Collective has a great selection of free resources.

Diversity and Inclusion

• Diverse Dancers Australia

• Disrupt Dance

• Dancers Amplified

Body Acceptance and Inclusion

• DDD Centre for Recovery’s Weight Stigma Factsheet.

  • Mandarin version here

Podcasts

• Untrapped (Louise Adams) - Our interview from 2017 on ballet’s thin ideal can be listened here

• Unpacking weight science (Fiona Willer)

• FoodPsych (Christy Harrison)

Books

• The Body is Not an Apology (Sonya Renee Taylor)

• Body Kindness (Rebecca Scritchfield)

Website and Blogs

• Dances with Fat (Ragen Chastain)

Helplines and Support Services

• Butterfly Foundation

• Lifeline

• Kids Helpline

• Beyond Blue

• Headspace

• QLife

• Transhub