📌 1. National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)
Usage:
Used to explain eating disorder recovery principles, calorie tracking risks, digital self-monitoring, and psychological recommendations.
📌 2. WHO — Youth Mental Health & Social Media Reports
Usage:
Used as background support and framework for the connection between social media and mental health. Serves as an authoritative international public health source.
📌 3. "The social media diet: A scoping review to investigate the links between social media, body image and disordered eating" (2023)
Usage:
Used to explain the correlation between social media use and body image distress, as well as disordered eating behaviors.
📌 4. Instagram / TikTok Public Hashtag Trends (Public Exposure Data)
Usage:
Used to organize hashtag categories in the interactive quiz:
- Diet/Control tags: #1200calories, #bodycheck, #clean eating
- Recovery/Care tags: #foodfreedom, #edrecovery, #bodyacceptance
Note: Source is publicly searchable hashtag results (non-API, non-user data), used to demonstrate trend examples.
📌 5. "Food and mood: how clean eating content on social media influences affect and body satisfaction in women" (Frontiers in Psychology, 2025)
Usage:
Used to support the explanation that "#clean eating content is correlated with body dissatisfaction."