With a focus on education, ANAD launched the first national conference in 1979.  Hundreds of volunteers, many of them health professionals, offer their services and continue to provide conferences, seminars, workshops and presentations across the nation. ANAD's School Guidelines reaches thousands of schools throughout the country to help faculty prevent, identify and intervene in eating disorders. Consumer advocacy projects are also a top priority. Many people face dilemmas of inaccess to care because of insurance problems; ANAD fights both on a federal and state by state level for mental health parity and also fights against insurance discrimination. These activists testify at Congressional Hearings on issues like research and education funding or the dangers of diet pills and laxatives. They are active in Washington, serving on committees and supporting bills involving women's health issues and mental health. ANAD wages campaigns against harmful advertising which promote eating disorders, and it has convinced companies like Revlon, Hershey and Channel to drop their detrimental advertising. Recently, ANAD has campaigned against the pro-anorexia sites on the internet and has been successful in identifying these destructive sites. With the cooperation of companies like Yahoo, the problematic sites are removed. The Media and Internet Guardian program continues full force today to meet this challenge. All ANAD services are FREE. None of this would be possible without ANAD volunteers. They are the heart and soul of ANAD. Our administrative costs are very low because of the devoted individuals who have provided hours of work and pro-bono services. Today, ANAD continues to grow with an additional focus on using the internet to reach more people and providing more services.  As always, there is a human and personal touch that makes ANAD so unique.