By lending your support to the Kirsten Haglund Foundation, you are part of a movement toward acceptance of this illness, and the empowerment of a generation. Your financial support will help individuals and families find hope in the promise of recovery without guilt or cumbersome debt. On a larger scale, your support lends strength to the fight against the ‘fear of fat’ and emboldens arising youth to find pride in their bodies and what they can do, reject the media’s mandate that thinner is better, and to embrace health as it relates to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. This is an ideal worthy of the effort, persistence and the challenges, and it is a dream that WILL be realized. But we need your help.