anorexia nervosa

Provides information about eating disorders, and features the stories of young women, including students, ballet dancers, models, and others, who are battling or have recovered from anorexia or bulimia.

Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life--two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story--told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose--of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.

Elena Dunkle, cowriting with her mother, recounts her struggles with anorexia as a teen and twenty-something - from denial, to treatment centers, to recovery.

Fifteen-year-old Mike desperately attempts to take control as his parents separate and his life falls apart.

"A novel about one teenager's journey toward self-love and strength"--Provided by publisher.

ARE YOU DOING RISKY THINGS? CUTTING, BINGEING, SNORTING, AND OTHER DANGERS takes a look at the causes and characteristics of these addictions, Readers are alerted to the signs of addiction and explanations of what can be done to help people struggling with these addictions.

An autobiographical novel in which fifteen-year-old Jennifer Johnson convinces her parents to commit her to the Eating Disorders Unit of an upstate New York psychiatric hospital in 1988, where the treatment for her bulimia and anorexia is not what she expects.

Presents information about eating disorders.

Explore the causes of the weight epidemic and the health risks that stem from excess weight. Discover the part that physical fitness plays in today's obesity crisis. Learn how fitness, not just slimness, should be the goal of those trying to lose weight. Make physical activity a part of your life!.

Discusses eating disorders, including risk factors, causes, symptoms, history, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and coping.