Chronicles Grace Bowman's struggles with dieting, which began at the age of eighteen and quickly morphed into a life-threatening disease, and discusses secrets and myths about anorexia nervosa, and more.
Jack, who is sixteen and has anorexia, spends the summer in an eating disorder ward for teenagers and befriends both his overweight roommate and a dangerously thin dancer.
Describes the causes, effects, early warning signs, complicating factors, and medical and psychological treatments of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other eating disorders.
Explores how eating disorders affect teenagers, discussing what eating disorders are, what causes them, how they impact health, and how they can be overcome.
The author meditates upon the issue of appetite as it relates to the lives of women, thinking about why women feel the need to suppress their appetites whether for food, love, work, or pleasure.
High school student, Melissa, tries to cope with an anxiety-induced drug habit as well as an anorexic best friend and other everyday problems that young people face.
A practical resource guide for students and parents that dispels the myths surrounding eating disorders and provides factual and historical information on symptoms, causes, effects, and treatments.
