anorexia nervosa

Presents selections from the diaries of mother and daughter Linda and Tara Rio that provide insights into their thoughts and feelings in the years before Tara developed an eating disorder and continuing through her treatment and therapy, and includes advice and commentary from Craig Johnson, Ph.D., president of the National Eating Disorders Association.

Two specialists on eating disorders provide a comprehensive examination of anorexia and bulimia, offering valuable information on causes, symptoms, and treatments.

Describes the childhood and music career of the lead singer of the Carpenters, a popular singing duo in the 1970s, and her early death from heart failure, the result of years of suffering with anorexia nervosa.

The author provides an account of her struggles with eating disorders throughout high school, college, and adulthood, and discusses how she finally was able to come to grips with the issues that led her to starve her body.

Francesca, a model daughter and student, begins losing large amounts of weight and refuses to eat in a novel that is a composite of case histories of teenage girls suffering from anorexia nervosa.

Zibby is in treatment at Hope House for her bulimia and her new roommate turns out to be a lifelong enemy who is anorexic.

Nell wants to go to college, but her parents are forcing her to marry her cousin. Would she rather die?.

Discusses two eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, self-induced starvation, and bulimia, the binge-purge syndrome of overeating.

Introduces a new proven therapy for the disease.

After being brutally raped, Grady finally goes to a new high school where he meets an outgoing African American and several other students who try to help him deal with the horrible secret that is robbing him of his life.