anorexia nervosa

Discusses eating disorders, the role of food in our lives, and how to stay healthy physically and mentally.

Examines the causes and effects of bulimia and anorexia and discusses ways in which these disorders can be prevented.

Becky Thayne and her mother alternate in describing how Becky suffered as a young woman from manic depression, anorexia, and bulimia and how she eventually recovered.

Discusses the causes of and treatments for three harmful eating disorders: compulsive overeating; bulimia, or the binge and purge syndrome; and anorexia nervosa, or self-starvation.

Required by her cross-country coach to keep a food diary, an insecure teen finds that writing helps organize her thoughts, especially about issues that she, her best friend, and her mother face related to weight and eating.

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

A collection of articles which examine various aspects of anorexia.

Discusses the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia including history and research, psychological and biological causes, societal pressures, treatment, recovery, and prevention.

Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.

As fourteen-year-old Leslie begins to shed the weight she feels makes her imperfect, she finds it increasingly difficult to reach out for the psychological help she knows she needs.