eating disorders

Provides information on eating disorders for parents, explaining the teenage sufferer's distorted thinking, and presents guidance for helping one's child recover day by day.

A guide to educating children ages eight to eighteen about proper nutrition that includes easy-to-follow nutritional guidelines for children, simple recipes, and special nutritional guidelines for young athletes.

Offers advice to parents or caregivers on how to deal with the eating problems of children and adolescents, examining different types of eating disorders and disordered eating, and describing the process of intervention, including food and exercise plans.

Using examples of over 120 ads from magazines and TV, Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about demoralizing and life-threatening eating disorders, such as bulemia and anorexia.

Explores the problem of teen obesity, its causes, consequences, and how it can be overcome. Discusses the pressures on young people and how their choices as teens can affect their adult health.

Examines various eating disorders, their symptoms and manifestations, how they can be controlled and treated, and what it is like to live with an eating disorder.

Explores the issues surrounding vegetarianism. Presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance.

Bluebird receives advice from Mom, the Bird Doc, and the Food Voice Counselor when she develops an eating disorder after feeling that she is fat.

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.