eating disorders

Examines the social pressures faced by teens in regard to body image, looking at how photographs that appear in magazines are often altered, and including discussions with a former football player who achieved success without steroids, as well as a model who developed an eating disorder.

Kelli, an aspiring dancer who fears becoming fat, and Dan, a football player who lifts weights twenty-eight hours a week, learn the physiological, emotional, and psychological dangers of being obsessed with body image when they each spend a day living out their dreams through someone else's life.

Sam Kinny has always stuck to a diet of only white foods, but when his friend Kevin's strange Aunt Sylvie puts a weird spice on his macaroni and cheese he finds himself gobbling up everything from paste to dog food and has to do something before his body explodes.

Explains what eating disorders are and how they are treated.

Sam Kinny has always stuck to a diet of only white foods, but when his friend Kevin's strange Aunt Sylvie puts a weird spice on his macaroni and cheese he finds himself gobbling up everything from paste to dog food and has to do something before his body explodes.

Explains the nature, causes, and effects of common eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia.

Contains over four hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the causes, nature, symptoms, treatments, and impact of eating disorders and obesity; and includes a chronology of key events, fact tables and statistics, a directory of resources and websites, and a glossary of fat replacers.

A collection of stories about the complicated and powerful ties between mothers and daughters includes such tales as a mother and child who turn cooking ingredients into symbolic weapons and a woman who questions her place in the face of teen antics.