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.
An introduction to eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, discussing why they occur and the risks they pose, and looking at nutrition as the key to their prevention and treatment.
Despite his outward image of popular, attractive high-achiever bound for the Ivy League college of his father's dreams, high school senior Parker sees himself as a fat, unattractive failure and finds relief for his overwhelming anxieties in ever-increasing bouts of binging and purging.
Amalia, writing in her diary, shares her concerns over her friend Maggie's eating disorder, and her confusion over her feelings for Brendan, a new boy in school.
Kelsey Osgood describes her decade-long battle with anorexia and explores the physical, internal, and social ramifications of eating disorders and subverts many of the popularly held notions of the illness.
Examines how eating disorders and food and body issues impact nearly every woman on Earth at some point in her life, revealing the societal and cultural factors that have led to a disturbing rise in eating disorders in recent years.
