eating disorders

A collection of essays in which the authors provide information and insights on eating disorders.

Teaches young women about healthy body image and natural eating and offers parents advice on how they can help their daughters build self-esteem and contentment.

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

Constance Rhodes shares her struggle with chronic dieting, explaining the toll her attitudes towards food had on her health, relationships, and self-esteem, and offers encouragement to others who are suffering from subclinical eating disorders.

Provides information about bulimia and anorexia for women who either suffer with the eating disorders or who recognize their vulnerability to problems with food; and addresses the concerns of families and friends involved with bulimarexic and prebulimarexic women.

Provides information on how to recognize eating disorders and their symptoms, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating, and also offers treatment programs.

Describes different kinds of eating disorders, why they occur, and what can be done about them.

Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.

Sixteen-year-old Loann admires and envies her older sister Claire's strength, popularity, and beauty, but as Loann begins to open up to new possibilities in herself, she discovers that Claire's all-consuming quest for perfection comes at a dangerous price.