eating disorders

Examines the nature of eating disorders, their causes, warning signs, and effects, and how to deal with them.

Sam Kinney must find out if the weird spice Aunt Slyvie puts in his macaroni and cheese is causing him to eat everything he sees, including paste, dishwashing soap, dog food, and dirt.

Too Fat? Too Thin? is a handbook that presents helpful and easy-to-follow text to help young readers understand their healthy, natural body shape and their correct body weight.

Discusses the importance of health eating, explains the effects of various foods on the body, looks at some of the consequences of poor eating habits, including eating disorders, and offers advice on how to make healthy food choices.

Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.

Discusses the social and psychological causes of compulsive eating and provides guidance for those struggling with this problem.

Focuses on exercise addiction and its relationship to eating disorders; explains how compulsive exercise can be harmful and how one can get help to deal with it.

Profiles four teenagers with eating disorders, discussing their problems, therapy, and ways in which they have dealt with their food obsession with varying degrees of success.

Presents twenty-one articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to eating disorders, debating the seriousness of the problem, the causes of eating disorders, treatments, prevention, and who is at risk.

Describes eating disorders--including anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorder--and their causes, risk factors, effects, treatment, and prevention.