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Me Siento Gorda
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Lorraine C. Ladish |
For many years she kept her eating disorder a secret: the lonely binge and purge cycles to avoid gaining an ounce. Despite her obvious variations in weight and size, the depressions and feelings of f… |
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Not all Black girls know how to eat
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Stephanie Covington Armstrong |
Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that… |
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Anorexia nervosa
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Daniel E. Harmon |
Explores the truth and misconceptions regarding anorexia nervosa by examining its history, causes, considerations, treatment, and related eating disorders. |
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Understanding bulimia nervosa
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Debbie Stanley |
Discusses bulimia, an eating disorder which is characterized by alternating episodes of binge eating and purging. |
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Fear of being fat
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Charles C. Hogan,C. Philip Wilson |
xiii, 385 pages ; 24 cm |
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Sick Enough
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Jennifer L. Gaudiani |
Patients with eating disorders frequently feel that they aren't "sick enough" to merit treatment, despite medical problems that are both measurable and unmeasurable. They may struggle to accept rest,… |
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India (The Divas)
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Victoria Christopher Murray |
While India Morrow is happy her BFFs included her in the Divas, she knows she’s not cute like Diamond, cool like Veronique, or smart like Aaliyah. Maybe if she were supermodel-thin, like her mom, she… |
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Spaces in Between
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Caroline Jones |
320 pages ; 133 x 200 mm |
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Perk!
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Liza F. Hall |
Unhappy about boys, her parents, and her body, tenth grader Perk becomes a victim of bulimia and resorts to binge eating and forced vomiting to gain control of her life. |
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Don't call me Kit Kat
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K. J. Farnham |
Junior high is where things really start to happen. Cliques form and break apart. Couples are made and destroyed. And a reputation is solidified that you won't ever be able to escape. Everything you … |
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Death wish
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Brian Garfield |
Paul Benjamin, a successful accountant in New York City, is enjoying a three-martini lunch when his home is broken into by a gang of drug addicts. For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul… |
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Nothing
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Robin Friedman |
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… |
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Hope and recovery
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Emma Lou Thayne |
Becky Thayne and her mother alternate in describing how Becky suffered as a young woman from manic depression, anorexia, and bulimia and how she eventually recovered. |
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Anorexia and bulimia
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Dayna Wolhart |
Defines anorexia and bulimia and explains the causes, side-effects, and treatment of these eating disorders. |
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Coping with a negative body-image
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Kathryn Bowen-Woodward |
Advises the teen girl on viewing her body in a positive and healthy way so that diet and exercise programs don't get out of hand. |
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Perfect
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Natasha Friend |
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own. |
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Purge
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Sarah Littman |
When her parents check sixteen-year-old Janie into Golden Slopes to help her recover from her bulimia, she discovers that she must talk about things she has admitted to no one--not even herself. |
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Shadow girl
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Deb Abramson |
"As the good little girl in an unhappy family who hid her darker troubles, Deb Abramson felt like she was living with another girl, a shadowy being who would neither leave nor make herself known.
Cr… |
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Running on empty / by Anna Paterson
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Anna Paterson |
A fictional work about three teenage girls who have some eating problems. The book explores the different effects on each girl and describes the difficulties they face as secrets are disclosed and tr… |
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When food's a foe
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Nancy J. Kolodny |
Examines the causes and effects of bulimia and anorexia and discusses ways in which these disorders can be prevented. |
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