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#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God
“A life-changing book.”—Oprah
“A life-changing book.”—Oprah
In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on her own painful personal experiences, as well as the candid
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Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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An investigation into the pervasiveness of eating disorders among American women argues that numerous food-related health issues are linked to vulnerable periods in a woman's life and are typically disregarded in women older than twenty-five.
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2023.
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Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. Her only salve is Theresa, her best friend whose life she desperately covets. Their bond is tight, but it doesn't stop Jackie from having an affair with Theresa's husband, Adam. And when Theresa...
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Gay has written ... about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as 'wildly undisciplined,' Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care"
The popular Tumblr blogger and best-selling author of Bad Feminist explores the devastating act of...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she'd been doing better ever since the Thing They Don't Talk About. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands"--Amazon.
14) Butter
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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English
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Eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa afflict people of all ages and race, especially young women, and are serious medical conditions that can be deadly if left untreated. Join documentary filmmaker and host Larkin McPhee (Dying to Be Thin) as she uncovers the challenges of coping with an eating disorder. Meet some experts and people in recovery who offer an honest appraisal of their struggles to overcome their eating disorders. Topics...
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It happened to me volume 39
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Focuses on issues and attitude that concern teenagers about eating behaviors. Shows the road signs that lead to full-blown eating disorders, and determines who is most susceptible to developing one. Explains the consequences of long-term malnutrition, food abuse, and obesity, and takes a look at the process of recovery.
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Bonneville Books
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2013.
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English
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Emma's her name and matchmaking is her game! Quirky life coach Emma wants to help her first-ever client, a lonely nanny named Harriet. But all of her attempts at matchmaking result only in embarrassing miscues and blunders, leaving the pair disheartened and confused. This modern take on the Jane Austen classic shows that sometimes the greatest match is the one we make for ourselves.
18) Thin
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HBO Video
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[2006]
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English
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This film takes us inside the walls of Renfrew Center, a residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders, closely following four young women who have spent their lives starving themselves-- often to the verge of death.
19) Life without Ed
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McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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The author describes her life battling an eating disorder and provides exercises to help people deal with their own problems.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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This chapter considers what eating disorders look like. We also explain why eating disorders can be explained easily when you consider the factors that keep them going. We are going to focus on what maintains your problem rather than focusing on its origins, because tackling your eating disorder (and really any other disorder) is much more likely to be successful if we look at the here-and-now rather than at past factors. As part of this explanation,...
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