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| ________________________ EATING DISORDERS ..Title: The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: The Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Curing Anorexia and Bulimia *read more/buy* ..Author: Peggy Claude-Pierre ..Pages: 288 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 10,603 ..Summary: ""...written by the founder of the world-renowned eating disorders program at the Montreaux Clinic in Victoria, Canada...reveals the author's ground-breaking theories on the ultimate cure for anorexia and bulimia."" *TOP* ..Title: Good Girls Do Swallow *read more/buy* ..Author: Rachael Oakes-Ash ..Pages: 189 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 1,626 ..Summary: "Between the ages of 20 and 30, Rachael Oakes-Ash lost 60kg and gained 76kg on a rollercoaster of body image problems and food obsession. She went through anorexia, bulimia, bulimarexia, gym obsession, strict dieting and binge eating before finally she figured out how to stop torturing herself and hating her body. This is the black and funny story of her downfall and recovery. Rachael might have taken things further than many of us, but this is a story every woman can relate to." *TOP* ..Title: Father Hunger *read more/buy* ..Author: Margo Maine ..Pages: 254 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 25,467 ..Summary: "Father Hunger is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers are/were emotionally absent, a void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears and disordered eating patterns. Father Hunger is a common phenomenon of Western culture, whose dictates and myths limit a father's role, creating a loss for all family members. Dr. Maine also discusses practical solutions to help readers understand and improve their father/daughter relationships and help families reconnect." *TOP* ..Title: When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder *read more/buy* ..Author: Abigail H. Natenshon ..Pages: 278 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 31,383 ..Summary: "The first hands-on workbook to help parents successfully intervene when they suspect their child has an eating disorder—a proven program complete with self-tests, questions, and answers, journaling exercises, role-playing activities, and resource lists. It also reveals how and when they should solicit help from the outside-therapists, medical doctors, or nutritionists, as well as how to evaluate the recovery process." *TOP* ..Title: Dying to be Thin *read more/buy* ..Author: Ira M. Sacker, Marc A. Zimmer ..Pages: 288 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 99,620 ..Summary: "With clarity, sympathy, and wisdom, Dying To Be Thin tells you: * What bulimia is and how people get hooked on a binge-purge cycle * The invisible causes of anorexia nervosa * Medical effects of anorexia and bulimia * Why many eating disorders go unnoticed by parents, teachers, and friends-and how you can recognize them * How you, or someone you know, can stop focusing on food and reawaken to the world of feelings, belonging, and love * Where to go for professional help-with listings of national and local support groups, treatment centers, and more." *TOP* ..Title: The Best Little Girl in the World *read more/buy* ..Author: Steven Levenkron ..Pages: 255 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 12,087 ..Summary: "This is the stunning novel and basis for the hit ABC-TV movie that brought anorexia nervosa to national attention." *TOP* ..Title: Second Star to the Right *read more/buy* ..Author: Deborah Hautzig ..Pages: 158 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 41,292 ..Summary: "As fourteen-year-old Leslie begins to shed the weight she feels makes her imperfect, she finds it increasingly difficult to reach out for the psychological help she knows she needs." *TOP* ..Title: Eve's Apple *read more/buy* ..Author: Jonathan Rosen ..Pages: 309 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 191,531 ..Summary: "This poignant story of a vulnerable young woman, her lover, and the devastating disease that both unites and threatens to destroy them offers a raw and sentimental journey into the dark world of hunger and denial. Eve's Apple is an unforgettable first novel, an intricate meditation on the nature of hunger--for food, for knowledge, and for love." *TOP* ..Title: Eating Disorders *read more/buy* ..Author: Diane Yancey ..Pages: 144 (hardcover) ..Sales Ranking: 586,294 ..Summary: "Describes eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive eating and discusses the causes, warning signs, diagnosis, and treatment." *TOP* ..Title: Calm Energy: How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise *read more/buy* ..Author: Robert E Thayer ..Pages: 288 (hardcover) ..Sales Ranking: 59,745 ..Summary: "This provocative new approach to understanding and fighting overeating offers practical advice and biological explanations for your cravings and moods, and it shows how both are indicators of energy and stress levels." *TOP* ..Title: Over It: A Teen's Guide to Getting Beyond Obsessions with Food and Weight *read more/buy* ..Author: Carol Emery Normandi, Lauralee Roark ..Pages: 208 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 380,126 ..Summary: "They look at the behaviors that may lead to eating disorders and the cultural, emotional, and physical reasons girls obsess about weight and eating. They go on to offer girls and their parents a map and a method for finding a realistic and livable balance." *TOP* ..Title: Wasted *read more/buy* ..Author: Marya Hornbacher ..Pages: 298 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 10,197 ..Summary/Quotes: "Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless hterapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimitely, any sense of what it means to be "normal." By the time she is in college, Hornbacher is in the grip of a bout with anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. In this vivid, emotionally wrenching emoir, she re-creates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underylying eating disorders. Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back--on her own terms." ..Review *TOP* ..Title: Bulimia/Anorexia: The Binge/Purge Cycle and Self-Starvation 3rd Edition *read more/buy* ..Author: Marlene Boskind-White, PhD, William C. White, Jr., PhD ..Pages: 320 (hardcover) ..Sales Ranking: 153,213 ..Summary: "Here is a basic source of information on the dynamics of eating disorders, written by two therapists who have long specicalized in treating them. Now expanded and updated [this] is the third edition of Marlene Boskind-White and William C. White's highly successful Bulimarexia: The Binge/Purge Cycle. This accessible and empowering book provides important facts on adolescent danger signals, socialization and the family, the challenges of the college years, pros and cons of drug therapy, and nutritional counseling." *TOP* ..Title: Diary of an Eating Disorder *read more/buy* ..Author: Chelsea Browning Smith ..Pages: 221 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 79,888 ..Summary: "What do they think I do after dinner? When I get up from the table I tiptoe out of the kitchen and hope they don't ask where I am going. Are they fools for not knowing? The fact that they are so trusting or oblivious makes my secret all the worse. It is such a painful secret, but I always know I will feel better after I get it all out...I am falling apart. I am screwing up my body beyond repair...My throat and lungs are killing me. Why am I still doing this?...God help me, please!" ..Review *TOP* ..Title: Inner Hunger *read more/buy* ..Author: Marianne Apostolides ..Pages: 171 (hardcover) ..Sales Ranking: ..Summary: "A personal story coupled with helpful advice from a young woman who was trapped in the tortuous world of eating disorders. She invites us to understand the usefulness of anorexia nervosa and its simplistic, repetitive thinking processes that imprison its victims. She does this honestly, vulnerably, and nondefensively." ..Review *TOP* ..Title: Eating Disorders: The Facts *read more/buy* ..Author: Suzanne A. Abraham, Derek Llewellyn-Jones ..Pages: 245 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: ..Summary: "...emphasizes the importance of learning sensible eating patterns and the role of self-help in the recovery process ...examines why eating disorders occur and the treatments available." *TOP* ..Title: Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World *read more/buy* ..Author: Frances M. Berg, Kendra Rosencrans ..Pages: 384 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: ..Summary: "Women Afraid to Eat shows in startling detail what the current warped norm for body shape, unachievable by most, is doing to women, how it harms them physically, emotionally and socially. It takes an authoritative look at the many issues that negatively affect eating and weight and how women feel about their bodies." *TOP* ..Title: Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Person Within *read more/buy* ..Author: Hilde Bruch ..Pages: 396 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: ..Summary: "The synthesis of forty years of pioneering work by the world's leading authority on the emotional aspects of eating disorders." *TOP* ..Title: Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire *read more/buy* ..Author: Margaret Bullitt-Jonas ..Pages: 272 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: ..Summary: "When I arrive in the supermarket, I sometimes spot a fat person with lonely eyes already picking over the bakery goods. As with the drunks and the junkies, I pretend we have nothing in common. I approach without saying a word, peering over the stranger's shoulder, impatient to get my hands on the boxes of day-old cookies and pies. I suppose I could buy fancy, name- brand cookies, and sometimes I do, but it's the leftovers that tend to attract me most..." *TOP* ..Title: Eating Disorders: Anatomy of a Social Epidemic *read more/buy* ..Author: Richard A. Gordon ..Pages: 176 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: ..Summary: "...discusses new research on topics such as the role biological factors play in eating disorders, the role of sexual abuse, the role of the fashion industry, new findings about males with eating disorders, and how parents and peers may shape eating-disordered behavior in children." *TOP* ..Title: Surviving and Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family & Friends *read more/buy* ..Author: Michelle Siegel, Judith Brisman, Margot Weinshel ..Pages: 288 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 13,700 ..Summary: "A reassuring, inspiring and realistic guide written expressly for parents, spouses, friends, relatives, and all other "silent sufferers" of anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating." *TOP* ..Title: Hunger Pains *read more/buy* ..Author: Mary Pipher ..Pages: 120 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 53,256 ..Summary: "Dr. Mary Pipher, offers advice, counsel, and practical solutions for understanding our needs, our fears, and our many hungers. She shows us how we can at last learn to live at peace with the natural differences in our bodies and appetites." *TOP* ..Title: The Eating Disorder Sourcebook *read more/buy* ..Author: Carolyn Costin ..Pages: 325 (paperback) ..Sales Ranking: 27,035 ..Summary: "...written by a woman who has recovered from anorexia & is now a specialist in the eating disorder field...explores the underlying causes of eating disorders & new treatments." *TOP* |
