Books – Health – Eating disorders
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The Serotonin Power Diet by Judith Wurtman and Nina T. Frusztajer
For the millions of people experiencing mood swings or using antidepressants and related medications that provoke overeating, ‘The Serotonin Power Diet’ will help them get their bodies – and their energy – back. Easy and economical, with more than 75 delicious recipes and online support from a growing community of successful dieters, ‘The Serotonin Power Diet’ is the natural solution to weight loss and maintenance for those who thought their cravings could never be satisfied.
Paperback, 304 pp, $29.99. Buy
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My Kid is Back by June Alexander and Daniel Le Grange
Early intervention with family-based treatment can greatly reduce the severity of anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents. The best outcome is for those whose illness is intervened within six months. Ten families are the book’s voice, and they lift the lid on what living with anorexia is really like. Parents describe their frustrations in seeking help for their child and sufferers describe this illness that slips into the brain and becomes part of one’s self. The families believe prompt recognition and intervention with family-based treatment greatly enhances recovery.
Paperback, 320 pp, $32.99. Buy
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Thin by Grace Bowman
Bright, popular, pretty and successful, Grace Bowman had the world at her feet. So what drove her to starve herself nearly to death at the age of 18? And what, more importantly, made her stop? A grippingly honest account of life with anorexia nervosa, A Shape of My Own is Grace’s hearbreaking, shocking and, finally, inspirational memoir. An extraordinary story, it is also a common one – is there a woman in the western world who has a normal relationship with food? It is a compulsive read, essential for anyone hoping to understand more about eating disorders and overcoming addiction
Paperback, 304 pp, $24.95. Buy
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Eating Myself by Candida Crewe
Candida Crewe wonders whether there’s anything ‘normal’ about any woman’s relationship with food and weight. While she appears enviably slim to everyone but herself, Candida has always worried, sometimes obsessed, about her weight. This title chronicles her life with food, and the story of her everyday struggle with weight
Hardback, 256 pp, $35.00. Buy
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The Hungry Years by William Leith
A story of food, fat and addiction that is both funny and heart-wrenching: it will change the way you look at food forever ‘Hunger is the loudest voice in my head. I’m hungry most of the time’On a January morning in 2003, William Leith woke up to the fattest day of his life. That same day he left London for New York to interview controversial diet guru Dr Robert Atkins. But what started out as a routine journalistic assignment set Leith on an intensely personal and illuminating journey into the mysteries of hunger and addiction. Fat has been called a feminist issue. But in this unflinching investigation into the bodily consequences and psychological pain of being overweight, Leith reveals how it affects us all. Our fat society, he tells us,
Paperback, 304 pp, $23.95. Buy
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Fasting Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Traces the historic roots of anorexia nervosa from its emergence during the Victorian era to its pervasiveness in the twentieth century, and explores the cultural significance of appetite control in women’s lives
Paperback, 384 pp, $22.95. Buy
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Fear of Food by Genevieve Blais
Some 80per cent of women go on a diet in any given year. This book is a practical and simple self-help programme for recovery from eating problems which should enable women to find and maintain their own ideal body weight. It also features case studies, a question and answer section, and useful addresses
Hardback, 256 pp, $18.95. Buy
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Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa by Grainne Smith
This is the story of one family’s struggle with a daughter with an eating disorder. Candid, insightful and informative, it details the onset and symptoms of AN/BN, the effects on family life and where to find more information and help.
Paperback, 175 pp, $29.95. Buy
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Beating Ana by Shannon Cutts
Providing mentors for people with eating disorders in much the same way as providing sponsors for alcoholics seeking recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous. Beating Ana introduces this familiar concept as a new and valid one for enhancing the treatment of eating disorders‚ by highlighting how the same approach cured the author of her fifteen-year battle with anorexia and bulimia. Beating Ana‚ very much in the tradition of the bestselling book on eating disorders Life without Ed‚ itself acts as a mentor‚ offering a series of recovery workshops‚ affirmations‚ advice from the trenches‚ and letters from courageous eating disorder survivors‚ all of which empower readers to set and achieve recovery goals – one day at a time.
Paperback, 192 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Emotional Eating by Edward Abramson
This work presents scientific studies and clinical research to prove that it’s not abnormal to eat for emotional reasons: we all have certain “comfort foods” that we consume to provide self-nurturing. It explains how to identify individual patterns of emotional eating, and what to do about them.
Paperback, 208 pp, $49.95. Buy
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