Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-150) and index.
Contents
Facts about eating disorders / Marcia Herrin and Nancy Matsumoto -- Beyond dieting : the drive to be thin / Karen Goldberg Goff -- Rise of eating disorders among preteen girls / Laura Meade Kirk -- Not for girls only : boys with eating disorders / Laura Pappano -- Growing number of adult men with eating disorders / Lisa Liddane -- Dying to win : athletes and eating disorders / Joel Hood -- Biological basis of eating disorders / Emily Sohn -- Society's unhealthy obsession with thinness / Leonard Stern -- Problem of nutritional misinformation / Karolyn Schuster -- Eating disorder websites : a disturbing trend / Nancy J. White -- Ethnic minorities and eating disorders / Susan McClelland -- When food is the enemy : three girls' stories / Teen Magazine -- My mother gave me anorexia / "Juliette Potter" as told to Stacy Colino -- Making weight : a male athlete's struggle with eating disorders / John DiConsiglio -- On the road to recovery / Galina Espinoza, Mike Neill, and Sophfronia Scott -- Eating disorders : recovery is possible / Charles Montgomery -- Effective methods for the treatment of eating disorders / Susan Ferraro -- Treatment of anorexia : a case study / Roger Verdon -- Can health care professionals who have had eating disorders effectively help others? / Kate Jennison -- Ways to tune out distorted media messages about body types / Nancy Fitzgerald -- Helping kids form a healthy body image / Carol Weston.
