Lying in Weight The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women

Name: Lying in Weight The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women
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ISBN: 9780060761486

ISBN-10: 0060761482

ISBN-13: 9780060761486

Edition: 2007

Authors: Trisha Gura

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A girl with an eating disorder grows up. And then what? In this groundbreaking new book, science journalist Trisha Gura, Ph.D., explodes the myth that those who suffer from eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are primarily teenage girls. In reality, these diseases linger from adolescence or emerge anew in the lives of adult women in ways that we are only starting to recognize. Millions of American women twenty-five and older suffer from serious food issues, from obsessions with calorie counting to compulsions to starve then overeat. Because of the assumption that age provides eating-disordered immunity, the medical and mental health communities have…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.21" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English