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: 9780060761493

ISBN-10: 0060761490

ISBN-13: 9780060761493

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Authors: Trisha Gura

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A girl with an eating disorder grows up. And then what? In this groundbreaking book, science journalist Trisha Gura explodes the myth that those who suffer from eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are primarily teenage girls. In truth, twenty-five to thirty million American women twenty-five and older suffer from serious food issues, from obsessions with calorie counting to compulsions to starve then overeat. These diseases often linger from adolescence or emerge anew in the lives of adult women in ways that we are only now starting to recognize. Drawing on her own experience with anorexia, as well as the most up-to-date research and extensive interviews with…

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List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Confidences and Lies



Chronicity: The Myth of Recovery



Adolescence: Girls in Women's Clothing: Eating Disorders Stunt Psychological Development



Young Adulthood: She, He, and It: A Lover's Triangle



Pregnancy: An Oasis in an Eating-Disordered Life



Parenting Years: A Kind of Sibling Rivalry: When the Eating Disorder Competes with Children



Midlife: Eating Disorders: Millstones or Stepping-stones?



Late Life: Never Too Old to Be Too Thin



Healing: The Ongoing Chapter in an Eating-Disordered Life



Helpful Organizations



Directory of Treatment Facilities



The Clinical Definitions of Eating Disorders


Notes


Bibliography


Index