This workbook presents an integrated body, mind, and spirit approach to getting at the root of disordered eating and developing a healthy relationship to food. The book offers a healthy eating plan designed to help those who are undernourished due to unhealthy diets.

Some people use food to calm themselves when they feel overwhelmed. Others find it difficult to discern between eating out of hunger and eating out of habit. There are nearly as many reasons why people overeat as there are reasons to stop. While overeating can often bring comfort in the short term, it can lead to feelings of guilt later on. If you feel like you're caught in a cycle of unhealthy eating that you can't stop, this workbook can help you overcome it. In The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook, you'll learn skills and nutrition guidelines recommended by doctors and therapists for healthy eating and how to quell the often overpowering urge to overeat. Using a variety of practices drawn from complementary and alternative medicine, you'll replace unhealthy habits with nourishing rewards and relaxation practices. This potent combination of therapies will help you end your dependence on overeating as a way to cope with unpleasant feelings and shows you how to develop new strategies for a healthier lifestyle. This workbook will help you: •Identify the trigger foods and feelings that spur you to binge or overeat •Determine how stress, depression, and anxiety may be affecting your eating •Calm yourself in stressful times with nourishing self-care practices •Learn to appreciate and accept your body

The gURLS behind the national bestseller, Deal With It!, are back - with a frank and fabulous look at teenage beauty, image, and style. As exciting to look at as it is to read, The Looks Bookis guaranteed to be a must-have book for teens and young women. A fascinating exploration of the history, culture, science, and business of beauty, this is the first book to empower women to simply have fun with their looks. Throughout the book, real-life examples of a stunning range of beauty archetypes help young women to re-define their concepts of beauty, while emphasizing self-expression, self-invention, and a healthy irreverence toward traditional ideals.

When she entered high school, Hannah decided she needed to control her appetite and went on a diet for the first time. She successfully shed 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms), and was proud of her loss, even though none of her friends seemed to notice. "I didn't let it show, but I was hurt. They paid attention to other, more expressive people -- even commented on how skinny other girls were. It made me feel invisible". Even though Hannah was attractive and popular, the distorted image she had of her own body helped her along the path toward an eating disorder. She is one of several teenagers you will meet in this book who resorted to dieting, starvation, and bingeing and purging to control their weight. Because of pressures from family, friends, coaches, and others -- not to mention those applied by society itself -- that to be successful and attractive you must have a certain body type, teens like Hannah are susceptible to the development of eating disorders. This book clearly outlines the various disorders, and explores the warning signs of their onset, as well as how they are diagnosed and treated. It also helps clarify who is at risk and suggests why this may be so. Eating disorders are a serious manifestation of the real pressures that young people feel every day. The good news is that with knowledge, awareness, and treatment appropriate to each young person, a healthy relationship with food, and a healthy way of life, can be reclaimed.

Explores the symptoms and history of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. Addresses the social factors that may contribute to these disorders and presents the treatment options available today.

During the past 15 years, research on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa has grown drastically, providing empirical evidence for a more accurate classification schema of eating disorders. This book brings together the most recent clinical research concerning all facets of these distinct but interrelated disorders, providing a current overview of the psychobiology and treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Written by experts in the field, Psychobiology and Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa reviews a diagnostic schema of eating disorders from the perspectives of cross-cultural, longitudinal, and family studies. It presents the psychobiology of anorexia and bulimia nervosa in the context of neuroendocrinology and the psychological perceptions associated with eating behavior. The book also examines the family's contribution to the development and maintenance of eating disorders from the perspective of family interaction studies. The final section of this book reviews the latest developments in the integration of psychodynamic concepts into the psychotherapy of anorexia and bulimia nervosa, covers cognitive behavioral approaches, and examines the pharmacological treatment of eating disorders.

Discusses various eating disorders, with an emphasis on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and tells the stories of people who have suffered from them.

Explains how girls can achieve total fitness by focusing on three broad areas: developing a positive self-image, choosing nutritious foods, and exercising regularly.