Offers health professionals an overview of the most prevalent eating disorders among athletes, with tips for preventing dangerous eating habits, recognizing the signs of an eating disorder, and helping athletes overcome them.
A comprehensive guide to eating disorders, covering warning signs and symptoms, causes and risk factors, complications, tests and diagnosis, treatment, home and lifestyle changes, coping and support, and more.
Presents descriptions of and statistics on eating disorders, and discusses their causes; their relationship to sexuality, pregnancy, and postpartum depression; their management; and their effects on family members; and includes Body Mass Index (BMI) charts and detailed diagnosis questions.
Examines the social pressures faced by teens in regard to body image, looking at how photographs that appear in magazines are often altered, and including discussions with a former football player who achieved success without steroids, as well as a model who developed an eating disorder.
Kelli, an aspiring dancer who fears becoming fat, and Dan, a football player who lifts weights twenty-eight hours a week, learn the physiological, emotional, and psychological dangers of being obsessed with body image when they each spend a day living out their dreams through someone else's life.
Sam Kinny has always stuck to a diet of only white foods, but when his friend Kevin's strange Aunt Sylvie puts a weird spice on his macaroni and cheese he finds himself gobbling up everything from paste to dog food and has to do something before his body explodes.
Sam Kinny has always stuck to a diet of only white foods, but when his friend Kevin's strange Aunt Sylvie puts a weird spice on his macaroni and cheese he finds himself gobbling up everything from paste to dog food and has to do something before his body explodes.
