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of these titles can be purchased directly from Gurze
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Healthy
Body Image:
Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too!
Author:
Kathy J. Kater
Price:
$65.00
1998
Published by National Eating Disorders Association 603
Stewart St., Suite 803, Seattle, WA 98101 Phone: (206)
292-9890
An
engaging, comprehensive guide adaptable for any age,
preschool through adult, but with scripted lessons,
stories and activities for 4th through 6th grade. Cross
curricular lessons challenge unhealthy cultural myths
and promote the development of healthy, realistic body
images, eating well and physical activity.
More
info here!
Outcome
research on the above curriculum: Kater, K., Rohwer,
J., & Levine, M.P., "An elementary school project for
developing healthy body image and reducing risk factors
for unhealthy and disordered eating". Eating
Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention,
Winter, 2000, Volume 8, Issue 1.
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Big
Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
Author:
by Glen Gasser, M.D.
Price: $14.95
1996
Published by Fawcette/Columbine.
Summarizes
the medical research on body size diversity and the expected
failure of dieting for weight loss. Written for non-medical
professionals.
More
info here!
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Body Project,The: An Intimate History of American Girls
Author: Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Price: $13.00
l997 Published by Random House.
Chronicles
the change in body image attitudes in women over the past
100 years through the diaries of girls.
More
info here!
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Can't
Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way we Think
and Feel
Author: Jean Kilbourne
Price: $14.00
Advertising
in America is deadly. Rivoting reading about why it works
and what you need to know to resist it's effects.
More
info here!
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Children
and Teens Afraid to Eat:
Helping Youth in Today's Weight-Obsessed World
Author: Francis M. Berg
Price: $19.95
1997
Published by Healthy Weight Publishing
A
highly informative and extremely well researched book
that clearly challenges how the American culture promotes
unhealthy eating and body image attitudes and behaviors.
More
info here!
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Go
Girls!
1999,
published by National Eating Disorders Association, 603
Stewart St., Suite 803, Seattle, WA 98101 Phone: (206)
292-9890
More
info here!
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| Preventing
Childhood Eating Problems
Authors:
Jane R. Hirschmann, C.S.W.
& Lela Zaphiropolous, C.S.W.
List price: $10.95
More
info here!
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Reviving
Ophelia:
Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Author:
Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
Price: $14.95
1994
Published by Ballantine Books.
An
eye-opening book on the everyday dangers of growing up
young and female in America. How adults can help.
More
info here!
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Secrets
of Feeding a Healthy Family
Author:
Ellyn Satter, M.S., R.D., CICSW, BCD
1999 Published by Kelcy Press
Price: $16.95
Helps
adults establish a positive feeding relationship with
children.
More
info here!
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The Skinny
on Fat:
Our Obsession with Weight Control
Author:
Shawna Vogel
1999 Published by Freeman and Company
Price: $22.95
More
info here!
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When
Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from
Food and Weight Obsession
Authors: Jane Hirschmann, M.S.W.
and Carol Munter
Price: $14.00
More
info here!
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Recommended Titles
How
to Get Your Kid to Eat - But Not Too Much
1987 by Ellyn Satter. Published by Bull Publishing,
Written in an easy to read style, this is a no-nonsense
approach to feeding kids well. Promotes healthy body size
attitudes.
The
Bodywise Woman
1996, by Judy M. Lutter and Lynn Jaffee. Published by
Human Kinetics. Order from the Melpomene Institute for
Women�s Health Research, St. Paul, MN 651-642-1951. A
sensible, highly informative book that provides the facts
about bodies in a friendly, easy to read way that helps
women make good health decision.
How the Namuh Came to be Content
with Who They Were
1999, by Kathy Kater. Available from the author at (651)
770-2693 or email [email protected] An engaging, metaphorical
children's story providing perspective on the development
of unhealthy body image attitudes and eating behaviors.
Includes discussion questions.
Full
of Ourselves: Advancing Girl Power, Health and Leadership
by Steiner-Adair, Catherine and Lisa Sjostrom, Available
January 2000 from the Harvard Eating Disorders Center,
356 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, tel: (617) 236-7766.
Through upbeat group discussion, free writing, art, and
body-centered activities, girls explore a wide range of
topics and concepts to strengthen health, self esteem
and potency.
OTHER RESOURCES FOR SCHOOL PERSONNEL:
Body
Wise Eating Disorder Information Packet for Middle School
Personnel
Published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's
Office on Women's Health, Educational Services, Inc. 1150
Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20036.
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