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Fully updated Second Edition published by the National Eating Disorder Association |
| Healthy Body Image: Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too! Second Edition by Kathy Kater Promoting healthy body image, eating, fitness, and weight in developing children For primary prevention of
Contains scripted lessons for students in grades 4 - 6. Lesson concepts and activities may be adapted for any age, pre-school to adult. "This updated edition of the most widely-used curriculum for preventing disordered eating and body image issues is even better than the original. Kater's orientation is rooted in the most successful prevention programs and research. She presents a resource that should be incorporated into every fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classroom." —Leigh Cohn, Editor: Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. | |
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Anxiety about weight and unhealthy lifestyle habits diminish the self esteem and integrity of growing children while consuming attention and energy that is needed for other important developmental tasks. The compelling wish to be slim provides the seeds for a host of body image, eating, fitness, and weight problems that are extremely difficult to reverse once established—including a rising rate of fatness While much remains to be learned, enough is now known about the toxic messages that promote body image and weight concerns to prevent these problems before they start. Healthy Body Image (HBI) (2005) is recommended by the U.S. Department of Health. Office of Women's Health in its BodyWise information packet for educators, and is in use in hundreds of schools across the country. Those who have enjoyed teaching the original HBI curriculum (1998) will find these newly revised lessons to be familiar but improved by recommendations of educators and updated empirical data. As before, eleven carefully planned, engaging, age appropriate, cross-curricular lessons based on recognized prevention principles teach students to:
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