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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 WomenÕs 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.
