Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World

by Berg, Francie M.; Rosencrans, Kendra; Rosencrans, Kendra

• ISBN13: 9780918532626
• ISBN10: 0918532620
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Healty Weight Network

Summary

Designed to challenge America's growing obsession with thinness, this book reveals the profound mental and physical effects on women struggling with their weight. It examines the way weight obsession consumes women, shatters lives, and even kills. Documented are four major weight and eating problems-eating disorders, dysfunctional eating, size prejudice, and overweight. A warning call to health professionals, families, and leaders, it gives clear guidelines on how women can bring about meaningful change in their lives to improve health and well-being.

Author Biography

Frances M. Berg is the editor of Healthy Weight Journal, a licensed nutritionist, and adjunct professor at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. She lives in Hettinger, North Dakota.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction	13	(2)
Part I: Today's weight-obsessed world
Fear of food, fear of fat	15	(16)
Our culture fails to nurture women	31	(20)
Dysfunctional eating disrupts normal life	51	(20)
Eating disorders shatter women's lives	71	(24)
Weights continue to rise	95	(16)
Prejudice punishes large women	111	(18)
Living in starvation mode	129	(18)
The risks of losing weight	147	(22)
Food and activity choices intensify problems	169	(24)
How the diet industry exerts control	193	(20)
Part II: Breaking free, living free
Health at any size	213	(14)
It's about you	227	(18)
The joy of active living	245	(20)
Eating well	265	(18)
Celebrating size diversity	283	(18)
Creating a more nurturing culture	301	(14)
Prevention and treatment	315	(16)
Call to action	331	(6)
Appendix	337	(16)
Body mass index chart
Questionnaires
Statistics and information
Resources
References	353	(16)
Index	369