Vibrant, talented, strong, and beautiful, Andrea Smeltzer seemed destined for a great future. But after a one-year struggle with bulimia, she died in her sleep at age 19, catapulting her mother Doris into a wrenching but ultimately rewarding journey of discovery. This unabashed account not only speaks about one family’s tragedy, but also critiques the social and personal attitudes toward our bodies and appearance that create victims like Andrea. Andrea's poetry and journal entries, combined with her mother's reflections, offer insight and understanding about a crushing disorder that afflicts far too many young people.

Andrea's Voice: Silenced by Bulimia: Her Story and Her Mother's Journey Through Grief Toward Understanding

Biographies & Memoirs

Smeltzer, Doris

Professionals & Academics

Gurze Books

Healthy exercise means finding a balance between overtraining and inactivity. By using a combination of clinical studies and real-life examples, this book shows readers how to develop their own personal prescription for discovering that balance. Written by two specialists in the field of eating disorders, it details both ends of the exercise continuum, from compulsive exercisers who push their bodies to the limit to people with little or no physical activity in their daily lives. The authors explain the psychological and health issues that can result from compulsive exercise — including bone loss, fractures, amenorrhea, and unhealthy eating. They also cover the problems arising from inadequate exercise and provide ways that ill people can safely implement fitness programs. The book is not a weight-loss guide; instead, it emphasizes the importance of proper exercise, offering readers of all sizes, ages, and health levels practical solutions for changing their routines and finding a healthy exercise balance.

The Exercise Balance: What's Too Much, What's Too Little, and What's Just Right for You!

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Powers M.D., Pauline

Thompson Ph.D., Ron

Exercise & Fitness

The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders shows that effective solutions begin at home and cost little more than a healthy investment of time, effort, and love. Based on exciting new research, it differs from similar books in several key ways. Instead of concentrating on the grim, expensive hospital stays of patients with severe disorders, the authors focus on the family, teaching parents how to examine and understand their family’s approach to food and body-image issues and its effect their child’s behavior. Parents learn to identify an eating disorder early, to establish healthy attitudes toward food at a young age, and to intervene in a nonthreatening, nonjudgmental way. The authors concentrate on teens, the age group most often affected by eating disorders, as well as younger children. Individual chapters cover boys at risk, relapse training, dealing with friends, school, and summer camp, and much more. The book includes an appendix and sections on further reading, organizations and websites, residential and hospital programs, and references.

The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image at Home

Matsumoto, Nancy

Herrin Ed.D. M.P.H. R.D., Marcia

Addiction & Recovery

This book has inspired thousands of people in their recoveries. Both comprehensive and practical, it includes answers to common questions, Lindsey Hall's moving story of self- cure, advice for loved ones, and insights from recovered bulimics.

Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery - Understanding and Overcoming the Binge-Purge Syndrome

Lindsey Hall

Leigh Cohn

Psychology & Counseling

Offers those recovering from drug or alcohol abuse advice on improving self-esteem, gaining confidence in making decisions, overcoming destructive behavior, and making peace with the past

Self-Esteem Tools for Recovery

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

A member of The National Association for the Advancement of Fat Americans charges American society with discrimination against overweight women, criticizing the media and the weight-loss industry for perpetuating sexist stereotypes. Original. Tour. IP.

The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America

Goodman, W. Charisse

Diseases & Physical Ailments

If you have struggled with compulsive eating, dieting, and the guilt and conflict they bring, your life will be changed by this important, life-affirming, and astonishingly wise book. 
Anne Katherine, a Certified Eating Disorders Therapist and former compulsive eater, explains the chemical reactions in the brain that work in conjunction with lifelong emotional conflicts to make food—particularly sugar and refined carbohydrates—such a comfort that it's almost like a drug. 
Once you realize that your binge eating is a physical disease that can be treated, you can use the book's self-tests, exercises, examination of family issues, and complete recovery program for newfound understanding and confidence.

Anatomy of a Food Addiction: The Brain Chemistry of Overeating: An Effective Program to Overcome Compulsive Eating (3rd Edition)

Anne Katherine

Mental Health

An updated and revised edition of this primary text for students studying human resources management (undergraduate and postgraduate) as well as students of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) diploma. This edition contains a number of additions and revisions, including new information on e-learning, facilitating change and talent management.

Self-Esteem Tool Recovery

Hall, Lindsey

Cohn M.A.T., Leigh

This biography of Hilde Bruch is a colorful, personal account of a legendary figure in modern psychiatry. Although she is best known as a pioneer in the field of eating disorders and is considered a major contributor to the conceptualization of anorexia nervosa, those accomplishments came in her "golden years" after an already prodigious career. Bruch authored more than 250 articles and six books, including The Golden Cage, a bestseller that introduced anorexia nervosa into popular culture. In the 60's, when thinness became a national obsession, she became widely-known and quoted, and she remained the world's foremost authority on eating disorders well into her eighties. Hilde's story begins in a turn-of-the-century German hamlet, where she stood out as an exceptionally intelligent and intuitive child, who watched skeptically as Kaiser Wilhelm's troops grandly marched off to World War I. Later, as a young Jewish physician, she experienced and fled the prejudice of the Third Reich to England and eventually New York, escaping the terrible fate of numerous family members who died in Nazi concentration camps. She spent her own childbearing years as a pediatrician advising mothers while loving their children, through it all remaining ironically outside the biological experience of motherhood. Blessed with a flawless memory, unshakable confidence, and unflagging mental energy, Hilde was ruthlessly organized, mercilessly prepared, and intimidatingly productive. Hilde spent her final twenty years as the 'Grande Dame' of Baylor University Medical School in Houston and traveling the world lecturing about eating disorders and teaching today's experts. Despite the debilitating advances of Parkinson's Disease, Hilde continued writing and speaking until her death in 1984, after which she was eulogized in the Journal of the American Medical Association for her contributions as an author, pediatrician, and psychiatrist.

Unlocking the Golden Cage: An Intimate Biography of Hilde Bruch, M.D.

Bruch, Joanne Hatch

Community & Culture

Updated with new information, this intimate guidebook offers a comprehensive plan for recovery, including a two-week program to stop binges. Photos.

Bulimia: A GUIDE TO RECOVERY: UNDERSTANDING AND OVERCOMING THE BINGE-PURGE SYNDROME

Cohn, Leigh

Cohen, Leigh

Eating Disorders & Body Image

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