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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Big Brother is a striking novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity from Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed author the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed high-end cabinetmaker, now spurns the "toxic" dishes that he'd savored through their courtship, and spends hours each day to manic cycling. Then, when Pandora picks up her older brother
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 60 min.)
Language
English
Description
Over the past three decades, obesity rates in the US have more than doubled for children and tripled for adolescents ́ and a startling 70% of adults are now obese or overweight. The result has been a widening epidemic of obesity-related health problems, including coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes. While discussions about this spiraling health crisis have tended to focus on the need for more exercise and individual...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fitness trainer's true story of gaining 75 pounds so he could better understand his clients' struggles—and what he learned while getting back in shape.
Drew Manning, a fitness junkie and personal trainer, had never been overweight in his life. He never craved junk food or missed an opportunity to work out. Yet despite his obsession, he failed to help his clients reach their goals. Manning decided he needed to understand what it was...
Drew Manning, a fitness junkie and personal trainer, had never been overweight in his life. He never craved junk food or missed an opportunity to work out. Yet despite his obsession, he failed to help his clients reach their goals. Manning decided he needed to understand what it was...
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils--and undeniable beauty--of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings; she'd rather paint alone...
6) Butter
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 21 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In a culture obsessed with fat, there are groups of "fat activists" who attempt to change what they see as a fat-phobic world into a size-accepting world. These fat activists span the political and religious spectrum, yet come together around their commitment to ending "size discrimination."
8) Losing it
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tired of being obese and reeling from his father's recent stroke, thirteen-year-old Bennett joins the cross country team to find out if there is more to life than French fries.
9) Dietland
Author
Language
English
Description
A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called Jennifer--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club--
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
La sanación de la obesidad va mucho más allá de la creencia de que nuestro único problema es el peso y que una vez que esté controlado con alguna dieta, todo se arreglará. La verdadera solución pasa por reconocer que muchas veces el hambre que sentimos no es fisiológica, sino que obedece a necesidades emocionales que de no ser escuchadas y atendidas persistiran con su conocida carga de ansiedad y culpa.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Cohen has created a work of nonfiction that will transform the national conversation surrounding the weight crisis in this country and throughout the world. Based on her own research at the RAND corporation, as well as the latest insights from behavioral economics, psychology, cognitive science, and the social sciences, A Big Fat Crisis reveals the surprising forces behind the obesity epidemic and how we, as a nation, can overcome it. Her conclusions...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini have made a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat, and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all good intentions, they go on getting fatter and fatter.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about...
Author
Series
Health watch volume no. 63
Publisher
Health Statistics Section, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 PDF (5, [1] pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fostering six-year-old Max got off to a bad start when his mother telephoned me with complaints even before he moved in. She was in hospital recovering from an operation and I had been asked to take care of her son. Although I'd heard plenty from Max's mother and his social worker, I had very few details about Max himself and I struggled to hide my shock when he arrived. Looking after Max was clearly going to be a completely new challenge.--Back cover....
20) I'll be the one
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she'll do it better...
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