Too Fat or Too Thin: A Reference Guide to Eating Disorders

This nine chapter “reference guide to eating disorders” looks at a range of conditions from anorexia and bulimia nervosa to obesity. The book's self‐avowed purpose is to provide practical information about eating disorders and disturbances. Topics include obesity; medical care and physical health issues associated with eating disorders; psycho‐education; socio‐cultural influences; prevention and special populations and treatment.

Following a brief introductory overview of the images of Tinkerbell and Barbie as they relate (or rather do not relate) to real women, each chapter begins with a quotation from a survivor of an eating disorder, and proceeds to look at a different...