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1) Body shaming
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"The experience of being body-shamed can be painful and humiliating for adolescents. Today, young people sometimes feel like they're under siege from shaming-at school, online, and even from their own family members. Body-shaming has been linked with eating disorders and psychological issues. This informative and timely title describes the issue and provides a toolkit of actions and ideas that can help teens cope with body-shaming. Savvy teens can...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
"I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that...
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"At twenty-nine, Kelsey Miller had done it all: crash diets, healthy diets, and nutritionist-prescribed 'eating plans,' which are diets that you pay more money for. She'd been fighting her un-thin body since early childhood, and after a lifetime of failure, finally hit bottom. No diet could transform her body or her life ... With the help of an intuitive eating coach and fitness professionals, she learned how to eat based on her body's instincts and...
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Tiny Reparations Books
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[2023]
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When King first joined a gym, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of "not enough-ness": no matter what she achieves, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. She came to understand that diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem: Euro-centric beauty standards were the problem. Here King shares the wisdom, the tools, and the inspiration to motivate readers to find...
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"The classic bestseller about rejecting diet mentality ... Since it was first published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. It shows us that the problem is not us; it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped us from listening to our bodies ... This revised edition is entirely updated throughout. It includes new material on diet culture, weight...
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Top Light
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[2021]
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"As many as 5-10 million Americans may suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) yet it remains under-recognized by both mental health professionals and the general public. Tormented by obsessive thoughts associated with physical appearance, and related compulsive behaviors, people with BDD believe their bodies are flawed or even deformed-imperfections typically not noticeable to others. High suicide attempt rates, the pursuit of cosmetic remedies...
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Combining scientific studies with the voices of real women of all ages, Renee Engeln makes clear that, to truly fulfill their potential, society must break free from cultural forces that feed destructive desires, attitudes, and words, from fat-shaming to denigrating commentary about other women. She provides inspiration and workable solutions to help girls and women overcome negative attitudes and embrace their whole selves, to transform their lives,...
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Cheriton Children's Books
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2022.
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Eating disorders happen-but how does it feel when they happen to you? Having an eating disorder is a painful, life-changing experience that happens to thousands of young people every year. Discover what it is like to suffer from an eating disorder through the heartfelt stories of survivors. Learn how it "happened to them," read their journeys to recovery, and find out more about the causes and treatments of these difficult conditions in this open,...
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Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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2020.
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"Thirty-seven contributors-including model Tyra Banks, gymnast Aly Raisman, and bestselling YA authors-explore the world in their unique bodies through essays, lists, comics, and art, from the award-winning editor of (Don't) Call Me Crazy"-- Provided by publisher.
14) The belly song
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Little Bee Books
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[2024]
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"Sing along in this joyful celebration of your baby's perfect belly inspired by the song from TikTok trailblazer, Mother Moon!"-- Provided by publisher.
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2023]
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"A life-changing guide to reclaiming your relationship with your body and yourself Have you ever thought that if only you could change something about the way you looked, your life would be better? But the truth is that even if you were to magically attain the "perfect" body right now, your problems wouldn't be solved. Because body image issues are never just about the body. Body image issues are always about something deeper, and they always serve...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2019.
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"68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66% of people who embark on weight-loss efforts end up gaining more weight than they lost. If dieting is so clearly ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it? The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and moral virtue, promotes weight loss...
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Scribner
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2021.
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"A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine....
19) Love your body
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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"My body is strong. My body can do amazing things. My body is my own. Freedom is loving your body with all its 'imperfections' and being the perfectly imperfect you. [This book] encourages young girls to admire and celebrate their bodies for all the amazing things they can do, and to help girls see that they are so much more than their bodies"--Back cover.
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Feiwel and Friends
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2023.
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"Everybody has a body. Whether you're short, tall, fat, thin, hairy, bald, whether you use a wheelchair or have a limb difference, we all rely on our bodies to take us through the world. From hiking a mountain to playing baseball to exploring an aquarium, debut author Molli Jackson Ehlert and illustrator Lorian Tu show us all the different ways that bodies can look and the things they can do, with representation of all different types of bodies"
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