Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs In on Living Large, Losing Weight, and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help - Rilegato

Ellin, Abby

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ISBN 10: 1586482289 ISBN 13: 9781586482282

Casa editrice: Public Affairs, 2005

Riassunto

Journalist Ellin describes the complexities of being a fat teenager in America, which includes parental mistakes, commercial temptations, media cruelty, peer pressure approaching violence, professional patronization, and, at the center, a real kid with real issues. She starts with her own experiences and describes what it took for her to find her own true course. Along the way she finds various methods of accepting, learning, and changing necessary kids in the middle must consider when deciding what path to take for themselves. Ellin focuses on the emotional and the practical, rather than the theoretical, as she describes the rigors, failures, and triumphs endured and attained by kids whose fight is not always about their weight, but about becoming adults. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Recensione:

"A thoughtful, provocative and valuable account of subject that is too often beset by prejudice and hysteria." -- Paul Campos, Professor, University of Colorado and author of The Diet Myth

"Abby Ellin has written a necessary road map for parents and their children who struggle with eating issues." -- Betsy Lerner, author of Food and Loathing

"Ellin's funny, intimate and unblinkingly honest book is sure to help parents and kids wrestling with this issue." -- Alissa Quart, author of Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers

"Its straight-forward perspective challenges our current views about weight loss, body image, and the manipulative societal pressures on our children." -- Emme

"Teenage Wasteland is not just about Ellin's personal experiences...It's about the emotional effects of the various solutions." -- Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2005

"Written with candor, curiosity, and compassion... [and]reflects our own grown-up and insecurities around body and beauty, health and happiness." -- Wendy Shanker, author of The Fat Girl's Guide to Life

"[Ellin] addresses the situation from a psychological, medical, cultural, and most important, understanding standpoint." -- Gotham Magazine, August, 2005

"A unique, empathetic perspective on this issue [Ellin] writes with compassion and humor about the trials of overweight kids." -- Bookpage, August 2005

"An honest, grimly funny report from a world that's lost all sense of proportion about fat." -- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 6, 2005

"One part investigative journalism, one part self-help, and one part personal narrative, Waistland is intriguing...both eloquent and moving." -- The Boston Globe, September 18, 2005

L'autore:

Abby Ellin wrote the "Preludes" column in the New York Times for more than three years, in addition to feature assignments. Her work has appeared in many major publications, from Time and The Utne Reader to Cosmopolitan. She now lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Public Affairs
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1586482289
• ISBN 13: 9781586482282
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 257