When Food's a Foe: How You Can Confront and Conquer Your Eating Disorder [Paperback]

Nancy J. Kolodny (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1998

...explains how to set realistic goals, develop self- awareness and self-esteem, track progression, and decide if professional therapy is necessary.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 7 Up-- A revised volume (Little, 1987) with insignificent changes. Kolodny presents information about self-image and eating disorders; how habits become addictions; facts about anorexia, bulimia and bulimarexia; and ways to confront the problems. A variety of contemporary comic strips dot the text with humorous references to eating attitudes and conduct. Personal experience letters and incidents are used to convince readers that changes in behavior can be made. However, they might become bogged down with all the lists and strategies intended to assist them. While information for reports is present, students may have to work a little harder to get at it than in titles with a more reportorial approach. Revisions include a test to check for bulimia and an additional item about how to win against it. There is also a new four-page segment on unanticipated situations resulting from going public about bulimic behavior. Libraries that have the original edition will find too few changes to justify the purchase of this one. --Lois McCulley, Wichita Falls High School,
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Juv Pap); Rev Upd edition (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316558435
• ISBN-13: 978-0316558433
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,035,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Saving Grace, December 19, 1999

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This review is from: When Food's a Foe: How You Can Confront and Conquer Your Eating Disorder (Paperback)

Nancy Kolodny's reader-friendly writing style will be a welcome change for those who are seeking help but not finding it in typical scientific-type analyses. The letters from people suffering from Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia give the reader a marvellously comforting "you are not alone" feeling.

An absolutely must-read for anyone suffering from an eating disorder, or family and friends of same.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars useless, March 14, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: When Food's a Foe: How You Can Confront and Conquer Your Eating Disorder (Library Binding)

As someone who has an eating disorder, and has actually worked with Nancy, this book is absolutly useless. There are many other more helpful books out there, I would recommend something by Zerbe.