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61) Skinny
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Will is the only round kid in a school full of string beans. So he hides in baggy jeans and oversized hoodies, in the back row during class, and anywhere but the cafeteria during lunch. But shame isn't the only feeling that dominates Will's life. He's also got a crush on a girl named Jules who knows he doesn't have a chance with, string beans only date string beans, but he can't help wondering what if? Will's best shot at attracting Jules's attention...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Una guia para liberarse de los canones de belleza establecidos, por la cofundadora de Stop Gordofobia. Estuve casi treinta anos callada, habitando mi cuerpo llena de dolor. Pero en el camino de la vida me encontre con el activismo gordofeminista que me llevo a transformar el dolor en rabia y la rabia en grito. Alguien que grita es alguien que ya no puede mas, que necesita que lo escuchen. Y romper el silencio es el objetivo de estos diez gritos. Juntos...
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English
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"Eric O'Grey was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After a lifetime of failed diet attempts, and the onset of type 2 diabetes, O'Grey went to a new doctor, who surprisingly prescribed a shelter dog. And that's when O'Grey met Peety: an overweight, middle-aged, and forgotten dog who, like O'Grey, had seen better days. The two adopted each other and began an incredible journey, forming a bond of unconditional love that forever changed their...
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English
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Safe Dieting for Teens contains straightforward, nonjudgmental advice that teens can easily understand and follow. The book emphasizes slow, safe weight loss and encourages readers to take control of their own health by explaining what's in the foods they eat and providing many alternatives to higher fat foods. Based on the author's years of experience and research, it offers smart advice about what works and what doesn't in this challenging area....
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English
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A detailed guide to giving children a vibrant, successful future and a healthy, wholesome, invigorating youth ; teaches parents about the importance of good nutrition and the profound effects that inactivity, addiction to media, and super-sized and sugar-laden diets can have on their children.
70) Más allá del sobrepeso: saciando el hambre de tti : somos lo que comemos y comemos lo que callamos
Author
Pub. Date
2021, c2020.
Language
Español
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Language
English
Description
Kathy Benedict, a popular advice column writer, lives a vicarious, secret lie behind her writing identity known as Fabulous Joy. In reality, she's an overweight, unmarried, 30-something wedding reporter. Not even her two best friends, or her jealous sister, know her secret. A secret that's revealed only after she and her friends from the Cinderella Pact, help each other lose weight, and undergo some romantic life changes. Will a new love and her friendships...
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Overweight and stressed out, award-winning vocalist, speaker, and author Sandi Patty was teetering on the edge of a meltdown when her trusted doctor and friend issued an ominous warning: "You are cheating your family if you die too soon—and trust me, Sandi, if you don't do something, you're going to." She had to make some changes, and she had to make them now.
In The Edge of the Divine, the acclaimed soprano shares
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A memoir chronicling what it's like to live in today's world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life.
When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing-and dangerous-460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane...
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English
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Do you believe that your weight should be within the range recommended by one of the various height-weight tables that are always appearing in books and magazines? That being overweight is unhealthy? That weight loss improves health? Have you ever been told by your doctor to lose weight? Are you currently dieting or contemplating going on a diet? Have diets failed you or made you feel like a failure? Do you feel people look down on you because of...
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English
Description
"Big Girl chronicles Kelsey's journey into self-loathing and disordered eating-and out of it. This is a memoir for anyone who's dealt with a distorted body image, food issues, or a dysfunctional family. It's for the late-bloomers and the not-yet-bloomed. It's for everyone who's tried and failed and felt like a big, fat loser. So, basically, everyone."--Page 4 of cover.
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English
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This book is geared towards educators, teachers, administrators and parents of young children especially with health issues. The book will contribute to the literature in the field focusing on national and international concern about childhood obesity, highlighting the problems with obesity pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes etc. Specifically, the book will provide research findings that children who are healthy do better cognitively, socially, emotionally,...
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English
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"The inspiring story of how one woman overcame her struggle with obesity by healing childhood trauma and confronting her innermost demons"-- Provided by publisher.
Raised in a turbulent home, Brittany Williams learned to use food as a coping mechanism to manage her feelings at a young age. When she was 14, a family member's comment "no man will want you with a pudgy figure like that" forever changed the way she viewed her body and opened a door,...
78) Fresh start bariatric cookbook: healthy recipes to enjoy favorite foods after weight-loss surgery
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rediscover the pleasure of food after weight-loss surgery. Weight loss surgery doesn't have to mean giving up your favorite recipes for good. This up-to-date bariatric cookbook puts a surgery-safe twist on foods with 100+ healthy, comforting recipes that are simple enough to make every day, so you can sustain your long-term weight-loss and health goals. Learn how to implement the right portions, increase protein in your meals, and use the most nutritious...
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English
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We all want our children to be fit and healthy, but the current invasion of fast food, sugary snacks, and oversize portions are creating an epidemic of overweight, inactive, and unhealthy kids. The powerful influences of the fast-food industry, omnipresent junk food advertising, and the vicious cycle of TV, computer games, and Internet addictions only make our children more susceptible to a sedentary lifestyle and a lifetime of bad habits and obesity....
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English
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"One man's humorous and heartfelt journey through his year-long attempt to regain his health and change his life...Lovers of narrative nonfiction will relish this contagiously readable book that looks back at Ugel's complicated history with food, obesity, and the ruinous effects this lifelong relationship has had on him. Filled with humor, ultimately this is a book about the private hell of being fat in America and about the fragile male psyche and...
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