 | The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology by Michael Gard
Buy new: $41.30 / Used from: $37.01 A voice of reason.
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 | A Breath Floats By by Thayne Hudson
Buy new: $23.84 / Used from: $18.15 Does not define the women by size. The perfect body is one way women place the 'great white whale' in our own way - meaning, when I master my weight, then I will master my life. This robs us of our sacred contract work, of time, denies others what they could be receiving from us.
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 | The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health by Paul Campos
Buy used from: $2.22 Must have.
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 | Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight by Linda Bacon PhD
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $9.28 New book on the block - the truth about health. Medically- correct information.
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 | Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic by J. Eric Oliver
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.47 A man who set out to write a completely different book discovers the truth and writes the book from his new perspective.
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 | Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health by Glenn A. Gaesser
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.26 Must have.
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 | The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect by Margo Maine
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $7.27 Again, culture and history. We cannot learn enough.
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 | Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss---and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Gina Kolata
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.95 Quite a bit to take with you, even if you do not agree with all theories.
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 | The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton by Elena Levy-Navarro
Buy new: $80.00 / Used from: $29.50 There are many cultures in this era to look to, noting their fat and healthy bodies are quite normal and accepted.
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 | The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $3.61 A classic written by a classically thin and beautiful woman who feels it too.
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 | Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health by Stanley Feldman
Buy used from: $1.02 Some truths we cannot ignore.
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 | The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America by W. Charisse Goodman
Buy used from: $0.01 An incite-ful and insightful compilation of essays that express for each of us why we are - or should be at least momentarily - angry. Very angry. But then we can get over it and live life fully.
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 | Squeezing Your Size 14 Self Into A Size 6 World: A Real-Woman's Guide To Food, Fitness And Self-Acceptance by Carrie Smith
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $0.02 If the size 14 thinks they have it rough, try squeezing your size 32 self into a size 6 world.
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 | Working With Groups to Explore Food & Body Connections: Eating Issues, Body Image, Size Acceptance, Self-Care (Structured Exercises in Healing)
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $10.62 Workbook.
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 | Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes: How to Be Happy and Healthy at Your Natural Weight, Revised Edition by Carol A. Johnson M.A.
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $3.40 A serious discussion on culture.
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 | Your Plus-Size Pregnancy: The Ultimate Guide for the Full-Figured Expectant Mom by Brette McWhorter Sember
Buy used from: $9.85 Be fully informed, especially in pregnancy.
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 | Big, Beautiful, and Pregnant: Expert Advice and Comforting Wisdom for the Expecting Plus-Size Woman by M.D. Cornelia van der Ziel
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $0.09 Pregnancy is a time of nurturing, fertility goddesses are always round. That more do we need to know.
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 | Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Rose E. Frisch
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $6.75 For all the pregnant or desiring to become pregnant women out there - you are loveliness before, during, and after, in all your natural glory. Allow.
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 | Real Fitness for Real Women: A Unique Workout Program for the Plus-Size Woman
Buy used from: $0.33 Hey, health at every size. There are many workout programs for the larger of women.
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 | Bodylove: Learning to Like Our Looks and Ourselves -- A Practical Guide for Women by Rita Freedman
Buy used from: $11.49 Gurze Books publishes material to serve against the war of eating disorders. Visit their website for more, including DVDs for classroom.
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 | FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.15 Ms. Wann highlights the facts - a good read for young adults, but women love it.
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 | Real Gorgeous: The Truth about Body and Beauty by Kaz Cooke
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $0.44 for women as well as teens.
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 | Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body by Courtney E. Martin
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $2.20 Tidal wave of info.
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 | The Body Burden, Living In the Shadow of Barbie by Stacey Handler
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $7.19 Oh, yes, Barbie... and our daughters are still living in the shadow of Barbie, even after her body has been 'updated' to something more realistic. Please.
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 | A Look in the Mirror: Freeing Yourself From the Body Image Blues by Valerie Rainon McManus
Buy used from: $19.78 Transposing the message, this book still does not say that to be a fat teen is acceptable. It's on the list for what it has to offer, but would recommend parents do not pass it on to their daughter or son, just voice the messages they can use.
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 | Real Kids Come in All Sizes: Ten Essential Lessons to Build Your Child's Body Esteem by Kathy Kater
Buy used from: $0.96 This book offers much, except the premise is children to accept themselves at any size, any shape - just don't ever be 'obese'. Parents, take it for what it could be - children learning health at every size. Even fat children who have their rights to size and shape acceptance too.
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 | The Big Happy Bear: For Children of All Sizes by Betsy Bogert
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $12.36 Included because we need more author's like Bogert. I think she could write a series. Watch for my list for children.
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 | Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers by Nancy Amanda Redd
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.60 How we got to this point revealed. You will not find one really fat girl in the book dealing with her body image. Why? Because to be fat is not acceptable so the fat girl is left out until she becomes then, and then she can deal with the body image issues of the acceptable form she acquires.
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 | Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children by Sarah Grogan
Buy used from: $42.95 Intelligent conversation on the sequence of history that belies our obsession with imperfection and fat.
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 | Comfortable in Your Own Skin: Making Peace with Your Body Image (Focus on the Family Books) by Deborah Newman
Buy new: $11.04 / Used from: $1.40 Peaceful and complimentary to the list.
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 | When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession by Jane R. Hirschmann
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.09 A spokesperson for the cause with many recommendations to make changes in personal sabotage.
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 | Do I Look Fat in This?: Get Over Your Body and On With Your Life by Rhonda Britten
Buy used from: $0.01 A book for thin women who think fat is the end of the world. Did you know a poll revealed that a high percentage of women would rather be dead than be fat? Really.
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 | The 'Fat' Female Body by Samantha Murray
Buy new: $72.01 / Used from: $61.16 A textbook - a case for atypical bodies.
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 | This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes by Rosanne Olson
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $7.80 Absolutely spectacular. Images of real women - meaning women as they truly are. I believe all women need a library of books such as 'This Is Who I Am' and 'The Fully Body Project' and even 'Bodies and Souls' because these will erase the images in our minds of what we think we should be - we will see the beauty in who we really are.
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 | The Full Body Project: Photographs by Leonard Nimoy
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $12.94 Fat is lovely, graceful, fulfilling.
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 | Bodies and Souls: The Century Project by Frank Cordelle
Buy new: $34.15 / Used from: $30.74 These are the artforms of God's hand.
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 | The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body by Desmond Morris
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.92 A true analysis of the female body and many answers as to why women have come to feel the way they do about their image. The ultimate case for the topic of this listmania.
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 | Lay off the fatties: they're not hurting anybody--maybe not even themselves.(Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic)(The Diet Myth: ... review): An article from: Reason by Jacob Sullum
Buy new: $9.95 a few articles....
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