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Obesity has dominated popular media as one of the most pressing issues of the new millennium. In the US, high rates of obesity, and by extension, fat people are often blamed for rising health-care costs and a weakening of national security. What does it mean to be considered fat during a time when obesity is framed as a threat? When body fat is the enemy, how does the line between "acceptable" and "too fat" get defined moment-to-moment as people make value judgments about each other's bodies in the course of everyday life? Nicole Taylor explores how teens navigated the fraught realities of body image within a high school culture that reinforced widespread beliefs about body size as a matter of personal responsibility while offering limited opportunity to exercise and an abundance of fattening junk foods. Drawing on daily observations, interviews, and focus groups with teens, Schooled on Fat takes the reader into their lives to show how, through everyday language, they managed their body size, social status, and identities as body-conscious individuals. Taylor traces policy efforts to illustrate where we are as a nation in addressing childhood obesity and offers practical strategies schools and parents can utilize to promote teen wellness. -- Provided by publisher.

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Schooled on fat : what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity / Nicole Taylor.

Blends historical perspectives with cutting-edge research to examine body fat as a critical endocrine organ that can be better understood and managed when recognized as a necessary component of human health.
Biochemist Sylvia Tara explores the surprising science behind our most hated body part. Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringingand, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body. You may not love your fat, but your body certainly does. In fact, your body is actually endowed with many self-defense measures to hold on to fat. For example, fat can use stem cells to regenerate; increase our appetite if it feels threatened; and use bacteria, genetics, and viruses to expand itself. The secret to losing twenty pounds? You have to work with your fat, not against it. Tara explains how your fat influences your appetite and willpower, how it defends itself when attacked, and why it grows back so quickly. The Secret Life of Fat brings cutting-edge research together with historical perspectives to reveal fat's true identity: an endocrine organ that, in the right amount, is critical to our health. Fat triggers puberty, enables our reproductive and immune systems, and even affects brain size. Although we spend $60 billion annually fighting fat, our efforts are often misinformed and misdirected. Tara expertly illustrates the complex role that genetics, hormones, diet, exercise, and history play in our weight, and The Secret Life of Fat sets you on the path to beat the bulge once and for all.--Dust jacket.

xiv, 235 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm

The secret life of fat : the science behind the body's greatest puzzle / Sylvia Tara.

"This accessible guide for clinicians and clinical students working in the fields of eating disorders and transgender health psychology offers useful tips, constructive case studies and reflective questions that enable readers to feel better equipped in supporting their clients' needs. The book addresses the clinical challenges a therapist may encounter, and provides advice on the key issues involved in therapeutic work with transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive clients, including trauma, minority stress, coming out, family support, appearance and body changes. This book will inspire clinicians to bridge the disconnect between the clinical criteria for eating disorders and the type of eating disorder manifesting in a client with co-occurring gender dysphoria."--Publisher's description.

A clinician's guide to gender identity and body image : practical support for working with transgender and gender-expansive clients / Heidi Dalzell, PsyD, CEDS and Kayti Protos, MSW, LCSW.

Seventeen-year-old Stacy Black enters a hospital where she battles her ups and downs with her unreliable boyfriend, Eric; her bleak, unrelenting thoughts and her battle with bulimia.

151 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm

How I made it to eighteen : a mostly true story / Tracy White.

xxviii, 248 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Illness and image : case studies in the medical humanities / Sander L. Gilman.

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Body Image - psychology

Catalogue

Schooled on fat : what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity / Nicole Taylor.

The secret life of fat : the science behind the body's greatest puzzle / Sylvia Tara.

A clinician's guide to gender identity and body image : practical support for working with transgender and gender-expansive clients / Heidi Dalzell, PsyD, CEDS and Kayti Protos, MSW, LCSW.

How I made it to eighteen : a mostly true story / Tracy White.

Illness and image : case studies in the medical humanities / Sander L. Gilman.

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Body Image - psychology

Catalogue

Schooled on fat : what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity / Nicole Taylor.

The secret life of fat : the science behind the body's greatest puzzle / Sylvia Tara.

A clinician's guide to gender identity and body image : practical support for working with transgender and gender-expansive clients / Heidi Dalzell, PsyD, CEDS and Kayti Protos, MSW, LCSW.

How I made it to eighteen : a mostly true story / Tracy White.

Illness and image : case studies in the medical humanities / Sander L. Gilman.

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