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by: Mary Phd Pipher
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8526
EAN: 9780345413932
ISBN: 0345413938
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: January 21, 1997
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: January 21, 1997
Sales Rank: 248700
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Book Description:
We live in an appearance-obsessed culture. Fashion ads, magazine covers, TV shows, and movies idealize a body type that is impossible for most real women to achieve. In this comforting, liberating book, Dr. Mary Pipher, bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, offers advice, counsel, and practical solutions for understanding our needs, our fears, and our many hungers. She shows us how we can at last learn to live at peace with the natural differences in our bodies and appetites.
The rates of anorexia, bulimia, and depression for women are the highest they have ever been, and begin at ever younger ages. Dr. Pipher reveals how society encourages our misery and prevents us from accepting our looks. Indeed, for many women the humiliation of overweight or obesity is a wound that never heals. Dr. Pipher reminds us that accepting our bodies the way they are is the greatest gift we can give ourselves.
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Rating:  - hunger pains
Mary Pipher, author of "Reviving Ophelia," turns her attention to women and their relationships with their bodies. Through case studies, plus personal and clinical experience, she examines eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, obesity, dieting, societal pressures, and how we can help our children and ourselves adopt healthier attitudes toward food. The case studies are candid, often brutally so, and illuminating. While Pipher's suggestions to become more aware and forgiving of ... Read More
Rating:  - It's really not about food, but about wanting to be loved
As a therapist and speaker, I will definitely recommend this book to all women. Is there a woman in America who doesn't struggle with body image, if she is truly honest with herself? The most fascinating parts were those stories of women, and very interesting to see how eating disorders are really about wanting to connect deeply with others...to be loved. If I'm attractive enough, I will be liked, desireable, and loved well. Also the desire for many struggling with anorexia to be compliant and to ... Read More
Rating: - It's really not about food, but about wanting to be loved
As a therapist and speaker, I will definitely recommend this book to all women. Is there a woman in America who doesn't struggle with body image, if she is truly honest with herself? The most fascinating parts were those stories of women, and very interesting to see how eating disorders are really about wanting to connect deeply with others...to be loved. If I'm attractive enough, I will be liked, desireable, and loved well. Also the desire for many struggling with anorexia to be compliant and to ... Read More
Rating: - Parents should read this
Parents, teachers, and others who may work with young girls or women should read this book. It wouldn't hurt for all women to read this and understand the different signs of eating disorders and distorted thinking (in order to help themselves, friends or family.) It has basic suggestions at the end of many chapters to help improve or recover from eating disorders or accepting the body you have whether it is large,small or whatever. I like these cause they give a good summary and some goals. This book ... Read More
Rating: - Very true, very real, very helpful
I read this book after being discharged from the hospital for treatment of anorexia. More than any other book, "Hunger Pains" made me examine and question the way food, fat, obesity, and thinness are viewed in our culture. It empowered me to want to recover, and to change not only my own life but the society that produces such horrible diseases as anorexia and bulemia. Dr. Pipher is so eloquent and clear in her depiction of how food is conditioned from childhood to be our enemy, and gives very helpful, ... Read More
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