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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Over the past three decades, obesity rates in the US have more than doubled for children and tripled for adolescents ́ and a startling 70% of adults are now obese or overweight. The result has been a widening epidemic of obesity-related health problems, including coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes. While discussions about this spiraling health crisis have tended to focus on the need for more exercise and individual...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a culture obsessed with fat, there are groups of "fat activists" who attempt to change what they see as a fat-phobic world into a size-accepting world. These fat activists span the political and religious spectrum, yet come together around their commitment to ending "size discrimination."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one takes the time to look past Libby Strout's weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death she picks up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now she's ready for high school, for new friends, for love-- for everything life has to offer. Jack Masselin's got swagger, he's mastered the impossible art of fitting in, and he has a newly acquired secret: he can't recognize...
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. Not as fat as her mama, who is so big she hasn't gotten out of bed in months. When Sugar meets Even (not Evan; his nearly illiterate father misspelled his name on the birth certificate), she has the new experience of someone seeing her and not her body. As their unlikely friendship builds, Sugar allows herself to think about the future for the first time, a future...
5) Dietland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. With her job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls' magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. Only then can her true life as a thin person finally begin. Then, when a mysterious woman starts following her, Plum finds herself falling down a rabbit hole and into an underground community of women who live...
10) The whale
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reclusive English teacher, living alone in the wake of a tragedy, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption in filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's transcendent, emotional epic. Nominated for three Academy Awards and featuring a career-defining performance from Brendan Fraser, THE WHALE is a deeply moving story of heartache, empathy, and grace.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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...
12) You(r) teen: losing weight : the owner's manual to simple and healthy weight management at any age
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Offers tips and strategies for losing weight intelligently, explaining the limits of the human body and providing nutrition and exercise suggestions to lose weight and keep it off for good. Includes recipes.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
To be fat is considered far more than a health concern: overweight people can be denied doctors' services or jobs, are mocked on airplanes, are the punchline of jokes. Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people's experiences. She pushes the discussion towards authentic fat activism, which...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Even though we know better. we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two-thirds of Americans do precisely that. The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect...
16) Fed up
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Wide screen.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Katie Couric, the film blows the lid off everything that was known about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public. Exposing the hidden truths contributing to one of the largest health epidemics in history, it follows a group of families battling to lead healthier lives and reveals why the conventional wisdom of 'exercise and eat right'...
Author
Publisher
Metabolic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Duodecima edicion ; Deluxe nueva edicion.
Language
Español
Description
Traduccion al espanol del resumen en ingles: Aqui hay una respuesta natural al problema de perder peso y mantenerlo apagado: su metabolismo. Este libro contiene soluciones y ayuda para un metabolismo lento, problemas de peso, obesidad, diabetes, hipotiroidismo y otros sintomas relacionados. Proporciona tecnicas naturales, probadas en mas de 10,000 personas, que pueden usarse para acelerar o reparar un metabolismo lento. Estos incluyen nutricion que...
18) Supersize Me
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Oscar-nominated director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of indoctrinating young...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Obesity Fix is a ground-breaking book about identifying the root causes of the obesity epidemic and providing long-term solutions to it. It draws information from decades of research and thousands of scientific studies, articles and meta-analyses. Education about the cause of obesity and weight gain is a critical part to achieving optimal body composition and metabolic health. Instead of prescribing any particular diet or discarding others, The...
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