Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Todays Weight-Obsessed World

by Frances M. Berg

Book Overview

Designed to challenge America's growing obsession with thinness, this book reveals the profound mental and physical effects on women struggling with their weight. It examines the way weight obsession consumes women, shatters lives, and even kills. It gives a warning call to health professionals, families, and leaders.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918532639
• ISBN13: 9780918532633
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Healthy Weight Publishing Network
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for diehard dieters

This book makes it very clear why dieting is self-defeating. Learning to eat healthy from all the delicious foods on the food pyramid will keep you busy so you won't have time to concern yourself with obsessing about food. Those obsessions will disappear when learning about new facts and discoveries about the needs of your body. As I was reading the book, Women Afraid to Eat, by Francie Berg, I was inspired to experiment. I was surprised to learn that there are delightful flavors of the usual healthy foods that I had never experienced before. Now I buy fresh vegetables and fruits and eat them up while they are still fresh. I experienced an new slant to my life and find it refreshing. I'm losing weight without thinking about food. I just accept myself and feel so much better about myself. I just eat healthy and keep losing pounds, gradually, gradually, gradually, without even thinking about it. I save the money that I might have spent on weight-loss programs that are quite expensive. None of those weight-loss pills, or foods go into my body...just healthy unprocessed foods and I keep losing weight! Of course I read labels on foods I buy at the market and if it has too much fat, salt or sugar, it stays right on the shelf. I don't touch it. Eating healthy, I've discovered, is the way to go. Reading Berg's book, Women Afraid to Eat, has changed my life. ....A Happy Reader

How to break free of weight obsession

Two important guides to weight and eating are presented inthese excellent surveys by Frances Berg. Children And Teens Afraid ToEat examines six major eating and weight problems, from undernutrition of teens to eating disorders and obesity, blending statistics with a survey of underlying social causes and the actions which need to be taken to help teens. Women Afraid To Eat documents the physical and psychological harm done by social images which focus on the detriments of eating. From fad diets to weight prejudices, this tells women how to break free of weight obsession.