Saturday, July 12, 2008

2008 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers


Inside Out Portrait of an Eating Disorder by Nadia Shivack is the true story of Nadia, the author. She tells her story that includes pictures she drew while in treatment. As a young child, her mother would make her and her sisters eat everything on the plate. Her disorder somewhat started when she started swimming competitively and the coach praised the girls with appropriate weights and often told the others to watch their weight. This started making her feel really fat. The more she felt fat, the more she thought about food and would often go stuff herself with junkfood such as candies. Then she would exercise to burn the calories. Soon, everything started getting bad for her at school and with her swimming. All she now thought of were diets. She learned how to binge and then force herself to throw up. Day after day, her situation got worse and worse to the point that she ended up signing up for a free treatment. This helped for awhile but she eventually ended up bingeing and vomiting again. She later gave up on herself and just before she turned 40 she was admitted into another treatment center. Again, she was getting better, but in her mind she still thought she wouldn't make it. Right before she was released from the center, she ran away thinking of committing suicide. She was lucky that time and was caught just in time. She got more counseling and is now learning to accept herself.
This book, along with Thin have made me realize that we need to be more concious on how we criticize anyone. Sometimes without thinking, and maybe just saying something we think is cute might not be cute to someone else. "Oh, I just love your chubby cheeks!". In this book you will find many facts along the pages about different percentages of how this disorder affects girls from a very early age between 1st. and 3rd. Grade; 42% want to be thinner! They shouldn't be worried about things like this!

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