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"I’m, Like, SO Fat!": Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices About Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World
by Dianne Newmark-Sztainer, PhD, 317 pages, $35, ISBN, 1593851677, New York, NY, The Guilford Press, 2005.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006;160:660.
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Dr Newmark-Sztainer has written a wonderful book to guide parents through the triple threat of adolescent children in a food-toxic and weight-obsessed culture. Dr Newmark-Sztainer is a researcher and professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and has been the principal investigator for Project EAT (Eating Among Teens). Her publications have included those on dietary practices and obesity of adolescents, weight control practices of adolescents, weight teasing and its potential implications, and family meals. She shares many of the findings from Project EAT in this very readable and enjoyable book.
The first half of the book presents an overview of the problem. She starts by setting up a context for discussing both eating disorders and obesity in the same book by putting these weight-related problems on opposite ends of a spectrum. She then discusses the different levels of influence on weight-related problems from a macrolevel (eg, national . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
Lenna L. Liu, MD, MPH, Reviewer
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