I'm, Like, So Fat!: Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World

by Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Book Overview

It's hard to decide which is more frightening--the "food" teenagers enjoy, or the things they say about their bodies. Whether it's your son's passion for chips and soda or your daughter's announcement... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572309806
• ISBN13: 9781572309807
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Good read, back well by research

This book addresses the struggle in our society between the social pushes for weight loss, and the many driving forces backing our ever so evident obesity problem. The author writes in a casual manner displaying her experience as a mother herself, but supports her ideas well with research she has encountered on a professional front. Although the title is quite bold and may mislead some to believe the book to be a self-help guide to losing weight, it is not quite that, but rather on the contrary. The book interestingly explores the many apparent pulls in our surroundings encompassed by the broad topics of weight and self-image while not necessarily pushing for dieting as a means for dealing with weight issues. A must read for anyone interested in the prevalence of these topics and especially a good book for parents of teenagers.