Like Mother, Like Daughter: How Women Are Influenced by Their Mother's Relationship with Food--And How to Break the Pattern

by Debra Waterhouse

Book Overview

Explains how women can unlearn unhealthy eating habits, identifying a cycle passed on from mother to daughter and describing how to break that cycle while addressing such issues as childhood... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786882719
• ISBN13: 9780786882717
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 17 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A must read book for every parent who eats (everyone)

This book is incredibly insightful. It describes how well-meaning dieting mothers can pass down weight and food problems to their daughters. More importantly it offers practical solutions on how to break the dieting cycle and prevent passing it on to your kids.

WOW! If ever a book was a mirror...

Having spent 14 of the 20 years of my life dieting, starving, compulsively eating, and purging, this book opened my eyes as to where it all stemmed from... My mother's own battles with weight and her fear of me growing up to be like her. This book brings to light shocking information on the damaging effects of dieting, gives supportive advice on changing dieting habits as a team with your mother or daughter, and stresses the importance of eliminating guilt and blame from the mother/daughter relationship. A wonderful book for either/both a mother and daughter.

"variety, moderation and balance" Very Inspiring

If there is one thing,but there were many,that I got from this book is that the Love of food and dining my mother has shared with me is healthy. For the rest of the women who are in the a constant state of "diet" Ms. Waterhouse explains that you need only trust you own body to find its balance. Very Zen