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ore than 30 million people in the United States suffer from an eating disorder. In acknowledgement of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, we’ve put together a detailed infographic with facts and statistics based on information from Oxford Clinical Psychology. Explore the infographic for a better understanding of what millions of Americans suffer through on a daily basis. For more information on eating disorders, such as bulimia nervosa, treatments for binge eating and purging, and the significance of body image, visit Oxford Clinical Psychology.
Researchers have noted that some addictive behaviours may partly depend upon gender. For instance, men are more likely to be addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex whereas women are more likely to suffer from ‘mall disorders’ such as eating and shopping. Food is – of course – a primary reward as it is necessary for our survival.
I have to admit, I had a really fun time writing The Lucky Kind. Of course it was plagued, from time to time, with bouts of self-doubt, questions over where the story was going and how I was going to get it there, but overall, I look back on the experience of writing that book as a great time. I loved the characters, I loved the voice, the dialogue seemed to crackle and pop as I put it down on paper. Writing The Beautiful Between was difficult, but always exciting, because it was my first novel and there was so much possibility in every new chapter. I didn’t know if I was writing it just for me and me alone or if it would be published.
Writing The Stone Girl, however, was not particularly fun. It was exhilarating, from time to time, because I was writing about things I’d never written about before, going someplace darker and deeper than I’d ever been as a writer. It was thrilling, sometimes, when the words came quickly and I wrote chapter after chapter in rapid succession. But the words never came easily. There were times when I would go weeks and weeks without looking at the book at all.
I came up with the idea for The Stone Girl in a car, driving from the San Francisco airport to the hotel where my then-fiancé and I were planning our wedding. It was a few days before my 28th birthday, a few years since I’d last made myself throw up, and I was reading Blackbird House, by Alice Hoffman, for the first time. Suddenly, in my mind’s eye, I saw a girl, still and silent as a stone, crouched beside a toilet. At once, I knew everything about her. I knew her name was Sarah Beth, but she preferred to be called Sethie. I knew the boy she loved was only half of a boyfriend, and I knew she was destined to be hurt by him. I knew exactly when and how she first learned to throw up. I know she wore her clothes a couple sizes too big so that waistbands and cap-sleeves wouldn’t dig into her skin. I knew that sometimes she wanted to take a knife to her body and cut the fat pieces away.
I began scribbling in the spiral notebook I always take with me when I travel. A few messy pages of notes later, I’d begun writing The Stone Girl. But I quickly put it aside. The Beautiful Between hadn’t even been published yet. I had only just begun writing The Lucky Kind. And did I really want to write a book about a sick, sad, lonely girl anyway?
Whether I wanted to or not eventually became besides the point. I kept thinking about this girl and I kept scribbling notes, typing stray chapters, imagining where her story would take her. I remembered things long forgotten, from the years I spent wrapped up in my own body-obsession: my illogical “fat-free” days,
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve had a lot of interaction, via social media and email, with people who are struggling with eating disorders.
The time has come for us all to get righteously angry.
Myself, I have moved past anger to that steel-eyed, axe-sharpening, calm place of volcanic rage.
I am NOT angry at the girls and boys and women and men who are waging daily battle against the eating disorders which are trying to destroy them. I love those folks. I want to help strengthen them and offer whatever support I can, both to them and to their families.(Why photos of babies? See the bottom of the post.)
No, my fury is leveled at the industries that make money off of vulnerable people by promoting unhealthy, unrealistic, Photoshopped body images. And I am hereby calling out everyone who thinks that promoting pro-ana (pro-anorexic), pro-mia (pro-bulimic), and thinspiration sites and behaviors is a good thing.
It is time to speak some hard truth. Are you listening?
ANA wants to kill you.
MIA wants to kill you.
ED wants you to die.
I am not exaggerating. Not even a little bit. More people die from eating disorders than from any psychiatric illness. (Sullivan, P.(1995). American Journal of Psychiatry, 152 (7), 1073-1074.) Want to learn more? NEDA has a great collection of statistics.
People struggling with eating disorders (ED) spend a lot of energy convincing themselves and others that ANA and MIA are enchanted phantoms or fairy godsisters who will help them lose weight and then – magically – everything will be better. They will feel beautiful. Accepted. Loved. Worthy. Accomplished. Important. Cherished. Happy. They starve themselves because they are starving for the powerful sense of security and belonging that every human being deserves.
How does this happen?
It often starts when kids stumble into the howling desert wasteland we call adolescence. Her (his) body changes. Hormones start to drive the brain train. Insecurities fester. Pressure and stress boil. Kids look around for guidance. Advertising hammers home the bullshit message that if they just lose some weight, all of their problems will disappear.
It’s a lie. An evil, obscene lie. Advertisers want to make you feel worse, not better, because if you are feeling kind of crappy, it’s easier for them to con you into buying stuff. They hire genetically thin models, pressure them to drug and starve themselves to emaciation, and THEN they Photoshop the images of these models until they resemble aliens.
Starting to understand my wrath?
People suffering from eating disorders are often malnourished. The chemicals in their bodies are all messed up from starvation and/or purging. Their brains don’t have enough fuel to run on, which makes thinking clearly and making smart decisions even harder. This is why they need our loving support, not our criticism or disdain.
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, Wendy Lamb Books, 2006, 194 pp, ISBN: 0553376055
Recap:
While some might bemoan the fact that their father has shipped them off to England to live with a whole passle of strange cousins, Daisy is actually finding the whole situation rather brilliant.
Not only will she get to miss the birth of her stepmother's demon child, as it turns out, her cousins are nothing short of wonderful. Their life together on the farm is full of magic and love and adventure and yes, there might be a war coming on, but surely it will never reach them all the way out in the country. Right?
...Right?
Wrong.
Review:
How I Live Now is one of those books where you're reading and reading and reading (because of course you can't put it down) and the entire time you know in the back of your mind, "I'm holding a little piece of magic in my own two hands!"
Daisy's voice as the narrator was the first sign that this book was something extraordinary. With her run-on sentences and Generous Use of Capitalized Letters and tongue in cheek observations and unabashedly honest confessions, Daisy sounds just exactly as every 15-year-old should, but is somehow wiser, funnier, and more lovabl
2 Comments on How I Live Now, last added: 4/25/2011
Demi Lovato discusses (her eating disorder and her stint in rehab in a new issue of Seventeen, making her a positive role model for teen girls — most of whom say they feel pressured to be thin. Youth Advisory Board member Camilla Nord recently... Read the rest of this post
Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign against childhood obesity has some very positive aspects, and some very negative aspects. As Youth Advisory Board member Camilla Nord points out, encouraging exercise and healthy eating is great, but... Read the rest of this post
I have long been grateful to the strong women who speak out about the effects of advertising on women. Jean Kilbourne is one of those women–intelligent, articulate, aware, helping people see the horrible effects of some advertising.
There is a lot of sexist, desensitizing advertising that negatively affects women, and how people see women, leading to sexism, eating disorders and poor body image in girls and women, and adding to violence against women (including rape, porn, and more). Women are often shown as objects, parts of bodies, thin and emaciated, and ideal in a way that no woman can ever be.
I love how Jean Kilbourne analyzes the ads, and helps people see what’s really going on. It can be eye-opening, and make you think. I find it fascinating. I hope you’ll check it out.
If you found that interesting, you might also want to check out another Killing Us Softly video:
1 Comments on Powerful video of effect of advertising on women: Killing Us Softly 4, last added: 3/14/2011
Mark Twain said, "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug."
I've read hundreds of wonderful stories and fallen in love with thousands of characters, but when it comes down to the writing, down to the words, those stories and characters were so many lightening bugs in comparison with Laurie Halse Anderson's lightening.
For the past week, I've been reading Anderson's Wintergirls. Now size-wise, this is not a large book. It could probably be read in just a day or two. But the words are so electrically magic that reading this book actually takes something out of me every time I pick it up. I want to savor it, to make it last, because writing like this does not come along very often.
Below are just a few glimpses of lightening. To find yourself in the middle of the storm, you need to read Wintergirls for yourself.
"The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts."
"We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone."
"My hands read a braille map hewn from bone, starting with my hollow breasts threaded with blue-vein rivers thick with ice. I count my ribs like rosary beads, muttering incantations, fingers curling under the bony cage. They can almost touch what's hiding inside."
Please tell me, Book Lovers. Are you a lover of Laurie Halse Anderson? When was the last time that an author's words touched you like lightening?
10 Comments on My Gosh, This Woman Can Write, last added: 1/24/2011
I really loved Fever 1793, so immediately afterward, I picked up Chains. I couldn't get into it. I don't know if I just bottomed out on her writing after one book, or if it was the book itself. Maybe I'll try some of her YA stuff!
I loved Speak and Wintergirls. Wintergirls was especially impressive b/c she captured the anorexic mind so well. It's exactly the mindset I had for years and I was impressed on how well she described it. I did wonder whether people w/o eating disorders could really "get it" in the same way I could.
To Kathleen - I haven't actually read any of her historical fiction, but for YA, Speak and Wintergirls are both PHENOMENAL!
To Alison - Thank you for sharing that! You just made Wintergirls even more amazing for me. I haven't struggled with an eating disorder myself, but the incredible narration in this book is just so, so gripping, I feel like I can put myself in Lia's place.
To Ladystorm - This is NOT a zombie book at all. It's an incredibly realistic piece of contemporary fiction about two girls with eating disorders. Give it a try! You might love it.
To Jessica - What else would you recommend from her?? I LOVED Speak and was not a big fan of Twisted. I'm thinking about reading Fever 1793 next?
I want to read this book. I love how a lot of her books are about real life and real things people go through. It just makes the books so powerful and I love how she does that. Speak was an amazing book and it left me speechless. I read some of wintergirls on amazon and had to spot reading so i wouldn't ruin the book for myself haha. I love the 3 quotes you gave us! [:
I've had Wintergirls in my TBR stack forever -- more than a year, I'm sure -- and I don't know what's taking me so long to read it! I absolutely loved Anderson's Catalyst, and Twisted left me unable to sleep after finishing. Amazing works.
Corona Light goes after the Facebook generation (with a new young adult-targeted social media campaign that lets online fans contribute photos to a giant Times Square billboard the company will be running from Nov. 8 to Dec. 6 — part of... Read the rest of this post
Lisabeth Lewis didn't mean to become Famine. She had a love affair with food, and she'd never liked horses (never mind the time she asked for a pony when she was eight; that was just a girl thing). If she'd been asked which Horseman of the Apocalypse she would most likely be, she would have probably replied, "War." And if you'd heard her and her boyfriend, James, fighting, you would have agreed. Lisa wasn't a Famine person, despite the eating disorder.
Hunger has an interesting premise. Lisa, our heroine, has an eating disorder. One night her suicide attempt is interrupted by a strange delivery man knocking on the door. He has a gift and a message: "Thou art Famine." The gift this pale man brings? Scales. Lisa thinks this is all one very strange dream. She even tries to laugh about it with her friends. But. It's not a dream. And Lisa must face her new reality.
Lisa's life was complicated before she met Death, War, and Pestilence. For Lisa is haunted by a voice in her head telling her she's fat. All day, every day, Lisa hears a negative message about herself, about her body. The people in her life are beginning to notice that Lisa is not well. Her boyfriend, James, and her former best friend, Suzanne, are terribly concerned. But Lisa just clings to her new best friend, Tammy. She thinks that Tammy understands everything, for Tammy has her own battles with food. And, of course, her relationship with her parents is a bit strained. So, yes, Lisa's life was complicated enough for any teen BEFORE she became one of the four riders of the Apocalypse.
Can Lisa simplify her life?
I thought the premise was intriguing. I liked the idea of this one. It adds some supernatural/fantasy elements to a serious 'problem' novel about eating disorders. Our heroine is a troubled teen who doesn't quite realize just how much trouble she is in. And Death is able to give her a unique wake-up call in a way.
The Heart is Not a Size by Beth Kephart, Harper Teen, 2010, 256 pp, Realistic Fiction, ISBN: 0061470481
What I remember now is the bunch of them running: from the tins, which were their houses. Up the white streets, which were the color of bone. All the way to the top of Anapra, to where we were standing in our secondhand scrubs and where Riley said, "They might as well be flowers, blown right off their stalks," and Sophie said, "This is so completely wild," and the Third said nothing at all...
It was only our second day.
We'd pinned everything on nothing.
And this is how The Heart is Not a Size begins. Holy smokes, if that doesn't just suck you in...
The narrator, Georgia, is the epitome of responsibility: never earning less than an A, the neighborhood go-to babysitter, the quiet one who can always be counted on to let someone else take center stage. What no one knows is, Georgia has started suffering from anxiety attacks. Perfection always comes at a price, and Georgia's paying with giant blackbird wings beating inside her heart.
Riley is Georgia's best friend. Vibrantly colored, wildly creative, a mouth that never stops moving: Riley is Georgia's opposite in every way. She has a secret, too. After hearing her coldly distant mother dismiss her as average, Riley decides to be anything but - even if it means starving herself to prove it.
When Georgia convinces Riley to come with her on a two-week work trip to Anapra, a tiny, dustblown village outside of Juarez, Mexico, both girls go hoping for some sort of transformation. Neither is prepared for the transformation that they ultimately receive.
In some ways, this book is brilliant. The writing is gorgeous; every single paragraph is like a string of poetry. Beth Kephart took two big issues - eating disorders and anxiety attacks - and placed them together in a highly original setting. I loved that most of the story took place on a work trip in Anapra, Mexico. What a refreshing contrast to vampires and the upper east side!
However, as a whole, this book just didn't work for me. As gorgeous as the writing was, it just didn't ring true to me as the voice of a teenage narrator. In some parts I was just so distracted from the actual story because I kept thinking, "Come on! What teenager actually talks like this?" On top of that, Georgia was just sooooo serious. Granted, it was a serious story, but after a while I would have given anything for a laugh. (Spoiler alert!) In the end, I felt like so much was left unresolved. It seemed like Riley was going to get help... maybe? But I don't think Georgia ever talked to anyone about her issues. Even though I was ready for their story to be over, it just seemed unfinished.
I know that author Beth Kephart has been the recipiant of about a million awards, including being a finalist for the National Book Award. Last year in 2009, she was in the Top 5 of BBAW's author blogs. You can find hers here. Even though I was not a big fan of The Heart is Not a Size, I would still be interested to read another of her books. What do you think, Book Lovers? Have you read this one? Would you recommend another of her novels?
5 Comments on The Heart is Not a Size, last added: 7/9/2010
I haven't read this one but I recently had a similar reaction with "What I was" by Meg Rosoff, brilliant writing but almost too much...I agree with what you just wrote on my blog “Naomi and Ely’s No-Kiss List” was not very good
I have not read it or even seen it around, but that doesn't mean much. However, I do have a hard time when authors don't pin point the correct character traits when they write a character. My theory is, if you can't write a teenager cause you don't really get it, don't. There is always adult fiction.
I wasn't wild about this one either, but I seem to be in the minority in the book blogosphere. I agree with you - the writing was beautiful. It's just that as a whole, the book just didn't grab me. Glad I'm not the only one that feels this way :)
Isn't it a weird feeling to not love a book that everyone else seems to? Jen, I think you're right on about adults writing as teens... It's so difficult! And maybe some are just better suited to adult fiction?!
So much insight in your review, Katie, and I do find a lot of narrators just don't capture the teenage voice believably enough. It really pulls a book down for me, but the writing in this one does sound beautiful. And a finalist for the national book award, too!
Meg (aka sistrsic92 aka Eggy) has a problem: her sister is T2P2. The Totally Perfect Person. Nothing Meg does could ever compare to the wonder that is T2P2. But then Meg learns that her sister's life isn't exactly as perfect as it seems.
As her sister's perfect facade comes crumbling down, Meg learns that her own life isn't quite as bad as she had imagined. And maybe, just maybe, she and her sister need each other after all...
sistrsic92 first caught my eye because of the "Bloggrls" series header at the top of the cover. A YA book about blogging? Hmmm... I need to investigate! When I started flipping through it, I was further drawn in by the blog-style layout and the "clicktionary" at the front of the book, defining all of the terms like "tefw," "VBGF," and "world fam." All of these elements would make this book an easy sell to my female students.
But what about the plot? sistrsic92 is a pretty straightforward story about a younger sister who feels like she just can't measure up. However, her story grows more intense when Meg learns that her older sister Cara has a serious eating disorder. Once the rest of the family catches on, Cara is hospitalized. As their family works to convince themselves that Cara is getting better, Meg is the only one who knows the truth: Cara has a secret. A serious secret. And until she lets it out, nothing is going to get better.
I would eagerly give this book to a student who had a family member (or who was personally) struggling with an eating disorder. It's full of information about how eating disorders start, how to support people who have one, and the necessity of always being truthful with one's self. While sistrsic92 does deal with a serious issue, it is extremely accessible to younger readers, including those in upper elementary school. This is the perfect stepping stone for readers who aren't quite mature enough for Lauren Myracle's ttyl series.
Author Cheryl Dellasega is a professional researcher, teacher, counselor, and nurse. She has been working with, and writing about, women in conflict for years. When it comes to the various issues that women and girls face, Dellasega knows what she is talking about. I'm interested to read
Interesting question. I personally would have no problem getting kids at my library to check this one out because of religion, God and prayer. We have a huge home schooling population in rural Idaho. Parents that choose to school at home for religious reasons- they are always looking for books that include these topics.
Great review and really fantastic follow-up question!
I've actually read quite a few books that have religious themes and it's all about the delivery. I find that books that have too much "preachy" talk can be overbearing and undermined the actual story line. It definitely makes a difference because I think people who read these types of books know what they're getting into, and don't usually need the preaching.
Honestly, I think more of the response has to do with the actual writing and media documentation (cover, online presence, etc.) than whether it's religious. For example take, Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr, not overly religious, but it's there-a thought, and the marketing was perfect. So, it's definitley possible for religious books to make it, but just like the rest of "themed" books they need to have great writing at the core to appeal to readers.
Today's Author Spotlight is on Allen Zadoff and his new release Food, Girls, And Other Things I Can't Have the journey of high school sophomore Andrew Zansky, the self-described "second fattest kid at school." After feeling ironically invisible all... Read the rest of this post
I'm really happy that the book is starting to generate discussion about body image and eating disorders. And you know what makes me REALLY happy?
This:
It's always wonderful to see your child engrossed in a book. But there's something really special when they are engrossed in YOUR book.
The problem is my daughter keeps asking me what's going to happen, and I won't tell her.
"You're just going to have to read the book, honey. Most people don't have the author standing at the kitchen counter making dinner while they're reading."
I'm recovering from the launch party, which went very well and I'll be posting pictures and a report later. But in the meantime I'm proud to be a part of Body Image Week, a very exciting event taking place over at My Favorite Author
Feeling good about yourself is important and it's something that everyone struggles with every day. It's not just a problem for teens . . . adults have this problem, too. So I think it's important to talk about all the different ways that this issue affects us and how we can deal with it.
We have invited bloggers from The Story Siren, Presenting Lenore, and In Bed With Books to participate and share their perspective and experience. And we are excited to also have authors Deborah Lytton, Sarah Darer Littman, Sara Zarr, Megan Frazer, Laurie Halse Anderson, Sydney Salter and Erin Dionne share their perspective, experience and advice. At the end of the week, we'll have a great giveaway for you to enter (by accepting & reporting on the Body Image Challenge) to win some of the books that we blog about this week!
Head over there to sign up for the Body Image Challenge, and then check back tomorrow for an interview with me! There's an interesting conversation in the comments about how people have difficult accepting compliments - seems to be a common problem, one that I certainly share. Is it because we feel that we don't deserve them? I've struggled for years to learn to just say "Thank you" when someone gives me a compliment, instead of making some self-deprecating remark.
My name is Elizabeth but no one's ever called me that.
When Elizabeth (a.k.a. "Daisy") comes to England to visit her British cousins (and aunt), little does she know that life as she knows it--as everyone knows it--is about to change forever. Suffering from an eating disorder, Daisy has been sent far from home--just as much to 'help' her out as to help the evil step-mother who's expecting. She meets her cousins--Osbert, Edmond, Isaac, and Piper--and they seem to be off to a great start. Good thing too, as they'll be spending loads of time together. Daisy's aunt is off on a business trip. A trip from which she'll never return. Why? Long story short, terrorists. An enemy has invaded England--and other countries as well; bombs having gone off in at least the U.S. and England, and probably other places as well though I'm not exactly sure on that. England is now occupied by the enemy. (And the British soldiers have to regroup to try to invade and reconquer their own country.) At first, these changes don't effect the kids (Piper's the youngest; the rest are teenagers). Food rationing here. No electricity. Inconvenient, yes. Life-and-death altering? Not really. You can live without TV and the telephone. But soon the threat comes closer...and closer. Impacting some more than others. But unsettling, disrupting all. Now this war, this invasion means fight for survival. And Daisy has to grow up quickly. And now that food is a scarcity, Daisy realizes just how sick she was to choose to starve.
Daisy's voice is unique: full of snark but not without heart.
It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History but let's face it that would be a load of crap. The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop. There were no parents, no teachers, no schedules. There was nowhere to go and nothing to do that would remind us that this sort of thing didn't happen in the Real World. There no longer was a Real World. (46)
Every war has turning points, and every person too. (68)
What I liked about this one? I liked the snark for the most part. Daisy's voice is original. You'll either love her or hate her. You'll either think the snark is funny, or you'll be annoyed. I liked the pacing of this one. It is short, yes, but a lot happens. It doesn't drag at any point. Rosoff knows how to tell a story.
I am so glad you enjoyed this book. I love it! It's one of my favorite and Rossoff is one of my favorite authors. Her style is so unique and memorable.
I'd been waiting to read "Skin" by fellow NY-YA Adrienne Maria Vrettos until I'd finished writing my own YA novel about eating disorders , "Ketchup on My Cucumbers". I'm glad I waited, because otherwise I'd probably be sitting around in a dark room mainlining chocolate for terminal insecurity.
I was completely engaged by the MC, Donnie, and his struggle to be heard in a family fraught with marital strife and his sister's anorexia.
The fact that the sister dies is revealed on the first page - the book's tension comes from Donnie's feelings of helplessness and anger in the face of his sister's illness, and his growing sense of alienation at home and at school.
I'd recommend this to teen boys and girls alike.
Meanwhile, back at Casa saraclaradara, I am currently the proud posessor of a rare "Good Mummy" award from Mini Me. She'd managed to lose the cell phone her dad got her a while back. I'd been wanting to switch her to Verizon anyway, since that's what her brother, Mary Poppins and I are all on, and I wanted to make sure I did it before we go to Disney for our long-promised "Post-Divorce Present" trip in April.
Today I surprised her with a new phone - and not just *any* new phone but a Razr. And not just *any* Razr but a PINK Razr. Rather appropriately I think, I entered my cell number under Mummy The Greatest. I'm sure this will last about...12 hours. My daughter, who is supposed to be going to sleep, is reading this over my shoulder and she protested "I'm not *that* bad! It will last for 3,000 years!" I'm going to e-mail her the link to this blog post the next time she tells me I'm a "poopy-head" and a "meanie".
However, I'm still struggling to earn the cred the Webmeister earned this weekend when he presented MiniMe aka TBDITW aka "The Best Daughter in the World" (can you tell she's reading over my shoulder when she's supposed to be GOING TO SLEEP!!!) with a limited edition Webkins LOVE PUPPY. These things were like gold dust. Couldn't get them anywhere. She named it Candie after the amazing Candie Moonshower. Do you think someday someone somewhere will name their webkin saraclaradara?
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What a fantastic review. I will have to add it to my to-read list and look for it at my library! Daisy sounds like a great young female character.
This is a great review. I am adding this to my "to-read" list right now.