It's every woman's dream: looking hip, sexy, fresh and pretty at whatever age. Now it's every woman's necessity: looking younger will help you hold onto your job and your partner. It's about making the ultimate 'to-do' list of SMALL beauty and fashion changes that pay off BIG TIME. Charla Krupp, the style expert on the Today Show, known for her ...
On the heels of the bestselling "The Abs Diet" comes this guide from the editor-in-chief of "Men's Health" magazine. Readers will find numerous ways to use the Abs Diet 12 Superfoods to lose fat and slim their waistlines.
By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Johnston explores the themes of empowerment and self-discovery that help women overcome food obsessions.
In her latest book, the bestselling author of "When Food Is Love" and "Why Weight?" tackles the secret ways we sabotage ourselves every day and shows how to break the vicious cycle that keeps us feeling fat, ugly, and miserable.
Collects stories by teenagers about retaining a positive body image, staying true to oneself, acceptance of positive and negative circumstances, and forgiveness.
In this collection of provocative essays on body image, black women bare all about their skin, hair, hips, lips, and other parts, and lay out their own paths to acceptance. Contributors include Jill Scott, Iyanla Vanzant, and Tracee Ellis Ross.
In this study, a clinician draws on her case studies to describe body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a psychological disease that causes its victims to perceive certain parts of their bodies as grotesquely abnormal, which may compel its sufferers to diet, hide from society, or seek cosmetic surgery. In addition to describing methods of assessing BDD, ...
Simon Doonan's ECCENTRIC GLAMOUR is intended as an antidote to the epidemic of slutty dressing and porno-chic which has taken over since the arrival of Paris Hilton and Tara Reid. In Simon's utopian world, conformity is the only crime and dressing down is the only faux-pas. Doonan believes that eccentric glamour is every woman's birthright. While ...
This amusing work shifts the dead weight of shame and blame and replaces it with feeling good about being fat. Being fat and happy is about style and attitude, and this book of quizzes, essays, reportage, and plain facts proves that anyone can be happy, healthy, successful and fat.
In what has been called "an intellectual and spiritual feast", acclaimed pioneer in human development Dr. Jean Houston offers readers a tour of the great and unknowable homeland of the human spirit, while introducing them to a comprehensive theory and program for conscious creativity. THE POSSIBLE HUMAN is the book version of Houston's innovative ...
Internationally recognized experts in childhood development and the impact of media on kids, Levin and Kilbourne have teamed up to offer parents the information, skills, and confidence they need to raise kids with a healthy understanding of sex and sexuality.
This newest title from this bestselling anthology series explores the intriguing dynamics of women's relationships to their physical selves--from coming of age and budding sexuality to the physical changes and challenges that accompany growing older. Editor tour.
Your Dieting Daughter sets out to define, detail and distinguish among various types of eating disorders. It offers ways to identify when there is a problem and how to gauge how far it has gone.
Bevere offers hope to women of all ages as she reveals the secrets she used to get her weight under control--by asking God to fashion her once again, starting with love and peace.
From the Obie Award-winning playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" comes this unflinching, unapologetic celebration of the female body--delivered in her trademark monologue form--which is a ringing condemnation of a culture that refuses to accept that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
An esteemed psychologist examines how cultural forces have conspired to bring about a crisis in the way people experience their bodies. Orbach reveals the true dimensions of the crisis, and points the way toward a process of healing.
The fashion-inspired body-impossible is not an exclusively female issue. In this thorough and penetrating study, three medical educators explore the male body image and its inherent problems.
Whether they are rich or poor, liberal or conservative, religious or atheist, thriving or stagnant, most American women have one thing in common--they want to be thin--or thinner. And they are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get that way, even to the point of starving themselves. Why are America's women so preoccupied with weight? Is ...
Too big to miss-that''s Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman who makes no excuses for her weight, she''s not super woman - just a mere mortal standing on the precipice of menopause, trying to cruise in an ill-fitting bra. She struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier boss. And then there''s her ...
Destined to become a classic text and reference, "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery" shows you how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and alignment and release excess tension. The book's 195 illustrations will help you visualize the images and exercises and show you how to use them in a variety of contexts. Part I of "Dynamic Alignment ...
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