Title Teenage waistland : a former fat kid weighs in on living large, losing weight, and how parents can (and can't) help / Abby Ellin.

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New York : Public Affairs, 2005.

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Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department	362.196 ELLIN	Check Shelf
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Description	xli, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-248) and index.
Contents	Introduction : fat kid blues -- Ch. 1. Ho Hos in paradise -- Ch. 2. Behavior modification and its discontents -- Ch. 3. Mothers against fat kids -- Ch. 4. The myths of willpower and control -- Ch. 5. Honey, I shrunk my stomach! -- Ch. 6. Size acceptance : fat or fiction? -- Ch. 7. Inner fat camp -- Epilogue : weighing grandma.
Summary	Abby Ellin draws on her own experiences as an overweight teen to examine the factors that contribute to weight problems in teenagers and the weight loss strategies that work.
Subject	Ellin, Abby.
	Ellin, Abby.
	Ellin, Abby. (OCoLC)fst01606790
	Overweight teenagers -- United States -- Biography.
	Obesity in adolescence -- Treatment.
	Camps for overweight children.
	Child rearing.
	Parents of overweight children.
	Camps for overweight children. (OCoLC)fst00844990
	Child rearing. (OCoLC)fst00854588
	Overweight teenagers. (OCoLC)fst01743987
	Parents of overweight children. (OCoLC)fst01921345
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Body weight.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Autobiographies.
ISBN	1586482289
	9781586482282
	1586484605
	9781586484606

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