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Author Weiss, Dara-Lynn.

Title The heavy : a mother, a daughter, a diet--a memoir / Dara-Lynn Weiss.

Publication Info. New York : Ballantine Books, ©2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY WEISS, DARA-LYNN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B WEISS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 240 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "As lightning-rod writer Dara Weiss explains in The Heavy, the "mommy wars" were never more clear than over the issue of her 7-year-old daughter's weight. Some moms looked down on her for "letting" Bea get clinically obese. But that's nothing compared with the scorn others offered when Dara put Bea on a strict calorie-counting diet. Some said she was clearly seeding body image issues; many others suggested the pat, "healthier" food route. The Heavy shares Weiss's harrowing and haunting family journey through Bea's considerable weight loss (Bea is no longer considered overweight), while the scrutiny and commentary swirled around them"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliography, pages [233]-237.
Subject Obesity in children -- Diet therapy.
Weight loss -- Miscellanea.
Mothers and daughters -- Miscellanea.
Weiss, Dara-Lynn.
ISBN 9780345541345 (hardback : acid-free paper) : $26.00
0345541340 (hardback : acid-free paper) : $26.00
9780345541352 (ebook)
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