The author of Lying in Weight, Trisha Gura, has a doctorate in molecular biology and has written extensively for such publications as Science, Nature, Scientific American, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Child, Yoga Journal, and Health. Dr. Guras book includes substantial scientific data balanced with the personal stories of women of all ages. Dr. Gura is both knowledgeable and empathetic, having dealt with anorexia herself as a teenager and adult.
Lying in Weight is acclaimed as the first book to examine eating disorders in terms of a complete spectrum both in the kinds of disorders and the women who suffer from them. Eating disorders not only affect adolescents but adult women, and women can develop them at any age. Lying in Weight includes the personal story of a 92-year-old woman who developed anorexia because there was just too much she wanted to do in her later years.
Dr. Guras research also indicates that the single most prevalent and powerful trigger for eating disorders among women is not social pressure to be thin, but stressful times of personal transition. Women are most likely to develop eating disorders during the transitional times surrounding puberty, pregnancy, parenting, and growing older. In addition, Dr. Gura believes that eating disorders are not curable women who have them must learn to manage them for the rest of their lives; times of stress, not handled properly, can provoke relapses.
Dr. Guras Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women is being recognized as essential reading for women with eating disorders, as well as the spouses, friends, and family members of these women, or anyone who is struggling to understand the nature of these complex conditions. (Source: heractivelife.com)
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