All her life, Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself: her life was at stake. She tells us how she discovered balance in an off-kilter world, finding beauty in acceptance...

In this collection, Orozco leads the reader through the secret lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. Each story in the collection has a gut-punch impact, softened only by lyricism and black humor.

"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series. DEATH OF AN HONEST MAN Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat. He attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons...

"5th Edition - Revised October 2011 I want EVERYONE to be able to lose weight and keep it off. I want the obesity epidemic to end. So I wrote this over 200-page book, which is a compilation of everything that I have learned as a moderator of a 29,000-member hCG Dieters support group, as well as by doing this diet myself, including: One hCG safety study no other book explains Smartphone codes for bonus files by email Solutions to common hCG Diet...

This work is an examination of what makes us fat. In his book Good Calories, Bad Calories, the author, an acclaimed science writer argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates, not fats and not simply excess calories, have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider, nonscientific audience. With fresh evidence for his claim, this book makes his critical argument newly accessible. He reveals the bad nutritional science...

Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.

Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.

La obesidad es la enfermedad metab?lica m?s frecuente en el mundo y un aut?ntico problema de salud p?blica que supera al de la desnutrici?n a nivel mundial. En Espa?a el 56% de la poblaci?n tiene sobrepeso y un 23% padece ya obesidad. La obesidad disminuye la expectativa de vida de las personas que la padecen y aumenta el riesgo de padecer diabetes, gota, colesterol elevado, hipertensi?n arterial, angina de pecho, infarto de miocardio y accidentes...

Fat land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles...

"Written in the same engaging, relatable voice that has made Siegel's web site The Lunch Tray a trusted resource for almost a decade, Kid Food combines original reporting with the hard-won experiences of a mom to give parents a deeper understanding of the most common obstacles to feeding children well"--Amazon.com.