A recipe for success : what you can learn about coping in a food-bombarded world from people with Prader-Willi syndrome, an extreme eating disorder

In North America, 64% of adults and 25% of children are overweight or obese. We are bombarded by food; it is everywhere we turn. People with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are an untapped expertise in combatting this problem. People with this genetic disorder gain approximately 20-30% more weight on 50...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Kinash, Shelley (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, Information Age Publishing, [2007]
Subjects
Prader-Willi syndrome > Popular works.
Self-help > Eating Disorders & Body Image.
Coping with, advice about eating disorders.
Coping with, advice about body image issues.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918115079
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-633-9
Physical Description1 online resource (v, 124 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. An obese society
  • Chapter 3. Research with people with prader-willi syndrome: Research at a glance
  • Chapter 4. Angela's story
  • Chapter 5. The pws literature
  • Chapter 6. Researching pws
  • Chapter 7. Demographics
  • Chapter 8. Defining pws
  • Chapter 9. Diagnosis
  • Chapter 10. Supported living
  • Chapter 11. Attitudes
  • Chapter 12. Public-at-large attitudes
  • Chapter 13. Human service worker attitudes
  • Chapter 14. Medical professional attitudes
  • Chapter 15. Pws expert attitudes
  • Chapter 16. Teacher attitudes
  • Chapter 17. Across the lifespan
  • Chapter 18. Limitations and further research
  • Chapter 19. Paradoxes we suffer
  • Chapter 20. Action references.

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