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Carefully selected to bring you the work of leaders in the new health-centered approach, these materials focus on empowerment, self-acceptance, and being healthy at the weight you are. Instead of promoting thinness and weight loss, as in the traditional, medical approach, they bring you consistent messages of normal eating, active living, self-respect and appreciation of diversity. They’ll help you prevent weight and eating problems for students and others.
Books:
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Books
How to Get
your Kid to Eat . . .
But not Too
Much
Ellyn Satter, RD, MS
This is the indespensible resource on feeding children from
birth through adolescence. Ellyn Satter, a registered dietitian and
eating disorder specialist, is the recognized expert on helping youngsters
develop healthy eating habits. She firmly builds the bridge betwen eating
and nutrition, and offers specific advice on eating disorders, obesity,
poor growth. For educators, child care providers and parents. 396 pages, $16.95
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“Emphasizes good parenting
that provides
both love and limits.”
Self-esteem Comes in All
Sizes:
How to be Happy and Healthy
at your
Natural Weight
Carol A. Johnson, MA
An inspiring book that encourages people above average size
to accept themselves and focus on health and well-being rather than weight
loss. The founder of “Largely Positive” support groups, Carol Johnson is a
mental health therapist who radiates warmth, vitality and confidence. She
helps people feel good about themselves, while facing each issue squarely,
dealing assertively with discrimination, and expanding the definition of
beauty. 331 pages, $10.95
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When Women Stop
Hating Their Bodies:
Freeing Yourself from Food
and Weight Obsession
Jane Hirschmann, MSW, and Carol Munter
Hirschmann and Munter urge women to stop trying to measure
up to society’s “ridiculous and impossible” standards of female beauty. Exploring
typical feelings of body dissatisfaction, they help women free themselves
from food and weight obsession, accept their bodies, their feelings, and themselves
unconditionally, while moving ahead to self care. High school and adult level.336 pages, $12.00
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Worth Your Weight
Barbara Altman Bruno, PhD
This book helps people end the vicious cycle of obsessive dieting and self-hatred in which so many are trapped. It’s a compassionate guide enabling them to learn how to live at peace with themselves and the body they have, at whatever size. A clinical social worker and psychotherapist, Barbara Bruno encourages large people to take themselves seriously, as worthy, deserving persons, to stop feeling victimized, and enjoy life. 188 pages, $12.95
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You
Count Calories Don’t
Linda Omichinski, RD
Emphasizes healthy living as a journey of self-discovery, having
fun along the way and growing in the process. This is an approach that takes
people of all sizes out of the diet mode and frees them to eat in normal ways,
to tune in to their natural signals of hunger and satiety, and to live actively
in pleasurable ways. May be used by individuals and educators. A counselling
program is also available for group training. 312
pages, $17.95
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“A common sense approach to establishing and maintaining a healthier way of life.”
Children and Teens Afraid
to Eat
Designed for health professionals who want to know more about
how the pressures to be thin are harming children and teens, their eating
and weight problems, and how parents and professionals can bring about healthy
change. Test questions follow content of the book, and assess the learner's
mastery of core concepts. Credit is given for completion of the work; there
is no pass or fail grade. Upon completion of the course, a certificate is
mailed with set of correct answers. CPE credit for dietitians is sent to CDR
(15 CPE credits). Other professionals can use the certificate to apply for
continuing education credits.
Course (does not include Children and Teens) - $70.00
Ellyn Satter’s
Feeding with Love and Good
Sense
This educational program for schools and groups includes live
action real-situation videotapes that teach good parenting skills in feeding
at four age levels: infant, older baby, toddler and preschooler. Emphasizes
the growing ability of babies to communicate and the importance of listening.
How to set limits, and the subtle distinctions between too much and too little
control. Includes lesson plans, exercises, masters, handouts. All videos
on one tape, or may be purchased separately.
“Highly recommended for teachers, child care providers parents and educators.”
Complete 60-min. video, teacher’s guide - $240.00
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Home study: Nondiet Weight Management
A Lifestyle Approach to
Health & Fitness
Linda Omichinski, RD, and Kathleen Harrison,
MS, RD
A self-study, accredited, continuing education course for health
and fitness professionals. Effective weight management with nondiet approach
requires new techniques for the professional. Enhance sensitivity to hunger,
appetite and satiety. Provides 7 continuing education credits for RD, DTR,
CFCS, CDM, ASFSA. Price includes priority shipping and handling, U.S. and
Canada.
$64.00
Home study:
Weight Management for Teens
Non-diet approach to health and fitness for
adolescents
Linda Omichinski, RD, and Kathleen Harrison,
MS, RD
A self-study, accredited, continuing education course for health
and fitness professionals in nondiet approach for teenagers. Break the diet
cycle at an early age, empower teens to effectively manage their own eating.
Five continuing education credits for RD, DTR, CFCS, CDM, ASFSA. Price includes
priority shipping and handling, U.S. and Canada. $54.00
Both home study courses $109.00
A Lifestyle Approach to Health & Fitness
and Weight Management for Teens
Teens & Diets No Weigh
Linda Omichinski, RD
This prevention program for schools and groups confronts the
epidemic of teen dieting, body shape preoccupation, and eating disorders.
Helps youth develop nondiet lifestyle, adopt healthy eating patterns, live
actively, and celebrate their natural body shapes. Eight lessons with complete
plans, support material, teen journal, parent guide handbook, cookbook.
Recommended for health or nutrition curriculum, community groups. Licensing
agreement. Includes Afraid to Eat and home study course: Weight Management
for Teens. $595.00
Video
Slim Hopes
Jean Kilbourne
This award-winning video offers vivid pictures and an in-depth
analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising, and the devastating
effects of that imagery on women’s health. Entertaining, with over 150 ads,
Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about the obsession with dieting and
thinness, and with life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and
bulimia. Jean Kilbourne is also creator of the film Still Killing Us Softly,
and a popular lecturer on college campuses. Viewers are led to consider the
powerful impact of advertising on women’s health. Targets teenagers and adults.
$250.00
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A new paradigm Health at Any Size focuses on health and well-being, not weight. This health-centered approach to eating and weight reaffirms the truth that beauty, health and strength come in all sizes. It's about wellness and wholeness, eating in normal, healthy ways and living actively. It's about acceptance, self-respect and appreciation of diversity. It's health at any size. Everyone qualifies! -- Frances M. Berg,
Women Afraid to Eat
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We'd love to have the Health at Any Size message on the refrigerator of every woman in America - a daily reminder to women and their families tha health and well-being is not about weight - it's about eating well, living actively, and feeling good about yourself and others. We offer quantity rates forthose who'd like to give this size-acceptance message to others. |
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