By Edward Willett
This 64-page book provides a general overview of the dangers of negative body image. Readers are told about marketing and the unrealistic ideal of the perfect body, emphasizing that everyone has a different ideal body type. There is a chapter devoted to the causes of negative body image, another that deals with the effects and finally chapters dealing with finding peace with one's body and creating awareness about the effects of negative body image.
This book contains good, factual information, but I feel that the focus is off-base. This book seems to start with the premise that only thin people can develop negative body image issues and then end up with anorexia, bulimia, and/or cutting. It never directly addresses that these same issues may affect a healthy weight or overweight person as well. This idea is reinforced by the photos of what I assume are the afflicted teens who are all poster children for the "ideal" rather than having a more diverse representation.
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