Help for parents that tackles the real causes of childhood obesity and offers practical solutions. The percentage of overweight children between the ages of six and seventeen in the United States has doubled over the past three decades. Why Can't My Child Stop Eating? offers real-world solutions to the social, emotional, and physical problems of these children and their families. With the ever-growing childhood obesity problem, the audience for this book continues to grow. Practical: Why Can't My Child Stop Eating? provides parents with specific activities to assist in addressing and healing the emotional aspects of obesity. Currently, there is no book on the market that provides assistance in dealing with the emotional issues of obesity. Why Can't My Child Stop Eating? is the only publication to offer an emotional recovery plan for children. Since emotional eating is the main cause of childhood obesity, this will be an easily-proven yet important distinguishing factor in the book's marketing. Dr. Danowski will tap into media outlets that have previously interviewed her or listed her books as resources. For example, Why Can't I Stop Eating? is listed as a resource at Mountain Lakes PBS station, on the Novia Scotia newspaper The Aurora's website, and on the Health Magazine section of Channel 4's website. The few books that mention the emotional aspects of obesity do so briefly or as a means of rallying parental support to assist in promoting body and size acceptance but not as a means of helping children lose weight. This book offers real solutions to the national health problem of this epidemic.

This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture's focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences' perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals' relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for future research on this topic. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and health communication will find this book particularly useful.

Debbie Danowski weighed in at more than 300 pounds. Years of trying every diet program imaginable left her feeling exhausted, miserable, and hopeless. By realizing the connections between food and emotions, she learned to overcome her food addiction. Now, The Emotional Eater's Book of Inspiration offers the tips that helped her lose more than 160 pounds -- and keep them off for the past seventeen years. One of the biggest hurdles to weight loss and continued success in food-addiction recovery is denial. The Emotional Eater's Book of Inspiration helps you confront your own "fat lies" by providing 90 essential truths, such as: - You won't lose one ounce of weight by talking about it. - Dieting is not a competitive sport. - Cleaning your plate will not feed one starving child. - "Free" foods are too expensive. Touching on common challenges faced by everyone who's wrestled with emotional eating and food addiction, Debbie Danowski empowers you to manage your emotional connections to food, giving you the tools to achieve long-term success.