The hidden story of eating disorders
Sarah Levete
- Reading
- Read together or check in afterwards, pausing around the sections on health effects and getting help. Let the reader choose which questions to explore further.
- Themes
- Understanding eating disorders: The book explains signs and symptoms and describes effects on the body and mind, including serious health complications. Its stated approach is informational, presenting eating disorders as illnesses and covering their effects.
- Help, coping and wellbeing: The book includes sections on getting help and wellbeing, and describes information about coping and developing a healthy body image. The book covers getting help, coping, wellbeing and developing a healthy body image.
- Worth knowing
- The subject is serious: the book discusses eating disorders’ effects on body and mind, health complications and the possibility of life-threatening consequences. Consider whether that material would feel difficult for your reader.