http://www.fitsugar.com/ Healthy, happy you. en http://www.fitsugar.com/147866 <p>During <a href="/150417" >National Eating Disorder Awareness Week</a>, I think that it's important that we take more away from it all than anger at the fashion industry, misunderstanding and confusion.</p> <p><span class="inline left"><img src="http://images.teamsugar.com/files/usr/1/12981/gaining.jpg" alt="" title="" class="outline right image preview" height="378" width="250"></span>We all like to point fingers and speculate about eating disorders but the only ones who really know the truth behind it are those with eating disorders. Aimee Liu had anorexia in her 20s and conquered it, or so she thought. In her 40s, she stopped eating again. She wrote the book <i>Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders</i> ($16.49) to chronicle her own struggles and dispel myths but also to tell the stories of 40 other people with eating disorders too. Liu believes that societal pressure, popular culture and family dysfunction do not <i>make</i> someone anorexic; it takes a particular genetic predisposition and temperament. The book will teach you who is susceptible to eating disorders and why, how these diseases can waste sufferers' lives in ways that have nothing to do with food or weight and why recovery requires more than good nutrition.</p> <p>To read an excerpt from the book, </p> <p><a href="http://www.fitsugar.com/147866">read more</a></p> http://www.fitsugar.com/147866#comment Aimee E Liu Books life after eating disorders NEDA weekend reading Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:00:00 -0800 FitSugar http://www.fitsugar.com/147866