Trisha Gura, PhD - ED Science Stuff
Trisha Gura is author of Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women (Harper Collins, May 2007) and Body: the Complete Human (National Geographic, October 2007). She holds a PhD in molecular biology from Northwestern University and served as a staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where she covered the medicine and science beats. She's written hundreds of articles for major technical publications, such as Science, Nature, and Scientific American, and for popular magazines such as Child, Health, Prevention, and Yoga Journal. A Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT/Harvard and a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University, Trisha writes and blogs extensively about eating disorders in women and related topics for her blog, Weighing in
Lying In Weight
Trisha Gura
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This groundbreaking new book explodes the myth that those who suffer from anorexia and bulimia are primarily teenage girls. No matter what the age of the person suffering, an eating disorder serves a purpose; for adult women it can be a source of identity, an escape, or a way to cope during a vulnerable period, such as marriage, pregnancy, childrearing, or menopause. This book will raise awareness and offer hope to the increasing number of adult women now seeking to make peace with food and their bodies.
