title: Eating Disorders: The Ultimate Teen Guide (It Happened to Me)
author:  Jessica R. Greene 
description: Gr 9 UpThere are many texts that deal with eating disorders, but this is one of the more comprehensive ones. The author not only covers the basics (symptoms, consequences, treatment) of anorexia and bulimia; she also addresses lesser-known types of disordered eating, such as binge eating disorder and unclassified eating disorders. There are chapters that thoroughly discuss the possible causes of eating disorders and relate them to addiction. Most interesting are the sections that focus on the history of starving and on those who knowingly have starved themselves, be it for piety, politics, or entertainment, and the parts that highlight society's ever-changing ideals of beauty, femininity, and thinness. The book notes some correlation between eating disorders and society's near-impossible body image ideals. Each chapter begins with thought-provoking questions to be addressed in the text and ends with a copious section of multimedia resources that can be used for further exploration. Readers will appreciate the many personal accounts from those who have dealt with eating disorders, as well as opinions from experts in the field. Contact information for these individuals is included, too, such as Twitter handles, email addresses, and websites, further enhancing students' ability to delve deeper in the subject. There are a few photos throughout, along with some satisfactory text boxes. The text can be somewhat dry at times and some of the statistics complicated, but overall this is a strong resource for teens doing research that goes beyond basic report writing.Patricia Feriano, Our Lady of Mercy School, Potomac, MD
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  ## [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS](nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-55)
  
  
  I’ve got a lot to acknowledge. Here’s the first thing: When I was fifteen, I
  had an eating disorder. No one diagnosed me, not even when I hadn’t eaten for
  days and was in so much stomach pain that my mom took me to the emergency room
  at two in the morning (just like Matt!), because lots of people don’t think
  boys can even get eating disorders. One of the many reasons I wrote this book
  was because boys are damaged and distorted by the same terrible body-image
  issues and expectations as girls, and we all need to realize how full of shit
  that is, and how awesome we are no matter what we look like.
  
  
  The most important acknowledgment is this one: books have big families. Here
  are the people who helped birth this one:
  
  
  Seth Fishman, for being a goddamn genius rock-star agent who took a chance on
  something completely batshit crazy.
  
  
  Kristen Pettit, who I already knew was brilliant, but until we rolled up our
  sleeves and took scalpel and 