title: Making Weight: Healing Men's Conflicts with Food, Weight, and Shape
author: M.D. Arnold Andersen
description: Andersen (psychiatry, Iowa State Univ.; ed., Males with Eating Disorders), Leigh Cohn (ed., Eating Disorders, the Journal of Treatment and Prevention), and Thomas Holbrook, a medical specialist, also address men's concerns with physical appearance, drawing attention to fat as a men's issue and focusing on obesity and eating disorders. After extended discussions on the developmental, social, and evolutionary factors contributing to appearance ad self-esteem, the authors provide "a proactive proposition for men who want to feel and look better" in "Ten Steps to Healthy Living," with advice on nutrition, exercise, relationships, and social and spiritual concerns. Holbrook relates his own story of recovery from eating disorders and excessive exercise. Courses of treatment are described, and a final chapter offers advice for families and loved ones... [Gives] reading lists and resources on where to seek further help... recommended for public library collections.<br /><i>Lucille M. Boone, San Jose P.L., CA </i><br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Illustrated Man
  
  
  
  
  
  By
  
  
  
  
  
  Ray Bradbury
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue: The Illustrated Man
  
  
  
  
  
  IT was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated
  Man. Walking along an asphalt road, I was or the final leg of a two weeks’
  walking tour of Wisconsin. Late in the afternoon I stopped, ate some pork,
  beans, and a doughnut, and was preparing to stretch out and read when the
  Illustrated Man walked over the hill and stood for a moment against the sky.
  
  
  
  
  
  I didn’t know he was Illustrated then. I only knew that he was tall, once well
  muscled, but now, for some reason, going to fat. I recall that his arms were
  long, and the hands thick, but that his face was like a child’s, set upon a
  massive body.
  
  
  
  
  
  He seemed only to sense my presence, for he didn’t look directly at me when he
  spoke his first words:
  
  
  
  
  
  “Do you know where I can find a job?”
  
  
  
  
  
  “I’m afraid 