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HEALTH Sandra J. Judd, ed., EATING DISORDERS SOURCEBOOK, 3rd edition. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2011. (Health reference series.) 615p. $95.00, ISBN 978-07808 11430.
Reviewed by Emily E. Lawrence
It is estimated that more than five million Americans have an eating disorder. A majority of these individuals are women (90-95% of those with anorexia nervosa; 80% of those with bulimia nervosa). A woman with anorexia is twelve times more likely to die than a woman without the disorder.
These startling statistics appear in the early pages of the Eating Disorders Sourcebook, a consumer health resource intended for use by laypersons - specifically, patients, families, caregivers, and the general public. The volume is organized into seven primary parts, each of which provides readers with a grouping of chapters focusing on one of the following topics: eating disorder descriptions, risk factors,...