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...when that didn't work she set about losing more. By last Christmas, now 18, her weight had plunged from 55 kg to 32 kg. Racked by headaches and too weak to leave the house, she was often irrational yet also cunning in the ways she foiled her mother's attempts to make her eat. Because the girl she saw in the mirror still looked fat in the hips, thighs and stomach, she ignored her family's pleadings that she was skeletal. "I didn't believe them," she says. "That's not what I was seeing...
Marcia Johnson, 62, of Wellington, Fla., a married mother of three and a former dancer, received a diagnosis of anorexia a dozen years ago, although she now recognizes that she showed symptoms of it by puberty. Binckley and Johnson note that their nonstop focus on food and body image slowed down when they were cooking meals for their growing children. Then as middle age set in, a sense of loss--a feeling that's particularly acute for anorexics at midlife--set off a flare-up. "The loss of order--brought on by a change in job status, marriage, children...
...authors, sugar is the fast track to obesity and related ailments such as diabetes, coronary-artery disease, hypertension, high-blood cholesterol and certain kinds of cancer. Besides, as your dentist will happily tell you, you'll be in the dentist's chair more often because sugar (as your mother said) rots your teeth. And if that weren't bad enough, the authors warn of sugar-induced psychological problems like depression and listlessness...
...Morocco a little peasant boy aims a rifle, newly acquired by his father, at a tourist bus and grievously wounds a woman dozing by one of its windows. In Tokyo an adolescent girl, puzzled and angry over her mother's suicide (and a deaf-mute as well), bedevils her father and at the same time blatantly asserts her confused but flaming sexual needs. In San Diego a Mexican woman tends two Anglo children she deeply loves while their parents are on holiday, but when her own son needs her, she puts her charges in jeopardy. Unable to find someone...
...just her latest accessory, this was not Western imperialism run amok, she would honor his heritage. Yes, it is true that as Madonna's child he will never have a normal life, but then his life was all too perfectly normal where he came from; a mother dead soon after childbirth, two brothers lost to malaria, a majority of the population living on less than a dollar a day. Are we really so sure we know where compassion ends and colonialism begins? One retired nurse in Northern Malawi was blunt: "We can't afford to look after the thousands...