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My Body, My Enemy: My Thirteen Year Battle with Anorexia Nervosa
 
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My Body, My Enemy: My Thirteen Year Battle with Anorexia Nervosa (Paperback)

by Claire Beeken (Author), Rosanna Greenstreet (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Thorsons; 2Rev Ed edition (7 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007100728
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007100729
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 515,181 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #59 in  Books > Biography > Social & Health Issues > Eating Disorders
    #96 in  Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Diet & Nutrition > Eating Disorders

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Synopsis
Anorexia nervosa is a controversial subject that attracts constant media attention. As an illness it mystifys as much as terrifies. In this book Claire Beeken tells the story of her battle with anorexia. She was first hospitalized at the age of 10 with an eating disorder and spent the next 13 years in a cycle of starvation, binge-eating and laxative abuse. She describes her early years through her teenage years to how she finally gained the upperhand and put herself on the road to re