When it comes to dealing with pupils suffering from an eating disorder school staff admit they lack knowledge & confidence. Unsure whether they can do anything to help theyre afraid of making matters worse. However they can help. As one young sufferer remarked: I dont think its going too far to say my teacher saved my life. This Pocketbook is suitable for anyone working in a school setting & will be of interest to parents too. It contains ideas information & practical advice for supporting pupils with eating disorders. It explains what an eating disorder is focusing particularly on anorexia bulimia & binge eating disorder. After identifying risk factors & warning signs the author looks at encouraging pupils to share their concerns & at how to respond when a student confides. The emphasis shifts to a whole-school approach in a chapter about setting up a recovery team involving parents peers individual staff outside agencies etc. It stays practical & relevant to all staff however with day-to-day support strategies & how to keep things on track eg monitoring progress & re-integrating students whose eating disorder has led to periods of absence. There is advice on what to say what not to say & exactly how to help. Cartoons diagrams bullets & other presentational devices support the text throughout. A recovered anorexic herself author Pooky Knightsmith specialises in the prevention & management of eating disorders. She has interviewed over 500 young people with eating disorders & 800 teachers for a Ph D in this field. She works in teacher education currently at the TES where her job is to engage with learn from & share with a worldwide network of more than 1.8 million teachers. ...

The evolution of Margaret Atwoods poetry illuminates a major literary talent. Through bus trips & postcards wilderness & trivia she reflects the passion & energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft & the world. In this volume two previous selections Poems 1965-1975 & Poems 1976-1986 are presented together with Morning in the Burned House. Detached ironic loving by turns.. .poems that sing off the page & sting Michele Roberts ...

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater's multi-award-winning food memoir ' Toast' this is a celebration of the glory humour eccentricities & embarrassments that are the British at Table. The British have a relationship with their food that is unlike that of any other country. Once something that was never discussed in polite company it is now something with which the nation is obsessed. But are we at last developing a food culture or are we just going through the motions? ' Eating for England' is an entertaining detailed & somewhat tongue-in-cheek observation of the British & their food their cooking their eating & how they behave in restaurants with chapters on
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- dinner parties funeral teas Indian restaurants dieting & eating whilst under the influence. Written in Nigel Slater's trademark readable style ' Eating for England' highlights our idiosyncratic attitude towards the fine art of dining.

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More & more of us are living alone. We create a hectic life for ourselves & we dont eat as we ought to eat most of the time! Sound like you? I will show you how to plan forward to enjoy delicious simple meals from fresh ingredients every day. You wont spend more than 20 minutes
- often only 10
- in preparation & cooking. & they are the most important minutes in your day because they produce much better health.

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Every mum-to-be wants to know that she's eating the right things for herself & her baby. Nutrition is vital during pregnancy & there's a huge amount of conflicting advice out there. For the first time child nutrition expert Annabel Karmel brings her food knowledge & experience to expectant mothers guiding you through each stage of your pregnancy & offering tips & advice on what to eat & avoid. From the best foods to eat to promote conception through ideas for avoiding morning sickness in the first trimester to the best nutrition to combat sleeplessness anaemia & heartburn later on Annabel leads you through your pregnancy & beyond even suggesting meals to make & freeze ready for when you have your new baby! With Annabel's advice & over 90 fabulous recipes you can be confident that you are eating the best possible diet for you & your developing baby. ...

As anyone who has ever been on a diet knows they simply dont work. No one can diet indefinitely & once you stop the weight simply piles back on. Eating Less is not about dieting; instead it places the emphasis where it belongs on healthy eating & eating less. This revised & updated edition offers you a unique & inspiring solution to overeating: its aim is to look at thoughts & beliefs about food unravel the minds addictive impulses & retrain it to have a more healthy balanced relationship with food. It introduces you to practical techniques that you can apply in your daily life; it shows you how to set your own limits without feeling deprived & becoming rebellious; & it gives you the ability to develop greater control by helping you to overcome addictive behaviour. So simply follow Eating Less & see your weight fall off & stay off. Eating Less is likely to succeed where diet books fail. The utter simplicity of its message & techniques makes it easy to start & continue with a programme that revolutionises your attitude to eating & weight. Sarah Litvinoff ...

EATING THE BIG FISH: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders Second Edition Revised & Expanded The second edition of the international bestseller now revised & updated for 2009 just in time for the business challenges ahead. It contains over 25 new interviews & case histories two completely new chapters introduces a new typology of 12 different kinds of Challengers has extensive updates of the main chapters a range of new exercises supplies weblinks to view interviews online & offers supplementary downloadable information. ...

With these delicious & easy-to-prepare recipes
- from appetisers to luscious desserts
- a diabetic need never feel deprived!

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This is a clear & practical guide to eating well with kidney failure including a collection of more than fifty delicious recipes to show you how it all works in practice. The recipes have been analysed for their nutritional content & are coded to help you choose the most appropriate dishes for your individual requirements. ...

Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. ' Its Summer!' screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. ' Pansy's ready' we learn to our considerable interest (' Is she?') as we browse among the bedding plants. It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons & greengrocers' apostrophes with a war cry of ' Sticklers unite!' ...