Starved: A Nutrition Doctor's Journey from Empty to Full by Anne McTiernan

By Anne McTiernan

"Failure to thrive" isn't a word during this doctor's vocabulary.

At the age of 4, Anne McTiernan is left by means of her mom at a boarding university. triumph over by means of unhappiness from the overlook she studies there, Anne emotionally and bodily starves. a physician, appalled by means of her over the top weight reduction, forces Anne’s mom to convey her domestic, yet she remains to be now not safe.

Set in working-class, Irish-American Boston of the 1950s–1960s, Anne transitions from a malnourished nation to weight problems to obsessive weight loss program. with out love and help from her kinfolk, Anne makes a decision she needs to take complete accountability for her personal lifestyles in the course of her final eighteen months as a minor.

Today as a physician and researcher, Anne has helped millions of girls enhance their courting with food—but this isn't their tale. Starved is the gripping story of ways Anne used labor, undaunted intelligence, and endurance to show the adversity she encountered as a baby right into a power and set of abilities that may later aid her meet the calls for of her career.

ANNE McTIERNAN, MD, PhD, conducts examine at the results of vitamin, workout, and weight-loss on melanoma and health and wellbeing. at present, she is a professor on the Fred Hutchinson melanoma learn heart and the collage of Washington faculties of Public well-being and medication in Seattle, Washington.

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