nutrition

Shows how making the right eating choices helps keep bodies and minds fit, while encouraging sound nutrition with an exercise plan.

Explains how specific, precise nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle strategies can improve an athlete's performance.

Examines nutrition levels and guidelines for athletes, offering strategies for maintaining nutrient, vitamin, mineral, and meal intakes throughout an athlete's day in order to best regulate his or her body for any sport.

Offers practical advice and realistic guidance on key topics such as a training diet, carbohydrate requirements, fluid intake, weight management, body fat, eating disorders, and sports supplements.

Former restaurant critic and stay-at-home father Matthew Amster-Burton shares his battle to feed his daughter Iris, describing the daily battles to get Iris to eat a balanced, nutritious meal, the joys he felt as he rediscovered favorite foods with her, and the highs and lows of raising an adventurous eater.

Discusses the importance of good nutrition before and during pregnancy; explores the role of nutrition in fertility; describes the optimal diet for pregnancy; considers the pros and cons of vitamin and mineral supplements; and includes information on weight gain, pregnancy-related discomforts, and other topics.

A diet and nutrition guide for HIV-positive individuals, offering advice on exercise, nutritional supplements, eating away from home, and dietary strategies for boosting the immune system and coping with related health problems. Includes recipes.

Explains philosophical, practical, and nutritional aspects of vegetarianism, a term which had nothing to do with vegetables when coined in the 1840's. Includes more than 50 meatless recipes.

Offers advice on good nutrition for athletes and non-athletes, discussing how proper eating can reduce health risks, promote weight loss, and help improve performance before, during, and after exercise, and includes 131 recipes and references for additional study.

Presents more than 125 recipes for homemade foods for babies six to twelve months old and beyond, and provides guidance on baby nutrition and what foods to start when.