nutrition

Provides teen athletes with a guide to maintaining proper nutrition in order to ensure one always performs to one's full potential. Offers tips on choosing healthy, balanced meals and includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Collects seventeen essays that represent a variety of perspectives on the sale of junk food in schools, discussing fast food partnerships, government regulation, school budgets, obesity, and other related topics.

Readers learn about the sport of rugby and its history.

Dieting can be an effective way to lose weight, but only when it is done safely and under a doctors advice. Dangerous forms of dieting can be harmful to teens health. This book explores the causes of dangerous dieting, how it affects teens, and ways in which teens can protect themselves and get help.

Offers information on reducing one's carbon footprint by eating sustainable foods, covering eating locally, gardening, organic standards, reducing food waste, and more. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Guide to vegetarianism covering nutritional requirements, environmental concerns with recipes, and a list of cookbooks.

Includes information on how to make healthy food choices, covering how to compare calories, portion sizes, and more.

"A fun cookbook with recipes aimed to prepare student athletes for a game, as well as provide nutritious options during and after the game"--Provided by publisher.

"This . . . illustrated cookbook provides 50 kid-tested recipes that engage children's natural inclination for adventure and use fresh, seasonal ideas for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and sweets to teach basic cooking skills. . . . Recipes such as Savory Scones with Fresh Herb Butter, Black Bean Taco Bar, Two-Minute Guacamole, Meatballs and Tomato Sauce, and Yogurt and Berry Compote Parfait engage every sense with bright colors, fresh flavors, and . . . textures, and showcase healthy, seasonal ingredients"--OCLC.

Teens discover how the USDA's MyPyramid "Steps to a healthier you" shows them how to eat for energy, control their calories and add physical activity to their daily routine. Students also go the web site where they find their personal eating plans for their age, gender and activity level. A fast-moving overview to help teens balance healthy eating with physical activity for a lifetime of good health habits. - Container.