Discussed in this title is how weight is gained and lost and provides information focusing instead on a lifetime of healthy habits. Weight management is not about denying yourself. It's about providing your body with what it truly needs.
Learn about the various health risks associated with our expanding bodies and how obesity can cause many different health problems throughout life. Discover the true cost of obesity, both to those who face the condition and to our society as a whole.
Demonstrates the concept of opposites through comparisons of different animals that are heavy and light, including photographs and facts about the featured animals. Presented in English and Spanish.
Discusses the results of the latest studies and theories on weight control emphasizing the role of heredity as well as habits in determining individual weight. Includes a chart listing daily nutritional needs.
Helps students understand the importance of making healthy lifestyle choices about diet and exercise and explores people's relationship with food, the role of genetics in body shape, different eating disorders, and ways to combat obesity.
Two objects can be the same size, but not the same weight. Readers will learn not just about pounds and ounces, but also about how density, gravity, and mass affect weight.
