weight loss

"An instructive, inspiring guide to using yoga as an effective and approachable tool to lose weight and achieve a healthier lifestyle. . . Physician and longtime yoga practitioner Loren Fishman demystifies the scientific link between yoga and weight control, outlining its medical, physiological, biological, and spiritual impact [and showing] . . . . how simple yoga postures, explained and illustrated here, can work inside the body on a cellular level. These accessible poses, adjustable to different skill levels and medical conditions, can curtail appetite while stimulating a greater utilization of calories that may help practitioners lose as much as two to three pounds per month"--.

Outlines the Atkins diet, based on the control of carbohydrates, and includes research on its safety and effectiveness, tips for jump-starting weight loss, and recipes.

"New research blows the lid off how we really burn calories, lose weight, and stay healthy"--.

A new, non-diet approach to adopting healthy eating habits! Drawing on the same evidence-based practices introduced in Intuitive Eating, this workbook for teens addresses the ten principles of intuitive eating to help you listen to your body's natural hunger and fullness cues.

"[American country western singer, Carrie Underwood] reveals how she finds balance by making healthy diet and exercise her daily essentials"--Inside front cover.

Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss Huskey Peach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.

Believing she is too big, fourteen-year-old Angel tries dieting and kick-boxing to lose weight, but thanks to her friends and the school fashion show, she discovers that her size is just right. Includes recipes.

Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes overweight.

Seventh-grader Tucker needs to come up with a winning science fair project in a hurry, so he uses his fat friend Angelo as an experimental subject and in the process learns about more than just science.