weight loss

Explains how nutrition affects weight, how to determine what overweight is, how to change diet to affect weight, what healthy snacks are, and more.

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.

Third-grader Sofia wants to wear a beautiful dress to her cousin Rosario's quinceanera, but she will have to lose some weight by exercising and eating healthier foods, with help from her mother and sister.

Fifteen-year-old Tristan deals with intensified criticism about his weight when the nutrition-obsessed daughter of his mother's boyfriend, Frank, moves in.

Argues that refined carbohydrates cause obesity, discussing the history of carbohydrates in American diets, low-carbohydrate weight loss, and scientific studies that support the author's views.

"A scientific look at weight control that explains how our bodies react to food and the environment, and how our brain affects what and how much we eat and, in turn, is affected by what we eat"--.

Today's diet landscape is a minefield. From restrictive plans to conflicting information, it can start to feel like weight loss is just not possible for you. But here's the good news: It is. Welcome to your bullsh*t-free road map to better health. Losing weight and feeling better shouldn't feel like a punishment. You deserve to love your routine while honing and solidifying habits that help you look and feel your best. All of this can (and will!) be done within the context of your busier-than-ever lifestyle. With her extensive background in medical nutrition therapy, nutrition counseling, and in the editorial setting at Good Housekeeping, London has seen it all when it comes to the struggles of understanding how and what to eat.

After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.

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.

Contains a collection of dishes that incorporate only Whole30 friendly ingredients that are intended to be simple and fairly quick to prepare. Includes step-by-step instructions, color photographs, background information on the Whole30 program, and tips for success.