Compact guides to fitness & health

Provides practical tips for eating the right foods that satisfy hunger and are effective in weight-loss goals.

Explains how to follow eight guidelines for lowering heart attack and stroke risk, including maintaining a healthy weight, eating foods with antioxidants, and managing stress.

Provides ten tips designed to help people protect their hearing and explains the causes and treatments of hearing loss.

Presents advice on taking supplements and profiles fifteen vitamins and minerals, listing their food sources, cautions, recommended dietary allowance, and side effects of excessive intake.

Explains how to assess one's risk of disease, including heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, and lung and kidney disease, and shows how to take charge of one's health, presenting planners for eating right, exercising, and quitting smoking.

A guidebook to staying healthy as one ages that describes the habits of Mayo Clinic doctors themselves, covering exercise, intellectual stimulation, personal relationships, and involvement in one's community.

Offers advice on how to eat well in restaurants and fast food establishments, listing ten tips for healthy dining, with information on how to avoid hidden fat and calories, and nutritional charts.

Discusses the health benefits of regular exercise, and offers advice on how to start and maintain an exercise program with as little as thirty minutes a day.

Presents practical tips for eating more healthily, explaining what to look for on food labels, how to easily get more nutrients, how to change bad eating habits, and what to choose at restaurants; and includes simple recipes and a pantry list.