Contains an upper-level student text on nutrition, fitness, and the science of wellness that includes twenty-two chapters complete with reviews and chapter question about each section.
Offers teens and young adults fifty of the healthiest habits and lifestyle changes one should make. Discusses eating habits, exercise, medical care, safety, mental, emotional, and social health, sex and dating, and other topics.
how processed food is killing us and what we can do about it
Fuhrman, Joel
2017
"...Dr. Joel Fuhrman, delivers a hard-hitting, culture-shifting examination of the role fast and processed food plays in our nation's health crisis and offers a program to help us discover a lasting solution, including a two-week meal plan and 80 recipes..."--Provided by publisher.
"Come along as five friends go on a quest to find out where food comes from and to gather ingredients for an apple crisp to bring to the community center's potluck. As they make their way to a farm, a grocery store and back home to the kitchen, the friends learn about the basic food groups, food transportation and healthy eating choices. Join in the food adventure!"--Back cover.
"This photo-illustrated book for beginning readers introduces the vegetables food group and discusses its place in a balanced diet. Includes picture glossary and index"--Provided by publisher.
Offers information on nutrition, discussing the history of food and diet, how the body processes food, nutritional benefits and pitfalls, the latest scientific discoveries, the best way to cook foods to preserve nutrients, and more.
why you don't know what you're eating & what you can do about it
Olmsted, Larry
2016
Argues that deception is rampant in the unregulated food industry and asserts that many foods are counterfeit. Foods to avoid and tips to help recognize authentic foods are included.
"'Bread, Wine, Chocolate'--part journey to six continents in pursuit of delicious and endangered tastes, part investigation of the loss of biodiversity from soil to plate--tells the story of what we are losing, how we are losing it, and the inspiring people and places that are briging back the foods we love"--Dust jacket.
