nutrition

Contains puzzles, games, and worksheets designed to help students learn more about the basic theories of diet and nutrition with emphasis on the food pyramid, caloric balance and imbalance, the safety of diets, vitamins, and other related topics.

Alex, Kara, Sam, and Heather, four young people with four common problematic nutritional "styles," learn how to change their eating habits. Discusses the U.S.D.A. Food Guide Pyramid.

Presents a fitness and nutrition program designed to help people lose weight, build muscle, and stay healthy, with exercises that will help people develop balanced fitness, advice on recovering from a workout, and a diet plan that will enable people to lose weight, build muscle, and gain energy.

Contains alphabetically-arranged entries that provide information about various types of exercise and discuss the nutritional value of all the major food groups and vitamins, identifies risk factors associated with unhealthy lifestyles, and includes dietary guidelines.

A guide to the medicinal qualities of various herbs. Includes the latest research on and folk uses of each herb.

Discusses the importance of nutrition to good health, provides individual profiles of different vitamins and minerals, and includes information about additional supplements such as amino acids, antioxidants, and natural hormones.

Explains how you can help your body ward off illness by increasing your mineral intake, performing the proper exercises, and reducing stress. Also describes how your immune system works and which practices lessen your chances of contracting cancer, heart disease and strokes, HIV infection, asthma, and other illnesses.