metabolism

Looks at all the ways animals have adapted to save their energy and store their resources. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Explains how the body works in a fun, friendly format. Topics include body fat, lean body mass, obesity, metabolic rate and eating disorders.

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning biology, focusing on cell division, with discussion of mitosis, meiosis, and metabolism.

Offers a thirty-day plan to alter a person's eating habits in a way that boosts the metabolism. Pinpoints which foods and exercises will be most helpful for an individual's metabolism and allows users to create custom plans to improve the metabolism and drop weight.

"This book explores obesity and how people with the disease manage it. It examines how obesity affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains how obesity can be prevented and treated. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by publisher.

"An exploration of the relationship between the human body and all the energy that it takes to make it go"--Provided by publisher.

"Plants turn sunlight into food, produce oxygen, and provide people with food, clothing, medicine, and much, much more. What's more, they can communicate. This . . . book takes readers inside plant communication, a place where chemicals, sounds, and smells become the synapses, words, and motions of the plant world"--Amazon.

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

Introduces young readers to animals that sleep in the summer instead of winter.

Readers will explore the early discoveries of the first biochemists and trace these developments and their impact to the latest advancements in and applications of biochemistry, ultimately leading to a deeper understanding of life on Earth.