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From the co-founder of Plated, the home delivery food service, and an inspirational business title that is a call-to-arms and investigation into the industrial American food complex.
In early 2012, Nick Taranto was twenty-seven years old, recently married, and fresh out of the Marine Corps. He moved back to New York City, started working on Wall Street, and put on twenty pounds in under six months. He was pasty, overweight, and depressed, and he...
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
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"Having a child with extreme picky eating habits can be both frustrating and worrisome - especially if you are concerned your child isn't getting the nutrition they need to grow, stay healthy and strong, and thrive. And if your child has a feeding or selective eating disorder (SED), they may simply refuse to eat a number of foods altogether. To make matters worse, children with feeding disorders often experience anxiety, anger, and may be suspicious...
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16 pages : color illustrations ; 18 x 23 cm.
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When the students in Mrs. Torres's class start to plan their class party, they expect that it will feature junk food, but as they learn about which foods are healthy and which are not, they decide to have refreshments of a different sort.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Animal characters learn about "good eating everyday" in a restaurant called The Edible Pyramid, where the waiter offers the foods grouped in sections of the Food Guide Pyramid and customers learn how many servings they need each day. Simultaneous.
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"The China Study" revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. "Whole" answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? "Whole" demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten offtrack and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism....
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xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Provides information and strategies parents need to meet the dietary needs of their children from birth through adolescence, with facts and charts designed to help parents determine whether their child is overweight, too thin, too small, or too tall, and discussion of topics such as eating disorders, food safety, additives, and allergies.
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189 pages ; 22 cm
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Éste no es un simple libro de cocina, ni de recetas, sino que en sus páginas nos encontraremos con anecdotas, entrevistas, historias de vida, enseñanzas fundamentales para cambiar nuestros hábitos alimenticios y sentirnos mejor desde adentro hacia afuera. La alimentación está vinculada directamente con la salud y la calidad de vida, la educación y la cultura. Nadie puede ser feliz y sentirse sano sin una buena alimentación; un país no puede...
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394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Eat for Life is the first book to showcase Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Nutritarian Diet in full -- the most practical, balanced, and focused way to eat, lose weight, and live longer. Emphasizing high-nutrient, whole plant foods that supply abundant amounts of micronutrients. Most Americans are deficient in micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and consume too many macronutrients (calories). Natural, colorful plant foods contain the largest assortment of micronutrients,...
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x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Your fitness, health, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. Yet, knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good sources of vitamins, keeping up on the latest scientific discoveries, or discerning the effectiveness of different diets can be challenging. To help answer these questions there's The Handy Nutrition Answer Book. Additionally, the book scrutinizes the...
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viii, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad -- and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. It's time for a different approach. Enter Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of Nutritionfacts.org. Author of the mega bestselling How Not to Die, Dr. Greger now turns his attention to the latest research on the leading causes...
17) Eating healthy
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"An early reader's introduction to the connections between healthy eating and being healthy, benefits of food groups such as vegetables, nutritional concepts such as energy, and recipe instructions"--
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xxxiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Reveals the positive benefits of enjoying moderate portions of vilified ingredients ranging from red meat and alcohol to gluten and salt.
"Advice about food can be confusing. Experts seem to agree on only one thing: some ingredients--often the most enjoyable ones--are bad for you, full stop. But as physician Aaron Carroll explains, if we stop consuming some of our most demonized foods, it may actually hurt us. Examining troves of studies on dietary...
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