health

Discusses dietary and nutritional health, healthy eating habits, food pyramids, and ways to stay healthy.

Explains the importance of good grooming, hygiene, nutrition, fitness, and attitude.

Discusses the importance of exercise in keeping the body healthy and of maintaining good posture too.

Basic health and fitness information includes nutrition and exercise tips, as well as a section on sports injuries.

Provides information about a wide range of health-related topics and lifestyle issues; and includes chapter overviews, definitions of words and terms, lists of reference books and web sites, sidebar boxes, photographs and illustrations, bibliographies, and indexes.

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey and her personal trainer Bob Greene, present their plan for eating, exercising, and living in a way that promotes and maintains fitness, with personal stories from Oprah's struggle to control her weight.

Twenty-two essays debate such health issues as obesity, vitamin and herbal supplements, junk food taxes, and government-funded single-payer health care; also includes discussion questions, a bibliography, and an annotated list of organizations.

Simple text and photographs describe the food guide pyramid and show examples of food in each group.

Explains the importance of cleanliness and other preventive measures to maintain a healthy body.

Describes various exercises for strength, stamina, and suppleness and the benefits derived from them.