diet

A guide to making food choices that are are good for you, others, and the planet. Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken--cage-free, free-range, pasture-raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between? Using three criteria--Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is it good for the planet?--Sophie Egan helps us navigate the bewildering world of food so that we can all become conscious eaters.

Explores the food, cooking traditions, customs, eating habits, and food sources of West Africa, and provides insights into the nation's culture, history, and everyday life.

Offers facts to teens about diet, discussing what happens when people eat, looking at food groups, and providing information about calories, food labels, vegetarianism, dieting, eating disorders, and other topics.

Provides answers to questions about health, covering pain, diseases, medicine, cigarette and alcohol damage, and more. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

"[The author's] search for a more expansive palate leads him to those who are actively exploring the fringes of what we can eat, a group of outliers seeking nutrition innovation outside the industrial food system. Here, we meet insect manufacturers, seaweed harvesters, road kill foragers, plant biologists, and oyster farmers who seek to open both our minds and our mouths, and to overturn our most basic assumptions about food, health, and ethics"--OCLC.

Examines factors that affect health and provides information on how a person can work to maintain good health through using practices such as good hygiene and caring for the body.

A guide to making good nutrition choices.

Explains how nutrition affects weight, how to determine what overweight is, how to change diet to affect weight, what healthy snacks are, and more.

Includes information on how to make healthy food choices, covering how to compare calories, portion sizes, and more.

Explains calories, BMI, and portion sizes.