diet

"With a focus on building health and nutrition literacy, this ... title gives readers the tools they need to make healthy food choices... Topics include whole foods, processed foods, and reading food labels"--Provided by publisher.

Provides answers to questions about health, covering pain, diseases, medicine, cigarette and alcohol damage, and more.

Describes the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet and explains how to transform meals to include whole grains, fresh fruit and vegetables, seafood, healthy fats, and more, with twenty recipes and tips.

Introduces readers to a variety of tasty ingredients and exotic new foods.

"...Dr. Joel Fuhrman, delivers a hard-hitting, culture-shifting examination of the role fast and processed food plays in our nation's health crisis and offers a program to help us discover a lasting solution, including a two-week meal plan and 80 recipes..."--Provided by publisher.

"What makes us crave animal protein, and what makes it so hard to give up? And if consuming meat is truly unhealthy for human beings, why didn't evolution turn us all into vegetarians in the first place? In "Meathooked," science writer Marta Zaraska explores what she calls the "meat puzzle": the fact that we love meat, despite its harmful effects"--Dust jacket.

Percy Jerkson and his friends from Camp Half-Wit must combat the forces of fast food and brand-name products to preserve a healthy vegetarian diet.

"This photo-illustrated book for beginning readers introduces the vegetables food group and discusses its place in a balanced diet. Includes picture glossary and index"--Provided by publisher.

"Provides basic consumer health information for teens on diet, nutrition, weight control, and related medical conditions. Includes index and resource information"--.

Explores the history of meat-based diets and the reasons why more people are choosing to eat less or no meat. Provides information on staying healthy without including meat in a diet and how to plan vegetarian meals.