diet

To be healthy, we need to eat some foods from each of the five food groups: dairy, fruits, vegetables, grains, and proteins. Learn about all five food groups and find out why each is so important to a healthy life. Discover why eating a balanced diet is one of the best ways to lose weight, stay in shape, and keep your body healthy, and how you can do just that!.

Discusses good ways to lose weight and stay in shape.

Because adolescence is a period of rapid growth and development, teens have special nutritional needs. Through objective overviews, primary sources, and full color illustrations this title examines How Important Is Nutrition for Teens? How Can Teen Athletes Improve Performance Through Diet and Nutrition? Why Are More Teens Overweight Today? What Constitutes Healthy Weight Loss?.

Gluten-Free and Other Special Diets helps readers trace the history of special diets, explore the science andsometimes diseases behind them, and discuss controversies from an objective viewpoint. The title will engage readers on the topic and help them to weigh the pros and cons as they make their own food decisions. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

A collection of essays that provides varying perspective on issues regarding vegetarianism, discussing if it is healthy, if it is morally superior to or more environmentally sustainable than a meat diet, lab-grown meat, and other related topics.

Explore the causes of the weight epidemic and the health risks that stem from excess weight. Discover the part that physical fitness plays in today's obesity crisis. Learn how fitness, not just slimness, should be the goal of those trying to lose weight. Make physical activity a part of your life!.

Matt Fitzgerald discusses a number of popular diets and why he believes they don't work.

Discusses eating disorders, including risk factors, causes, symptoms, history, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and coping.