nutritional aspects

Studies the effectiveness and safety of taking St. John's Wort for depression, kava for stress or anxiety, ginkgo for memory loss, or valerian for insomnia.

Provides 225 recipes suitable for diabetics. Includes a nutritional analysis of each recipe.

Discusses food, diet, and nutrition as they pertain to general physical fitness and mental performance.

Discusses how food is produced and its effect on humans' health, examining food-borne diseases, natural foods, the role of organic farming, and other related topics.

Reviews the "Get With the Program!" plan for weight loss and fitness, offers nutrition information for choosing good-quality food in reasonable quantities, and features eighty-five recipes for breakfasts, soups, salads and sandwiches, entrees, side dishes, and desserts.

Offers advice to parents and professionals on how to promote healthy lifestyles in people with Down syndrome, from infants to young adults, discussing early eating and feeding and the connection between nutrition and Down syndrome, providing strategies for teaching healthy choices, and including learning activities.

Explores the ways in which children's nutritional needs are different from adult needs, the role of nutrition in the ability to learn and concentrate, and how foods affect behavior in children.

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

Tips for getting maximum power from your brain with food, exercise, and other external forces. Provides test and experiments to determine how each of our individual minds works.

Explains the physical and psychological effects of food, and discusses the impact of food on brain chemistry and blood sugar, the physical and emotional reasons for food cravings, emotional eating, eating disorders, and the importance of a balanced diet.