"A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love"--

For young people, leading a healthy lifestyle requires education and empowerment. In Understanding Obesity, readers will explore the social aspects and health effects of obesity, the fundamentals of weight gain and loss, and ways to make healthy choices. Sidebars challenge and expand readers' thinking while relating topics to 21st Century skills and themes--from creativity and innovation to financial literacy. Book also includes a table of contents,...

"A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club"--

Fourteen-year-old eighth-grader Anthony Castillo uses "f-bombs" in the angst-ridden song he writes for his rock band, the Rusty Soles, and while it becomes an instant viral hit, he must decide if being a hero is worth the trouble that singing it on Arts Night would cause.

Fat land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles...

The bestselling author of "When Food Is Love" helps overeaters find the underlying reasons for using food as an emotional buffer. Roth also provides seven basic guidelines for eating and other therapeutic self-help tools.

Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food--when a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating, even when we know better. Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the food label and tackled the tobacco industry, now cracks the code of overeating by explaining how our bodies and minds are changed when we consume foods that contain sugar,...

En ocasiones ser una silla no resulta nada fácil. Y menos cuando se vive con la señora Julia. Pero ¡todo tiene un límite! Y es increíble lo mucho que se consigue con astucia y un poco de imaginación. Sometimes, being a chair isn't easy, particularly when you live with señora Julia. But, there are limits to what a chair can put up with.

"Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss. Both obesity and Type II diabetes are diseases caused by excessive insulin. There are five basic steps in weight loss: Reduce your consumption of added sugars. Reduce your consumption of refined grains. Increase your consumption of natural...