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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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English
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From Carrie's career as a sports nutritionist for professional athletic teams to Tony's career as a public health nutritionist and Barbara's life as a famous food entrepreneur, this video presents engaging interviews that are sure to excite students. The viewer will learn about a variety of careers in nutrition, such as a nutrition consultant, public relations specialist, registered dietitian, food scientist, food stylist, and other food-related professionals....
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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English
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Develop healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime and join Chef Marshall O'Brien as he shares nutritious food choices and healthy eating strategies in Nutrition Starts Here: Smart Eating on a Budget. Chef Marshall demonstrates and explains how cooking and eating healthy food can be both fun and delicious while saving money.
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" 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not 'real.'...
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"Sorting through the mental, physical, and emotional aspects of a girl's life during her teen years, this guide presents positive reasons and practical advice for making fitness a permanent part of her life. As society becomes more accepting of truly athletic women, teen girls are encouraged to overcome a "quitter's mentality" and develop physical confidence and mental toughness. A variety of nutrition tips and fitness facts allow girls to design...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Learn how your hypothalamus works to maintain a certain preset level of body fat and weight, commonly known as the set point, and how can you influence that set point. If you feel that you've plateaued, check back with these basics to help you accomplish your personal body-composition goals.
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"Answering a multitude of questions-such as What should a parent do with a child who wants to snack continuously? How should parents deal with a young teen who has declared herself a vegetarian and refuses to eat any type of meat? Or What can parents do with a child who claims he doesn't like what's been prepared, only to turn around and eat it at his friend's house?-this guide explores the relationship between parents, children, and food in a warm,...
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"From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these,...
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"What if you could skip the tiny jars and pouches of bland baby food in favor of a more natural, flavor-filled, and family-friendly transition to solid foods? Baby-led feeding (also known as baby-led weaning) is just that. Feeding your baby a variety of healthy, wholesome solid foods, rather than relying solely on purees, is thought to promote motor skills and establish lifelong healthy eating habits. Here, author and food editor at Parents magazine...
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Bob Harper, superstar trainer and co-host of NBC's reality show "The Biggest Loser," distills his knowledge of nutrition, weight-loss strategy, and human nature down to twenty simple, nonnegotiable principles and offers a month's worth of menu plans and more than 90 rule-abiding recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks to keep you cooking and eating skinny.
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When Sally Obermeder wanted to regain her health after cancer, she turned to green smoothies-and now she is sharing her nutritious, delicious recipes to help others get in shape, feel better, and stay healthyAfter battling and surviving a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer, Sally Obermeder decided she wanted to take back control of her life. She decided to make a simple change, and so began her green smoothie transition. She lost over 22 lbs,...
13) The coworker
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"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn’t show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell—beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running--is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that...
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From the authors of the bestselling Slow Death by Rubber Duck comes Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World. Yes, the Rubber Duck boys are back and, after showing us all the ways that toxins get in our bodies, now they give us a guide for scrubbing those toxins out.Following the runaway success of their first book, two of the world's leading environmental activists give practical and often surprising advice for removing...
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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"Now in paperback, Marina Marchese's inspirational and practical story of learning to raise honeybees and creating a life she loves "[An] engaging, delightfully informative work. . ." -Publishers Weekly "Marchese has given us a lovely gift. Honeybee is an entertaining and useful primer for the novice and honeybee devotee alike." -Washington Times "Surpassing the predictable "how I changed careers" memoir of finding the good life, Marchese's...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 24 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Learn Healthy Eating Habits and Help Kids Avoid the Flu! Fun Music and Lyrics with Grammy Award Winners The Kingston Trio and Minstrel Magicians Julie and Brownie. Join the Grammy award winning Kingston Trio along with their guests Julie and Brownie for a song filled program as kids learn how to avoid colds and flu and develop healthy eating choices that will last a lifetime. Five brand new songs, easy to learn on screen catchy lyrics and plenty...
17) TEAS review
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McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 online resource (447 pages : illustrations)
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English
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Let McGraw-Hill Education Help You Achieve Your Highest Score. McGraw-Hill Education: TEAS Review provides you with the essential review of core subjects you need to pass this important exam. Written by a test-prep expert, this book covers the fundamental concepts tested on the exam, and each chapter includes numerous review exercises that will increase your test-taking confidence. You will sharpen your skills, boost your confidence, reduce your stress--and...
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"Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter,...
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Kenneth Kee
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource
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"A female from birth is different from a male because of the different sex hormones. A girl usually matures physically and mentally faster than a boy At the age of puberty (11years for girls) the girl is usually taller than her male counterpart.She will have her menarche (the beginning of her menses).Emotionally and physically she will be more mature than her male counterpart.However she will have problems with her menses (the monthly flow of blood...
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This work is an examination of what makes us fat. In his book Good Calories, Bad Calories, the author, an acclaimed science writer argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates, not fats and not simply excess calories, have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider, nonscientific audience. With fresh evidence for his claim, this book makes his critical argument newly accessible. He reveals the bad nutritional science...
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