Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health: And Don't Forget the Chocolate!
Author: Liz Pearson
Be healthy, eat well and indulge your sweet tooth.
Several years ago, registered dietitian Liz Pearson and home economist Mairlyn Smith developed The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan. This best-selling book provided guidance for optimal health and the prevention of diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is a welcome follow-up book about disease-fighting powerhouse foods. The authors describe how often to eat these foods and in what quantities. Filled with great tips for eating on the run, dining out and snacking wisely, the book combines the 50 best recipes from the first book with 90 new ones — all nutrition-packed and fabulous.
Interesting book: Fix It and Forget It Diabetic Cookbook or Animal Ingredients A to Z
Health: The Basics
Author: Rebecca Donatell
The Seventh Editionof Donatelle's text provides readers with the tools they need to make healthy, lifelong behavior changes and become savvy consumers of health information. This current and user-friendly text holds readers' interest by covering health topics of primary concern to them. Promoting Healthy Behavior Change; Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well; Managing Stress: Coping with Life's Challenges; Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy Environments; Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: Making Commitments; Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility; Licit and Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse; Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine: Daily Pleasure, Daily Challenges; Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health; Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance; Personal Fitness: Improving Health through Exercise; Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk; Cancer: Reducing Your Risk; Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions: Risks and Responsibilities; Life's Transitions: The Aging Process; Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally; Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services; Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers For all readers interested in making healthy,lifelong behavior changes.
Booknews
New edition of a college textbook which presents a general overview of health issues, intended to assist students in making informed health decisions. Topics include creating healthy and caring relationships; avoiding or overcoming harmful habits; and preventing and fighting disease. Specific health problems addressed include stress, sexually transmitted diseases, and fitness. The publisher reports that this text will not be available by itself once the CD-ROM is published and they're marketed as a package. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | Promoting Healthy Behavior | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Psychosocial Health: Achieving Mental, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Wellness | 25 |
| Ch. 3 | Managing Stress: Toward Prevention and Control | 48 |
| Ch. 4 | Violence and Abuse: Societal Challenges | 66 |
| Ch. 5 | Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: Making Commitments | 84 |
| Ch. 6 | Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility | 117 |
| Ch. 7 | Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health | 148 |
| Ch. 8 | Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance | 179 |
| Ch. 9 | Personal Fitness: Improving Your Health Through Exercise | 204 |
| Ch. 10 | Licit and Illicit Drug Use: Understanding Addictions | 226 |
| Ch. 11 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine: Unacknowledged Addictions | 256 |
| Ch. 12 | Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Reducing Your Risks | 286 |
| Ch. 13 | Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions: Risks and Responsibilities | 318 |
| Ch. 14 | Life's Transitions: The Aging Process | 355 |
| Ch. 15 | Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally | 381 |
| Ch. 16 | Consumerism: Selecting Health-Care Products and Services | 400 |
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