A lifetime of sound advice on healthful eating—from the world’s foremost authority on food and nutrition. Thoughts about eating are changing. The focus has moved from dieting and losing weight to healthful overall eating habits to help you feel good, live well, and prevent disease. With so much new information coming from so many different sources, eating right can be confusing—but it doesn’t have to be. This comprehensive book from The American Dietetic Association explains everything you need to know about what you eat, allowing you to enjoy your favorite foods and maximize nutrition. The American Dietetic Association’s Complete Food &amp; Nutrition Guide Provides Quick Access to Nutrition Information for the Whole Family, Including: 
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<li>What you need to know about vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants</li> <li>Low-fat fast food and restaurant tips</li> <li>Healthful vegetarian eating</li> <li>Nutrition for disease prevention</li> <li>Why dieting doesn’t work—and what does</li> <li>Meeting the unique nutrition needs of women, children, teens, and seniors</li> <li>How to decipher health claims in the headlines</li> <li>Top nutrition tips for sports and exercise</li> <li>How to protect against foodborne illness</li> <li>And much more!</li> </ul> Also included are recently updated recommendations for certain vitamins and minerals, the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans, kitchen nutrition tips, self-assessment quizzes, and an expanded index. With nearly 70,000 members, The American Dietetic Association is the largest organization of food and nutrition professionals in the world. Named one of Ladies’ Home Journal’s Top Health Books of 1996 Winner of a 1997 Health Information Award "A must for everyone’s kitchen."—The Oregonian "Jam-packed with practical eating and food safety tips."—USA Today "Intelligent advice about sensible eating."—Washington Times "May be the ultimate healthy-eating primer."—Fitness Magazine

The American Dietetic Association's Complete Food & Nutrition Guide

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Duyff, Roberta Larson

The American Dietetic Association (ADA)

Diets & Weight Loss

wiley

Bone up on calcium with America?s nutrition experts The amount of calcium you need to ensure strong bones and prevent osteoporosis changes throughout your life, based on your age, gender, and physical activity. This handy book will help you explore calcium needs for every age, test your calcium knowledge, and evaluate the calcium content of your meals. Plus, it will show you quick and easy ways to pack more calcium into your eating plan and maintain a healthy body weight.

Calcium in Your Life (The Nutrition Now Series)

Pierre, Colleen

Nutrition

Does the world really need another book on dieting? More important, do you? Plenty of diet books make promises that this one doesn't. Lots tell you that losing weight and keeping it off is easy when you know their secrets. Well, here's a secret that the other books won't tell you: Dieting gimmicks, like banning pasta, don't work. And that's precisely why you need this book. It's not about fad plans or take-it-off-quick schemes. It's about balancing healthful eating and exercise for a lifetime. 
This second edition of Dieting For Dummies is for anyone who has eaten too much and wants to lose weight. The information presented here is appropriate for someone wanting to lose 10 pounds or 100 pounds. You can use it as a guide for eating healthfully, and not only a way to lose weight. Because, when you discover how to eat the healthy way, you will lose weight. The material in Dieting For Dummies is grouped so that you don't have to start at the beginning – although that's a nice place to start. If you'd rather, you can flip right to the chapter that contains the information you need. You'll discover information on <ul>
<li>Understanding what a healthy weight is and how to find yours</li> <li>Getting over overeating</li> <li>Formulating a plan for healthy eating</li> <li>Shopping, cooking, and dining out to make eating healthy easier</li> <li>Finding and working with health-care professionals you can trust, for when you can't seem to go it alone</li> </ul>
People come in a wide range of heights, weights, and girths. One is not better than another. But staying within your healthiest weight range can help you achieve optimal health and well-being. Let this book help you see through the fog of fads and myths. Then read on and find out how you can stop dieting and start living healthfully.

Dieting For Dummies

KIRBY, Jane

For Dummies

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