The Nutrition Now Series
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- Carbohydrates: What You Need to Know
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The Truth About Carbohydrates Are carbohydrates fattening? Does sugar make kids hyperactive? Are fiber supplements just as good as the real thing? The questions and myths surrounding carbohydrates abound. But with this book, The American Dietetic Association sets the record straight. You will discover: * How carbohydrates affect your weight, mood, and physical performance * How fiber helps to reduce the risk for heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems * Why high-protein diets are based on pseudo-science * Why high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets are best for weight loss and weight management * How to get the optimum amount of carbohydrates every day * And much more! This book not only will help you understand the role of carbohydrates in diet and health, it will guide you in planning a healthful diet for you and your family.
- Food Allergies: The Nutrition Now Series
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A practical guide to eating well with food allergies This handy book from the world's foremost authority on nutrition answers all your questions about food allergies. You'll learn how they re-diagnosed and how to manage the most common food allergies, with day-to-day strategies for avoiding problem foods and making substitutions that ensure a balanced diet. A special chapter on food allergies and children explains how you may be able to prevent or delay allergies in children, and how to manage their food allergies while ensuring proper growth and development. This helpful book also includes a sample food diary and allergy-free menus and recipes.
- Monthly Nutrition Companion: 31 Days to a Healthier Lifestyle
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Create Your Own Plan for Better Health With Help From the World's Foremost Nutrition Experts In one month, you can personalize a step-by-step action plan and get results that will motivate you toward a lifetime of overall fitness. By tracking your food choices and physical activity, this handy record book will help you evaluate habits, set goals, and make positive changes for better health. You ll learn how to get the nutrients you need, determine your healthy weight, analyze and resolve situations that trigger eating, and monitor your progress through weekly and monthly check-ups.
- Pregnancy Nutrition: Good Health for You and Your Baby
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Quick Answers for a Healthy Start A healthy pregnancy starts with a well-balanced diet, but there's much more to know. For example: True or False? * You need to eat an extra 500 calories a day when pregnant. * Iron needs triple during pregnancy. * A high-fiber diet is important during pregnancy. Answers: * False. Pregnant women require 300 extra calories a day and nursing women need an extra 500 calories a day. You'll find more on calories and weight gain in Chapter 1 and nutrition tips while breast-feeding in Chapter 9. * False. Your need for iron doubles during pregnancy. Still, it can be difficult to get this much iron from food alone. That's why you should read more about iron in Chapter 3. * True. Fiber helps prevent constipation, a common occurrence during pregnancy. Learn tips for managing constipation, morning sickness, and other discomforts of pregnancy in Chapter 7. From the latest information on vitamin and mineral supplements and exercise to advice on losing weight after your baby is born, this handy book covers it all.
- Safe Food for You and Your Family
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The definitive pocket guide on food safety from the source America turns to for food and nutrition advice. Each year, about one in every 10 Americans develops a food-related illness. You can protect yourself with Safe Food for You and Your Family, an indispensable guide to preventing foodborne illness. This book explains how to detect hidden dangers at home or away, which foods are potentially unsafe, and how they become contaminated. Valuable tips include preventing the spread of bacteria in your kitchen, how to tell if food has gone "bad," storing and serving safe foods, and how to pack bag lunches safely and order at restaurants, markets, and delis.
- Snacking Habits for Healthy Living
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Make snacking a part of a balanced diet with advice from America's nutrition experts Snacking can be a habit that nourishes and sustains you or a source of excess calories and fat. Snacking Habits for Healthy Living shows you how to select a variety of snack foods and make them part of a healthy diet. This helpful guide provides advice for everyone, with specific information on the snacking needs of children, teenagers, athletes, weight-conscious adults, and those with special nutrition needs. It offers practical guidelines and strategies for different snacking situations and settings: at work, at home, and on the go. It also includes nutrition information for a variety of snack foods, all to help you select snacks, develop shopping lists, and create healthy snack food stashes at home, work, or anywhere.
- The Supermarket Guide: Food Choices for You and Your Family
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Shop smart with America's foremost nutrition experts. The American Dietetic Association takes you aisle-by-aisle through the supermarket, showing you how to make informed decisions about the food you buy for yourself and your family. Not just a guide to low-fat and fat-free items, this book gives you tips on reading labels and choosing foods that best fit your healthy eating plan following the ADA philosophy that all foods can fit. Learn the nutritional differences between fresh, frozen, and canned vegetables; how to compare presweetened, wholegrain, granola, and hot cereals; how to find the freshest seafood; and more! This handy guide also provides tips on food safety and stretching your grocery dollars.
- Food Folklore: Tales and Truths About What We Eat
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Separate food facts from fiction with this handy guide from America's nutrition experts. Do carbohydrates cause weight gain? Will taking zinc help you recover faster from a cold? Does extra protein make muscles stronger? As long as people want quick and easy solutions to health concerns, food folklore will continue to be a part of our culture. But what are the facts, and what are the tall tales? In this fun and informative book, The American Dietetic Association reveals which commonly-held beliefs about food can be supported by science, and which are just myths. You'll find out about foods that really do have health benefits, and learn which popular practices might actually be harmful. Before you accept the latest health or nutrition advice or spend money on ineffective remedies, consult this unique resource from the experts at the ADA.
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