This book provides a conceptual model and evidence-based school interventions for understanding obesity and eating disordered behaviors. It advocates for body acceptance and intuitive eating based on awareness of the body's hunger and satiety cues.
The Nutrition and Well-being for Vulnerable Adults care quality guide aims to help health and social care staff and carers refresh, develop or extend their learning in key areas of practice.
It deals with food and food-related problems, and comes with an accompanying CD-rom that supplies a number of printable factsheets on the subjects covered, which can be left with parents, schools or anyone else affected by the issues covered, enabling community health professionals to easily provide re-assurance and advice.
Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhoo
Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. This book challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding.
The Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for People with D
A curriculum that offers the tools to set up and work through an exercise and nutrition education program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It includes strategies such as making choices, self-determination, self-efficacy, and rights and responsibility, as well as problem-solving techniques, and conflict resolution.
Presents a collection of essays on the ethical debate. Written by internationally recognized scholars on both sides of the debate, it gives vegetarians and meat-eaters grounding in various aspects of this controversial issue.
Details the history, philosophy, and manifestations of macrobiotics, natural hygiene, the Edgar Cayce tradition, Ayurvedic medicine, Anthroposophical medicine, Gerson therapy, and the Matol movement. This book helps readers make up their own minds about foods, herbs, vitamins, minerals, and the claims made by proponents of alternative dietetics.
Examines the power wielded by health food lobbyists who band together and exert political pressure to protect their profitable ventures. This book examines the research behind the banning of cyclomates and the attacks on saccharin and aspartame that left many Americans wondering whether they are doomed to be chubby or develop cancer.
Includes a listing of recommended dietary allowances, a glossary of terms, and a bibliography. This work contains chapters on nutrition basics and a balanced diet, how to evaluate nutrition information, vitamin and mineral supplements, 'health foods' and related products, junk foods and fast foods, and other topics.