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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Healing obesity goes far beyond the misguided belief that our only problem is the actual weight and that once it is controlled with some diet, everything will be fixed. The real solution is to recognize that many times the hunger we feel is not physiological, but rather, it is due to emotional needs that, if not listened to and attended to, will persist with their already familiar burden of anxiety and guilt"--
206) Food in schools
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Explores the pros and cons of several issues related to food in the schools, including the rights of students to eat whatever they want, and whether the federal government should control what students eat and weigh. Aligns with Common Core Language Arts Anchor Standards. Includes bibliography, glossary, index, and relevant websites"--
207) Looks
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
Taubes revisita la apremiante pregunta de qué nos hace engordar y cómo podemos cambiar. Revela la pésima ciencia nutricional del último siglo--nada más perjudicial o desacertado que el modelo de "calorías que ingieres, calorías que gastas"--y la buena ciencia que ha sido ignorada, especialmente con relación a la regulación de la insulina de nuestro tejido adiposo. También responde las preguntas más persistentes: ¿Por qué algunas...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Lustig explains that the problem is the quality and not the quantity of food people eat. The real culprit is processed food, loaded with added sugar and stripped of its natural fiber and nutrients. He is leading the groundswell to expose the high sugar content in processed food, and the dangers and costs to our health.
211) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old eighth-grader Anthony Castillo uses "f-bombs" in the angst-ridden song he writes for his rock band, the Rusty Soles, and while it becomes an instant viral hit, he must decide if being a hero is worth the trouble that singing it on Arts Night would cause.
212) Fake
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Maisie Fernandez has just about convinced herself that she does not care about her weight or her looks, or about only having one friend in Fort Collins High School (nerdy Owen Carpenter), but "Sienna", the internet profile she creates, is beautiful, skinny, and confident; the profile is part of her plan to humiliate the popular kids who bully and make fun of her, but suddenly the deception gets complicated--because the actual Sienna, the girl whose...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
"Cargada de motivación y su característica energía, María Antonieta Collins, una de las corresponsales de noticias más reconocidas de Latinoamérica, comparte la historia de su increíble transformación física y mental, los secretos que la llevaron a perder peso y el viaje en el que se embarcó para encontrar el autoestima, salud y felicidad que cambiaron su vida. María Antonieta Collins perdió seis tallas y más de 40 kilos...
215) Cuando la comida es más que comida: un camino espiritual para perder peso y recuperar la autoestima
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1a edición.
Language
Español
Description
Tan inteligente como compasivo, este libro transformador proporciona los recursos necesarios para cambiar la relación con la comida y, lo que es más importante, con una misma.
216) The truth about fat
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Scientists are coming to understand fat as a fascinating and dynamic organ - one whose size has more to do with biological processes than personal choices. Through real life stories of hunter-gatherers, sumo wrestlers, and supermodels, Nova explores the complex functions of fat and role it plays in controlling hunger, hormones, and even reproduction.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Developed in partnership with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academies of Science, in association with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and with support from Kaiser Permanente and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, The Weight of the Nation is one of the largest public health campaigns on obesity the nation has seen to date.
220) Why we get fat
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Taubes reveals the role of certain carbohydrates in today's obesity epidemic while denouncing calorie-based nutritional practices, in a report that includes coverage of such topics as genetics, the politics behind nutritional guidelines, and foods to eat and avoid.
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