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Updated with the latest available research and the new 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines You are what you eat: no, really--it's a scientific fact! Good nutrition is your meal-ticket to staying sleek, healthy, and strong--both physically and mentally. Nutrition For Dummies, 7th Edition is a one-size-fits-all guide to nutrition that shows you how to maintain a healthy weight, promote health, and prevent chronic disease. This book gives you the know-how to...
2) The crazies
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[2010]
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After a strange toxin contaminates the water supply in a small town in Iowa, the residents are suddenly turned into bloodthirsty psychopaths. The town sheriff does all he can to make sense of the outbreak, as his wife and two other unaffected people fight for their survival.
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"Mab is the "normal" one, never mind Bourne Memorial High School has banned that term, and besides, she's a stickler for words and definitions and knows normal isn't normal in Bourne. Monday is a stickler for everything else. She doesn't like abbreviations, contractions, lies, typos, or wearing green clothes on yellow days. When the Bourne library shut down--funds desperately needed elsewhere--she stashed the books under her bed, behind the sofa,...
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[2021]
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The water you drink can literally make or break your health. The purity of our water is the most critical element in maintaining radical vitality, and healing from illness and disease. In this newly revised edition of Water: The Shocking Truth, health crusaders Paul Bragg and Patricia Bragg reveal the dangers of tap water, which research shows can be responsible for many ailments, due to the addition of dangerous chemicals such as fluoride and chlorine....
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Ben Kincaid novels volume 9
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H. P. Blaylock Industrial Machinery Corporation is charged with dumping toxic chemicals into the community's drinking water. Facing off against the small Kincaid staff and their meager resources is Tulsa's largest law firm and Ben's onetime employer: Raven, Tucker & Tubb. And challenging Ben in the courtroom is the firm's fabled top gun, Charlton Colby--not to mention a hot-headed judge with a notorious soft spot for big business. But as Ben prepares...
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"New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. Many are to blame: the EPA,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"From a tall glass of ice water to a steaming cup of tea, water is an essential part of any healthy diet. In this Pebble Explore book, learn more about where water comes from, the best sources of water, and how this drink helps make up a healthy diet. Filled with fantastic facts and colorful photos, this book will quench every young learner's thirst for knowledge"--
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2018.
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"Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure"--
"When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government...
12) Flint
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[2018]
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LeeAnne Walters, Melissa Mays, and Nayyirah Shariff join forces after discovering that the drinking water in their city is contaminated, resulting in a slew of devastating medical problems for their families. When their claims go unheeded, they band together to expose the wrongdoings committed by their government officials, whose carelessness caused irrevocable harm to the lives of the city's residents.
14) Eat less water
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"Experts predict two-thirds of people living on this planet in 2025 will experience water scarcity, a situation expected to result in the deaths of millions and an unprecedented rise in military conflicts. Can we as individuals hope to have any effect on the global scale of water misuse?Yes, we can make a significant difference?with our food choices?learned author and activist Florencia Ramirez as she traveled across the nation to interview farmers...
15) Waterworks
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[2020]
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A group of terror-driven international thugs threatens the nation's drinking water with a terrible poison. Who is responsible? Can the team of Lara and Uri once again find and stop these anti-American criminals?
16) Kill Alex Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 18
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Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the President's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the Capitol's water supply that foreshadows of a larger, more devastating attack.
17) Dig too deep
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"With her mother facing prison time for a violent political protest, seventeen-year-old Liberty Briscoe has no choice but to leave her Washington, DC, apartment and take a bus to Ebbottsville, Kentucky, to live with her granny. There she can at least finish high school and put some distance between herself and her mother--or her former mother, as she calls her. But Ebbottsville isn't the same as Liberty remembers, and it's not just because the top...
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[2021]
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"East-coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption...
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"Human modification of the environment always carries a risk of accident and folly. Explore the causes and consequences of the devastating water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Guided by compelling questions such as, "What led to this disaster?," "Who was impacted by it?," and "What changed in its aftermath?" the interdisciplinary content blends social studies and science. Ultimately, it pushes students to consider how humans can meet their need for resources...
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