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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This documentary explains our psychological responses to food, shares new scientific knowledge about hunger, eating, and human metabolic operation. Shows how external pressures such as oversized restaurant portions and the unending barrage of food advertisements make fighting fat so difficult. Also features real Americans telling their stories about the biological barriers, cultural habits, and economic realities contributing to their struggle to...
42) A big deal
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Forget your past failures on trying to lose weight. This is a new day! In 'A BIG DEAL,' Roger Raglin takes you step by step on what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat in order to help you achieve your weight-loss goals, and then keep it off once and for all. Roger's no-nonsense, common-sense approach to weight loss has helped thousands of people lose hundreds of thousands of pounds! You can now be a part of that group if you choose to. You...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
A complete program to understand and transform your weight. Why do I gain more weight than other people? What foods make me gain weight? Why doesn't any diet work for me? It is time to consider a new approach: understand what effect the food we eat has on us. As Hippocrates told us "Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food." Each food has an effect, an energy, a reaction in us. If we eat food with a cumulative, retention effect, we...
44) Fed up
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Katie Couric, this film blows the lid off everything that was known about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public. Exposing the hidden truths contributing to one of the largest health epidemics in history, it follows a group of families battling to lead healthier lives and reveals why the conventional wisdom of 'exercise and eat right'...
45) Dietland
Author
Language
English
Description
Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. With her job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls' magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. Only then can her true life as a thin person finally begin. Then, when a mysterious woman starts following her, Plum finds herself falling down a rabbit hole and into an underground community of women who live...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Childhood obesity is on the rise. Children who are obese are in real danger from more serious problems, such as heart disease and diabetes. As obesity in America reaches epidemic proportions, dealing with childhood weight problems has never been more important. Straightforward explanations of the disease and its complications set the stage. Later chapters offer life-changing information on how to live a healthy life and defeat obesity for good.
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English
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Harvard endocrinologist Ludwig pioneered the use of a low-glycemic diet in combating obesity. Ten years ago, Dr. Ludwig founded the Optimal Weight for Life Program (OWL) at Children's Hospital Boston. There he and his team tailored his low-glycemic diet for children and combined it with a nine-week progressive plan that benefits the patient and the entire family. This scientifically proven approach addresses, for the first time, all three key factors...
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Series
Simonverse volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Language
English
Description
Avoiding relationships to protect her sensitive heart, plus-sized Molly supports her once-cynical twin, Cassie, when the latter has her own bout of lovesickness, a situation that is complicated by sibling dynamics and an unexpected romantic triangle.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria Dawson loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister, Gracie, and when Grace announces her engagement to a...
51) Nothing To Lose
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a culture obsessed with fat, there are groups of "fat activists" who attempt to change what they see as a fat-phobic world into a size-accepting world. These fat activists span the political and religious spectrum, yet come together around their commitment to ending "size discrimination."
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English
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At nine years old, Breanna Bond weighed 186 pounds. Her school days were filled with taunts of "Hey, Fatty!" Breanna's mom, Heidi, was devastated and wondered, How can I get my daughter healthy again? She helped her daughter lose weight without the aid of fad diets, medication, or surgery-- and shows other parents how they can do the same with their kids.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Out-of-shape Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog, whose activities are limited to eating, drinking, and sleeping, finally slim down after embarking on an around-the-world search for the elusive Cunning Tiger and Wild Wolf.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
The life of a thirteen-year-old boy named Toby Wilson--who is already struggling with his mother's departure and his best friend's brother's tour of duty in Vietnam--changes forever when another boy, Zachary Beaver, moves to his Texas town.
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English
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Toxic Fat: When Good Fat Turns Bad provides a revolutionary new understanding of our current obesity epidemic by showing that it can be viewed as a form of cancer to be treated using the clinically proven pathway to change the expression of your genes using food as a drug to rid your body of toxic fat. For many of us, one of the first signs of toxic fat is the accumulation of excess body fat. In fact, obesity can be viewed as a form of "cancer" that...
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English
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Advance praise for Stop Prediabetes Now
"As usual, Jack Challem has brought us a book right on target and ahead of the health curve. This surprising, unbiased book tells the truth about a condition that has clearly become a hidden epidemic in this country. Stop Prediabetes Now is one of the most important books to be published in a very long time."
-Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., New York Times bestselling author of The Fat Flush Plan...
"As usual, Jack Challem has brought us a book right on target and ahead of the health curve. This surprising, unbiased book tells the truth about a condition that has clearly become a hidden epidemic in this country. Stop Prediabetes Now is one of the most important books to be published in a very long time."
-Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., New York Times bestselling author of The Fat Flush Plan...
57) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
"Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies."--
59) Skinny
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.
60) Fatso
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the day he was born, food has always been the ultimate comfort for middle-aged bachelor Dominick DiNapoli. But when his obese cousin Sal dies at 39, Dom must finally come to terms with his own weight problem. From quack doctors and harsh diets to his overbearing Italian family and a fanatical support group called "The Chubby Checkers," nothing can come between a man and his manicotti. Could a new love with a neighborhood woman finally curb Dominick's...
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