Weight Control

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Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy

Drawing on the latest nutrition research, Dr. Walter Willett has written Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy as an alternative — and antidote — to the flawed new USDA Pyramid. The book features eye-opening new research on the healthiest carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; an explanation of why weight control is still the single most important factor for long-term health; and menu plans and brand-new recipes that make it even easier to reinvent your diet. Learn more »

Healthy Women, Healthy Lives: A Guide to Preventing Disease, from the Landmark Nurses' Health Study

Healthy Women, Healthy Lives provides women with information obtained from the landmark Nurses' Health Study at Harvard Medical School — as well as data from other significant women's health research — so that they can achieve and maintain good health throughout their lives. Learn more »

The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer

The No Sweat Exercise Plan: A Simple Way to Lose Weight and Improve Your Health Without Spending Hours in the Gym introduces an innovative exercise plan that shows how to be healthy and lose weight through day-to-day activities and without working up a sweat. Written for people who know they need to exercise to look better and improve their health, but who just aren’t into heavy workouts, this book is based on sound scientific data and is endorsed by physicians at Harvard Medical School. Learn more »

Unlocking the Mysteries of Eating Disorders: A Life-Saving Guide To Your Child's Treatment and Recovery

Unlocking the Mysteries of Eating Disorders is an insightful and comforting guide, written by two internationally known experts, that shatters the myths, mysteries, and misconceptions surrounding eating disorders. The book includes the widest range of professional care options available, both psychotherapeutic and medicinal, as well as preventive solutions for children who display early warning signs. Most inspiring of all are the real-life stories of families who have faced eating disorders... Learn more »

Exercise: A program you can live with

What can improve your mood, help relieve insomnia, and lower your risk for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and colon cancer? The answer is regular exercise. It may seem too good to be true, but it's not. Hundreds of studies conducted over the past 50 years demonstrate that exercise helps you feel better and live longer. This report answers many important questions about physical activity, from how your body changes through exercise to what diseases it helps prevent. Learn more »

Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition

Some foods are good for you, some are bad. But which are which? The answers, according to the latest nutritional science, are not the same as previously thought. While some age-old advice like “eat your vegetables” still holds true, many early assumptions have turned out to be wrong. This report describes the food-health connection and takes on controversial topics like food additives, cooking methods, the role of carbohydrates, and more. Learn more »

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