Finding Balance: Fitness, Health, and Training for a Lifetime in Dance gives an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury and treatment; technique and training; fitness; nutrition and diet; and career management. The text...

This book gives us the facts about how genetically engineered food is entering our diet. It looks at what they are, how they are produced, why they remain unlabeled, and how they arrive on our plates unannounced. This edition includes a new...

Preface to fourth edition Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Measurement 12 Basic chemistry 93 Organic chemistry 294 Food dispersions 465 Carbohydrates 596 Fats and oils 737 Proteins 878 Vitamins 1029 Mineral elements and water 12510 Basic...

Rick Gallop's successful Gi Diet series has proven to be the healthy way to permanent weight loss for millions of people worldwide. Based on the simple traffic-light system for which foods you should and shouldn't eat, this book contains 50...

Foreword by David Reading, OBE, Director, The Anaphylaxis Campaign xi Foreword by Maureen Jenkins, Trustee and Member of the Health Advisory Panel of Allergy UK, and Allergy Nurse Consultant, Sussex Allergy Service xiii Author's note xv ...

Foreword.Acknowledgments.Introduction.PART I: Eat Smart, Live Well: It's about You!Chapter 1: Food Choices: A Fit You!Fitness: Your Overall Health!Smart Eating, Active Living: Guidelines for Americans.Your Food Choices: The Inside Story.

Through her daughter's illness, Wendy Cook began to study the deep aspects of nutrition, and particularly the effects of different foods on human health and consciousness. In Foodwise she presents a cornucopia of ideas, advice and commentary...

This absorbing study looks at the dangers of American food production, including exposure of food to food-borne pathogens, pesticides, and much more. If we are what we eat, then, as Chris Cook contends in this powerful look at the food industry...