Children’s Books
Rah, Rah Radishes: A Vegetable Chant
by April Pulley Sayre
(Ages 3-8)
Children often cheer for cookies over veggies, but this colorfully creative chant coupled with bright illustrations may help encourage little ones to try something new on the next visit to the farmer’s market.
Good Growing: A Kid’s Guide to Green Gardening
by the editors of Klutz
(Ages 6 and up)
A good way to stay healthy is to grow nutritious foods right at home. This spiral-bound gardening book shows easy, step-by-step instructions for growing sprouts, vegetables, herbs, flowers and more.
The Budding Chef
edited by Kate Kuhn
(Grades 5 and up)
Easy, fun cookbooks for kids are excellent tools for teaching the lifelong lesson of cooking at home instead of stopping at the drive-through. The title will teach children how to make their own meals, snacks and desserts too! Also in this series is The Budding Gardener.
POP! The Invention of Bubble Gum
by Meghan McCarthy
(Ages 6-10)
Part of a healthful lifestyle is learning where foods come from and what they contain. Bubble gum may not be a part of a healthy diet, but this interesting, easy-to-read nonfiction book may inspire children to start to ask even more questions and head to the nonfiction section of the library.
Vegetarianism (Nutrition & Health)
edited by
Susan
M. Traugh
(ages 12 and up)
More and more teens are choosing a vegetarian lifestyle. Understanding the reasons for these choices, maintaining a nutritional balance, getting started and even some quick recipes are discussed in this book.
Adult Books
American College of Sports Medicine Complete Guide to Fitness & Health
edited by Barbara Bushman
This book offers the most current activity and nutrition guidelines, along with exercises, activities and programs for every age and fitness goal. This guidebook makes adding, enhancing or customizing a fitness and health routine safe and effective – for life.
Good Housekeeping Drop 5 Lbs: The Small Changes, Big Results Diet
by
Heather K. Jones
.
Registered dietician Jones offers simple weight loss tactics that do not require major sacrifice or drastic lifestyle changes. She tells readers how to shop, eat, exercise and deal with holiday parties and restaurant meals by offering hundreds of ideas for small and very doable changes in one’s diet that can add up to significant weight loss.
Our Bodies, Ourselves
(Ninth Edition)
by the
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
The 40th anniversary of this women’s health bible continues to offer the latest information about reproductive health, menopause and aging, sexuality, relationships, gender identity, domestic violence, and much more.
Super Body, Super Brain: The Workout That Does It All
by
Michael Gonzalez-Wallace.
Acclaimed sports trainer Gonzalez-Wallace shows readers a daily 10-minute workout that optimizes muscle power while boosting brain activity – training the brain by training the body.
YOU, on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management (Revised, Updated)
by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. & Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
Roizen and Oz, America’s most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, redefine what a healthy figure is and convince you that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat. The book includes the easy to learn, follow and maintain YOU Diet and YOU Workout.