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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest...
Author
Publisher
AltaMira Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this "most important meal of the day" as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are considered indispensable, and how it has been depicted in art and media. Heather Arndt Anderson's detail-rich, culturally revealing, and entertaining narrative thoroughly satisfies."-- ǂc Back...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back. Every year, the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese (triple what we ate in 1970) and seventy pounds of sugar (about twenty-two...
5) Little Pea
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Series
Language
English
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Little Pea hates eating candy for dinner, but his parents will not let him have his spinach dessert until he cleans his plate.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Language
English
Description
How is Animals in Translation different from every other animal book ever published?Animals in Translation is like no other animal book because of Temple Grandin. As an animal scientist and a person with autism, her professional training and personal history have created a perspective like no other thinker in the field, and this is her exciting, groundbreaking view of the intersection of autism and animal.
Unlike other well-known writers in the
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Piggie really likes slop. She likes it so much, she wants Gerald to try some! But can Gerald find the courage to do it? Or will the smell alone be too much to handle?"--
Author
Publisher
Blue Snake
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Along with the many benefits of leisure-class living comes obesity and its attendant ailments. In The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler looks not forward but backward for a solution-to the primal habits of early cultures such as nomads and hunter-gatherers, the Greeks, and the Romans. Based on survival science, this book proposes not ordinary dietary changes but rather a radical yet surprisingly simple lifestyle overhaul.Drawing on both scientific studies...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The creator of the South Beach Diet outlines a program for incrementing real-world strategies for minimizing lifestyle-related health risks, providing coverage of topics ranging from making informed shopping choices and exercising effectively to getting quality sleep and reducing stress.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
Author
Publisher
Tractor Mac
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pete and Paul the pigs love to eat, and their favorites are junk food and snacks. Tractor Mac and his friends set out to show the pigs a better way of eating and at the same time help their community farmers. Can Pete and Paul change their eating habits? This book has recipes and healthy eating tips for kids"--
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how to find and identify footprints, poop, nests, feathers, fur, and other common clues left by seventeen wild animals as they pursue their lives in woods, fields, and along ponds.