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1) Dietland
Author
Language
English
Description
AN AMC ORIGINAL SERIES
FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARTI NOXON,
STARRING JOY NASH AND JULIANNA MARGULIES
A Best Book of the Year
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"Audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking — Dietland completely blew me away." — Jennifer Weiner
The diet ...
FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARTI NOXON,
STARRING JOY NASH AND JULIANNA MARGULIES
A Best Book of the Year
Entertainment Weekly
"Audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking — Dietland completely blew me away." — Jennifer Weiner
The diet
Publisher
Evolvee
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Overfed & undernourished examines a global epidemic through one boy's inspiring journey to regain his health from the inside out. Interspersed with interviews and advice from leading health and wellbeing experts from around the globe, providing simple solutions to improve the quality of our own lives, and ultimately asking us the fundamental question--are we really nourishing ourselves?"--Overfed & undernourished WWW site.
5) Actual weight loss: the no nonsense weight loss plan without gimmicks, diets, fads, and restrictions
Author
Publisher
Z Media Group LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Alo is a board certified cardiologist and certified personal trainer. He has spent the last 20 years researching, studying, and lecturing on weight loss. He teaches physicians how to teach their patients to lose weight. He has traveled the world giving medical education lectures at medical conferences teaching proper weight loss."
7) The whale
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Publisher
Big Yoga
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Introduces a system of yoga for individuals who are overweight. Benefits of program include: lower cholesterol, blood pressure, and heart rate; mitigation of health risks of being overweight; improvement of mood and self-esteem; improvement of tone and harmonization of organs and endocrine system; decreased need for insulin in diabetics.
9) Butter
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
Publisher
TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Real time workout program that leads viewers through the sequenced asanas, gentle stretching movements, with audio assisted timing. Features Yoga ansanas that gently tone and shape the body, improve posture and flexibility, and contribute to a feeling of well being.
11) I'll be the one
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English
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Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she'll do it better...
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English
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"The misconception that bariatric surgery is somehow "cheating" when it comes to weight loss is wild. Weight loss surgery is the single most effective weight loss strategy for treating severe obesity that we have today. Yet less than 1% of the eligible bariatric population takes advantage of surgery. In The Easy Way Out, registered dietitian and bariatric patient Jamie Mills shares why bariatric surgery is not only challenging, but why going into...
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Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
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Description
"The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice"--
The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy--calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We're in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance "glorifies obesity." The BMI is an...
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Language
English
Description
Kelsey Miller had done it all: crash diets, healthy diets, and nutritionist-prescribed "eating plans," which are diets that you pay more money for. She'd been fighting her un-thin body since early childhood, and at 29, she finally hit bottom. No diet could transform her body or her life. With the help of an intuitive eating coach and fitness professionals, she learned how to eat based on her body's instincts and exercise sustainably, without obsessing...
Author
Series
California studies in food and culture volume 33
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Calories--too few or too many--are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear and accessible language what calories are and how they work, both biologically and politically. As they take readers...
20) Fed up
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Katie Couric, the 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'...
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