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What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous...
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
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Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman come together to create an enhanced Food Rules for hardcover, now beautifully illustrated and with even more food wisdom. Michael Pollan's definitive compendium, Food Rules, is here brought to colorful life with the addition of Maira Kalman's beloved illustrations. This brilliant pairing is rooted in Pollan's and Kalman's shared appreciation for eating's pleasures, and their understanding that eating doesn't have to...
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Based in part on a study that researched the relationship between diet and disease in 65 counties of rural China. Also draws on scientific research from around the world that documents the connection between diet and disease, especially "diseases of influence." Provides advice on how to eat derived from evidence presented earlier in the book and critiques the public health information system.
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Dragons love tacos volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.
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Dragons love tacos volume 2
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"When dragons run out of tacos, they travel back in time to get a fresh supply"--
When dragons run out of tacos, they travel back in time to get a fresh supply.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 26
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In the spring of 1999 the heads of the world’s largest processed food companies — from Coca-Cola to Nabisco — gathered at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis for a secret meeting. On the agenda: the emerging epidemic of obesity, and what to do about it. Increasingly, the salt-, sugar-, and fat-laden foods these companies produced were being linked to obesity, and a concerned Kraft executive took the stage to issue a warning: There would be...
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Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously...
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Healing Arts Press
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[2015]
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xii, 196 pages ; 23 cm.
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A revolutionary approach to enhancing metabolism that enables lasting weight loss and facilitates spiritual well-being. • Presents an eight-week weight-loss program • Explains how relaxed eating stimulates metabolic function and how stress hormones encourage weight gain • Shows how fully enjoying each meal is the optimal way to a healthy body. Our modern culture revolves around fitting as much as possible into the least amount of time. As a...
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An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love
Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually . . . English?
"As a species, we're hardwired to obsess over food," Matt
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HarperCollins
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c2002
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353 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie -- real, homemade pie -- has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world -- our fast-food nation -- does pie still have a place? As she traveled across the United States in an old Volvo named Betty, Pascale LeDraoulec discovered how merely mentioning homemade pie to strangers made...
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Simon & Schuster
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c2004
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xv, 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
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The prize-winning author of "The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen" returns with a gorgeously illustrated book of stories and 125 recipes that celebrate and demystify the art of wok cooking. 150 photos, 100 in full color.
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Hart Sharp Video
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c2004
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of American...
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Magination Press
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[2016]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Penolopea lives in Capital Pea where peas are plentiful and popular. The problem is that Penolopea hates peas! So she comes up with a plan to make them disappear only leading to a catastropea of epic portions. Eventually, Penolopea grows her own plant and tastes one perfect pea. Turns out, she likes peas after all!"--
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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287 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 x 31 cm.
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English
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"A photographic collection exploring what the world eats featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries surrounded by a week's worth of food"--Provided by publisher.
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University of Arizona Press
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c2006
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301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Chile pepper is used today as a flavoring, but Aztecs also applied it for toothache, sore throat, and asthma. The tonic properties of coffee have been recorded in Islamic pharmacopoeia since the eleventh century, and many peoples have used it to protect against Parkinsonś disease. Although much has been documented regarding the nutritional values of foods, until recently little attention has been paid to the pharmacologic potential of diet. This...
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