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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
A dairy-free cookbook for people of all ages who suffer from lactose intolerance.
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One of the greatest challenges a parent faces is navigating their child's appetite. This book separates fact from fad, and shares the latest reliable science to help you decide what's best for you and your child. The book covers eating during pregnancy, milk-feeding (with breastfeeding or formula),…
This graphic novel is about a family?s realization that the food they eat and make available to their community is not good for them. It?s about making healthy decisions now, rather than waiting until it?s too late.
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Help your child better understand how food fuels and effects our bodies! This book uses color and fun presentation to communicate nutritional information in a fun and eye-catching way. Kids learn to see their food as more than just taste, learning things like which foods will make you sleepy, how t…
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Gluten-free international recipes for Celiac disease-friendly cooking.
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A new edition of Karen Graham's cookbook is a companion to Diabetes Essentials and Complete Diabetes Guide. This new edition has been written with MD and Endocrinologist Mansur Shomali, and includes updated recipes based on new research and best practices. Recent CDC reports indicate that over 30 m…
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This book presents a rational, healthy approach to child nutrition that offers practical and solidly researched information. The author emphasizes that an eating disorder indicates problems in the family as a whole and offers guidance for seeking help for serious disorders.
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According to the 2010 Canadian Community Health Survey there are 450,000 people in Canada who have fibromyalgia. In the United States, there are an estimated 5 million adults.; This book, written by leading experts in fibromyalgia, gives common sense tools that will help fibromyalgia patients help …
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Intended for individuals and families who have members who are gluten intolerant. The recipes are intended for enjoyment by the entire family. In addition to the 150 recipes, there is extensive information about various gluten-free flours, legumes and rices. Also included are tips and techniques f…
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Diabetes Create Your Plate Meal Prep Cookbook presents and explains the popular Diabetes Plate Method with 100 delicious recipes, and 5 different meal plans that range in complexity for beginners to experienced meal preppers. Specific food safety concerns are outlined for people with diabetes along…
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Breastfeeding is the natural and healthy way to nourish your baby, yet it's not always easy. New mothers need practical information about getting off to a good start and solving breastfeeding challenges. Health professionals need this information too, because it is rarely taught in medical school. …
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This workbook for teens will show you how to deal with the day-to-day challenges of making healthy decisions about food. Instead of resorting to fad diets, you will learn how to avoid overeating in the first place, be more aware of your body, and really enjoy meals-instead of just popping food in y…
Provides high-fibre recipes and nutritional analysis, including a detailed introduction explaining what a high-fibre diet is and its benefits. Recipes for a family's everyday eating and special events, including a desserts and baking section.
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Les auteures partagent leurs meilleures astuces en proposant des trucs écolos, des alternatives pour les allergies et plusieurs informations pratiques qui faciliteront la préparation des repas au quotidien, pour tous, peu importe l'âge et le niveau d'habileté en cuisine.
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Les auteures partagent leurs meilleures astuces en proposant des trucs écolos, des alternatives pour les allergies et plusieurs informations pratiques qui faciliteront la préparation des repas au quotidien, pour tous, peu importe l'âge et le niveau d'habileté en cuisine. Une signature photographi…
Feeding with Love and Good Sense: 18 Months through 6 Years provides supportive, concise, accessible, and authoritative parent guidance relative to feeding and parenting. Appropriate for medical and educational settings, health care, public health, mental health, and public service.
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A good feeding relationship with your child starts at day one and makes all the difference between joy or struggle in feeding. This brief, beautiful, compact, engaging booklet gets today?s busy parents off to a good and authoritative start with feeding. Full of Satter's pithy advice and real-life f…
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This book uses Family-Based Treatment based on the Maudsley approach to recommend a feeding strategy to parents of anorexic teenagers. It offers practical ideas as well as a large range of recipes.
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A guide for parents and professionals working with children with autism who have a restricted dietary range. It helps the reader to understand the behaviour and work with it, in order to gradually increase the range of food a child will eat. Informative and accessible, the book helps manage selecti…
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A selection of favourite gluten-free recipes from the Canadian Celiac Association Halifax Chapter. Suitable for those diagnosed with celiac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis.
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This sixth title in Hagman's "Gluten-free" series follows up on volumes covering bread and dessert with recipes for everything from Fruited Dressing for Pork and Chicken and Four-Star Chili to Biscuits and Gravy, Microwave Chicken and Dumplings and Chocolate Pecan Cupcakes.
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A practical cookbook containing over 100 recipes to help people living with cancer to manage eating difficulties (loss of appetitie, nausea, taste changes, swallowing difficulties, diarrhea) during cancer treatment. The final chapter contains information on healthy eating after treatment.
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Kamut, fonio, blé, soja, petit épeautre, polenta, boulgour, avoine... les graines, les céréales et les légumineuses sont reconnues pour leurs bienfaits. Si certaines sont très usuelles, d'autres le sont beaucoup moins et on ne sait pas toujours comment les préparer ou les accommoder. Ce livre est l…
Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates 'thin' with 'healthy' is the problem.; The solution?; Health at Every Size.; Tune in to your body's expert gui…
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Babies and toddlers need a healthy diet for their bodies and brains to develop properly and to give them the best chance of a long and healthy life. This easy-to-use guide is filled with nutritional information, recipe ideas, tips, techniques, and tactics to get children to eat well from birth, dur…
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In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your child's nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child and you) once and for all.; Helping Your Child with Extreme…
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This handbook teaches families how to create tube feeding meals that are compiled from foods that are available to all children and families. It provides a guide from the initial concept to the development of formulas that offer dietary diversity and high-level nutrition. It looks at homemade blend…
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Offers help for parents dealing with children who: won't eat, overeat, eat only peanut butter, or who are always hungry after dinner.
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This innovative and easy-to-implement visual approach demonstrates balanced meals with the optimal ratio of nutrients. The plate-by-plate method is rooted in the leading psychological approach to ED, family-based treatment (FBT), which enables parents to treat their child at home rather than send t…
21 jours de menus pour contrôler votre glycémie grâce à une alimentation adaptée !; Vous souffrez régulièrement de baisses d'énergie subites, d'étourdissements, accompagnés ou non de sueurs et de tremblements? un état de faiblesse qui disparaît aussitôt après avoir ingéré du sucre ? Et pourtant, v…
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Today's media-saturated teenagers are bombarded with mixed messages that distort their self-image and lead many to overeat and others to starve themselves. When "I feel fat" becomes a teen's common refrain, how can worried parents respond constructively? With this book, Dr. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer …
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This maternal child health graphic novel is about Lara, a young mom-to-be. Lara is visited by Danis, a stranger who teaches Lara the importance of eating healthy foods, avoiding alcohol, breastfeeding, keeping dad involved and bonding with your baby.
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Pour bien des parents, l'alimentation de leur enfant peut devenir une source quotidienne de soucis. Dans J'AIME PAS CA ! J'EN VEUX ENCORE ! Nadia Gagnier, psychologue, et Myriam Gehami, nutritionniste, apportent des réponses simples aux parents qui s'interrogent sur l'alimentation de leur enfant. B…
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A guide to overcoming food aversions and eating challenges, particularly common among children on the autism spectrum. Topics include: 1. Who Are Resistant Eaters? 2. Oral-Motor Development. 3. Environmental and Behavioural Factors. Contributing to Problems with Eating. 4. Sensory-Based and Motor-B…
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Learn to cook delicious, healthy food that will help your child's behaviour, focus, and development. This cookbook provides a current review of the commonly used diets for the treatment of ADHD and autism, and recipes appropriate to specific diets. It also provides suggestions for feeding picky eat…
In this book, author Cara Hobday proposes healthy, quick recipes for packed lunches kids can take to school each morning. The nutrients provided by each lunch are listed in easy-to-read boxes that ensure children get the needed fuel to keep them fit and strong.
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En potage, en trempette, en salade, en croquette, en smoothie et même en brownie, les légumineuses partent à la conquête de votre cuisine. Reines de la métamorphose, abordables et polyvalentes, les légumineuses se faufilent presque incognito dans les entrées, les bouchées, les plats principaux et m…
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This app is designed for children aged 8-12 and their parents to build healthy habits by following the simple, yet effective, Live 5-2-1-0 message: FIVE or more vegetables and fruits, no more than TWO hours of recreational screen time, at least ONE hour of active play, and ZERO sugary drinks every …
This app is designed for children aged 8-12 and their parents to build healthy habits by following the simple, yet effective, Live 5-2-1-0 message: FIVE or more vegetables and fruits, no more than TWO hours of recreational screen time, at least ONE hour of active play, and ZERO sugary drinks every …
This handout explains why your baby may have low blood sugar, how nurses check your baby's blood sugar, and how you can help your baby.
Voici un livre pratique et complet pour celles qui souhaitent se sentir vibrantes d'énergie et resplendissantes au quotidien. Isabelle a conçu des menus thématiques et plus de 50 recettes faciles et appétissantes, qui répondent précisément aux besoins des femmes. Josée, pour sa part, vous invite à …
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Ce livre est un guide parmi tous les régimes alimentaires qui existent et il a pour but de les démystifier. Il regroupe 90 recettes saines et bonnes pour notre santé. C'est avant tout un livre pour apprendre à manger sainement. Les 90 recettes de ce livre sont gourmandes et peuvent répondre aux bes…
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Votre plus jeune lance sa nourriture ou son gobelet à répétition pendant les repas? Votre plus vieux fait une scène devant l'assiette de poisson grillé et de brocoli que vous lui servez? Sa sur ne mange rien d'autre que des pâtes ou du pain sans rechigner? Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur propose une app…
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The art of mindfulness can transform our struggles with food, and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Drawing on recent research and integrating her experiences as a physician and meditation teacher, Dr. Jan Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what m…
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Tu y trouveras une tonne de recettes pour impressionner tes amis et tes parents. Tu y découvriras aussi des techniques, des mots, et des plats nouveaux. Tu y apprendras même à aimer des aliments que tu pensais détester... Mais réellement, ce qui est important, c'est que tu aies du fun à cuisiner. P…
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Tube feeding at home is called home enteral nutrition (HEN). A disaster can directly affect you and your ability to give yourself tube feeds at home. This booklet teaches you how to be prepared for a disaster. Keep this booklet with your HEN Emergency Pack.
What does it mean to be nourished?; Nothing could be more basic than food. However, food is only one part of the concept of nourishment, but it has consumed our focus and eclipsed something far more critical for thriving - connection. We have lost sight of the fact that feeding our families is abou…
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Offers a guide to child rearing and child nutrition that focuses on a nutrient dense diet from pregnancy through childhood and natural treatments for childhood illnesses.
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When your child has a new burn or wound, food is very important. Your child needs more calories (energy) to help heal the skin.; Learn how nutrition can help your child to heal. This handout explains how to:; -Optimize meal times; -Offer high-calorie foods; -Offer high-protein foods; You will also …