The Culinary Institute of America offers readers its up-to-date guide to healthy eating, featuring two hundred full-color photographs, nutritional requirements and dietary guidelines, healthful cooking techniques, and more than four hundred recipes from Mediterranean, Asian, and vegetarian cuisines.

A collection of easy and healthy recipes for busy families from the co-host of the Today show features such dishes as egg and sausage strata, lemon-ricotta pancakes, Asian turkey meatballs, beef stroganoff, and black bean veggie burger.

"Your body needs lots of different things to eat and every kind of food has a different job to do. Did you know eating cheese makes your bones strong? Or that eating carrots helps you see better? Read and find out more about the different kinds of food we eat and how to fill up your plate to keep your body healthy!"--Jacket flap.

"This DVD introduces you to the building blocks of eating like a nutritarian--someone who naturally prefers the most nutritious foods for the body. ... Filmed at Whole Foods Market, Dr. Fuhrman shows us first hand what to buy and how to prepare the high nutrient foods that your body need[s] ... He also addresses the biggest dietary myths we have been told, ranging from misconceptions about olive oil to the truth about snacking"--Container.

Animal characters learn about "good eating everyday" in a restaurant called The Edible Pyramid, where the waiter offers the foods grouped in sections of the Food Guide Pyramid and customers learn how many servings they need each day.

"With processed foods and commercially farmed produce offering us less in the way of essential nutrition, these days people are taking a greater interest in their diet as a way to stay healthy and cope with illness and everyday stress. Now in its sixth edition with many new entries and updated information, The Complete Guide to Nutrients is an easy-to-use reference to every food, herb, vitamin, mineral, or supplement you might encounter. Each entry--from...

A comprehensive guide to the new science of nutrition. Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated.Spector creates a unique, thorough, evidence-based guide to the real science of eating. Moving away from misleading notions of calories or nutritional breakdowns, Food for Life empowers us to make our own food choices based on a deeper understanding of the true benefits and harms that come...