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Provides state-of-the-art understandings of how various aspects of lifestyle practices and habits interact with health. ALso offers a multi-disciplinary approach to managing obesity while decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions.

Offers advice to those seeking to simplify their lives and provides strategies, inspiration, and resources for establishing a thoughtful life style.

Explores Native American healing traditions, philosophy, and methods, explaining how they can be integrated with Western medicine, how Native Americans understand healing therapies, and how the Native American approach can be interpreted.

MyPlate is a government-recommended plan to ensure healthy eating practices when you make food choices using the following guidelines. It shows a plate setting for a meal with four food groups as colored portions on the plate and one glass representing dairy products, suggesting portions of each food group you should consume throughout the day.

An analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation's changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system. -- Book Description.

Providing health researchers, practitioners and policy makers with an overview of the current global obesity epidemic and the case for prevention, this text reviews the existing evidence regarding the effectiveness of strategies to promote health eating and physical activity in order to prevent obesity.

"In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption--like eating free-range chicken and heirloom tomatoes, wearing organic cotton shirts and TOMS shoes, and listening to the Serial podcast. They use their purchasing...

"In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further materialistic gains do little to improve our well-being. But Kasser goes beyond these findings to investigate how people's materialistic desires relate to their well-being....

A spiritual meditation on the role of change in everyday life explores how personal difficulties often bring wisdom and outlines principles for navigating through major changes using such techniques as letting go and managing fear.