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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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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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From the bestselling author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" comes this collection of simple, sensible, and easy to use rules--the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food he or she eats. (Consumer Health).
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"The Greedy Python" is quick to gobble up every creature he meets--including to his own great misfortune, himself, when he mistakes the tip of his tail for a lunchtime treat. With drawings by one of the country's most popular illustrators, this story of a python who is quick to eat everything in sight, including the end of his tail on one sad day, is sure to delight and amuse young readers. Full-color illustrations.
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Dragons love tacos volume 1
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English
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Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them anything with spicy salsa!
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 24
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Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
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57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Piggie really likes slop. She likes it so much, she wants Gerald to try some! But can Gerald find the courage to do it? Or will the smell alone be too much to handle?"--
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
1st American ed.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Henry loves to eat books, until he begins to feel quite ill and decides that maybe he could do something else with the books he has been devouring.
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2021.
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English
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"Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter -- and many places beyond.
In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives...
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English
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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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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges.
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Books (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Young readers edition.
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377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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An adaptation of the famous book offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.
14) Little Pea
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2005.
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1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Little Pea hates eating candy for dinner, but his parents will not let him have his spinach dessert until he cleans his plate.
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
2
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English
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"What would it be like to really savor your food? Instead of grabbing a quick snack on your way out the door or eating just to calm down at the end of a stressful day, isn't it about time you let yourself truly appreciate a satisfying, nourishing meal? The breakthrough approach in Eating Mindfully by Susan Albers has helped thousands of readers use mindfulness-based psychological practices to take charge of cravings so they can eat when they are...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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vii, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health.
We are finally starting to acknowledge the threat carbon emissions pose to our ozone layer, but few people have focused on the extent to which our consumption of meat contributes to global...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Preferring delicious green grass to all other foods and refusing to try anything his mother suggests, Little Donkey switches to yummy carrots when his exclusive diet has an unanticipated consequence.
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