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The Health Alliance is a group of hospitals and physicians unified to create a health care system that provides the community of Greater Cincinnati with high quality, cost-effective, accessible care.
Nutrition News is your guide to healthy eating! Browse this site to find health tips, low-cholesterol, low-fat recipes, and healthy ingredient substitutions.
by The Jewish Hospital Cholesterol Center
eatright.org by the American Dietetic Association
Food and nutrition information provided in a responsible, in-depth and accurate manner from a professional association of dietitians.
shapeup.org
Shape Up America! exists to combat obesity. To that end, this site offers useful, science-based info for professionals and lay persons on weight loss . Here, you'll gain a thorough understanding of BMI, select menus to fit your calorie needs, get the latest updates via press releases, and view brochures on exercise.
optifast.com
This web site provides a detailed description of Novartis Nutrition’s weight loss products as well as provides users with an ability to determine which type of weight loss program is needed based upon their medical concerns.
Reference Books with descriptions
The Diet Free Solution
Dietary expert Laurel Mellin offers a scientifically proven, agony-free, breakthrough program for weight loss that doesn't require deprivation or superhuman willpower. The Diet-Free Solution presents a practical six-step plan that succeeds where other diets fail because it identifies the psychological, physical, and lifestyle causes of weight problems. The powerful mind and body drives that lead to overeating and inactivity and offers the cure for each. You can change your body and ultimately your whole life with this method.
Thin For Life: 10 Keys to Success from People Who Have Lost Weight and Kept It Off
If you want to know how to successfully lose weight, study the real experts -- the people who have done it. Registered dietitian Ann Fletcher did just that. She surveyed 160 "masters" who succeeded in losing at least 20 pounds and keeping the weight off for at least 3 years. This was the minimum; most lost far more weight - an average of 63 pounds -- and more than one third have kept the weight off for a decade or more.
Intuitive Eating: A Recovery Book for the Chronic Dieter: Rediscover the Pleasures of Eating and Rebuild Your Body Image
Written by two prominent nutritionists this book focuses on nurturing the body rather than starving it, encouraging natural weight loss and helps readers find the weight they were meant to be. Readers learn how to reject diet mentality, how three eating personalities define eating difficulties, how to feel feelings without using food and more.
Volumetrics
ISBN: 0-06-019483-9
9 Truths about Weight Loss
ISBN: 0-8050-6393-5
Cookbooks with descriptions
Quick & Healthy Recipes and Ideas : For People Who Say They Don't Have Time to Cook Healthy Meals.
This national award-winning cookbook--for people who say they don't have time to cook healthy meals--contains recipes that are quick-to-prepare, low-fat, and tasty! Ponichtera offers great time saving ideas, weight loss tips, nutritional analysis of recipes (including diabetes exchange), menus, and even a master grocery list.
Quick & Healthy Volume II : More Help for People Who Say They Don't Have Time to Cook Healthy Meals
Companion to best-seller Quick & Healthy Recipes and Ideas. More quick recipes that your family will enjoy. All recipes are low in fat and delicious. Special section focuses on fat. Worksheets are included for people to determine the amount of fat that is okay for them to eat. Also a list of common foods with their fat content. All recipes have nutrient information such as grams of fat, carbohydrate and diabetes exchanges. Highly recommended by physicians and dietitians.
Lean and Luscious and Meatless (Lean and Luscious Series)
The authors prove that you don't have to sacrifice taste and texture by avoiding meat. LEAN AND LUSCIOUS AND MEATLESS is written specifically for the lowfat, low-cholesterol lifestyle. Busy cooks will find at-a-glance nutritional analyses for each recipe. Try Tofu and SnowPeas, Marvelous Meatless Mushroom Cheeseburgers, Barley Mushroom Soup, Black-and-White Bean Soup, and more.
Month of Meals - Quick & Easy Menus for People With Diabetes: Meals in Minutes
This book is extremely helpful in assisting people to prepare meals that fit into their meal plans. The unique design of the book gives quick and balanced meals at a glance. It allows you to see the breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals at a glance and because each meal page is separate (each page of meals is cut into three to separate each meal) you can choose a different meal than what is indicated for that day. Information on reading food labels, eating out and fast food is also included. Great for diabetics and people who want to follow a meal plan for eating well.
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