Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity
An evidence-based approach to health education

The second edition of Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity offers an innovative approach to teaching health education. You can use this proven, evidence-based curriculum to teach students about nutrition and physical activity while helping them build skills and competencies in language arts, math, science, social studies, and physical education. The curriculum is designed for use by teachers in the major subjects as well as in physical education and health.

This new edition includes revised nutrition and physical activity information, ensuring that you’re equipped with the most up-to-date science. The book also includes an all-new CD-ROM with plenty of reproducible worksheets, parent information and newsletters, school health resources, and other teacher resource materials. Like the popular first edition, Planet Health provides

• 35 complete, ready-to-use lesson plans and 31 microunits that promote healthy nutrition and activity;
• materials and instructions to implement Power Down, a two-week campaign to reduce television and other media viewing time, which you can launch in the classroom or school-wide; and
• FitCheck, a self-assessment tool to help students track and improve their activity levels.

In addition, the book includes access to a Web site which features a teacher training PowerPoint presentation, a Planet Heath FAQ, and more. Planet Health, Second Edition, encourages students to think holistically about how health behaviors are interrelated, and it offers a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. With this approach, you can build on your students’ knowledge and experiences to create an active, inquiry-based, student-centered learning environment–one in which students learn best as they construct meaning for themselves.

Developed by educators and scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health, Planet Health, Second Edition, is aligned with the Massachusetts Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks (learning standards) for health, language arts, math, science and technology, and history and social science, and it meets the standards in many other states. Every Planet Health lesson incorporates a range of language arts learning standards and engages students through discussion ideas for small or large groups in which they cooperatively learn and solve health-related issues. Active discussions are used to encourage higher-level thinking and cognition, and peer-group work fosters social development.

This new edition of Planet Health is the perfect antidote to kids’ inactivity, poor food choices, and high levels of screen-viewing time. Acquiring good habits regarding nutrition and physical activity in adolescence often carries over into adulthood. Help your students develop good habits now with Planet Health, Second Edition, and they’ll have a better chance of growing into healthy adults.

A resource for middle school language arts, math, science, social studies, health and physical education teachers; health and physical education directors, supervisors, chairs and administrators; and university faculty who teach physical education or health.

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Invisible Illnesses
THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN FOR THE MILLIONS OF “INVISIBLE ILLNESS” VICTIMS, who are viewed with suspicion, hostility and anger in a world and consciousness that demands scientific evidence and double-blind studies before acknowledging the condition is “Real.” This book will provide some of that much needed scientific evidence to facilitate validation of these syndromes. It’s important to keep in mind that science does not make or invent principles; they merely discover them.

The information in this book will assist the reader in the discovery of the causes of their distress, while also providing non-drug solutions to restore health and regain quality of life, Naturally.
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Customer Review: A good resource, but should not be your only resource
Gilbere wrote a kind of “one size fits all” book for people with MCS, fibromyalgia, and other psychosomatic/chemical and difficult-to-define diseases. I would agree that a fresh approach is necessary, particularly with the way Western medicene treats people with psychosomatic illnesses. I would encourage anyone to read the book and utilize the suggestions in the book as appropriate, with several caveats. First, the book reads like an advertisement for the different products that Gilbere has used or recommends for people with MCS. By all means, if they help you, buy them, but I would carefully consider what may or may not help you before you spend a lot of money. Second, the book is somewhat poorly written and dances around the issue of what really will cure specific diseases. Your specific problem may be solved by just one of her recommendations, or none of them, but her shotgun approach involves a great deal of time, effort, and possibly discomfort for the patient and much of the products and procedures can be debated as to whether they are helpful - or proven. Last, the book does cover the emotional elements of psychosomatic/chemical illnesses but is perhaps underemphasized. WAY underemphasized. I would recommend the book, as I mentioned in the title, but I wouldn’t use it as your only resource. Also, good judgement must be used - the book can do more harm than good if you are averse to chemical smells or food additives and so on - reading about the different negative effects of chemicals and what is making our air, food, and enviornment toxic can lead to greater fear of adverse effects and a more restricted lifestyle. econ
Customer Review: NOTHING NEW
A friend informed me of this book, but I was very disappointed. It was the same old info that I have previously read in other health books.

Healthy and Delicious: 400 Professional Recipes
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Understanding Sickle Cell Disease (Understanding Health and Sickness Series)
Customer Review: Helpful
I did not understand much about the disease until I read this book. This was an excellent source.

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The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book: Using Supplements for Optimum Health,
An excellent source for information on all of the vitamins, minerals and supplements you need to strengthen your immune system, fight illness, slow aging and maximize your health. Each chapter discusses a particular vitamin, mineral and tells you exactly what that nutrient can and cannot do for you.
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Customer Review: Very helpful
I am extremely pleased with all this book has to offer. It’s very informative and has research to back it up. A very good buy.
Customer Review: Not what I thought it was going to be
It was very hard to read I’m not a Doctor and I guess I thought it was going to just tell me what I should be taking, but if I follow all of this info i would be on so many vitamins i wouldn’t have to eat Breakfast I would just eat a hand full of vitamins. I do look up info and it does give me some answers I can put into use I just wished they would have written it for someone who is not up on her vitamins and minerals

A Thinking Person’s Step by Step Guide to Weight Loss & Exercise Program
This book presents a groundbreaking approach to keeping up with weight loss and exercise plans. The method described - and shown to work based on empirical results - is radically different from traditional methods that single-mindedly emphasize personal motivation. Instead of promoting the establishment of overly ambitious goals, the selection of diet or workout “buddies,” and the pairing of idealized outcomes with guilt trips as an ultimately destructive carrot - stick combination, the book sets out effectively to demolish these common and frequently toxic approaches. In a calmly reasoned, analytical way, the authors identify decisive elements in each person’s environment and show how seemingly small changes in our surroundings and habits lead to lasting results.

Among the many innovative angles presented in the book are recordkeeping tools that bring out patterns hidden in our lifestyles and help us distinguish between real improvement and insignificant blips. After walking the reader through the steps of their unique strategy, the authors offer a full case study that brings the facts and figures to life. The book closes with a discussion on the pitfalls of the self-improvement movement when taken to unhealthy extremes and reiterates the sensible approach that defines its entire content.
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Customer Review: New Approach Helpful !
I really enjoyed reading this book and found it refreshingly helpful. It provided an approach to dieting and exercise that I had not thought about before. I liked that a “system approach” was examined to meet the challenge of changing one’s lifestyle as well as an emphasis on team work for succcess. I took the suggestion of tracking my progress and that proved to be informative as well. This is so much better than individual motivation and guilt that are used in most diet and exercise books!