Books with author Bonnie Juettner

This series provides users with accessible information for evaluating the often conflicting and ever-changing issues surrounding nutrition and healthy living.; ; Individual volumes focus on a specific health or nutrition-related topic, such as body image, diets and dieting, junk food, or vegetarianism. Each contains a topic overview, information about changing trends, up-to-date scientific analysis, and a look at controversies surrounding the featured subject. The narrative also contains personal anecdotes, informative sidebars, fact boxes, and statistics that help readers understand these topics and how they impact their bodies and their lives. Full-color photographs and detailed tables, charts, graphs and illustrations complement and enhance the text, while ancillary materials such as a glossary, a bibliography and a subject index provide useful tools for further research and discussion.

This new series provides a balanced, largely science-oriented overview of issues affecting the environment. Books that examine problems (such as global warming) explain the source of those problems, the threats they pose, and possible solutions. Books that examine solutions (such as recycling) explain what those solutions are, how they work, and what effect they're having. Indexes, glossaries, and full-color photographs enhance all volumes in this series.

Studies show that obesity rates of school-aged children have tripled in the last 30 years. Through objective discussion, numerous direct quotes, and full-color illustrations this title examines What Are the Origins of Childhood Obesity? How Serious Is Childhood Obesity? What Are the Causes of Childhood Obesity?Can Childhood Obesity Be Reversed? Can Childhood Obesity Be Prevented?