Books with title Allergies

This series provides users with accessible information for evaluating the often conflicting and ever-changing issues surrounding nutrition and healthy living.; This new edition in Lucent’s Nutrition and Health series discusses food allergies. The most common food allergies are discussed in detail, as are the physical effects of food allergies (including mild and severe reactions), how people with food allergies stay safe and avoid ingredients they are allergic to, how food allergies are treated and how people, especially kids and teenagers, cope with the social complications that come with having a food allergy. Doctors, researchers, and people living with food allergies are quoted throughout the text and full source citations are provided. Lists of sources for further research - including organizations to contact - are also included, along with a glossary and detailed subject index.; 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.

At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with the new baby they're expecting, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie thinks a new puppy is the answer, but when she goes to select one on her birthday, she breaks out in hives and rashes. She's severely allergic to anything with fur!Can Maggie outsmart her allergies and find the perfect pet? With illustrations by Michelle Mee Nutter, Megan Wagner Lloyd draws on her own childhood to tell a heartfelt story of family, friendship, and finding a place to belong.