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Health & Fitness at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library


Health & Fitness Books

Weight training: steps to success
By Thomas R. Baechle and Roger W. Earle

This guide will maximize your development with a progressive approach to strength training using either free weights or machines.
613.713 Baechle 2006

Don't get duped!: a consumer's guide to health and fitness
By Larry M. Forness

Can you really "lose weight even while you sleep?" This book will give you the criteria to evaluate the ads and infomercials that make such tempting claims.
613.7 Forness 2002

Chasing life
By Sanjay Gupta

Dr. Gupta explores amazing discoveries from around the world and offers essential advice on how you can apply them for optimal health and longevity.
613 Gupta 2007

Mariel Hemingway's healthy living from the inside out: every woman's guide to real beauty, renewed energy, and a radiant life
By Mariel Hemingway

One of the leading voices for holistic living describes what bodies and minds need, how to make the best decisions for daily lives, and why following a 30-day quick start program leads to a healthier, happier life.
646.7 Hemingway 2007

Rethinking thin: the new science of weight loss-and the myths and realities of diet
By Gina Kolata

"In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals."
613.25 Kolata 2007

What to eat
By Marion Nestle

A guide to navigating the American supermarket, and understanding corporate marketing practices. Learn to make healthy choices to feed yourself and your family.
613.2 Nestle 2006

You-the owner's manual: an insider's guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger
By Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz

Get to know your anatomy and internal systems in this irreverent look at the human body. Lots of solid information despite the cartoon style of delivery.
613 Roizen 2005

You-on a diet: the owner's manual for waist management
By Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz

Follow-up to the best-selling book listed above, this one focuses on the body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems.
613.2 Roizen 2006

The no sweat exercise plan: lose weight, get healthy and live longer
By Harvey B. Simon

Simon shows you how to fit fitness into your life-without breaking a sweat. Look and feel younger and add years to your life.
613.7 Simon 2006

The fast food diet: lose weight and feel great even if you're too busy to eat right
By Stephen Sinatra

Find the healthiest choices at the most popular chain restaurants and the local deli counter. Great for on-the-go meals and those days when you don't have time to cook.
613.25 Sinatra 2006

Healthy aging: a lifelong guide to your physical and spiritual well-being
By Andrew Weil

Dr. Weil explores the biology of aging and gives advice on the secrets of healthy longevity-diet, activity, and attitude-that he has learned from other cultures.
612.67 Weil 2005

Health & Fitness DVDs

The Bollywood dance workout
Director/Executive Producer James Wvinner

Instructor: Hemalayaa ; dancers, JuJu Kim, Kimberly Miguel Mullen.
DVD 613.712 Bollywood 2006


Women's health: train for your body type
Instructor: Jessica Smith

DVD 613.71 Women's 2006


Doctor Lynn's anti aging workout for every body. Flex and tone
Produced and directed by Cal Puzo

Instructor: Lynn A. Anderson, Ph.D.
DVD 613.71 Doctor 2006

You on a diet workout: 3 exercise levels on one DVD
Directed by Erin Judd, Mikko Timonen; Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
Instructor: Joel Harper

DVD 613.712 You 2006

Health Newsletters

Consumer Reports on health

Dr. Andrew Weil's self healing: creating optimum health for your body and soul

DukeMedicine healthnews

Harvard health letter

Harvard mental health letter

Johns Hopkins medical letter health after 50

Tufts University health & nutrition letter

University of California, Berkeley, wellness letter


last update 7/20/2007

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