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Weight management and obesity / by Paolicelli, Courtney Winston

Table of Contents: “…Fundamentals of nutrition, calorie balance, and body weight -- Epidemiology and health consequences of obesity -- Factors contributing to overweight and obesity -- Nutrition assessment -- Weight loss intervention : porgram characteristics and components -- Weight loss intervention : goal setting -- Weight loss intervention : energy and macronutrient approaches to calorie reduction -- Weight loss intervention : basic concepts for nutrition education -- Weight loss intervention : behavior modification -- Weight loss intervention : medications -- Weight loss intervention : weight loss surgery -- Physical activity.…”
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Funktionelles Hanteltraining by Delp, Christoph

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Hidden in plain sight : the tragedy of children's rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate / by Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…-- 1: How to think about childhood -- 2: How to think about children's rights -- Part 1: Privacy Principle: Stories Of Bondage And Belonging -- 3: Boys in slavery and servitude: Frederick Douglass -- 4: Girls at the intersection of age, race and gender: Dred Scott's daughters -- 5: Growing up in state custody: "Tony" and "John G" -- Part 2: Agency Principle: Stories Of Voice And Participation -- 6: Printer's apprentice: Ben Franklin and youth speech -- 7: Youth in the civil rights movement: John Lewis and Sheyanne Webb -- Part 3: Equality Principle: Stories Of Equal Opportunity -- 8: Old maids and little women: Louisa Alcott and William Cather -- 9: Breaking the prison of disability: Helen Keller and the children of "Greenhaven" -- Part 4: Dignity Principle: Stories Of Resistance And Resilience -- 10: Hide and survive: Anne Frank and "Liu" -- 11: Children at work: newsboys, entrepreneurs, and "Evelyn" -- Part 5: Protection Principle: Stories Of Guilt And Innocence -- 12: Telling the scariest secrets: Maya Angelou and "Jeannie" -- 13: Age and the idea of innocence: "Amal" and Lionel Tate -- Conclusion: Future of rights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Weight matters for children : a complete guide to weight, eating and fitness / by Pryke, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…-- chapter 10 Helping an Overweight Child -- chapter 11 Kids will be Active if They Can -- chapter Section 4: Nutrition and Health Problems -- chapter 12 Nutritional Nuts and Bolts -- chapter 13 The Food Frequency Framework -- chapter 14 Vegetarian and Vegan Eating -- chapter 15 An A to Z of Conditions that Affect Eating and Weight in Younger Children.…”
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Women and weight loss /

Subjects: “…Weight loss.…”
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Beyond weight bearing : getting the hands to work more efficiently / by Adler, Lezlie J.

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Watching our weights : the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic" / by Zimdars, Melissa, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…: television as causing and solving the "obesity epidemic" -- The globesity epidemic: adapting weight-loss television around the world -- Exercising control and the illogics of weight-loss television -- Spectacle, sympathy, and the medicalized disease of "obesity" -- Celebrating large bodies on the small screen: from fat visibility to fat acceptance -- The decline of The biggest loser.…”


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Nutrition and Weight Management

Table of Contents: “…The Obesity Epidemic (3:46) -- What is a Healthy Body Weight? (5:16) -- Food, Nutrition and Body Weight (3:12) -- Food, Nutrition and Body Weight: Healthy Choices (5:16) -- How Many Calories Do You Need? …”
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Aspire for Weight Loss /

Table of Contents: “…Aspire for Weight Loss (1:37);…”
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Watching our weights : the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic" / by Zimdars, Melissa, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…: television as causing and solving the "obesity epidemic" -- The globesity epidemic : adapting weight-loss television around the world -- Exercising control and the illogics of weight-loss television -- Spectacle, sympathy, and the medicalized disease of "obesity" -- Celebrating large bodies on the small screen : from fat visibility to fat positivity -- Conclusion : the decline of The biggest loser.…”
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Women and weight management : long-term success /

Subjects: “…Weight loss Psychological aspects.…”
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Managing your weight

Table of Contents: “…Weight Control Issues (2:47) -- Weight and Body Composition (3:18) -- Harmful Diets and Helpful Tips (2:30) -- Emotional Eating and Weight Control (3:43) -- Body Image Throughout History (2:14) -- Eating Disorders (3:14) -- Living with Anorexia Nervosa (3:39) -- Binge Eating and Counseling for Eating Disorders (3:15) -- Healthy Relationships with Food (2:03)…”
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Body-weight training : perception meets reality /

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Finding the weight of things : Larry Eigner's ecrippoetics / by Hart, George Leslie

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Balloons for Weight Loss /

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Weighted Network Analysis Applications in Genomics and Systems Biology / by Horvath, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Networks and fundamental concepts -- Approximately factorizable networks -- Different type of network concepts -- Adjacency functions and their topological effects -- Correlation and gene co-expression networks -- Geometric interpretation of correlation networks using the singular value decomposition -- Constructing networks from matrices -- Clustering Procedures and module detection -- Evaluating whether a module is preserved in another network -- Association and statistical significance measures -- Structural equation models and directed networks -- Integrated weighted correlation network analysis of mouse liver gene expression data -- Networks based on regression models and prediction methods -- Networks between categorical or discretized numeric variables -- Networks based on the joint probability distribution of random variables -- Index.…”
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Handbook of Weighted Automata by Droste, Manfred

Table of Contents: “…Part II, Concepts of Weighted Recognizability: Finite Automata -- Rational and Recognisable Power Series -- Weighted Automata and Weighted Logics -- Weighted Automata Algorithms. …”
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The moral weight of ecology : public goods, cooperative duties, and environmental politics / by Tverdek, Edward

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Appetite and body weight integrative systems and the development of anti-obesity drugs /

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