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This work presents the results of a large study of diet and death rates from cancer in adults across China and Taiwan and explains the study's significance and what it reveals about the implications of poor nutrition. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet,...

This Action Guide is intended to help local public health agencies and community partners identify strategies and action steps that will assist them in collaborating with schools as partners to increase physical activity, improve nutrition and implement comprehensive health education for students.

"After suffering for years with unexplainable health issues, Dr. Ben Lynch discovered the root cause--"dirty" genes. Genes can be "born dirty" or merely "act dirty" in response to your environment, diet, or lifestyle--causing lifelong, life-threatening, and chronic health problems, including cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, anxiety, depression, digestive issues, obesity, cancer, and diabetes. Based on his own experience and successfully...

Child hunger is a serious, and often invisible, problem in Colorado. In thousands of homes in Colorado, parents are struggling to put enough food on the table. The problem of child hunger in Colorado has risen dramatically as poverty has worsened. In the last decade, the rate of child poverty has skyrocketed to 15 percent, nearly an 80 percent increase. Colorado now has the fastest growing rate of childhood poverty in the nation.

"From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these,...