Descriere: The perfect companion to fasting and following the 5:2 Diet. The Thorsons Calorie counter is easy to use and extremely comprehensive with over 4,000 products listed. Whether you are weight conscious, health conscious or just calorie conscious, this book is the ideal first reference for anybody following a calorie-controlled programme (i.e. Intermittent Fasting, 5:2 Diet or the Fast Diet). Comprehensive and easy to use, this guide contains everything you need to know about calorie counting. Divided into simple food sections, both branded and generic, this perennial bestseller includes:
- take-away foods and eating out
- ready-made meals, including brand names such as Sainsbury's, Boots, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer
- snacks
- ethnic foods
- drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic)
- vegetarian foods Also included are useful facts about the fat, protein and carbohydrate content of the foods mentioned, plus a guide to estimating the content of foods that aren't listed. Designed with our real eating patterns in mind- taking into account the fact that most of us do not eat 3 square meals a day but eat and snack on the run- this book is the ideal companion to any calorie-controlled regime.
| Editura: HarperCollins Publishers | Anul aparitiei: 2003 | ISBN: 9780007147465 | Numar de pagini: 256 | Categorie: Family
Saunders College (Author)
D. Danon (Editor)
Michael Thompson
The push for students to excel at school and get into the best colleges has never been more intense. In this invaluable new book, the bestselling co-author of Raising Cain addresses America's performance-driven obsession with the accomplishments of its kids-and provides a deeply humane response."How was school?" These three words contain a world of desire on the part of parents to know what their children are learning and experiencing in school each day. Children may not divulge much, but psychologist Michael Thompson suggests that the answers are there if we know how to read the clues and-equally important-if we remember our own school days.School, Thompson reminds us, occupies more waking hours than kids spend at home; and school is full not just of studies but of human emotion-excitement, fear, envy, love, anger, sexuality, boredom, competitiveness. Through richly detailed interviews, case histories, and student e-mail journals, including those of his own children, Thompson illuminates the deeper psychological journey that school demands, a journey that all children must take in order to grow and develop, whether they are academic aces or borderline dropouts. Most of us remember ...