Children’s Books

Rah, Rah Radishes: A Vegetable Chant

By April Pulley Sayre

(Ages 3-8)

Children often cheer for cookies over veggies, but this colorfully creative chant coupled with bright illustrations may help encourage little ones to try something new on the next visit to the farmer’s market.

Adult Books

Good Growing: A Kid’s Guide to Green Gardening

By the editors of Klutz

(Ages 6 and up)

A good way to stay healthy is to grow nutritious foods right at home. This spiral-bound gardening book shows easy, step-by-step instructions for growing sprouts, vegetables, herbs, flowers and more.

The Budding Chef

Edited by Kate Kuhn

(Grades 5 and up)

Easy, fun cookbooks for kids are excellent tools for teaching the lifelong lesson of cooking at home instead of stopping at the drivethrough. This title will teach children how to make their own meals, snacks and desserts too! Also in this series is The Budding Gardener.

POP! The Invention of Bubble Gum

By Meghan McCarthy

(Ages 6-10)

Part of a healthful lifestyle is learning where foods come from and what they contain. Bubble gum may not be a part of a healthy diet, but this interesting, easy-to-read nonfiction book may inspire children to start to ask even more questions and head to the nonfiction section of the library.

American College of Sports Medicine

Complete Guide to Fitness & Health

Edited by Barbara Bushman

This book offers the most current activity and nutrition guidelines, along with exercises, activities and programs for every age and fitness goal. This guidebook makes adding, enhancing or customizing a fitness and health routine safe and effective – for life.

Good Housekeeping Drop 5 Lbs: The Small Changes, Big Results Diet

By Heather K. Jones.

Registered dietician Jones offers simple weight loss tactics. She tells readers how to shop, eat, exercise and deal with holiday parties and restaurant meals by offering hundreds of ideas for small and very doable changes in one’s diet that can add up to significant weight loss.

Our Bodies, Ourselves (Ninth

Edition)

By the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective

The 40th anniversary of this women’s health bible continues to offer the latest information about reproductive health, menopause and aging, sexuality, relationships, gender identity, domestic violence, and much more.

YOU, on a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for

Waist Management

(Revised, Updated)

By Michael F. Roizen, M.D. & Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

Roizen and Oz, America’s most trusted doctor team, redefine what a healthy figure is and convince you that the key number to focus on isn’t your weight, but your waist size. The book includes the easy to learn, follow and maintain YOU Diet and YOU Workout.