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The Dorito effect : the surprising new truth about food and flavor / by Schatzker, Mark.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Dorito effect -- "Things" and "flavors" -- Big bland -- Big flavor -- Big people -- If food could talk -- The wisdom of flavor -- Bait and switch -- Fried chicken saved my life! -- The delicious cure -- The tomato of tomorrow -- This could be dinner.LSC
Subjects: Junk food.; Nutrition.; Reducing diets.; Food portions.;
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Meggie Moon / by Baguley, Elizabeth; Mabire, Grégoire;
Normally, no one dares to play in the yard where Digger and Tiger spend all their time, but when a girl invades, they soon realize that she has some brilliant ideas for playing with the junk found there.
Subjects: Play; Imagination; Sex role; Junk.;
© c2005., Good Books,
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Fast food genocide : how processed food is killing us and what we can do about it / by Fuhrman, Joel,author.; Phillips, Robert,contributor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Revered nutrition and health expert, PBS personality, and bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, and The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, delivers a hard-hitting, culture-shifting examination of the role fast and processed food plays in our nation's health crisis and offers a program to help us discover a lasting solution, including a two-week meal plan and 80 recipes. We're eating our way to discomfort, unhappiness, disease, and premature death. Processed and fake foods have become the primary source of calories in the United States--a trend that is growing across the developed world. While these "Frankenfoods" efficiently feed the majority of our citizens, they do not contain the sustaining biological and chemical properties of food produced in nature. This fast-food solution is causing a fast-food genocide that is shaping our bodies and our futures, Joel Fuhrman, MD, warns. Eating these unhealthy foods make us fatter and profoundly affects our brains, behaviors, and even our genetic makeup, leaving us helpless to social forces that will keep us eating fast food forever, he explains. They create an avalanche of harmful problems--chronic disease, lowered intelligence levels, and attention deficits that are intrinsically linked to poverty, reduced educational and occupational opportunities, and even increased drug addiction, violence, and crime. An urgent call to action, Fast Food Genocide also provides a clear and very achievable solution. While food can destroy the world, it can also heal it. We must take back control of our diet--by eating specific natural ingredients in a balanced way--and in doing so, our right to a healthy, long life. "Greater knowledge leads to a solution; a solution to your personal health issues and a solution for our society." Dr. Fuhrman writes. "But it starts with you.""--
Subjects: Nutrition.; Junk food; Processed foods; Diet.;
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The hormone myth : how junk science, gender politics & lies about PMS keep women down / by DeLuca, Robyn Stein,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Although the idea that women become raving lunatics when their hormones fluctuate is firmly entrenched in American culture, a thorough examination of the evidence overwhelmingly tells us otherwise. This provocative book exposes the pervasive myths about women's hormones--which lead to false beliefs about women's competence--by illustrating how flawed, obsolete research and sexism have combined to keep women "in their place," and skillfully shows how women can reject the "hormone myth" and own their emotions in a healthy and realistic way"--
Subjects: Women; Women; Hormones.;
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The ghostly photos / by Haddix, Margaret Peterson.;
While investigating a series of old, spooky photos of a seemingly transparent boy for their friend Ree, who lives above a funeral home, best friends Colin and Neveah follow the clues to solve this mystery from the Great Depression.Ages 8-12.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Friendship; Junk trade; Photographs; Family secrets; Depressions;
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The stolen key / by Haddix, Margaret Peterson.;
"Colin has spent all summer solving mysteries with his friend Nevaeh. But they've only ever dealt with other people's mysteries--ones that are safe for Colin to think about. He's still stuck on the mystery surrounding his own father, who his mother refuses to talk about and he can't remember meeting. Then one morning Colin finds a shoebox on his porch with a note on top: 'Your father wanted you to have this.' Inside the box is a key. This new clue makes Colin even more determined to find out the truth about his dad and why his parents split up when he was a baby. Colin and Nevaeh begin investigating Colin's father in a quest that takes them from eerie storage units to lock-lined bridges to, strangely, secrets in Nevaeh's family. But the closer they get to connecting the clues, the more trouble awaits them. A serious accident leaves Nevaeh's family reeling--and Nevaeh racked with guilt. And digging into Colin's father's past may lead Colin and his mom into even more danger. Can Colin and Nevaeh solve the mystery before it's too late?"--Amazon.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Crime; Detectives; Junk trade; Family secrets; Social justice; Women's rights; Friendship;
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Mrs. Yonkers is bonkers! / by Gutman, Dan.; Paillot, Jim.;
As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when Principal Klutz bans junk food."Ages 7-10"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; A. J. (Fictitious character from Gutman); Schools; Inventions; Teachers; Junk food;
© 2007., HarperCollins,
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Satellite space mission / by Anderson, AnnMarie.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Soccer slip-up -- Liftoff! -- Orbit experts -- Junk in space -- Slow until you know -- Maximum zoom -- Assembly required -- Frizsats to kidsats -- Teamwork makes the dream work."In another installment of The Magic School Bus Rides Again Branches series, Keesha will do whatever it takes to nail her space camp application. In her efforts to get the perfect picture on the class outer space field trip, she accidentally disrupts satellites in orbit!"--Provided by publisher.Appeals to 1st-3rd graders.Reading level grade 2.LSC
Subjects: Frizzle, Fiona (Fictitious character); Artificial satellites; Space debris;
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The museum's secret / by Chancellor, Henry,1968-;
When Tom is sent to live at the Scatterhorn Museum, a dingy cold place crammed full of tatty stuffed animals and junk, he discovers he can go back to the time of their making, a hundred years earlier.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Scatterhorn, Tom (Fictitious character); Museums; Time travel; Magic;
© 2010, c2008., Doubleday Canada,
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The royal trials / by Mbalia, Kwame.; Makonnen, Joel,Prince,1982-;
"Yared has traveled a long way to find his place in the universe. Light years, even. Though the battle of Addis Prime is over, the spacefaring Axum Empire is still fractured. The kingdom once gave their technology away free of charge, to better humankind. Now, having been missing for over a decade, they're returning to the planet where their galaxy-spanning civilization began--Earth. But they find the planet in disarray. Old Earth's atmosphere is a mess of junked shuttles and satellites. This is especially true of Debris Town, an orbital flotilla where poor spacefarers--left to rot by the Intergalactic Union that rose up in Axum's place--have taken to piracy to survive. Yared is set to speak at the opening of the Royal Trials, a competition of the best exo pilots in the Sol System. But on the day of his speech, the pirates launch an attack! The siege sets off a chain of events that will lead Yared into the depths of Old Earth--and the jaws of a cruel betrayal. There's more to the pirates--and Debris Town--than anyone saw coming"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Imaginary wars and battles; Monsters; Augmented reality; Space pirates;
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