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Library Online Resources

 If you live in Massachusetts and have a SAILS library card, you can access public library resources 24/7, free from your home or school computer.

 To look for books, CDs, and DVDs, search the SAILS catalog (using your library card and PIN, usually the last 4 digits of your phone number).From within the SAILS catalog, choose the Online Magazines and Research Tools tab to search magazine and newspaper articles and reference e-books. Try the Health Reference Center and Nursing and Allied Health Collection to start, and look for other links for nursing, sports medicine/physical therapy, and psychology. You can do a keyword search across multiple collections.

These additional resources are available for Fall River Public Library cardholders only:

Folio Medical Directory - Search for doctors, specialists, medical groups, and hospitals in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Psychology and Mental Health is a full-text, online guide to many aspects of psychology.

Books

General Fitness

Fitness & health
    Sharkey, Brian J.
Human Kinetics, 2007

Mariel Hemingway's healthy living from the inside out : every woman's guide to real beauty, renewed energy, and a radiant life
    Hemingway, Mariel
HarperSanFrancisco, 2007

Age-defying fitness : making the most of your body for the rest of your life
    Moffat, Marilyn
Peachtree, 2006

The fat-free truth : 239 real answers to the fitness and weight-loss questions you wonder about most
    Neporent, Liz
Houghton Mifflin, 2005

Fitness Walking and Exercise Programs

The no sweat exercise plan : lose weight, get healthy, and live longer
    Simon, Harvey B.
McGraw-Hill, 2006

101 ways to work out with weights : effective exercises to sculpt your body and burn fat!
    Whitmarsh, Cindy
Fair Winds Press, 2006

Fitness walking
    Iknoian, Therese
Human Kinetics, 2005

Yoga for healthy bones : a woman's guide
    Sparrowe, Linda
Shambhala, 2004

The slow burn fitness revolution : slow motion exercise that will change your body in 30 minutes a week
    Hahn, Fredrick
Broadway Books, 2003

Fit and fabulous after 40 : a 5-part program for turning back the clock
    Austin, Denise
Broadway Books, 2001

The walker within : forty-five lives changed by walking
    [“from the pages of Walking Magazine”]
Lyons Press, 2000

The core program : fifteen minutes a day that can change your life
    Brill, Peggy W
Bantam Books, 2001

Yoga for dummies
    Feuerstein, Georg
IDG Books Worldwide, 1999

Strong women stay slim
    Nelson, Miriam E.
Bantam Books, 1998


Healthy Eating

The Duke diet : the world-renowned program for healthy and lasting weight loss
    Eisenson, Howard
Ballantine, 2007

The best life diet
    Greene, Bob
Simon & Schuster, 2006

You, on a diet : the owner's manual for waist management
    Roizen, Michael F.
Free Press, 2006

Child obesity : a parent's guide to a fit, trim, and happy child
    Rao, Goutham
Prometheus Books, 2006

French women don't get fat
    Guiliano, Mireille
Knopf, 2005

I'm, like, SO fat! : helping your teen make healthy choices about eating and exercise in a weight-obsessed world
    Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne
Guilford Press, 2005

Cooking thin with chef Kathleen : 200 easy recipes for healthy weight less
    Daelemans, Kathleen
Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Food and you : a guide to healthy habits for teens
    Bijlefeld, Marjolijn
Greenwood Press, 2001

Joy of cooking. All about vegetarian cooking
    Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff
Scribner, 2000


Audio Books

An organic life [sound recording] : eating for your health and the planet's
    Gussow, Joan Dye
1 sound disc (1 hr., 15 min.)
Chautauqua Institution; 2006

Brain, mind and spirit [sound recording] : the wisdom of the human body
    Nuland, Sherwin B.
1 sound disc (1.25 hr.)
Chautauqua Institution; 2006

Yoga for kids [sound recording] : an introduction to yoga
    Martin, Mary H.
1 sound disc :
Kimbo Educational, 2004


DVDs

Blast away the pounds [videorecording] : indoor walk
    1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.)
Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2005

The walk diet [videorecording]
    1 videodisc (ca. 48 min.) :
GoodTimes Entertainment, 2004

You can do! Pilates [videorecording]
    1 videodisc (45 min.)
GoodTimes Entertainment, 2004

TriYoga basics. Gentle cardio [videorecording]
    1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)
St. Clair Vision, 2004


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 This resource guide created in conjunction with Healthy Cities Fall River. All resources listed are available through the Fall River Public Library. © 2007 by Fall River Public Library.