Shape Up Sisters

Author : Linda Fondren
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623361440

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Shape Up Sisters! by Linda Fondren Pdf

Straight talk and a simple, no-fail diet and exercise plan for those who think they don't have the money or time to lose weight Linda Fondren, one of 11 children born to a single mother in the poorest and fattest state in America, watched the consequences of obesity ruin her sister's life—and was moved to open a gym in her hometown of Vicksburg, Mississippi with the motto "positively reshaping women." Then, witnessing how many middle- and low-income Vicksburg residents were brought up short in their fitness and health efforts by limited budgets and time, Fondren responded by striking at the root problem. In 2009, she spearheaded Shape Up Vicksburg, a City Hall–supported program in which she convinced the local hospital to offer free health screenings, restaurants to create low-cal menu options, and Wal-Mart to host weigh-in stations. Fondren signed up 10 percent of Vicksburg's 25,000 residents, most of who were taking charge of their health and nutrition for the first time. They lost over 15,000 lbs. in just 17 weeks. Shape Up Sisters! is a get-healthy prescription for regular people with jobs, budgets, and real-life challenges. Here are tactics for sedentary readers to become physically active with advice, recipes, and meal plans for improving eating habits on a budget. Fondren wraps it all in her empowering personal story and the uplifting tales of women who have changed their lives by following her simple strategies. With Fondren's approachable personality and practical advice, Shape Up Sisters! is both an easy-to-use guide and a bold statement in the greater national narrative about improving health and weight loss across socioeconomic lines.

Author : Linda Fondren
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623361457

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Shape Up Sisters! by Linda Fondren Pdf

Linda Fondren, one of 11 children born to a single mother in the poorest and fattest state in America, watched the consequences of obesity ruin her sister's life—and was motivated to open an all-female gym in her hometown of Vicksburg, MS, with the motto "positively reshaping women." Then, witnessing how many middle- and low-income Vicksburg residents were brought up short in their fitness and health efforts by limited budgets, time, and access to resources, Fondren responded by striking at the root problem. In 2009, she spearheaded Shape Up Vicksburg, a City Hall–supported program in which she convinced the local hospital to offer free health screenings, restaurants to create healthy low-cal menu options, and Walmart to host weigh-in stations. Fondren signed up more than 2,500 Vicksburg residents to take charge of their health and nutrition—many of them for the first time. They lost more than 15,000 pounds. Shape Up Sisters! is a get-healthy prescription for regular people with jobs, budgets, and real-life challenges. Fondren offers tactics to incorporate exercise into daily activities, delicious recipes and menus to for eating healthfully on a budget, and motivation for a major attitude shift. She wraps it all in her empowering personal story and the uplifting tales of women who have changed their lives by following her simple strategies. With Fondren's approachable personality and practical advice, Shape Up Sisters! is both an easy-to-use guide and a bold statement in the greater national narrative about improving health and weight loss across socioeconomic lines.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Roundtable on Obesity Solutions
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309378178

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Physical Activity by Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Roundtable on Obesity Solutions Pdf

In 2008, the U.S. federal government issued fully approved physical activity guidelines for the first time. The idea that physical activity impacts health can be traced as far back as Hippocrates, and the science around the linkages between physical activity and health has continuously accumulated. On April 14-15, 2015, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Obesity Solutions held a 2-day workshop to explore the state of the science regarding the impact of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity and to highlight innovative strategies for promoting physical activity across different segments of the population. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from this workshop.

Author : Charles Bronfman,Jeffrey Solomon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118282465

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The Art of Doing Good by Charles Bronfman,Jeffrey Solomon Pdf

How to turn personal passion into an organization with impact For anyone setting out to change the world, launching a nonprofit venture can be a powerful way to enact change. Whether bringing donated eyeglasses to children who have never seen clearly, revamping inner city schools, or bringing solar cookers to refugee camps, the act of doing good can be life-changing. Yet starting a nonprofit?and running it well?can also pose challenges. The Art of Doing Good is an essential companion for anyone looking to start an organization that makes a real difference. Drawing from their own leadership roles in the nonprofit world, as well as interviews with 18 celebrated social innovators, the authors prepare would-be social entrepreneurs with guidance and real-world advice for sustaining the spirit, ambition, and ingenuity to keep their vision alive and thriving. Features real-life stories of 18 notable social entrepreneurs and the organizations they run, including Geoffrey Canada (Harlem Children?s Zone), Darell Hammond (KaBOOM!), and Michael Brown (City Year) Reveals what particular issues nonprofit leaders can expect to face throughout the lifespan of their organization and shares strategies for meeting challenges Written by world-renowned philanthropists Bronfman and Solomon, respectively cofounder and CEO of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and coauthors of The Art of Giving With thoughtful and comprehensive insight on how the most effective social ventures do good well,The Art of Doing Good is essential reading for both new and experienced nonprofit leaders.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066194217

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Mersky Leder
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0345379950

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Brothers and Sisters by Jane Mersky Leder Pdf

An in-depth exploration of the special bond between siblings examines the feelings and forces that characterize complex sibling relationships and explains how to make these relationships more positive and fulfilling. Reprint.

Author : Pamela Shires Sneddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0894909142

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Brothers and Sisters by Pamela Shires Sneddon Pdf

Explores various aspects of sibling relationships, including how rivalry, birth order, and growing up affect how siblings interact with each other.

Author : Daisy Johnson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593188965

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Sisters by Daisy Johnson Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times “It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review “Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out. “One of her generation’s most intriguing authors” (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior—until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls’ past and future. Written with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as “entrancing” (The New Yorker), “a force of nature” (The New York Times Book Review), and “weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling” (Celeste Ng), Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache—a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other’s darkest impulses.

Author : Barbara Mathias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0385312806

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Between Sisters by Barbara Mathias Pdf

A hardcover bestseller, this revealing exploration of one of the most crucial relationships in a woman's life uses real life stories of women aged 15 to 87 to explore this primary bond. Focusing on issues such as closeness, respect, and compatibility, as well as the wide range of intricate emotions between sisters, this book encourages new insights and meaning.

Author : Brit Bennett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525536970

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST “Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal “A story of absolute, universal timelessness …For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.

Author : Roniece Weaver,Fabiola Gaines,Angela Ebron
Publisher : Plume
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : NWU:35556035461243

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Slim Down Sister by Roniece Weaver,Fabiola Gaines,Angela Ebron Pdf

Addresses serious, weight-related health concerns many African-American women face and offers a comprehensive program of diet and exercise designed to help African-American women take control of their weight and health.

Author : Joyce Slayton Mitchell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015001396061

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Taking on the World by Joyce Slayton Mitchell Pdf

Author : Jen Lancaster
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101639610

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Twisted Sisters by Jen Lancaster Pdf

A licensed psychologist who stars on the cable breakout show I Need a Push, Reagan Bishop helps participants become their best selves by urging them to overcome obstacles and change behaviors. An overachiever, Reagan is used to delivering results. Despite her overwhelming professional success, Reagan never seems to earn her family’s respect. Her younger sister, Geri, is and always will be the Bishop family favorite. When a national network buys Reagan’s show, the pressure for unreasonably quick results and higher ratings mounts. Desperate to make the show work and keep her family at bay, Reagan actually listens when the show’s New Age healer offers an unconventional solution.... Record Nielsen ratings follow. But when Reagan decides to use her newfound power to teach everyone a lesson about sibling rivalry, she’s the one who will be schooled....

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SISTERS IN CRIME 4 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sally Witt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : WISC:89082384009

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Sisters of the North Country by Sally Witt Pdf