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COOKING LIGHT Lighten Up, America!: Favorite American Foods Made Guilt-Free

by Allison Fishman Task

Cooking Light Lighten Up, America! is a celebration and discovery of regional American cooking, and the permission to eat the foods you love--it's the soul of American cooking made light. This collection of America's favorite fare offers healthy versions of classics new and old, memory-making recipes from all walks of life and regions, and returns the most beloved American dishes to the table. Lighten Up, America! follows Allison Fishman Task as she embarks on a cross-country road trip in search of the country's favorite classic dishes. Allison shows the reader how to take these regional recipes and make them lighter and healthier with a few simple substitutions and smart cooking techniques. From caramel-pecan sticky buns to reuben sandwiches to fried green tomatoes, this book teaches how to turn what might have been once-in-awhile favorites into everyday classics. Highlights include: Classic American Dishes Made Lighter: Readers will rediscover regional American cooking and eat the food they love through more than 150 delicious recipes from coast to coast. All with complete nutrition analysis. Regional Culinary Traditions: Join Allison as she tells delightful and tantalizing stories behind some of our most beloved regional dishes. Each story gives insight into regional flavor and color while celebrating iconic fare like Memphis barbecue, New Orleans gumbo, and Iowa pork tenderloin sandwiches. Insider's View of Festivals and Food Fairs: Allison also visits food fairs and festivals, so you'll get a behind- the-scenes look at some of the more unusual foods this great country has to offer such as wild boar nachos, bear meatloaf, and dandelion soup. Food Born In America: Allison will share inspiring stories about the many American entrepreneurs and home cooks who conceived and popularized recipes and ingredients. Take the Philly cheesesteak, Cobb salad, and stuffing--just to name a few--all crafted through the ingenuity of American food lovers. Pin It: Pin your favorite recipes to Pinterest-directly from the e-book!

COOKING LIGHT Pick Fresh Cookbook: Creating Big Flavors from the Freshest Produce

by Editors of Cooking Light Mary Beth Shaddix

Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook shares the secrets to buying, growing, and cooking your favorite fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Bursting with beautiful color photographs, this book is an invaluable resource for home cooks, novice gardeners, and food lovers alike. Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook includes: More than 200 full-color photos Organized by fruits, vegetables, and herbs makes it easy to find recipes and information for the fresh produce you have right now 150+ recipes that utilize the fresh taste of the season's best produce in main dishes, sides, salads, dessert, and more Easy getting-started gardening tips from Mary Beth Shaddix, Cooking Light's expert gardener, for growing your own fruits and vegetables, whether it's in your backyard or on your windowsill A complete nutritional analysis for each recipe

The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery (American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection)

by Juliet Corson

A nineteenth-century cookbook by the founder of New York’s first cooking school providing affordable recipes and kitchen skills for working class American women.Published in 1877, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was written by one of the “great ladies” of American cooking who founded the first cooking school in New York City to help unemployed working-class women find work as domestics. This exceptional book by a remarkable woman in American culinary history was aimed at answering the question Corson posed in her cooking manual, “How well can we live, if we are moderately poor?” She dedicated her life and her career to providing the answer in this book and others, to suggest recipes for “the most wholesome and palatable dishes at the least possible cost.” Her solutions included the principle of using everything available and wasting nothing, avoiding expensive cuts of meat and using lentils, peas, and macaroni as nutritious alternatives, exploring gardens and fields for new delicious greens, such as dandelions, sorrel, chicory, and other creative cookery techniques. This important book in the American culinary canon expanded the cooking philosophies of many lower- and middle-class women of the day. This edition of The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1812.

Cooking Slow: Recipes for Slowing Down and Cooking More

by Andrew Schloss Alan Benson

This tantalizing book celebrates the art of cooking slowly with time-honored methods that yield tender, delicious meals with little hands-on cooking time. More than 80 recipes cover everything from slow-simmered soups and stews to hearty braised meats and a lemon cheesecake that cures to a creamy custard in a warm oven overnight. A chapter devoted to the sous vide technique will tempt the technophiles, while the slow-grilling section is a revelation for those who man the grill every weekend. Brought to life with 36 enticing photographs by award-winning photographer Alan Benson, this valuable package sells the dream of cooking and living well and is a must-have for dedicated home cooks.

Cooking Texas Style: Traditional Recipes from the Lone Star State

by Candy Wagner Sandra Marquez

Just remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth watering. And since remembering is no substitute for eating, cooks across the country have turned to Cooking Texas Style to find recipes for the comfort foods we love best. Thirty years after its first publication, popular acclaim has made this collection of favorite family recipes the standard source for traditional Texas cooking. Here are over three hundred tasty recipes from the kitchens of Candy Wagner and Sandra Marquez. You’ll find classic Texas dishes such as chicken-fried steak, barbecue, chili, guacamole, and cornbread hot with jalapeños, as well as novel, exciting ways to prepare old favorites such as Tortilla Soup, Fajitas, and Chicken and Dumplings. Organized for easy reference, all the recipes are clearly explained, simple to prepare, and simply delicious. Cooking Texas Style is an invaluable addition to the kitchen bookshelf of anyone interested in cooking—and eating—Texas style.

Cooking Texas Style: Traditional Recipes from the Lone Star State

by Candy Wagner Sandra Marquez

Just remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth watering. And since remembering is no substitute for eating, cooks across the country have turned to Cooking Texas Style to find recipes for the comfort foods we love best. Thirty years after its first publication, popular acclaim has made this collection of favorite family recipes the standard source for traditional Texas cooking. Here are over three hundred tasty recipes from the kitchens of Candy Wagner and Sandra Marquez. You'll find classic Texas dishes such as chicken-fried steak, barbecue, chili, guacamole, and cornbread hot with jalapeños, as well as novel, exciting ways to prepare old favorites such as Tortilla Soup, Fajitas, and Chicken and Dumplings. Organized for easy reference, all the recipes are clearly explained, simple to prepare, and simply delicious. Cooking Texas Style is an invaluable addition to the kitchen bookshelf of anyone interested in cooking-and eating-Texas style.

Cooking with Flowers

by Miche Bacher Miana Jun

Here are more than 100 recipes that will bring beautiful flower-filled dishes to your kitchen table! This easy-to-use cookbook is brimming with scrumptious botanical treats, from sweet violet cupcakes, pansy petal pancakes, daylily cheesecake, and rosemary flower margaritas to savory sunflower chickpea salad, chive blossom vinaigrette, herb flower pesto, and mango orchid sticky rice. Alongside every recipe are tips and tricks for finding, cleaning, and preparing edible blossoms. You'll also learn how to infuse vinegars, vodkas, sugars, frostings, jellies and jams, ice creams, and more with the color and flavor of your favorite flowers. Fresh from the farmers' market or plucked from your very own garden, a world of delectable flowers awaits!From the Hardcover edition.

Cooking with Herbs: 50 Simple Recipes for Fresh Flavor

by Lynn Alley

This beautifully illustrated guide to growing and cooking with fresh herbs offers 50 recipes that showcase the flavor of basil, sage, mint, and more. Cooking teacher and best-selling cookbook author Lynn Alley shows you how to make the most of fresh herbs, from your own garden to your own table. With profiles on mint, dill, rosemary, thyme, parsley, tarragon, sage, basil, cilantro, and oregano, Lynn proves that fresh herbs are an easy way to add flavor without a lot of fuss—or a lot of fat.Cooking with Herbs features recipes for seasonings, spreads, and dressings, as well as mouthwatering dishes like Apple, Sage, and Hazelnut Rounds; Cheddar, Mustard, Garlic, and Chive Mac &‘n&’ Cheese; Polenta with Two Cheeses, Basil, and Oregano; Potatoes Rosti with Indian Flavors; Savory Tomato Sorbet with Tarragon, Chervil, and Parsley; and Deep Chocolate and Peppermint Cheesecakes. Lynn also offers easy tips and techniques for starting your own container herb garden, from picking your plants to choosing the perfect spot—even if you don&’t have a yard!

Cooking with Herbs: 50 Simple Recipes for Fresh Flavor

by Lynn Alley

This beautifully illustrated guide to growing and cooking with fresh herbs offers 50 recipes that showcase the flavor of basil, sage, mint, and more. Cooking teacher and best-selling cookbook author Lynn Alley shows you how to make the most of fresh herbs, from your own garden to your own table. With profiles on mint, dill, rosemary, thyme, parsley, tarragon, sage, basil, cilantro, and oregano, Lynn proves that fresh herbs are an easy way to add flavor without a lot of fuss—or a lot of fat.Cooking with Herbs features recipes for seasonings, spreads, and dressings, as well as mouthwatering dishes like Apple, Sage, and Hazelnut Rounds; Cheddar, Mustard, Garlic, and Chive Mac &‘n&’ Cheese; Polenta with Two Cheeses, Basil, and Oregano; Potatoes Rosti with Indian Flavors; Savory Tomato Sorbet with Tarragon, Chervil, and Parsley; and Deep Chocolate and Peppermint Cheesecakes. Lynn also offers easy tips and techniques for starting your own container herb garden, from picking your plants to choosing the perfect spot—even if you don&’t have a yard!

Cooking with Quinoa For Dummies

by Cheryl Forberg

140+ gluten-free recipes for adding quinoa to every meal and snackTouted as "the gold of the Incas", quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) has many health benefits. It is high in both protein and fiber, gluten-free, and has been known to help those with cardiovascular health problems, as well as people who suffer from migraine headaches. Research also shows that the nutritional composition of quinoa is important in fighting breast cancer, especially in post-menopausal women. It is a great gluten alternative, and provides complete protein in vegetarian or vegan dishes. Not only does it have all of these phenomenal health qualities, quinoa is also delicious and extremely versatile!Quinoa can be made into a breakfast porridge, stuffed into a wrap for lunch, combined with vegetables for a hearty salad, rolled with spices and breadcrumbs to make a delicious burger, and added to an assortment of cakes and breads for an extra protein punch. Cooking with Quinoa for Dummies shows you how you can easily incorporate quinoa into each and every one of your meals and snacks.Offers over 140 gluten-free recipes for incorporating quinoa into breakfasts, lunches, snacks, dinners, and dessertsExplains the health benefits and disease-fighting power of this superfoodProvides the 4-1-1 on how quinoa can help you lose those unwanted poundsIncludes a 16 page color insert with beautiful photos of gluten-free quinoa-packed mealsCooking with Quinoa For Dummies shows you how to use this hot new superfood in all your favourite dishes!

The Cook's Illustrated Baking Book

by Cook'S Illustrated

The definitive baking guide from Cook's Illustrated The third book in the bestselling Cook's Illustrated series, The Cook's Illustrated Baking Book is an authoritative baking reference and recipe collection for those who want to learn how to bake and for those who want to bring their baking skills to a higher level. Fifteen chapters cover anything you've ever wanted to master--from cookies, cakes, pies, and tarts, to biscuits, breads, pastry, and more.

A Cook's Initiation into the Gorgeous World of Mushrooms

by Philippe Emanuelli Frederic Raevens

This beautiful guide to buying, storing, and cooking more than 20 varieties of wild and cultivated mushrooms (and truffles!) also collects 125 mouthwatering recipes. More than 100 color photographs capture the unique characteristics and, indeed, the elegance, of each type of mushroom, providing tempting visuals for the 100 dishes featured in the book. An evocative object in itself, A Cook's Initiation into the Gorgeous World of Mushrooms will be equally at home on a gourmet's kitchen countertop and a nature lover's coffee table.

Copykat.com's Dining Out At Home Cookbook 2: More Recipes for the Most Delicious Dishes from America's Most Popular Restaurants

by Stephanie Manley

YOU LOVE RESTAURANT FOOD…WHY NOT MAKE IT AT HOME?Packed with recipes for all your favorite entrées, appetizers, soups, salads and desserts from America&’s most popular restaurants*, this book shows how to re-create mouthwatering dishes in your own kitchen. With over 200 recipes, CopyKat.com&’s Dining Out at Home 2 makes it easy as pie to cook classic restaurant dishes like:• Boston Market® Sweet Potato Casserole• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® Chocolate Pecan Pie• IHOP® Bacon Temptation Omelets• Olive Garden® Chicken Gnocchi Soup• Starbucks™ Eggnog Latte• Cheddar&’s Casual Café® Texas Cheese Fries• Outback Steakhouse® Spinach and Artichoke Dip• P.F. Chang&’s China Bistro® Lettuce Wraps• Arby&’s® Grilled Chicken and Pecan Salad SandwichFind the ideal recipe for any occasion with the book&’s wide range of impress-your-guest dishes, quick-and-easy treats, vegetarian options and kid-friendly choices. You can even modify these original recreations to make them healthier while maintaining the delicious taste. Eating in has never been so fun!*no sponsorship or endorsement by these restaurants

The Core Balance Diet: 28 Days To Boost Your Metabolism And Lose Weight For Good

by Marcelle Pick

Is your weight gain making you miserable? Have you noticed that you’re packing on pounds in unpleasant places? Or is the scale—and the way you feel about yourself—just stuck, no matter how much you diet or exercise? If you’ve struggled without success to lose weight and keep it off, there’s always a reason, and—surprise!—it probably has little to do with how hard you try or how many calories you count. The Core Balance Diet is a breakthrough plan designed to restore your body’s equilibrium and return you to a healthy, sustainable weight. Marcelle Pick draws upon decades of experience, both her patients’ and her own, to help you: • Learn simple lifestyle changes and smart nutrition choices that will show you how to tune in to your body and identify your fundamental obstacles to weight loss • Adopt a customized two-week program geared at restoring your Core Balance and shedding those toxic pounds once and for all • Enjoy delicious recipes made from whole foods that give your body the support it needs to heal • Explore underlying issues and emotional patterns that may be getting in your way The Core Balance Diet heralds a whole new chapter in weight loss, proving how easy it is to work with your body and the right foods – not against them – to rid yourself of weight and unhealthy habits for good. Within a month, you’ll be on your way to a lean, fit, and balanced body that is ready to support you – and look great – for the rest of your life.

The Cosmo Bikini Diet

by Holly Corbett The editors of Cosmopolitan

The Cosmo Bikini Diet is a weight-loss plan designed to get you slim and sexy all over without leaving you feeling unsatisfied, moody, and hungry-for real. In fact, it makes eating well and working out actually feel, well, enjoyable. This 12-week program gives you all the tools you need to drop pounds and get toned without cramping your lifestyle: Monthly real-world eating plans; Hot & Healthy workouts that you can fit into even the busiest of schedules; ideas to up the feel-good moments in your day so you don't use food as a quick fix; and more. You'll lose up to 15 pounds (or more) in 12 weeks without feeling deprived. The meal plans were specially designed by Molly Morgan, RD., Board Certified Sports Specialist Dietitian, the owner of Creative Nutrition Solutions, and author of The Skinny Rules, and includes dozens of easy recipes.Each week the reader learns a new get-skinny secret like how to: fuel up on the right carbs, slash sneaky sources of sugar, choose foods that will flatten your tummy! Then customized fitness plan from celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson and Barry's Bootcamp offers a mix of cardio and body sculpting moves to tone your butt, arms, belly, and more! The truth is that reaching your happy weight is not so much about hitting a number on the scale or size tag in your jeans, but about feeling light and lean and strong. It's about getting there without abusing your body with extreme dieting and exercise. It's about eventually walking around-whether in a bikini or not!-with confidence, knowing that you are the healthiest you that you can be.

Cowgirl Creamery Cooks

by Hirsheimer Hamilton Sue Conley Peggy Smith

Collecting the vast accumulated wisdom of two of the world's great cheesemakers, Cowgirl Creamery Cooks is one of those rare books that immediately asserts itself as an indispensible addition to the food lover's library. That's because Cowgirl Creamery Cooks is many things. It's an engrossing read that shares the story of the Cowgirls, but also of the rise of the organic food movement and creating an artisanal creamery. It's a primer on tasting, buying, storing, pairing, and appreciating all kinds of cheese that makes this a gorgeous gift for the cheese lover. And it's a sumptuous collection of recipes, with 75 appetizers, soups, salads, snacks, entrees, and desserts that showcase cow-, goat-, and sheep-milk cheese. Throughout, the glorious photographs of Hirsheimer & Hamilton portray myriad cheeses, finished dishes, and the landscapes and people who created them.

Cows Save the Planet

by Judith D. Schwartz

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.

Crackers & Dips: More than 50 Handmade Snacks

by Ivy Manning Jenifer Altman

This is the DIY guide to making homemade crackers, with 52 formulas for crisp snacks and the luscious dips to eat them with, all celebrated with 25 playful photographs. Portland, Oregon–based food writer and baker Ivy Manning capitalizes on the pure flavors of whole grains, real butter, cheese, fresh spices, and no preservatives in her formulas for crunchy, sweet, and savory treats, all made to pair with a chapter's worth of creamy, gooey dips, and schmears. Recipes and tips are for bakers of all skill levels and tastes, with formulas for vegan, gluten-free, and whole-grain crisps. This adorable book is timed perfectly for the cracker-making trend and makes the ideal gift for the baker or entertainer who takes pride in making everything from scratch.

The Craft Beer Cookbook: From IPAs and Bocks to Pilsners and Porters, 100 Artisanal Recipes for Cooking with Beer

by Jacquelyn Dodd

Transform your dishes with the tremendous flavor of craft beer!The Craft Beer Cookbook doesn't think you need to wait until five o'clock to pop the cap off of a quality beer. From tender pork chops marinated in a bold and citrusy IPA to apple fritters drizzled with an amber ale caramel sauce, the recipes in this book are not only delicious, but they also capture the complex notes and flavors of a perfectly balanced brew. Filled with a diverse selection of varieties, each dish transforms everyday fare into top-shelf plates that are sure to satisfy even the most discerning fan of craft beers. A toast to the world's finest brews, this cookbook highlights inspired dishes like:Sausage and pale ale frittataRoasted mushroom and brown ale soupSalmon with dijon beer cream sauce over drunken couscousSlow-roasted maple stout baby back beef ribsChocolate stout cake with chocolate raspberry ganache and whipped creamComplete with 100 imaginative craft beer recipes and dozens of four-color photographs, The Craft Beer Cookbook shows you how to incorporate your true love--beer!--into every meal.

Craft Beer Revolution

by Joe Wiebe

A thirst-quenching guide to B.C.'s craft brewers and their beers from the province's favourite beer writer.Canada's microbrewing movement began in British Columbia with the founding of Horseshoe Bay Brewing in 1982. Three decades later, B.C. is home to more than fifty breweries, including a dozen brewpubs. Beer tourists are coming in droves, and private liquor stores are selling exclusive bottles of beer at prices previously reserved only for fine wine.With profiles of each of B.C.'s craft breweries, as well as maps, tasting tours and an insider's look at the people behind the kegs and casks, Craft Beer Revolution is the definitive guide to British Columbia's booming craft beer scene, from the movement's early founders still thriving today-Spinnakers, Granville Island and Vancouver Island-to the current industry leaders-Central City, Howe Sound and Driftwood-as well as the most remote-Tofino Brewing, Townsite in Powell River, and Plan B in Smithers.Each brewery has a tale to tell, and Joe Wiebe, the Thirsty Writer, has heard them all. B.C.'s leading beer writer, he has spent the last decade travelling throughout the province, sampling craft beer wherever he can find it. His irreverent guide will be an indispensable companion for beer nerd and novice alike.

Crazy About Chocolate: More than 200 Delicious Recipes to Enjoy and Share (Crazy About Ser.)

by Krystina Castella

For chocolates lovers, recipes and techniques for cooking, baking, freezing and preparing chocolate for everyday treats, gifts and special occasions.Everyone’s crazy about chocolate—and this mouthwatering collection will satisfy even the most chocolate-mad fan! More than 200 sweet and savory recipes feature everything from candies and confections to crowd-pleasing cake pops and cupcakes to special holiday treats. Ring in the New Year with Chocolate Cream Cheese King Cake; savor a completely adult Chocolate Martini; dine on Cocoa-Spiced Turkey Chili with Chocolate Chip Corn Muffins. In addition to essential techniques and creative how-tos, bestselling author Castella explains how to prepare the perfectly decorated chocolate gift.

Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

by Jon Krampner

More than Mom's apple pie, peanut butter is the all-American food. With its rich, roasted-peanut aroma and flavor; caramel hue; and gooey, consoling texture, peanut butter is an enduring favorite, found in the pantries of at least 75 percent of American kitchens. Americans eat more than a billion pounds a year. According to the Southern Peanut Growers, a trade group, that's enough to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon (although the association doesn't say to what height).Americans spoon it out of the jar, eat it in sandwiches by itself or with its bread-fellow jelly, and devour it with foods ranging from celery and raisins ("ants on a log") to a grilled sandwich with bacon and bananas (the classic "Elvis"). Peanut butter is used to flavor candy, ice cream, cookies, cereal, and other foods. It is a deeply ingrained staple of American childhood. Along with cheeseburgers, fried chicken, chocolate chip cookies (and apple pie), peanut butter is a consummate comfort food. In Creamy and Crunchy are the stories of Jif, Skippy, Peter Pan; the plight of black peanut farmers; the resurgence of natural or old-fashioned peanut butter; the reasons why Americans like peanut butter better than (almost) anyone else; the five ways that today's product is different from the original; the role of peanut butter in fighting Third World hunger; and the Salmonella outbreaks of 2007 and 2009, which threatened peanut butter's sacred place in the American cupboard. To a surprising extent, the story of peanut butter is the story of twentieth-century America, and Jon Krampner writes its first popular history, rich with anecdotes and facts culled from interviews, research, travels in the peanut-growing regions of the South, personal stories, and recipes.

Create, Sell, and Become Rich

by Dr Jan Cooper

Over 40 years of experience to help individuals create, sell, and become rich physically, mentally, spiritually, and financially.It will cover the four different kinds of buyers there are and how to ask the right questions, so you will get the responses you want. It will show you how you can become financially independant within 10-15 years.

Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina

by Rebekah E. Pite

Dona Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896-1992) reigned as Argentina's preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Peron in terms of the fame she enjoyed and the adulation she received. Her cookbook garnered tremendous popularity, becoming one of the three best-selling books in Argentina. Dona Petrona capitalized on and contributed to the growing appreciation for women's domestic roles as the Argentine economy expanded and fell into periodic crises. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including her own interviews with Dona Petrona's inner circle and with everyday women and men, Rebekah E. Pite provides a lively social history of twentieth-century Argentina, as exemplified through the fascinating story of Dona Petrona and the homemakers to whom she dedicated her career.Pite's narrative illuminates the important role of food--its consumption, preparation, and production--in daily life, class formation, and national identity. By connecting issues of gender, domestic work, and economic development, Pite brings into focus the critical importance of women's roles as consumers, cooks, and community builders.

Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight

by Heather Breiner

"Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight" is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention in June 2013 to examine income, race, and ethnicity, and how these factors intersect with childhood obesity and its prevention. Registered participants, along with viewers of a simultaneous webcast of the workshop, heard a series of presentations by researchers, policy makers, advocates, and other stakeholders focused on health disparities associated with income, race, ethnicity, and other characteristics and on how these factors intersect with obesity and its prevention. The workshop featured invited presentations and discussions concerning physical activity, healthy food access, food marketing and messaging, and the roles of employers, health care professionals, and schools. The IOM 2012 report "Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention" acknowledged that a variety of characteristics linked historically to social exclusion or discrimination, including race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, age, mental health, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, geographic location, and immigrant status, can thereby affect opportunities for physical activity, healthy eating, health care, work, and education. In many parts of the United States, certain racial and ethnic groups and low-income individuals and families live, learn, work, and play in places that lack health-promoting resources such as parks, recreational facilities, high-quality grocery stores, and walkable streets. These same neighborhoods may have characteristics such as heavy traffic or other unsafe conditions that discourage people from walking or being physically active outdoors. The combination of unhealthy social and environmental risk factors, including limited access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity, can contribute to increased levels of chronic stress among community members, which have been linked to increased levels of sedentary activity and increased calorie consumption. "Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight" focuses on the key obesity prevention goals and recommendations outlined in "Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention" through the lens of health equity. This report explores critical aspects of obesity prevention, while discussing potential future research, policy, and action that could lead to equity in opportunities to achieve a healthy weight.

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