NEED LAST-MINUTE gift suggestions? Here are health-minded books for folks on your list who like to read:

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- Tell Me What to Eat if I Have Headaches and Migraines, by Elaine Magee (Career Press, 2005). This book includes nutrition strategies for a variety of headaches plus 21 recipes that may help ease your aching head.
- Diabetes-Free Kids, by Sheri Colberg and Mary Friesz (Avery/Penguin Group, 2005). This book combines proven strategies for physical activity with common-sense eating guidelines.
- Cooking Healthy Across America, American Dietetic Association (2005). Features 350 healthful recipes from various regions of the United States. Nutrition information and cooking tips are provided for each recipe.
- How to Live with a Nut Allergy, by Dr. Chad Oh (McGraw-Hill, 2005). The author of this book is the chief of allergy/immunology at the UCLA School of Medicine. Timely, accurate and practical advice for parents of children and others with allergies to nuts.
- Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming, by Ellyn Satter (Kelcy Press, 2005). This book focuses on how to "provide rather than deprive" and on what children need to know to make healthful decisions about food and manage their weight.
- The DASH Diet Action Plan, by Marla Heller, a registered dietitian (Amidon Press, 2005). Based on clinically proven nutrition techniques to lower blood pressure, this book features a month of menus at fixed calorie levels.
BY THE NUMBERS: CAESAREANS:
- 29.1 Percentage of all U.S. births performed by caesarean section in 2004
- 27.5 Percentage in 2003
- 20.7 Percentage in 1996
Source: The National Center for Health Statistics
BY THE NUMBERS: BODY IMAGE
- 70 Percentage of women who said women are more tolerant of their overweight husbands than vice versa
- 26 Percentage who said they have the greatest desire to lose weight when they see a photo of themselves
- 19 Percentage who felt that way when trying on clothes in a dressing room
- 15 Percentage who did so while putting on a bathing suit
- 3 Percentage who did so when getting into bed with their husbands
Source: Nationwide telephone survey of 1,000 adults, conducted for Ladies' Home Journal by International Communications Research