Mama Bear starts a campaign to convince her family that they are eating too much junk food.

Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because most of what we're consuming today is not food, and how we're consuming it - in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone - is not really eating. Instead of food, we're consuming "edible foodlike substances" - no longer the products of nature but of food science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first...

A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.

James thinks his food is disgusting, and he refuses to eat it, but then his dad gives him some very unusual and compelling reasons to try it.

Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Scholsser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor...

Frances, who only loves to eat bread and jam, enjoys her favorite food for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and as a snack, but eventually learns that variety is more interesting.

"Chip the dog shares the wisdom of his seven fruitful years of eating things he shouldn't."--

Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it.

Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings a welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision and wit that has become bestselling author Michael Pollan's trademark, this indispensible handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely.

A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice. Includes behind the scenes and activities section.