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The Fast Metabolism Diet
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 14.67Beverly Hills nutritionist Haylie Pomroy has a long list of loyal celebrity clients - including Jennifer Lopez, Raquel Welch and Reese Witherspoon. With this book she makes her carpet-ready methods available to everybody - and promises you can lose up to 20lbs in 28 days. Haylie Pomroy has helped thousands of clients lose up to 20 pounds... more...
The End of Diabetes
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 21.99Despite what you might have heard, diabetes is not a lifelong condition. It does not have to shorten your life span or result in high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, or other life-threatening ailments. In fact, most diabetics can get off medication and become 100 percent healthy in just a few simple steps. In The End... more...
The China Study
BenBella Books, Inc. 2006; US$ 16.95Even today, as trendy diets and a weight-loss frenzy sweep the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, typically an ?adult? disease, at an alarming rate. If we?re obsessed with being thin more so than ever before, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago?... more...
Nutritionism
Allen & Unwin 2013; US$ 31.81Demystifies the popular obsession with 'good' versus 'bad' nutrients, showing how this is used by the food industry to promote processed foods with misleading health claims. Gyorgy Scrinis explores the origins of this reductive focus on nutrients, and how it can undermine our understanding of what is healthy and unhealthy food. more...
Pediatric Nutrition Handbook
Wiley 2013; US$ 48.99The last decade has seen an explosion of medical information in regards to the nutrition care and management of children. While nutritional therapies have expanded, the treatment choices have become increasingly complex. This exciting title addresses the extensive amount of information available to practitioners in a concise, accessible fashion via... more...
Conocimientos actuales sobre nutrición
Pan American Health Organization 2003; US$ 60.00Este libro totalmente renovada incluye temas de actualidad tales como el papel de la nutrición en la prevención de las enfermedades crónicas y las consecuencias de la sobrealimentación y el aporte de la genética y de la ciencia molecular, campos en los que todavía se debe seguir investigando. Expertos en nutrición, clínicos, personal de los servicios... more...
The Essential Herb-Drug-Vitamin Interaction Guide
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 19.95IF YOU DON?T KNOW THE POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF MIXING HERBS, DRUGS, AND VITAMINS, YOU?RE PUTTING YOURSELF AT RISK. Did you know that . . . Using echinacea to ward off a cold while you?re taking Tylenol can severely damage your liver? Mixing kava kava and alcohol can be toxic? If you?re diabetic and you take Panax ginseng, you can dangerously lower... more...
Healthy Development
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 34.99This paper spells out the vision of the World Bank on how to strenghten worldwide health systems and ensure better responses to key challenges such as combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic, repositioning nutrition on the development agenda, and renewing commitment on population policy. This strategy also entails stronger analytical and operational work in... more...
Nutritional Failure in Ecuador
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 14.99Malnutrition - especially, the stunting of children under five - is arguably Ecuador's biggest development challenge. Like other Andean countries (such as Peru and Bolivia), Ecuador has a persistently high stunting rate, well above what would be expected given its middle income status. Even more worrying, over the last decade, the trend reduction... more...
Metabolic Syndrome Pathophysiology
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010; US$ 189.95Metabolic Syndrome Pathophysiology: The Role of Essential Fatty Acids provides current research exploring the links among insulin, insulin receptors, polyunsaturated fatty acids, brain growth and disease. Specific interactions of essential fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids in brain development and several disease groups are described. The... more...









