Food and Wine : Health & Healing

Hallelujah! Here is a diet that will dramatically change your life-from the inside, out. Based on a biblical foundation and years of research, statistics, and powerful testimonials-including the author's own dramatic story-George Malkmus' The Hallelujah Diet has caused people from all walks of life to stop and reconsider their daily food consumption habits. You will experience new hope for your health as you discover: . The Biblical foundation of the diet and the power of God's living foods. . The role modern medicine plays in our society. . more...

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The Atkins diet meets The South Beach Diet . . . dieting secrets of the rich, famous-and thin!Atkins results. Hamptons style. As the former medical director of the Atkins Center and a frequent guest on radio and television, Dr. Fred Pescatore is one of today's most highly visible low-carb diet doctors. And his visibility is sure to increase now that he is taking over the customer base of the Atkins Center, following Dr. Atkins's untimely death in early 2003. Building on the low-carb, Mediterranean-style diet plan he pioneered in Thin For Good, Dr. Pescatore now presents The Hamptons Diet, a program that introduces a secret ingredient-macadamia nut oil, the most monounsaturated oil on the planet-among other delicious components. Complete with 30-day meal plans featuring more than 100 mouthwatering recipes from celebrity chefs and just in time for the summer beach season, The Hamptons Diet is 2004's exciting new low-carb diet book-a deliciously satisfying, medically sound weight-loss program that can help anyone slim down and feel like the rich, famous, and thin.Fred Pescatore, MD (New York, NY, East Hampton, NY, and Dallas, T-X), is the head of the Centers for Integrative and Complementary Medicine and the author of Thin For Good (0-471-41012-8). more...

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According to USA Weekend, over a quarter of the adults in the U.S. have tried a low-carb diet. Many people have enjoyed lasting success. Others have felt mystified or deprived and given up! Whether you're a first-timer or a "try, try-againer," this book helps you get with the low-carb program and stick with it! Healthy Carb Cookbook For Dummies gives you loads of nutritional information plus more than 100 sumptuous low-carb recipes like Crunchy Brunch Oatmeal Pecan Waffles, Caribbean Chicken, Chile Spiced Broccoli, and Lemon Torte with Raspberries. Author Jan McCracken, a health advocate and low-carber for more than ten years, has written two low-carb cookbooks and is a contributor to numerous low-carb publications. Having fallen off the low-carb wagon several times herself, she alerts you to things that can sabotage your success and clues you in on carb counting and techniques that have worked for her. more...

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Women of all ages - daughters, mothers, and grandmothers - will be surprised to learn how what they eat affects so many aspects of their health. This guide explains how the right foods can ease menstrual and menopausal symptoms, strengthen bones, encourage weight loss, protect the heart, and even help prevent certain cancers. It includes 100 delectable recipes that make healthy eating simple for women and their families. more...

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''Part Joan Rivers, part Mahatma Gandhi, Jessica Porter makes macrobiotics meaningful, hilarious, and totally life-changing.''. Simon Doonan, creative director, Barneys New York and author of Wacky Chicks. Heralded by New York magazine as one of the city’s most popular diets, macrobiotics has become the latest trend in dieting, thanks to high-profile supporters like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. Speaking to the generation of young women looking to extend their healthy lifestyles beyond yoga and Pilates, macrobiotic chef and instructor Jessica Porter offers fresh, contemporary, and accessible insight into one of the world’s most popular diets that is based on century’s old principles. She explains that through the right balance of food, women can find balance in every aspect of their lives—improved health, weight loss, or fulfilling relationships. The effects of eating a macrobiotic diet can extend beyond basic health to weight loss, beauty, better sex, and peace of mind. Cooking tips and recipes are combined with Jessica’s no-nonsense philosophy and witty anecdotes to create a lifestyle book that will inspire women to hit the kitchen with an understanding of how to strengthen their mind and body through food. more...

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