Health & Fitness : Nutrition

Praise for Shrink Yourself. ''In Shrink Yourself, Dr. Gould offers a simple but profound truth: hunger originates in your mind, not your belly. This empowering book will allow you to lose weight by recognizing the psychological stumbling blocks in your life that contribute to your emotional eating. more...

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Introducing the new and improved Vitamin Bible by nutrition expert, Earl Mindell. Discover how to enhance your energy, put the zing back in your sex life and expand your life using this world-renowned guide to the correct use of vitamins, supplements and alternative therapies. In this updated edition, Earl Mindell explores the natural alternatives to Viagra, Prozac, and Valium, outlines healing activities for people suffering from arthritis and victims of strokes, and debunks dangerous and potentially life-threatening 'miracle cures'. Learn everything you ever needed to know about what you can do to live a longer, happier and healthier life. The Vitamin Bible of the 21st Century is one of the best selling popular medical books of all time and an essential addition to your personal medical library. more...

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Most people find it impossible to believe they can wake up feeling good, move through the day with energy, and then fall easily into a restful sleep. In this book, an experienced practitioner of holistic and alternative healing presents a simple, effective, four-week program to rid the body of the toxins that reduce vitality, sap energy, and endanger health. more...

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What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." These "edible foodlike substances" are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by "nutrients," and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan's sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food.". Writing In Defense of Food, and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we'll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach. In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us. In looking to more...

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With sales of more than 175,000 copies in previous editions, this friendly guide has proved itself an indispensable kitchen companion to families who want to eat balanced, nutritious meals that promote good health and help them achieve a healthy weight. more...

Price: $21.99