Aging Nutrition Diets

Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion—most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become.

What if the ability to look, feel, and perform at peak capacity wasn’t the stuff of lore but instead was within easy reach? In Boundless, the New York Times best-selling author of Beyond Training and health and fitness leader Ben Greenfield offers a first-of-its-kind blueprint for total human optimization. Boundless guides you every step of the way to becoming an expert in what makes your brain tick, your body work, and your spirit happy.

PROBLEM: More than half of adults are diagnosed with at least one chronic disease—diabetes, cancer, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, even depression. Modern eating habits overload our biology with foods for which we are not genetically prepared. AGITATION: Recent studies show that ultra-processed diets disrupt insulin sensitivity, gut microbiota and hormone balance in fewer than 30 days, setting the stage for weight gain, fatigue and premature aging. SOLUTION: Evolutionary Nutrition reconnects you with ancestral eating patterns and translates cutting-edge science into a practical ...

PROBLEM: Six in ten adults now live with at least one chronic disease, and poor diet can accelerate your biological age by up to seven years. Genes matter— but what you do with them matters even more. AGITATION: Cutting-edge studies (2023-2025) show that everyday choices switch on or silence more than 20 000 genes linked to longevity, immunity and metabolism. When the wrong nutrients disrupt your methylation cycle, harmful homocysteine rises, health declines and aging speeds up. SOLUTION: In Epigenetic Nutrition, clinical nutritionist Curro Clavero reveals science-backed protocols to ...

Are you sick and tired of struggling through regimented diets that work for a minute and then become unsustainable? It’s time to embrace a simple, scientifically validated plan that transcends gimmicks and avoids the stress of regimented macros and mealtimes. Health and fitness expert Mark Sisson presents a comprehensive lifestyle approach based on the principles of intermittent fasting. He’ll teach you how to gracefully burn body fat while keeping your energy, focus, and positive attitude.

Eat for Life is the first book to showcase Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s Nutritarian Diet in full - the most practical, balanced, and focused way to eat, lose weight, and live longer. Emphasizing high-nutrient, whole plant foods that supply abundant amounts of micronutrients, it can broken down into a simple equation: H = N/C. Or, Health = Nutrient intake per Calorie consumed.

A Race for Life provides the listener with detailed information on the how and why a whole food, plant-based vegan diet works to dramatically lower the risk of breast cancer. Through her remarkable life journey, Dr. Ruth shares how practicing a healthy diet and lifestyle will give your body its best chance to reverse and prevent a recurrence of cancer and many other diseases.

Are you struggling with stubborn belly fat, fluctuating energy levels, or frustrating brain fog? Do hormonal changes make weight management feel impossible? You’re not alone—women over 40 face unique challenges that generic diet plans fail to address. Luckily, there’s a simple, science-backed solution just for you. Intermittent Fasting for Women Over 40 is designed to help you work with your body’s natural rhythms, so you can lose weight, boost energy, and feel amazing—without restrictive dieting.

Nutritional Wisdom: A Senior's Handbook to Today's Top Diets Are you curious about the latest diets but unsure which one is right for you? Nutritional Wisdom is your go-to guide for understanding and navigating today’s most talked-about diets, tailored specifically for readers over 50 who want to enhance their health, vitality, and longevity. This engaging and insightful book cuts through the noise of diet fads, offering a clear and balanced exploration of popular eating plans like keto, paleo, vegan, Mediterranean, low-carb, intermittent fasting, and more. Each chapter dives deep into ...

How to lose fat, gain muscle, and stay in shape without wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym even if you’ve never touched weights before. Regardless of your age or sex, you can build muscle and functional strength while optimizing your health without having to waste your time or money on the gym membership, expensive trainers, and magic supplements. Whether you are just getting started or have been training your entire life, Strength Training over 40 has you covered.

Did you feel your age suddenly creep up on you once you hit the big 5-0...and now you’re wondering if you can do anything to keep health issues at bay? One minute, you’re going about your day like you always do, and the next...the floor seems a little farther away than it used to be, and that pen you dropped is a bit harder to pick up. You’re feeling random aches and pains all over, and you’re tired all the time, but you can’t sleep.

In recent years the field of aging research has exploded with new clinical findings. Many widely accepted ideas about aging—including those about the inevitability of our declining metabolism, our dying brain cells, and our deteriorating muscles and bones—have been debunked. Today we know that the physical signs of aging are far more a product of lifestyle choices than of calendar years. Aging Backwards offers an exciting and comprehensive plan for actively slowing down and even reversing the aging process through gentle exercise that develops strong, flexible muscles.

Could your breakfast or lunch be harming your memory? Are you missing out on the foods that could prevent Alzheimer's disease? Everyone knows good nutrition supports your overall health, but few realize that certain foods-power foods-can protect your brain and optimize its function, and even dramatically reduce your risk of Alzheimer's Disease. Now, New York Times best-selling author, clinical researcher, and health advocate Dr. Neal Barnard has gathered the most up-to-date research and created a groundbreaking program that can strengthen your memory and protect your brain.

Several factors play in to whether you will suffer from cognitive decline and develop Alzheimer's disease - lifestyle, health conditions, environment, and genetics, for example. But now there is scientific evidence indicating that diet plays a bigger role in brain health than we ever thought before. In Diet for the MIND, one of the leaders in this research provides an easy, noninvasive, and effective way to prevent cognitive decline and reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease through diet and lifestyle.

The New York Times best-selling author of Clean offers a groundbreaking program to eliminate minor and major health problems - from extra weight, chronic pain, and allergies to heart disease, inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and depression. All of today's most diagnosed ailments can be traced back to an injured and irritated gut. The gut is an intricate and powerful system naturally designed to protect and heal the body every moment of every day.

Unlock the Secrets to Vibrant Health and Wellness with "Nourish to Flourish" Are you a middle-aged woman feeling the effects of hormonal changes, slowing metabolism, and the challenges of maintaining a healthy weight? You're not alone. Many women in their middle years struggle to find the right balance of nutrients and lifestyle choices to feel their best. Discover how "Nourish to Flourish: The Ultimate Nutrition Guide for Vibrant Middle Aged Women" can transform your health and well-being. Understand your body's unique nutritional needs during menopause and how to tailor your diet for ...

Building upon this critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Taubes now revisits the urgent question of what's making us fat - and how we can change - in this exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes' crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience.

Author Shahroo Izadi presents a new approach to losing weight - without ever telling you what or how to eat. In The Last Diet., she shares how the same evidence-based tools she used effectively with her clients who struggle with addiction helped her to lose over 100 pounds, increase her self-esteem, and transform her habits around food and negative self-talk. Diets often offer quick, short-term fixes and so-called miracle cures, but the real challenge is managing weight and changing habits over a sustained period of time.

When diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, doctors typically tell their patients to start eating healthy. But what does that mean? If figuring out what to eat seems like taking a test, here's the solution, the American Diabetes Association book, What Do I Eat Now?. In clear, concise, and down-to-earth language that takes the mystery out of confusing nutrition recommendations, this indispensable guide can help listeners make lasting changes in as little as a month. In only four weeks, listeners can eat better, improve their diabetes management, and live a healthier lifestyle.

At the verge of turning 40, Peter Sagal - brainiac Harvard grad, short, bald Jew with a disposition toward heft, and a sedentary star of public radio - started running seriously. And much to his own surprise, he kept going, faster and further, running 14 marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, paths, and trails all over the US and the world, including the 2013 Boston Marathon, where he crossed the finish line moments before the bombings.