Diet Science

Did you know that walking can improve your cognitive skills? That strengthening your muscular core reduces anxiety? That light stretching can combat a whole host of mental and bodily ailments, from stress to inflammation? We all know that exercise changes the way you think and feel. But scientists are just starting to discover exactly how it works. In Move!, Caroline Williams explores the emerging science of how movement opens up a hotline to our minds. Interviewing researchers and practitioners around the world, she reveals how you can work your body to improve your mind.

Step onto the sun-kissed shores of vibrant health and sublime taste with "Meal Prep Mastery." This compendium is your ultimate guide to mastering the art of meal prepping while embracing the rejuvenating principles of the South Beach Diet. Dive into an ocean of flavors and learn how to navigate the beachfront of well-being with ease. From understanding the foundational phases of the South Beach Diet to stocking your pantry with wholesome goodness, this book sets the stage for a transformative culinary journey. Explore the secrets of crafting balanced meal plans that resonate with your goals...

Our food choices have much more of an impact than most people imagine. They not only affect our personal health and the environment, but are also tied to issues of justice, misogyny, national security, and human rights. Protest Kitchen is the first audiobook to explore the ways in which a more plant-based diet challenges regressive politics and fuels the resistance.

Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In this ambitious and original work, Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations.

Overwhelming evidence indicates plant-based eating is the healthy way forward, both for people and the planet. But there are a wealth of misconceptions and unanswered questions that need to be addressed. Leading nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert is here to equip you with everything you need to know about plant-based diets, separating fact from fiction, to help you and your family optimise healthy nutrition and avoid any of the pitfalls around going plant-based. This is simple, flexible, and scientifically rigorous advice.

Este no es un libro de dietas. Es un libro de divulgación sobre obesidad y nutrición que le ayudará a adelgazar y a ser su propio nutricionista. No encontrará obviedades y consejos inútiles como "para adelgazar lo que hay que hacer es comer menos y hacer más ejercicio", conocerá los últimos descubrimientos e investigaciones científicas que le darán las claves para combatir el sobrepeso y cuidar su salud.

Instead of cycling on your treadmill for several hours every day, all you need to do is copy a diet our ancestors used thousands of years ago to heal themselves. Fasting allows the body to not only shed weight, but also to reverse major diseases such as diabetes type 2. There is a little-known, yet revolutionary scientific process called autophagy that is the most natural solution to weight loss, anti-aging, and longevity. Our Greek ancestors discovered and swore by this self-regulation mechanism of the cell and soon you will, too.

This volume is the second of a series, the first of which is The Science of Getting Rich. As that book is intended solely for those who want money, so this is for those who want health, and who want a practical guide and handbook, not a philosophical treatise.

Understand the metabolic basis for the ketogenic diet, and the metabolic consequences for not losing weight. And learn about the common maintenance diet to keep you from just going back to where you started.

Want to know how 80% of muscle building can be achieved through only 20% effort? Then you want to listen to this audiobook! It shows you how much easier and less time-consuming your workout and dieting routine can be if you simply focus on a few critical exercises and diet strategies. The value of the 80/20 Rule is to focus on the 20% in bodybuilding that really matters. Once you have identified these critical factors, you can expect faster than usual muscle growth and fat loss, with just a few important exercises and a handful of simple diet strategies.

Here’s the number one reason to start using plant-based medicines. Did you know that over 40 percent of plants contain key ingredients that can be used for the development of medicines? Hundreds of studies document the effectiveness of plant extracts for the treatment of ailments ranging from colds to heart disease. Plant-based medicines are often as potent as synthetic pharmaceutical products (and even more so). Benefits of Plant Based Medicine is the resource you are looking for!

Brantz Myers has been monitoring the research and journaling the connections between nutrition and health for over 30 years while working in the health informatics sector. He has actively tracked the science and evidence-based research on the molecular interactions between nutrients and our bodies as well as physical and mental exercises that can positively impact our health and wellness.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed and powerless after watching the news? Does it make you feel sad about the world, without much hope for its future? Take a breath. The world is not as bad as the headlines would have you believe! In You Are What You Read, campaigner and researcher Jodie Jackson helps us understand how our current 24-hour news cycle is produced, who decides what stories are selected, why the news is mostly negative, and what effect this has on us, as individuals and as a society.

For over 3,000 years, practitioners of Chinese medicine have known that food is health-giving. Now, path-breaking nutritionist Linda Prout synthesizes the basic principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with the science of Western nutrition. With a clear focus to help listeners achieve balance, Prout introduces the concept of balance and describes the signs and symptoms of various patterns of imbalance from a TCM perspective.

New science has revealed low-level, smoldering inflammation, simmering quietly and undetected, behind everything from heart disease and cancer to mysterious autoimmune conditions. Hidden inflammation even weakens our immunity and increases the likelihood that our immune system will mount an overwhelming, inappropriate attack against infections. In this story of scientific discovery by a doctor at the forefront of this field, A Silent Fire brings together the science of immunology, nutrition and the microbiome to explain what we know of this elusive phenomenon.

How is it that a baboon and a blob of slime mould instinctively know what to eat for optimal health, balancing their protein, fat and carb intake in perfect proportions? In new, groundbreaking research that is transforming our understanding of nutrition, animals from locusts to lions and yes, humans too, demonstrate the remarkable science behind appetite.

Wallace D. Wattles was an American author and a pioneer in the New Thought Movement. His most famous book is The Science of Getting Rich, which continues to be immensely popular today. The Science of Being Well is a follow-up to that book. Wattles approach to health is basically the same is his approach to prosperity. He suggests that the reader think and act in a "Certain Way," which he explains, and that thinking and acting in that way, along with a positive approach will "make it so." Wallace explains his fairly simple keys to getting well and suggests that with faith and discipline one can stay well once health has been achieved. To quote the author, this book is, “For those who want health, and who want a practical guide and handbook, not a philosophical treatise. It is an instructor in the use of the universal Principle of Life, and my effort has been to explain the way in so plain and simple a fashion that the reader, though he may have given no previous study to New Thought or metaphysics, may readily follow it to perfect health.”

Preventable diseases are skyrocketing. One in three Americans is prediabetic. Even our brains are changing. HUNGER HIJACK is a blunt, pull-no-punches book by physician, author, and journalist Dr. David Sherer. In it, he reveals the evidence linking our diets and our ever-worsening health

Discover how to lose weight, burn belly fat, and be healthier in life. This intermittent fasting guide has been beneficial to many others and improves the brain, heart, and cells of your body. Also included in the book are diet ideas, so you know what you can eat or cannot. Intermittent fasting for weight loss is one of the best weight-loss methods you can ever adopt for quick results.

What to do to live long? From fountain-searching Ponce de Leon to pill-popping Silicon Valley techies humanity has been trying to pinpoint the answer for centuries, often fixating on all the wrong things: miracle diets, miracle foods, miracle supplements. We skip gluten and invest in exercise gadgets. We swallow vitamins. We obsess about BMI. While healthy nutrition and physical activity are indeed important for health, there are things we all too often sacrifice in favour of fad diets that have an outsize impact on our centenarian potential.