Healthy Eating Science

A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today's specially bred, commercially produced birds. In this brief book, bestselling author Peter Singer tells their story—and, unfortunately, it's not a happy one. Along the way, he also offers a brief history of the turkey and its consumption, ridicules the annual US presidential "pardon" of a Thanksgiving turkey, and introduces us to "a tremendously handsome, outgoing, and intelligent turkey" named Cornelius. Above all, Singer explains how we can improve our holiday tables.

Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity. She believes the fearsome subjects of food, diet, and body image are "radioactive" in America, and getting worse. On Morning Joe, she is often so adamant about improving America’s eating habits that some people have dubbed her "the food Nazi". What they don’t know is that Mika wages a personal fight against food every day, and in Obsessed, she describes her history of food obsession, distorted body image, and her struggle to be thin. She believes it is time we stop blaming and shaming ourselves and look at the real culprits - the food we eat and our addiction to it.

Una guía práctica que le enseñará a perder peso para toda la vida. Conozca todos los factores que influyen en la pérdida de peso y cómo controlarlos para siempre.

This book has been specifically created to help individuals suffering from Hashimoto's thyroiditis and its associated symptoms. It aims to provide resourceful information that can finally give you the relief that you've been looking for all this time. Apart from prescription and nonprescription medications, the author also proposes natural remedies for Hashimoto's, introducing listeners to prevention methods, risk factors that can lead to the condition, plus foods that aggravate thyroiditis.

What if everything you needed to heal, thrive, and feel human again wasn’t in a pill, but in your biology—just waiting to be remembered? The Biological Necessities Our Body Needs isn’t a feel-good wellness guide. It’s a straight-up blueprint for survival in a world that’s trained you to forget what your body actually needs to function. No fluff. No filler. Just raw, essential truths about water, air, food, movement, sleep, light, stillness, and more.

Vystopia is the normal response any feeling human being should have after discovering the nature and extent of society’s systematized animal abuse. It’s fueled by the trancelike collusion of non-vegans with a dystopian world they’ve not yet realized they’re part of. Best-selling author Clare Mann, a vegan psychologist, communications trainer, and existential psychotherapist, not only validates the vegan’s experience but rejects medical labels that claim such anguish is abnormal.

Dr Emma Beckett has spent more than 15 years studying food and how it interacts with our bodies. In this fun, informative audiobook, she takes her extensive research qualifications and experience and applies them to our everyday lives in her sassy and straightforward style. She shows us how and why food choices, eating and biology are not as simple as diet culture suggests.

The Cholesterol Conspiracy, second edition, by Ladd McNamara, MD, provides well over 200 medical references documenting a major underlying factor in the development of heart disease and atherosclerosis, oxidation, and inflammation. Many people are prescribed statin drugs to lower their cholesterol, and these drugs certainly lower LDL cholesterol, but at what cost, and to what benefit?

Want to lose weight naturally and permanently? Ditch quick-fixes like pharmaceuticals, surgeries, and calorie restriction! Take your health into your own hands by focusing on your overall body composition, microbiome, and the restoration of ancestral foods with this cutting-edge new book from the bestselling author of Wheat Belly and Super Gut.

Food ought to be enjoyed and shared, but for many, choosing what to eat has become confusing and stressful. By telling the story and science of food and diets, Fed Up engagingly empowers listeners with the information and concepts they need to make their own choices.

The DNA Restart, by world-renowned neurogeneticist and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Sharon Moalem, walks you through revolutionary steps to a diet and lifestyle perfect for your individual genetic makeup. The DNA Restart plan utilizes decades of in-depth scientific research into genetics, epigenetics, nutrition, and longevity to explain the pivotal role genes play in the journey to ideal weight and health status.

Meet Dr Emily Leeming, a leading microbiome scientist, registered dietitian, chef – and now your expert guide on how to feed your second brain to transform your health and mood from the inside out. Genius Gut digests the latest microbiome science on our second brain – the gut – and dives into the powerful two-way path between our physical and mental wellbeing, revolutionising what smart nutrition means. In a pioneering 10-step no fuss gut-brain method, you will learn how and what to eat to feel your absolute best.

Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out - but do we truly believe it? And, caught between the seemingly unimaginable and the apparently unthinkable, how can we take the first step towards action, to arrest our race to extinction? We can begin with our knife and fork. The link between farming animals and the climate crisis is barely discussed, because giving up our meat-based diets feels like an impossible ask. But we don't have to go cold turkey.

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.

⚡Unlock Your Energy: Transform Your Health with ‘The Good Energy & Metabolic Meals’. Inspired by Dr. Casey Means's innovative work in metabolic health, this guide offers a practical roadmap to transform your well-being through the power of food. What Makes This Book Unique? 🌟 Personal & Practical Perspective: Embark on a life-changing journey with recipes that heal, inspired by personal triumph over chronic illness. The author’s personal experiences and actionable strategies to boost energy, combat chronic fatigue, and manage health through nutrition will resonate with you, ...

For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting. Now, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz translate this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. Through their signature entertaining style, Drs. Roizen and Oz teach you about your body -- how and why it stores calories, burns fat, and reacts to the foods you test your body with.

Blending history, reporting, and a deep understanding of farming and food production, Foodopoly is a shocking, revealing account of the business behind the meat, vegetables, grains, and milk most Americans eat every day, including some of our favorite and most respected organic and health-conscious brands. Hauter also pulls the curtain back from the little-understood but vital realm of agricultural policy, showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists.

Em Farrell is a psychotherapist with many years of experience working with eating disorders. She originally set up a center for women with eating problems in London and used CBT and massage to help them. This book takes you deep into the troubled mind and body of an anorexic. It explains why anorexia occurs, what it does to the mind and body of the sufferer and how they can recover. It will benefit parents, friends, partners of anorexics and sufferers themselves, if they want to change.

Por anos sobrestimamos o poder do corpo humano de restaurar a nossa saúde. O médico pioneiro Dr. William Li tem mostrado os estudos que comprovam como mais de duzentas comidas são capazes de reduzir o risco de demência, retardar o crescimento do câncer e vencer outras tantas doenças. E o melhor: o foco deste livro não é sobre as comidas para evitar, mas servir como um guia inovador sobre os alimentos que devem ser consumidos para melhorar a saúde, como ameixas, canela, chá de jasmim, vinho tinto e cerveja, tomates italianos, azeite de oliva, ostras, queijos, pão de fermentação natural e café.

Nutrition isn’t rocket science; it’s harder. There are new diet fads, bold claims about superfoods and articles promising the secrets to lasting weight-loss and longevity. The more advice we hear about diet, the less clarity we have about what to eat. In Food Intelligence, award-winning health journalist, Julia Belluz, and leading nutritional scientist, Kevin Hall, cut through the myths about nutrition to deliver the definitive book on food, diet, metabolism and healthy eating.