Medical Nutrition

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution has helped millions lose weight and get healthy. Now the world's #1 diet and complementary medicine expert has updated his proven program for a new century, offering essential new information based on scientifically supported controlled carbohydrate principles.

Ultimate Nourishment: Nutrition + Emotions = Bliss Ultimate Nourishment is more than just a book—it's a life-changing journey toward holistic health. This comprehensive guide seamlessly blends nutrition and emotional healing to help you reclaim your health naturally. Whether you're a seasoned health enthusiast or just starting your wellness journey, this book offers something for everyone. Learn how to grow your own organic food, release trapped emotions, and embrace the power of mindfulness to transform your life from the inside out. Inside Ultimate Nourishment, you'll discover: Step-by-...

The New York Times best-selling author of The Beck Diet Solution teams up with her daughter and colleague at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior to teach listeners how to think their way thin, offering practical, proven tools for escaping common diet traps for good.

The modern American public has been caught in the middle of a battle over the sun. The smiling yellow orb that we knew and loved as children had become vilified as a cancer causing, wrinkle inducing, fiend in the public imagination. The story behind this transformation-the paradigm shift in public opinion is as interesting as any that can be told. By trying to save our skins, we may have lost our health by depleting our bodies of vitamin D-creating a man-made epidemic of a myriad number of diseases? Is there a way to fix this? Could something as simple as sitting out in the sun for a few ...

In The Diet Fix, Dr. Freedhoff offers a tested program for breaking down the negative thought patterns that prevent people from losing weight and keeping it off. Through the course of years of research and patient treatment, he has developed a 10-Day Reset that supports losing weight while maintaining a healthy, enjoyable lifestyle. This reset is designed to eliminate the habits that so often lead to weight gain: Use it to shut down cravings, prevent indulgences from turning into binges, and break up with the scale once and for all.

“Stress causes disease. Redox imbalance is why.” From that seven-word thesis, “One Disease: Redox Imbalance” builds the provocative case that stress-driven imbalance in the body’s oxidation/reduction (redox) systems, is central to the onset and progression of chronic diseases ranging from aging to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental illness and more. Author Michael Sherer has synthesized research drawn from over 250,000 articles on Pubmed, a repository of global medical research, to explain what redox imbalance is, why you and even your doctor are likely unaware of it, and to ...

The DASH diet isn't just for healthy living anymore-now it's for healthy weight loss, too. Using the key elements of the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet and proven, never-before-published NIH research, bestselling author, foremost DASH dietitian and leading nutrition expert Marla Heller has created the most effective diet for quick-and lasting-weight loss. Based on the diet rated the #1 Best Overall Diet by Us News & World Report, this effective and easy program includes menu plans, recipes, shopping lists, and more.

Today, interest in dietary collagen is growing at an astounding rate, and with good reason. The benefits of a collagen-rich diet are remarkable, ranging from better weight control to enhanced digestion, clearer skin, reduced inflammation, and improved immune function. Dietary collagen provides a unique blend of amino acids and other compounds, making it critical for everyone, including infants, young children, the elderly, athletes, pregnant women, new mothers, and adult men and women.

In The End of Dieting, Joel Fuhrman M.D., a board–certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods, and #1 New York Times best-selling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity and The End of Diabetes, delivers a powerful paradigm-shifting book that shows us how and why we never need to diet again.

Nine million Americans are touched by aneurysms during their lifetimes. This is one story of love. Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of the author's harrowing experience of an aneurysm and his road to recovery. It is a journey of love and devotion and a clash of medical beliefs and countercultures.

Two-thirds of us will die between the ages of fifty and seventy. Keep reading if you don’t want to become a statistic… Several years ago, Dr. Jason Bradley found himself 100+ pounds overweight, with bags under his eyes, a surprising amount of hair loss, and more exhaustion than he ever dreamt possible. Busy with an integrated medical center, he was seeing countless patients, making use of just about every modality you could imagine, from general to functional medicine (and everything in between). He loved the work, his colleagues, and his patients. Still, he found himself working longer...

The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a vital physiological system that protects against the development of numerous diseases. This book outlines components of the ECS, how the system interacts with different diseases, and most importantly, how anyone can enhance their ECS to improve health. There are dozens of natural interventions that can be used to optimize the ECS, all backed up by peer-reviewed research in medical journals. Approaches include consuming the right foods, taking specific supplements, and engaging in healthy movement practices. A stronger ECS may reduce the risk of some ...

Number one international best-selling diet book coming to North America. Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like. Originally published in 2000, The Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by people who successfully lost weight following its unique four phase regime.

With over 330 scientific references, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the medical use of anabolic steroids, growth hormone, supplementation, optimal nutrition, and exercise to prevent and treat the loss of lean body mass and body alterations experienced by people with HIV. The authors effectively detail how to use nutrition, anabolic hormones, nutritional supplements, and exercise in combination to improve lean body, quality of life mass and overall health in HIV. The book also reviews therapies for body changes related to lipodystrophy and facial wasting in HIV. This book is a ...

This fully revised and updated edition of The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up includes the latest science on the surprising connections between your gut and your heart as well as tons of new information on reducing cardiovascular risk factors like obesity, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and chronic inflammation through diet and exercise, it will help you get healthy - and stay healthy - for life.

What if diet could regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging? That is just what Dr Michael Greger, founder of NutritionFacts.org, found when he dove into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research. It turns out we don’t need Big Pharma to keep us feeling young – we already have the tools. In How Not to Age, the internationally renowned physician and nutritionist breaks down the science of aging and chronic illness and explains how to help avoid the diseases most commonly encountered in our journeys through life.

In this riveting book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta - neurosurgeon, chief medical correspondent for CNN, and best-selling author- chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible. A bold new breed of doctors has achieved amazing rescues by refusing to accept that any life is irretrievably lost. Extended cardiac arrest, "brain death," not breathing for over an hour-all these conditions used to be considered inevitably fatal, but they no longer are.

Completely revised and expanded in 2016. Based on the award-winning Bloodsugar101.com web site, this book explains what peer-reviewed research published in top medical journals has to say about: What is a normal blood sugar? How does diabetes develop? What really causes diabetes? What blood sugar levels cause complications? Must you deteriorate? What diet is right for you? How can you make that diet work? What medications are safe? What supplements lower blood sugar? This book provides all the tools needed to understand how blood sugar works and achieve blood sugar health.

New York Times best-selling author and DASH Diet specialist Marla Heller reveals groundbreaking research to help prevent and even halt signs aging through a combination of DASH-approved superfoods and strategies designed to target aging. The most trusted brand in diets - the DASH diet - has helped millions of people lower blood pressure, lose weight, and improve their health. Now, in this groundbreaking new program, it can help you look and feel 20 years younger!

The Diet-Free Revolution debunks the myths we've been sold about food, nutrition, health, and weight loss and offers an antidote to the pain and suffering caused by yo-yo diets, untenable food regimens, and quick fixes. Clinical psychologist and eating-disorder specialist Alexis Conason shows that finding health, happiness, and real nourishment is about more than changing what, how, or when we eat: It's about radically shifting our relationship with food by healing our relationship to ourselves.