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Within the last few decades, several obesity-reducing low carbohydrate diets have come to the public's attention. What few realize is that these are all the grandchildren in thought to William Banting, an undertaker who, in 1864, wrote one short book that launched the first incredibly popular diet for obesity. Banting was immortalized by having his name enter the English language as a verb. Three examples include an Irishman, Captain Boycott, whose name entered the language in the 1860s.

Answering questions like "why are so many vegetables green?", "what's the difference between brown bread and white bread?", and "why do beans make you gassy?", cheerful haiku poems and a simple Q&A format make this book a nutritious treat. The information in this book aligns with both the USDA's MyPlate guidelines and the Harvard School of Public Health's Healthy Eating Plate guidelines.

Endometriosis isn’t just about having “painful periods”. It can be a complex, debilitating, and all-encompassing condition that impacts one’s mental health, relationships, and career. Endo affects one in 10 women and girls across the globe, but even after receiving a diagnosis, many are still left in the dark about their condition. In Know Your Endo, Jessica Murnane breaks through the misinformation and gives essential guidance, encouragement, and practical lifestyle tools to help those living with endo have more control and feel better in their bodies.

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 ‘expert’ advice we hear about diet, the less clarity we have about what to eat. In Food Intelligence, award-winning health journalist, Julia Belluz, and internationally renowned nutrition and metabolism scientist, Kevin Hall, cut through the myths about nutrition to deliver a comprehensive book on food, diet, metabolism and healthy eating.

Transform your eating habits with simplicity, balance, and science, and discover the power of clean eating to live with health, energy, and wellness every day. Clean eating is not a trend or a rigid diet, it is an invitation to choose natural, fresh, and nourishing foods that help you feel better every single day. This book offers a simple, realistic, and science-based approach to help you start changing your eating habits without feeling overwhelmed. Inside, you will find practical, effective, and manageable steps to improve your nutrition without giving up the joy of eating. You will ...

Yoga instructor, nutrition expert, and healthy-living blogger Elise Marie Collins has compiled a comprehensive look at what "Super Agers" are doing to live long and prosper. Learn about movement at any age, brain fitness and memory maintenance, foods, vitamin and mineral content cues and clues, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease and reverse symptoms of illness. In this revolutionary book, Collins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, telling us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span.

Everyone has that moment that makes her/him realize that CHANGE is necessary. I have learned the hard way. My uncle who passed away after suffering from diabetes for several years, and knowing my family history with this disease, were the major points in my life that made me reconsider the way I was living, eating, and taking care of my health and body.

A truly significant discovery, Walt Whitman’s Manly Health and Training is an entertaining health manifesto that sheds new light on one of America’s major nineteenth-century authors. In the fall of 1858, a thirteen-part essay series appeared in the New York Atlas, under the title Manly Health and Training. This nearly 47,000-word journalistic effort, written by Walt Whitman under his pen name “Mose Velsor,” was lost for more than 150 years, buried in just a handful of library archives, until its recent unexpected discovery.

Is it so crazy to think that there is one lifestyle choice or meal plan that has the potential to accomplish all of the above goals? Whatever you know about dieting, get ready to unlearn it. Get ready to learn about a system of restricted eating called 16/8 intermittent fasting!

Tired of always battling the afternoon slump? Feeling sluggish and low on physical or mental energy most days? It doesn’t have to be this way.

This book is all about the single most powerful move that humans can make to promote health, reduce obesity, lower the cost of health care, nurture our fragile environment, conserve our energy resources, feed the world’s steadily growing population, and greatly reduce the suffering of animals in factory farms all over the world. As Dr. T. Colin Campbell says, “It turns out that if we eat the way that promotes the best health for ourselves, we also promote the best health for the planet."

Hygiene prevents the spread of disease and saves countless lives. But in recent decades, rather than safeguarding us from illness, an obsession with ‘cleanliness’ seems to have been having the opposite effect. As we are now starting to realise, our overuse of soap, sanitisers and untested, misleading skin-care products is doing untold damage to our skin’s vital microbial layer, which influences everything from acne, eczema and dry skin to how we smell.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but the good news is that it can be prevented - and even reversed through lifestyle and nutrition changes. Stop and Heal Heart Disease: The Groundbreaking, Science-Backed, Nutrition-Focused Solution provides a comprehensive guide to taking control of your heart health with scientifically proven strategies. This life-changing book empowers you to not only prevent heart disease but also heal your heart, reduce risk factors, and live a longer, healthier life.

Tras haber estudiado a una población de más de 20,000 personas durante una década, el mayor estudio continuado hecho nunca sobre salud pública en España, el Dr. Martínez-González presenta en un lenguaje claro y ameno lo que la medicina sabe hoy en día sobre algunos de los problemas que más preocupan a los ciudadanos: el control de peso, la dieta ideal, el colesterol, la actividad física, la tensión arterial, los controles de salud, el consumo de alcohol, la adicción al tabaco, el estrés y hasta la felicidad.

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.

In The Book on Heat, Brad Pilon offers new hope to those struggling with their health, weight loss, and disease prevention. This is a guide to the exciting effects that heat can have on the human body, and is a helpful resource for both the avid health enthusiast looking to improve their health and people who cannot exercise due to injuries or other issues. The Book on Heat covers 70-plus years of research on the effects of temperature on the human body. In a clear and easy-to-understand manner, Brad shares his insights from over two decades working as a researcher.

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.

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!

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 years we've been told that coffee was bad for our health. But new research reveals that, consumed properly, coffee can be the healthiest, tastiest part of your day. In this revolutionary handbook, Dr. Bob Arnot explains how coffee became a staple of the human diet and reveals why having a cup is one of the best things to do each day. He also teaches you how to find the best beans from around the world and how to create the best brew and food pairings.