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"Buettner [proposes that you may] transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as 'Blue Zones'--those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people: [Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California; and Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica]"-- Amazon.com.
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"Gwynne Davies is now retired, but was a Clinical Ecologist practitioner for over 30 years. This book is not hypothesis - it is based on those years of treating ten to twelve patients daily, and on the day he retired he had a four month waiting list. If you care about your health and are willing to do something about it, other than popping a pill, then this book is for you. Gwynne has consulted, written and broadcast on radio and TV on the treatment...
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Eat Naked with Margaret Floyd for a Sexier You
•Are you fed up with counting calories?
•Confused by all the diet hype?
•Want to eat delicious, real food and look and feel great?
Leading nutritional therapist Margaret Floyd's Eat Naked will help you strip away the overprocessed, overpackaged, and overdressed junk food from your diet. It's time to enjoy "naked" foods-whole foods that are fresh, organically grown, and prepared in...
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"Answering a multitude of questions-such as What should a parent do with a child who wants to snack continuously? How should parents deal with a young teen who has declared herself a vegetarian and refuses to eat any type of meat? Or What can parents do with a child who claims he doesn't like what's been prepared, only to turn around and eat it at his friend's house?-this guide explores the relationship between parents, children, and food in a warm,...
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"Approaching its topic with humor, style, and a critical eye, this unique guidebook enables parents to provide a healthy and diverse diet for their children. Instead of providing yet another guide to kids' nutrition, a medical discussion, a treatise on the perils of obesity, or a parenting primer on good table manners, this study demonstrates that children need to be taught how to eat well just as they are taught to walk. With detailed guidance from...
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"This rousing call to action for healthy, conscious eating is an inspirational primer for those who want to move beyond packaged and processed food toward a more responsible and sustainable way of eating. Many people are learning about the political ramifications of what they eat, but don't know how to change their habits or expand their kitchen repertoire to include meatless dishes. This compendium offers a straightforward overview of the political...
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"Based on the most current nutritional information, this concise guide offers new mothers a focused introduction to feeding babies healthy, nutritious foods during their first 12 months of life. With whimsical illustrations and clever recipe names-such as "Cereal Symphony" and "Adam's Eggless Bananawama Muffins"-this handbook even introduces the concept of becoming the executive chef for any parent's new 24-hour home bistro. Filled with colorful asides...
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Dr. Wright unfolds her Guide to Thrive by preparing readers for six remarkable months of body, brains, and bliss transformation, using her framework of the four practical steps. As a scientist and physician, Dr. Wright backs up each step with the latest science about the vital connections between the physical body, the mind, and emotional health and equips readers to move, eat, think, and feel in order to thrive. Additionally, readers are invited...
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" 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not 'real.'...
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"Bypassing the traditional belief that the nutritional element is only important around the time of athletic competition, this "new school" approach highlights the benefits that a year-round, periodized nutrition plan can bring. A variety of training cycles are outlined, accompanied by specific physiological goals such as increasing endurance, speed, strength, and power and improving technique, tactics, and economy. Covering every sport from football...
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"If you've been diagnosed with prediabetes, you are by no means alone. 79 million Americans share this diagnosis, and the numbers only seem to be rising. And while we've all heard that a healthy diet and exercise can help reverse this disorder, there may be other factors at play in your prediabetes-namely, toxins. Numerous studies have shown that there is a direct link between toxins in our food and type 2 diabetes. In The Prediabetes Detox, primary...
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Headhunters is the story of five friends. Carter USM is a live wire who lives on the edge and tries not to think too much. Mango can't stop thinking, has made money but is weighed down by family tragedy. Harry is a beer-lover and dreamer. Balti is his drinking partner, out of work, and hoping for a fresh start. While Will is the quiet romantic, a voice of reason as the lives of the others become increasingly chaotic and veer towards disaster.
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16) My Green Lunch
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Updated for 2020, young readers will discover that it's easy to pack a lunch that is eco-friendly and yummy, too!
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"Children love learning about special days and celebrating them with arts and crafts. Skipping the typical green shamrocks, orange paper pumpkins, and red doily hearts, Kids Celebrate! lists 100 days to remember with 200 related activities for children and grown-ups. There's a Hansel and Gretel walk for Jakob Grimm's birthday, a Mexican fiesta for Cinco de Mayo, and a first aid kit to make in honor of Clara Barton's Birthday. The significance of each...
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From the bestselling author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" comes this collection of simple, sensible, and easy to use rules--the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food he or she eats. (Consumer Health).
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"Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculture-causing the devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoil-and asserts that, in order to save the planet, food must come from within living communities. In order for this to happen, the argument champions eating locally and sustainably and...
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In this controversial new book, dedicated veterinarian Elizabeth M. Hodgkins, D.V.M., Esq. raises the alarm regarding the dry food we feed our cats and the nutritional diseases that result. Your Cat: Simple New Secrets to a Longer, Stronger Life turns today's conventional wisdom of cat care on its head with completely new, yet remarkably easy-to-follow guidelines for every cat owner.
From kitten-rearing to the adult cat's middle years to caring for...
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