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Bestselling author Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart nutrition, lifestyle, and fitness habits gleaned from longevity 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, including locations such as Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma
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"Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad -- and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. It's time for a different approach. Enter Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of Nutritionfacts.org. Author of the mega bestselling How Not to Die, Dr. Greger now turns his attention to the latest research on the leading causes...
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"Around the world, indigenous peoples are returning to traditional foods and cooking methods to reestablish healthy lifeways to combat contemporary diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way is the first book to focus on the dietary practices of the Navajos from the earliest known times into the present and relate them to the Navajo Nation's participation in the Food Sovereignty movement. Charlotte J. Frisbie documents...
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Due to economic factors, larger portion sizes in restaurants, and sedentary lifestyles caused by an increase in our use of technology, obesity rates have risen steadily in the last decade. This, in turn, has created a multimillion-dollar diet industry that often preys on people s desire to lose weight quickly and easily. Through full-color photographs and engaging sidebars, readers will learn about the complex causes of obesity, as well as ways to...
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"In Genius Foods media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere draws on cutting-edge scientific research about the link between diet and brain health to paint an actionable, practical roadmap to feeding our brain for optimal performance today--and decades into the future"--
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Finally Full, Finally Slim shows you how to permanently lose weight by right-sizing your portions without eliminating entire food groups or staring at an empty plate. Within these pages, Dr. Young outlines thirty days worth of simple changes to help you shed pounds and provides a portion plan that ensures you will feel satisfied. She expertly describes the relevance of diet to health and steers you toward whole foods and away from clever marketing...
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"Discusses what vitamins are, what they do, and what foods contain them. Also gives the consequences of not eating vitamins"--Provided by publisher.
16) Carbohydrates
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"Discusses what carbohydrates are, what they do, and what foods contain them. Also gives the consequences of not eating carbohydrates"--Provided by publisher.
17) Minerals
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"Discusses what minerals are, what they do, and what foods contain them. Also gives the consequences of not eating minerals"--Provided by publisher.
19) Fiber
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"Discusses what fiber is, what it does, and what foods contain it. Also gives the consequences of not eating fiber"--Provided by publisher.
20) Protein
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"Discusses what protein is, what it does, and what foods contain it. Also gives the consequences of not eating protein"--Provided by publisher.
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