Alicia explains how meat, fish, milk, and cheese - the very foods we've been taught to regard as the cornerstones of good nutrition - are actually the culprits behind escalating rates of disease and the cause of dire, potentially permanent damage to our ecology. Yet going meat- and dairy-free doesn't mean suffering deprivation; to the contrary, ...
Dr. Barnard offers a new nutritional approach reversing diabetes without drugs. By following this diet, readers can control blood sugar three times more effectively than with the American Diabetes Association's diet and improve their bodies' ability to respond to insulin. Includes menus and recipes.
This is not another diet book but a systematic approach to therapeutic fasting for health and healing. Dr. Furhman has created a career out of helping people learn how to fast and to benefit from the effects of a healthy, life-enhancing diet. Common maladies such as obesity, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis, to name just a few, are all ...
This information-packed volume opens with a brief history of this centuries-old technique and a look at the many ways slow cooking and braising transforms the texture of food as well as enhances the natural flavors. Comprehensive descriptions cover the types of slow cooking and explain every stage of the process, from preparing the food in order ...
Working from the common knowledge that diet and exercise can reduce weight and increase endurance, Barnard?s book offers a variety of diet strategies for conditions ranging from metabolic disorders to poor circulation and even cancer pains. As certain elements like coffee and alcohol can help some problems and exacerbate others, the book addresses ...
Vegan food is fabulous food, full of flavor and nutrients. With fun illustrations and a cool, punky sensibility, "How It All Vegan!" will tempt readers to join the Vegan Empire.
Each year 1.3 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer. Dr. Neal Barnard, founder of the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), explains how nutrition can play a key role in overcoming cancer. Readers learn how foods influence hormones that fuel cancer and how a dietary change to a low-fat, plant-based diet can be ...
Whether it's chocolate chip cookies, potato chips, baked Brie, or burgers, everyone has foods they can't resist--foods that sabotage efforts to lose weight and improve health. As leading health researcher Dr. Barnard explains, banishing these cravings is not a question of willpower--it's a matter of biochemistry.
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet.
While living at the base of an active volcano in Hawaii between 1985 and 1989, Wesselman had a series of visionary experiences that projected him 5,000 years into the future. Through the consciousness of a Hawaiian shaman, he glimpses the remains of Western civilization destroyed by a rise in ocean levels, and follows the native Hawaiians on a ...
This text provides down-to-earth, practical information about how to carry out the important procedures in marriage and family therapy. It serves as a student's or clinician's "handbook," with explanations of how to handle the full range of situations encountered in everyday family practice. The authors have collected the procedures that make up ...
The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already sensed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Making plain her disapproval of Joe's familiarity with the servants, questioning the donation of food to striking miners' families - these objections and more soon rubbed Joe and the ...
At the heart of spiritual awakening lies the discovery that each of us can achieve the direct, transformative connection with the sacred realms - a connection that defines the mystic. This book guides us along a well-travelled path into this extraordinary experience and includes an experiential CD of shamanic drumming, providing an effective, ...
Get tempted by an inspiring array of vegan recipes from the authors of "How It All Vegan!" When "How It All Vegan!: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet "was published in 1999, authors Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer were hailed for their fun and outlandish approach to vegan cooking, taking it out of the realm of the staid and the boring to ...
Citing overwhelming medical evidence, Barnard reveals why a diet based on the new four food groups will sharply decrease the risk of cancer and heart disease and dramatically increase life expectancy. A 21-day program, with a side benefit of effortless and lasting weight loss for anyone who is overweight, permits a smooth transition to the four ...
With over 400 recipes, this is the mother lode of vegan cookbooks--and Robin Robertson could be considered the leading "mother figure" in vegan cuisine. She begins with a pep talk about going vegan, including a general discussion of nutrition, the benefits of giving up meat, and how to set up a vegan household in a world that often seems at odds ...
Strong communication skills are required of today's health care practitioners. Medical writers, medical students, residents and postdoctoral associates, physicians, biomedical researchers, nurses, pharmacists, and others in the allied health professions must develop and continue to improve their communication skills if they aspire to excellence in ...
In this weight loss plan, a nutritionist reasons that five genes control one's ability to gain or lose weight and shows readers how to manipulate their genetic predisposition so they can drop unwanted pounds. In doing so, he promotes a diet rich in grains, fruits, and vegetables, and warns readers to avoid over-consumption of high-fat, calorie ...
Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the ...
For a lip-smacking, finger-licking barbecue, here are 75 quick and easy marinade recipes guaranteed to bring out the best in grilled foods. Internationally inspired, these recipes include such delectable marinades as Adobo, Jamaican Jerk, Sake Teriyaki, and Polynesian Passion Fruit and Rum to tickle palates up and down the taste spectrum.
The science of anti-aging foods is advancing faster than any other aspect of nutrition. This practical guide focuses on the how-to of anti-aging, nutrition, and lifestyle, progressing step-by-step from basic free radical theory to applications for healthy skin and hair, reducing hormone shifts, slimming down, and other vital areas of health.
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