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This work is an examination of what makes us fat. In his book Good Calories, Bad Calories, the author, an acclaimed science writer argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates, not fats and not simply excess calories, have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider, nonscientific audience. With fresh evidence for his claim, this book makes his critical argument newly accessible. He reveals the bad nutritional science...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Kick your metabolism into gear with a diet program that uses the fat-burning power of food to help you lose up to 20 pounds in 28 days
“This is not a fad diet. It’s a medically proven method of food as medicine to fight obesity, cure chronic illness, and heal a broken metabolism.”—Jacqueline Fields, M.D.
Hailed as “the metabolism...
“This is not a fad diet. It’s a medically proven method of food as medicine to fight obesity, cure chronic illness, and heal a broken metabolism.”—Jacqueline Fields, M.D.
Hailed as “the metabolism...
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2018.
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"The newest heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author tells the story of two friends who make a promise to face their deepest hopes and greatest fears by agreeing to stop waiting to lose weight and start living now. Marley, Georgia, and Emerson met at fat camp as teens, and they never would have survived it without each other. They bonded against the disapproval of their family and friends by loving each other for who they were...
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2018.
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Even the most health conscious among us have a hard time figuring out what to eat in order to lose weight, stay fit, and improve our health. And who can blame us? When it comes to diet, there's so much changing and conflicting information flying around that it's impossible to know where to look for sound advice. Dr. Mark Hyman takes a close look at every food group and explains which foods nurture our health and which pose a threat. From grains to...
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Flatiron Books
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2019.
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English
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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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Crowley, the memorable patient and coauthor of "Younger Next Year, " partners with Sacheck, a nutritionist and exercise physiologist, and in lively, alternating chapters they spell out a weight-loss plan that will have readers lose up to 25 pounds in the first six monthsNand keep it off for life.
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After a decade of yo-yo dieting and a lifelong battle with the scale, Brittany Williams topped out at 260 pounds and knew she needed to make a lasting change. She shed an astonishing 125 pounds in a year—and has kept it off for 3 years—by getting off the diet rollercoaster and getting back to basics. She ditched processed foods, curbed her takeout habit, and cut back on inflammatory ingredients like gluten, dairy, and sugar. Through her best-selling...
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A breakthrough, easy-to-follow brain-based program to lose weight and keep it off—for the rest of your life—from the bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, Magnificent Mind at Any Age, and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Have you tried diet after diet without success? Want to know the two major secrets why most diets don’t work?
The #1 secret is that most weight...
Have you tried diet after diet without success? Want to know the two major secrets why most diets don’t work?
The #1 secret is that most weight...
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Harmony
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©2014.
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English
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"The Adrenal Reset Diet is the first scientifically sound, patient-tested weight-loss plan developed by a natural endocrinologist, Dr. Alan Christianson. He heals readers in any of the three stages of adrenal impairment--Stressed, Wired and Tired, or Crashed. Readers learn their stage and receive distinct strategies for diet, activity, and lifestyle change to bring them to Thriving. Recent study participants halved their cortisol levels in just 30...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2019]
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English
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The author of Body love returns with custom 21-day eating plans tailored to four different types of women: "The Girl on the Go" for the woman who wants to eat healthy while managing a hectic schedule, "The Domestic Goddess" for the woman who loves to spend time in the kitchen, "The Plant-Based Devotee" for the woman who avoids animal products, and "The Red-Carpet Ready" for the woman who wants to look and feel her best for an upcoming special event....
11) Souping
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DK Publishing
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©2015.
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"A full-color cookbook with more than 100 healthy hot and cold soup recipes and cleanses for losing weight, detoxification, and revitalized health. Souping is the new juicing! Packed with more than 100 delicious and incredibly healthy recipes that can be eaten on the go, Souping is the first-ever cookbook of its kind to cover this trend. Step-by-step instructions for making and storing each savory, sweet, filling, energizing, or calming soup make...
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HarperOne, and imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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©2015.
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English
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Reveals how to grow new receptors for the body's seven metabolic hormones for weight loss and overall improved health.
Weight loss isn't about restricting calories, it's about hormones. By giving up meat, sugar, fruit, caffeine, grains, dairy and alcohol you will be able to repair your body and reset your hormones. Gottfried reveals how to grow new receptors for the body's seven metabolic hormones for weight loss and overall improved health.
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Hay House, Inc
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2017.
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English
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Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, shares the weight-loss solution used in her Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in neuroscience, psychology, and biology, Bright Line Eating explains why people who are desperate to lose weight fail again and again: because the brain blocks weight loss. Bright Line Eating (BLE) is a simple approach designed to reverse that process. By working with four "Bright Lines" -- clear,...
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Harper Wave, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2021.
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English
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"From biohacker and author of Head Strong, Game Changers, and Super Human comes the ultimate guide to hacking intermittent fasting"--
Asprey has been fasting for years, long before it gained widespread popularity. Here he asks readers to forget everything they think they know about the ancient practice and takes them on a journey through cutting-edge science to examine ways readers can up-end their relationship with food and upgrade their fasting...
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"By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about...
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Victory Belt Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Are you eating enough fat? Yes, fat. Despite what generations of health science has beaten into us during the last fifty or so years, humans thrive on high-fat, low-carb diets. Millions of people around the world have discovered that a ketogenic lifestyle is the key to weight loss, disease prevention and intervention, and a more vibrant life. Gone are the days when counting calories-or points!-is the path to better health, a slimmer waistline, relief...
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Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The human body has the amazing ability to switch which fuels it uses for energy based on what fuel is available at the time--researchers call this metabolic flexibility. Bodies that are able to make this switch can burn sugars, proteins, and other food nutrients when available, and then switch to burning the body's fat storage or fatty acids when food calories are not available. It turns out that losing weight is not just about burning calories, it's...
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HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2015]
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English
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"Americans are losing the battle of the bulge because our bodies and brains are not hardwired to resist food--the very idea of it works against our biological imperative to survive. In [this book], Mann challenges assumptions--including those that make up the very foundation of the weight loss industry--about how diets work and why they fail. The result of more than two decades of research, it offers ... science and ... insights into the American...
20) The bulletproof diet: lose up to a pound a day, reclaim your energy and focus, and upgrade your life
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Rodale
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[2014]
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English
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"In his midtwenties, Dave Asprey was a successful Silicon Valley multimillionaire. He also weighed 300 pounds, despite the fact that he was doing what doctors recommended: eating 1,800 calories a day and working out 90 minutes a day, six times a week. When his excess fat started causing brain fog and food cravings sapped his energy and willpower, Asprey turned to the same hacking techniques that made his fortune to "hack" his own biology, investing...
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