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1) The body book: the law of hunger, the science of strength, and other ways to love your amazing body
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The Hollywood star shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience.
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"In her new book, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Thrive delves into the sleep revolution that is happening all across the world - a revolution that can transform our lives. Sleep, she writes, is one of humanity's great unifiers, binding us to each other, to our ancestors, to our past, and to the future. Yet we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis...
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2019.
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Weelicious founder Catherine McCord is an expert recipe developer who helps families eat healthfully and deliciously. When her son started suffering from chronic nausea and her family doctor's couldn't help, McCord turned to her experience with nutrition for an answer, researching until she discovered a surprisingly simple solution - smoothies.
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This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is much smarter than we think.
Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing—and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body.
You may not love your fat, but your body certainly does. In fact, your body is actually endowed with many self-defense measures to hold on to fat. For example, fat can
...5) The plan: eliminate the surprising "healthy" foods that are making you fat-- and lose weight fast
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A practitioner of holistic medicine offers a twenty-day program to help overweight people determine their unique body chemistry and identify the supposedly healthy "trigger" foods that cause a toxic reaction and, in turn, numerous health problems.
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Humanix Books
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[2023]
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English
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Are you tired of waking up tired? You are not alone. We may have become super-productive in our fast-paced, always-connected, 24/7 society, but in exchange we lost something precious: our harmonious connection to sleep, a natural biological function integral to our overall health, wellness, and well-being.
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2021.
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"Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world"--
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HarperOne
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[2017]
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English
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"Revered nutrition and health expert, PBS personality, and bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, and The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, delivers a hard-hitting, culture-shifting examination of the role fast and processed food plays in our nation's health crisis and offers a program to help us discover a lasting solution, including a two-week meal plan and 80 recipes. We're eating our way to discomfort, unhappiness, disease, and premature...
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"Who doesn't crave sugar? And who doesn't believe that if she ate less sugar, she would feel healthier--lighter, more rested, energized, and even more beautiful? It's just breaking the addiction that seems so hard. "If not a sweet treat," we ask, "then what?".
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Pegasus Books
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2022.
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English
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"There is no magic pill. There is no perfect diet. Could it be that our underlying assumption--that what we're eating is making us fat and sick--is just plain wrong? To address the rapid rise of "lifestyle diseases" like diabetes and heart disease, scientists have conducted a whopping 500,000 studies of diet and another 300,000 of obesity. Journalists have written close to 250 million news articles combined about these topics. Yet nothing seems to...
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Skyhorse Publishing
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[2014]
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English
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"The health benefits of probiotics are no secret--doctors from both the Western and Eastern medicine camps sing the praises of probiotics for their positive effects on digestion, metabolism, and the immune system. Enthusiasts of kombucha point to its high levels of B vitamins and amino acids, improving mood, energy levels, joint function, ligament health, and skin health. Now you can learn to make kombucha, as well as numerous other probiotic drinks,...
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Abrams
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2019.
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English
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From Danielle Duboise and Whitney Tingle, the founders of the wildly popular vegan home-delivery service Sakara Life, comes a cookbook that places food at the center of wellness. By not focusing on calorie counting or points, Duboise and Tingle manage to rejuvenate an old-fashioned, often shame-filled diet industry. With recipes that are plant-based and organic, utilizing nutrient-dense whole foods that use the freshest, purest, most loving ingredients...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2019.
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English
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"A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives--and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back"--
19) Make yourself better: a practical guide to restoring your body's wellbeing through ancient medicine
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Bringing ancient Eastern and Western medical traditions into a modern world, this guide, devoted to the importance of good nutrition, detoxification, activity and physical exercise, empowers readers to make more informed choices to lead healthier lives.
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Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Dr. Joseph Mercola, one of the world's foremost authorities on alternative health, collaborates with fasting expert Dr. Alan Goldhamer to offer a guide to optimizing health using ketogenic and fasting principles. Fasting is one of the most powerful metabolic interventions there is--one of the single best things you can do for your health. Strategically timed and planned fasts dovetail perfectly with a ketogenic diet, as they activate your body's fat-burning...
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