Food Body

Break away from diet culture while still honoring your body and incorporating cultural foods in this fresh, expansive guide from the registered dietitian and creator of Your Latina Nutritionist. “Witty and warm, The Latina Anti-Diet is the perfect way to begin to heal your relationship with...

Do you feel that your life is out of control? Your health, mind and ambitions . . . none are panning out as planned?Does it appear as if there is an invisible force that is dictating your relationships?Do you have this intense desire to stop and restart in a way that things begin to work for you?...

This program is read by the author. Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women. Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and...

"Beyond Limits is moving, personal, insightful, and powerfully written. This book helps us to see people who seek abortions with clarity and compassion, as people in the real world, rather than as the objects of an abstract moral or political debate."—Diana Greene Foster, author of The...

Reconnect to the wisdom of the land, animals and the moon, and be inspired to find your power and freedom in this poetic memoir. Do you long to be amongst nature, in the wild, remote, untouched places, where the moon nears full, and the energy is visible and present? Do you feel as if you...

For decades, the medical profession has advocated for nutritional management as part of the treatment strategy for a variety of illnesses including diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and excessive cholesterol. There are currently no such recommendations for brain aging and dementia. Nutrition was only recently accorded scientific-field status, and eating has been recognized as a valid technique of defending oneself against brain aging and disorders such as Alzheimer's.

Voted top 43 naturopathic doctors worldwide, best-selling author Dr. Ameet Aggarwal, ND, minimizes your strain of losing weight. You will find affordable ways of reducing weight, fat, water retention, and toxicity using the best foods, supplements, herbs, and natural remedies.

No matter your body goals, Mind Body and Food offers a proven framework for achieving your goals while keeping a healthy mindset. This book reveals practical strategies that will teach you how the mindset connects to our body and the food we eat. It highlight and explains in details the relationship between the mind, body, and the food we eat.

A bold takedown of the ways women are terrorized about fatness, and a treatise on the revolutionary power of fat fury Anti-fatness and fat-shaming are used most often as a way to inspire fear in others about being or becoming fat. Scholar and therapist Breanne Fahs breaks down how the dread of...

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the...

For years experts have been telling Americans what to eat and what not to eat. Fat, they told us, was the enemy. Then it was salt, then sugar, then cholesterol... and on it goes. Americans listened and they lost -- but not their excess fat. What they lost was their health and waistlines...

I want you to imagine you're starting a new job, and you're very happy because it pays twice as much as your old job. But when you walk into the room, you see 96 small scales—each about the size of a quarter—and your job is to balance out all the scales. So what's the challenge? Well, what you discover is when you put a weight on scale 14, scale 32 goes down. When you put one on scale 16, scale 48 goes up. So as you try to balance all the scales, you begin to learn what causes what specific scale to go down and which scale or group of scales causes another scale to rise up.

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A “warm, funny, and honest…genuinely unputdownable” memoir (Curtis Sittenfeld) chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man. Journalist Tommy Tomlinson, approaching fifty and weighing 460 pounds, decided to confront the risks...

A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into? “A visceral and dangerous...

Have you ever felt like you cannot just stop eating? You know what you are repeatedly eating in large amounts is unhealthy, and it is not good for you but you cannot stop eating it. What is wrong with you, you may wonder? Are you out of your mind or are you just an in-disciplined person? Well, if this describes you, you should know one thing. You are not a bad or an irresponsible person, not in a million years. What you are doing though, is that you have let food take over your life and you may be battling with addiction for food.

The mind makeover that makes over your metabolism. Hundreds of medical studies have shown the spectacular health benefits of meditation. Now Tiffany Cruikshank, founder of Yoga Medicine, puts that scientific research to good, practical use by incorporating easy-to-use, targeted meditations...

A New York Public Library "Best Book of the Year" “The Forgotten Sense leaves us with the hope of new discoveries and new recoveries—so that we may once again revel in the glorious, fragrant world around us.”—Wall Street Journal By one of the world’s leading researchers into the...

Drew Manning, a natural fitness junkie and devoted personal trainer, had never been overweight in his life. He never craved junk food or missed an opportunity to work out. Yet despite his obsession with fitness, he failed to help his clients reach their goals. Something had to give. Manning...

In Visualization for Weight Loss, Jon Gabriel expands on the most talked about tool in his best-selling book, The Gabriel Method: visualization. This powerful technique helped Jon drop 220 pounds without dieting or deprivation, because it didn't depend on calorie counting or extreme exercise -...

When Dr. Ray Strand found himself in a losing battle, unable to successfully treat his wife who had suffered chronically with pain and fatigue, he agreed to try the regimen of nutritional supplements that a neighbor suggested. Much to his surprise, his wife's condition began to improve almost...