Food Nutrition

Advice about food can be confusing. There's usually only one thing experts can agree on: some ingredients - often the most enjoyable ones - are bad for you, full stop. But as Aaron Carroll explains, these oversimplifications are both wrong and dangerous: if we stop consuming some of our most demonized ingredients altogether, it may actually hurt us.

Food ought to be enjoyed and shared, but for many, choosing what to eat has become confusing and stressful. By telling the story and science of food and diets, Fed Up engagingly empowers listeners with the information and concepts they need to make their own choices.

A ketogenic diet is distinctive from all the other health-oriented diets for several reasons. Firstly, it fully restricts the consumption of carbohydrates in the diet. It points out carbs as enemies of good health and active metabolism. Not only it restricts the intake but also set a standard formula to limit the number of carbohydrates taken per meal. The diet is not only restrictive in essence, but also suggestive. It promotes the use of good quality fats in food products. If it restricts carbs for one reason, it provides a rather healthy alternative.

In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed.

In her best-selling book The Beauty Detox Solution, Kimberly Snyder - one of Hollywood's top celebrity nutritionists and beauty experts - shared the groundbreaking program that keeps her A-list clientele in red-carpet shape. Now you can get the star treatment with this guide to the top 50 beauty foods that will make you more beautiful from the inside out. Stop wasting your money on fancy, expensive beauty products and get real results, while spending less at your neighborhood grocery.

In this revolutionary, New York Times best-selling book, cutting-edge nutrition expert Lyn-Genet Recitas reveals the surprising truth behind what actually makes people pack on the pounds. Carbs and portion sizes, it turns out, are not the problem. Now this groundbreaking 20-day program helps readers finally unlock the mystery behind what does and does not work for their individual body.

Do you feel hopeless with yo-yo dieting, feeling hungry with no long term results? Do you want to lose weight and keep it off while feeling more energy, mental clarity, and slowing aging? If so, this book will empower you to achieve your goals. In modern society, we are constantly bombarded with advice on how to lose weight quickly. Although we ought to be skeptical about some of these, they often draw us in. Many women have told me they’ve fallen for many of those weight loss marketing tactics that don’t work.

Haylie Pomroy, celebrated nutritionist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet, shares a food prescription for the 7 most common ways your metabolism misfires and leads to exhaustion, excess weight, and illness. With her targeted eating plans you can feed your body back to a vibrant, energetic, and thriving state.

Why is it important to wash your food and hands? What are bacteria? When should food be placed into the refrigerator? Listen to Food Safety to find the answers to these questions and more. By learning a few rules, you can make sure your food is safe to eat.

Discover how the Dr. Sebi-inspired diet book involves the use of natural alkaline and electric food smoothie recipes from Dr. Sebi’s approved food list to help you detoxify, heal, and prevent malignant diseases in your body. In this book, no longer will you be aimlessly searching the internet for Dr. Sebi smoothie recipes.

If you ask Dr. Megan Rossi about the best investment you can make in your future, she’ll tell you: Look after your gut. Seventy million Americans suffer from gut-related issues, diagnosed or otherwise. But it’s not just about gut symptoms: Whatever our wellness goals are - weight management, improved fitness, healthier skin, stronger immunity, or even happiness - gut microbes can be our best allies.

The Ancestral Indigenous Diet is based upon the forgotten wisdom of our Carnivorous past. It teaches a traditional way of eating and nutrition principles that naturally allow us to achieve weight loss, longevity, overall health, and — most importantly — happiness. High-quality animal foods are the foundation of it all. Similar to a Carnivore Diet, we prize grass-fed beef, free-range chicken and eggs, pasture-raised pork, wild-caught fish, raw grass-fed dairy, and high-quality wild plant foods prepared in the traditional way.

The Sprout Book is a transformative plan to empower listeners to embark on a plant-based way of eating that’s low-cost and accessible. With a foreword by Joel Fuhrman, MD, this book introduces sprouts, one of the most nutritious sustainable foods on earth, by adding a few dishes to a diet and then shifting into a raw, whole foods plant-based diet.

In the first of this series, Part 1: Herbs, Spices and Sweeteners, you will learn: A full spectrum of choices from "Eat" to "Moderate" to "Avoid" in each food group. The minimum servings of fruits and sweeteners that will keep your blood sugar balanced. Which herbs, spices, and sweeteners are the best choices to supplement your diet. Which ones you may use with moderation and... the ones to absolutely avoid, and why they are toxic to your health.

Discover where protein foods come from, what nutrition they provide, and how they help form a healthy diet. Filled with meaty facts, including meat alternatives, this Pebble Explore book will give curious young listeners—and report writers—plenty to chew on.

In Death by Food Pyramid, Denise Minger exposes the forces that overrode common sense and solid science to launch a pyramid phenomenon that bled far beyond US borders to taint the eating habits of the entire developed world. Minger explores how generations of flawed pyramids and plates endure as part of the national consciousness, and how the "one size fits all" diet mentality these icons convey pushes us deeper into the throes of obesity and disease.

Food is one of life's great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion? Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating, from bubble tea to quinoa, from Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps.

The Spirit of Animal Healing is chock-full of the very latest integrative medical knowledge (which combines conventional therapies with complementary and alternative medicine). Coupled with the vast amount of specialized expertise and learning Dr. Marty has gained from his own practice over the past 55 years, the book takes listeners on a journey to the leading edge of integrative veterinary understanding to achieve greater insight into the minds and bodies of their animal companions.

"Of all the meats, only one merits its own structure. There is no such place as a lamb house or a pork house, but even a small town can have a steak house." So begins Mark Schatzker's ultimate carnivorous quest. Fed up with one too many mediocre steaks, the intrepid journalist set out to track down, define, and eat the perfect specimen.

If you struggle with binge eating or BED, you are not alone. BED is by far the most prevalent eating disorder. Three and a half percent of women and two percent of men suffer from Binge Eating Disorder during their lifetime. In comparison, anorexia and bulimia each affect 0.6 percent of the population. Despite its prevalence, BED remains cloaked in secrecy and shame. Less than half of its sufferers seek therapy for their eating disorder. However, 30 percent of those seeking weight loss treatments have BED.