Healthy Nutrition Science

The bestselling fitness book for women who want to lose up to 35 pounds of fat or more and gain whole-body muscle definition in just 3-5 hours per week—and without giving up delicious foods or doing grueling workouts.

Here, the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. If, according to chaos theory, the beating of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane in another part of the world, try this out for chaotic cause and effect: monarch butterflies are dying in droves due to genetically-engineered corn growing in the Midwest. There is also a direct correlation between the Big Mac in your hand and the mile-wide river now running across the North Pole.

Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19 percent. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the United States and the astounding moral, economic, and emotional price we pay for it.

Exercise researcher and author Ellington Darden has studied exercise and fat loss for more than 40 years. His most recent program combines his previous findings on fat loss and muscle gain with new research on the principles of thermodynamics and heat transfer for a six or 12-week plan that will eliminate belly bloat, destroy flab, and stoke metabolism. Integrating his many years of research, the program has had more than 1,137 participants who shed an average of 29.5 pounds of fat and lost six inches off their waist or belly.

Sex and relationship therapist Charlene Douglas invites you to connect more, communicate better, and love more deeply. Perhaps you’ve considered seeing a therapist before but you worry it might be awkward or it’s too expensive... Come Closer provides the safe space you need to reflect on the past experiences that may have shaped your sexual world, explore what turns you on and what turns you off, and open up to issues in communication and sexual health.

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 use stem cells to regenerate; increase our appetite if it feels threatened; and use bacteria, genetics, and viruses to expand itself. The secret to losing 20 pounds? You have to work with your fat, not against it.

AudioLearn's Medical School Crash Courses presents Nutrition. Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical Medical school Nutrition course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master Nutrition. The material is accurate, up to date and broken down into bite-sized sections. There is a "Q&A" and a "key takeaways" section following each topic to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points. Also included is a comprehensive test containing the top 100 most commonly tested questions in Nutrition with the correct answers.

Are you eating enough fat? Yes, fat. Despite what generations of health science has beaten into us over the last 50 years or so, 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, along with a slimmer waistline, elimination of cravings, and endless energy. Keto is the definitive guide to the ketogenic lifestyle.

This audiobook will teach you how your body works and what it needs to lose those extra pounds so you could achieve and maintain a fit and toned physique. And although coming up with a bodybuilding exercise regimen can be difficult, I know that preparing a meal plan can be just as daunting. This is why this audiobook makes everything easier for you by providing everything you need to know.

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever. Obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical, society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup.

With Ross Bridgeford as your guide, you'll learn how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross begins by providing the science-backed facts behind the alkaline diet, how to do it, and why it works. Then he dives into how the alkaline diet can work for you based on your goals. Finally, he provides delicious and nutritious alkaline recipes that will motivate you to stick with this feel-good lifestyle in feasible way.

Two IBS experts—a New York Times bestselling author and a renowned GI psychologist—offer a groundbreaking, holistic approach with the most updated research to treating and thriving with IBS.​ IBS affects 45 million Americans; it's also a tricky disease–hard to diagnose, miserable to...

A great diet and exercise routine is essential to increasing your ability to perform in the sports field because of the energy we acquire from its refinery. Staying hydrated by drinking plenty of water and consuming the appropriate nutritious foods are vital for all successful athletes. Sports Nutrition: The Base Manual for Obtaining Maximum Performance will manifest the correct ways to fuel your body.

It is imperative that your nutritional needs are met when you live an active lifestyle. Your body will naturally require more nutrients when you utilize fitness on a regular basis. Knowing the basic biological utilization is the first step in evaluating your diet to ensure that it is sufficient. It also helps you to see where you might need to make changes so that your body’s needs are met when you are engaging in a fitness activity. Be informed and also discover a collection of recipes for snacks and your three main meals will make it easier to fuel your body in this guide.

Wouldn't you rather just cut out the bull* and learn a straightforward way of eating that'll help you gain lean muscle, keep your bodyfat levels low and maintain good health? A simplified strategy on what to eat, when, what to avoid to get the best results from your strength training program? Something that's easy to follow and maintain, and doesn't ban all your favourite foods, while still actually delivering results? This is it.

Considering GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Monjouro or Ozempic? Want to know what they’re really like—from someone who’s been there? In The GLP-1 Revolution, Avery Carter shares a science-backed, easy-to-understand guide for anyone exploring GLP-1 medications for weight loss and better health. Whether you're curious about starting your own journey or supporting someone who is, this relatable and research-driven book is here to help.

In Next-Level Metabolism, integrative physician Dr. Jade Teta shows you how to understand your metabolism and create a personalized lifestyle that works with you, not against you. This is NOT a diet book. This is a solution focused on your physiology, psychology, personal preferences, and practical circumstances. It’s an individualized, adaptable toolkit—one you can’t lose—that will help you take your health expertise to the next level. Stop outsourcing your health, and take back control with a road map that lets you create your own path.

With scientific research, her own chemistry background, and the traditional diets of our not-so-distant ancestors as her guides, Dee McCaffrey casts new light on an age-old wisdom: Eating foods in their closest-to-natural forms is the true path to sustained weight loss and, in fact, the remedy for almost any health problem.

In 1971, Diet for a Small Planet broke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste built into a meat-centered diet. Now, in a special edition for its 50th anniversary, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé goes even deeper, showing us how plant-centered eating can help restore our damaged ecology, address the climate crisis, and move us toward real democracy.

Stefansson’s classic Not By Bread Alone chronicles a 1928 scientific experiment, conducted by the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology at Bellevue Hospital in New York, in which Stefansson and his colleague Dr. Karsten Andersen ate a meat-only diet for one year. The two men stayed healthy and fared very well, leading him to claim that we should reexamine our notion of what foods constitute a healthy diet.