Healthy Weight

Dave Asprey has been fasting for years, long before it gained widespread popularity. In Fast This Way, Dave asks listeners to forget everything they think they know about the ancient practice and takes them on a journey through cutting-edge science to examine the ways novice fasters and Intermittent Fasting loyalists can up-end their relationship with food and upgrade their fasting game beyond calorie restriction.

Are menopause symptoms disrupting your life? Find out how to lose weight, eliminate symptoms, and get your body and mind back. Menopause can feel chaotic. You probably feel that your body and mind are out of control. There’s lots of advice and unrealistic promises about menopausal symptoms. Much of it is designed to promote particular products or create startling headlines or a great social media post. People don’t care about truth and what is effective as long as it sells.

Most diet plans were created by men for men, but women’s bodies don’t work the same way. Popular programs can actually make it harder for women to lose weight, because they can wreak havoc on a woman’s complex and delicate hormonal system. Dr. Sara Gottfried has spent her career demystifying hormones and helping patients improve their health more broadly with personalized medicine. In Women, Food, and Hormones, Dr. Gottfried presents a groundbreaking new plan that helps women balance their hormones so they can lose excess weight and feel better.

In Eat and Run, Scott Jurek opens up about his life and career - as an elite athlete and a vegan - and inspires runners at every level. From his Midwestern childhood hunting, fishing, and cooking for his meat-and-potatoes family, to his early beginnings in running (he hated it), to his slow transition to ultrarunning and veganism, to his world-spanning, record-breaking races, Scott's story shows the power of an iron will and blows apart all the stereotypes of what athletes should eat to fuel optimal performance.

Our constant fixation with losing weight is exhausting. We're stuck in a vicious diet cycle, gaining weight after each failed attempt and never feeling good enough. Diet culture and unattainable #bodygoals contribute to burnout, overwhelm and feeling out of control around food. It's time to embrace a new approach. In Your Weight is not the Problem, nutritionist and dietitian Lyndi Cohen offers a simple plan to break free from the dieting trap with small, doable healthy habits you can stick to no matter how busy life gets.

Intermittent fasting (IF) is about when you eat rather than what you eat. This popular approach to healthy weight loss has you cycle between periods of eating and fasting, and many people find it simpler than traditional diets (healthline.com). In this beginner-friendly guide, we’ll explain why IF is worth considering, break down three common fasting methods (16/8, 5:2, and OMAD), and provide practical tips on getting started.

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As a traditional way of eating for many cultures worldwide, the Mediterranean diet wasn’t designed for weight loss. It just so happens that one of the healthiest diets around the globe also is good for keeping your weight down.

Since the introduction of dietary guidelines calling for reduced fat intake in the 1970s, a strange phenomenon has occurred: Americans have steadily, inexorably become heavier, less healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After putting more than two thousand of his at-risk patients on a wheat-free regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William Davis has come to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, not sugar, not our sedentary lifestyle that is causing America’s obesity epidemic—it is wheat.

A houseful of clutter may not be the only reason people pack on extra pounds, but research proves that it plays a big role. A recent study showed that people with super-cluttered homes were 77 percent more likely to be overweight or obese! In Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight, organizing guru Peter Walsh comes to the rescue with a simple six-week plan to help listeners.

Sixty percent of individuals over the age of 20 - or 58 million people in the US - are overweight. As the obesity epidemic continues to grow, many Americans are researching the benefits and complications of weight-loss surgeries. Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies, 2nd Edition is the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to understanding the impact of surgical weight-loss before, during, and after surgery.

The South Beach diet isn't complicated, and it doesn't require that you go hungry. You'll enjoy normal-size helpings of meat, poultry, and fish. You'll also eat eggs, cheese, nuts, and vegetables. Snacks are required. You'll learn to avoid the bad carbs, like white flour, white sugar, and baked potatoes. Best of all, you'll lose that stubborn belly fat first!

More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell University, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. What they found, when combined with findings in Campbell's laboratory, opened their eyes to the dangers of a diet high in animal protein and the unparalleled health benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet.

Intermittent fasting is a lifestyle in which you can eat many more of the foods you actually enjoy and still lose weight at the same time. At the same time, intermittent fasting isn’t just about losing weight. It also has other health benefits, too, making it something that everyone should do even if they aren’t looking to lose fat. The ketogenic diet, or the keto diet as most would say, is a simple food plan that’s realistic and one that can actually be followed long term.

When the Saulnier sisters suffer one disappointment too many in their native France, they decide to pack up and try their luck in America. As journalists, they have the run of the country, following stories that take them to places where most Americans have never been - from the back roads of Appalachia to an underground village of homeless people in the New York City subway system. And along the way, they dine on: Nathan's Famous hot dogs at the annual hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island.

Hypnotherapist Kelly Robins combines her expertise in hypnosis and self-empowerment to help you achieve restful sleep, curb emotional eating, and burn stubborn fat—all while you sleep. Drawing from proven hypnotherapy techniques, these hypnosis scripts are designed to reshape how you think, feel, and live in as little as 27 days.

Take the Guesswork Out of Healthy Eating with Deliciously Simple Mediterranean Recipes Tailored for Seniors! Are you ready to feel energized, reduce inflammation, and support a healthy heart without complicated diets or hard-to-find ingredients? Beginners Super Simple Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Seniors makes it easy to take control of your health with mouthwatering meals designed specifically for older adults. Packed with anti-aging nutrients, diabetes-friendly choices, and easy-to-follow 21-day meal plans, this book is your all-in-one guide to eating well without the overwhelm.

The Mediterranean diet is a time-tested and proven way to improve your overall health. Not only does this diet overload your taste buds with some of the tastiest foods in the world, it’s also one of the most sustainable ways to lose weight, decrease inflammation, and live a healthier life.

Based on 20 years of investigative reporting and interviews with 100 practicing physicians who embrace the keto lifetstyle as the best prescription for their patients' health, Taubes' book puts the ketogenic diet movement in the necessary historical and scientific perspective. It makes clear the vital misconceptions in how we've come to think about obesity and diet (no, people do not become fat simply because they eat too much; hormones play the critical role) and uses the collected clinical experience of the medical community to provide essential practical advice.

When Mehmet Oz has a patient whose life depends on losing weight, he calls on Joel Fuhrman, M.D. In Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Dr. Fuhrman offers his healthy, effective, and scientifically proven plan for shedding radical amounts of weight quickly, and keeping it off.