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What foods did the human body evolve to eat, and why? How does the food we eat affect our genes and our minds? What foods are (and aren't) optimal for our everyday health? How can we use cutting-edge science to end world hunger? In these 36 lectures, get eye-opening answers to these and other perplexing questions about the evolution of the human diet and its relationship to our bodies.

How to lose fat, gain muscle, and stay in shape without wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym even if you’ve never touched weights before. Regardless of your age or sex, you can build muscle and functional strength while optimizing your health without having to waste your time or money on the gym membership, expensive trainers, and magic supplements. Whether you are just getting started or have been training your entire life, Strength Training over 40 has you covered.

Sometimes, it can seem as if there are no real options for undoing the pandemonium of issues that polycystic ovarian syndrome does to our bodies, which can cause us to feel stress or even begin to lose hope. Before you throw in the towel, it is important to know that countless recorded cases of women reversing unwanted symptoms, balancing their body’s hormones, and achieving successful pregnancies after a PCOS diagnosis have proven there is hope for all of us.

When you see ads that promise you fast weight loss, often you are looking at fad diets that take too many nutrients out of the body. Unfortunately, while these diets will lead to quick weight loss, they leave the body void of important nutrients and make it impossible to keep the weight off. Once you stop dieting, the weight comes back on, often very quickly. While this sounds like bad news, there is actually good news about weight loss. You can lose weight quickly, as quickly as 10 pounds in 10 days, with the right plan.

Unlock the power of eating good to feel good and conquer chronic inflammation without breaking the bank! Are you struggling with chronic inflammation and its exhausting effects? There’s hope for relief without expensive, complex diets.

The health you enjoy today, and for the rest of your life, begins with your next breath. In fact, breathing is so crucial to your body's ability to heal and sustain itself that Dr. Andrew Weil says: "If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly."

Empowering and rigorously researched, The 6 Keys outlines powerful lifestyle interventions, dietary guidelines, exercise plans, and vanguard strategies for cultivating mindfulness that restore and protect human performance, keeping you fit, healthy, and beautiful for life.

We’re told that if we care about our health - or our planet - eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is bad for us and cattle farming is horrible for the environment. But science says otherwise.

In The Insulin-Resistance Diet, Cheryle R. Hart and Mary Kay Grossman show you how to control insulin resistance and lose weight without sacrificing all of your favorite foods.

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to pump up motivation to eat in healthy ways and encourage listeners to stay on track. Additional images in this weight loss meditation generate a sense of love and gratitude to heighten serotonin in the bloodstream, which in turn reduces appetite and increases motivation for healthy eating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Empowering and confidence-building, this guided imagery audio program doubled weight loss in a placebo controlled pilot study.

The most popular drug in America is a white powder. No, not that powder. This is caffeine in its most essential state. And Caffeinated reveals the little-known truth about this addictive, largely unregulated drug found in coffee, energy drinks, teas, colas, chocolate, and even pain relievers. Drawing on the latest research, Caffeinated brings us the inside perspective at the additive that Salt Sugar Fat overlooked.

There's so much confusion about what to eat. Are you jumping from diet to diet and nothing seems to work? Are you sick of seeing contradictory health advice from experts? Just like the tobacco industry lied to us about the dangers of cigarettes, the same untruths, cover-ups, and deceptive practices are occurring in the food industry. Vani Hari, a.k.a. The Food Babe, blows the lid off the lies we've been fed about the food we eat - lies about its nutrient value, effects on our health, label information, and even the very science we base our food choices on.

GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) is a hormone that plays a crucial role in regulating blood sugar levels and appetite. It is released from the intestines in response to food intake and stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas, which helps lower blood sugar levels. Additionally, GLP-1 slows down the emptying of the stomach, leading to increased feelings of fullness and reduced food intake. In the context of weight management, GLP-1-based medications are used to help individuals with obesity or type 2 diabetes control their weight.

Lose 14 pounds in 14 days - harness the power of food to reset your metabolism for good with this breakthrough program complete with recipes and a detailed, easy-to-use diet plan from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet.

This inspirational and lively book tells you how to create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself - and that includes your mind as well as your body. With mind and body exercises to keep your energy spiraling up and prompts to help you identify what you really want and care about, Body Kindness helps you let go of things you can't control and embrace the things you can by finding the workable daily steps that fit you best.

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.

If you are one of the nearly 100 million Americans struggling with high cholesterol, then Dr. Janet Brill offers you a revolutionary new plan for taking control of your health - without the risks of statin drugs. With Dr. Brill's breakthrough Cholesterol Down Plan, you simply add nine "miracle foods" to your regular diet and 30 minutes of walking to your daily routine. That's all. This straightforward and easy-to-follow program can lower your LDL ("bad") cholesterol by as much as 47 percent in just four weeks.

New York Times bestselling author, Dr. David J. Lieberman, introduces a wonderful right-to-the-point mini audio book that tells listeners how to end food cravings once and for all! Understanding how cravings seduce you into surrendering can help you to conquer them, maintain a healthy weight and improve your overall health. Most significantly, you can tip the scales in your favor, and harness the power of psychology and physiology to reprogram your brain, and to permanently counter your cravings.

Fed up with your fat body? Isn't it time that you changed? Benjamin Bonetti, international best-selling hypnotherapist, has combined all of his skills to produce this truly fantastic support tool for those struggling to get to grips of their weight-loss journey.

Whether you are working to lose 100 lbs or that last 20 lbs, figuring our your strategy for how you should be exercising is one of the bigger pieces to the weight loss puzzle. This audiobook is not a "how to" guide in terms of actually doing the exercise. It is an audiobook about how the author manages to create an exercise plan that fits her lifestyle and how you can do this too. It's about taking a three-pronged approach to exercise right from the beginning of your weight loss plan and tips for finding the right types of exercise that you will enjoy and be motivated to do longer term.