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The best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek outlines a program for healthy living that draws on 15 years of research and interviews with leading doctors and health-care experts to offer insight into genetic factors, nutrition requirements and fitness practices.
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This work is an examination of what makes us fat. In his book Good Calories, Bad Calories, the author, an acclaimed science writer argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates, not fats and not simply excess calories, have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider, nonscientific audience. With fresh evidence for his claim, this book makes his critical argument newly accessible. He reveals the bad nutritional science...
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Fair Winds Press
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2012
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English
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Beat Overeating Now! provides a step-by-step plan for fixing appetite controls while working with your body's natural hunger and weight loss hormones to beat overeating easily and permanently. Written by Dr. Scott Isaacs, one of the leading weight loss experts in the country, Beat Overeating Now! will help you take control of your appetite, your weight, and your life. His work is supported by the latest research on what really
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Momentum Press
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2016.
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English
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Five decades ago, the major nutrition-related issues facing the United States were nutrient deficiencies, underconsumption of calories, and malnutrition. In 2016, however, the food landscape is drastically different, and today, the United States faces nutrition-related issues more closely associated with over consumption of calories, bigger waistlines, and chronic disease. Overweight and obesity now afflict the majority of U.S. adults and a large...
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Momentum Press
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2015.
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English
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Over the years while teaching weight management classes for hospitals and corporations, my interest moved from that of the physical to include more of the mind. I began to realize that people can know what they need to do to be healthy, but doing it is an entirely different ball game. Educating people who are in bondage with bad habits often results in them being smarter, but not necessarily healthier.
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Momentum Press
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2015.
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English
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Over the years while teaching weight management classes for hospitals and corporations, my interest moved from that of the physical to include more of the mind. I began to realize that people can know what they need to do to be healthy, but doing it is an entirely different ball game. Educating people who are in bondage with bad habits often results in them being smarter, but not necessarily healthier. As I got more involved with coaching people individually,...
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Bob Harper, superstar trainer and co-host of NBC's reality show "The Biggest Loser," distills his knowledge of nutrition, weight-loss strategy, and human nature down to twenty simple, nonnegotiable principles and offers a month's worth of menu plans and more than 90 rule-abiding recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks to keep you cooking and eating skinny.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2016.
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English
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Sharing tasty, easy-to-prepare healthy dishes is a surefire way to create wonderful moments for your family and friends. Each themed section lets you create personalized menus, and recipes that can be prepared in less than 20 minutes or are vegetarian or gluten-free are flagged
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Kathy Freston, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Veganist," urges "leaning in" for a leaner body--small changes that yield big results--in this simple but effective weight-loss plan.
Freston shows you a radically effective approach to positive change, with an incredibly easy 30-day plan to transform your health. By setting an intention for what you want, and then nudging yourself ever so gently in that direction, you can make choices that...
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The strength trainer and health coach for the hit television series, "The Biggest Loser, " discusses the effect of hormonal imbalance on weight loss and overall health and offers a diet program designed to remove toxins, restore nutrients, and rebalance one's energy.
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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2006.
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English
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Canadian investigation into the multi-million dollar diet industry, how the media and diet empires feed off the western obsession with weight loss. Follows one diet merchant's team as they create the "buzz" needed for a successful product launch.
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"Over 99% of people who try to lose weight don't succeed. They don't get slender and they don't stay slender long term. The average dieter spends a significant amount of money and makes four or five new attempts each year. Four or five new attempts each year with almost no hope of success. Only 1% of people will get down to their goal weight on traditional diets. Susan Peirce Thompson. Ph. D., suggests that there's something fishy going on here, something...
18) Diet wars
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Distributed by PBS Video
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[2004]
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English
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Looks at the array of weight loss programs from Atkins to Weight Watchers and shows the contradictory principles in each.