The Asian Diet: Get Slim and Stay Slim the Asian Way (Capital Lifestyles)

Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles Brand: Brand: Prima Lifestyles

Are you one of those people who can't keep the weight off no matter what you do? Have you tried diets, doctors, and drugs—all to no avail? You could be suffering from a hidden food allergy.In this book you'll learn about the revolutionary ALCAT Test, which pinpoints your personal "trigger foods"—foods as common as oranges or wheat—that are causing you to stay overweight. By simply eliminating those trigger foods, you will lose weight and regain your energy naturally.In addition, this book will show you how to determine which foods cause:Fatigue · Chronic Sinus Congestion · Migraines · Stomach Problems · Arthritis · Skin Problems · and Other Seemingly Chronic Ailments"The ALCAT Test . . . will change the future of health care."—William G. Crook, M.D., author of The Yeast Connection Handbook"I have seen the ALCAT Test work and produce tremendous beneficial results."—David L. Crooks, M.D., instructor of genetics and immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine"98% of the subjects following the ALCAT plan either lost weight or improved body composition."—from a study at Baylor Sports Medicine and Performance Institute"I've seen the (ALCAT) technique work when absolutely no other approach has made the scale budge."—Steven Lamm, M.D., author of Thinner at Last

Manufacturer: Headline

A collection of programmes based on SAS training schedules to help improve body strength and stamina. Includes chapters on physical training, self defence, the importance of a correct diet and developing mental strength.

Manufacturer: Axion Publishers Brand: Brand: Axion Publishers

Moses Wasn't Fat is a powerful, new diet and health book based on the wisdom of the Bible. If you've been on a diet merry-go-round and are ready to finally get off, here's a book that will teach you a safe, healthy, effective and Godly way to conquer your weight problems once and for all. No gimmicks, no unhealthy diet programs, no quackery. Just sound weight loss and health-building advice straight from the Bible.

Manufacturer: Grijalbo Brand: Brand: Grijalbo

Book by Atkins, Robert C.

Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

Manufacturer: Plume

This probing social and cultural history of our preoccupation with weight blows the whistle on a multi-billion dollar industry that feeds on insecurityTaking the same revolutionary and ultimately inspiring approach as The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, Losing It examines and explodes our culture's obsession with slenderness and the huge establishment that exploits our fears of being fat.A reformed dieter and an ex-bulimic, Laura Fraser traces our fixation with thinness to the images that began appearing a hundred years ago in magazines like Ladies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan. Fraser chronicles the corresponding growth of a $50 billion a year industry that provides false hope in exchange for cash.In this meticulously researched journey through Dietland, Fraser gives the inside scoop on: -- Diet drugs, including the controversial phen/fen-- Diet gurus Richard Simmons, Susan Powter, and Dean Ornish-- Commercial weight loss centers, including Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers-- Weight-loss products like thigh creams and diet cookiesProvocative, political, and personal, this revealing book is a remarkable work of investigative journalism and an enthralling, compelling story with almost universal relevance.

Manufacturer: NYU Press Brand: Brand: NYU Press

A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryThe modern struggle against fat cuts deeply and pervasively into American culture, as evidenced by the compulsion to stay thin, or at least to profess a desire to become thin. Dieting, weight consciousness and widespread hostility to obesity form one of the fundamental themes of modern life in countries around the world. Yet, for example, while the French are renowned for their delight in all things gustatory, they are significantly trimmer and less diet-obsessed than Americans. Fat History explores the meaning of fat and anti-fat in modern Western society, focusing on the uniquely moral component of dieting in America. Tracing how standards of beauty and physical morality have been radically transformed over the past century in the United States and France, Peter N. Stearns illustrates how the contemporary obsession with fat arose in tandem with the dramatic growth in consumer culture, women's increasing equality, and changes in women's sexual and maternal roles. Contrary to popular belief, fashion and nutrition have played only a secondary role in spurring the American aversion to fat, while the French distaste for obesity can be traced to different origins altogether. Filled with narrative anecdotes and rooted in Stearns' trademark use of engaging original sources--from Ebony and Gourmet to The Journal of the American Medical Association and popularized accounts of French doctors--Fat History explores fat's transformation from a symbol of health and well-being to a sign of moral, psychological, and physical disorder.

Manufacturer: Praeger Brand: Brand: Praeger

Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences: heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabetes at earlier and earlier ages. Bailey offers a new cultural diet for black Americans and a prescription for working collectively, not only to understand this critical health issue, but also to establish a lifestyle strategy that will be both effective and manageable.

Manufacturer: Grupo Editorial Norma