The Maker's Diet

Manufacturer: Morrow

Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

From the bestselling author of The Hilton Head Metabolism Diet comes the only complete diet system that addresses the special problems of age-related weight gain and helps everyone over 35 beat the "fat trap" for good.

Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Brand: Brand: Sourcebooks

Since diets don't work, and so many people have unhealthy relationships with food, the key to weight loss is not what you put in your mouth-it's what goes on in your mind. Brain-imaging technology has shown that thought patterns driven by willpower can actually change the structure of the brain. Using this scientific basis for her program, Dr. Darcy Buehler has helped hundreds of people lose weight and keep it off. In Think Yourself Thin, Dr. Buehler shows readers how to:- Get the right ideas into your mind, so that your will to lose weight works unwanted urges out of the brain's circuitry- Determine the approaches that are effective at slimming you down individually, while helping you grow as a person on the insideThe book includes a 72-minute self-hypnosis audio CD with eight tracks that complement the program in the book.

Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

New consumer technology is empowering us to take control of our day-to-day health. Leading tech writer Richard MacManus looks at what is out there now and what is in development, and what this might mean for our health in the future.Health Trackers tells the story of the rise of self-tracking — the practice of measuring and monitoring one’s health, activities or diet. Thanks to new technologies, such as smartphone apps and personal genomics, self-tracking is revolutionizing the health and wellness industries. Through interviews with tech developers, early adopters and medical practitioners, Richard MacManus explores what is being tracked, what tools and techniques are being used, the best practices of early adopters, and how self-tracking is changing healthcare.The first eight chapters focus on a particular type of, or approach to, self-tracking, for example, diet, daily activity and genetics. The final two chapters look at how the medical establishment is adopting, and adapting to, self-tracking. This timely book covers technologies still early in their evolution but poised to go mainstream, and rather than look at how to use specific gadgets, it focuses on the philosophy and usefulness of self- tracking in its many forms. Many of us are curious about it, but don’t understand the benefits (and sometimes risks) of these tools and practices. With no comparable book on the market, Trackers is the first to focus on consumer technologies and to help ordinary people negotiate the new health landscape.

Manufacturer: Gateway Press Brand: Brand: Gateway Press

Finally, a weight loss book that not only is enjoyable to read, but is also jam packed with "how-to-do-it" based on 20 years of clinical practice and obesity research. The No-Amylose Diet (bet you haven't tried it yet) is a fresh approach to a tired subject that usually features some variation on the wrong-headed ideas that "the way to lose weight is to cut back on calories, avoid fat and get small amounts of exercise regularly." Sorry, we have tried that approach for years and it just doesn't work. Just look at the maintenance rate for patients who use the "expert advice." Less than 10% of patients lose 30 pounds and less than 5% of that group keeps the weight off at 1 year follow-up. That advice is worthless, yet just look at the New Years' resolutions to push away from the table and go for a 30 minute jog. That's no way to lose weight! It won't work for very long.And it can't. Fat storage is a complex process that is based on genetically controlled insulin levels and the response of insulin to the rate of rise of blood sugar following a meal. The controlling factor on insulin release isn't the number of calories we eat, but the effect of those calories on blood sugar. Foods that turn to sugar (glucose) quickly, like all amylose starches, corn syrup (low-fat foods make us fat), maltodextrins and table sugar (sucrose) set off the insulin fat storage machinery like crazy. Most of us with weight problems really aren't self-indulgent overeaters. Most of us hate our extra weight and wish we could eat like those skinny friends of ours who eat more than we do!Lose the Weight You Hate takes us seriously, as well as our obesity related health problems. Cholesterol? Boy, have we been sold a bill of goods! Learn what really is going on with cholesterol (Chapters 10 and 11) before you swallow another statin drug that you might not need. How about the CDC talking about the national explosion of diabetes and obesity? They want us to think it is all because of ou...

Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd

In 1982, Audrey Eyton's international superseller "The F-Plan Diet" took the world by storm. 24 years later she returns with an equally sensational, ground-breaking diet for the 21st century that will revolutionise the eating habits of millions, 'The F2 Diet', where: F2 dissolves excess fat at a faster rate than any other diet based on the same calorie intake; F2 mobilises an 'army' of good bacteria to optimise health; F2 cleanses out the toxins, helps protect against cancers by speedily removing dangerous accumulations of carcinogenic waste; F2 lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and starts to unclog arteries; F2 stabilizes blood sugar levels to help prevent diabetes; F2 guarantees the abundance of nutrients that only good foods can provide, leaving you with healthy hair, teeth and skin; and, F2 enhances your mood and state of mind: headaches, mood swings and sluggishness are replaced by balanced emotions and mental acuity. You will accomplish all the above if you follow the practical but highly effective plan that Audrey Eyton offers. Painless, satisfying and easy-to-manage, 'The F2 Diet' enables you to exchange bad eating habits for good ones whilst ensuring that you never go hungry. The result is permanent weight loss and a massive improvement in the way you look and feel.

Manufacturer: Dutton Adult

WEIGHT WATCHERS COOKBOOK

Manufacturer: Greenwood Brand: Brand: Greenwood

Written in accessible but medically accurate prose, Anorexia provides a detailed explanation of how the diagnosis of anorexia is made, common physical and personality characteristics of those affected by the illness, and both short and long-term complications. Anorexia takes the discussion a step further than similar books on the subject by placing the disease in context with a broad survey of the history of self-starvation from Antiquity to the present, and it tackles the difficult question of whether anorexia nervosa existed before the 19th century or is a uniquely modern disease. The book evaluates in detail the social, economic and cultural environments within which self-starvation has occurred historically, and it analyzes competing theories of the disease's origins―including sociocultural, developmental, biochemical, and genetic hypotheses. The book also provides coverage of several often overlooked topics, such as the incidence of anorexia among young men, and it makes use of the personal narrative of an anorexic throughout to give the reader some sense of what it feels like to have anorexia and what someone with anorexia may be thinking.

Manufacturer: Kyle Cathie; edition (2006-01-05)