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Manufacturer: Random House Audio

Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease was a landmark bestseller that transformed the way we think about our health and well-being. Now Dr. Ornish returns with The Spectrum, a groundbreaking audiobook that helps you determine where you are on the spectrum of health and gives you choices for gaining and sustaining optimum health for life. With his personalized approach, Dr. Ornish brings you the future of medicine today–the tools to customize a way of eating, managing stress, and exercising that is based on your own desires, needs, and genetic predispositions.Your genes are not your fate. New research by Dr. Ornish and his colleagues shows that changing what you eat and how you live may actually alter, for the better, how your genes are expressed. The Spectrum not only gives you a new path to health and well-being, it may also help reverse the worldwide epidemics of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, elevated cholesterol levels, and other chronic conditions. For almost three decades, Dr. Ornish has been leading a revolution in medicine, and his pioneering findings outlined in The Spectrum can make a powerful difference in your health and well-being.

Manufacturer: Atlantida/Argentina

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education Brand: Brand: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Lang

Affect in Foreign Language and Second Language Learning offers high school and college/university second language teachers, or teachers-in-training, practical suggestions for creating activities that take into account learner anxieties, frustrations or discomfort in the language learning process. The objective of the book is to offer concrete instructional approaches for language learning that are rooted in second language acquisition research and, at the same time, that promote a low-anxiety classroom environment. The authors of each chapter are specialists in specific areas of language learning and their essays, composed specifically for this volume, lay the groundwork for continued research on affect in language learning. This text is part of the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series, edited by James F. Lee and Bill VanPatten.

Manufacturer: Capital Books Brand: Brand: Capital Books

Many Americans marvel at the slim-ness of Asian women and wonder what their secret is. Cookbook author Diana My Tran (The Vietnamese Cookbook, Capital Books, 2000), and Registered Dietitian, Idamarie Laquatra, reveal the secrets of the Asian Diet in this unique book featuring a fourteen day diet, more than 100 delicious and nutritious recipes, and a plan for life-long health.

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.