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4.0 of 5.0 with 3 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $26.94 69% OFF
Manufacturer: NYU Press
Brand: Brand: NYU Press
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.
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4.0 of 5.0 with 2 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Praeger
Brand: Brand: Praeger
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.
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4.0 of 5.0 with 24 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Grupo Editorial Norma
Manufacturer: Grupo Editorial Norma
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4.7 of 5.0 with 20 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Everroad Publishing Company
Brand: Brand: Everroad Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Everroad Publishing Company
Brand: Brand: Everroad Publishing Company
Now you too can have this famous and proven program that will help you to trim, tone, and flatten your stomach muscles... no matter what your age or fitness level is! --with this simple, easy to follow program!
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4.3 of 5.0 with 63 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of
Manufacturer: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of
This diet aims to help the reader lose weight fast by identifying the foods that make them look and feel falesly fat - and eliminating the allergy-like food reactions that cause real weight gain. It offers an easy-to-follow regime that can be tailored to the individual and contains recipes and the "no-hunger" programme that aims to bring instant results and long-term benefits. If you know you swell up after bee stings, you avoid bees. If you know a close encounter with poison ivy will leave you itching and scratching for a week, you keep your eyes open for three-leafed plants. But, according to The False Fat Diet, many of us spend our entire lives eating foods that "don't agree with us," and as a result carry around extra pounds, put up with allergies, and go through life looking older and feeling less energetic than we should. Of course, the hook here is weight loss. If you eliminate the foods that make you gassy and bloated, you can probably drop pounds instantly--up to 10 pounds of "false fat" in a week, Elson Haas says--and then keep dropping weight in subsequent weeks and months, the real fat, all without feeling hungry or deprived. Haas offers two ways to figure out if you've got food sensitivities: a medical blood test or an elimination diet, in which you cut out certain foods for a while, then gradually reintroduce them to see if they're the ones causing the problems. (The usual suspects: dairy, wheat, corn, sugar, eggs, soy, peanuts.) The False Fat Diet offers detailed instructions on how to eliminate each of these foods, and also offers ideas about supplements to take and other strategies to deal with the strangeness of not eating what are probably your favorite foods. Although the basic idea behind The False Fat Diet is counterintuitive--that the foods you like and crave the most are causing you the most severe physical problems--the potential benefits are enormous. Haas and Cameron Stauth tell numerous stories of patients (including Stauth and his sister) who lost weight instantly, looked younger, and...
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3.3 of 5.0 with 16 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Each year 400,000 pregnant women in the United States get the weight loss surprise of their lives: They lose so much weight after delivery that they weigh less thanthey did before they were pregnant. "The weight just seemed to come off by itself," they say.Want to know their secret? It's in this book--and in your "new mom" body. Contrary to popular belief, losing weight after childbirth is easier than at any other time--if you understand your body's unique postpartum chemistry. For the first time, weight loss expert Sheldon Levine, M.D., reveals the "three trimesters of weight loss" that occur after delivery, and how to lose weight at each stage, no matter how much you weighed before pregnancy:Birth to Three Months Postpartum: The best time to lose weight! The plummeting hormones and elevated metabolism of new motherhood naturally speed the process. Just follow Dr. Levine's simple dietary advice to help ward off the "baby blues" and boost energy, and your body will do the rest.Three to Six Months Postpartum: The key weight loss phase for overweight new moms: You can actually lower your set point--the weight your body "likes" best. Six to Nine Months Postpartum: Good news for overweight nursing moms: Their unique body chemistry allows weight loss to continue, offering a real chance of attaining (and maintaining) a healthy weight.Dr. Levine's simple fourteen-day menu plan is nutritionally sound for new and nursing moms. It increases energy, minimizes food cravings and mood swings, and includes recipes and lifestyle tips. His toning program takes only minutes a day. Both enhance the new mother's physical and emotional well-being.So forget sit-ups! Forget diets! Dr. Levine's new approach works with your body chemistry to make weight loss after childbirth easy, fast--and forever. "The time after delivery is the best time ever for you to lose weight!" writes Sheldon Levine, M.D., in Hello, Baby! Good-bye, Baby Fat! Not only can you lose the weight you gained during pregnancy, you can return to a body that is trimmer th...
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5.0 of 5.0 with 4 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Xlibris
Brand: Brand: Xlibris Corporation
Manufacturer: Xlibris
Brand: Brand: Xlibris Corporation
Book by Cortright, Bill
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4.3 of 5.0 with 171 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Manufacturer: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
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4.4 of 5.0 with 9 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Robinson Publishing
Manufacturer: Robinson Publishing
A bewildering range of vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements are now available, but legislation means that information about their health benefits cannot be given on packaging as it would constitute a health claim. Using an A-Z format, Dr Sarah Brewer's guide details everything you need to know about the main vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements. It describes their benefits, possible side effects and contra-indications, together with research evidence to back their effectiveness. The second half of the book deals with over 150 individual health problems, including irritable bowel syndrome, menopause symptoms, chronic fatigue and arthritis, and suggests which supplements are likely to help.
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4.5 of 5.0 with 2 Reviews
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Manufacturer: DK Adult
A day-by-day healthy diet and exercise plan by one of the top names in fitness. Matt Roberts, personal trainer to the stars, has already shown what he can do for readers in the bestselling 90-Day Fitness Plan and Fitness for Life manual. Now Matt Roberts returns with Fat Loss -- a day-by-day personalized plan to give readers a leaner, toned body in just eight weeks. Combing a home-based exercise program with recipes for delicious low-fat meals, Fat Loss guides the reader step-by-step, day-by-day, toward an obtainable goal with sustainable results-a better-looking, better-functioning body, increased energy levels, and a new sense of well-being and self-confidence.
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