Diet & Weight Loss Books - Page 338

Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Phytochemicals are bioactive compounds found in natural sources, particularly in plant foods. These elements work with the existing nutrients and fiber in fruits and vegetables to boost the body’s immune system to make it resistant to diseases and infections. Filling up one’s diet with fruits and vegetables that are rich in phytochemicals lowers the risk of developing chronic diseases like cancer, heart diseases, and diabetes. Its antioxidant properties also help in protecting the body from free radicals in the environment and the food we eat. As cancer-causing agents are deactivated and controlled, you can live a healthier and happier life. If you want to know more about phytochemicals and its effects on the body then “Phytochemicals: What You Should Know - A Quick Booklet about Phytonutrients” help you learn about: How Phytochemicals Work Most Common Phytochemicals Found in Fruits and Vegetables Carotenoids Flavonoids Sulphoraphane Limonene Indoles Allium Compound Characteristics and Colors of Phytochemicals in Fruits and Veggies Red Green Blue and Purple Yellow and Orange White/ Brown/ Tan A to Z of Fruits and Vegetables that are Rich in Phytochemicals Benefits of Phytochemicals Variety Matters Food Processing and Phytochemicals Phytochemicals as Protection from Diseases Get a copy of this book today and discover how phytochemicals can help you live a healthier life.

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“Expiration Date.” “Sell By Date.” “Use By Date.” “Best By Date.” These are all ways of stating when a food item will go bad. But why are there different terms for the same thing? What does each of them really mean? The terminology used to sell food can be very confusing, yet it’s vitally important to understand because it directly affects your health and your family’s. In contrast to the tricks and ploys used throughout the food industry to sell products, Transparent Food Marketing is a straightforward, easy-to-use reference guide to terms and labels that will help you become a well-informed consumer. Eight chapters cover a broad range of topics, including: Marketing claims Bar codes Antibiotics, hormones, and steroids Claims to humane treatment of animals FDA standards Sanitation in the food chain Expiration dates Tare weights and the Department of Weights and Measures Here you’ll find objective information about what it all means, including learning how to spot fraudulent marketing and sales practices while avoiding controversies such as the effects of GMO foods.

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This National Institutes of Health Publication 11-5166, “What I Need to Know About Cirrhosis,” provides information about Cirrhosis and liver issues – knowing how to prevent issues, knowing the symptoms of issues and knowing how to receive proper treatment allowing you to lead a full, healthy life. Cirrhosis is scarring of the liver. Scar tissue forms because of injury or long-term disease. Scar tissue replaces healthy liver tissue and blocks the normal flow of blood through the liver. A healthy liver: makes proteins, helps fight infections, cleans the blood, helps digest food, and stores a form of sugar that your body uses for energy. A liver with too much scar tissue cannot work properly. You cannot live without a liver that works. But early treatment can control symptoms and keep cirrhosis from getting worse.

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"Atkins Diet 25 Delicious Atkins Recipes To Boost Your Metabolism, Lose Weight, Increase Energy And Feel Great! Do your diets leave you feeling unsatisfied, hungry, and just plain irritable? Have you tried dieting but it didn’t work out because it just seemed impossible to ever feel full or you couldn’t go out to eat? You’re not alone in this. Millions of people have tried and failed dieting; hundreds of thousands of them will try this year and fail again. But there’s a solution to these crazy diets that have you counting every calorie and nibbling on tiny snacks that are unfulfilling and taste awful! The Atkins Diet allows you to eat up to six times a day, as long as you stay in line with the amount of carbohydrates you’re consuming. Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to starve yourself to become the healthier version of you that you want to be! You also don’t have to exercise like a maniac all week long to shed those pounds. The Atkins Diet works based off the science of how your body creates fuel. If you follow this diet, you’re guaranteed to lose ten pounds in the first two weeks! After that, you’ll change your eating habits slightly to include carbohydrates that are healthy for you, and you’ll continue to lose weight at a healthy rate. Have a look for yourself at all the wonderful foods you can eat in this cookbook specifically designed for the Atkins Phase One Diet!

Manufacturer: ROBSON BOOKS LTD

Only now, after his death, is Dr. Robert Atkins being recognized for his groundbreaking work in the field of diet and nutrition. While counting carbohydrates has become an everyday practice for the adherents to a low-carb, high-fat, high-protein plan, Atkins faced a lifetime of adversity from a medical establishment that scoffed at his radical ideas, even though they proved effective. But many questions still remain about the man and his methods: Was he really overweight when he died? Did he really believe everything he wrote, or was he driven by money and fame? And what happened to the Atkins empire after his death? These questions and more are answered in this revealing, fascinating glimpse into the public and private life of a unique and brilliant doctor and promoter who revolutionized the way we think about food.

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Get Fit and Blast Fat on the Atkins and Alkaline Diet Plans For the first time, two books, Alkaline Diet for Beginners and Atkins Diet by Nicole Harrington, are being offered in one collection. Discover how both of these great diets can help you obtain your goal weight and gain a better and healthier life. Description from Atkins Diet by Nicole Harrington The Atkins Diet is based on the basic idea that excessive carbohydrate consumption, especially starches and simple sugars can lead to weight gain. Consequently, Dr. Atkins advocated the consumption of excess fats and proteins as well as the daily consumption of nutrients through vitamins and mineral supplements. This diet also attempts to minimize the production of insulin while inducing the state of ketosis just like other ketogenic diets. Basically, when there is a high amount of glucose in the bloodstream because of excessive consumption of carbohydrate-containing foods, the human body produces insulin that helps to get rid of excess glucose in the bloodstream and then store the same in the muscle tissues and liver as glycogen. It also stores it as fat in adipose tissues (fat cells). Basically, there are four different phases of the Atkins Diet structured to assist dieters learn healthier ways of achieving the best weight loss results. These phases include: 1. The Induction Phase – Created to help the human body break down its carbohydrate addiction; 2. The Ongoing Weight Loss (OWL) Phase – This is intended to slow down weight loss so as to create the foundation for the management of permanent weight loss; 3. Pre-maintenance Phase – This is where dieters prepare as well as acquaint themselves with the appropriate eating habits required to maintain their desired goal weight; 4. Lifetime Maintenance Phase – This phase starts once the dieters have achieved their ideal healthy weight loss target. This Atkins diet overview basically teaches dieters the best strategies to cope with their daily lives. For instance, how to go about...

Manufacturer: Thorsons Publishers

The essential companion for every follower of the Atkins Diet, containing everything you need to know about stocking your kitchen cupboard with Atkins-friendly no-carb foods, while avoiding products devoid of nutrients. Divided into two user-friendly sections, the Atkins Shopping Guide is not only a handy reference source packed full of helpful information, but the listings section, which contains hundreds of basic foods and branded products, will make doing Atkins even easier! Taking you aisle by aisle through the supermarket, Atkins Shopping Guide is the indispensable companion for anyone on the diet. Whether you're just beginning or have spent months maintaining the diet, the guide highlights which foods to buy and which to avoid as you create your lifestyle around the Atkins Nutritional approach. Breaking down foods into groups you should eat regularly, in moderation, or avoid entirely in the market, it also indicates which meals to look for or avoid when eating out, enabling you to live a real life on the Atkins Nutritional lifestyle. Millions of people have discovered the benefits of weight loss, heart health and general well-being from the Atkins Nutritional Approach. Here is the book you need to stock up with the right foods and get your Atkins kitchen started.

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The Atkins Diet is a flexible and workable diet plan to help you lose weight. The Atkins Diet has been used by numerous people for many years and was created by a doctor. Simply put, it works! Many say the Atkins Diet is the ultimate solution to losing weight, keeping it off, and feeling amazing, IIf you want to make sure you achieve your weight-loss or dieting goals, you can use this 8.5"x11" journal for to succeed with the Atkins Diet. This "food and exercise journal" allows you to log everything you eat and drink, mark down the exercise you do, count calories, carbs, etc. and track your progress daily and weekly. There is also a weekly diary page to jot down your thoughts and feelings. The 220 pages contain a full 2-page spread per day followed by a weekly summary. There is enough room for 13 weeks, or just over 3 months of daily tracking. At thev start of the journal you can write down your goals, your starting weight and measurements and there is even room for before and after photos to help your commitment. Studies have shown that conscientious tracking of your daily intake has a positive effect on results achieved and is a superb way to improve your commitment to changing your eating habits. This 220 page personal diet journal will help you set your weight-loss goals, track your progress daily/weekly and ultimately achieve the results you crave. Part of the Notebook not Ebook series with cover design by annumar - “Don't just Count the Days. Make the Days Count!" on a green cover. Our notebooks all have a distinctive and often inspirational colorful cover. The notebook is perfect bound so that pages will not fall out and has a soft yet sturdy cover. To see our full range of notebooks and journals visit us at Spicyjournals.com or click on the Amazon author link for Spicy Journals above.

Manufacturer: Good Books Brand: Good Books

With more than 500 irresistible stove-top and oven recipes for people with diabetes—and everyone else! Each recipe includes its own nutritional analysis and is easy-to-make with readily available ingredients. From the bestselling author of the Fix-It and Forget-It slow-cooker cookbook series and the American Diabetes Association. No need to deprive anyone with diabetes of good food! Cook from Fix- It and Enjoy-It Diabetic Cookbook: Stove-Top and Oven Recipes— for Everyone! and everybody will be happy. This chock-full cookbook offers more than 500 recipes for stove-top and oven, all appropriate for persons with diabetes. What's more—these dishes, with their reduced fats and carbs, are healthy for everyone. New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Pellman Good is back with her signature approach to stress-free cooking. "These irresistible recipes have short lists of ingredients—which are readily available. And the instructions for making each recipe are clear and thorough. These recipes are for cooks who are short on time, and may be short on confidence!" smiles Good. Fix-It and Enjoy-It Diabetic Cookbook comes from a blue-ribbon team. The American Diabetes Association has worked with Good to select the recipes. And they have supplied the Exchange Value and Nutritional Analysis for each recipe. "One more thing to note," comments Good. "These recipes come from home cooks all across the country. They are beloved dishes; the recipes work; the outcomes are already delicious favorites." Who can resist: Mexican Chicken Bake Barbecued Beef Strips Cranberry-Glazed Pork Roast Dried Cherry Salad Stir-Fried Broccoli Crusty Baked Potatoes Frozen Fruit Slush The book includes "A Week of Menus," for those beginning to cook for persons with diabetes, and for those who need refreshing new ideas. Fix-It and Enjoy-It Diabetic Cookbook makes it easy for persons with diabetes to eat as they should. And you can love this cookbook, even if you don't have diabetes. These recipes are fo...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Being overweight dramatically increases the risk of diabetes. Research shows that only a permanent lifestyle change can take weight off and keep it off--and thus prevent diabetes in those who might otherwise suffer from this debilitating and dreaded disease. Living with Diabetes: Dr. Draznin's Plan for Better Health offers a practical and scientifically proven approach to lifestyle change that will stay with you long term: a simple way to lose weight and keep it off, and to prevent or manage diabetes. Filled with anecdotes and down-to-earth advice, Living with Diabetes offers a dramatically different method of weight loss and management based on the refreshingly simple concepts of the Draznin Mile and the Draznin Calorie, two unique strategies that can help you lose weight quickly and safely. For this fully revised and updated edition, Dr. Draznin has incorporated mnay recent research findings in nutrition and weight management advances in our understanding of weight regulation, energy expenditure, and how Americans can learn to change the way they eat. An evaluation of "fad diets" has been added, while statistics on obesity and health have been fully updated. Dr. Draznin also weighs the risks and benefits of surgical approaches such as gastric bypass, and discusses the newest methods of treating diabetes and "pre-diabetes."Drawing on his successful treatment of thousands of overwight and diabetic patients over 30 years of medical practice, Dr. Boris Draznin offers a practical and easy-to-follow plan that will appeal to those who have or or are at risk for diabetes, as well as anyone interested in losing weight in a healthy and sustainable manner.