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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What is the "best" diet? Do calories matter? And when it comes to protein, fat, and carbs, which ones are good and which are bad? Food writer and cook Mark Bittman and health expert David Katz, MD, answer all these questions and more in a lively and easy-to-read Q&A format. Inspired by their viral hit article in Grub Street--one of New York magazine's most popular and most-shared articles--here Bittman and Katz share their clear, no-nonsense perspective...
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Buettner proposes that you may transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as 'Blue Zones'--those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people: [Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California; and Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica]-- Amazon.com.
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English
Description
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals here that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health. For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
"The Paleo Diet will work wonders. Dr. Loren Cordain demonstrates how, by eating your fill of satisfying and delicious lean meats and fish, fresh fruits, snacks, and non-starchy vegetables, you can lose weight and prevent and treat heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, and many other illnesses. Breakthrough nutrition program based on eating the foods we were genetically designed to eat-lean meats and fish and other foods that made...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
What makes a healthy brain? The answer is simpler than you think! In The Sugar Brain Fix, a thoroughly revised and updated edition of Diet Rehab, Dr. Mike Dow takes a deeper look at how sugar affects brain chemistry. Sugar releases serotonin in the brain, a "feel-good" chemical that makes you want to keep eating more. But recent studies have shown that sugar is actually shrinking the brain, resulting in a smaller hippocampus and a host of other issues,...
9) Oils
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A basic introduction to the health benefits of oils. Intended for kindergarten through third grade students"--Provided by publisher.
10) Vegetables
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A basic introduction to the health benefits of vegetables. Intended for kindergarten through third grade students"--Provided by publisher.
11) Fruits
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Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A basic introduction to the health benefits of fruits. Intended for kindergarten through third grade students"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Suffering from chronic illness and unable to get satisfactory results from doctors, husband and wife scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet took an intensely personal interest in health and nutrition. They embarked on five years of rigorous research. What they found changed their lives--and the lives of thousands of their readers. Here the Jaminets explain in layman's terms how anyone can regain health and lose weight by optimizing nutrition, detoxifying...
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Language
English
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Description
Starting with the wild plants that were central to our original diet, investigative journalist Robinson reveals the nutritional history of our fruits and vegetables, describing how 400 generations of farmers have unwittingly squandered a host of essential fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
18) Nutrition basics
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Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016, c2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nutrition Basics helps readers understand and trace the history of nutrition, explore the science behind it, and discuss controversies from an objective viewpoint.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Eat for Life is the first book to showcase Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Nutritarian Diet in full--the most practical, balanced, and focused way to eat, lose weight, and live longer. Emphasizing high-nutrient, whole plant foods that supply abundant amounts of micronutrients. Most Americans are deficient in micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and consume too many macronutrients (calories). Natural, colorful plant foods contain the largest assortment of micronutrients,...
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