Diet Science

What exactly is yoga? How can you practice it, and how does it benefit you? These common questions pop into our minds whenever we hear someone rambling on about the amazingness of yoga.

A hilarious look at the eating habits of the fit and famous - from Gwyneth's goji berry and quail egg concoctions to Jackie Kennedy's baked potato and Beluga caviar regimen - Rebecca Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in her wickedly funny, wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars. Elizabeth Taylor mixed cottage cheese and sour cream; Madonna subsisted on "sea vegetables;" and Marilyn Monroe drank raw eggs whipped with warm milk.

Within the last few decades, several obesity-reducing low carbohydrate diets have come to the public's attention. What few realize is that these are all the grandchildren in thought to William Banting, an undertaker who, in 1864, wrote one short book that launched the first incredibly popular diet for obesity. Banting was immortalized by having his name enter the English language as a verb. Three examples include an Irishman, Captain Boycott, whose name entered the language in the 1860s.

Warming up is extremely important for athletes in all stages of life, and yet it is often the most neglected portion of a work out, simply because it can often become repetitive and boring. This book aims to put the fun back into warm ups by getting athletes moving in new and unexpected ways.

Atheist Yoga is a provocative and mind-bending book that makes the case for yoga's total compatibility with atheism, while simultaneously offering an in-depth explanation of advanced yoga technique. It takes a close look at the full spectrum of yoga methodology and explains how to really advance your practice to higher levels of expertise, delving deeply into hatha yoga, pranayama and meditation while thoroughly exploring esoteric subjects such as Kundalini, tantra, sexual yoga, kumbhaka, pratyahara and yogic trance in sensible and easy to understand practical terms. From a starting point of realism and scientific materialism, it begins to decode and illuminate the ancient secrets of yoga in a way that readers will find highly accessible and enjoyable on multiple levels.

Enough is a practical explanation of the Planetary Health Diet's research, allowing everyone to understand the science and to adopt its recommendations in our daily lives. The PHD specifies the food groups we should be eating. But what does a diet composed of, for example, 30% carbohydrates really look like? Which carbs, exactly? The diet is largely plant-based but does encompass meat and fish - but how many servings?

For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called “The View of Life” for Natural History magazine. More than twenty entries from that column comprise this collection.

Hope Not Nope powerfully moves you towards a more positive existence by equipping you with the tools to update your mindset and become a modern-day champion. In the title and writing the term “Lifelong Athlete” is utilized to imply hope is cultivated in this identity, but also adds a fresh perspective: Hope is not wishful thinking, it’s learned and earned. The “Lifelong Athlete” identity is not just related to competitive events, it’s living out the values of servant-based leadership to achieve wholeness: Health.

In The Book on Heat, Brad Pilon offers new hope to those struggling with their health, weight loss, and disease prevention. This is a guide to the exciting effects that heat can have on the human body, and is a helpful resource for both the avid health enthusiast looking to improve their health and people who cannot exercise due to injuries or other issues. The Book on Heat covers 70-plus years of research on the effects of temperature on the human body. In a clear and easy-to-understand manner, Brad shares his insights from over two decades working as a researcher.

シリーズ累計発行部数80万部突破!体脂肪をテーマに、健康・実用ジャンルで制作する図解シリーズ最新作!

Initialed thousands of years ago, developed throughout the entire history of human civilization, with its origins from the higher divine teaching, original profound medicine, and long history of mind-body-spirit practice, Mind-Body Medicine and Healthology (MBM) is one of the most rapidly advancing and widely used effective healthcare approaches today. It is also one of the most mystifying fields. This book demystifies this profound science and gives you the tools to maximize its wide spectrum of applications.

Este no es un libro de dietas. Es un libro de divulgación sobre obesidad y nutrición que le ayudará a adelgazar y a ser su propio nutricionista. No encontrará obviedades y consejos inútiles como "para adelgazar lo que hay que hacer es comer menos y hacer más ejercicio", conocerá los últimos descubrimientos e investigaciones científicas que le darán las claves para combatir el sobrepeso y cuidar su salud.

Una guía esclarecedora para mantener a raya la glucosa, prevenir alteraciones metabólicas—como la resistencia a la insulina o la diabetes tipo 2—y mejorar tu composición corporal.

In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created. In each chapter Adam reveals the many ways in which biological adaptations that evolved to help us survive and thrive now work against us. For example, in the modern world stress is a killer, but how did 'fight or flight' instincts turn from life-savers to life-takers? Obesity might be a disease now, but is it really just a troublesome side-effect of our complex evolutionary past?

Tras haber estudiado a una población de más de 20,000 personas durante una década, el mayor estudio continuado hecho nunca sobre salud pública en España, el Dr. Martínez-González presenta en un lenguaje claro y ameno lo que la medicina sabe hoy en día sobre algunos de los problemas que más preocupan a los ciudadanos: el control de peso, la dieta ideal, el colesterol, la actividad física, la tensión arterial, los controles de salud, el consumo de alcohol, la adicción al tabaco, el estrés y hasta la felicidad.

On January 1, 2014, homebrewer and writer Derek Dellinger began a journey that would change nearly everything he thought he knew about fermented food and beverage - and as a beer expert, he knew a lot. For an entire year, Dellinger would eat or drink only products that had been created by microbes. Exploring the vast world of fermentation, Dellinger became the living embodiment of its cultural and nutritional power - he became the Fermented Man.

Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For 30 days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary won him resounding applause and a worldwide release that broke box-office records. Audiences were captivated by Spurlock's experiment, during which he gained 25 pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared.

We all know we should eat healthily and care for ourselves, but when life is pulling you in seemingly every possible direction, finding the time to get your nutrition under control can feel impossible. Perhaps you were better at handling your health and well-being in your younger years, but as you have gotten older and life has hit you with more time-pressured demands, you have noticed your nutrition begin to wane. Or maybe nutrition is always something you have struggled with, an issue that has only heightened as your life has become busier and your responsibilities have increased over time.

Este libro contiene información detallada y un sinfín de argumentos para responder a todas esas preguntas sobre veganismo que seguramente te haga todo tu entorno si le dices que has decidido sumarte a este movimiento a favor de los animales.

Un pequeño oasis entre el árido territorio de tantas dietas milagro y/o de moda, promesas falsas y estudios rigurosos. Para mantener una buena salud debes proporcionar a tu cuerpo más de 30 vitaminas, minerales y otros compuestos que este no puede fabricar. ¿Tomas suficiente cantidad de todos ellos? Muchos expertos consideran que no. Su teoría es que la dieta típica de las sociedades modernas, deficitaria en ciertos minerales y vitaminas, podría estar relacionada con la gran prevalencia de algunas enfermedades crónicas actuales. Pero ¿es cierto?