Food Nutrition

In The Food Therapist, Shira Lenchewski offers listeners an ongoing one-on-one food therapy session, revealing the root causes of our emotional hang-ups around food and providing the necessary tools to overcome them. This practical and judgment-free guide helps listeners hone the skills needed to put their get-healthy intentions into daily action, such as planning ahead wisely, tuning into their fullness cues, and harnessing willpower (even when life gets messy).

Addiction makes you the tennis ball in a match between self-loathing and depression. Every binge leads to self-loathing, the self-loathing leads to depression, which in turn leads to more binging. It's time to break that cycle. As a former USA boxing coach and current certified CrossFit trainer with twenty years of experience in the fitness industry and an equal amount of time spent battling sugar addiction, I'll share discoveries from my own experience. The Sugar Demons covers my entire journey from realizing I have an addiction to the moments that put me back in control.

“What’s for dinner"? seemed like a simple question - until journalist and supermarket detective Michael Pollan delved behind the scenes. From fast food and big organic to small farms and old-fashioned hunting and gathering, this young listeners’ adaptation of Pollan’s famous food-chain exploration encourages kids to consider the personal and global health implications of their food choices. The Omnivore’s Dilemma serves up a bold message to the generation that needs it most: It’s time to take charge of our national eating habits - and it starts with you.

Everyone is talking about ketogenic diets now, and for good reason - a low-carb, high-fat nutritional approach is a highly effective way to lower blood sugar and insulin levels, reduce inflammation, increase energy, stabilize mood, and so much more. But far too many people are trying to go keto without shifting the focus of their diet to real, whole foods. That’s what Real Food Keto attempts to educate listeners about, explaining the reasons why whole foods are a critical element in optimizing your pursuit of nutritional ketosis.

During the past several years, doctors at leading institutions across the nation have been investigating the relationship between breast cancer and diet: confirming that what a woman eats can have a dramatic impact on whether or not she contracts the disease. In The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, Dr. Bob Arnot has synthesized this research into an eating program that finally enables women to fight back.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Relax and Enjoy Your Food uses science and a little common sense to take away all that anxiety, and save you some money to boot. Once you let go of some ideas, it all gets simpler. There are no superfoods, no junk foods, and there aren’t even any health foods. There is just food, all of which provides some combination of the same seven basic things that all food does. That’s why the most specific advice you can get is to eat a variety of foods, mostly plants, not too much or too little. That’s it.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 1 in 4 households experienced food insecurity in 2020. These numbers are expected to rise at the same time inflation is causing food prices to climb. Over the last few years, the alarming empty shelves are causing people to worry about scarcity.

If you struggle with binge eating or BED, you are not alone. BED is by far the most prevalent eating disorder. Three and a half percent of women and two percent of men suffer from Binge Eating Disorder during their lifetime. In comparison, anorexia and bulimia each affect 0.6 percent of the population. Despite its prevalence, BED remains cloaked in secrecy and shame. Less than half of its sufferers seek therapy for their eating disorder. However, 30 percent of those seeking weight loss treatments have BED.

High in calories and cholesterol, animal fats and proteins too often leave you hungry and lead to overeating and weight gain. They are often the root causes of a host of avoidable health problems - from indigestion, ulcers, and constipation to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. On the other hand, complex carbohydrates like whole grains, legumes, tubers, and other starches provide your body with essential proteins and nutrients that satisfy the appetite while simultaneously fighting illness.

In Body Love, Kelly LeVeque shared her popular science-based “it’s-not-a-diet” approach to clean eating, weight loss, and wellness, centered on the Fab Four - protein, fat, fiber, and greens. As Kelly (and modern science) has shown, eating the Fab Four balances blood sugar, helps you eat and feel full, and naturally turns off your hunger hormones. Now, Kelly is back with exactly what her fans want: an action plan for adopting the Fab Four lifestyle. Kelly knows that women aren’t all alike.

Do you treat meals and food as a problem in your life? Have you tried countless fads and traditional diets all to no avail? If the answer to even one of these questions is a “yes,” you are in luck. Part 1 of this audiobook describes the ancient concept of mindful eating which helps you conquer your food, weight, and eating problems on your terms. With part 2 of this audiobook, you can finally regain control of your life and your self-confidence without attempting one short-lived diet after the other as you are probably used to.

In the first of this series, Part 1: Herbs, Spices and Sweeteners, you will learn: A full spectrum of choices from "Eat" to "Moderate" to "Avoid" in each food group. The minimum servings of fruits and sweeteners that will keep your blood sugar balanced. Which herbs, spices, and sweeteners are the best choices to supplement your diet. Which ones you may use with moderation and... the ones to absolutely avoid, and why they are toxic to your health.

Could the toast you ate for breakfast bring on your afternoon headache? Could the milk in your coffee cause joint pain and brain fog? Could your healthy tofu stir-fry slow your metabolism? Yes - there is an age-old, powerful connection between what you eat and how you feel. Just as no two bodies are the same, no two diets work for everyone. The only way to discover your ideal diet is to follow an elimination diet that will help you link foods to symptoms and customize a diet that works for you.

For most Americans in the 19th century, it wasn't what you ate, but how much you ate, that mattered. Late in the century, doctors wrote books like How To Be Plumb and the voluptuous woman was the ideal. The famed actress Lillian Russell, considered by many the epitome of beauty, weighed almost 200 pounds. Today, in contrast, Americans seem obsessed with calories, diets and slimness, and with eating healthful amounts of vitamins, minerals, fats, and proteins. What sparked this remarkable revolution in the way we eat.

This audiobook harnesses the power of hypnosis to help you make lasting changes. Designed to target the mind, behavior, and body holistically, it guides you through tailored hypnosis sessions to instill healthy habits, overcome challenges like binge eating and sugar cravings, and build a mindset for long-term success.

You can learn to change your dietary lifestyle step by step until you are fully on the vegan ketogenic diet, and then you will never want to go back again. You will come to enjoy this lifestyle, the energy it provides, the weight loss it promotes, and the health benefits it delivers.

It's time to stop restricting yourself and learn to make your relationship with food healthy—without forcing yourself to eat "healthy." Dietitian Kim Shapira has developed six simple rules that will change your relationship with food forever. In This Is What You're Really Hungry For, she breaks down the science to get your brain and your body on board, replaces fad diets that do not last with a sustainable method that encourages you to eat what you love, and empowers you to be the authority in your own body.

Bread, cereal, and quinoa . . . These healthy foods are all part of the grain group! In this Pebble Explore book, learn where grains come from, what nutrition they provide, and how they help form a healthy diet.

Cucumbers, carrots, and garlic . . . What do these foods from the vegetable group have in common? They’re all healthy! Discover where vegetables come from, what nutrition they provide, and how they help form a healthy diet.

Real superheroes want to do the most good for the most people as possible. In this way, accessible and nutrient-dense food is perhaps the superhero that we most need—particularly when it is easy to prepare and becomes a presence in our everyday lives. Prepare to meet leafy greens, mushrooms, legumes, berries, alliums, spices, sweet potatoes, nuts, seeds, coffee, and tea in a whole new way. Brimming with antioxidants, flavonoids, and other beneficial micronutrients, these superfoods are here for you from dawn to dusk.