Food Nutrition

In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding that can help feed an ever-increasing global population and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Critics, meanwhile, call for their banishment, insisting GMOs were designed by overeager scientists and greedy corporations to bolster an industrial food system that forces us to rely on cheap, unhealthy, processed food so they can turn an easy profit.

There is a path to learn how to be one of those "normal" eaters—and this book explains how to get there. Jenn Hand, who has inspired thousands of women through her blog and podcast, outlines how to overcome binge eating, how to find freedom from dieting, and how to, finally, make peace with food. With practical and actionable steps, she offers personal stories, simple strategies, and reassuring words to help you end the diet-binge cycle forever.

Es importante seguir una buena alimentación en la menopausia, no cabe duda. Pero, por desgracia, hay muchos intereses para que las mujeres, durante la menopausia, consuman infinidad de productos, entre los que se incluyen nutrientes, complementos alimenticios y plantas «medicinales», por no hablar de «dietas milagro».

Eat for Heat discusses simple principles on how to make minor changes to your meals and drinking habits to keep your body in a better metabolic "zone" all day every day. It's a tactic that can be applied to any dietary belief system, and can even yield tremendous health benefits to those eating just a regular Western diet. Everyone can benefit from the simple concept put forth in Eat for Heat.

«Ens fa tanta mandra fer el sopar que amb la quantitat suficient de sucre seríem capaços de menjar-nos una caca de gos, trobar-la bona i defensar-ho davant de qui fos. No sigueu bèsties, cuineu!»

The most cutting-edge research on peanut allergy prevention, diagnosis, and treatment is here! Did you know that avoidance of peanuts early in life may actually lead to peanut allergy, the opposite of what was originally believed? Researchers now believe that continued early avoidance of peanut may be behind the steady growth of peanut allergy in the United States and other countries. This surprising new research is among the cutting edge information you’ll find in the third edition of The Peanut Allergy Answer Book.

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.

A todo el mundo le gusta picar, pero no todo el mundo sabe que los snacks pueden ser saludables. Existen opciones nutritivas y deliciosas. Como los niños son más propensos a inclinarse por las golosinas azucaradas, este libro, dirigido a los lectores más jóvenes, les mostrará que existen mejores opciones. Conoce a la Familia de las Frutas. En este libro ingenioso e informativo, los lectores aprenderán qué fruta concreta es útil para cada parte o sistema específico del cuerpo, como la salud cardiaca, la prevención del cáncer, la digestión, la función cerebral y mucho más.

No Work Urban Front Yard Vegetable Gardening Simplified by Joyce Zborower is an easy-to-follow guide for building and planting a new organic gardening bed in the ground right over an old chemical bed, a grassy spot that's never been planted before, a rocky area, container gardening in pots, or in a raised garden bed so you won't have to bend over to harvest your goodies. And once the bed is ready and planted, any further work on your part is very minimal.

It’s hard to know what’s meant to be healthy. If you read the news, you’ll see headlines praising a food one day, and then condemning it the next. You’ll see people selling you miracle cures for conditions that they’ve invented. You’ll realize that powerful industries control the information that’s given the most airtime, and that ultimately, you’re better off trying to find out the truth for yourself.

No matter your body goals, Mind Body and Food offers a proven framework for achieving your goals while keeping a healthy mindset. This book reveals practical strategies that will teach you how the mindset connects to our body and the food we eat. It highlight and explains in details the relationship between the mind, body, and the food we eat.

How much would you pay for a magic pill that made you lose weight so that you can feel confident and sexy? Most people would pay a lot. But you know what? That pill exists. And it’s free. The only cost is that you don’t put food in your mouth during your fasting window, typically around 16 hours per day and that you eat a ton of good fat. How weird does that sound? Not eating, but when you do eat, you eat fat? The ketogenic diet and fasting have revolutionized the weight loss industry in the last few years.

There are so many books preaching on and on about eating disorders, telling you not to eat or to go on yet another strict diets, that will only make you want to binge even more, but this book is different. Food is a wonderful thing and we cannot live without it, yet it can cause us problems too, but the good news is that the addiction can be overcome. If you are someone who struggles with overeating, binge eating on unhealthy and junk foods, or feel addicted to sugar, this book is for you.

To eat consciously is not about diets, fads, or hard-and-fast rules. It’s about having straightforward, accurate information to make smart, thoughtful choices amid the chaos of conflicting news and marketing hype. An expert on food’s impact on human and environmental health, Sophie Egan organizes the book into four categories—stuff that comes from the ground, stuff that comes from animals, stuff that comes from factories, and stuff that’s made in restaurant kitchens. This practical guide offers bottom-line answers to your most top-of-mind questions about what to eat.

Blending history, reporting, and a deep understanding of farming and food production, Foodopoly is a shocking, revealing account of the business behind the meat, vegetables, grains, and milk most Americans eat every day, including some of our favorite and most respected organic and health-conscious brands. Hauter also pulls the curtain back from the little-understood but vital realm of agricultural policy, showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists.

Decades of dieting have created a culture where women are afraid of food and no longer know how to eat the way nature intended. Despite evidence and research that shows dieting does not work, it remains a multimillion-dollar industry and continues to be the only solution presented when faced with the question, "How do I create a balanced relationship with food?" Becca Clegg, LPC, CEDS, proposes a radical alternative: to improve your relationship with food, you must first improve your relationship with yourself.

A Belgian chocolate cake topped with a velvety homemade mousse catches your eye on the menu. The next thing you know, you've ordered it - despite the hefty price. But do you know why? Through over 40 compelling questions, this book explores how our eating decisions tread the line between conscious and subconscious, and enables us to be more intelligent about food. With expert insights that draw from psychology, neuroscience, popular culture, and more, learn to see the innumerable influences behind your diet and cravings.

This is not just another diet book—it is intended for those interested in learning easy steps to living GMO-free. Monsanto Corporation continues to strive to be the world's one and only food supplier. Discover the medicinal benefits of foods, herbs, and GMO-free healthy recipes for the whole family to enjoy.

Don’t just eat your veggies. Love to eat them - every day! You know that vegetables are good for you, but you’re still struggling to eat them regularly. You would like to take better care of your health, but there’s always something standing in the way: little time for shopping and cooking, a lack of knowledge of what to eat, or your taste buds protesting the change. Eating veggies doesn’t have to be hard, and you too can learn to love eating them every day. It all comes down to some simple, but powerful actions you can take today to transform your health.

17 Jahre, nachdem Morgan Spurlock in der Kult-Doku Supersize Me den McDonald's-Selbstversuch wagte, versuchte es Harald Sükar genau andersherum: In diesem Buch zeigt er mit einem unter ärztlicher Begleitung durchgeführten Experiment, warum Fast Food mit den richtigen Zutaten sogar gut für die Gesundheit sein kann und wie er selbst in nur sechs Wochen zehn Kilo mit nichts als Burger, Pizza und Co. abgenommen hat. Dazu liefert er Rezepte zum Nachkochen für die gesunden Alternativen zur ungesunden Versuchung.