Food Nutrition

Food has the power to temporarily alleviate stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring us comfort when we need it most. It's no wonder experts estimate that 75 percent of overeating is triggered by our emotions, not physical hunger. The good news is you can instead soothe yourself through dozens of mindful activities that are healthy for both body and mind.

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.

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.

Do you crave unhealthy foods or overeat when you're stressed, bored, or lonely? These and other food triggers not only have an emotional and physical basis, they can also become a spiritual battle. In this groundbreaking book, certified health coach Amber Lia exposes 31 common food-related struggles that trap people in unhealthy thinking and eating patterns.

In Live Nourished, Shana Spence starts by exposing diet culture for what it is: a patriarchal, capitalist mindset that is engrained in countless aspects of our society, and that keeps us from living healthily and joyfully. It’s a systemic belief that equates fitness, health, and thinness with worth and assigns food a moral value. And it’s a belief that pervades our society.

Growing older is inevitable. Aging is preventable. In Grow a New Body Cookbook, 9+ delicious, nutrient-dense, plant-based recipes will help you go back to an ancient way of eating that promises to help you on the road to lifelong health. Shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo will show you how to turn your kitchen into a shaman's laboratory so that you can grow potent probiotics to upgrade the health of your biome. Alberto dives deep into the science of why how we eat now is wreaking such havoc on us-and how we can reverse the damage.

The key to weight loss isn't calories. It isn't fat. It isn't protein. It isn't even carbs. You can count them, cut them, and swap them all you want, but you won't lose weight if you're eating foods that your body can't tolerate. And the most common diet foods - like egg whites, wheat bread, and fat-free yogurt - are some of the worst offenders. These "healthy" foods are actually making you fat! In this book, celebrity nutritionist and fitness expert J. J. Virgin pinpoints the 10 foods that sabotage weight loss. Just by eliminating these 10 diet saboteurs, listeners will see incredible results.

Dr. Joe Pizzorno is convinced that lifelong good health rests on two key determinants: your exposure to toxins and your ability to process them in your body. While lifestyle, diet, and genetics all play major roles in well-being, many symptoms of declining health and chronic disease are rooted in toxic overload - our exposure to a barrage of chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, electromagnetic frequencies, and pollution that are the byproducts of modern life.

Did you know your physical, mental and emotional well-being depends on your gut health? The healthier your gut, the better you are! With the gut as a central axis of vigor, health coach Dimple Jangda has helped people all over the world recover from chronic diseases through a powerful combination of ancient Ayurvedic science, modern research and nutrition with a special emphasis on food chemistry. In this comprehensive book, she shares the tools that shaped her life and advises on how you can use food to preserve your health and reverse diseases.

No wonder it's so hard to lose weight, our bodies are designed to keep weight on at all costs; it's a matter of survival. It's embedded in our DNA. Our diet has changed dramatically over the past ten thousand years, but our genetic blueprint has not, our bodies are not designed to process the types of food we are fed today.

In this audiobook you'll learn everything you need to know to prevent and reduce inflammation and improve your health by following the anti-inflammatory diet. You'll discover what chronic inflammation is and how to stay healthy and avoid all the problems it causes. You'll also find a detailed list of foods that are good for your health, and that you must include in your anti-inflammatory diet, along with the affect each one will have on your body.

Never before have we had so much information available to us about food and health. There's GAPS, paleo, detox, gluten-free, alkaline, the sugar conspiracy, clean eating.... Unfortunately, a lot of it is not only wrong but actually harmful. So why do so many of us believe this bad science? Assembling a crack team of psychiatrists, behavioral economists, food scientists, and dietitians, the Angry Chef unravels the mystery of why sensible, intelligent people are so easily taken in by the latest food fads, making brief detours for an expletive-laden rant.

Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly 6,000 different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these - rice, wheat, and corn - now provide 50 percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still.

Are you seeking plant-based recipes that are hearty, homey, delicious, and easy to make? Do you want simple tips to add plenty of essential nutrients to your meals to improve your energy, immune system, and overall health? Ocean Robbins, founder and CEO of Food Revolution Network, and Nichole Dandrea-Russert, MS, RDN, decode the nutrients we all need—not just protein, fats, and carbs, but also fiber, omega-3s, and essential minerals like selenium, calcium, and zinc—and provide you with the knowledge to make a plant-based diet work for you.

You are about to discover why Yoshinori Ohsumi’s research on autophagy was so good that it earned him a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine and how you can benefit from this Nobel Prize-winning discovery to live a long, healthy life! To a layman, the concept of autophagy, when broken down into its constituent words “auto” meaning automatic “phagy” meaning “eating” may sound a bit scary and creepy. This audiobook will explain everything to help you to understand how to tap into the power of autophagy to set yourself up for a long, healthy life.

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.

Fat, Stressed, and Sick makes the case that processed food compromises health not just because of added sugar, salt, and fat, but also because these foods contain significant amounts of glutamate—aka MSG. MSG makes food deliciously addicting. What was not well-known until described here is that most of the MSG in processed food is created during food manufacturing. As the authors show, food processing of protein alone adds ten grams or more a day of MSG to the average American diet.

How to get shredded without exercising, even if you've tried all of the other diets out there. When you listen to this audiobook, you’ll get the following: What is the carnivore diet; what is fasting; the problem with most diets; who shouldn't try fasting; background and science of fasting and eating animal-based foods; myths and misconceptions about fasting; the countless health benefits of fasting; what is autophagy and how is it related to fasting; your first month of fasting; how to start fasting; and what to do when you mess up.

Building on the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of his enormous best seller Spontaneous Healing and presenting the kind of practical information that informed his 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Dr. Weil provides us with a program for improving our well-being by making informed choices about how and what we eat. He explains the safest and most effective ways to lose weight; how diet can affect energy and sleep; and much, much more.

If you ask Dr. Megan Rossi about the best investment you can make in your future, she’ll tell you: Look after your gut. Seventy million Americans suffer from gut-related issues, diagnosed or otherwise. But it’s not just about gut symptoms: Whatever our wellness goals are - weight management, improved fitness, healthier skin, stronger immunity, or even happiness - gut microbes can be our best allies.