Food Wellness

Ditch the labels and embrace positive, healthy practices for eating, exercising, and living an authentic life - your way! Deciding to improve your health, your consciousness, and the world can seem so overwhelming that you don’t know where to begin. Author and actor Alicia Witt isn’t here to dole out lists of dos and don’ts, but she is here to show how adopting the “small changes philosophy” allows you to find balance, eat healthier, and feel better physically and emotionally.

Say goodbye to overcooked and underseasoned vegetables. Learn to enhance them with flavor-boosting cooking methods and complementary ingredients. Get every recipe right the first time with easy-to-follow instructions, explanations of lesser-known ingredients, and handy tips from pro chefs.

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.

A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes as many as 100,000 deaths per year. And yet salt is everywhere in our diets - in packaged food, fast food, and restaurant meals. Why hasn't salt received the sort of attention and regulatory action that sugar and fat have? In Salt Wars, Michael Jacobson explains how the American food industry has fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.

Living a dye-free life involves making conscious choices about the foods you consume and the products you use. Educating yourself about common harmful dyes, such as Red 40 and Yellow 5, can help facilitate better decisions for a healthier home and lifestyle.

Discover the tools, knowledge, and inspiration to create a brighter and healthier future with a sugarless, more vibrant life! Indulgent desserts, tempting chocolates, sweet candies, and the allure of peanut butter cups... Your mouth waters at the thought of the sticky, sweet, and salty flavors that hit the tip of your tongue when you eat these delicacies.

We all know that losing weight is the easy part. It's keeping the weight off that's hard. In Get with the Program!, Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer, Bob Greene, gives you the keys to losing weight and staying fit for a lifetime.

Are you having eating disorders-based challenges and would like to know the possible causes? Would you like to know the possible strategies you could apply to overcome this social and mental-related issue? This audiobook is packed with the necessary information needed to pave the way to guide the listeners in a step-by-step pattern to successfully recovering from these disorders. It starts off by giving specific definitions of terms and symptomatology in adults and teens, classifying disorders alongside their causes and effects.

Do you feel anxious, fearful, or stressed around food? Do you have an uncomfortable, out of control feeling at parties and buffets? Are you constantly thinking about 'eating badly,' and vowing to yourself to do better? Well, there is another way to live, and you can heal the underlying reasons that lead you to 'use' food to cover up uncomfortable feelings. Felicity Garver has been through all this and can help you find freedom from compulsive behavior and overeating. These 10 tips will show you how to end compulsive eating, lose weight, and keep it off.

The Ultimate Body Plan for New Mums is the second fitness and recipe audiobook from actress, presenter and fitness guru Gemma Atkinson. Based on her own experiences, Gemma wants to help other new mums ease their way back into exercise and nourish themselves with the right kinds of food. This is not about weight loss or dieting, or unobtainable workout routines. Instead, it's an audiobook that keeps things real, that focuses on safe post-natal exercises which can be done at home, built into a 12-week Bump to Body Workout and which can be started six weeks after giving birth.

It's time to explore and build new, positive relationships with food, moving away from restriction, deprivation, and obsession with body image. The Intuitive Eating Plan provides you with the information and steps necessary to heal your relationship with food and accept your body's beautiful intuition.

Do you know the secrets of eating healthy, losing weight, and not die trying? This book has everything you need but never found before. Most of us wasted our time, energy, and money trying workout plans, signing up for diet regimen - but all to no avail. Understand what is primarily important and ditch the nonsensical advice and the culture of consumerism with flashy advertisements and ubiquitously brilliant colors brought to you.

Having a healthy relationship with your body and food needs not be difficult. Discover how to battle your insecurities by binge eating to feel more comfortable in your skin and love yourself as you are, and finally regain control of your life and your self-confidence without attempting one short-lived diet after the other.

An estimated 32 to 48 million Americans and many more worldwide have IBS, or think they have it. This audiobook presents groundbreaking insights into the cause of IBS that have led to the recognition of and testing for a new disease, allergic contact enteritis, that can help and in many cases cure people who carry a diagnosis of IBS.

THIS IS NOT A WEIGHT-LOSS DIET! Timebomb is a revelation involving an avoidable national health epidemic more pervasive that anyone could have imagined and touching as many as 80 percent of all Americans—whether they know it YET or not!

The clear-eyed, clear-headed lightness and energetic feeling that the combination of fresh nutrients jam-packed into certain little-known superfoods can bring you is not something you won’t want to miss experiencing. But energy is not the only benefit of eating healthy, nutrient-dense superfoods! It is common to see mood improvements, health improvements, and automatic weight loss once these nuggets of nutrition are incorporated into your diet.

Many people believe that they are destined to lose their memory or even develop Alzheimer’s disease and that they cannot stop this inevitability. These people are wrong! It’s true that there is an “Alzheimer’s gene,” and that having this gene can increase your risk of developing the disease. However, the power to change how your genes affect you and control your risk of age-related cognitive decline is really in your hands! The secret is in the foods that you consume every single day.

Answering questions like "why are so many vegetables green?", "what's the difference between brown bread and white bread?", and "why do beans make you gassy?", cheerful haiku poems and a simple Q&A format make this book a nutritious treat. The information in this book aligns with both the USDA's MyPlate guidelines and the Harvard School of Public Health's Healthy Eating Plate guidelines.

Knowledge is the key. The Leaky Gut - The FODMAP Diet Made Easy: Simple Solutions for IBS and Bowel Disorders is the resource that will teach you how to: identify foods that cause bowel discomfort, provide you with simple and easy food plans designed around the FODMAP Diet, and show you how you can take control of your health. IBS and bowel disorder systems effect more than 10 million adults in the US, and for many it is just an unpleasant aspect of their daily lives.

Voted top 43 naturopathic doctors worldwide, best-selling author Dr. Ameet Aggarwal, ND, minimizes your strain of losing weight. You will find affordable ways of reducing weight, fat, water retention, and toxicity using the best foods, supplements, herbs, and natural remedies.