Healthy Food

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.

In March 2010, The Scripps Research Institute released a study showing that rats on a junk-food diet had just as difficult a time - if not more so - giving up excess fat and sugar as the rats who were struggling to recover from cocaine dependence. The results showed that certain foods actually alter the brain's chemistry, making our consumption of these foods less like an indulgence and more like an addiction. Dr. Dow, a psychologist who specializes in addictive behavior and eating disorders, here introduces a four-week program for breaking the hold that food has over the body, mind, and spirit.

The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens covers all aspects of keeping pet chickens in a beautifully illustrated, no-nonsense format. Kathy addresses everything needed to keep chickens simply, including coops, chick care, breed selection, chicken health, and beyond!

This book is a guide to finding foods that boost your metabolism, and learn about the disrupters that slow it down, along with tips and strategies on maintaining a lifestyle to speed up weight loss. From eating out to healthy swaps, this book will make you believe that becoming healthy is easy.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to win the war against poor eating habits. By teaching you ways to eliminate bad stuff from entering your body, you will be able to control your diet and achieve better quality of life. With a few simple steps, some willpower, and discipline, you will be well on your way to living smarter, eating better, and shedding pounds in a matter of days.

Acacia seeds, goji berries, kale, the world seems to discover a superfood every week. There's so much talk about them in the press that the word itself seems to have no meaning. What's a superfood then really, do they even exist? This books addresses those questions and more.

Gundry says that a plant protein called lectin is responsible for obesity, and many autoimmune disorders. Gundry offers a diet that eliminates lectins, GMOs, and other toxins. This diet will allow people to reduce weight, improve health, and eliminate a wide range of conditions including diabetes, heart disease, lupus, and more. Lectins are plant toxins. Plants evolved lectins as poisons to discourage insects from eating plant seeds or other parts of the plant. Lectins are in most plants, and can cause sickness in humans.

Losing weight is partly about trusting our innate abilities, as we do when we ride a bicycle. Surely we cannot remember the fear we felt the first time we tried to ride a bike, but through putting in the effort, we managed to learn and automate the process. Well, the same goes for hypnosis and meditation—learning to suppress certain impulses will help us lose weight.

Hypnosis works by reprogramming our brain and completely transforming our beliefs around weight loss, food, exercise & healthy habits! By transforming these beliefs (which have often been holding us back for decades) you will then have the foundation in which a healthy life, with sustainable & natural weight loss becomes VERY possible!

In the last few years, researchers around the world have reported the importance of keeping the acid-alkaline balance in your body to maintain good health. While thousands of people are trying to balance their body's pH level, until now, they have had to rely on guides containing only a small number of foods.

Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out is a revolutionary, individualized program that teaches us how looking and feeling great are just a few simple choices away. No more bossy diets or impossible exercise routines. Instead, Mariel divides healthy living into four foundational areas where we can isolate the issues we all face and start making the best decisions for our life.

After working with thousands of clients over two decades, functional nutritionist and food psychology specialist Sue Van Raes knows that food is not just about food. More than ever, our relationship with food highlights other areas of our lives that need our love and attention. Her eight-step system combines the latest science and psychology with practical guidance to help anyone learn to cultivate self-trust based on their bodily sensations and organic intelligence.

A través de la filosofía alimenticia que cambió la vida de millones de personas gracias a sus libros anteriores, Haylie nos vuelve a demostrar que la comida es la mejor herramienta no sólo para bajar de peso de manera duradera, sino para curar malestares diarios -como la indigestión-, padecimientos que probablemente creías incurables -como la presión alta- e incluso trastornos autoinmunes que ni en consulta médica logras resolver. Y lo mejor es que tendrás que seguir sólo una regla: ¡cómete tu medicina!

What if you could lose as much weight as you wanted WITHOUT spending money on pills, powders, weird diet food, or even exercise? The Code Red Revolution is all about taking your life back by eating real food and giving your body what it needs—water, high-quality nutrition, and plenty of sleep. Maintaining a healthy weight doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, when you keep it simple and just follow a few basic rules, the weight comes off naturally (even if you have health challenges). Most weight-loss books and plans teach you one magical way to lose weight, but they don’t take into account just how wonderfully individual we all are. This book shows you how to integrate the simple-but-effective program recommendations into your daily life.

You’ve put on a ton of weight. Your self-esteem is not what it used to be. You feel like your peak has passed and that makes you feel defeated. With the plethora of workouts and diets in the market, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. Yes, you want to lose weight. But who knew it was this hard! We feel you! And you’re not alone. Hundreds of women are on the same boat. Yet, they managed to make a crucial shift and kept the extra pounds off…for good!

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.

Discover the best of raw-alkaline combo and nourish yourself with easy and tasty recipes! It's not about eating less! It's about eating right. Forget about starvation diets, unrealistic cleanses or going hungry. You can restore balance, create vibrant health, lose weight and prevent many diseases just by adding more raw alkaline foods into your diet. The good news? You don't have to be perfect!

This book provides tried-and-true methods for lowering your risk of developing heart disease by consuming heart-healthy foods.

Oftentimes, people get frustrated when trying to lose weight because they focus on everything except for this one thing. The reality is that weight loss doesn’t have to be complex or hard to achieve.

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.