Natural Food

Would you like to be healthier and feel better? Would you like to lose weight in the process? Would you like a simple guide and a cookbook to make it easy to follow? Plant-based diets are finally beginning to get their deserved recognition. Following a whole foods plant-based diet is a sure way to achieve a healthy lifestyle that leaves you feeling energized, nourished, and satiated after every meal, when done correctly.

On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than 8,000 acres in Northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters - the Granite Mountain Hotshots - walked together into the blaze, tools in their hands and fire shelters on their hips. Only one of them walked out.

What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer. They explain how we came to drink beer, what ingredients combine to give beers their distinctive flavors, how beer's chemistry works at the molecular level, and how various societies have regulated the production and consumption of beer.

Discover how you can achieve your weight loss goals naturally and healthily without surgery, pricey diet pills, or harmful pharmaceuticals riddled with side effects!

Understand menopause with all its changes and challenges - and choose practices and treatments to make this next stage in your wellness journey healthy, positive, and joyful. Your menopause is unique to you - a milestone on your personal well-being journey. A lucky few will breeze through it, but for most women, this time of hormonal upheavals throws up a variety of challenging symptoms. Understand menopause better and find the right combination of resources for you - to stay physically, mentally, and spiritually well throughout.

Bottled & Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last 100 years - and why we are poorer for it. It's a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than 30 billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales. Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles?

Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance - once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time.

Power outages, natural disasters, such as earthquakes and tornadoes, and even manmade disasters strike without warning. Talks of civil unrest and economic collapse are on the rise, too. By investing in food storage now, you are taking control of your survival and ensuring your family's safety and wellbeing before it's too late. Here's the secret most don't want you to know: food storage isn't about having a lot of food - it's about having the right food.

Want to know about superfoods? Always wondering how you can finally get ahead of everyone regarding what you eat, what is healthy, and where to get it? Though it is easy to think that superfoods are all exotic items from the jungles of different continents, the truth is many of them can be found in your local supermarket. Within this audiobook, you will learn how to use these foods to achieve all your healthy lifestyle goals!

Mary Roach meets Sam Kean and Bill Bryson in this uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world. In The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke takes us on a worldwide journey to meet everyone from a Colombian hippo castrator to a Chinese panda porn peddler, all to lay bare the secret - and often hilarious - habits of the animal kingdom. Charming and at times downright weird, this modern bestiary is perfect for anyone who has ever suspected that virtue might be unnatural.

How do you recognize healthy soil? How much can your existing soil be improved? What are the best amendments to use for your soil? Let Building Soil answer your questions and be your guide on gardening from the ground up. Fertilizing, tilling, weed management, and irrigation all affect the quality of your soil. Using author Elizabeth Murphy’s detailed instructions, anyone can become a successful soil-based gardener, whether you want to start a garden from scratch or improve an existing garden.

Eat healthier, lose weight, and be happy - switch to a vegan diet today! What does it mean to be vegan? It is the same as vegetarianism? Is this lifestyle right for you? In this book, you'll learn the basics of veganism. You'll learn the many reasons for adopting this lifestyle.

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone.

With this comprehensive wilderness food guide, you can guarantee your survival and eat well in the wild. The simple fact of life is - everyone has to eat. But what happens if you get lost in the wilderness without supplies to help you survive...Or a natural disaster suddenly cuts you off from modern conveniences and help services...What if a camping, hiking, or a weekend outdoor trip ends up in an emergency where you have to fend for yourself in the great outdoors...The truth is, you only have a limited amount of time before you become just another statistic.

A lot of couples suffer in silence as they watch the fire of their sexual drive die slowly. Many couples are unaware of the little things that can hinder them from having and enjoying a fulfilling sex life. Things as little as your diet and eating habits can severely lower your libido. As someone very passionate about helping couples enjoy their marriage to the fullest and experience all the benefits of a healthy sex life, I have done a lot of research on diet and its effects on the sex drive.

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 incredible power of herbs and superfoods, which contain far more antioxidants than blueberries. These natural wonders also have anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antibacterial properties that have supported human health for centuries. Imagine boosting your health with simple ingredients already in your kitchen. This guide provides practical knowledge to help you unlock the full potential of nature’s medicine cabinet safely and affordably.

In this follow-up book to A Natural History of Wine and A Natural History of Beer, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall yet again use alcoholic beverages as a lens through which to gain a greater appreciation of natural history.

Over the past decade, Kevin Alexander saw American dining turned on its head. Starting in 2006, the food world underwent a transformation as the established gatekeepers of American culinary creativity in New York City and the Bay Area were forced to contend with Portland, Oregon. Its new, no-holds-barred, casual fine-dining style became a template for other cities, and a culinary revolution swept across America. Traditional ramen shops opened in Oklahoma City. Craft cocktail speakeasies appeared in Boise. Poke bowls sprung up in Omaha.

This book by a distinguished agronomist and agricultural researcher is a factual presentation designed to show farmers how they can increase their crop yields and reduce their production costs so they may enjoy a higher standard of living. Dr. Tiedjens’ More Food From Soil Science provides concrete examples of ways to help cure the agricultural doldrums.