Sustainable Health

Lead in lipstick? 1,4-Dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they've kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the quest that led a group of health and environmental activists to the world's largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions....

Don’t sign up for weight-loss surgery until you’ve read this guide! Between eating “healthy” and spending hours sweating in the gym, getting the scale to go down even a tiny bit takes loads of effort and patience. But imagine if you lost up to 70 percent of your excess weight in just one year. That’s the power of bariatric surgery. While there are some risks to the procedure, you can minimize these risks by taking the four simple steps outlined in this guide. With the right information, you’ll be able to lose the weight you’ve been struggling to put off once and for all.

More than a fitness and nutrition audiobook, the 90-Day Habit Transformation shares candid principles that positively translate to your career and personal success, with an emphasis on sustainable wellness practices.

Leading experts, including academics from the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School of Boston, agree that the plant-based diet is the healthiest lifestyle for our body and has the lowest impact on our environment.

Rebel Vegan Life: Plant-Based Nutrition and Beginner’s Guide is the ideal manual for creating a whole vegan lifestyle - and creating it in your way. It’s not hard to be vegan. With Rebel Vegan, it is easy and delicious.

Imagine a calming guide that demystifies the often-overwhelming world of herbal remedies and natural medicine, empowering you to overcome health challenges and unlock a wellness-infused lifestyle. Introducing your blueprint for total wellness through the profound yet beautifully simple world of herbal remedies and natural medicine.

Have you struggled to stick with a nutrition or training plan long enough to see your desired results? Or perhaps you’ve devoted time and effort to your training but are frustrated because you’re not seeing the tangible changes you really want. If either scenario sounds familiar, then Find Your Stride is for you. In it, avid runner and fitness writer Emily Rudow explains why there’s no universal formula for fitness success, and how trying to stick to a rigid plan with no flexibility for individual needs causes us to veer off our well-intentioned paths.

Author and YouTuber Zoey Arielle opens up about her struggle with loving all the things in life we bring home. A hoarder in disguise, Arielle has mastered the tools needed to embrace simplicity and the minimalist philosophy. Life can stress anyone out. So, by embracing minimalism, you’ll be saying good-bye to stress and everything that you never needed anyway. Discover a greater focus and true freedom as you live your new life with a real sense of gratitude for everything and everyone around you.

Are you sick of people coming up to you and oversharing their unwanted opinions about weight and diets? Maybe, you have even started avoiding social gatherings as a result? And, don't get me started on the occasional sad, binge eating, especially late at night in front of the TV, or when you are feeling bad, lonely, or bored. Listen up! It does not have to be this way. Food addiction has been on the rise for decades, and weight-related deaths, illnesses, mental and social dysfunctions, and the base cost to the nation is climbing exponentially.

Trying to lose weight and failing can be incredibly demoralizing, but with Intermittent Fasting for Women, you can lose weight and learn to keep it off, no matter who you are or what your circumstances are! Intermittent fasting is not, strictly speaking, a diet. There are no tricks and no quick wins that will eventually disappear. Instead, what you will find is an audiobook that provides you with insight into and advice on how you can lose weight safely and consistently, and most importantly, keep it off!

In a world where Flashy Fitness Fads and False promises run rampant, "Fraudulent Free Fitness" emerges as a beacon of truth, exposing the deceitful practices of unqualified fitness influencers. Renowned Fitness Trainer RickyResults dismantles the mirage of quick fixes and miracle solutions, empowering listeners with the truth they need to reclaim control of their health journey.

Worried about keeping your family safe in a disaster? Overwhelmed by the sheer amount of prepping advice out there? This book is your all-in-one solution, offering clear step-by-step guidance to ensure you’re ready for anything. The Prepper’s Survival Bible has got you covered: with food stockpiling, DIY home defense, essential first aid, and so much more.

As I placed my bare feet on the cool, moist soil, I grabbed my garden shovel, stepped over the small fence, and soaked in the mild breeze and beautiful rays of the spring sun that rained over me. The five peppers my daughter had planted from seed had outgrown their container and needed a new home. My front yard garden was the perfect place. As I dug into the soil, placing the first plant into the ground, I felt calm. I felt peace, I felt still, I felt that this was something many people needed.

With this unique combination of two appreciative relaxation techniques you can come to peace and balance effectively in a wide variety of life situations. The areas of application of the progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) and the autogenic training cover stress-conditioned and complaints accompanying with emotional stresses, e.g. like depressions, chronic pain, sleep disturbances, unrest, burnout, hypertension, phobias, migraine and headache.

An innovative and eye-opening look at Health and fulfillment, being green symbolizes more than integrating plant-based foods into our diets, incorporating holistic and natural-based approaches into the healthcare system, or being environmentally-friendly via a green footprint−being green symbolizes the steps we take along our journeys to improve, grow, and progress like seeing the green light in traffic.

Was hat der Inhalt unseres Gemüsefachs mit moderner Pflanzenbiologie zu tun? Warum ist die Tomatenzucht auf dem Balkon ein Ringen gegen die Natur? Und weshalb müssen auch Pflanzen geimpft werden? Der Pflanzenbiologe und Science Slammer David Spencer erzählt unterhaltsam und anschaulich von unserem täglichen Obst und Gemüse und seinem faszinierenden Leben. Er ist sich sicher: Wenn wir das Hightech-Wissen aus der Forschung mit Ökolandbau kombinieren, können wir zu einer grünen Landwirtschaft und klimafreundlicher Ernährung gelangen.

If you are like me, you are itching to pack your bags and go traveling again. This audiobook will illuminate the science behind the Covid-19 numbers, what the cruise ship industry is doing, or not doing, to regain your trust and why airplane travel is safer than a budget hotel. It will draw you into a discussion of the trends for domestic and international travel including virtual airline travel, trends in the RV industry, and provide further resources to consult before you dust off your passport and hit the road less traveled.

Those extra pounds can be stubborn - but now’s the time to beat them to the curb! Are you sick and tired of trying diet after diet…only to be disappointed every time you get on the scale? Do you feel drained and lazy throughout the day because you’re not getting the nutrients you need? With the help of this simple diet, you can finally take in the nutrients your body needs to thrive…all while losing weight in the process.

In Zeiten des Klimawandels sollten wir endlich damit beginnen, über unseren Tellerrand hinauszuschauen. Vor allem aber auch auf das, was auf dem Teller liegt. Es gibt eine einfache Lösung, um das ganze Bündel an Umwelt- und Klimaherausforderungen in den Griff zu kriegen: den Veganismus. Mit veganer Ernährung könnten 49% des emittierten CO2 eingespart werden. Das Zauberwort heißt hier Transformation: Wir müssen unsere Nahrung besser und gesünder produzieren und können so unseren Planeten retten!

Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely make over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical and his ecological footprints. After many false starts, he believes that writing a book about the experiment is the only possible way to help him lose weight and go green.