Exercise, train, and compete at your best on a vegetarian diet. Few segments of the population are more mindful of their food intake than athletes and vegetarians. This book combines the unique demands of sports with a healthy vegetarian diet that can help you build energy and endurance and reduce body fat. Whether you are carbo-loading before a marathon or fine-tuning nutrition to get the most out of your workout, registered dietitian and elite vegetarian athlete Lisa Dorfman provides step-by-step information on how to customize your own sport-specific nutrition program and calculate a personal dietary plan for training The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide includes personal stories of athletes who have made the switch to vegetarian diets–from football players and wrestlers to ice skaters and marathoners, some of whom have beaten life-threatening illnesses with the help of this lifestyle. Lisa Dorfman provides a rich array of tasty and diverse vegetarian recipes, menus, e… More >>
The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide: Peak Performance for Everyone from Beginners to Gold Medalists
A breakthrough exercise solution that thousands of plus-size women are talking about. In just one session a week, certified fitness instructor Rochelle Rice takes you through a series of special routines that can boost your metabolism, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, and make your body more firmno matter what you weigh. You will feel empowered, not pressured energized, not exhausted.”Women don’t have to be thin to be fit,” writes Rochelle Rice. Fitness is not about weight, but about the body, mind, and spirit. Her exercise program, designed for the physical and psychological needs of plus-size women, aims to empower women to get active and reclaim the joy of movement. Real Fitness for Real Women emphasizes exercising for the health and psychological benefits–and the pleasure of it!–rather than for weight loss. Most exercise books, videos, and gyms, frankly, are demoralizing for large-size women. They usually emphasize the goal of slimness, with impossibly slender women … More >>
Real Fitness for Real Women: A Unique Workout Program for the Plus-Size Woman
A commonsense approach to permanent weight loss draws on the latest research to help readers discover why they have not lost weight and to introduce effective methods for losing weight without dieting. Original. IP. … More >>
Diets Don’t Work: Stop Dieting Become Naturally Thin Live a Diet-Free Life
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Four blood types, four battle plans to fight arthritis.
Bestselling author Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo delivers four unique, individualized battle plans for defeating the pain of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and other inflammatory conditions. A new approach to one of the most painful and debilitating health problems…. More >>
Arthritis: Fight it with the Blood Type Diet: The Individualized Plan for Defeating the Pain of Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid
There’s a lot more to a healthy diet than “eating right.”The Nutrition Bible deciphers today’s complex nutritional datafrom additives and antioxidants to vitaminsupplements and genetically engineered foodanddebunks common nutrition myths. From Vitamin A tozingerone, the authors define and explain foods, nutrients, additives, pollutants, enzymes, hormones, and foodrelated diseases and deficiencies, and provide the latestnutritional information and dietary guidelines. At-a-glance charts supply nutrient counts for 1,500 major foods and beverages. This comprehensive volume also features slimmer versions of favorite recipes. Jean Anderson and Barbara Deskins have put together a food reference that is much more than just another calorie counter. From vitamin A, corn dogs, and durum wheat to flounder, nondairy creamers, and zwieback, the Bible covers more than 1,500 major foods and beverages, providing lucid descriptions of what the substances are, how they’re used, and what they’ve go… More >>
The Nutrition Bible: The Comprehensive, No-Nonsense Guide To Foods, Nutrients, Additives, Preservatives, Pollutants And E
Written by some of the most knowledgeable fitness specialists, medical doctors and physiologists around, this guide covers anything and everything there is about physical training and achieving super results. The Navy SEAL Physical Fitness Guide features over 300 tables and figures. … More >>
The Navy SEAL Physical Fitness Guide
Fully revised and updated, this leading dictionary contains over 6,150 entries covering all aspects of food and nutrition, diet and health, including 150 entries new to this edition. From absinthe to zymogens, the volume offers jargon-free definitions that clearly explain even the most technical of nutritional terms, covering types of food (including everyday foods, little-known foods such as payusnaya, and dishes from around the world, from accoub and fair maids to mushy peas and zakuska), nutritional information, vitamins, minerals, and much more. The new edition includes expanded coverage of key scientific areas including genomics, proteomics and metabolomicsand provides recommended web links for many entries, kept up to date and easily accessible via the Dictionary of Food and Nutrition companion website. With useful appendix material, including RDA lists, it is an essential resource for anyone studying, teaching or working with food and nutrition and for those who want to know mor… More >>
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
Introducing a fresh new voice and a simple 8-step program specifically created for college students by a college student—a complete lifestyle guide to eating well and staying fit.
Like many girls, Daphne Oz struggled with her weight as a teenager and couldn’t stick with the extreme restrictions of fad diets. She was able to seize control over her health and her weight only when she recognized the golden opportunity offered by the major transition to college life. With the help of her father and grandfather, both cardiac surgeons, and her grandmother, a homeopathic practitioner, she developed the eating and exercise habits that would help her lose 10 pounds in her first semester. So much for the proverbial Freshman 15! All her friends wanted to know how she did it. Now they, and thousands of others, can.
Daphne’s 8-step program shows college students how to stop eating out of emotional need and examine when, where, and especially what they should eat to keep their… More >>
The Dorm Room Diet: The 8-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works
