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Are You Sugar Sensitive? Have you ever wondered why you just can’t seem to say no to fattening foods, alcohol or troubling behaviors like overspending and overworking? The answer is not that you’re lazy, self-indulgent or undisciplined. The problem lies in your body chemistry. In her groundbreaking book, Potatoes Not Prozac, Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D., addictive nutrition expert, reveals that emotional troubles such as mood swings or depression often can’t be fought by medication. Her radical new way of finding and maintaining mental and physical health offers instead a prescription for altering our eating habits. Millions of people are sugar-sensitive — which means they have a special body chemistry that reacts in extreme ways to sugar and refined carbohydrates like white bread and pasta. DesMaisons reveals that these “comfort” foods actually provide just the opposite effect, triggering feelings of exhaustion, hopelessness and low self-esteem. W… More >>

Potatoes Not Prozac : A Natural Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Stabilize the Level of Sugar in Your Blood, Control Your Cravings and Lose Weight

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A revolutionary-yet simple and practical-guide to staying fit and healthy based on evolutionary medicine.

Countless books and nutrition experts have advised modern readers to adopt the best of the “cave-man diet” that avoids processed foods and refined carbohydrates. But how and what people eat is only the beginning of what the study of human evolution can teach us about overall health and well-being. Based on the latest research in the burgeoning field of evolutionary medicine, Evolution Rx provides readers with not only an understanding of the underlying science of this discipline but with a practical means to making nutritional and lifestyle changes that address a wide range of topics from exercise and injury prevention to allergies, heart health, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more:

• Why eating more fat, not less, can fuel weight loss
• Why human bodies can’t register fullness when eating carbohydrates-and what to do about itMore >>

Evolution Rx: A Practical Guide to Harnessing Our Innate Capacity for Health and Healing