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Understanding and applying food science to the bakeshop-now revised and updated How Baking Works, Second Edition thoroughly covers the entire baking process, emphasizing the “whys” at work behind basic techniques. The book takes the user through the major ingredient groups, explaining how sweeteners, fats, milk, leavening agents, and other ingredients affect the appearance, flavor, and texture of the end product. The coverage also includes scaling and measurements, heat transfer, and sensory properties in baking. This revised and updated Second Edition features: Hands-on exercises and experiments at the end of each chapter, with many involving the sensory evaluation of ingredients Expanded coverage of sweeteners, variety grains, enzymes, starch structure and gelatinization, and gluten structure Important coverage of changes to federal laws, such as food allergen labeling Coverage reflecting consumer awareness … More >>

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Follow the Dr Atkins’ Diet and forget counting calories. Watch the fat melt away as a healthier and firmer body emerges. Enjoy more energy as well as freedom from a range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease. Essentially a low carbohydrate plan, the Atkins’ Diet boosts your metabolic rate and once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. Dieting can work, and with this medically proven regime you can lose weight without reducing – or counting – calories. On the Atkins’ Diet you can: -Eat luxuriously and feel completely satisfied -Experience the metabolic boost the Atkins’ Diet provides -Use a maintenance diet that will ensure you never become fat again -Enjoy mouth-watering, gourmet recipes. In this new edition the world’s number one diet expert has updated his proven program for a new century to include; new controlled carbohydrate recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner; brand new case studies and the very latest s… More >>

Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution: The No-hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss Plan That Really Works!

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Created for the dieter who would rather follow science than the latest fad or celebrity, this book synthesizes years of research to present one dependable weight loss plan that really works. Using a combination of consistently proven diet and exercise strategies that require no special props or aids, readers are shown reliable ways to get weight off and keep it off. Information on calculating calorie needs, determining BMI (body mass index), and working out percentages of fats, carbs, and proteins in a diet are offered. The author leaves nothing to hypothesis, giving the truth about cellulite and how to tell when one’s weight is a health risk. Fact is better than fiction where successful weight-loss is concerned and this book delivers all the scientific findings concisely in a convenient format…. More >>

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America’s favorite beauty book is back and better than ever! The World’s Best-Kept Beauty Secrets is a completely revised and updated edition of Diane Irons’ bestselling beauty book. A former model and confidante to the stars, Irons demystifies the hype surrounding costly products and fads of today’s cutthroat beauty industry. From a supermodel’s tips on disguising breakouts in an instant to dropping weight quickly and safely for big events, The World’s Best-Kept Beauty Secrets is a must-have shelf reference for women everywhere. This completely revised second edition includes new information on: € Updated skin care news and information € Current and classic fashion trends € All-new beauty recipes € Revised and up-to-date bargains and freebies € Common beauty questions with Diane’s expert adviceAmazon.com Review
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Everyone knows that The Yoga Sutra is the ultimate source of all yoga. What you may not realize is that this ancient book also contains all the secrets you need to know in order to heal both your body and your heart; to overcome any kind of illness or unhappiness, and reach a place of splendid health, strength, and peace. The secrets of how yoga really works to make us truly whole are revealed here in a delightful story based on how these precious teachings reached Tibet from their home in India, over a thousand years ago. The authors have spent many years in Tibetan monasteries, trained by some of the last great Lamas of Old Tibet, to read and practice the original ancient manuscripts about how yoga works…. More >>

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We’ve all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But the problem is not you, it’s that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped you from listening to your body.

Written by two prominent nutritionists, Intuitive Eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss, and helps you find the weight you were meant to be.

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Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works

Losing weight never felt so good! Using advanced scientific research on the amazing exercise power of making love and on its extraordinary health benefits, research expert Kerry McCloskey reveals the secrets of using one of life’s greatest pleasures to slim down, shape up, and achieve a healthier, more passionate life. After quickly losing 23 pounds on the Ultimate Sex Diet, the author used her newly stunning figure to become a model and television star. This is your chance to discover the 29 sexiest exercises and 61 sensual treats that will make losing weight fun, easy and natural. You will also uncover the 32 passion-igniting secrets that will make your relationship closer and more romantic than you ever imagined…. More >>

The Ultimate Sex Diet: The Super Sex Diet That Works

This volume presents eleven case studies that document how well or poorly health, nutrition, and population programs have reached disadvantaged groups in the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where they were undertaken. The studies were commissioned by the Reaching the Poor Program, undertaken by the Word Bank in cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Dutch and Swedish governments, in an effort to find better ways of ensuring that health, nutrition, and population programs benefit the neediest. These case studies, reinforced by other material gathered by the Reaching the Poor Program, indicate clearly that health programs do not have to be inequitable. Although most health, nutrition, and population services achieve much lower coverage among disadvantaged groups than among the better-off, many significant and instructive exceptions exist. These show that the poor can be reached much more effectively than at present and point to! potentially promisin… More >>

Reaching the Poor With Health, Nutrition, And Population Services: What Works, What Doesn’t, And Why

This could be the most important book you’ll ever read if you, or someone you love, has lupus. Jill Harrington, the author, recovered from lupus over twelve years ago, using a specific diet and lifestyle. And… she’s not the only one. You will read the stories of other people who have done the same thing. It isn’t widely known how much of an effect the foods you eat can have on lupus and other autoimmune diseases. The people in this book have found that diet, sleep and exercise can make a profound difference. This book provides the exact program they followed, so that you can try it for yourself…. More >>

The Lupus Recovery Diet: A Natural Approach to Autoimmune Disease That Really Works

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