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All her life, Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself: her life was at stake. She tells us how she discovered balance in an off-kilter world, finding beauty in acceptance...
3) The body book: the law of hunger, the science of strength, and other ways to love your amazing body
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English
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Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience. Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down to earth star was not always health conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one...
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LaChance
Pub. Date
2010.
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xxii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Tackling the problems plaguing the US health care system, this guide explores the pitfalls of contemporary medicine and medical treatments, concentrating on diseases linked to poor lifestyle choices, such as obesity and diabetes.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 244 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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When he was almost fifty years old, Tomlinson weighed an astonishing and dangerous 460 pounds. He was at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, and unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Here he chronicles his lifelong battle with weight, hitting the road to meet other members of the plus-size tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
v, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fat Nation is a social history of obesity in the United States since the second World War. In confronting this familiar topic from a historical perspective, Jonathan Engel attempts to show that obesity is a symptom of complex changes that have transpired over the past half century to our food, our living habits, our life patterns, our built environments, and our social interactions. He offers readers solid grounding in the known science underlying...
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Humanix Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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356 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The liver is the most overlooked and misunderstood of all our body's organs. Because of the sudden, potentially fatal consequences of heart attack and stroke, everyone's attention is always focused on the heart or the brain, but without a healthy liver, you ultimately cannot survive; of all your organs, none does more for you than the liver. Still, until something goes wrong with the liver, it's usually completely overlooked. Until now. The Liver...
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