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"In The End of Dieting, Joel Fuhrman M.D., a board-certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity and The End of Diabetes, delivers a powerful paradigm-shifting book that shows us how and why we never need to diet again. Fuhrman writes, 'By reading this book, you will understand the key principles of the...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Demystifies conflicting dietary advice to explain the crucial role of food in health, examining each food group to reveal what popular opinions have gotten right and wrong so that dieters can make informed choices to lose weight and promote wellness.
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Cynthia Sass, New York Times bestselling author of S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim and coauthor of Flat Belly Diet, introduces a new superfood that holds the power to whittle your waistline in no time. Called "pulses, " this unique class of protein-rich carbs includes lentils, chickpeas, and many varieties of beans. By incorporating just one serving of these supershredders into your daily meals, you'll burn more fat, feel more full, and have more energy. The...
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2023.
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"Dr. Li introduces the surprising new science of weight loss, revealing healthy body fat can help you lose weight; your metabolism at 60 can be the same as when you were 20; yo-yo dieting can be good for your health; 8-hour fasting windows can be as effective as 12-hour fasting windows; and losing just a little bit of weight can have big impacts on your health. Eat to Beat Your Diet shows readers how adding the right foods to your diet can heal your...
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, " one of the world's leading experts on how the brain works, comes a practical, prescriptive step-by-step program that reveals ho to boost one's brain in order to lose weight and keep it off for a lifetime.
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"Beck [posits] that when it comes to losing weight, it's not just about what we eat. It's also about how we think. To consistently eat differently, we must learn to think differently. Diets fail us because they don't offer effective strategies for overcoming the common traps--emotional eating, social pressure, dining out--that can derail us"--Amazon.com.
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"A recent study showed that people with cluttered homes were 77 percent more likely to be overweight or obese. Why? Organization pro Peter Walsh thinks it's because you can't make your best or the healthiest choices in a cluttered, messy, disorganized environment. But there's good news: you can change your habits, change you health, and change your life--all in just 6 weeks. [Includes] a room-by-room organizing guide, quizzes to create customizable...
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2014.
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"As a clinical nutritionist over the past three decades working at the country's premier health and wellness centers, Kathie Madonna Swift has worked with thousands of clients. What she has consistently found is that women who want to lose weight nearly always have additional digestive issues, such as gas, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea. Many also suffer from seemingly unrelated ailments like joint pain and troublesome skin. The truly effective,...
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"Americans are losing the battle of the bulge because our bodies and brains are not hardwired to resist food--the very idea of it works against our biological imperative to survive. In [this book], Mann challenges assumptions--including those that make up the very foundation of the weight loss industry--about how diets work and why they fail. The result of more than two decades of research, it offers ... science and ... insights into the American...
12) The diabetes breakthrough: based on a scientifically proven plan to lose weight and cut medications
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Harlequin
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English
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"A senior Harvard Medical School diabetologist and top exercise physiologist share a proven and effective 12-week plan to reverse diabetes, lose weight and ditch the medication for good. "--
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2015.
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English
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"Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. You can't be a woman or girl (or, increasingly, a man or boy) in America today and not grapple with the size and shape of your body, your daughter's body, other women's bodies. Even the most confident people have to find a way through a daily gauntlet of voices and images talking, admonishing, warning us about what size we...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The author of the revolutionary The 17 Day Diet returns with a three-step weight loss program that promotes plant-based eating and other accessible strategies that will effectively reset your bad habits and help you learn how to automatically make healthy decisions for life." -- inside front jacket flap.
15) Camp Sylvania
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"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight ... if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp, and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...
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With insights from notable people in medicine, health, business, the arts, and politics, Brzezinski breaks through the walls of silence and shame we've built around obesity and food obsession and talks openly about how our country became overweight, and what we can do to turn the corner and step firmly onto the path of health.
19) Elevation
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Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too, that he shares with Doctor Bob Ellis. Meanwhile, Scott is at odds with his next-door neighbors, a lesbian couple. They are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock, Maine, want no part of a gay married couple. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face--including his own--he tries to help....
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