Kategoria BISAC: Health & Fitness >> Diet & Nutrition - Nutrition

The glycemic load is a ranking system for carbohydrate-rich food that measures the amount of carbohydrates in a serving. The glycemic index indicates how rapidly a carbohydrate is digested and released as glucose (sugar) into the bloodstream. Using the Glycemic Index is a proven method for calculating the way carbohydrates act in your body to help you lose weight, safely, quickly, and effectively.

The second edition of The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies presents this system in an easy-to-apply...

eaten around the world. An enlightening look at optimizing and maintaining your health with legumes.

Hiromi Shinya, MD points the way to a new vision for health care. After 45 years as a practicing physician and having examined over 300,000 people in the United States and Japan, Dr Shinya tells us exactly what to do to be healthy, stay healthy and cure disease the natural way.

In Super Immunity, world-renowned health expert and New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live Dr. Joel Fuhrman offers a nutritional guide to help you live longer, stronger, and disease free.

Dr. Fuhrman doesn't believe the secret to staying healthy lies in medical care--rather, the solution is to change the way we eat. With more than 85 plant-based recipes, a two-week menu plan, and lists of super foods that boost immunity, Dr. Fuhrman's proven strategies combine the latest data from clinical tests, nutritional research, and results from thousands of...

Clean is an M.D.'s program designed to be easily incorporated into our busy schedule while providing all the practical tools necessary to support and rejuvenate our bodies. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives, we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.

Expanded Edition Includes:
New Introduction - New Recipes - How to Become Clean for Life

Take charge of your well-being, improve your health, feel younger, and live longer

The Nutrition Almanac offers you reliable information based on the latest scientific discoveries as well as an expanded section on essential vitamins and minerals and their amazing benefits. All the nutritional information you need is here, so enhancing and maintaining good health is easy

Eat better. Live longer.

• Learn how what you eat can affect more than 100 common ailments
• Discover rich sources of vitamins and minerals in foods at your supermarket...

"The evergreen subject of American gluttony and sloth brings out the best in scientist-advocates, and the authors, while drawing on a mountain of statistics and studies, make their indictment both funny and appalling."
--Publishers Weekly

"Brownell and Horgen uncover some of America's biggest diet hazards and how to avoid them."
--Self magazine

"This is a fascinating, empowering must-read filled with practical ways to take action."
--Shape magazine

"Food Fight is . . . an important contribution to the discourse around the...

Practical ways to manage and treat polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) through diet and other self-management techniques

Offering simple steps to living a symptom-free life with PCOS, this reassuring guide takes a natural approach designed to respect the delicate balance of the female body. It will help a reader clearly diagnose her condition and tailor a personal plan to manage and eliminate symptoms. It offers a 7-Step Diet to control one's cycle and beat PCOS, information on how to protect one's fertility and conceive, the best supplements and herbs to manage symptoms,...

What's making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions.
Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century--none more damaging or misguided than the -calories-in, calories-out- model of why we get fat--and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we...

"This valuable book makes sense of how food and eating may be misused and become entangled with emotions as a way of dealing with them."
Dr Helena Fox - Clinical Psychiatrist for Channel 4's Supersize vs Superskinny and for the eating disorders unit at Capio Nightingale Hospital

"I have never read...