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Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman come together to create an enhanced Food Rules for hardcover, with a new introduction and new rules, now beautifully illustrated and with even more food wisdom. Michael Pollan's definitive compendium, Food Rules, is here brought to colorful life with the addition of Maira Kalman's beloved illustrations. This brilliant pairing is rooted in Pollan's and Kalman's shared appreciation for eating's pleasures, and their understanding...
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2012
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xx, 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Suffering from chronic illness and unable to get satisfactory results from doctors, husband and wife scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet took an intensely personal interest in health and nutrition. They embarked on five years of rigorous research. What they found changed their lives--and the lives of thousands of their readers. Here the Jaminets explain in layman's terms how anyone can regain health and lose weight by optimizing nutrition, detoxifying...
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[2020]
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333 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Peak Nutrition details 100 simple and delicious recipes within the context of outdoor goals and body science: motivation; recovery; hydration; how our digestive system works; how food provides energy; effects of weather and altitude; the relationship between food, muscle, and cramping; how nutrition relates to physical and mental stress; and more. The authors explore how to develop a healthier approach to eating for climbers, backcountry skiers,...
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[2015]
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"Eat a Balanced Diet! focuses on nutrition while discussing steps children can take to practice healthy lifestyles. Food groups and food selection is presented through engaging text and full-color photographs. Callouts prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of photographs. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2008
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244 p. ; 22 cm.
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
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2014
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ix, 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals here that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health. For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier...
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2010
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xvi, 239 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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Explodes the myth that babies need to be spoon-fed, and shows why self-feeding from the start of the weaning process is the healthiest way for your child to develop. With baby-led weaning (BLW, for short), you can skip purées and make the transition to solid food by following your baby's cues. At about six months, most babies are ready to join the family at the kitchen table and discover food for themselves. This book is the definitive guide to...
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2019.
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viii, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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"Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad -- and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. It's time for a different approach. Enter Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of Nutritionfacts.org. Author of the mega bestselling How Not to Die, Dr. Greger now turns his attention to the latest research on the leading causes...
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[2019].
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272 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"For more than ten years, while caring for more than 20,000 patients, Dr. Ken Berry has been researching the medical myths and outright lies that doctors tell their patients. He's been working to eliminate confusion about topics that affect us all--from the foods you should eat to the medications you should take...This book is the resource you need to distinguish the lies from the facts."--Page 4 of cover.
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2019.
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xv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Finally Full, Finally Slim shows you how to permanently lose weight by right-sizing your portions without eliminating entire food groups or staring at an empty plate. Within these pages, Dr. Young outlines thirty days worth of simple changes to help you shed pounds and provides a portion plan that ensures you will feel satisfied. She expertly describes the relevance of diet to health and steers you toward whole foods and away from clever marketing...
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