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New York Times Bestseller
What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.
Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating...
What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.
Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating...
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Pub. Date
[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,...
7) Vegetables
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2015.
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"An early reader's introduction to the connections between the vegetables food group and staying healthy, benefits of vegetables such as carrots, nutritional concepts such as potassium, and recipe instructions"--
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Pub. Date
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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Pub. Date
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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Pub. Date
2007
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317 pages ; 20 cm
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Presents a customized approach to dieting that works with one's genetic makeup to maximize overall health and weight loss, explaining how to use family history, blood type, and simple diagnostic tools to determine which GenoType plan is the best.
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Pub. Date
c2012
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xiv, 320 p. : charts, ; 23 cm.
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Vegetables, fruits and grains are a major source of vital nutrients, but centuries of intensive agriculture have depleted our soils to historic lows. As a result, the broccoli you consume today may have less than half the vitamins and minerals that the equivalent serving would have contained a hundred years ago. This is a matter of serious concern, since poor nutrition has been linked to myriad health problems including cancer, heart disease, obesity,...
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