Eat: The Effortless Weight Loss Solution

by Ian K Smith    (Find this book)

in a way that helps you have the body and lifestyle you deserve to enjoy. In "EAT," Dr. Ian Smith has created a blueprint for you. It's a flexible and intelligent plan you can follow every day, in every situation--eating out, working late, traveling, cooking for the holidays--and that will urge your body to perform at its peak. You'll drop any excess pounds you need to lose. You won't worry about what you "can" and "can't" eat, but will listen to yourself and eat smart.

Dr. Ian's Ten Simple Rules for Good Eating tell you what the experts know:

--Follow the Rainbow: if you eat color, you're getting vitamins and minerals in the right package
--Carb Heaven: don't ban carbohydrates--or any nutrient group!
--The Whole Truth About Whole Grains: they may not be what you think they are, and you should be eating them all the time
--Feel Full Fiber: it's magic at every meal
--Protein Bonanza: all proteins aren't equal
--Spicetopia: 5 of the tastiest and healthiest spices in the world
--Size Matters: how to portion, and secret calories you don't know about
--You are What You Drink: the miracle liquid and drinks that can wash out good eating
--Unearthing the Organic Truth: it's not always healthier
--The Power of Snacks: they can help you lose weight!

Cut to the chase with Dr. Ian's "EAT" Plan at the end of each chapter, or become your own expert by reading from start to finish. Either way, "EAT" is not about denial. It's about permission....to live, to fuel your strong body, to eat!  -- Publisher Marketing

Nutrition for Dummies ( For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback) ) (5TH ed.)

by Ann Carol Rinzler    (Find this book)

Get the facts on good nutrition, slim down, and feel great

You've been hearing it since you were a little kid: "You are what you eat." But unlike most adages you've long since debunked, this wise saying is true! Good nutrition is the key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and lifelong good health?no matter how you slice it.

"Nutrition For Dummies" is a one-size-fits-all guide to nutrition for anyone who may have fallen asleep in health class, wants to brush up on what they already know, or is looking to keep up-to-speed on the latest guidelines and research. It shows you how to manage your diet so you get the most bang (nutrients) for your buck (calories) and gives you the skinny on how to put together a healthy shopping list, how to prepare foods that are good for the body and soul, and ten easy ways to cut calories.More than 20% new and updated information for this edition, including the truth about feeding your brain, vitamin D supplements, and energy drinks.Coverage of the new 2010 Dietary Guidelines For Americans report. Other titles by Rinzler: "Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies"

An apple a day may not necessarily keep the doctor away, but with the simple guidance of "Nutrition For Dummies," you can be on your way to living a happier, healthier ever after. -- Publisher Marketing

   

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

by David M Eagleman    (Find this book)

An up-to-date examination of what used to be called the mind-body problem.

Eagleman (Neuroscience/Baylor Coll. of Medicine; Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, 2009) makes the point that our sense of ourselves as coherent, free-standing personalities is at odds with the most basic findings about the workings of the human brain, an organ so complex that an objective description of it sounds hyperbolic. Instinct, unconscious impulses, automatic systems, emotion and a dozen other forces, most of which we aren't even aware of, affect every thought and action. The book is full of startling examples; split-brain research, for example, shows how the two halves of a mind can be completely at odds, with neither being aware of what the other experiences. Nor are those of us with "whole" brains and a complete set of senses necessarily experiencing the world "as it really is." For example, other animals experience a different part of the visual spectrum, or can detect sounds and odors we have no awareness of. A significant segment of the population—about 15 percent of women—sees colors the rest of us can't. Our brains work differently when learning a skill and after it's become second nature – it's one thing to drive to a new place, another to drive a familiar route, and our brains work much harder doing the former than the latter, when we can go on "automatic pilot." There are lessons to be learned from various mental disorders, as well. Victims of strokes affecting certain parts of the brain may claim that they are operating at full capacity when they are clearly not; one former Supreme Court justice was forced to retire after displaying these symptoms. Eagleman has a wealth of such observations, backed up with case studies, bits of pop culture, literary references and historic examples.

A book that will leave you looking at yourself—and the world—differently. -- Kirkus Reviews

Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives

by Dean Buonomano    (Find this book)

With its trillions of connections, the human brain is more beautiful and complex than anything we could ever build, but it's far from perfect. Our memory is unreliable; we can't multiply large sums in our heads; advertising manipulates our judgment; we tend to distrust people who are different from us; supernatural beliefs and superstitions are hard to shake; we prefer instant gratification to long-term gain; and what we presume to be rational decisions are often anything but. Drawing on striking examples and fascinating studies, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of these "bugs" in terms of the brain's innermost workings and their evolutionary purposes. He then goes one step further, examining how our brains function-and malfunction-in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special effects-addled world that we have built for ourselves. Along the way, Brain Bugs gives us the tools to hone our cognitive strengths while recognizing our inherent weaknesses. -- Publisher Marketing  

The Inside Tract: Your Good Gut Guide to Great Digestive Health

by Kathie Madonna Swift    (Find this book)

More than 60 million Americans suffer from digestive disorders such as gastroesophageal reflux disease and irritable bowel syndrome. In "The""Inside Tract," a comprehensive plan for overcoming these common digestive ailments, you'll learn how a simple regimen of dietary changes, supplements, and a 7-step lifestyle modification program can help heal intestinal problems and get you on track to vibrant health! --Publisher Marketing

Joy Bauer's Food Cures: Eat Right to Get Healthier, Look Younger, and Add Years to Your Life (Revised)

by Joy Bauer    (Find this book)

Comprehensively updated with cutting-edge research and expertise from one of the country's foremost nutritionists, "Joy Bauer's Food Cures" shows you how common health concerns- from beauty issues to life-threatening diseases- can be managed, treated, and sometimes even cured by the foods you eat. Inside you will find easy-to-follow 4-step food prescriptions, customizable and convenient meal plans, and delicious recipes for your favorite meals and snacks. With Joy's wisdom and practical, medically sound advice, you will learn how to use food as nature's ultimate medicine.-- Publisher Marketing

Never Fear Cancer Again: How to Prevent and Reverse Cancer

by Raymond Francis    (Find this book)

Most cancer research dollars have been wasted by asking the wrong questions, looking in the wrong places, and recycling the same failed approaches while expecting different results. Conventional cancer treatments damage health, cause new cancers, lower the quality of life, and decrease the chances of survival. In fact, most people who die from cancer are not dying from cancer, but from their treatments!
That's the bad news. Here's the good news: We can end the cancer epidemic. In "Never Fear Cancer Again," readers will gain a revolutionary new understanding of health and disease and will come to understand that cancer is a "biological process" that can be turned on and off, not something that can be surgically removed or destroyed with radiation or toxic chemicals. So whether cancer has already been diagnosed or if prevention is the concern, it is possible to turn off the wayward production of these malfunctioning cells once and for all by reading this book and implementing its strategies.
The key to any disease has one simple cause: malfunctioning cells that are created by either deficiency or toxicity. By switching off the malfunctioning cells, you switch off the cancer. "Never Fear Cancer Again" guides readers along six pathways that cause deficiency or toxicity at the cellular level: nutritional path, genetic path, medical path, toxin path, physical path, and the psychological path. By making key lifestyle changes, people truly have the power to take control of cancer and transform their health. This radically different, yet holistic approach restored author Raymond Francis back to health just as it has helped thousands of others, many of whom were told they had no other options or that their cancer was incurable. Take back your health with this book and never fear cancer again. -- Publisher Marketing