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This groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer and bestselling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case for Keto shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity...
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity...
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La dieta Dash se enfoca en una dieta rica en nueces, vegetales, frutas ricas, lácteos bajos en grasa, carnes magras y muchos granos integrales, por lo que es muy fácil de seguir. La principal preocupación de las dietas Dash es disminuir la ingesta de sodio de sus usuarios.
El estadounidense promedio consume hasta 3400 mg de sodio al día, más de mil miligramos de lo que sugieren las Pautas dietéticas para los estadounidenses, y casi dos mil...
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For fifty years, the medical establishment has preached the same rules for losing weight: restrict calories, eat less, and exercise more. Yet in that time, obesity in the United States has skyrocketed. So why has this prescription so clearly failed?
Based on twenty years of investigative reporting and interviews with more than a hundred practicing physicians who embrace ketogenic (low-carbohydrate, high-fat) eating as the best formula...
Based on twenty years of investigative reporting and interviews with more than a hundred practicing physicians who embrace ketogenic (low-carbohydrate, high-fat) eating as the best formula...
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Your body is in energy balance when your daily energy output is exactly balanced by the energy of the food you consume. In this lecture, you will learn about the caloric content of food and how to choose specific foods to help you adjust your energy balance for desired body composition.
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Medicine in the 21st century preys on women through performing unnecessary procedures, prescribing excessive synthetic medications, and making diseases out of normal changes in a woman's life. The current standard of care for women manufactures fear and anxiety that drives women to comply with harmful treatments and in doing so women go against their own intuition and inner guidance. One and a half billion women will become menopausal by the year...
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Prepare to have everything you thought you knew about "roti" and healthy eating, challenged. In a time of rampant obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other health conditions that relate to physical inactivity, this book highlights how eating carbohydrates is experiencing modernisation.
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When Elise learns that a University of North Carolina scout will be watching and her soccer team play in a few weeks, she resolves to do her best in hopes of getting into the same college her parents attended. Upon noticing some of her teammates are doing better than her, however, she begins taking performance-enhancing drugs and descends down a dangerous path.
10) Keeping the moon
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Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
11) I get so hungry
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When her teacher suffers health problems because of her weight, Nikki, who is always getting teased about her size, decides she wants to live a healthier lifestyle.
12) Lazy Weight Loss
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This book contains practical advice on how to stay healthy and fit even if you are lazy.
Because you're reading this, it's clear that you want to change your lifestyle, including your current physical and mental health. That is admirable. Being mentally and physically healthy is essential, which is why this book will discuss how to live a healthy life without becoming a gym rat. You'll learn a lot from this book, including how to stay healthy and...
13) Lose it Forever: The 6 Habits of Successful Weight Losers from the National Weight Control Registry
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Lose Weight and Keep It Lost
Don't rely on your neighbor's latest gym stories or diet fad. Lose It Forever is a cutting-edge self-help audiobook based on data from the National Weight Control Registry. Inside, you'll learn what's worked for the thousands of others trying to lose weight fast—and keep it there.
Proven weight-loss and maintenance strategies.?Despite the overflowing bookshelves of dieting tips and
...14) Lose it Forever: The 6 Habits of Successful Weight Losers from the National Weight Control Registry
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Don't rely on your neighbor's latest gym stories or diet fad. Lose It Forever is a cutting-edge self-help book based on data from the National Weight Control Registry. Inside, you'll learn what's worked for the thousands of others trying to lose weight fast-and keep it there.
Proven weight-loss and maintenance strategies. Despite the overflowing bookshelves of dieting tips and health books, the U.S. remains the most overweight country in the world....
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¿Sientes que estás constantemente luchando una batalla perdida contra la comida?
¿Te has sometido recientemente a una cirugía de banda gástrica?
Millones de personas en todo el mundo luchan contra su peso y tratan de encontrar una forma de liberarse de las consecuencias de la adicción a la comida. Muchos recurren a la cirugía de banda gástrica, pero aun así, luchan por mantener a raya sus antojos, lo que podría provocar un aumento de peso...
19) Stupid Cupid
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Tired of her mother urging her to diet, twelve-year-old Maddy finds the motivation to lose weight after meeting a handsome new student.
20) Skinny
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After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.