Health & Nutrition - Nutrition

101 REASONS WHY I'M A VEGETARIAN provides up-to-date information in an engaging and informed style on the conditions for animals on factory farms, disappearing fish stocks, lagoons of animal waste, high incidences of colon cancer and other diseases and other information from industry periodicals, newspapers, magazines, web sites and other less readily available sources.
A work of prodigious scholarship and dedication written with wit and skill, 101 REASONS WHY I'M A VEGETARIAN is sure to become the reference work for vegetarians who want to give their meat-eating friends one book that explains why they do what they do and for meat-eaters who want to understand all the arguments for a meatless diet.

Andrea Chesman presents 366 creative and full of flavour "natural gourmet" recipes using a wide variety of beans and grains, like basmati and jasmine rice, adzuki beans, amaranth, and quinoa. Organised by course and main ingredient, these dishes range from light and lively starters to hearty and soul-satisfying foods that stick to your ribs but not to your waistline. Favourite recipes are well represented here, but adventurous cooks will be pleased to find ethnic cuisines dominating this mouth-watering collection, including such recipes as: Spicy Vegetable Couscous Pesto Pasta with Cranberry Beans Smoky Black Bean Burritos Jamaican-Style Rice and Peas This wonderful addition to our 366 WAYS series features foods that are among the most versatile and healthful in the human diet, not to mention absolutely delicious. Points to remember: § Recipes are high in flavour, low in fat. § Each recipe includes a detailed nutritional analysis, which counts calories, fat, percentage of calories from fat, protein, fibre, sodium and calcium. § Vegetarian dishes dominate the collection, but healthy variations include salmon, shrimp and chicken

Looking to improve your diet but don't know where to begin? Let the 7-COLOR CUISINE show you the way. Following this book's simple four-step system - which helps you plan menus, shop for top-quality ingredients and prepare and savour beautiful, healthy meals - is like having a personal nutritional coach in your kitchen. And it's as easy as counting your colours. You'll discover how vibrant rainbow hues and warm earthy tones reveal the phytonutrient pedigrees of certain foods. You'll also learn about the valuable healing found in creamy white dairy foods, fish and poultry. An easy-to-follow, flexible colour-based plan guides you to food selections that taste great and help you look and feel your best. It's the perfect antidote for anyone who views food as the enemy or has never experienced dietary satisfaction. Along with extensive menu plans, shopping guidelines and lots of practical tips, the author offers dozens of recipes for tasty dishes that are as nutritionally rich as they are satisfying. Beautiful full-colour photos and an extensive product resource list complete this practical guide. According to the author, "What you eat becomes part of you through digestion. Food can satisfy your deepest psychological, neurological, and social being - provided you choose a variety of high-quality and colourful foods and follow the guidelines found in this book."

The new diet thats taking the health & lifestyle pages by storm!

As featured in: The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times and Marie Claire

The ALTERNATE DAY DIET is based on scientific and clinical studies that show how restricting calories only every other day activates a gene called SIRTI – the 'skinny' gene – which results in reduced inflammation, improved insulin resistance, better cellular energy production and releasing fat cells from around the organs to promote weight loss.

This easy-to-follow two step plan will enable readers to enjoy these remarkable and measurable benefits:
· Lose fat easily and quickly without deprivation, discomfort or stress
· Improve fate metabolism and avoid regaining lost fat
· Slow the ageing process
· Find relief from symptoms of asthma, heart disease, type-2 diabetes, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and menopause-related hot-flushes

The book also includes more than 30 low-calorie, nutrient-rich recipes.

It is no secret that the foods we eat have a direct impact on our health. But did you know that for optimum wellness, the body needs the proper pH balance of acid and alkaline compounds, which are influenced by diet? The problem is that as a society, we tend to consume sugar-laden, highly processed foods that produce acid. This makes us prone to a variety of health problems, from minor skin irritations to osteoporosis.

Bonnie Ross offers a solution with THE AMAZING ACID-ALKALINE COOKBOOK. Divided into two parts, the book opens with pH balance basics, including an explanation of how an overly acidic body wreaks havoc on health. Then Part Two presents ten chapters packed with over 140 recipes for a wide array of perfectly balanced dishes that are both satisfying and delicious. Choose from taste-tempting breakfast favourites, soups, salads, snacks, and sides, as well as impressive arrays of entrées, baked goods, and desserts.

Good health is within your reach. THE AMAZING ACID-ALKALINE COOKBOOK will show you just how easy it is to make delicious meals that will naturally correct your body's pH balance, helping you and your loved ones regain vigour and well-being.

Now revised and updated, this classic calorie and carbohydrate counter is the essential A-Z guide with the most up-to-date, accurate, and reliable calorie and carbohydrate counts for the latest food brands and products.

In THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DIET, author. Kelly Wright. details Franklin's lifetime and diet principles. Recipes for his favourite foods are followed by sample meal plans and the Appendix contains seventy-five recipes from Thomas Tryon's 1691 book, reputed to be the first vegetarian cookbook ever written.

In her genuinely groundbreaking new book on Ben Franklin's superb habits for health and longevity, author, Kelly Wright, points out there's a lot about Franklin you probably don't know, starting with the fact that people's firmly implanted image of him as obese is not at all representative. The more accurate portrait of Franklin on the front cover of this book was painted when the remarkably gifted father of his country—a publisher, statesman, diplomat, scientist, inventor and all-round original creative thinker, a true Renaissance man—was forty-five-years-old and had a tall, lean, muscular physique, the same body he had for most of his life, right into his seventies.

Mens sana in corpore sano – a healthy mind in a healthy body—precisely expresses Franklin's core values regarding his person. He firmly believed in and practised, regular exercise—leaping was one of his favourite workouts—and he was rigorously abstemious when it came to food and alcohol.

Franklin's long health life was most probably a result of how he chose to live and a case can even be made that, besides his genes and natural brilliance, Benjamin Franklin was able to do so many things so well because of his exceptional style of living.

It didn't weight him down and, unlike many in his century; he wasn't walking around in a stupor from excessively heavy meats and fats, not to mention intemperate alcohol consumption. His eating and exercising habits were light-years ahead of his time and when he passed away at eighty-four; his lifespan was almost twice that of his contemporaries. Imagine the ripple effect if Franklin hadn't followed a sober diet and had been a drunk or died of disease at age forty-two like the average man of that time.

References, a list of Resources, and an Index complete this cutting-edge book that, beyond diet, presents Franklin's precepts, sage advice and special viewpoint on living.

This book shows you how to prepare delicious, international cuisine using local and organic foods. Recipes are in line with the diet recommended by the “father of holistic medicine,” Edgar Cayce and we all know a local, organic diet is supportive of the environment. Bobbie Williamson combines her years of international cuisine preparation with advice from the Edgar Cayce readings to help you create healthy, delicious meals that you, your family and your body will love. Bobbie's years of living abroad, in places as diverse as Switzerland and the Middle East, taught her the importance of a diet rich in locally bought, organic and seasonal foods that are naturally healthy. In her warm and engaging style, she shares simple yet priceless advice on how to stock your larder, essential ingredients for any kitchen, proper food combinations and delicious recipes like soulful soups, delightful starters, easy and exotic main courses and show-stopping desserts.