The South Beach Diet Cookbook

Author: Arthur Agatston
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1579549578
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
A companion to "The South Beach Diet" presents more than two hundred recipes that demonstrate how to eat healthfully without compromising taste, outlining the diet's basic philosophies and sharing personal success stories.

Academy Of Nutrition And Dietetics Complete Food And Nutrition Guide, 5th Ed

Author: Roberta Duyff
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544520599
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 817

Book Description
The newest edition of the most trusted nutrition bible. Since its first, highly successful edition in 1996, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Complete Food and Nutrition Guide has continually served as the gold-standard resource for advice on healthy eating and active living at every age and stage of life. At once accessible and authoritative, the guide effectively balances a practical focus with the latest scientific information, serving the needs of consumers and health professionals alike. Opting for flexibility over rigid dos and don’ts, it allows readers to personalize their own paths to healthier living through simple strategies. This newly updated Fifth Edition addresses the most current dietary guidelines, consumer concerns, public health needs, and marketplace and lifestyle trends in sections covering Choices for Wellness; Food from Farm to Fork; Know Your Nutrients; Food for Every Age and Stage of Life; and Smart Eating to Prevent and Manage Health Issues.

Protein Power

Author: Michael R. Eades
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 030757380X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Join the thousands who have experienced dramatic weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and improvement or reversal of the damages of heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and other major diseases by following this medically proven program. Protein Power will teach you how to use food as a tool for • Dramatic and permanent weight loss • Resetting your metabolism and boosting your energy levels • Lowering your “bad” cholesterol levels while elevating the “good” • Protecting yourself from “The Deadly Diseases of Civilization” (including high blood pressure and heart disease) And best of all, Protein Power encourages you to • Eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon, and burgers), cheeses, and eggs • Rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!) • Stop shocking your body with breads, pastas, and other fat-inducing carbohydrates So prepare yourself for the most dramatic life-enhancing diet program available!

Low-Carb Dieting For Dummies

Author: Katherine B. Chauncey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118068793
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
Reduce your weight, your cholesterol, and your blood pressure Get the facts about carbs and get serious about improving your health Curious about going low-carb? This plain-English guide explains the latest research behind reduced-carbohydrate diets, dispelling the myths and revealing how to navigate your way through the good and bad carbs to create a diet plan that works! You get delicious recipes and lots of tips to make your low-carb diet a success. Discover ho to: Stock a low-carb kitchen Prepare 75 tasty low-carb recipes Eat right while dining out Create both meat and vegetarian dishes Incorporate exercise into your day Maintain a low-carb lifestyle

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living

Author: Jeff S. Volek
Publisher: Beyond Obesity LLC
ISBN: 9780983490708
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
A definitive resource for low carbohydrate living. Trading up from sugars and starches to a cornucopia of nutrient-rich, satisfying, and healthy foods.

Why We Get Fat

Author: Gary Taubes
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307474259
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Taubes stands the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head.” —The New York Times What’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid? Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management. Complete with an easy-to-follow diet. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions.

Life Without Bread

Author: Christian Allen
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780658001703
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Based on more than 40 years of clinical research, this illuminating book unravels the mysteries of nutrition and shows how a low-carbohydrate/high protein diet can help prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, as well as increase strength, endurance, and muscle mass.

The New Atkins for a New You

Author: Dr. Eric C. Westman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439190283
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
The international bestseller that offers a low carb lifestyle that's more flexible, more effective, and easier to maintain than ever before—this solid research-based diet promises and delivers success! Think you know the Atkins Diet? Think again. This completely updated, easier-than-ever version of the scientifically-proven Atkins diet has helped millions of people around the world lose weight—and maintain that weight loss for life. The New Atkins is... Powerful: Learn how to eat the wholesome foods that will turn your body into an amazing fat-burning machine. Easy: The updated and simplified program was created with you and your goals in mind. Healthy: Atkins is about eating delicious and healthy food—a variety of protein, leafy greens, and other vegetables, nuts, fruits, and whole grains. Flexible: Perfect for busy lifestyles: you can stick with Atkins at work, at home, on vacation, when you're eating out—wherever you are. Backed by Science: More than 50 studies support the low-carb science behind Atkins. But Atkins is more than just a diet. This healthy lifestyle focuses on maintenance from Day 1, ensuring that you'll not only take the weight off—you'll keep it off for good. Featuring inspiring success stories, all-new recipes, and 24 weeks' worth of meal plans, The New Atkins for a New You offers the proven low-carb plan that has worked for millions, now totally updated and even easier than ever.

The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet

Author: Grant Brinkworth
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN: 1760552577
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
BOOK 1 OF THE #1 BESTSELLING LOW-CARB DIET The CSIRO Low-carb Diet is based on a major scientific study that has successfully helped Australians lose weight and improve their overall health. Written for easy implementation at home, this book contains: - a straightforward scientific explanation of why and how the diet works so well - a detailed outline of your daily allowances for carbs, healthy fats and protein - 12 weekly meal plans to help you reduce your carb intake initially, then increase it slightly for dietary flexibility - 80 delicious recipes with all daily allowances calculated and explained - a fully illustrated exercise section to show you how to combine movement with healthy eating to maximise health outcomes. There is also detailed information about the benefits of the diet for those suffering from a range of metabolic conditions, including heart disease, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes. Accessible, affordable and achievable, this is a fully researched approach to better eating and improved health from Australia's peak science organisation. This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds..and How You Can Too

Author: Dana Carpender
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
ISBN: 161673812X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! is a breezy, chatty, non-technical, fun-to-read explanation of low carbohydrate dieting -- why it works, the surprising health benefits, and most importantly, how to "do" the diet. Or, rather, diets,since the book details three very different main approaches to controlling carbohydrates (including the Basic Low Carb Diet, similar to Atkins or Protein Power, and the Mini-Binge Diet, popularized as The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet), plus several variations, finally summing up the basic principles which tie them all together. The point is to give the reader the tools necessary to construct a new way of eating that will fit his or her body, psyche, and lifestyle, thus allowing them to stay slim, energetic, and healthy for life.