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Health Food Junkies : Orthorexia Nervosa: Overcoming the Obsession with Healthful Eating
The first book to identify the eating disorder orthorexia nervosa–an obsession with eating healthfully–and offer expert advice on how to treat it.As Americans become better informed about health, more and more people have turned to diet as a way to lose weight and keep themselves in peak condition. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa–disorders in which the sufferer focuses on the quantity of food eaten–have been highly documented over the past decade. But as Dr. Steven Bratman asserts in this breakthrough book, for many people, eating “correctly” has become an equally harmful obsession, one that causes them to adopt progressively more rigid diets that not only eliminate crucial nutrients and food groups, but ultimately cost them their overall health, personal relationships, and emotional well-being.Health Food Junkies is the first book to identify this new eating disorder, orthorexia nervosa, and to offer detailed, practical advice on how to cope with and overcome it. Orthorexia nervosa occurs when the victim becomes obsessed, not with the quantity of food eaten, but the quality of the food. What starts as a devotion to healthy eating can evolve into a pattern of incredibly strict diets; victims become so focused on eating a “pure” diet (usually raw vegetables and grains) that the planning and preparation of food come to play the dominant role in their lives. Health Food Junkies provides an expert analysis of some of today’s most popular diets–from The Zone to macrobiotics, raw-foodism to food allergy elimination–and shows not only how they can lead to orthorexia, but how they are often built on faulty logic rather than sound medical advice. Offering expert insight gleaned from his work with orthorexia patients, Dr. Bratman outlines the symptoms of orthorexia, describes its progression, and shows readers how to diagnose the condition. Finally, Dr. Bratman offers practical suggestions for intervention and treatment, giving readers the tools they need to conquer this painful disorder, rediscover the joys of eating, and reclaim their lives.

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Soy Smart Health: Discover The Super food That Fights Breast Cancer, Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Menopausal Discomforts and Estrogen Dominance
For years, Americans have overlooked the many health benefits of eating soy, but now soy products are appearing on store shelves all over the U.S. – and not just as tofu or meat alternatives. Every day new studies are added to an already vast body of research showing that soy can decrease the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis, as well as help relieve premenstrual and menopausal symptoms. Drawing on the authors’ collective experience of over 80 years, Soy Smart Health accurately and easily breaks down the latest soy research, details how using soy can markedly improve your health, and includes dozens of delicious, easy recipes guaranteed to make you a soy lover! No matter how much have heard about soy, this book will provide answers to all your questions concerning soy’s health benefits, safety and proper use.

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Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition
At last, a book about eating (and eating well) for health — from Dr. Andrew Weil, the brilliantly in-novative and greatly respected doctor who has been instrumental in transforming the way Americans think about health. Now Dr. Weil — whose nationwide best-sellers Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health have made us aware of the bodys capacity to heal itself — provides us with a program for improving our well-being by making informed choices about how and what we eat. He gives us all the basic facts about human nutrition. Here is everything we need to know about fats, protein, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins, and their effects on our health. He equips us to make decisions about the latest miracle diet or reducing aid. At the heart of his book, he presents in easy-to-follow detail his recommended OPTIMUM DIET, including complete weekly menus for use both at home and in restaurants. He provides eighty-five recipes accompanied by a rigorous and reliable nutritional breakdown — delicious recipes reminding us that we can eat for health without giving up the essential pleasures of eating. Customized dietary advice is included for dozens of common ailments, among them asthma, allergies, heart disease, migraines, and thyroid problems. Dr. Weil helps us to read labels on all food products and thereby become much wiser consumers. Throughout he makes clear how an optimal diet can both supply the basic needs of the body and fortify the bodys defenses and mechanisms of healing. And he always stresses that good food — and the good feeling it engenders at the table — is not only a delight but also necessary to our well-being, so that eating for health means enjoyable eating. In sum, a hugely practical and inspiring book about food, diet, and nutrition that stands to change — for the better and the healthier — our most fundamental ideas about eating.

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Food Swings: Make the Life-Changing Connection Between the Foods You Eat and Your Emotional Health and Well-Being
A breakthrough guide to less stressful living through more conscious eating Food swings—the reactions in your mind and body to what you eat—is Dr. Barnet Meltzer’s eye-opening diagnosis for the crucial link between your diet and your emotional and physical well-being. Now, in Food Swings, Meltzer maps the interplay between harmful food habits and emotional, physical, and mental stress—a downward spiral that inevitably leads to further stress and ill health. He argues persuasively for healthier eating patterns and food choices as the basis for life-long emotional and physical wellness. Meltzer presents a complete program for how to prevent stressful food swings by selecting the foods that are best for you. Included is an in-depth guide to the “personality” of dozens of foods, as well as guides to the foods likeliest to cause anxiety and depression, and those that are the best source of energy. Food Swings will help you reshape your eating habits and show you the key to transcending the temptation to eat foods you know will have damaging effects on your body. In time, you will learn how to eat well and sustain better and higher performance at work, sex and play.

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Super Nutrition for Women : A Food-Wise Guide For Health, Beauty, Energy, And Immunity

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