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Living Well: 21 Days to Transform Your Life, Supercharge Your Health, and Feel Spectacular
Montel Williams - 2008
In the fight for health and happiness, New York Times bestselling author and talk show host Williams shares his battle plan for better living.
Nourish Glow: The 10-Day Plan: Kickstart a lifetime of healthy eating
Amelia Freer - 2017
She will empower you to challenge any negative stories or attitudes you might have towards food and transform them into a positive lifelong love affair with eating well. The exclusive 10 day plan included in this book is a version of the plan Amelia gives to her clients, which has been developed and refined over her decade of work as a nutritional therapist. It is NOT about deprivation. It is a liberating, energising plan that will equip you with the building blocks needed to develop and implement a lifetime of balanced eating that is unique to you. Leaving behind all the confusion and negativity surrounding diets and healthy eating, this book helps you find out exactly how and what it means to eat well for you, for the rest of your life.This ultimate guide includes over 50 exclusive gluten, dairy and refined sugar free recipes, complete with vegan and vegetarian alternatives. Together with a unique and exclusively curated tool - Amelia's Positive Nutrition Pyramid - which will ensure you are unequivocally nourishing yourself with all of the essential ingredients needed for a happy, healthy body and mind.Give Amelia ten days and she will change how you think about food for life.
Saltwater Aquariums For Dummies
Gregory Skomal - 2007
You get the latest on feeding, tank upkeep, filtering systems, maintaining live rock, and preventing algae build-up, as well as what not to include in your aquarium.
Discover how to
Choose the best fish and equipment
Get your tank up and running
Maintain proper water conditions
Keep your fish happy and healthy
Avoid tank pitfalls
Keep a brackish aquarium
Your Bones: How You Can Prevent Osteoporosis & Have Strong Bones for Life Naturally
Lara U. Pizzorno - 2011
Today, by following the recommendations discussed in this book, she has strong, healthy bones. The medicines prescribed for osteoporosis should be your last choice: not only do they have terrible side effects, they cause retention of old, brittle bone instead of creating new, healthy bone! Your Bones will be an important handbook for anyone wanting to prevent osteoporosis in later life.
Fast Cook: Delicious low-calorie recipes to get you through your Fast Days
Mimi Spencer - 2014
In this stunning new cookbook, Mimi Spencer returns with more than 120 simple nutritious recipes to provide the definitive support system for the 5:2 diet.There are ideas here for everyone, with chapters ranging from Warming & Wonderful (comfort food for hungry days) to Lightning Quick Suppers (speed cooking for when you want to walk in the door and eat in ten minutes flat), along with a whole section devoted to substantial meals for men.Fast Cook is the perfect adjunct to the original Fast Diet Recipe Book, offering a new repertoire of really fast Fast food to help you conquer hunger and lose weight with ease.
Selfish or Selfless: Which One Are You?
Eric Watterson - 2011
Every act can be categorized as either a selfish act or a selfless act. “Selfish or Selfless: Which One Are You?,” discusses how you can discover whether or not you are doing things that are selfish (about your own wants, your own need, and your own desires) or whether you are doing things that are selfless (things that are about other people’s wants, other people’s needs and you do things that benefit others). Do you know which one you are? Have you thought about why you do what you do and how it impacts the people around you? Learn how to discover whether you are selfish or selfless and how to change sides if you need to.
The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures
Lisa Dougherty - 2000
This manual provides that evidence, based on an appraisal of current research and advice from clinical experts.New for the seventh edition:A new chapter on 'Positioning' - how to help a patient sit in bed, to stand and lie comfortablySeparate chapters on 'Assessment and the process of care' and 'Communication'New sections on problem solving, to help nurses during the course of their clinical workEvidence rated to help nurses assess its validity This invaluable companion enables nurses to gain the confidence they need to become informed, skilled practitioners.Now available online to Hospitals, NHS Trusts and Academic Institutions
Leptin Diet
Byron J. Richards - 2006
Mastering the fat hormone leptin is the single most important factor in preventing obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The Leptin Diet contains five simple lifestyle guidelines to get the hormone leptin into balance for permanent weight loss, increased energy, and optimum health. What is Leptin? Fat cells produce the powerful hormone leptin, a primary force instructing metabolism, weight loss, and hormone balance. Leptin communicates directly to your brain, telling the brain how much fat is in storage. It controls appetite, energy, and metabolic rate. Leptin problems are the primary reason for food cravings, overeating, faulty metabolism, the obsession with food, and heart disease. Read The Leptin Diet and notice the difference!
For the Love of Scott!
Jo Hamilton - 2011
She taught her family how to read Scott’s medical chart and to ask pointed questions, no longer leaving his care to the medical professionals who had overdosed him with drugs to the very brink of death in less than three days.“Jo, you have to tell people what they’ve done to me. You have to tell them!”pleaded her little brother, as he lay writhing in agony.In “For the Love of Scott!”, the author recollects her family’s poignant story of love, bewilderment, and lingering frustration when faced with catastrophic medical mistakes. Read the experiences of Scott Hamilton’s family members as they struggle through a storm of horrific medical errors that could have been prevented and recognize what you need to do when someone you love is faced with life-threatening circumstances created by health experts.It took Jo 27 years to put this heartbreaking event down on paper. Writing opened old wounds and required hours of research and documentation. It forced her family to relive a chapter in their own lives that they desperately wanted closed. Yet, they rallied together to help Jo with her mission to keep that promise.To help further her goals, Jo Hamilton will be donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of her book, to the 1984 Olympic Gold Medal Winner, Scott Hamilton's foundation, The Scott Hamilton CARES Initiative. The Scott Hamilton CARES Initiative was created to help with cancer research, support cancer patients and their families, and find a cure cancer.
Convict Conditioning: Ultimate Bodyweight Training Log
Paul Wade - 2012
Super Juice Me!: 28 Day Juice Plan
Jason Vale - 2014
'Super Juice Me! 28-Day Juice Plan' has been specifically designed for those who need to lose a lot of weight and/or who need to make considerable changes to their health. Jason Vale challenges anyone suffering from overweight or a lifestyle disease, to try it on for size. His most comprehensive juice programme to date comes off the back of his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed film, 'Super Juice Me! The Big Juice Experiment'. In the film eight people with twenty-two different diseases between them, lived on nothing but freshly extracted juice for 28 days. Jason wanted to test what effect, if any, living on a juice only diet for 28-days would have on their diseases and overall health. At the end of the Super Juice Me! Big Juice Experiment every person experienced positive changes to their health conditions; one person even lost 38lbs in just those 28 days. Jason says 'Give Me 28-Days and I ll Give You Back Your Life.' The book contains: The Full 'Super Juice Me! 28-Day Juice Plan', the 28-Day Journal To Track Your Progress, The Right Psychology For Success, Why Medical Drugs Aren t Always The Answer, Exactly What To Do After You ve Been Super Juiced!, a Full Q&A Section plus a Full Shopping List And Much More ..
Diet 101: The Truth About Low Carb Diets
Jenny Ruhl - 2012
Bloodsugar101.com's Jenny Ruhl explains what peer reviewed research and the experience of Successful Low Carb Dieters can tell us about: * How Low Carb Diets Repair Unhealthy High Normal Blood Sugars * How Low Carb Diets Achieve Weight Loss * The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Diet as Revealed by Research * The Facts that Debunk Exaggerated Claims Pro and Anti Low Carb Diets * How the Low Carb Diet Affects Hunger and Hunger Hormones * Low Carb Diet Side Effects and How to Deal with Them * How to Customize Your Low Carb Diet * The Secrets of Successful Low Carb Dieters * The Real Effects of Supplements and Functional Foods * How to Break Through Weight Loss Stalls * How to Maintain a Low Carb Weight Loss for Life Everything you need to know to achieve healthy weight loss on the one diet that really controls blood sugar.
The Food Medic for Life: Easy recipes to help you live well every day
Hazel Wallace - 2018
The Fuel Up section is designed for just that - it is where you will find my recipes for grab-and-go breakfasts, lunches on the run and dinners that take less than 30 minutes to satisfy you after a long day at work! However, I truly believe that when we do have the time to cook a meal, bake some bread and sit down with friends and family to share some food, we should totally embrace those moments. This is where the Power Down section comes in: for when you're not in a hurry, I have included my chosen recipes for lazy weekend brunches, family dinners, breads and teatime treats. This is a cookbook that will help you fall in love with cooking and improve your relationship with food, so that you approach it not only as a source of nutrients, but also happiness, satisfaction and health.Hazel x
Includes more than 100 recipes PLUS:
- 10 'no recipe recipes' for emergency snacks +
meal prep hacks for maintaining a healthy lifestyle when you're busy
- an introduction to Hazel's five store-cupboard saviours, including 10 ways to cook with each one
- a key for special dietary requirements including vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and low sugar
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nutritional advice covering the basics of nutrition, how to meet your 5-a-day and special nutritional requirements for a plant-based diet
- features on how to live well for optimum health, with information on sleep, meditation, mindfulness and mindful eating