Nutrition | Indian Prairie Public Library District

1) The angry chef's guide to spotting bullsh*t in the world of food: bad science and the truth about healthy eating

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Warner, Anthony

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"Why is Chef Anthony Warner so angry? Two words: pseudoscience bullshit. Lies about nutrition are repeated everywhere--in newspaper headlines, on celebrity blogs, even by our well-meaning friends and family. Bad science is no reason to give up good food (we miss you, bread)! It's high time to distinguish fact from crap. As the Angry Chef, Warner skewers common food myths that range from questionable ("coconut oil is a weight-loss miracle") to patently...

2) The end of craving: recovering the lost wisdom of eating well

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Schatzker, Mark

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"For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are now pre-diabetic, more than a hundred million have high blood pressure, and nearly half now qualify as obese. The harder we try to control what we eat, the more unhealthy we become. Why? Mark Schatzker has spent his career traveling the...

3) Foodist: using real food and real science to lose weight without dieting

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Rose, Darya Pino

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A foodist simply has a different way of looking at food, and makes decisions with a clear understanding of how to optimize health and happiness. This is a new approach to healthy eating that focuses on what you like to eat, rather than what you should or shouldn't eat, while teaching you how to make good decisions, backed up by an understanding of what it means to live a healthy lifestyle. Includes tips on food shopping, food prep, cooking, and how...

4) Eating on the wild side: the missing link to optimum health

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Starting with the wild plants that were central to our original diet, investigative journalist Robinson reveals the nutritional history of our fruits and vegetables, describing how 400 generations of farmers have unwittingly squandered a host of essential fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.

5) Eat complete: the 21 nutrients that fuel brainpower, boost weight loss, and transform your health

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Named one of the top health and wellness books for 2016 by Well + Good and MindBodyGreen

From leading psychiatrist and author of Fifty Shades of Kale comes a collection of 100 simple, delicious, and affordable recipes to help you get the core nutrients your brain and body need to stay happy and healthy.

What does food have to do with brain health? Everything.

Your brain burns more of the food you eat than any

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6) Salt, sugar, fat: how the food giants hooked us

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In the spring of 1999 the heads of the world's largest processed food companies, from Coca-Cola to Nabisco, gathered at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis for a secret meeting. On the agenda: the emerging epidemic of obesity, and what to do about it. Increasingly, the salt, sugar, and fat laden foods these companies produced were being linked to obesity, and a concerned Kraft executive took the stage to issue a warning: There would be a day of...

7) Effortless healing: 9 simple ways to sidestep illness, shed excess weight, and help your body fix itself

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Mercola, Joseph

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Let your body do the work...

Do you have to tell your leg to heal from a scrape? Your lungs to take in air? Your body that it’s hungry? No. Your body does these things automatically, effortlessly. Vibrant health is your birthright and within your grasp; you just have to step out of the way. In Effortless Healing, online health pioneer, natural medicine advocate, and bestselling author Dr. Joseph Mercola reveals

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8) Genius foods: become smarter, happier, and more productive while protecting your brain for life

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"Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat, change the way you think about how your brain ages, and achieve optimal brain performance with this powerful new guide from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere. After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his successful media career on hold to learn everything he could about the workings of the human brain and his mother's...

9) The autoimmune protocol comfort food cookbook: 100+ nourishing allergen-free recipes

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Hoover, Michelle

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"The Autoimmune Protocol Comfort Food Cookbook revisits all of the delicious comfort foods people love--remade with AIP-compliant ingredients and a healing twist"--

10) Food without fear: identify, prevent, and treat food allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities

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"A world-renowned researcher and physician offers the first book to identify the entire spectrum of food-related health conditions, from allergy to sensitivity, and what we can do about it. Allergies are an epidemic--but they don't have to be. Every day, more than five hundred people in the US go to the emergency room following a bad allergic reaction to food; 1 in 10 people have food allergies--and they are acute, alarming, and can be life-threatening....

11) Optimum nutrition

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Green, Stephanie

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Eating a variety of fresh, whole foods give your body the essential nutrients it needs to maintain your health and well-being-- and fight off disease. Green shows you everything you need to ensure you provide your body the best possible nutrition.--

12) Eat for life: the breakthrough nutrient-rich program for longevity, disease reversal, and sustained weight loss

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D., Joel Fuhrman, M

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Eat for Life is the first book to showcase Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Nutritarian Diet in full--the most practical, balanced, and focused way to eat, lose weight, and live longer. Emphasizing high-nutrient, whole plant foods that supply abundant amounts of micronutrients. Most Americans are deficient in micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and consume too many macronutrients (calories). Natural, colorful plant foods contain the largest assortment of micronutrients,...

13) The future of nutrition: an insider's look at the science, why we keep getting it wrong, and how to start getting it right

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Campbell, T. Colin

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Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself: the history of how we got locked in to focusing on "disease care" over health care; the widespread impact of our reverence of animal protein on our interpretation of scientific evidence; the way even well-meaning organizations can limit what science is and is not taken seriously; and what we can do to ensure the future of nutrition is different than its past. "Colin Campbell, author of The China...

14) How to eat: all your food and diet questions answered

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"What is the "best" diet? Do calories matter? And when it comes to protein, fat, and carbs, which ones are good and which are bad? Food writer and cook Mark Bittman and health expert David Katz, MD, answer all these questions and more in a lively and easy-to-read Q&A format. Inspired by their viral hit article in Grub Street--one of New York magazine's most popular and most-shared articles--here Bittman and Katz share their clear, no-nonsense perspective...

15) Eat right for your inflammation type: the three-step program to strengthen immunity, heal chronic pain, and boost your energy

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Berghoff, Maggie

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"Eat Right for Your Inflammation Type does for dangers of inflammation what Wheat Belly did for the hidden threats of gluten, targeting each cause of inflammation the same way Eat Right 4 Your Type did for blood type-specific health issues"--

16) Eat to beat illness: 80 simple, delicious recipes inspired by the science of food as medicine

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What you eat will change your life. Reveals the scientifically proven foods and food groups that prevent illness, and teaches how to create meals that benefit every part of life. 80 recipes, full of international flavors, complemented by a specific marker of healthy living.