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Fibre is often considered boring, it seems invisible, yet it's more powerful than most life-saving drugs. The various current dieting fads purporting to prolong life or reduce weight, fat or sugar, pale in the face of what adding fibre to your diet can achieve. And its real power for improving society's health lies in its affordability. Adding more fibre to your diet can add years of good health on to your life. Who doesn't want that? Why is fibre...
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"This authoritative go-to resource for students and clinical nutrition practitioners covers over 270 conditions in 16 sections. Each section provides an overview followed by essential evidence-based information on nutrition management of each condition. Nutrition therapy and practical guidance is presented in a unique style that is easy-to-navigate and implement in practice. Mini case studies throughout demonstrate application of the Nutrition Care...
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"Studies of breastfeeding have proliferated over the last decade. Breastfeeding is an intimate and deep-rooted bodily practice and yet also a highly controversial sociocultural process, invoking strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Whilst breastfeeding practices and experiences vary greatly in different parts of the world, reducing infant mortality is a pressing international goal for governments and societies. Representing cross-cultural...
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"While the gastrointestinal tract ingests, digests, and absorbs nutrients, the liver transforms nutrients, synthesizes plasma proteins, and detoxifies bacteria and toxins absorbed from the gut. It is therefore not surprising that gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases have a major impact on the nutritional state of the individual. Integrating nutrition and the gastrointestinal system, the Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Nutrition Desk Reference...
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The first textbook written to bridge the relationship among nutrition, food science, and the culinary arts, Clinical Nutrition uses an integrated format with real-life applications and recipes to emphasize the necessity of sustainable, health-beneficial and taste-desirable foods and beverages and to bring this approach to nournishment to life.--From publisher description.
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"La pandemia de COVID-19 nos ha enseñado que los remedios para las nuevas enfermedades, vacunas y medicamentos, no son inmediatos. El Doctor Rodríguez Jiménez, especialista en Endocrinología, Inmunometabolismo y Nutrición, nos ofrece además de una amplia y sencilla visión actual de la COVID-19, un sabio consejo para anticiparse a cualquier agresión patógena: la respuesta está en nuestro cuerpo. Se trata de potenciar nuestro sistema inmunológico...
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"Te gustaría reducir el número de calorías sin renunciar a su sabor? Quieres comprar arándanos con más antioxidantes por prácticamente la mitad de precio? Sabías que las zanahorias cocidas poseen el doble de fitonutrientes que las crudas y además saben más dulces? Te gustaría obtener el máximo benefi cio nutricional de los alimentos sin apenas esfuerzo?Ahora puedes conseguirlo con la ayuda de la ciencia en la cocina.Cómo comer mejor ofrece...
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(Producer) This program explores alternatives to traditional medicine with two experts, pharmacologist Joe Graedon and medical anthropologist Terry Graedon. This three-segment program studies "Home Remedies and Rainforest Medicine, " "Heart Health and Nutrition, " and "Deadly Drug Interactions."
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