Diets and Weight Loss

Man the Hunter
The Protein Power LifePlan
by Michael R. Eades, M.D., Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
In our living room on the coffee table sits one of our most prized possessions, a fifteen-to-twenty-thousand-year-old cave-bear skull that we got from Russia. From back of the head to snout the skull measures almost two feet in length and sports canine

Reclaim Your Waist, Hips, Thighs, and Butt
The Bathing Suit Workout
by Joyce L. Vedral, Ph.D.
Perhaps warmer weather is approaching, or maybe your planned vacation is coming up soon, but despite the promise of sunshine, you're filled with dread. It's bathing suit time! You picture yourself desperately searching through the stores to find a suit

Introduction
The Little Soy Book
by Erika Dillman
Growing up in rural Illinois, I was literally surrounded by the soybeans and corn that grew in the fields near my house. I thought that soybeans were only fed to cows and pigs, so when I was eight years old and was served a soy burger at school

The New Biology of Health
The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health
by Robert O. Young, Ph.D., Shelley Redford Young
A new day is dawning. A day of truly holistic health, vitality, and well-being. A time of energizing our very cells, maximizing the life force of our bodies. An era of naturally lean and strong physiques!

Dietary Principles for Reversing Diabetes
Reversing Diabetes Cookbook : More Than 200 Delicious, Healthy Recipes
by Julian M. Whitaker, M.D., Peggy Dace
Diabetes is a condition marked by elevations in blood sugar. Therefore, a therapeutic diet for people with diabetes is one that helps keep blood sugar levels on an even keel, and that is exactly what the recipes in this book are designed to do.

Why Are We Doing This, Anyway?
Living Low-Carb
by Fran McCullough
The objective of all low-carb diets, which date back at least to the early nineteenth century, has always been weight loss. Although plenty of low-fat advocates continue to insist that it's only water that's lost on a low-carb regimen, many patients using

Introduction
The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet : The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life
by Robert Arnot, M.D.
For decades, breast cancer has stood alone among major diseases, because its victims lacked even a single practical preventive measure with which to protect themselves. In most epidemics, we've had the power to defend ourselves: vaccines for the flu

Introduction
Binge Breaker! Stop Out-of-Control Eating and Lose Weight
by Dr. Peter M. Miller
It's 2:00 A.M. Is a carton of ice cream calling your name? If you find yourself eating more than you know is healthy-perhaps while standing over the sink in the middle of the night-you may be suffering from Binge Eating Disorder, which affects nearly

My Story, From The Beginning
Awaken the Diet Within: From Overweight to Looking Great-If I Can Do It, So Can You
by Julia Griggs Havey
It took me until age thirty-five to realize and embrace the fact that we are not our bodies. Your body is the vehicle that houses who you are, that which makes you uniquely you-your soul, your being. Identical twins may have bodies that look the same

Unrealistic Expectations
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
Weight gain is an evolutionary process. Some people call it creeping weight. The scale turtles inexorably upward - a tight skirt, a belt notch, a can't-zip-up-my-pants inch at a time. Yet you expect the scale to go down as rapidly as a high-speed

The Ritual of Food Addiction
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
If you've been trying to figure out the weight-loss game for as long as I've been coaching people - twenty five years - you've most likely been trying to avoid food, even though that point of view has not worked.

Four Stages of Breaking an Addiction
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
Nowhere do the Four Stages of Addiction come into play more powerfully than they do when you resist changing a habit relating to the foods with which you self-medicate. For most of us those foods are the instant, and easily available - Bread, Beverage

What if I Have a Slow Metabolic Rate?
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Your body weight may be affected slightly by genetics, but that effect is not strong. Furthermore, I am convinced that inheriting a slow metabolic rate with a tendency to gain weight is not a flaw or defect but rather a genetic gift that can be taken

To Avoid Overeating on High-Calorie Foods, Fill Up on Nutrient-Rich Ones
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
An important corollary to the principle of limiting high-calorie food is that the only way for a human being to safely achieve the benefits of caloric restriction while ensuring that the diet is nutritionally adequate is to avoid as much as possible those

True Hunger
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Once your body gets to a certain level of better health, you begin to feel the difference between true hunger and just eating due to desire, appetite, or withdrawal symptoms. Your body is healthier at this stage and you won't experience the withdrawal

Drugs Are Not the Solution
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
New drugs are continually introduced that attempt to lessen the effects of our nation's self-destructive eating behavior. Most often, our society treats disease after the degenerative illness has appeared, an illness that is the result of from forty

Dangerous Dieting
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
In addition to undergoing extremely risky surgeries, Americans have been bombarded with a battery of gimmicky diets that promise to combat obesity. Almost all diets are ineffective. They don't work, because no matter how much weight you lose when you are

The Effects Of The American Diet
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Americans have been among the first people worldwide to have the luxury of bombarding themselves with nutrient-deficient, high-calorie food, often called empty-calorie or junk food. By empty calorie, I mean food that is deficient

Why the Diabetes Diet Is Superior
The Diabetes Diet : Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
It's arguable whether any of the low-carbohydrate diets in the bookstores today is ideal for nondiabetics. But I can say that none of them is ideal for diabetics. Most of them depend heavily on the glycemic index, which is a subjective rather than

How a Low-Carb Diet Works
The Diabetes Diet : Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
A low-carb diet is superior for one simple reason: if done according to the guidelines (in this case I am referring to the guidelines in this book), people don't get fat, or don't stay fat, even as they reach the years of the supposedly inevitable