Nutrition
217 Articles & Excerpts
Human Nutrition: An Evolutionary Perspective
The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D., Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno In order to answer the question 'What is a healthy diet?,' it is important to first take a look at what our body is designed for. Is the human body designed to eat plant foods, animal foods, or both?
This Healthy Eating Pyramid Is Based On Science
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy by Walter C. Willett, M.D. You deserve more accurate, less biased, and more helpful information than that found in the USDA Pyramid. I have tried to collect exactly that in the Healthy Eating Pyramid.
We Eat to Live
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy by Walter C. Willett, M.D. It's a simple, obvious truth. We need food for the basics of everyday life - to pump blood, move muscles, think thoughts. But we can also eat to live well and live longer.
The Peak Performance Phenomenon
Earl Mindell's Peak Performance Bible by Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D. You're reading this book because you want to do everything better! You want to excel at the gym, win on the playing field, succeed at work or at school, and have energy to spare to enjoy your life. You're not alone.
Food... It's Strong Medicine
Earl Mindell's Food as Medicine by Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D. In 400 B.C., Hippocrates, the 'father of modern medicine,' said, 'Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.' After more than 2000 years, the medical establishment has finally acknowledged that he was right: food can be strong medicine.
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Drink to Your Health by Anne McIntyre Liquid is vital to life, whether it is drunk in the form of plain, unadulterated water, or exotic concoctions on festive occasions, and drinks fulfil a whole range of functions in our lives.
What are carbohydrates?
The Carbohydrate, Fiber, and Sugar Counter by Jo-Ann Heslin, M.A., R.D., Annette B. Natow, Ph.D., R.D. Only The Carbohydrate, Fiber, and Sugar Counter gives you the whole carbohydrate story with all the information you need to make the best food choices. Carbohydrates are favorites.
The World of Caffeine
The Caffeine Advantage by Bennett Alan Weinberg, Ph.D., Bonnie Bealer Is there a substance that enables you to run farther and faster, think more cogently and fluently, feel happier, more self-confident, and more relaxed, eat less, and that even acts as a powerful antioxidant?
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Fit Kids by Eileen Behan In the late 1990s I began working on a book I would never write called The Power of Food in the Family. In it, I intended to make the case that food can be a means to strengthen families.
Animals to Us
There is an old English saying, 'Manners Makyth Man.' In fact, it is food that makyth man. For if we discount our basic physiology and anatomy, and those behaviors inherited through our genes, we truly are what we eat.
A: Abietic Acid, Absinthium, Absolute...
The essential guide for making sure your food is safe. A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives is back again, in an updated sixth edition. This valuable reference gives you all the facts about the relative safety and side effects of more than 12,000
My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen
Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat : Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen by Naomi Moriyama What if there were a land where people lived longer than anywhere else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in the developed world, and women in their forties still looked like they were in their twenties?
The Principles of Eating Well
Dr. Weil 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
Immortality
Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being by Andrew Weil, M.D. At the heart of Healthy Aging is Dr. Weil's belief that although aging is an irreversible process, there are myriad things we can do to keep our minds and bodies in good working order through all phases of life.
Are Your Emotions True or False?
We're in a bad mood epidemic, but Julia Ross's plan provides a natural cure. Drawing on thirty years of experience, she presents breakthrough solutions to overcoming depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, and other negative emotional states
Good Food V. Bad Food
You Are What You Eat: The Plan that Will Change Your Life by Gillian McKeith, Ph.D. Living foods are raw foods. These foods have not been cooked, boiled, stewed, microwaved, frozen, baked or steamed. As a result, they are still in their original state and contain their food enzymes. Food enzymes are the life force of food and help
You Are What You Eat
You Are What You Eat: The Plan that Will Change Your Life by Gillian McKeith, Ph.D. The food we eat is like fuel. It gives our bodies the energy they need to function well. If you don't make sure that the fuel you pump into your body is of the right quality or quantity, you just won't feel as healthy as you could.
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You Are What You Eat: The Plan that Will Change Your Life by Gillian McKeith, Ph.D. In her book You Are What You Eat, Dr. Gillian McKeith has turned Britain's worst eaters around with incredible results. Now this internationally renowned nutritionist is bringing her groundbreaking plan to America, and not a minute too soon.
Blood Type and Fertility: A Vital Connection
Eat Right for Your Baby: The Individualized Guide To Fertility and Maximum Health During Pregnancy, Nursing, and Your Baby's First Year by Peter J. D'Adamo, M.D., Catherine Whitney Fearly in my practice as a naturopath, I discovered, almost by coincidence, that when my female patients followed the correct diet for their blood type, fertility increased dramatically. Even women with long-standing fertility problems, including repeated
Eating Well and Loving It
Strong Women Eat Well by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D. Dr. Miriam Nelson clears away the misconceptions and myths-often fueled by the proponents of diets that focus on weight loss-and explains how to make the right food decisions. She offers sound, scientifically based advice, and shows women how to finally
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| Advice & Discussions | Good nutrition/eating habits ENA'ers, I keep hearing conflicting information about this. Is it better to:
1.) Eat three square meals a day and never snack in between
2.) Eat three meals a day, a little smaller, but with healthy snacks in between
3.) "Graze" - eat healthy small stuff all day
I tend to lean towards option number 3 just because of my often hectic lifestyle and the fact that I usually have to kind of force myself to eat sometimes (since I'm often not really hungry). | Nutrition poll How many of you reach the following daily nutriments on a daily basis: (NO VITAMINS / supplements)
1000-2000 Calcium
150-200 Folate
140-170 Iron
| fast food websites with nutrition facts: Personalize meals link
I'm checking out this website. It's ridiculous how many calories are in the fast foods we ate. It really made me think. Hope it helps someone else that is trying to lose weight
just chose from the categories to add which foods you usually get and see the end results. |
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