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English
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"From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these,...
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Publisher
Fair Winds Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
With one-third of our calories coming from sugar and white flour added to processed foods, sugar addiction is a rapidly growing epidemic. Teitelbaum uncovers four types of sugar addiction and gives a step-by-step plan for resolving their underling causes, breaking sugar cravings forever, and achieving improved health and energy levels.
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Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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This work presents the results of a large study of diet and death rates from cancer in adults across China and Taiwan and explains the study's significance and what it reveals about the implications of poor nutrition. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Is your diet feeding or defeating disease? Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and the dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in Eat to Beat Disease. We have radically underestimated our body's power to transform and restore our health. Pioneering physician scientist, Dr. William Li, empowers readers by...
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The Experiment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This ... guide provides the information you need to adopt and maintain a plant-based diet"--P. [4] of cover.
What if one simple change could save you from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? Examine a whole-foods, plant-based diet-- it could save your life. This accessible guide provides the information you need to adopt and maintain a plant-based diet, with tips on transitioning, success stories from converts, and recipes for delicious, healthy,...
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Publisher
Grijalbo Vital
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Cada año el cáncer, la diabetes, la obesidad o el Alzheimer afectan irreversiblemente a millones de personas alrededor del mundo. No obstante, las últimas investigaciones revelan que el poder de defendernos contra estas amenazas reside en una solución simple: los alimentos que consumimos todos los días. Respaldado por una sólida investigación, en Comer para sanar el renombrado doctor William Li -- cuya conferencia en TED Talk "¿Podemos comer...
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Not another diet book: After seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, science writer Taubes shows that almost everything we believe about a healthy diet is wrong. We are taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more--yet we see unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies...
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Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This videodisc examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called 'diseases of affluence' that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods and adopting a whole foods plant-based diet. This film tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that will have people talking for years.
14) Super size me
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Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once, and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of American...
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Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Suicide by Sugar begins with the story of Dr. Appleton's battle with her own sugar addiction. next, the authors examine all the frightening (and unknown) things that can go wrong with people consume too much sugar - from increased susceptibility to disease to imbalanced body chemistry. They go on to discuss the various ways scientists measure sugar's impact on blood glucose, and explain why these statistics cannot be solely relied on when choosing...
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Editorial Océano de México, S.A de C.V
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Los alimentos de hoy en día, con alto contenido de azúcar y carbohidratos, no sólo nos están haciendo engordar, también nos ponen en riesgo de padecer diabetes, accidentes cerebrovasculares, demencia y cáncer. Azúcar en la sangre es un libro que rompe los paradigmas sobre una de las más grandes epidemias de nuestro tiempo: los altos niveles de azúcar. En este libro, el Dr. Mosley derriba mitos comunes, como la creencia de que la pérdida...
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