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Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers

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Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life

David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg · 310 pages

Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise-from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revolution is underway that can solve this problem: Astonishing new research is revealing that the health of your brain is, to an extraordinary degree, dictated by the state of your microbiome - the vast population of organisms that

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Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health

Gene Stone, T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. · 214 pages

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Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin Free

Susan Peirce Thompson · 313 pages

"Over 99% of people who try to lose weight don't succeed. They don't get slender and they don't stay slender long term. The average dieter spends a significant amount of money and makes four or five new attempts each year. Four or five new attempts each year with almost no hope of success. Only 1% of people will get down to their goal weight on traditional diets. Susan Peirce Thompson. Ph.D., sugg

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Anticancer: A New Way of Life

David Servan-Schreiber

The New York Times and international bestseller-now updated with the latest research Anticancer has been a bestselling phenomenon since Viking first published it in fall 2008. Now, a new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how people living with cancer can fight it and how healthy people can prevent it. The new edition of Anticancer includes:* The late

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Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements

Phyllis A. Balch · 652 pages

This book is a wonderful reference to what all the vitamins and minerals are and what they do for our body. It also explains which foods to get each nutrient from and even provides delicious recipes. What I like the most about the recipes is the healthy alternatives they provide.

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Michael Pollan · 244 pages

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the que

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Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

Mark Hyman · 386 pages

"A revolutionary new diet program based on the latest science showing the importance of fat in weight loss and overall health, from # 1 bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman. Many of us have long been told that fat makes us fat, contributes to heart disease, and generally erodes our health. Now a growing body of research is debunking our fat-phobia, revealing the immense health and weight-loss benefit

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The Fast Diet: The Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer

Michael Mosley, Mimi Spencer · 218 pages

Is it possible to eat what you like, most of the time, and get thinner and healthier as you do it? Simple answer: yes. You just have to restrict your calorie intake for two non-consecutive days each week (500 calories for women, 600 for men). This book brings together the results of recent revolutionary research to create a dietary programme that anyone can incorporate into their normal working li

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The New Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health, and Boundless Energy

Mark Sisson · 553 pages

A comprehensive guide to promoting optimal gene expression and longevity, honoring the evolutionary health model through 10 diet, exercise and lifestyle laws.

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Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

Joel Fuhrman · 444 pages

Fuhrman offers a highly effective and scientifically proven way to lose weight quickly, with the simple formula of health = nutrients/calories.--From publisher description.

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Plant Powered Plus: Activate the Power of Your Gut to Tame Inflammation and Reclaim Your Health

Will Bulsiewicz · 416 pages

**The New York Times bestselling author of *Fiber Fueled* offers an empowering new program to reclaim your health, fight inflammation, and supercharge your immune system by healing your gut.** We’ve all heard inflammation is harmful, but what exactly is it, why does it happen, and how can we truly heal it? The answers, it turns out, lie deep within your gut. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz is an award w

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The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

Mike Dow · 304 pages

"A new epidemic is sweeping the country. Some people call it "ADHD," "scatter brain," or "brain fog." And some people simply say they "just don't feel like themselves"--and haven't for a long time. People are thinking and feeling worse than ever. Why? Because our brains are not getting the support they need to produce the essential brain chemicals that keep us energized, calm, focused, and inspire

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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Michael Greger, Gene Stone

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death. The simple truth is that most doctors are good at treating acute illnesses but bad at preventing chronic disease. The 15 leading causes of premature death -- illnesses su

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

Gary Taubes · 257 pages

This book is an eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes. In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet's overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates -- not fats and not simply excess calories -- has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough research, ke

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The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

Jason Fung · 325 pages

"In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition"--Page [4] of cover.

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Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

Robert H. Lustig · 328 pages

"Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The

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Spontaneous Healing

Andrew Weil · 320 pages

Dr. Andrew Weil presents cases of spontaneous healing. He also presents specific information on foods, environmental factors, exercise, stress reduction, vitamins, and herbs that can aid the body to maintain its well-being.

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Pure, White and Deadly: The new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes and other killers

John Yudkin · 227 pages

"The classic expose; on the dangers of sugar, with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the bestselling author of Fat Chance Scientist John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm about the excess of sugar in the diet of modern Americans. His classic expose;, Pure, White, and Deadly, clearly and engagingly describes how sugar is damaging our bodies, why we eat so much of it, and what we can do

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Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

T. Colin Campbell · 354 pages

In 2005, the author's The China Study showed that a diet based on whole, plant-based foods dramatically reduces the risk of a broad spectrum of diseases, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. It revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. This new book picks up where the previous one left off. It answers the question of why. Why does a

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Your Personal Paleo Code: The 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, and Stay Fit and Healthy for Life

Chris Kresser · 402 pages

"An effective and practical program based on the Paleo lifestyle, customized to fit your needs! The Paleo movement is in the early stages of sweeping the nation. But we're not cavemen anymore, so why should we eat a "caveman diet"? In THE PERSONAL PALEO CODE, Chris Kresser uses the Paleo diet as a baseline from which you can tailor the ideal 3-step program--Reset, Rebuild, and Revise--to fit your

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