Diet and Health

The Joy of Food: The Alkaline Way Guide

by ELISA/ACT

This comprehensive handbook has been designed to introduce the basic concepts of a valuable health restoration program called The Alkaline Way. The purpose of this handbook is to explain the various steps of alkalinizing your diet and to help you understand the important benefits of eating The Alkaline Way, why being acidic is harmful to your body, and what foods alkalinize the body more than others.

Diet and Health

Cooking to stay in shape. The commonsense guide to healthy eating by Irwing

Trying to find a meal that is well balanced and able to provide enough substance to allow you to sleep through the night and to not feel overly hungry when you are awake. Here is where you will find a meal that allows you to sample a wide variety of foods from various food groups. Here you will want to have a sampling of almost everything in order to be able to have a complete meal. The meal does not have to be overly large just have variety.

Meals for Easy Swallowing by MDA

Swallowing can become a significant problem for patients with ALS; and the joys and pleasures of eating become replaced with discomfort and anxiety.

Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals by U.S. Department of Agriculture Center

It is more than a cookbook. The book provides basic cooking and food safety guidance. The menus presented here conform to the recommendations contained in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the USDA Food Guide Pyramid. The 40 recipes are quick, easy, tasty and economical.

The Blood Sugar Solution. 10-Day Detox Diet by Mark Hyman M. D.

Dr. Hyman’s revolutionary weight-loss program, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller The Blood Sugar Solution, supercharged for immediate results! The key to losing weight and keeping it off is maintaining low insulin levels. Based on Dr. Hyman’s groundbreaking Blood Sugar Solution program, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet presents strategies for reducing insulin levels and producing fast and sustained weight loss. Dr. Hyman explains how to: activate your natural ability to burn fat -- especially belly fat; reduce inflammation; reprogram your metabolism; shut off your fat-storing genes; de-bug your digestive system; create effortless appetite control; and soothe the stress to shed the pounds.

The Salad Cookbook

Salad is a multipurpose meal that you can cook for any occassion. Thus, this cookbook that contains over 2700 salad variations will be of a great help for you.

A Cookbook for Teens: Fast Meals and Quick Snacks M. Jane Heinig, PhD

To stay healthy, it is important to eat the right foods and drink plenty of fluids. In this book, we’ll show you that cooking at home can be fun, quick, and a lot less expensive than eating out. We encourage you try new things and be creative when cooking, and we hope you will enjoy using this book.