Diet and Health

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.

Diet and Health

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.

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 Clean Eating Plan: The Simple Guide To Improving Your Health And Well-Being With Easy And Satisfying Recipes Dr. Caroline Allen

Our bodies adapt to the amount of energy the amount of sustenance they’re given. If we don’t get enough of what we need, then gradually our bodies change shape to do without. If we eat too many calories, we store them as fats. If we consume too much sugar, we become less sensitive to insulin... So understand this: our bodies are constantly changing. The only question then is whether you want to be growing and improving, or deteriorating. The biggest deciding factor in determining this outcome? That would be your diet!

The Smoothie Cookbook

Smoothies keep all the vegetbles and fruits fresh that means, you get all the necessary vitamins. And this book will help you to extend your knoweledge of cooking smoothies.

Keep The Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners Susan B. Shurin, M.D.

The recipes in this cookbook show that you don’t have to lose flavor to eat nutritious foods.Keep the BeatTM Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners contains 75 heart healthy recipes. More than two-thirds of these recipes were created for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) by a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef and a James Beard Foundation award-winning registered dietitian.

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.