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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 How we grow our food has a profound effect on the nutrients in our food, and the health benefits of those nutrients. The quality of the soil on farms and ranches affects the health of crops, and the health of crops affects the health of animals. We can't ignore the soil when we consider what we put on our plates. -> The soil is the starting point for foods that...

"Gay has written ... about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as 'wildly undisciplined,' Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care"--Amazon.com. The popular Tumblr blogger and best-selling author of Bad Feminist explores the devastating...

When Michael Symon found out he had rheumatoid arthritis and external lupus, he suspected that what he ate--or didn't eat--could make a profound difference in his levels of inflammation and how he felt. So he committed to a food "reset" on The Chew--no red meat, white flour, sugar, dairy, or alcohol. Michael used social media to share his experiment with his fans, and was shocked by the outcome: after completing the reset, he felt amazing. He discovered...

Clean eating is a new term for an ancient dietary practice. Our hunter-gatherer forbears practiced clean eating, quite unconsciously. They ate whatever they could find, grow, fish, and hunt. Any preservatives they added were found in nature and not created in a chemistry lab. They ate their food in its natural state, or close to it, if you include cooking. Consequently, they received the most nutrition possible from their food. Clean eating...

People who have never gardened are often intimidated by the thought of growing their own herbs but nothing could be simpler. With all the publicity about pesticides and other unwanted elements in our food, it makes sense to grow your own herbs and spices. It's rewarding, satisfying, convenient, and brings your kitchen closer to the natural, healthy processes that your great-grandparents enjoyed when they ate food they grew and raised themselves. The...

From the executive editor at America's Test Kitchen, thirty-five healthy, appetizing recipes that will turn you into a tofu lover. People hate tofu. And it's hard to argue with tofu hatred, at least at first glance. It's ugly, it's spongy, and it doesn't really look like food-you might ask, "What's the point?" The point is that it's a clean, healthful, powerful, plant-based protein that provides all kinds of nutrients without a lot of calories...

What is The Dukan Diet? The Dukan Diet (also called the Dukan method) is considered a high-protein diet that involves eating as much food as desired from an approved list while following a schedule for these foods. Only protein is allowed in the early phase with addition of low starch vegetables in the second phase. These phases are followed until the dieter reaches their ideal weight. This diet is made to follow the eating style of primitive man...

Everyone loves how the Instant Pot is revolutionizing cooking with easy one-pot meals. But what if you can enjoy your favorite food with the speed and ease of the Instant Pot-while losing weight? After a lifelong struggle with fad diets and constant weight gain, Audrey Johns changed the way she ate by focusing more on eating real foods. She not only lost weight-dropping 150 pounds in eleven months-she successfully kept it off. Sharing her lean recipes...

The purpose of this book is to help get kids to not only eat a wider variety of foods...but to understand why they need to, and how it will help them feel better and function in a healthier manner. Certainly most parents have heard their child scream that the food is "yucky," they want candy, "get this off my plate," or even suggest that they might die if you make them eat it. No More Picky Eater will help your child to see some of the foods that...

With a 14-day meal plan, 75 delicious recipes, food lists, and gut-healing strategies, The Paleo Gut Healing Cookbook is your comprehensive gut-reset guide. Restoring gut health is one of the key tenets of the Paleo diet. By removing allergy-provoking, nutrient-devoid foods such as grains, legumes, dairy, sugar, and artificial ingredients, generalized inflammation in the body is reduced, gut health is restored, and autoimmune symptoms are alleviated. However,...