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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.

More than 78 million American adults are nearing the age when unexpected aches and pains, weight gains, sudden illnesses, and confusing mental changes begin to occur. As children, our questions about how our bodies will change are met with knowledge and patience - anything to make the transition as seamless as possible. But at 50 or 60, there’s no one to help us figure out whether the changes we’re experiencing are a cause for concern or just a normal part of aging. Is This Normal? is a guidebook that focuses on putting this generation at ease by answering their most common questions.

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic - a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for this fat crisis, and what can we do to stop it? Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic debates obscure a more important question: How has fatness come to be understood as a public health crisis at all?

As a college freshman business major suffering from a variety of anxiety-related maladies, Brian Leaf stumbled into an elective: Yoga. It was 1989. All his classmates were female. And men did not yet generally “cry, hug, or do yoga”. But yoga soothed and calmed Leaf as nothing else had. As his hilarious and wise tale shows, Leaf embarked on a quest for health and happiness - visiting yoga studios around the country and consulting Ayurvedic physicians, swamis, and even (accidentally) a prostitute.

This 5-point, week-by-week plan to help you change your lifestyle in a way that unlocks your body's natural ability to lose weight. The strategies will change your perspective about the roles of food, exercise, and rest in your life.

Need a physical and spiritual boost to kick the year off right? Need some extra power to reach goals and commitments? With hundreds of exercise plans, diet gurus, and spiritual advisors out there clamoring for airwaves, there's a noticeable void of inspiring stories to give people that extra push to get them started and keep them going. This book is not a replacement for yoga or The Zone; it is a companion - a reminder that hard work and determination really do pay off, and that our bodies are gifts to be cared for and treasured through exercise and healthy living.

To runners around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times best seller Running and Being, was nothing short of a guru - the country’s “greatest philosopher of sport”. But to his son Andrew, who had spent his entire boyhood longing for the attention and approval of an emotionally distant father, he was an incomprehensible paradox: a lifelong loner, who was now sunning himself in the spotlight of the nation’s press; a hero to millions, who seemed to have no time for his own son.

The hilarious new spoof diet book from New York Times best-selling author Chris Dolley. It's a fun, quick listen, covering everything from "the science of possession" to "Crapper Clinic's Demon Dating Service", while ensuring "clients" are possessed by the demon most compatible with their slimming needs. This is the diet book that everyone is talking about.

Breaking the Chain began with Allyson Reedy wanting to eat better-tasting, more adventurous food. After watching friends, family, and strangers eat unsatisfactory meal after meal at chain restaurants and get fatter as a result, she wondered how we could break this chain of mediocrity, obesity, and commercialism. So in 2009, Allyson Reedy stopped eating meals, snacks, and goodies from the kinds of restaurants that line America’s streets and dominate our stomachs.

Do you dream of looking great? Is your dieting roller coaster making you sick and tired? Do you want to tame your appetite and release stress? Do you want to lose weight for good, and gain energy for life?Then let Pamela Smith, R.D. - America's foremost nutritionist and best-selling author - show you how to "Break free from the diet trap and live well for life!" Make the decision, today, to get off the depressing diet treadmill and get on the road to looking and feeling better.

Here is a moving story of personal triumph - and a prescription for how to tame a disease that afflicts millions of Americans and is doubling among children. The former Miss America, a diabetic herself, offers an inspirational guide to living with diabetes, discussing the need for early detection and treatment of the disease and explaining how, with proper diet, exercise, medication, and attitude, to cope with it.

No one says losing weight is easy, but Matt Hoover is here to tell you that if he can do it, you can, too. Matt began gaining weight in college, depressed after failing to achieve the high standards he had set for his wrestling career. By the time he reached 340 pounds he had given up on college, wrestling, and his first marriage. When he was cast on NBC's The Biggest Loser, he had no idea how much his life (or his waist size) was about to change.

Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is an all-too-common cause of serious discomfort that can debilitate even your most dedicated effort to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. It doesn't have to be that way. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis, and in The Pain-Free Back, he shares his clinically proven six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back.

It's been said that we make choices, and then our choices make us. What needs to be better understood is how we go about making those choices in the first place. To manage your weight, and enjoy better health, you need to motivate yourself to want to choose well. This is where your thoughts and beliefs come in. Your mind and heart are what guide your behaviors. This book is the instruction manual for helping you take control of how your personal thoughts and beliefs have been guiding your choices, and how to change at the core to create a better you!

50 runners, from the world's elite to passionate amateurs, share the races they'll never forget. Every runner that enters a race has a unique reason for competing: racing for the challenge, for the achievement, for the health benefits, or for more personal reasons. But whether they are twenty-mile-a-day elite marathoners or twenty-mile-a-week recreational runners, each of them can invariably point to a singular performance as "the best race I ever ran."

A cosa pensi quando corri? Se d'impatto hai risposto "non lo so", ecco due notizie per te. La prima è che rientri nella maggioranza di persone che si allenano lasciando vagare la mente senza riposarla davvero. La seconda è che hai tra le mani l'audiolibro giusto. Correre imparando a concentrare l'attenzione su aspetti specifici, anziché rimbalzare da un pensiero all'altro, è un esercizio in grado di trasformare l'abitudine della corsa in un'esperienza molto più appagante, con effetti positivi enormi, non solo sui risultati sportivi.

Pur discendendo da una cultura lontana dalla nostra e da una disciplina molto antica, lo yoga è una pratica assai diffusa nel mondo occidentale contemporaneo, che si è dimostrata utile per il benessere fisico, psichico e per lo sviluppo della conoscenza di sé. La parola sanscrita "yoga" indica ogni metodo indiano di ascesi e di meditazione; così inteso, lo yoga ha avuto un ruolo cruciale in tutti i sentieri spirituali indiani che mirano a una trasformazione completa dell'essere umano.

In diesem Original Podcast erklären Psychologin Anna Wilitzki und Psychiater Dr. med. Bastian Willenborg dem Publikum das Zusammenspiel von Körper und Geist. Sie erläutern wissenschaftliche Fakten, bringen Fallbeispiele aus ihrer Praxiserfahrung mit und erklären psychologische Phänomene aus physischer, aber auch psychischer Perspektive. Die beiden widmen sich zum Beispiel der Frage, wie Körper und Seele Erinnerungen verarbeiten, wie unsere innere Stimme entsteht und wobei sie uns helfen kann, den verschiedenen Emotionen und wo sie sich in unserem Körper spiegeln sowie besonderen medizinischen Erkenntnissen.

EMOCIÓNATE CON TU CUERPO. Nuestras emociones, pensamientos y creencias tienen un impacto directo sobre cómo asimilamos, digerimos y quemamos las calorías. Por eso, por más dietas que hagamos, el resultado no suele ser el esperado y eso nos lleva a una espiral de sentimientos negativos. Libérate del sobrepeso emocional, de la adicción a la comida, de la ansiedad por comer y del miedo a engordar. Estas páginas te ayudarán a adquirir nuevos hábitos con un enfoque global que te va a ayudar a sentirte bien contigo misma, guapa y vital.

Ayunar es mucho más que renunciar, es la experiencia de la plenitud. Un audiolibro introductorio a la esencia del ayuno, basado en las lecciones del doctor Otto Buchinger, pionero en el tema hace cien años. En este manual se explican los antecedentes del ayuno terapéutico de forma sencilla y amena. Mientras hoy en día, para muchas personas, el ayuno es únicamente una forma rápida de perder peso, el autor deja claro que este es solo un efecto secundario del ayuno terapéutico, que en realidad va mucho más allá y está relacionado con el alma y el espíritu.