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They're totally delicious. We love crispy bacon with our eggs for breakfast, ham sandwiches for lunch and snags on election day. Lucie Morris-Marr's family was no different, ordering pepperoni pizzas on a Friday night, and salami on summer picnic platters. But when the Walkley-award winning investigative journalist was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer, she learnt the chilling truth about our love affair with processed meats. Lucie takes you on a jaw-dropping ride as she uncovers the scientific evidence linking our deli favourites with cancer and other serious conditions.

Don't take too much Vitamin D it is dangerous! I started taking 20,000 IU a day-50X times the recommended dose of 400 IU a day. After about four months upped the dose to 50,000 IU a day or 150X the old recommended “safe” dose I then boosted it to 100,000 IU a day or 300 x times the old maximum safe dose! What happened over these last 10 months? Did I die? get sick? No! Just the opposite! High dose Vitamin D3 therapy over the last year-cured all my chronic conditions-some that i'd had for 20+ years!

As a nutritionist specialising in hormonal health, Marina Wright has worked with hundreds of women experiencing the same cluster of symptoms: weight gain, brain fog, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, aches and pains. The underlying culprit: chronic stress. Your body's natural stress response triggers the hormone cortisol, to enable you to respond quickly to challenges. But in modern life, our stress response can be firing too often, or simply not know how to switch off. Here's where The Cortisol Reset Plan can help.

From Cameron Diaz, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Body Book, comes a fresh, personal, and authoritative examination of the art and science of growing older and a road map for abundant health and resilience as we age.

Discover the secret to balancing hormones and mastering your energy, even if you've struggled with stress for years. Are you plagued by chronic fatigue despite getting enough sleep? Does stress permeate every part of your life, leaving you feeling overwhelmed? Does the frustration of unexplained weight gain leave you searching for answers? Most women navigating this path face similar challenges, yet the distinctive, personalized approach woven throughout this book will support your quest to hormonal harmony and vitality.

Science is beginning to understand that our thinking has a deep and complicated relationship with our eating. Our thoughts before, during, and after eating profoundly impact our food choices, our digestive health, our brain health, and more. Yet most of us give very little thought to our food beyond taste and basic nutritional content.

We’re told that if we care about our health - or our planet - eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is bad for us and cattle farming is horrible for the environment. But science says otherwise.

They’re not faster than a speeding bullet or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. But that doesn’t mean steel-cut oats, blackberries, ginger, and other foods can’t swoop in to save the day - or at least our diets. In How Superfoods Work, reevaluate the superfoods you are (or aren’t) eating and discover ways to make your life healthier - and more delicious.

In this distilled version of his best-selling Life Without Diabetes, Professor Roy Taylor offers a brilliantly concise explanation of what happens to us when we get type 2 and how we can reverse it permanently. Taylor's research has demonstrated that type 2 is caused by just one factor - too much internal fat in the liver and pancreas - and that to reverse it you need to strip this harmful internal fat out with rapid weight loss.

The Paleo Cardiologist is about finding the cause of heart problems, instead of the typical Band-Aid fixes of conventional medicine. The truth is that heart disease can be prevented naturally, and cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson will show you how.

Struggling with menopause weight gain, mood swings, or hormonal imbalance? You’re not alone. The Galveston Diet Cookbook is your guide to reclaiming your health, energy, and confidence—naturally! This science-backed approach focuses on hormone balance, reducing inflammation, and sustainable weight loss during menopause and beyond. With over 100 delicious, anti-inflammatory recipes, plus simple intermittent fasting and gentle movement strategies, you’ll have everything you need to feel your best.

Some people have enviable energy and enthusiasm, never gain weight or get sick. What is their secret? The answers can be found in this groundbreaking audiobook by one of the UK's leading nutrition experts. Do you know the ten habits that could help you thrive - not just survive - in the 21st century? In order to discover what those secrets are, Patrick Holford and his team have carried out Britain's biggest-ever health and diet survey.

Would you like to know how to get to that mystical “next level” in your fitness? Do you want to know how to almost effortlessly keep your fitness? After 40, even 50, your body can perform just as well - or better - than it did in your 20s. Don’t let time take a bite out of your strength.

Primal Endurance shakes up the status quo and challenges the overly stressful, ineffective conventional approach to endurance training. While marathons and triathlons are wildly popular and bring much gratification and camaraderie to the participants, the majority of athletes are too slow, continually tired, and carry too much body fat respective to the time they devote to training. The prevailing "chronic cardio" approach promotes carbohydrate dependency, overly stressful lifestyle patterns, and ultimately burnout.

Ryan and Kim Smith struggled with dysfunctional eating throughout their lives. They had been on the hamster wheel of diets long before they met. From 2003, they ate their way through a decade plagued by massive weight gain until 2014, at which point they topped out at well over 500 pounds combined. First, Ryan began a weight-loss effort, then Kim followed suit, eventually leading them both to intermittent fasting. The journey transformed not only their relationship with food but with themselves and with each other.

Building on his popular Ultimate Success series, "Support Surgeon" Dr. Duc Vuong returns with his latest weight loss surgery guide, this time for gastric sleeve patients. Presented in an easy-to-understand manner, he explains some of the anatomical and surgical aspects of this newer surgical procedure, while providing practical strategies on how to be successful long-term.

Every self-help product, self-improvement resource, and dieting program either explicitly or indirectly points to the fact that we are not good enough the way we are; that we need to change something about ourselves to become happy. If we are trying to lose weight so that we can feel better about ourselves, what we are saying is that our body is not sufficient and that it has become an obstacle to us in our pursuit of feeling happy. Because it is a barrier, we develop a sense of resistance to it.

The Renaissance Diet 2.0 provides the most up-to-date scientific information to help you lose weight.

Awakening Fertility is a loving guide to accompany you along the road to whatever is next for you - whether it be a child or a deeper understanding of what it means to be a woman and the power that lies in your heart and in your womb. Including 25 healing recipes, Awakening Fertility is a source of connection, nourishment, and guidance to those desiring to become mothers. As opposed to the countless other books on "trying to conceive," Awakening Fertility looks at this time before motherhood as a chance for discovery and growth.

Feeling constantly stressed, exhausted, or overwhelmed? Your cortisol levels might be the culprit. In today’s fast-paced world, chronic stress is the silent thief of health—disrupting sleep, draining energy, increasing belly fat, and keeping you stuck in a cycle of anxiety and fatigue. But the good news is: you can reset your stress response and take back control of your well-being. Cortisol Detox is your practical, science-backed guide to naturally lowering cortisol, calming your nervous system, and building resilience to stress. Packed with actionable strategies, this book helps you: