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Primal Blueprint author Mark Sisson presents a fun, easy-to-follow, practical guidebook to help you "get Primal" in only 21 days. First, you'll learn eight key concepts that represent the most important day-to-day elements of living Primally, then tackle five action items that will enable you to literally reprogram your genes toward a long, healthy, and energetic life. The action items are presented in a fun and life-transforming 21-Day Challenge, featuring daily diet, exercise, and lifestyle endeavors with corresponding journal exercises.

Learn how to tap into your brainpower and stress less to weigh less - and kick your sugar habit to the curb. "Like most people, I was not dealing well with the low levels of continuous stress in my life. Stress had me turning to comfort foods, which tend to be high in fat and sugar, and sometimes to alcohol. It was stress-induced overeating and under-exercising that was wreaking havoc on my body. And my brain was driving it all."

This diet book presents and explains the six phases of the low-protein, low-sodium, low-cholesterol, and high-fiber regimen developed by Dr. Walter Kempner of Duke University. The NEWEST edition of the Rice Diet was developed by Dr. Walter Kempner of Duke University, fully explained by one of his most successful dieters.

In The Enzyme Factor, Dr. Hiromi Shinya presents his research, grounded in his 45 years of medical practice in the United States and Japan. This research supports the idea of a miracle enzyme out of which all the enzymes the body needs are produced. He suggests cancer and other diseases occur when this key enzyme is depleted and cannot properly do its job. In this book he clearly shows how what we eat affects that key. Dr. Shinya's science is clearly explained and easy to understand.

Thousands of books have been written about the unique benefits of intermittent fasting and its ability to help people lose weight and improve health, but Eat Stop Eat was one of the first. Far from being just another fad, Eat Stop Eat is your indispensable guide to the latest science behind using intermittent fasting for simple yet effective weight loss, without unneeded complexity or the need to deprive yourself of the foods you love to eat.

What is syndrome X? It's a resistance to insulin - the hormone needed to burn food for energy - combined with high cholesterol or triglycerides, high blood pressure, or too much body fat. Syndrome X ages you prematurely and significantly increases your risk of heart disease, hypertension, obesity, eye disease, nervous system disorders, diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer, and other age-related diseases.  

A collection of information from over 10 years of health and fitness coaching that you can use to improve your success following a Ketogenic lifestyle. This book is more than eat this, don't eat that. It's a definitive guide to proper mindset, understanding what health is, and practical steps on how to achieve your best life.

Have you tried every diet or weight loss plan under the sun, but still can't manage to lose weight and keep it off? You aren't alone. Each year, Americans spend billions of dollars on weight-loss products, yet we continue to have the highest obesity rate in the world. After trying and failing countless times, you have to begin to wonder, "What am I doing wrong?"

Your chronic condition has been weighing you down, making it difficult to enjoy life to the fullest. But what if there was a solution that could not only prevent and reverse chronic diseases but also boost your immune system? In this eye-opening guide, Tina Shelton shares her personal journey of watching her loved ones being affected by health issues and how this helped her discover the incredible benefits of fasting.

A short guide to going vegan - the why, the what and the how. Ever thought about eating less meat and fewer dairy products? Concerned about animal welfare and the environment? Interested in the health benefits of a plant-based lifestyle? This is the book for you. In this fun, easy to follow and informative guide, the team behind the charity Veganuary provide everything you need to make changes towards leading a healthier, more ethical and sustainable lifestyle.

Chris Crowley, the memorable patient and coauthor of Younger Next Year, partners with Jen Sacheck, a nutritionist and exercise physiologist from Tufts University, and in lively, alternating chapters they spell out a weight-loss plan that will have readers lose up to 25 pounds in the first six months - and keep it off for life. The message is straightforward and based on the most up-to-date nutritional science.

We all know that smoking kills, but did you know that sugar could be just as harmful? Unlock the expert strategies you need to kick this harmful habit for good!

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (2008), by John J. Ratey with Eric Hagerman, examines the often-overlooked benefits that aerobic exercise has for the human brain. Exercise is as good for the mind as it is for the body, a point illustrated by the story of a school district in Naperville, Illinois.... (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)  

A missing link, the Total Mind-Body-Spirit Weight Loss Program helps you lose weight and keep it off, by using a unique visualization method to help control the four hidden types of stress that can cause or contribute to weight gain.

Would you like to lose weight but struggle to find a plan that works for you? Do you feel frustrated because the latest diet trend isn't a long-term solution to weight loss? In Eat Right, Lose Weight, functional nutritional and nutrigenomics practitioner and certified metabolic balance coach Pippa Campbell shows you how to work out the specific reasons as to why you might be struggling to lose weight.

Most diet and workout books are focused on the wrong things: They focus on WHAT instead of HOW. The leanest people focus on how, on their eating habits, not on fad diets. Diets that rely on willpower and discipline fail. The path to results is made up of eleven small, simple, step-by-step habits. Rotating through phases of metabolic, endurance, and strength workouts yields the best fat-loss results.

Feeling tired but don't know why? The Energy Fix is a nutritional science book that will help you to understand why your energy levels are so low and equip you with easy, practical everyday strategies for boosting it. Drawing on scientific research and the author’s nutritional expertise, this simple five-step approach shows how to reinvigorate and stabilise your energy levels for good. 

Is this a workout book that can make you look and feel like you’re twenty again in thirty days flat? Is it a fitness book full of diet and exercise “hacks” and “shortcuts” for gaining lean muscle and melting belly fat faster than a sneeze in a cyclone? Absolutely not. But is it an exercise and nutrition book that’ll guide you on how to eat and exercise to lose pounds of fat and gain eye-catching amounts of muscle definition and strength? YES.

This book is written to help you approach weight loss in a very effective way. Instead of fighting against your desires and habits, you can quickly use hypnosis to forget your cravings, master portion control and build many other fat-melting habits.

Do you feel like you have tried every new diet out there, without any real and long-lasting results? Sometimes the diet isn’t the problem, but a syndrome called insulin resistance is. When you have more glucose than your body needs, your body responds by producing more insulin to stabilize your blood sugar level. This will lead your body to store the excess glucose as fat, and is also the reason you probably feel like taking a nap after eating lunch with carbs in it.