Diet & Nutrition

Dr Mike Moreno's 17 Day Diet is a revolutionary new weight-loss programme that activates your skinny gene so that you burn fat day in and day out. The diet is structured around four 17-day cycles: Accelerate - the rapid weight loss portion that helps flush sugar and fat storage from your system; Activate-the metabolic restart portion with alternating low and high calorie days to help shed body fat; Achieve - this phase is about learning to control portions and introducing new fitness routines; Arrive - A combination of the first th... read more

The Dukan Diet is a unique 4-step programme, combining two steps to lose your unwanted weight and two steps to keep it off for good: Step 1: Attack For 2-7 days eat as much as you want of 72 protein-rich foods. Step 2: Cruise Continue eating the protein-rich foods with the addition of 28 vegetables. Step 3: Consolidation Add fruit, bread, cheese and starchy foods, and 2 celebration meals a week, allowing 5 days for every pound lost. Step 4: Stabilisation Eat what you like without regaining weight by following 3 simple rules, includ... read more

Continuing James Duigan's Clean & Lean philosophy this inspirational new cookbook illustrates what you should be eating to keep your body in its best-ever shape. Starting with breakfasts to kick start your day the healthy way it takes you through lunch and dinner with ideas for quick, easy meals that won't impact on your waistline. With James' trademark 'Bad, better, best' columns there is also advice on the healthiest choices when eating out at a variety of locations from a romantic meal at your favourite Italian to your popping o... read more

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Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, "Food Rules" is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a wide variety of sources: mothers, grandmothers, nutritionists, anthropologists and ancient cultures among them. Whether at the supermarket, a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect m... read more

MaryRose Spence has featured as the food consultant on the popular television series What's Really in our Food? She is a nutritionist and dietician frequently consulted for her opinion on both radio and TV.
Size Does Matter delivers a fresh approach to weight loss. It will change the way you think about your body and your food needs. It will give you a life, not a diet. The author believes you can eat everything - the key is knowing how much and how often. She wants this to be the last time you lose weight.
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Provides consumers with easily understood information on the potential health effects of food additives and ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products. This latest edition is fully revised and updated with over 400 new entries.

The Dukan Diet is based on a unique four-step programme. Two steps to lose weight and two steps to keep it off for good. The Dukan Diet Recipe Book will help you stick to the diet by offering over 350 recipes suitable for the all-important weight loss stages. With meal ideas for the protein-only Attack stage and then lots more recipes to keep you on track during the Cruising stage when you can add vegetables to your diet, The Dukan Diet Recipe Book shows how you can eat well and still lose weight. Packed with ways to liven up your ... read more

A revolutionary new interactive programme of daily personal reflection and lifestyle change for healthy and sustainable weight-loss for individuals or groups. Not a diet, Fat Chance! focuses on learning how slim people eat. Over 12 weeks readers learn to change the way they think about themselves, their priorities, about food and the way they eat, deal with emotional hunger, work with their body, get active, eat well, be set free from overeating forever and discover the slim person they were meant to be.

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Describes the science of food and which properties of particular foods are the active cancer fighting elements. Explains how different foods work to protect the body against different cancers.

By keeping a food diary and taking self-assessment quizzes, readers learn which foods help and hurt their digestive health. The book then shows readers how to develop a customized plan for healing their IBS using this information. Knoff directs readers to commmon beneficial foods for digestion and warns about foods that can exacerbate digestive problems. This final section of this book offers simple recipes readers can begin using right away to heal their direstive issues and help them get started on the path toward better healt... read more

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Patrick Holford is the UK's best-known nutrition guru. In The Holford 9-Day Liver Detox he will change the way you eat forever and leave you looking and feeling fantastic. Patrick Holford explains why detox works, the role of the liver in detoxing and how to detox your body. His 9-day plan is easy to follow, spread effortlessly over two weekends and the 5 days between. He gives you simple information on how to get started and how to get the most out of your detox, so that you will feel the benefits immediately, as you flush the tox... read more

Recent diets and popular research is showing more and more how hidden sugar in your everyday foods, such as fruit, could be causing you to put on weight without knowing it. Use this handy guide to discover how much secret sugar and carbs are in the foods every day. The items are categorised alphabetically under the following headings: Baking; Bread; Breakfast Cereal, Porridge & Muesli; Cake & Muffin Mixes; Cakes & Slices; Chocolate Products; Confectionary; Crackers & Biscuits; Dairy & Soy Products; Desserts; Dressings; Drinks; Eggs... read more

The Low GI Diet Handbook is a one-stop resource for all those who want to switch to the healthy low-GI lifestyle. This simple-to-follow guide includes: brand-new coverage of the glycemic load and its significance and daily application; fifty all-new delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes with complete nutritional information; comprehensive, up-to-date tables of glycemic index values for almost 800 individual foods and their glycemic load values; clever tips on low GI shopping and cooking; an indispensable seven-day meal plan; scient... read more

Bringing together the latest scientific research and cross-cultural data, Dr. Ballentine resolves conflicting views on such controversial issues as the link between modern diet, cancer, and heart disease; the use and misuse of vitamin and mineral supplementation; how much protein is enough; the bran controversy; the "sugar story; " raw vs. cooked; vegetarianism vs. omnivorism; additives and preservatives and much more.

A complete diet and exercise regime from the creator of a highly successful, internationally renowned weight-loss programme. Fries With That? investigates the difficulties we face today in a world where we are constantly being encouraged to upsize our meals and buy value packs, resulting in overeating and weight-gain. This book provides the practical tools and information required for identifying portion distortion and sensible food boundaries. The recipe component to the book includes menu planners, easy 'when all else fails' meal... read more

Since THE HEALTHY SKIN DIET was first released, this bestselling book has been a media sensation, appearing in publications such as Woman's Day, Madison, Body + Soul, Dolly, NW, Notebook, Good Health, Australian Natural Health, Reader's Digest and Practical Parenting, as well as being featured on TV programs A Current Affair and Today Tonight. This new 'value' edition capitalises on that success by bringing nutritionist Karen Fischer's proven eight-week program to the public at a new cheaper price point! Whatever your skin type, wh... read more

A guide to eating for optimum health. Whether you have coeliac disease, food allergies or you just want to improve your health, it features more than 90 recipes that are gluten, wheat, dairy, yeast and sugar-free, each bursting with nutrient-rich or super foods that can help nourish and heal your body.