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The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. Many foods we consume today-from almonds and apples to tea and rice-have histories that can be traced along the tracks of the Silk Road, out of prehistoric Central Asia to European kitchens and American tables. Organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century B.C., but the exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient...
2) Fruit
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Young people will practice reading basic text that reinforces the nourishing eating of fresh fruits and drinking juices. Vivid full-color images make the apples and berries look as if they could be picked off the page.
7) Vegetables
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Budding readers will learn to read basic sentences as they're encouraged to eat a variety of healthy vegetables. Zesty snapshots of colorful corn, carrots, and more jump off the page.
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There are over 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commerce today, including hormone-disrupting phthalates and air pollutants. Smith and Lourie prove how easily our bodies absorb these chemicals from the foods we eat, the air we breathe, and the products we smear on our skin-- day after day. Then they give us the good news about what is in our control and the steps we can take for reducing our toxic burden. The result is nothing short of a prescription...
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x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Your fitness, health, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. Yet, knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good sources of vitamins, keeping up on the latest scientific discoveries, or discerning the effectiveness of different diets can be challenging. To help answer these questions there's The Handy Nutrition Answer Book. Additionally, the book scrutinizes the...
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360 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"This glorious visual celebration of food in all its forms reveals the extraordinary cultural impact of the foods we eat, explores the early efforts of humans in their quest for sustenance, and tells the fascinating stories behind individual foods. With profiles of the most culturally and historically interesting foods of all types, from nuts and grains, fruits and vegetables, and meat and fish, to herbs and spices, this fascinating culinary historical...
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318 pages ; 24 cm
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"From the author of Identically Different comes a new look at nutritional health, showing us that breakthrough research on microbiomes--the microbes in our stomachs--could hold the key to healthy, balanced diets"--Novelist.
Most diet plans prove to be only short-term solutions, and few strategies work for everyone. Spector believes the key to health and weight loss isn't which foods we eat-- it's the essential digestive microbes already inside us....
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xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In this long-awaited follow-up to the definitive detox program, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Alejandro Junger delivers a detailed, personalized, and medically proven 7-day program to rid our bodies of the multitude of toxins that keep us from living well and feeling our best"--
The air we breathe, the water we drink, the skin products we use, the medications we take and the foods we eat are loaded with toxic chemicals that cause all kinds...
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223 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Todos queremos sentirnos bien y proyectar una imagen saludable. Sin embargo, la obesidad, y sobre todo la infantil, crece de forma alarmante en el mundo civilizado, hasta el punto de que la OMS la define como la ±epidemia del siglo XXI¬. ¿Qué está pasando? ¿Han cambiado tanto nuestras costumbres para justificar que actualmente 1 de cada 3 españoles sea obeso? ¿Por qué nos cuesta tanto adelgazar? ¿Por qué no funcionan las dietas? ¿Es...
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287 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Jessie Inchauspé offers a framework for healing through science-backed nutrition hacks with this four-week program incorporating the principles of how to avoid glucose spikes into your everyday life"--
Glucose, or blood sugar, enters our bloodstream through the starchy or sweet foods we eat. Inchauspé delivers a four-week guide for integrating simple, proven strategies to steady your blood sugar into everyday life. Begin your meals with veggie...
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126 pages ; 21 cm
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"¿Cuál es la causa del cáncer? ¿Nuestros pensamientos? ¿Los alimentos que tomamos? ¿La toxicidad ambiental? ¿Los campos electromagnéticos? ¿Las geopatías? ¿Por qué no tener en cuenta todo ello? Esta es la premisa que Suzanne Powell nos presenta en esta obra sencilla y práctica, en la que identifica cada posible problema y nos ofrece la correspondiente solución. La autora nos invita a tener en cuenta todos los factores y a llevar un estilo...
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Text and infographics explain how much water it takes to produce an item or carry out an activity, and offer tips on saving water.
The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true cost of our lifestyle. A "water footprint" is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing, harvesting, packaging, and shipping....
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404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to eat right, but the lifetime research of animal behaviorist Fred Provenza and his colleagues has debunked this myth. Their work shows that when given a choice of natural foods, livestock have an astoundingly refined palate, nibbling through the day on as many as fifty kinds of grasses, forbs, and shrubs to meet their nutritional needs with remarkable precision....
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"Improve all areas of your health from your weight, sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, and even slow down aging, with easy-to-implement, science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar levels while still eating the foods you love. Glucose, or blood sugar, is a tiny molecule in our body that has a huge impact on our health. It enters our bloodstream through the starchy or sweet foods we eat. Ninety percent of us suffer from too much glucose in our...
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