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"For over a century, we've accepted the scientific consensus that cancer results from genetic disease due to chromosomal damage in cell nuclei. But what if cancer isn't a genetic disease after all? What if scientists are chasing a flawed paradigm, and cancer isn't a disease of damaged DNA but rather of defective metabolism as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction? What if that startling truth could revolutionize our understanding of other diseases...
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ix, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Weight loss isn't about restricting calories; it's about hormones. By giving up meat, sugar, fruit, caffeine, grains, dairy and alcohol, you will be able to repair your body and reset your hormones. Gottfried reveals how to grow new receptors for the body's seven metabolic hormones for weight loss and overall improved health.
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xxi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Draws on the latest scientific research to outline a diet that improves the body's fat-burning systems and promotes muscle building without deprivation, in a guide that includes menu plans, shopping guides, and a selection of customized workout plans.
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viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A proven plan to optimize your health by reclaiming your natural ability to burn body fat for fuel The ability to use body fat for energy is essential to health-but over decades of practice, renowned family physician Catherine Shanahan, M.D., observed that many of her patients could not burn their body fat between meals, trapping them in a downward spiral of hunger, fatigue, and weight gain. In The Fatburn Fix, Dr. Shanahan shows us how industrially...
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373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"New research blows the lid off how we really burn calories, lose weight, and stay healthy"--
If you exercise and cut carbs you'll lose more weight, right? Wrong! Pontzer reveals how human metabolism really works: exercise does not increase our metabolism. Instead we burn calories within a very narrow range, no matter our activity level. Pontzer examines a variety of modern diet trends and explains how they succeed or fail: for shedding pounds, a...
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xxvi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
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"Lyn-Genet Recitas shares her groundbreaking new 30-day program that helps readers create a customized diet and exercise plan to boost their metabolism and burn more fat. Readers will discover: why exercising less--as little as 12 minutes, 3 times a week!--can help them lose more weight; why "healthy" foods like oatmeal and salmon may be packing on the pounds, but French fries may not; and how to optimize their thyroid function. Featuring all-new...
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xviii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Dr. Li introduces the surprising new science of weight loss, revealing healthy body fat can help you lose weight; your metabolism at 60 can be the same as when you were 20; yo-yo dieting can be good for your health; 8-hour fasting windows can be as effective as 12-hour fasting windows; and losing just a little bit of weight can have big impacts on your health. Eat to Beat Your Diet shows readers how adding the right foods to your diet can heal your...
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360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result of a single event.
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xvii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The New Body Type Guide by Eric Berg, DC, is a major upgraded and improved version of his best selling book, The 7 Principles of Fat Burning. In his recent years, many new discoveries and observations prompted Dr. Berg to come out with a new version to bust through any slow metabolism. Dr. Berg will teach you how to take your results to a whole new level and get your body into super health state. Also added is several additional chapters on acupressure...
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viii, 293 pages ; 25 cm
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"Haylie Pomroy, celebrated nutritionist, and New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet shares a prescription for total health based on decades of work using food as metabolic medicine. Our bodies are always talking; we just need to learn how to listen to them. Sometimes they whisper to us -- our energy is off, our body shape is morphing in ways we don't like. Sometimes they try to give us straight talk, pushing our cholesterol...
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289 pages ; 24 cm
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"From an internationally recognized physician who combines Eastern and Western medicine, a groundbreaking diet and total body health plan centered on digestive balance and metabolic transformation. The complaints that Dr. Suhas hears on a daily basis, from body weight chaos, low energy, and poor sleep, to headaches, unexplained congestion, and depression, all have a surprising common denominator: a weak digestive "fire." Drawing on ancient Indian...
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x, 347 pages ; 24 cm
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The Metabolism Revolution diet strategically manipulates macronutrients to speed the body's metabolic rate, kick starting a stalled metabolism. The plan can burn fat, build muscle, improve your skin, and boost energy levels -- all while losing weight quickly and keeping it off for life.
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Colorado boasts the lowest obesity rate in America. Now, a team of leading weight-loss researchers reveal how slender Coloradans get and stay that way, and show how you can achieve the same results wherever you live. From their Denver-based research facility Drs. Hill and Wyatt studied the patients in their weight-loss clinic along with the lean people of Colorado. They also analyzed the National Weight Control Registry, a scientific database of thousands...
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Estivation is just like hibernation - only it happens in summer instead of winter. Why do some animals settle into cool, snug spots and sink into a summertime sleep? Because it's too hot for their bodies to function, or their food is in short supply. Some estivating animals sleep in groups; others rest alone. Some go on a long journey before they slumber; others hunker down right at home. From the pixie frog to the spotted turtle to the desert hedgehog,...
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