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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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From the co-founder of Plated, the home delivery food service, and an inspirational business title that is a call-to-arms and investigation into the industrial American food complex.
In early 2012, Nick Taranto was twenty-seven years old, recently married, and fresh out of the Marine Corps. He moved back to New York City, started working on Wall Street, and put on twenty pounds in under six months. He was pasty, overweight, and depressed, and he...
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
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A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods.
7) Eat well
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Presents the food pyramid and discusses the roles of various types of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, sugars, and proteins, in maintaining good health.
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16 pages : color illustrations ; 18 x 23 cm.
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When the students in Mrs. Torres's class start to plan their class party, they expect that it will feature junk food, but as they learn about which foods are healthy and which are not, they decide to have refreshments of a different sort.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Animal characters learn about "good eating everyday" in a restaurant called The Edible Pyramid, where the waiter offers the foods grouped in sections of the Food Guide Pyramid and customers learn how many servings they need each day. Simultaneous.
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"The China Study" revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. "Whole" answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? "Whole" demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten offtrack and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism....
15) The 150 healthiest foods on earth: the surprising, unbiased truth about what you should eat and why
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From almonds to yucca, readers will learn what nutrients each of the 150 featured foods contains, if it's been recommended to combat any diseases, where to find it, how to prepare it, recipes using the foods, and more!
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We're accustomed to thinking of bacteria as bad -- and some are -- but most of the bacteria and microbes in our guts do amazing things, like working with our immune system to fight disease and helping our bodies digest food. Not only can't we live without them, but as their numbers and diversity increase, so too does our health. In this book, we look at all of the ways you can improve your own gut health, starting with the food you eat. My diet recommendations,...
18) The grain group
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Simple text and photographs present the foods that are part of the grain group and their nutritional importance.
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25 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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The best part of a young child's day is often opening a lunchbox and diving in. But how did all that delicious food get there? Who made the bread for the sandwich? What about the cheese inside? Who plucked the fruit? And where did the chocolate in that cookie get its start? From planting wheat to mixing flour into dough, climbing trees to machine-squeezing fruit, picking cocoa pods to stirring a vat of melted bliss, here is a clear, engaging look...
20) The fruit group
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Simple text and photographs present the foods that are part of the fruit group and their nutritional importance.
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