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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Why is it important to chew your food? Can you guess how long it takes for food to travel through your body? Could you possibly have twenty feet of small intestines? Where does that bad-smelling gas come from? Your digestive system is out of sight and out of mind -- until things don't go right. Then you may wonder how these important organs work! You'll find the answers in Seymour Simon's smooth, well-organized, and fascinating introduction to the...
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xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The secret to permanent weight loss revealed. The real reason diets fail has nothing to do with calories and everything to do with the balance of bacteria in your gut. A simple guide to show you how to finally achieve your ideal weight. The 100 trillion bacteria that live in your digestive tract--which make up 90 percent of the cells in your body--are the real reason you gain or lose weight. When those microbes are out of balance, chronic health...
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xi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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This groundbreaking book by a top Functional Medicine specialist reveals that everything you put into your gut can either create serious digestive issues or fix them. Dr. Vincent Pedre understands gut problems firsthand. He suffered from irritable bowel syndrome for years before becoming an expert in Functional Medicine and learning how to heal his body through food. Dr. Pedre drew from his own experience to develop the Gut C.A.R.E. Program, an approach...
7) Your stomach
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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A simple introduction to the stomach, including its makeup, function within the digestive system, stomach diseases, and how to keep your stomach healthy.
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255 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Español
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En este libro, Blanca nos explica los microorganismos que podemos encontrar en los alimentos que comemos y cómo pueden afectar a nuestro microbiota y, por tanto, a nuestra salud. De la mano de Blanca aprenderás que: -- El aspecto de un alimento no dice nada sobre su calidad. -- La mejor manera de mantener los nutrientes de un alimento es conservarlo bien. Por eso Blanca nos explicará qué, dónde y cuánto tiempo podemos conservar los alimentos...
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223 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A practical resource for restoring the microbial balance in our guts and rebooting overall health, featuring a simple 6-day, 2-phase detox cleanse and over 50 delicious Paleo-meets-Mediterranean recipes. The key to great digestive health lies in rewilding the gut and keeping the diverse microbes that inhabit it happy and thriving. In Wild Mediterranean Stella Metsovas breaks down the complex science behind digestive health and shares a deceptively...
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119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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An engaging graphic-novel introduction to the human gastrointestinal tract discusses the science that underlies digestion, counseling students on subjects ranging from saliva and nutrient processing to illness and friendly bacteria.
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184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Poop is disgusting, but it's also packed with potential. One scientist spent months training a dog to track dung to better understand elephant birthing patterns. Another discovered that mastodon poop years ago is the reason we enjoy pumpkin pie today. And every week, some folks deliver their own poop to medical facilities, where it is swirled, separated, and shipped off to a hospital to be transplanted into another human. There's even a train full...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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The silly true story of how Darwin discovered that the earthworm is one of the most important species on the planet. Without their life-sustaining poop, there would be no plants or animals on Earth. A scholarly worm gives historical facts and context on every page.
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316 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Español
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Traces each part of the digestive system, explaining how it works and its role in the digestive process, with an emphasis on the intestines, and discusses the effects of good and bad microbes.
"El intestino, ese gran desconocido, la oveja negra entre los órganos, que quizá hasta ahora nos parecía más bien desagradable. Pero esta imagen, estimado lector, está a punto de cambiar. El sobrepeso, las depresiones y las alergias están estrechamente...
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xxiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Are you gluten-free or dairy-free? If so, you might not have to be. Eat Wheat is a scientific and clinically-proven approach to addressing food intolerances. After 3.4 million years of eating wheat and only 500,000 years of hunting meat, humans are actually genetically better equipped to eat wheat than meat. This book is your guide to safely bringing wheat and dairy back into your diet.
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145 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"It Takes Guts explores of all the amazing things that happen when we eat and drink: the different tools that the body uses to break food down for digestion, how acids do their part without burning a hole in our stomachs, why we want lots of 'helpful bacteria' in our guts, and how our intestines pass the leftovers along and out the other end. It also explains how the digestive system has a mind of its own, and how it can even affect our moods. And...
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