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

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

Many people regard fat as the number one enemy and avoid it as much as possible. Others consume vast quantities of the stuff. As usual, balance lies somewhere between the two extremes. In Good Fats, Bad Fats nutritionist Rosemary Stanton maintains that not all fats are equal. She sorts out the facts and separates the good fats from the bad ones. She looks at all types of fats - saturated, poly- and monounsaturated, cholesterol, evening primrose oil, omega 3s, omega 6s - and explains in simple language what they are, what they do... read more

This title is now available in paperback! 'A lovely, motivating book, which will work if you follow it' - "The Times". For women (and men) over 40, belly fat is incredibly stealthy and incredibly stubborn. It's also the most deadly, contributing to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes and chronic illness than any other type of fat on your body. Finally, science has helped to uncover a key dietary weapon in the fight against belly fat: Monounsaturated fatty acids. These 'good' fats help dieters lose more weight - from their bell... read more

The first half of this book is a user-friendly guide to food intolerances, an explanation of the Low-Fodmap diet and an overview of how to include it in your daily eating plan. Sue Shepherd, who understands that we don't all eat at home all the time, also gives advice on matters such as eating out, what to look out for when you're travelling and how to cook for children, vegetarians and people with diabetes. The information is conveyed in an approachable way, with plenty of diagrams to aid understanding. The second half of the book... read more

The Sweet Poison Quit Plan is the long-awaited 'how to' supplement to the best-selling Sweet Poison. It features: an overview of why sugar is bad and why we get addicted; a five-step plan to kicking the habit; tailored advice for men and women; a guide to sugar-free shopping (how to read the labels and what is safe/unsafe in each supermarket aisle); recipes for sugar-free treats (think ice-cream and cakes); advice on living sugar-free with kids. Packed with reader anecdotes and lists to help you organise your sugar-free life, this ... read more

This is an inspirational story that will motivate many people to stay alive. It is a confronting story about the extent of the diabesity epidemic on a national and global scale and is a simple consumer on how to avoid becoming a victim of the epidemic without banishing the fun from your life.

THE LOW GI HANDBOOK is the definitive guide for readers who want to understand the power of the glycemic index (GI) in their diet. This revised and updated edition, based on the original 'The New Glucose Revolution', includes the latest scientific findings on the GI; tables of the GI values for more than 900 popular foods; dozens of delicious, low-GI recipes; a glossary of 100 key terms used throughout the book and easy-to-understand answers to the most frequently asked questions about low GI. World authorities on the glycemic inde... read more

Don't Go Hungry For Life brings an uplifting and riveting collection of success stories, demonstrating how different people have solved their diet obsessions, overcome challenges, lose excess weight and develop a healthy relationship with food and their body. As a scientist specialising in weight management research, and having personally struggled with binge eating before losing over 28 kilos and keeping it off for over 12 years (and counting), Amanda Sainsbury-Salis draws on recent scientific studies and real-life experiences to ... read more

The Food Lover's Diet is for those who live in the real world where food is plentiful and life is hectic. It's a revolutionary do-it-yourself approach for those who love food and want to achieve weight loss goals without giving up the pleasures of a square of chocolate, and a glass of wine. Dr Penny Small's flexible and family-friendly approach to eating well, living well and achieving a healthy weight is one that really works, and that you can maintain, not just for a few weeks, but for a lifetime. Offering a simple-step-by step ... read more

What kind of world are our boys growing up in? Childhood and teenage life is changing rapidly leaving parents wondering how best to tackle the many issues boys face. These include things such as increasing pressure on young boys to buy into consumerist culture, their exposure to violent video games, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, the particular risks they face as young drivers, drugs and alcohol, mental health issues, safety on the internet, and bullying. This meticulously researched book takes a look at the big i... read more

Whether you're starting or ending a relationship, a friend has found a lump in her breast, you're in debt, your partner's lost interest in sex or you don't know whether to believe the moisturiser label, Women's Stuff is your must-have guide, from leaving school to menopause and beyond. It's a best friend in book form, a complete guide to how to get your life together and face any challenge at any age. It's also the ultimate fib detector - Kaz has sifted the facts and tested the claims, exposing the lies women are told about cosmeti... read more

The bestselling weight-loss programme made easy. 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. The Dukan Diet Life Plan helps you incorporate the bestselling weight-loss programme into your life so that you can lose the weight you want like millions of others have around the world. The Dukan Diet Life Plan includes: - The four stages of the diet set out clearly and simply: Attack, Cruise, Consolidation, Stabilisation - 60 delicious and strai... read more

In her inimitable warm, witty and informative way, Kaz Cooke (aided by her outrageous alter ego Hermoine) provides the real low-down on pregnancy and childbirth, from coping with the body changes to dealing with a newborn baby. New, completely revised and updated!

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Do you need to shift some weight for an upcoming event? Are sick of being on a calorie-controlled plan with no real outcome? Have you tried every diet, lose a couple of kg and then revert back to your old poor lifestyle habits? Would you like to know how to kickstart fat burning when you need it most? Lose Weight Fast! is the weight-loss bible you need to guide you and help manage your weight-loss goals now. With tips and tricks that show you how to lose 1, 10 or even 20kg as quickly and as safely possible, you will finally have th... read more

Nicole Hall shares her innermost thoughts on all aspects of new motherhood, such as breastfeeding, mastitis, sleep deprivation, body changes and the relationship with her husband, often jotting down her thoughts in the wee hours of the morning while breastfeeding.

Modern women don't just eat food, they eat words, emotions and circumstances too. What's Eating You? delves into the psychology of eating and explores the constant battle women have with their bodies. With a mix of qualified research, personal stories and almost a decade of professional experience, Kathleen Alleume's What's Eating You? gives both philosophical and practical solutions to overcoming the hidden cues influencing our eating behaviours, lifestyle and health.

Is religion toxic or tonic? Is it a force for good or for evil? The answer is 'all of the above' - which is to say that religion is a force far too powerful to be ignored. God is Not One is the essential guide to learning about and understanding religion and its place in our global culture today, written for religious and non-religious people alike, and for people in between. Stephen Prothero's fresh and controversial argument that the great religions present us with different paths up different mountains creates a new context for ... read more

Britain's greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism.