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
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
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
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
In Love Your Curves Dr Pierre Dukan looks at why men and women are different shapes. Many women are in a perpetual quest for thinness, convinced that is the key to happiness and the best way to attract a partner. However, Dr Dukan provides scientific evidence to demonstrate that, although society and the media often makes us feel otherwise, curves are natural and much more appealing. Told with humour, Love Your Curves is Dr Dukan's personal message that we should lose weight, not shape. Dr Pierre Dukan is a French medical doctor wh... read more
Do you have Fructose Malabsorption?Do you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome?Do you find shopping for food a frustrating experience? THEN HERE IS YOUR BEST FRIEND!Fructose malabsorption is a medical condition which can cause symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. Foods that contain excess fructose and fructans are a problem for people with fructose malabsorption.This very helpful pocket book size product guide is the only comprehensive list of suitable commercially available foods sold in Australia. The guide includes background to the l... read more
Despite the huge gains in nutritional knowledge, healthy eating has not become easier. In our time poor society, fewer people regularly cook and eat at home, and many rely on take-away and fast foods. In effect, we are suffering from malnutrition in the midst of plenty, along with many modern lifestyle diseases: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer. This detailed and comprehensive A-Z guide can help guide you in healthy eating that will change the way you look and feel. With more than 500 entries covering whole foods, processe... 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
Have diets you've tried in the past failed or even been counter-productive? Are you sure your diet is right for your type of metabolism? After decades of laboratory and clinical research it has now been established that your blood type is the key to losing weight, avoiding disease and promoting longevity, fitness and even happiness. Your blood type determines your metabolism which means that it also determines which foods you should eat - one man's meat is another man's poison; one woman's weight-loss is another woman's dieting dis... read more
