This diet aims to help the reader lose weight fast by identifying the foods that make them look and feel falesly fat - and eliminating the allergy-like food reactions that cause real weight gain. It offers an easy-to-follow regime that can be tailored to the individual and contains recipes and the "no-hunger" programme that aims to bring instant results and long-term benefits.

The False Fat Diet

Haas, Elson

Bantam]

“Christopher Hobbs and Elson Haas...take a complicated field and...make sense of it.” ―Ron Lawrence, MD, PhD, Director, Council on Natural Nutrition 
Don’t forget to take your vitamins! It’s good advice. But everybody’s needs are different. Age, lifestyle, gender, ethnicity, diet, and habits all play a role in determining which vitamins and minerals you need more or less of in your diet. Like traffic lights, vitamins help regulate your body’ most basic functions at the cellular level. And just like those red, green and amber beacons, they must be synchronized―not too many or too few―to get you through your life’s journey in good shape. Now Vitamins For Dummies shows you how to have green lights all the way. Confused by vitamins? Mystified by minerals? Can’t tell the difference between gingko and ginseng? In this straight-talking guide, two experts cut through the confusion and help you: <ul>
<li>Get a handle on what each vitamin mineral and supplement does</li> <li>Create a personalized supplement program</li> <li>Understand the fine print on the labels</li> <li>Combat or prevent specific ailments</li> <li>Enhance memory, mood, and energy</li> <li>Slow the aging progress</li> </ul>
Drawing upon their years of experience in clinical practice as well as the latest scientific research into nutritional supplements, Chris Hobbs and Elson Haas, MD, tell you, in plain English, what you need to know to make informed decisions about which supplements you take. They cover: <ul>
<li>The ABCs of vitamins</li> <li>All about minerals</li> <li>Amino acids and proteins―the body’s building blocks</li> <li>The importance of fats and oils</li> <li>Common supplements for digestion</li> <li>Super-foods and other great supplements</li> <li>The top 40 herbal supplements</li> </ul>
As an added bonus, Vitamins For Dummies features a quick-reference, A-to-Z guide to treatments for 90 common complaints. From acne to motion sickness to varicose veins, the authors describe complete healing programs that include vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements and lifestyle changes. Your complete A-to-Zinc guide to vitamins, minerals, herbs and other nutritional supplements, Vitamins For Dummies is your ticket to good health and long life.

Vitamins For Dummies

HOBBS, CHRISTOPHER

Parenting & Relationships

For Dummies

If you think your immune system is just a simple thing that only helps you fight off colds and flus, think again. It is, in fact, a highly complex, protective, and intelligent system that can bolster health and healing from head to toe. A number of factors—from your diet, lifestyle, and the illnesses you’ve had to the medications you take or the toxins and people you interact with on a daily basis—can throw your immune system off balance, resulting in excessive inflammation that worsens allergies and pain and can even lead to serious health conditions. Don’t panic: You can feed, nourish, and teach your immune system to work better, which will result in lifelong health. In Ultimate Immunity, experts Drs. Elson Haas and Sondra Barrett guide you through a unique plan aimed at balancing, amplifying, and managing your immune health. Beginning with easy-to-understand explanations of what the immune system is, how it works, and how it fails, then moving on to five important ways to reset it, Ultimate Immunity provides the answers you need. Including diet, exercise, and stress-reduction tips, as well as testimonials from people who used these methods to overcome chronic pain and immune health issues for good, Ultimate Immunity is your guidebook to total health.

Ultimate Immunity: Supercharge Your Body's Natural Healing Powers

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Barrett, Sondra

Exercise & Fitness

Rodale Books

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