Product Description: Heralded by New York magazine as one of the city's most popular diets, macrobiotics has become the latest trend in dieting, thanks to high-profile supporters like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Speaking to the generation of young women looking to extend their healthy lifestyles beyond yoga and Pilates, macrobiotic chef and instructor Jessica Porter offers fresh, contemporary, and accessible insight into one of the world's oldest, yet most popular, diets. She explains that by eating good quality whole foods, any woman can experience physical, sensory, emotional, and intellectual freedom.

The effects of eating a macrobiotic diet can extend beyond basic health to weight loss, beauty, better sex, and peace of mind. Cooking tips and recipes are combined with Jessica's no-nonsense philosophy and witty anecdotes to create a lifestyle book that will inspire women to hit the kitchen with an understanding of how to strengthen their minds and bodies through food.

Product Description: Dawn Dais hated running. And it didn't like her much, either. Her fitness routine consisted of avoiding the stairs in her own house, because who really has the energy to climb stairs? It was with this exercise philosophy firmly in place that she set off to complete a marathon.
The Nonrunner’s Marathon Guide for Women is a fun training manual for women who don't believe that running is their biological destiny but who dream of crossing the finish line nonetheless. It opens with a realistic training schedule and is chock-full of how-to's, quizzes, and funny observations, which Dais felt were lacking in the guides she had consulted.
The Nonrunner’s Marathon Guide for Women also integrates entries from Dias' journal, sharing everything would-be marathoners need to know about the gear, the blisters, the early morning workouts, the late-night carb binges, and — most important of all — the amazing rewards.
Anyone can do a marathon. This book just makes the experience a little more bearable and a lot more fun.

The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women: Get Off Your Butt and On with Your Training (Paperback)

This bestselling and indispensable guide contains the most complete and user-friendly restaurant nutrition facts for people living with diabetes. Reflecting the most recent additions and deletions to the restaurant industry’s ever-changing menus, this revised and expanded edition covers more than 5,000 menu items from more than 60 chain restaurants.

American Diabetes Association Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating(3rd Edition) (Paperback)

Product Description: The Graedons, both respected authors (The People's Pharmacy) and speakers, offer advice on the safe use of home and herbal remedies. The first section combines tested scientific research and accumulated folk wisdom to provide the health consumer with treatment suggestions for common ailments. Also included are possible causes and symptoms for selected conditions, as well as contact information for product manufacturers. The second section lists the 50 most commonly used herbs, including their ingredients and information on usage, dose, adverse effects, and drug interactions. By combining herbal and folk remedies, clearly highlighting dangerous herb-drug interactions, and summarizing consumer issues, the Graedons have created a consumer resource that is entertaining (favorite home remedies include coconut macaroons for diarrhea) and easy-to-use. However, more comprehensive medicinal herb reference resources include the Complete German Commission E Monographs (American Botanical Council, 1998) and the PDR for Herbal Medicines (LJ 3/1/99), among others. Still, this is recommended for smaller public library collections that don't own the other titles.

The People's Pharmacy Guide to Home and Herbal Remedies (Mass Market Paperback)

Over the last five years, there has been an explosion of bestselling acid/alkaline based diets. These have ranged from weight loss to diabetes management. While hundreds of thousands of people have gone on this diet that balances the pH level of your body, they have had to put up with the limited food guides contained in each book. Now, health experts Dr. Susan Brown and Larry Trivieri have created a complete resource for people wanting to widen their food choices. The Acid/Alkaline Food Guide offers dieters an easy-to-follow guide to the most common foods that influence your body’s pH levels.

The book begins by explaining what the acid/alkaline of your body has to do with the acid/alkaline influence of foods. It then explains how the pH of foods, once eaten, may change in your body—as citric acid fruits, once digested, become alkaline. As complicated as this process is, the authors provide the guidelines for the analysis of the foods covered in the book. This section is then followed by a listing of thousands of foods and their acid/alkaline ranges. Included are insets and groups that can help the reader better direct their food searches.

This is the first complete acid/alkaline food guide to include today’s modern diet. It will quickly become the first resource to turn to when preparing meals or ordering food.

The Acid-Alkaline Food Guide: A Quick Reference to Foods & Their Effect on pH Levels (Paperback)

Product Description: In Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Get Real Meals, the bestselling cookbook author and Food Network star serves up another helping of creative, hassle-free recipes that are ready to rock your tastebuds in less than thirty minutes. The latest addition to Rachael’s runaway hit series of 30-Minute Meals cookbooks is designed for cooks who want to look and feel great but long for the fun and the flavor that’s missing from their extreme low-carb meals. Why fill your shopping cart and your stomach with processed, low-carb cereals and breads that taste like cardboard when you can eat the foods you crave? Here, at last, are recipes for those who just cannot and will not live totally carb-free: Pasta dinners made mostly with proteins and vegetables and only a couple of ounces of pasta per servings, fresh Thai and Mexican lettuce wraps, take-out-style stir-frys, and tons of burger ideas—with and without the buns. And when you’ve just got to satisfy that sweet tooth, even nonbakers (like Rachael) will flip for Nutty Creamsicle Pie, Stuffed Roasted Strawberries, and other surprisingly easy dessert recipes.
 

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter (March 29, 2005)
• ISBN: 1400082536
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #153

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Broadway (February 8, 2005)
• ISBN: 076791581X
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds.
• Average Customer Review: based on 15 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #172

Product Description: American women spend 4.3 billion dollars a year on skin care products that just don't work. Now, anti-aging expert Dr. Adrienne Denese draws on recent medical breakthroughs, the development of new treatments and ingredients, and her own experience helping thousands of patients reverse the signs of aging to bring her skin care secrets to every woman. In this accessible book, she offers practical advice, information, and techniques that guarantee younger-looking skin, including:

- Dr. Denese's 6-step program for flawless skin (the only skin care program readers will ever need)
- Self-tests to help readers analyze their face and choose the best program for their skin
- A shopping list of products they do and do not need
- A medically sound eating plan
- A guide to getting the right treatments at the doctor's office, spa, or salon
- A preview of the very latest treatments

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover (March 1, 2005)
• ISBN: 0425204103
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.0 pounds.
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• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Crown (April 12, 2005)
• ISBN: 1400053250
• Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #549

Product Description: She captured our hearts with her award-winning performances on screen. Now Kirstie Alley is poised to do it again as she laughingly explores our American obsession with fat, food, love, sex, beauty, and weight loss.

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (March, 2005)
• ISBN: 159486232X
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #944