Washoe County Library System

"For over a century, we've accepted the scientific consensus that cancer results from genetic disease due to chromosomal damage in cell nuclei. But what if cancer isn't a genetic disease after all? What if scientists are chasing a flawed paradigm, and cancer isn't a disease of damaged DNA but rather of defective metabolism as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction? What if that startling truth could revolutionize our understanding of other diseases...

Today, interest in dietary collagen is growing at an astounding rate, and with good reason. The benefits of a collagen-rich diet are remarkable, ranging from better weight control to enhanced digestion, clearer skin, reduced inflammation, and improved immune function. Dietary collagen provides a unique blend of amino acids and other compounds, making it critical for everyone, including infants, young children, the elderly, athletes, pregnant women,...

Provides a diet plan for relieving the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome by reducing the intake of hard-to-digest carbohydrates.

"The companion cookbook to the revolutionary New York Times bestseller The Autoimmune Solution, filled with more than 150 nutritious, easy-to-prepare, every day recipes to heal symptoms of inflammation and autoimmune disorders, including Graves' Disease, Psoriasis, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Celiac disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and Multiple sclerosis. Nine in ten Americans suffer from inflammation or an autoimmune disorder--conditions for which conventional...

Reveals the hidden health risk posed by high uric acid levels and provides a twenty-one-day program with recipes to reduce the levels.

"Eat to Defeat Menopause combines easy-to-understand health information to combat the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause with delicious and healthy recipes from both the authors and some of America's top chefs. Along with practical advice, essential information on women's health, and a healthy dose of humor, Eat to Defeat Menopause offers dietary strategies to improve sleep, hot flashes, and other menopausal symptoms; key foods for health and...

Say goodbye to gas, bloating, stomach pain, and constipation and take back your gut health with a low FODMAP diet from Prevention magazine! Cassandra Forsythe has struggled with gastrointestinal issues ever since she can remember, trying every medication, treatment, and meal plan she could find. Finally, she discovered the low FODMAP diet and it completely changed her life. FODMAPs are a group of specific short-chain carbohydrates that can be hiding...

"Defeat your insulin resistance and change your life with an easy-to-follow plan and 75 recipes for a healthier you." --

Explains an approach to weight-loss that also lowers blood pressure and cholesterol without the use of medication, describing the "DASH" diet, which combines exercise with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low and nonfat dairy, lean meats, fish, poultry, beans, and nuts, and providing twenty-eight days of two-thousand-calorie DASH menus and tips on dining away from home.

Collects low-FODMAP recipes that are intended to help patients with IBS or other digestive disorders.