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Presents a guide to a plant-based, whole-food lifestyle for entire families, sharing helpful tips, the latest scientific findings, and more than one hundred kid-friendly recipes.

"A revolutionary prescription for healing depression and anxiety and optimizing brain health through the foods we eat, including a six-week plan to help you get started eating for better mental health."--Dust jacket.

Made Whole Made Simple is not about any particular diet; it is about walking away from fad diets and putting the focus on you- the individual. It is everything but diet and all about learning to UNDIET. Made Whole Made Simple will be your companion to navigating self-healing through real food and healthy habits. This book tackles nutrition in a straightforward way, focusing on how the body uses food to create energy and why metabolic flexibility (the...

"The founder of Gauge Girl Training, scientist and fitness champion Christine Hronec, through years of teaching and research, offers a customized weight-loss plan according to five macro types for the best results based on your body, your metabolism, and your goals. One-size-fits-all diets don’t work, and neither does counting calories alone. Biochemical Engineer and fitness expert Christine Hronec has discovered that the key to fat loss and feeling...

Combining conventional wisdom, historical research, and cutting-edge science, an acclaimed journalist and science writer reveals that only by restoring the relationship between the flavor of food and the nutrition it provides can we hope to change our eating habits and overall health.

Emphasizing plant-based and whole ingredients this cookbook offers more than 125 recipes, including Brussels Sprouts and Peanut Butter Curry Bowl and Seeded Almond Flour Waffles with Raspberry-Flax Smash, that will help restore microbial balance in the gut.

"An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight. Whether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise to eat more protein. Foods, drinks, and supplements are loaded with extra protein. Many people use protein for weight control, to gain or lose...

"Your body needs lots of different things to eat and every kind of food has a different job to do. Did you know eating cheese makes your bones strong? Or that eating carrots helps you see better? Read and find out more about the different kinds of food we eat and how to fill up your plate to keep your body healthy!"--Jacket flap.

Argues that the best way to introduce infants to solid foods is to allow them to interact with the foods themselves until they naturally start eating, and offers recipes for healthy, infant-friendly dishes for the whole family.