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Stop & Go Fast Food Nutrition Guide
: :The Stop & Go Fast Food Nutrition Guide shows you how to navigate the fast food maze and choose foods that are actually good for you. The guide uses the colors of the stop light (red, yellow, and green) to help individuals choose foods that lead toward or away from good health. The Stop & Go Fast Food Nutrition Guide is the only guide that shows you how to navigate the fast food maze and identify fast foods that are actually good for you. With the help of a nationally ...
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Vitamin Book, The
: :America's Most Reliable Vitamin Guide...Completely Updated!We've all heard about the miraculous curative and preventive powers of vitamins, minerals, and herbal remedies. Now the new, revised The Vitamin Book, compiled by pharmacological experts, cuts through the confusion so you learn what to take and why.Here is authoritative and up-to-date scientific information on exactly what vitamins, minerals, and herbal remedies can do for you. You'll find: Detailed descriptions of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and electrolytes, including daily requirements, dosages, therapeutic uses, and more The latest research on St. John's wort, echinacea, CoQ10, ...
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EZ LIFETIME A to Z CALORIE COUNTER
: :Calorie, counter, diet, exercise, health, fitness, lose, weight, protein, fat, carb, Alternative, Medicine, Natural, Healing
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The Vitamin and Mineral Food Counter
: :GETTING ALL YOUR ESSENTIAL VITAMINS AND MINERALS HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER!Will vitamins and minerals keep you healthy? How much do you need? Which foods are the best sources? Is it better to eat raw or cooked foods? Now, for the first time, nationally known nutritionists Annette Natow and Jo-Ann Heslin offer a guide to the vitamin and mineral content of thousands of brand name and generic foods. Get the latest information on the eleven 'marker' vitamins and minerals -- the ones that ensure you'll meet all your vitamin and mineral ...
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The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to the Top 100 Low-Glycemic Foods
: :The glycemic index (GI)—an easy-to-understand measure of how different foods affect our blood glucose levels—is revolutionizing the way we eat. Medical experts and health authorities now advocate using GI values in making daily food decisions—so it’s never been more important to understand how to choose and benefit from low-GI foods. Clearly written by the leading experts on the glycemic index, this completely revised and updated A to Z guide offers in-depth entries for the top 100 foods with the lowest GI values. It includes comprehensive explanations of each food’s GI ...
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A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: Updated Fourth Edition (4th ed)
: :An essential book for anyone who wants to make informed, healthier choices at the store or at the table. This valuable listing of more than 8,000 food additives includes those that indirectly end up in your food as a result of processing and procuring techniques, and explains the new food labels that are required on products. Review:What am I eating? This book answers that question by describing more than 8,000 ingredients found in foods. The dictionary format lets you look up an ingredient alphabetically and learn what it is, ...
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Harriet Roth's Fat Counter (Revised Edition)
: :A new revised edition of the bestselling Fat Counter now with updated material on trans fats, carbs, and sugar! Americans have more food choices and more to watch out for than ever. Research suggests that trans-fat, carbohydrates, and sugar can be major diet-busters. It's key to cut down on dietary fat and saturated fat in particular, and watch food labels. In this third revised edition of her bestselling guide, Harriet Roth offers the additional feature of trans fat, sugar and carb counts-and updates her listings to include the newest supermarket ...
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The Simple 0-to-10 GI Diet: Lose Weight with the Easy Food Scoring System Based on the Glycemic Index
: :Balancing blood glucose by eating the right carbs is vital to losing weight, but the glycemic index's complicated scoring system makes it difficult to keep track of total carb intake. By simplifying the scoring system and creating an easy-to-follow plan, The Simple 0-to-10 GI Diet offers a no-hassle program to lose weight and maintain a healthy long-term diet.Written by nutrition experts and focused on what you can eat, not what you can't, The Simple 0-to-10 GI Diet takes the work out of GI scoring so dieters can focus on creating ...
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Cholesterol Counter (Third Revision)
: :A guide to improved health through reduced cholesterol features essential information on reducing the risk of coronary disease and other disorders, providing the fat content for more than ten thousand foods.
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Good Cholesterol, Bad Cholesterol: An Indispensable Guide to the Facts about Cholesterol
: :High cholesterol is an important risk factor for heart disease, heart attack, and strokes. And although cholesterol screening is one of the most widely administered and evaluated blood tests, many people don't realize that our bodies require some cholesterol to function normally and remain confused about which cholesterol is the 'good' one and which is the 'bad.' Now, in Good Cholesterol, Bad Cholesterol, Hirsch presents a clear, concise primer to all the varieties of this blood lipid, including HDL (high-density lipoprotein), LDL (low-density lipoprotein), VDL (very low density lipoprotein), and ...
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