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Nutrition
Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet.
The diet of an organism is what it eats, and is largely...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. First serialized by Rolling Stone in 1999, the...
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- Eric Schlosser
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- Jan 17, 2001
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The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet
The Scarsdale Medical Diet is a low-fat, low-calorie weight-loss diet system and accompanying book (The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet plus Dr. Tarnower's Lifetime Keep-Slim Program) by Scarsdale, New York physician Herman Tarnower.
The Scarsdale...
- x Author:
- Samm Sinclair Baker
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Zone diet
The Zone diet is a diet popularized in books by biochemist Barry Sears. It advocates consuming calories from carbohydrates, protein and fat in a balanced ratio.
The diet centers on a "40:30:30" ratio of calories obtained daily from carbohydrates,...
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- Barry Sears
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The Vegan Sourcebook
The Vegan Sourcebook is a guide to veganism written by Joanne Stepaniak and first published in November 1998 by Lowell House. The book is intended for both existing vegans and those who are considering becoming vegans, and provides information on a...
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- Joanne Stepaniak
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The China Study
The China Study (ISBN 1-932100-38-5) is a 2005 book by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., an "outspoken vegan" and his son, Thomas M. Campbell II. Dr. Campbell is a professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and one of the directors of the...
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- T. Colin Campbell
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The Fat Smash Diet
The Fat Smash Diet is the book-length version of the nutrition and fitness regimen that Dr. Ian K. Smith has used to widespread acclaim on VH1’s weight loss reality show, Celebrity Fit Club. The diet aims to change the dieter's "relationship with...
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- Apr 4, 2006
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Chew on This
Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food is an adaption of Fast Food Nation for younger readers by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson.
It follows the general plot structure of Fast Food Nation, but simplifies the content to...
- x Author:
- Eric Schlosser
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- x Editor:
Clear Body, Clear Mind
Clear Body, Clear Mind is a book published in 1990 by the Church of Scientology's publishing house Bridge Publications. It is credited to L. Ron Hubbard who died four years earlier, and is largely a compilation of material he wrote in the 1960s. It...
- x Author:
- L. Ron Hubbard
- x Date of first publication:
- 1990
- x Editor:
The Weight-Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You To Know About
The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About is a weight loss book written by controversial author Kevin Trudeau. It was released in April 2007 by Alliance Publishing. Trudeau is a convicted felon with no certified medical training and...
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- Kevin Trudeau
- x Date of first publication:
- Apr 1, 2007
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto is a 2008 book by Michael Pollan. It was number one on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks. The book grew out of Pollan's 2007 article Unhappy Meals published in the New York Times...
- x Author:
- Michael Pollan
- x Date of first publication:
- Jan 1, 2008
- x Editor:
En La Zona Con Omega 3rx / The Omega Rx Zone
- x Author:
- Barry Sears
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- x Editor:
The Art of Eating
The Art of Eating is a book by M. F. K. Fisher.
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- M. F. K. Fisher
- x Date of first publication:
- 1954
- x Editor:
Nutritional Support For Adults And Children
- x Author:
- Tim Bowling
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- x Editor:
The delights of delicate eating
- x Author:
- Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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- x Editor:
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World is a book by Mark Pendergrast.
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- Mark Pendergrast
- x Date of first publication:
- 1999
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Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris is a book by A. J. Liebling.
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- A. J. Liebling
- x Date of first publication:
- 1959
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Vitamins, herbs, minerals & supplements
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- H. Winter Griffith
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Foods That Can Cause You to Lose Weight II
- x Author:
- Neal D. Barnard
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