Super Seeds


Book Description

More than seventy-five delicious recipes for optimal health featuring power-packed culinary wonders. Super seeds chia, quinoa, flax, hemp, and amaranth can help transform your meals and your wellbeing. Discover just how powerful these versatile little seeds are and see how easy it is to use them in delicious recipes including: Carrot and Sweet Potato Yogurt Smoothie Lemon Basil Quinoa Salad Amaranth-Stuffed Acorn Squash Barbecue Beans Pesto Veggie Burgers Enchilada Casserole Amaranth Cornbread Crunch Topped Apple Coffee Cake Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp Individual Pumpkin Pie Puddings Chocolate Brownies Granola Cookies And more Convenient and versatile, the seeds work wonderfully in everything from muffins and breads to salads, soups, and desserts. Super Seeds is a must-have for anyone interested in eating healthily . . . and deliciously.




Super Grains


Book Description

Nature holds many secrets, many of which are still to be revealed, but we have learned a few of them along the way since ancient times, spurred, no doubt, by the need to eat and nourish ourselves. Over the years the benefits of many of the grains and seeds we consume today have escaped our notice. However, today, there is now a resurgence of interest in the very important nutritional values they can hold. Many of the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients in every day grains, such as barley and oats to more unusual ones, supply our bodies with life-giving and healing qualities. This is an introduction to grains and seeds down the ages, which have proved themselves useful to mankind and whose beneficial legacy has stayed with us through to modern times. This introduction to Super Grains & Seeds is a fascinating guide, full of interesting facts and over 100 recipes.




Hormone Intelligence


Book Description

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • #1 GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER You are not broken. Being a woman is not a diagnosis. Take your body back with the groundbreaking new science for women in Hormone Intelligence. Hormonal. We all know what it means when we hear it – and feel it. While hormonal shifts are natural throughout women’s lives, too many experience distressing period symptoms, struggle daily with PCOS, endometriosis, a fertility challenge, pain, low sex drive, sleep problems, acne, bloating, hot flashes, and more – all due to hormone-related problems. And too many are unable to get the answers they’re really seeking from their doctors. There is a solution. In Hormone Intelligence, Yale trained and internationally renowned women’s health expert, Dr. Aviva Romm, helps you identify the root causes of your symptoms and guides you through a 6-week proven program to achieve lifelong hormonal and gynecologic health. Using a holistic, dietary and lifestyle changing approach, Hormone Intelligence goes beyond treating symptoms to the deeper factors impacting women’s health, so you can reclaim your body, hormones, and self. Inside Hormone Intelligence, you’ll find: · Hormone Health 101: Understand the key components of the hormone epidemic and associated dietary and lifestyle triggers. · Symptoms and Root Causes Demystified: Discover what your symptoms are saying about your hormones with quizzes, checklists, trackers, and more. · A 6-Week Action Plan: Learn what foods you should indulge and avoid, how to repair your microbiome to support hormone health, how to identify environmental hormone disruptors, engage your body’s natural detoxification systems and reduce hidden inflammation, and the lifestyle changes that lead to happy, healthy hormones. · Delicious, done-for-you meal plans to take you through the entire program, including vegan options. Hormone Intelligence is an invitation to a whole new relationship with your body and hormones, the exhale you’ve been waiting for, and the first step on the road to realizing that a diagnosis does not have to be your destiny. Extended references, a complete index, and additional resources for Hormone Intelligence can be found at the author's website.




My New Roots


Book Description

Holistic nutritionist and highly-regarded blogger Sarah Britton presents a refreshing, straight-forward approach to balancing mind, body, and spirit through a diet made up of whole foods. Sarah Britton's approach to plant-based cuisine is about satisfaction--foods that satiate on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Based on her knowledge of nutrition and her love of cooking, Sarah Britton crafts recipes made from organic vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts, and seeds. She explains how a diet based on whole foods allows the body to regulate itself, eliminating the need to count calories. My New Roots draws on the enormous appeal of Sarah Britton's blog, which strikes the perfect balance between healthy and delicious food. She is a "whole food lover," a cook who makes simple accessible plant-based meals that are a pleasure to eat and a joy to make. This book takes its cues from the rhythms of the earth, showcasing 100 seasonal recipes. Sarah simmers thinly sliced celery root until it mimics pasta for Butternut Squash Lasagna, and whips up easy raw chocolate to make homemade chocolate-nut butter candy cups. Her recipes are not about sacrifice, deprivation, or labels--they are about enjoying delicious food that's also good for you.




Environmental Studies – 5


Book Description

Environmental Studies: Understanding the World Around Us is a series of five books for classes 1 to 5 on Environmental Studies. The series strictly follows the new NCERT syllabus and the vision of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005. The series introduces young learners to their environment. They also learn how to preserve it while reading the books. The books have been written in a child-friendly language and are supported by lively illustrations. The concepts have been explained in a simple, clear and logical manner for better understanding. The ebook version does not contain CD.




Be Good to Your Gut


Book Description

Named one of Vogue's 'Best New Healthy Cookbooks'! Named 'Best Book for Improving Gut Health' in Healthista.com's 13 best healthy cookbooks of the year! 'Each page oozes wisdom and insight, mirrored with realistic tips and advice on nurturing your digestive health' Get the Gloss 'The most relevant and provocative nutritionist I've ever met' Nick Barnard, founder of Rude Health 'In a world of food fads, Eve's approach is grounded, sensible and do-able' Suzy Greaves, Editor, Psychologies 'Eve is smart and practical; her advice is spot on and her recipes are distinctive and easy to make' Ian Marber, nutritional therapist and author 'Each chapter leaves you feeling enlightened and fired up to make real change' Healthista.com In Be Good to Your Gut, nutritional therapist Eve Kalinik shows you the path to better digestion and reveals the far-reaching effects of good gut health - from a stronger immune system and balanced hormones to a greater resilience to stress and reduced inflammation. The real work on getting your gut to be as healthy and happy as it can be starts with what you feed it. Eve's advice is complemented with over eighty enticing, nourishing recipes you'll want to eat over and over again, including Miso Cod with Wasabi Broccoli, Chocolate Chia Fudgy Pancakes, Matcha Banana Bread, Turmeric Chicken with Laksa Zoodles, Amandino Ice Cream and Happy Cow Burgers. If you simply want to improve your gut health and overall wellbeing but don't know where to start, or you are looking for further insight into digestive conditions such as IBS, the advice in Be Good to Your Gut will help you feel fantastic, and proves that being good to your gut is great for your taste buds, too.




On Target Living


Book Description

Make your company—its employees and its culture—healthier inside and out Energy and wellness are of ever increasing importance. With an increase productivity and job satisfaction that come from a healthier life, now is the time to get healthy. A poor food environment and the demanding pace of modern day life continue to contribute to a downward spiral of health, On Target Living offers focused strategies to achieve positive results. Everyone knows that exercise and physical movement contribute to better health, energy, and performance. The challenge comes with knowing what to do and how to do it. Author Chris Johnson has taught thousands how to live a life in balance, and here he shares his practices with you. Developing healthy eating habits Incorporating exercise into daily routines Prioritizing rest and rejuvenation Learning the keys to living well and applying this knowledge to enhanced performance, increased productivity, and positive results for your life and work The journey to optimal health and performance begins with the ideas in On Target Living. Building sustainable changes into your company culture will decrease health risks and sick days while contributing to higher productivity rates, but these improvements will also contribute to healthier and more enjoyable lives for your employees.




Clean Enough


Book Description

Over 100 Whole-Food, Best-In-Class Recipes to Set You On the Path to Food Freedom Pastry chef Katzie Guy-Hamilton was living her dream—traveling worldwide to represent Max Brenner chocolate—but her whirlwind lifestyle began taking a toll on her health. She started down the path to wellness by eating clean, but soon realized something essential was missing . . . dessert! Today, Katzie cooks and eats “clean enough”—a more forgiving (and fun) approach that serves up equal helpings of healthful, effortless entrées and satisfying treats, all made with natural, whole ingredients and accessible techniques. Ranging from Blistered Miso Sweet Potatoes and Green Fava Baked Eggs, to Generous Chocolate Chunk Cookies and Pan di Spagna, the 100+ recipes in Clean Enough are designed to strike a delicious balance between savory and sweet; to be enjoyed on a busy weeknight, leisurely Sunday, or in the company of friends. Katzie’s refreshing attitude toward health is a welcome reminder that there’s space in every day for broccoli and bread, mango and meringue. After all, eating clean is only half of living well—and you deserve enough to thrive.




131⁄2 Incredible Things You Need to Know About Everything


Book Description

Learn something about everything with 13 mind-blowing facts plus a little myth-buster about every topic under (and including) the Sun! Exploded images of everyday objects, from cars and skeletons to pianos and chocolate, will take you on an incredible factual adventure. Did you know that one in every four animals on Earth is a beetle? Were you aware that white chocolate isn't technically chocolate? Or that the dwarf planet Pluto is so small that two of it could sit side-by-side across the USA? 131⁄2 Incredible Things You Need to Know About Everything includes over 1000 facts on 80 different subjects to satisfy your thirst for knowledge. Familiar objects - the Earth, a tiger, an Apollo spacesuit, a scorpion - are exploded to reveal their extraordinary insides. Surprising myth-busters will give you lots of new favorite facts, such as chameleons change color to stand out not blend in and that on sharks on average only kill 6 people annually while people kill 100 million sharks a year! Awesome images will draw you into 131⁄2 Incredible Things You Need to Know About Everything and irresistible and fascinating information will keep you there.




Plants


Book Description

"Experiments! Spot it! Activities!"--Cover.