Women, Food, and Desire


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Subtitle in pre-publication: Reclaim your body, consume what you crave, get the life & sex you deserve.




Don't Eat This Book


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Don’t eat this groundbreaking, hilarious book—but if you care about your country’s health, your children’s, and your own, you better read it. For thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide. But there’s more to the story, and in Don’t Eat This Book, Spurlock examines everything from school lunch programs and the marketing of fast food to the decline of physical education. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive—and interviews experts from surgeons general and kids to marketing gurus and lawmakers, who share their research and opinions on what we can do to offset a health crisis of supersized proportions.




The Great American Detox Diet


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Here is the detox plan featured in the hit movie Super Size Me—the program that reversed the damage filmmaker Morgan Spurlock did to his body in a month of gorging on nothing but fast food Alex Jamieson, a certified holistic health counselor and vegan chef—presents the everyman's version of the detox plan that helped Spurlock lose 14 pounds in 8 weeks. Flexible and easy to follow, this 8-week strategy lays out a step-by-step plan for not only ridding the body of harmful toxins but also ending addictions to sugar, fats, and carbohydrates that damage both mental and physical well-being. Filled with 100 unique, delicious, and healthy recipes, The Great American Detox Diet can help anyone begin a lifetime of wellness and good health—and regain control of their body and lose weight.




My McDonald's Diet


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Lose weight eating fast food! Iowa science teacher John Cisna has proven that it's possible to lose 37 pounds by eating nothing but McDonald's for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 90 days straight. In this informative, witty and entertaining guide to dieting success, John explains how you can lose weight while still eating the foods you love, like Big Macs and Hot Fudge Sundaes. He'll show you why it's not the fast food companies making people fat, and how the combination of a sensible calorie plan and moderate exercise can help you melt away the pounds, lower your cholesterol and energize your life. Whether you eat fast food because you're busy, on a budget or just love the taste, you now have permission to enjoy a Quarter Pounder and fries. In addition to all the comprehensive diet and exercise information - including each of John's daily McDonald's menus - My McDonald's Diet takes you behind the scenes on John's unexpected trip to New York City, where he became an overnight media sensation. You'll hear stories about his appearances on the TODAY show and Fox News. You'll find out how he got to talk baseball with Bob Costas. You'll feel his excitement over meeting Kathie Lee Gifford. And much, much more! John Cisna's life changed forever because of his McDonald's diet - and he hopes that yours will, too!




Don't Go There!


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Presents a selection of vacation destinations to avoid, with advice to travelers on steering clear of places that are vulnerable to such vacation-ruining elements as crime, natural disasters, and overpriced or overrated venues.




Super Juice Me!


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Off the back of his groundbreaking and critically acclaimed film, Super Juice Me! The Big Juice Experiment, comes Jason Vale's most comprehensive juice programme to date.




The Documentary


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Belinda Smaill proposes an original approach to documentary studies, examining how emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy, nostalgia or disgust are integral both to the representation of selfhood in documentary, and to the way documentaries circulate in the public sphere.




English Texts & Contexts 2


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Dying to be Thin


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LILLEY/DYING TO BE THIN




French Women Don't Get Fat


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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that launched a French Revolution about how to approach healthy living: the ultimate non-diet book—now with more recipes. “The perfect book.... A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise"—San Francisco Chronicle French women don’t get fat, even though they enjoy bread and pastry, wine, and regular three-course meals. Unlocking the simple secrets of this “French paradox”—how they enjoy food while staying slim and healthy—Mireille Guiliano gives us a charming, inspiring take on health and eating for our times. For anyone who has slipped out of her Zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a positive way to stay trim, a culture’s most precious secrets recast for the twenty-first century. A life of wine, bread—even chocolate—without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?