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Recommended Reading
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Your
Miracle Brain: Maximize Your Brainpower, Boost Your Memory, Lift Your Mood,
Improve Your IQ and Creativity, Prevent and Reverse Mental Aging
Bestselling author Jean Carper reveals the astonishing new discoveries that
have caused brain researchers to completely revise their ideas about the
brain's marvelous capabilities for change through "nutritional neuroscience."
You will learn how you can mold your brain to optimize memory, intelligence
mental achievement, and mood by eating the right foods.
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#8
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The
Ultimate Fit or Fat
In his late sixties, fitness’s legendary crusader Covert Bailey recommends his
"Four Food Groups of Good Exercise": aerobic exercise, cross training (varying
your exercise choices), wind sprints (short bursts of high-intensity activity),
and weight lifting. This motivational book is intended for average people that
know they should be living a more active lifestyle but have difficulty getting
physical fitness into their daily routine.
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#9
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Dare
to Lose: Four Simple Steps to Achieve a Better Body
Lieberman explains the importance of metabolism in weight loss, pointing out
the factors that slow down metabolism-such as stress, yo-yo and crash dieting,
and sedentary lifestyles-and ways to counteract them. Her four-step program
includes eliminating stress and toxins from the body; following sound nutrition
guidelines; engaging in fat-burning, muscle-building exercise; and taking
nutritional supplements that help boost metabolism for quick yet lasting
results.
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#10
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The
Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health
Greene, an exercise physiologist and Oprah Winfrey's trainer, focuses on diet
with a wealth of sound information and helpful strategies. Greene starts with a
cutting overview of destructive diets, including those popular today. Then,
after reviewing exercise essentials, he presents a refreshingly sensible plan
for nutritious, healthy eating, with tools for keeping intake moderate.
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Stealth
Health: How to Sneak Nutrition Painlessly into Your Diet
Using the many tricks up her sleeve, nutritionist Evelyn Tribole can get just
about anyone to eat healthy. Hate the thought of tofu? Try her Chocolate Marble
Cheesecake, with tofu replacing some of the cream cheese. Don't want to add
fiber because it sounds so bland? Try her Dark Fudge Brownies, with puréed
black beans giving each brownie as much fiber as a slice of whole wheat bread.
With more than 100 recipes that sneak fiber, calcium, and other nutrients into
the diet, Stealth Health can turn even the most devoted junk food junkie into a
health nut.
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Nature's
Sports Pharmacy
Written by two nutrition and fitness authorities, this book teaches readers how
foods are digested and assimilated by the body and how athletes can adapt their
bodies to the stress of competitive training while enhancing their cardiac
output and mental concentration. It is a must for everyone who is athletically
inclined, including athletes and personal trainers interested in keeping their
competitive abilities in this growing and competitive field. Athletes of all
sports will benefit from it.
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