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This report from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and its sister organisation the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), is the culmination of a five-year project aimed at: summarising, assessing, and judging the most comprehensive body of evidence yet collected and…
"An essential reference for students and practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, this user-friendly book will also be valued by nutritionists, dieticians, physicians, and anyone interested in living a long and healthy life."--Jacket.
Kastner's Chinese Nutrition Therapy is an excellent introduction to Chinese dietetics for both, students and practitioners of Chinese medicine. - I wholeheartedly endorse his book. Nigel Wiseman For millennia, the Chinese have taught that a healthy, appropriate diet is an integr…
A personal trainer and fitness addict who had never been overweight recounts his six-month foray into the common American diet of fast food and refined, processed snacks during which he gained seventy-five pounds, and reveals how he got back down to a healthy weight.
Beginnings : who were the first monks? -- Desert fathers, pillar-saints and fasting -- The 'hermit craze' of the Middle Ages -- Herbs and health -- From field to table : the medieval monastic experience -- Medieval diets : the food landscape. How did medieval hermits survive on…
The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and pass…
The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and pass…
How did medieval hermits survive on their self-denying diet? What did they eat, and how did unethical monks get around the rules? The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and …
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From the Back Cover: Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 10th edition is an introduction to the essentials of nutrition concepts, good health and client care that will provide you with a solid foundation in nutrition. Nutrition & Diet Therapy is organized around three simple concepts: fun…