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Fight cancer from the inside out

Cancer treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation can be as hard on the body as the disease itself, and detailed nutritional advice is usually not part of the program. Yet eating the right foods can actually help lessen the strength of some of the most powerful symptoms of cancer and the side effects of treatment, allowing the patient to better fight the disease. Now, ... Read More

Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition (0764584502) cover image
These recipes transform the typical diabetic diet from bland and blah to “Mmmmmm!” and “Ahhhhh!” Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition is extensively updated with more than 100 new recipes from great restaurants and great chefs. You’ll discover taste-tempting dishes like Blueberry Almond Pancakes, BBQ Chicken Potato Hash, Beer Braised Pork, Sweet Potato Biscuits, and Chocolate Almond Biscotti. There’s loads of new information about diabetes and ... Read More
Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, 3rd Edition (0470536446) cover image
The fun and easy way to eat a well-balanced diabetic diet

Want to create healthy meals that are diabetic friendly? This revised and updated third edition of Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies shows you how easy it can be to manage diabetes through diet, including the latest information on diabetes testing, monitoring, and maintenance, as well as delicious new recipes and nutritional information. This edition also includes a new section that focuses on vegetarian ... Read More

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Gluten-Free Baking For Dummies (1118077733) cover image
More than 150 tasty recipes for gluten-free baking

Imagine baking without flour. Impossible, right? Essentially, that's what you're doing when you bake gluten-free. Sure, there are replacement flours, but there's an art to combining those ingredients to re-create the tastes you know and love. Baking is truly the greatest challenge when cooking gluten-free, and more than 150 delicious, gluten-free recipes for baking cakes, cookies, and breads are coming ... Read More

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Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies, 2nd Edition (1118396448) cover image
Prepare gluten-free dishes that are delicious and nutritious

Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks? Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is loaded with more than 150 wheat-and gluten-free recipes. These sweet, spicy, and aromatic dishes prove that living the gluten-free lifestyle can be not only fun and easy, but delicious and nutritious too!

This practical, guide shows you how to find and select the right ingredients and prepare classic healthy ... Read More

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Glycemic Index Cookbook For Dummies (0470875666) cover image
Keep a low GI diet with delicious and simple recipes

Using the glycemic index is not only a proven method of losing and maintaining weight safely and quickly, it's also an effective way to prevent the most common diseases of affluence, such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.

Now you can easily whip up meals at home that will help you shed unwanted pounds and stay healthy with the Glycemic Index Cookbook For Dummies ... Read More

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Healthy Carb Cookbook For Dummies (0764584766) cover image
According to USA Weekend, over a quarter of the adults in the U.S. have tried a low-carb diet. Many people have enjoyed lasting success. Others have felt mystified or deprived and given up!

Whether you’re a first-timer or a “try, try-againer”, this book helps you get with the low-carb program and stick with it! Building on the success of Low-Carb Dieting For Dummies, it gives you loads of nutritional information plus more than 100 sumptuous low-carb ... Read More

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The Healthy Heart Cookbook For Dummies (0764552228) cover image
A heart healthy regimen needn’t be torture. Two hours on a stationary bike, followed by a dish of low-fat cottage cheese topped with a lonely sprig of parsley may be your idea of what it takes to maintain heart health—but it’s actually a lot more enjoyable and fun! Cardiac fitness, like any new lifestyle plan, can be achieved with only a few basic modifications to your diet and activity level.

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Hypertension Cookbook For Dummies (1118095138) cover image
Beat hypertension with simple and delicious low-sodium recipes

Hypertension Cookbook For Dummies features 150 delicious and simple low sodium and low or non-fat recipes that avoid pre-packaged and processed food while remaining economical and easy to prepare. You'll get recipes for making delicious breakfast, lunch, dinner, easy on-the-go, and kid friendly recipes to suit any lifestyle, complemented by a full-color, 8-page insert exhibiting many of ... Read More

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IBS Cookbook For Dummies (0470530723) cover image
A unique guide to decreasing symptoms of IBS through delicious food

Do you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)? You're not alone; it is estimated that about 35 million Americans experience the symptoms of IBS. IBS Cookbook For Dummies provides those affected by IBS with easy-to-follow, easy-to-understand recipes to create meals using foods and methods that decrease the risk of experiencing the discomfort of symptoms associated with the disorder ... Read More

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Living Gluten-Free For Dummies, 2nd Edition & Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies Book Bundle (1118035623) cover image
Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is a complete resource for those who are suffering from celiac disease or who are interested in removing gluten from their diets. It includes information on how to prepare and serve numerous dishes in addition to the cost, nutritional value, and flavor of the ingredients. In the second edition of Living Gluten-Free For Dummies, trusted authority Danna Korn updated the book with 25 percent new and revised content, including ... Read More
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Low-Cholesterol Cookbook For Dummies (0764571605) cover image
Cook and eat your way to a healthier heart!

Now you really can eat to your heart's content with this easy cookbook and guide. From breakfasts to dinners, from super starters to "legal" desserts, you'll find a mouthwatering assortment of tasty and satisfying low-cholesterol recipes you -- and your family and friends -- will love. With advice on choosing the right foods, low-cholesterol cooking techniques, and more, this book helps make heart-healthy ... Read More
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The fast and easy way to enjoy a Paleo diet

The Paleo movement is one of the hottest diet and healthy-eating approaches, as people discover an appealing and sustainable alternative to the restrictive diets that lead to burnout and failed weight loss efforts. This modern-day take on an ancient diet—which excludes dairy, processed foods, and refined sugar—has helped thousands of people lose weight and keep it off. Now, ... Read More

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Pregnancy Cooking and Nutrition For Dummies (1118083601) cover image
100 recipes to keep moms-to-be on the road to tasty, proper, prenatal nutrition

Pregnancy Cooking & Nutrition For Dummies helps moms-to-be eat tasty meals while maintaining nutritional balance. Going beyond most books on the shelf, you'll get not only 100 recipes and tips on how to supercharge family favorites (by making them even more healthy and nutritionally balanced) but also answers to such questions as: what is healthy weight gain; what meals ... Read More

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Student's Vegetarian Cookbook For Dummies (0470942916) cover image
The easy way to eat vegetarian on campus

Vegetarianism is growing rapidly, and young adults including college students are leading the charge as more and more of them discover the many benefits to adopting a vegetarian lifestyle. However, there are limited resources for budget-conscious students to keep a vegetarian diet.

Student's Vegetarian Cookbook For Dummies offers the growing population of vegetarian students with instruction and recipes for fast ... Read More

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Vegan Cooking For Dummies (0470648406) cover image
An authoritative resource on making delicious, healthy vegan-friendly meals

Veganism is a lifestyle abstaining from the consumption of meat, poultry, dairy products, eggs, and all foods originating from animals. The perfect companion to Living Vegan For Dummies, Vegan Cooking For Dummies provides vegans, and those thinking about becoming vegan, with more than 100 healthy and hearty vegan recipes. ... Read More

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Vegetarian Cooking For Dummies (076455350X) cover image
If you thought you had to be a nutritionist to figure out a vegetarian diet, it’s actually a lot simpler than you think. Eating vegetarian, in addition to being healthy and delicious, is just plain fun. Discovering new and exotic vegetables like celeriac or kohlrabi will widen your palate as well as your sense of adventure in the kitchen. Plus, vegetarian cuisine is chockfull of dishes that are robust and flavorful, and a match for any standard meat ... Read More
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Weight Loss Surgery Cookbook For Dummies (0470640189) cover image
A practical, empowering guide to maintaining your weight after weight loss surgery

Weight Loss Surgery Cookbook For Dummies is a book about food and maintenance: what foods to buy, how to prepare them, and how to enjoy a nutritious post-surgery diet. It helps you solidify new eating habits and enjoy some new recipes, as well as better understand nutrition and your food intake so that you can maintain your weight long after surgery. ... Read More

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