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A revolutionary new interactive programme of daily personal reflection and lifestyle change for healthy and sustainable weight-loss for individuals or groups. Not a diet, Fat Chance! focuses on learning how slim people eat. Over 12 weeks readers learn to change the way they think about themselves, their priorities, about food and the way they eat, deal with emotional hunger, work with their body, get active, eat well, be set free from overeating forever and discover the slim person they were meant to be.

After years spent eating like the Hungry Caterpillar, I am sick of it. Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months and months are suddenly years. Then all of a not-so-sudden, I am 100.6 kg.
The time has come for transformation.
Former champion netball player and Silver Fern April Ieremia has struggled with her weight since retiring from elite sport in 1996. Fed up, April sets herself the challenge to lose 30 kg in 30 weeks. No gimmicks and no tricks – just eating intelligently and exercising regularly. She ... read more

MaryRose Spence has featured as the food consultant on the popular television series What's Really in our Food? She is a nutritionist and dietician frequently consulted for her opinion on both radio and TV.
Size Does Matter delivers a fresh approach to weight loss. It will change the way you think about your body and your food needs. It will give you a life, not a diet. The author believes you can eat everything - the key is knowing how much and how often. She wants this to be the last time you lose weight.
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Until Dr. Barnard's scientific breakthrough, most health professionals believed that once you developed diabetes, you were stuck with it--and could anticipate one complication after another, from worsening eyesight and nerve symptoms to heart and kidney problems. But as this groundbreaking work reveals, this simply is not true. In a series of studies--the most recent funded by the National Institutes of Health--Dr. Barnard has shown that it is possible to repair insulin function and reverse type 2 diabetes. By following his scienti... read more

Have diets you've tried in the past failed or even been counter-productive? Are you sure your diet is right for your type of metabolism? After decades of laboratory and clinical research it has now been established that your blood type is the key to losing weight, avoiding disease and promoting longevity, fitness and even happiness. Your blood type determines your metabolism which means that it also determines which foods you should eat - one man's meat is another man's poison; one woman's weight-loss is another woman's dieting dis... read more

Fast food and prepackaged food is abundantly available and we eat far too much of it. In fact, we spend a third of our food budget on fast food - which is loaded with fat, salt, sugar, kilojoules and additives. And often these foods have virtually no vitamins or minerals for the kilojoules that come with them. Have you ever stopped to think about how often you rely on a takeaway for lunch or dinner? Or how often you get your food out of a packet? Or even how often you consume salty snacks, fruit drinks, soft drinks or alcohol? The... read more

Accidentally Overweight is about what has to happen for a human to be able to access body fat and burn it. Essentially it is about weight loss and all of things that need to come together in our bodies for this to be possible. Many people eat well and exercise regularly yet their body fat does not reflect their efforts. Others have gained and lost the same 20 kilos for the past 20 years while for others they know they don't eat well or perhaps they eat too much, yet they feel powerless to change. This book explains the biochemistr... read more

The Dukan Diet is a unique 4-step programme, combining two steps to lose your unwanted weight and two steps to keep it off for good: Step 1: Attack For 2-7 days eat as much as you want of 72 protein-rich foods. Step 2: Cruise Continue eating the protein-rich foods with the addition of 28 vegetables. Step 3: Consolidation Add fruit, bread, cheese and starchy foods, and 2 celebration meals a week, allowing 5 days for every pound lost. Step 4: Stabilisation Eat what you like without regaining weight by following 3 simple rules, includ... read more

Eat for better health and weight loss the Paleo way with this revised edition of the bestselling guide-over 100,000 copies sold to date! Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet we were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight-up to 75 pounds in six months-or if you want to attain optimal health, The Paleo Diet will work wonders. Dr. Loren Cordain demonstrates how, by eating your fill of satisfying and delicious lean meats and fish, fresh fruits, snacks, and non-starchy vegetables, you can lose weight and preve... read more

Don't just survive - thrive! Diabetes For Dummies, Australian 2nd Edition, brings you right up-to-date with the latest research, treatment and management approaches for all types of diabetes. Essential reading whether you have diabetes yourself or are supporting a friend or relative who has diabetes.

Explains how the healing power of foods stretches even beyond the realms of vitamins and minerals, and involves a far more complex and beautifully wondrous group of biological compounds - phytochemicals.

If you're experiencing discomfort, fatigue, or other symptoms that won't go away no matter what you do or how many doctors you see, chances are you're one of the millions unknowingly suffering from a systemic fungal/yeast infection, "the hidden invader." The result of an imbalance starting in your internal ecosystem, this can be a key factor in headaches, joint and muscle pain, depression, cancer, food allergies, digestive problems, autism, and other immune-related disorders. " The Body Ecology Diet" reveals how to restore and main... read more

It's time to give those skinny b!tches a run for their money Is there a large arse-shaped dent in your sofa? Unwatched workout DVDs gathering dust on your shelves? An eye-wateringly expensive (and rarely used) gym membership burning a hole in your bank account? Does the sight of your wobbly thighs leave you cowering under the duvet? Then it's time you faced the truth: the only option is to lace up and hit the ground running Straight-talking, funny and brutally honest, RUN FAT BITCH RUN will give you - yes, you - the push you need t... read more

Revised and updated, this classic bestseller provides the necessary information about all the prescription and nonprescription drugs that the public has come to rely on. This reference covers 5,000 brand-name drugs and 700 generic drugs.

The bestselling weight-loss programme made easy. The Dukan Diet is a unique 4-step programme, combining two steps to lose your unwanted weight and two steps to keep it off for good. The Dukan Diet Life Plan helps you incorporate the bestselling weight-loss programme into your life so that you can lose the weight you want like millions of others have around the world. The Dukan Diet Life Plan includes: - The four stages of the diet set out clearly and simply: Attack, Cruise, Consolidation, Stabilisation - 60 delicious and strai... read more

With over 100 easy and healthy recipes, this comprehensive guide provides expert advice on how to manage your diabetes. With up-to-date nutritional advice, charts, tables and guidance on how to shop, this book proves you can eat delicious food and achieve and maintain a healthy balanced diet.

The fun and easy way(r) to keep track of your caloric intake The Calorie Counter For Dummies provides you with vital information on the nutritional and caloric value of the foods that you eat everyday-at home, the supermarket, and restaurants.

In addition to telling Jon's own story of his amazing transformation, the book reveals why diets don't work and explains a truly unique and revolutionary diet-free way to lose weight. It's based on the fact that your body has an internal logic that determines how fat or thin you will be at any given time. The way to lose weight is not to struggle or to force yourself to lose weight but to understand this internal logic and work with it so that your body wants to be thinner. When your body wants to be thinner, weightloss is inevitab... read more