Explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. This title is a meticulously researched account.

A health book like no other

A guide to vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and herbs. It offers information about some 350 of the most important supplements available. It covers how these supplements work, how to use them and what to look for when choosing supplement products.

The renowned, bestselling healthcare classic, completely revised and updated.

Drs Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, authors of the million-copy bestseller 'YOU: The Owner's Manual', have devised a diet that is so effective you'll notice changes in your body immediately. Starting with a Two-Week Reboot that will help you lose up to two inches around your waist, you will shed your unwanted weight forever.

A diet proven to be good for your figure, your heart and your health

What shall we have for dinner? Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Low-carb or low-cal? We can eat what nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. This work traces the origin of what is consumed and the implications of it for us and our planet.

This guide outlines Bill Phillip's fitness programme, comprising weight training, aerobic exercise, and a careful diet. In addition, it addresses the reader's own personal goals and encourages personal transformation mentally, not just physically.

Essentially a low-carbohydrate plan, the Atkins Diet boosts your metabolic rate and, once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. With this regime you can lose weight without reducing or counting calories.

Written by a French-born and bred author, this book shows how to eat with balance and control. It combines memoir, wisdom, wit, delicious recipes, and French common sense.

The bestselling exercise book - now including stretches for over 60 sports and activities.

The most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and the startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health.

The American Medical Association is the nation's premier health authority - an organization that both patients and doctors look to for medical information and guidance. This work features sections on topics - from staying healthy and providing first aid and home care to diagnosing symptoms and treating hundreds of diseases and disorders.

A diet and lifestyle programme that allows you to eat unlimited portions of the foods you like. Fit for Life reveals: principles to bring permanent weight loss and high energy; the secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles; and a four-week meal plan, menus, recipes and shopping tips.

Covering various important diseases and health issues that health-conscious readers want and need to know, this illustrated second home edition is written by nearly 200 medical experts.

It has now been established that a person's blood type plays a part in losing weight, avoiding disease and promoting fitness and longevity. Based on that knowledge, this book provides a set of blood type-specific diets.

International bestselling authors of YOU: The Owner's Manual and YOU: On a Diet give you all the tools and know-how to stay young and defy the ageing process. Drawing lively parallels between your body and aspects of city life, Drs Roizen and Oz show you how to balance your 'biological budget' to ensure your life is long and strong.

Explains the Fertility Awareness Method, which allows you to: maximise your chances of conception, or expedite fertility treatment by identifying impediments to pregnancy achievement; enjoy effective and scientifically proven birth control without chemicals or devices; increase the likelihood of choosing the gender of your baby; and more.

Shows how you can retain your physical vitality, creativity, memory and self-esteem. This title bases its theories on the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda, according to which, optimum health is about achieving balance physically, emotionally and psychologically, and demonstrates that we can direct the way our bodies metabolize time.