The Big Fat Surprise – Nina Teicholz
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A New York Times bestseller
Named one of The Economist’s Books of the Year 2014
Named one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
Forbes’s Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014
Named a Best Food Book of 2014 by Mother Jones
Named one of Library Journal‘s Best Books of 2014
In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health.
For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem? What if the very foods we’ve been denying ourselves—the creamy cheeses, the sizzling steaks—are themselves the key to reversing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?
In this captivating, vibrant, and convincing narrative, based on a nine-year-long investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination, and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs. She explains why the Mediterranean Diet is not the healthiest, and how we might be replacing trans fats with something even worse. This startling history demonstrates how nutrition science has gotten it so wrong: how overzealous researchers, through a combination of ego, bias, and premature institutional consensus, have allowed dangerous misrepresentations to become dietary dogma.
With eye-opening scientific rigor, The Big Fat Surprise upends the conventional wisdom about all fats with the groundbreaking claim that more, not less, dietary fat—including saturated fat—is what leads to better health and wellness. Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades and that we can now, guilt-free, welcome these delicious foods back into our lives.
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Compost City – Rebecca Louie
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These days, everyone’s talking about compost.
Along with backyard chickeners, balcony beekeepers, rooftop farmers, and community gardeners, urban composters are part of a bumper crop of pioneers who are redefining the green space of crowded towns and cities.
You may think you need a big yard to compost. Think again. Compost City teaches you how to easily choose and care for a compost system that fits perfectly into your (tiny) space, (busy) schedule, and (multifaceted) lifestyle.
Whether you live in a cramped apartment or a sprawling town house, or you dream of composting in a shared space with a group of friends or colleagues, Compost City provides simple and effective indoor and outdoor composting options.
Packed with research, expert testimonies, and a healthy dose of humor, Compost City will help you:
• Compost your food scraps and yard waste with ease
• Ease your fears of backbreaking labor, obnoxious odors, big messes, and creepy crawlies (hint: you can compost successfully without any of the above!)
• Convince compost-wary family, friends, neighbors, and community leaders to green-light your compost dreams
Compost City serves all eco-curious citizens from casual hobbyists to staunch activists.
Put your compost cap on. Whether you compost one tea bag or whole honking barrelfuls of scraps at a time, you’re about to have a whole lot of fun.
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Glucose Meter / Glucometer
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Stress is at the root of almost all chronic diseases and the biggest contributor to stress is low-level inflammation within the body. The most common cause of hidden inflammation today is the dysregulation of blood sugar/glucose levels.
There is at most one teaspoon of glucose in the blood of a healthy person. When glucose levels get too high (eg. high consumption of refined/processed sugars) or get too low (eg. from long endurance exercise) the body releases hormones that help balance sugar levels in the blood.
The more times the body is forced to balance blood glucose levels the lees effective it becomes at doing the job. Eventually the body is unable to perform this balancing act 100% of the time and this leads to inflammation, tiredness, illness, disease, and finally death.
If there is one tool that every single person whether they be suffering an illness or not could use to take control of their health it would be a glucometer.
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Fitbit Wireless Personal Trainer
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Fitbit is the simplest way to get more fit during your busy life.
The Fitbit Wireless Personal Trainer tracks your full day’s steps, distance, and calories, allowing you to see how active you are and inspiring you to walk more and do more. And those small changes can add up to big results!
Fitbit can even measure how long and how well you sleep.
With free, easy-to-use online tools at Fitbit.com and new mobile apps, Fitbit lets you set goals, track your progress, and log food, weight, and other activities.
So, whether you’re looking to lose weight, continue your fitness program beyond the gym, or just get more active, Fitbit really helps you get the results you’re after.
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How to Grow More Vegetables – John Jeavons
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Decades before the terms “eco-friendly” and “sustainable growing” entered the vernacular, How to Grow More Vegetables demonstrated that small-scale, high-yield, all-organic gardening methods could yield bountiful crops over multiple growing cycles using minimal resources in a suburban environment. The concept that John Jeavons and the team at Ecology Action launched more than 40 years ago has been embraced by the mainstream and continues to gather momentum. Today, How to Grow More Vegetables, now in its fully revised and updated 8th edition, is the go-to reference for food growers at every level: from home gardeners dedicated to nurturing their backyard edibles in maximum harmony with nature’s cycles, to small-scale commercial producers interested in optimizing soil fertility and increasing plant productivity. Whether you hope to harvest your first tomatoes next summer or are planning to grow enough to feed your whole family in years to come, How to Grow More Vegetables is your indispensable sustainable garden guide.
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Spiral Vegetable Slicer
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Say goodbye to blood-sugar raising nutrient poor pasta and hello to health stabilising nutrient and fibre rich zoodles, coodles, and other voodles, ie zucchini/courgette/vegetable noodles.
- Make quick work of fancy vegetable peeling with the spiral vegetable slicer
- Includes 3 sets of blades: 1/8-inch spacing, 1/4-inch spacing, and straight blade for ribbon cuts
- Simply place vegetable or fruit on prongs, turn wheel while pushing base toward blade
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Optimum Slow Juicer
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The Optimum 500 Cold Press Juicer is a heavy duty, efficient, versatile, masticating juicer. It comes in a vertical and highly modern design that makes nutritionally potent and delicious juice in just a few minutes!
The no heat, less friction juicing of the Optimum 500 Juicer is proven to keep more vitamins, minerals and enzymes intact in comparison to high speed convectional juicers. More Living enzymes means that juice created in the Optimum is better for your health and vitality. Not only can you create delicious fruit and vegetable juices the Optimum 500 allows you to create your own preservative free baby food, delicious soy and nut milks, healthy frozen fruit sorbet, tofu and much more.
James Colquhoun & Laurentine ten Bosch Filmmakers “FOOD MATTERS” & “HUNGRY FOR CHANGE” state that: “Vertical cold-pressed masticating juicers are the most superior type of juicer! Cold pressed juicers extract 35% more juice out of your fresh produce meaning real savings from the first day you use it!”
Nutritional tests* (between a cold press and centrifugal juicer) revealed that cold press juicers extract up to 42% more vitamin C, up to 60% more vitamin A and yield between 35 – 50% more juice.
* Test results from Michelson Laboratories,Inc., Korean Food Research Institute (KRFI), and internal labs.
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Optimum High Speed Vortex Blender
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The Optimum is a true one-of-a-kind appliance with quality parts. Optimum’s growth as a globally recognised brand competing with the likes of Vitamix and Blendtec has been astonishing, having teamed up with some of the industry’s best manufacturers to design an affordable quality machine able to withstand the sophistication of a kitchen and the beating of a juice bar, lasting customers a lifetime and providing juice bars with a reliable machine for making constantly smooth drinks.
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Cooking Thermometer
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If you want to have juicy delicious meats that are beautifully cooked and safe to eat then a fast reading cooking thermometer is the tool you will need.
The Food Network has a good list of cooking temperatures for various types of meat.
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Kitchen Scale
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Even though a healthy person can eat without the need for counting calories there are certain individuals who may be suffering from an illness or who have specific performance and competition goals where knowing the specific amount of macronutrient ratios (carbohydrate, protein, and fat) are a necessity.
Kitchen scales are perfect for those following therapeutic or specific macronutrient performance diets (eg low carbohydrate, ketogenic, CNS, LCHF, SCD, GAPS, endurance training, bodybuilding, etc).
Bonus feature: kitchen scales are a bakers best friend. Reduce your need to purchase baked goods made with unhealthy ingredients by baking your own healthy real food at home. With this kitchen tool your baking will be a success with family and friends every time.
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