| March 17, 2010, 3:28 pm Now Eat This!: 150 of America's Favorite Comfort Foods, All Under 350 Calories | Now Eat This!: 150 of America's Favorite Comfort Foods, All Under 350 Calories
by Rocco DiSpirito
FRIED CHICKEN, MACARONI AND CHEESE, BROWNIES, AND 147 OTHER FAVORITE RECIPES UNDER 350 CALORIES
In this delectable cookbook, award-winning chef Rocco DiSpirito transforms America’s favorite comfort foods into deliciously healthy dishes—all with zero bad carbs, zero bad fats, zero sugar, and maximum flavor. What’s more, Rocco provides time-saving shortcuts, helpful personal advice, and nutritional breakdowns for each recipe from a board-certified nutritionist. So prepare your favorite foods without the guilt. Finally, a world-class chef has made healthy food taste ... |
continue reading 1 comment March 17, 2010, 3:19 pm The China Study | The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II
Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing ... |
continue reading March 15, 2010, 11:44 am A Trader Joe Reminder | April Book Club
Don't forget the book club discussion featuring Deana Gunn, one of the authors of
"Cooking with all things Trader Joe".
Here’s how the discussion will work:
1. Purchase book(s) through the month of March from your favorite book store or Amazon.com. (When you link to Amazon through NM we get a small percentage of the sale.) Or, just show up at the conversation thread and ask any question you have about Trader Joe’s.
2. Deana will write an opening review to set the stage for your questions and to kick off the conversation. Look for it sometime this month.
3. The thread will ... |
continue reading 4 comments February 25, 2010, 3:16 pm Cooking with All Things Trader Joe's | Cooking with All Things Trader Joe's
Written by Deana Gunn and Wona Miniati
Love Trader Joe's? This new independent cookbook features recipes that use ingredients all from Trader Joe's. By combining Trader Joe's unique products with fresh ingredients, Deana and Wona create clever shortcuts to quick and easy gourmet meals that are delicious and exciting. The recipes in this book treat Trader Joe's like a "prep kitchen"--using the great selection of unique sauces, mixtures, and prepped items to make flavorful, natural, homemade food in a snap.
Many of the recipes are vegetarian or can easily ... |
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updated Jan 28, 2010, 12:50 pm The Sneaky Chef | The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (In the Kitchen!): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love
Recommended by susano
WD's comment to Honey Bunny reminded me of this book I got a few years back from my insurance provider...it had been in the news here a lot and coincidentally showed up in my mailbox...I had forgotten about it until today.
It's called The Sneaky Chef by Missy Chase Lapine, and it's full of ideas for getting vegetables into the mouths of kids (both young and old) who don't like them. ... |
continue reading 3 comments January 27, 2010, 11:50 am The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First | The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First
A hidden epidemic races around the globe -- we can't see it or touch it, which makes it so dangerous.
The invisible epidemic has led to the suffering of millions who spend billions on drugs, only to find they don't work.
This is an epidemic of broken brains.
"Broken brains" go by many names -- depression, anxiety, memory loss, brain fog, attention deficit disorder, autism, and dementia, to name a few -- and show up in radically different ways from person to person, making each ... |
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updated Jan 18, 2010, 12:57 pm The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth | The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why
~ Jonny Bowden Ph.D. C.N.S.
A complete guide to the healthiest foods you can eat - and how to cook them!
Why get your nutrients from expensive supplements when you can enjoy delicious, nourishing foods instead? From almonds to yucca, readers will find out what nutrients each of the 150 featured foods contains, what form contains the most nutrients, if it's been recommended to combat any diseases, where to find it, how to prepare it, and how much ... |
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updated Jan 20, 2010, 9:46 am Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition) | Diet for a Small Planet
by Frances Moore Lappe
The Book That Started a Revolution in the way Americans Eat
Reviewed by Cascadelady January 19, 2010
Diet for a Small Planet, by Francis Moore Lappe, has been published in several revisions because of the author’s enduring message. In our NM review, we will be looking at a few of the concepts she brings up that mesh nicely with the NM philosophy of gaining better health through a more mindful approach to food and exercise choices.
Part 1 is Lappe’s personal journey through the discoveries she made that ... |
continue reading 102 comments January 11, 2010, 8:16 pm Diet for a Small Planet: Book Club feature kickoff!
cascadelady | Greetings, NM Community!
Today Jim asked me to consider leading a book club effort to read the classic work by Francis Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet. For many of you, this will not be the first time, and it will be a re-read, or even a re-re-read.
My original copy is coverless and no longer burdened by the extra weight of an index. In fact, it is really only two halves of a book now, and I have to remember in which half of the book the recipe I seek is. Especially since the index is no longer helpful ... |
continue reading 30 comments December 19, 2009, 5:49 pm Book club book!
clashburn | So I just piked up my copy of "The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess". I am excited about getting some good information from it. Has anyone else read this book? ... |
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November 10, 2009, 10:57 am Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution | Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding.
With tens of thousands of products crammed into the walls of the neighborhood supermarket, trying to find a reliable snack, pantry product, or frozen dinner can be a serious challenge for the time-strained consumer. The Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide changes all of that, offering discerning shoppers everywhere a simple plan for finding the healthiest foods for them and their families. Beyond homing in on the best and worst in the world of packaged foods, the Eat This, Not That! Supermarket ... |
continue reading 5 comments October 28, 2009, 2:38 pm Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More | By Peter Walsh
Diets don't work. Why not? Because they focus on what foods we should and shouldn't eat but completely ignore everything else that makes us fat. Look at your own situation: You say you want to lose weight, but you just can't stop indulging. You say you'd exercise more if only you had the time, yet you spend precious hours every night in front of the TV doing what? Munching nutrition-free snacks and drinking supersized beverages.
Peter Walsh, the bestselling author of It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, believes that ... |
continue reading October 1, 2009, 10:46 am Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think | Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
By Brian Wansink
In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you’re eating, what you’re eating–or why you’re even eating at all.
• Does food with a brand name really taste better?
• Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did?
• Does the size of your plate determine how hungry you feel?
• How much would you eat if your soup bowl secretly refilled itself?
• What does your favorite comfort food really say about you?
• Why do ... |
continue reading 1 comment October 1, 2009, 10:18 am Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners | Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners: How to Fuel Your Body for Stronger Workouts, Faster Recovery, and Your Best Race Times Ever (Runners World)
This newest addition to the heralded Runner’s World series offers runners up-to-date nutrition advice based on the latest science
Runners have different nutrition and recovery needs than other endurance athletes. Yet until now, they’ve had no nutritional resource specifically addressing their concerns.
This comprehensive guide distills the newest thinking in the science of exercise nutrition into practical, hands-on tips that will help runners stay healthy, recover faster, enjoy better workouts, and race ... |
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September 25, 2009, 1:27 pm Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker | By Robin Robertson
By now the remarkable convenience of the slow cooker is no secret. It keeps the kitchen cool on warm days and is inexpensive and durable. The perfect appliance for vegetarian and healthy cooking, the slow cooker offers a foolproof way to cook beans, grains, and numerous vegetables. Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker delivers recipes for simple, delicious, hearty fare without relying on canned soup for flavor. With chapters on appetizers, soups, stews, breakfasts, desserts, and more, this is the book for anyone looking for healthy meal alternatives.
About the Author
Robin Robertson is a veteran restaurant chef, caterer, ... |
continue reading 10 comments September 25, 2009, 1:12 pm Becoming Vegetarian | By Vesanto Melina and Brenda Davis
Comprehensive and well-researched, this new edition provides everything you need to know about making a healthy transition to a vegetarian diet or maximizing its benefits if already a vegetarian.
Updated with the latest recommendations for intakes of vitamins, minerals, proteins, and fats, the authors show how to achieve optimal nutrition for all stages of life. Easy-to-read tables, figures, menus, and food guides help you determine how to meet your nutritional requirements. You'll also learn what plant-based dietary components and factors play active roles in both the prevention and treatment of chronic illnesses.
And for practical ... |
continue reading 2 comments September 25, 2009, 1:00 pm The New Vegetarian Epicure | Anna Thomas, author of the best-selling The Vegetarian Epicure, which became the bible of vegetarian cooks in the seventies and remains a classic, now returns with an exuberant new cookbook that reflects the way we live and eat today. The 66 menus are geared to busy, health-conscious families who are drawn to good fresh foods and lighter fare, filled with the pungent ethnic flavors that Anna Thomas loves.
Here are more than 325 recipes for every occasion, from seasonal family meals and little dinner parties to picnics and holiday feasts. For example:
A Simple Autumn Dinner Party that includes a freshly ... |
continue reading 2 comments September 15, 2009, 6:39 pm Where is the Amazon link?
lorijrcamp | I was just browsing the book club and want to order the book of Women's Weight Lifting but do not see anywhere to get to Amazon to order it and I want to make sure NM gets their cut. ... |
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September 15, 2009, 4:25 pm Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body! | By Jillian Michaels
Does it feel as if you re fighting your body to lose even one pound or just to maintain your current weight? Respected health and wellness expert and bestselling author Jillian Michaels has been there, too. So she consulted top experts in the field of metabolism and discovered that she d inadvertently been abusing her endocrine system for years. After fixing her own metabolism, she decided to share what she learned by devising this simple, 3-phase plan that engages all the weight-loss hormones (including the friendly HGH, testosterone, DHEA; and the not-so-friendly: insulin, cortisol, and excess estrogen).
In ... |
continue reading 7 comments September 15, 2009, 4:04 pm The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking | The Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book is the classic bestselling cookbook devoted to baking light, healthful, delicious bread entirely from whole grains. This specially updated edition includes an entirely new chapter on making excellent whole-grain loaves in a bread machine. Now even the busiest among us can bake the delectable loaves for which Laurel’s Kitchen is famous.
New research proves what we’ve known all along: Eating whole grains really is better for your health! Here, the switch from “white” is made fun and easy.
Like a good friend, the “Loaf for Learning” tutorial guides you step-by-step through the baking process. You’ll make perfect ... |
continue reading September 14, 2009, 4:09 pm The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess | In The New Rules of Lifting for Women, authors Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe, and Alwyn Cosgrove present a comprehensive strength, conditioning, and nutrition plan destined to revolutionize the way women work out. All the latest studies prove that strength training, not aerobics, provides the key to losing fat and building a fit, strong body.
This book refutes the misconception that women will “bulk up” if they lift heavy weights. Nonsense! It’s tough enough for men to pack on muscle, and they have much more of the hormone necessary to build muscle: natural testosterone. Muscles need to be strengthened to achieve a ... |
continue reading 18 comments September 10, 2009, 9:17 am Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes | 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 scientifically proven, life-changing program, diabetics can control blood sugar three times more effectively than with the standard diet; and cut ... |
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August 27, 2009, 10:48 am My Stroke of Insight | My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
By Jill Bolte Taylor
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life—all within four hours—Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was ... |
continue reading 1 comment August 27, 2009, 10:42 am Happiness Is a Choice | Happiness Is a Choice
Barry Kaufman, director of the Option Institute and author of A Land Beyond Tears, contends that if you change a belief or attitude you can change your life. A decision to pursue happiness, he claims, can improve relations with others: "We can engineer our own responses, choosing love over hate, peace over conflict and happiness over depression." The first five sections relate Kaufman's philosophy and offer stories of clients' successful changes while in therapy. Section six has short chapters detailing shortcuts to happiness.
Kaufman has observed that despite disappointment, illnesses, and ... |
continue reading August 24, 2009, 11:34 am
updated Aug 24, 2009, 12:04 pm The Eat-Clean Diet | The Eat-Clean Diet: Fast Fat-Loss that lasts Forever!
With The Eat-Clean Diet, the diet that fitness professionals rely on, readers will transform themselves from sluggish, exhausted and overweight to energetic, lean and fabulous! Just like the author and cover girl Tosca Reno did when she was sixty pounds overweight, readers will discover how to make their bodies burn fat while eating tons of food. We've all seen the fitness professionals on the covers of magazines and wished we could look like them. The truth is, they are real people. Just like you, they had ... |
continue reading 8 comments August 24, 2009, 11:19 am continue reading
August 20, 2009, 6:56 pm Any questions?
ikg-88 | I told people here that they could ask me any questions they had. Since there's no private messaging, I thought I'd set up a journal to take any questions rather than clogging up the original comment thread.
If you'd like to see what a profile looks like, here is mine. ... |
continue reading August 20, 2009, 1:11 pm Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
About the Author
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novels ... |
continue reading 6 comments August 20, 2009, 12:47 pm You: On A Diet | You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management, by Michael Roizen MD and Mehemt C Oz MD
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting -- and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating ... |
continue reading 13 comments August 17, 2009, 1:04 pm The End of Overeating | The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by David Kessler MD
Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food?
In this book, former FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler cracks ... |
continue reading 31 comments August 17, 2009, 12:51 pm In Defense of Food | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Michael Pollan’s last book , The Omnivore’s Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we ... |
continue reading 12 comments August 17, 2009, 12:38 pm The Omnivore's Dilemma | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan
A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound ... |
continue reading August 17, 2009, 12:21 pm Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200 | Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories, by Lisa Lillien
Hungry Girl mania is sweeping the nation! The New York Times bestselling phenomenon delivers even more yum-tastic recipes in an easy-to-use cookbook containing 200 Hungry Girl recipes all under 200 calories. Recipes include:
* H-O-T Hot Boneless Buffalo Wings
* Sassy Southwestern Roll-Ups
* Cheesy-Good Cornbread Muffins
* Holy Moly Guacamole
* HG s So Low Mein w/Chicken
* Cheeseburger Lettuce Cups ;
* Chocolate Chip Cookie Crisp Puddin Shake
* Swirls Gone Wild Cheesecake Brownies
* Personal Pretzel-Bottomed Ice Cream ... |
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August 17, 2009, 12:03 pm Food Politics | Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, by Marion Nestle
An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics laid the groundwork for today's food revolution and changed the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. Now, a new introduction and concluding chapter bring us up to date on the key events in that movement. This pathbreaking, prize-winning book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why.
About the Author
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology ... |
continue reading June 16, 2009, 1:11 pm My new cookbooks, and a suggestion for NM Book Club
ninaolsen | Some of you may know that I'm a cookbook junkie.
I have been in The States for 2,5 years and I have bought about 14 cookbooks...It's sick i know...-)
Recently I have bought
"The Most Decadent Diet " by Devin Aleaxander $22
"Cook Yourself Thin" As seen on Lifetime $20
" Hungry Girl, 200 under 200" by Lisa Lilien $20
All of them are filled with recipes that is tweaked to be more low fat and low cal than the "original" recipes.
Most of the recipes I have tried are from Decadent Diet and they have all been VERY good. I have not missed the fat, ... |
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