Health & Fitness

Imagine not drinking a bottle of wine before making a pass; not moving in like a starving cat when someone is at the bar; not apologising for something you don't remember doing. Once upon a time, Tania Glyde couldn't imagine living any other way.

This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies. Crules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry.

Acupuncture is one of the most popular and widely accepted complementary therapies available to the general public. And yet many of us know little about it, what it can be used for, and how it works. This book explains: * What it feels like to have treatment * How acupuncture works * How acupuncture helps to balance your energy and strengthen your immune system * How it can successfully treat a wide variety of ailments, from panic attacks to hot flushes, asthma, joint pains and the common cold * Which of the 'Five Element' types you are and how this relates to your health * How acupuncture can be used safely and effectively to treat pregnant women, children, and animals * How to find the right practitioner. Self-help information and questionnaires are also included to enable you to discover more about your diagnosis.

Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six 'Non-Naturals': the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the 'passions of the soul'. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prevention differed considerably in Italy and England, reflecting country-specific cultural, political and medical contexts and different confessional backgrounds.

A stunning collection of floral buttercream cake decorating projects for all seasons, from the world's leading instructors of buttercream techniques, Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes. Presented in four chapters CSpring, Summer, Autum and, Winter, with four cake projects in each CButtercream Flowers for All Seasons gives readers all the inspiration and know-how they need to create floral amazing cakes all year round.

Stunning recipes for patisserie, desserts and savouries with a contemporary Japanese twist. This elegant collection is aimed at the confident home-cook who has an interest in using ingredients such as yuzu, sesame, miso and matcha.

Health and healthy food have now become a major challenge, as the food industry puts its economic benefits before the benefits that food can provide. We live in a time of haste, in which processed foods are practically most of the food we can find on supermarket shelves, thus relegating unprocessed, authentic foods to hard-to-get items and often over-priced ones.

Fast Favorites Under Pressure by Blue Jean Chef Meredith Laurence is written with the smaller household in mind. These days, so many pressure cooker recipes are written for bigger pressure cookers and designed to serve 6 to 8 people. When you're dealing with pressure-cooking, however, cutting a large recipe back to feed just 2 to 4 people is not always straight-forward. Fast Favorites Under Pressure does all the work for you, with every recipe guaranteed to work in a 4-quart pressure cooker. The recipes also double very easily so if you're cooking in an 8-quart cooker, you'll have no trouble making twice as many "fast favorites." Fast Favorites Under Pressure also includes tips and tricks for pressure cooking so you can be even more successful with your pressure cooker.

The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life.

From busy weeknights to casual gatherings, there's nothing more satisfying for dinner than a creamy pot pie topped with a flaky crust, a piping-hot pot roast or a cheesy, crumb-topped casserole. For Our Favorite One-Dish Dinners, we've rounded up 60 no-fuss recipes that will bring everyone running to the table.

Power up with these 100 delicious, perfectly balanced meals in a bowl-all designed to deliver a targeted blast of energy that will sustain you throughout the day.

A must-have cookbook for busy families with 150 one-pot recipes to make cooking dinner streamlined, simple, and incredibly tasty?

Forget about bland, colorless diet foods -now's the time to invite rainbow health into your life! In The Rainbow Diet, nutritionist and health expert, Dr. Deanna Minich, introduces a cutting-edge path to attaining physical, mental, and spiritual health through colorful whole foods and natural supplements.

The cookbook that brought casseroles into the 21st century is back with 25 glorious new recipes with Not Your Mother's Casseroles Revised and Expanded Edition.

The Keto Paleo Kitchen amps up your metabolism to maximize fat burn by combining the Ketogenic and Paleolithic diets. By eating low carb, high fat and grain- and dairy-free, your body will more easily burn stored fat for energy, resulting in sustainable weight loss, a clearer mind and better overall health.

Sugar has become ubiquitous in our modern diet in a variety of forms, and is most notably present in popular processed foods and sugary drinks. This title explains the latest consumption guidelines and data, detailing the amount of sugar added to common food and beverage items, the excessive consumption of which can lead to serious health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, tooth decay and heart disease. The book offers helpful advice on reducing unhealthy sugar intake through personal dietary behaviours such as how to identify sugars on food labels; it also presents perspectives in the ongoing debate over government policy approaches including a proposed sugar tax. How much sugar is it OK to eat, what are its health impacts, and how can we manage its consumption? Excessive sweetness has unsavoury consequences - how are you watching your sugar intake? Also includes: worksheets and activities, fast facts, glossary, web links, index.

It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944-long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe-with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was, and is, the Horn of Africa...

Entertain your friends and family with sushi that looks as fantastic as it tastes!

In 1968, Manchester United became the first English football team to win the European Cup. In 1999, they won three Cups in eleven days. Manchester United are the biggest, richest and most successful football club in the world. Read about the sport, the team, the players and the fans. A must for all football fans.

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