 I came across this book in the bookstore without having heard about it previously, which is rare because I usually choose books based on reviews or referrals.
The title peaked my curiosity because as a personal trainer this is an area of interest for me and the author’s credentials and experience give the book some pretty serious [...]
 This best selling cookbook (Robert Kennedy Publishing 2007) is the logical follow-up to the original Eat-Clean Diet book with recipes to support clean eating to get and stay lean.
If you happen to be perusing the bookstore and thinking about picking up this popular cookbook whatever you do don’t flip to page 231. Not only will you feel incredibly insulted but you will get a false impression of what lean and clean-eating really is.
Here’s why, and why you should most definitely have a copy of this cookbook on your healthy living book [...]
 Enter Esther Blum, your new best girlfriend or your ‘nutritional fairy godmother’ as she describes herself. She is hip, stylish, likable, a bit of a party girl and she just happens to have a whole lot more credentials than cocktails she serves up, and that’s [...]
 In celebration of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver B.C., Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has loaned Leonardo DaVinci’s Anatomical Manuscript A to the Vancouver Art Gallery for showing in its entirety for the first time ever.
The Anatomical Manuscript A is a collection of anatomical drawings and study notes made by DaVinci in 1510. DaVinci dissected as many as 30 cadavers (unclaimed bodies from a charitable hospital) as part of his study for a treatise on the human body, a work that never came to [...]
 The Thrive Diet is a philosophy about nourishing the body for health and for high level athletic performance with a plant only based diet. A large amount of the discussion hinges on stress, nutritional and exercise stress in particular and how food can be used most efficiently to prevent and recover from various [...]
 The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Pengiun 2006) by Michael Pollan was rated as one of the top 10 books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. There is no doubt that this is quality literature, but is this a book to be valuable and enjoyed by health and fitness seekers? That was my question reading it. Who would have thought that discussion of corn, grass, hunting, or foraging for wild mushrooms could be such a page [...]
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