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The Biggest Loser Quick & Easy Cookbook: Simply Delicious Low-calorie Recipes to Make in a Snap (Biggest Loser)
by Devin Alexander Biggest Loser Experts CastThe first cookbook in the bestselling Biggest Loser series to focus on fast, simple meals that you can eat on the go, The Biggest Loser Quick & Easy Cookbook features more than 75 easy recipes with 20 minutes of prep time or less, accompanied by beautiful 4-color photography. <p>The book also provides an overview of The Biggest Loser eating plan; include five 20 minute workouts with tips on how to burn the most calories in the least amount of time, offer healthy cooking and baking tips and techniques as well as shopping lists and pantry basics; and as always, will feature tips from the trainers and contestants on time-saving techniques for fitting healthy meals into busy schedules. <p>The 75 quick and easy recipes include such categories as breakfast on the double, speedy soups and sandwiches, throw-together salads and sides, mains in minutes, lickety-split sweet bites, and more. <p>Sample recipes include: <br>• Asparagus & Chicken Apple Sausage Scramble <br>• Sausage Feta Pepper Breakfast Bake <br>• Blanca Arugula Pizza <br>• Monkey Trail Mix <br>• Caprese Burger <br>• Cold Dumpling Salad <br>• Garlic & Herb Mac & Cheese <br>• Spicy Cayenne Corn on the Cob <br>• Coffee Crusted Chopped Steak <br>• Philly Cheese Steak Pizza <br>• Crispy Pesto Cod <br>• Meyer Lemon Seared Scallops <br>• Chocolate Raspberry Dreamers <br>• Honey Nut Apple Butter Rice Cakes
The Biggest Loser Quick and Easy Cookbook: Simply Delicious Low-Calorie Recipes to Make in a Snap
by Devin AlexanderThe first cookbook in the bestselling Biggest Loser series to focus on fast, simple meals that you can eat on the go,The Biggest Loser Quick & Easy Cookbook features more than 75 easy recipes with 20 minutes of prep time or less, accompanied by beautiful 4-color photography. The book also provides an overview of The Biggest Loser eating plan; include five 20 minute workouts with tips on how to burn the most calories in the least amount of time, offers healthy cooking and baking tips and techniques as well as shopping lists and pantry basics; and as always, features tips from the trainers and contestants on time-saving techniques for fitting healthy meals into busy schedules. The 75 quick and easy recipes include such categories as breakfast on the double, speedy soups and sandwiches, throw-together salads and sides, mains in minutes, lickety-split sweet bites, and more.
Fast Food Fix: 75+ Amazing Recipe Makeovers of Your Fast Food Restaurant Favorites
by Devin AlexanderAmericans all want to eat healthy, but when they yearn for the fast foods they love, what they want most are the fabulous flavors that have made them favorites in the first place. That's what makes this collection of recipe makeovers so exceptional. Los Angeles food writer, chef, and caterer Devin Alexander specializes in low-fat, high-flavor, scrumptious cuisine. In Fast Food Fix, she shows the reader how to transform 75 fast food favorites into healthier versions that are even more flavorful than the originals. Fast Food Fix: demystifies the special seasonings and secret sauces of choice fast foods, showing how to reproduce their flavors quickly and easily from common ingredients; teaches how to lighten many dishes with new cooking techniques, such as the oven-frying method that yields incredibly crunchy popcorn chicken with 35 fewer fat grams than the original version from KFC; reveals simplified cooking methods that save time in the kitchen, proving that fast food can still be fast even when prepared at home. For Americans hooked on fast food flavors, these recipe makeovers by a chef with an impressive repertoire of culinary tricks will quickly become a kitchen staple.
Fast Food Fix: 75+ Amazing Recipe Makeovers of Your Fast Food Restaurant Favorites
by Devin AlexanderIndulge your fast food cravings without guilt—with recipes that deliver the same great taste without putting your health at risk or inches on your hipsAmericans all want to "eat healthy," but when they yearn for the fast foods they love, what they want most are the fabulous flavors that have made them favorites in the first place. That's what makes this collection of recipe makeovers so exceptional. Los Angeles food writer, chef, and caterer Devin Alexander specializes in low-fat, high-flavor, scrumptious cuisine. In Fast Food Fix, she shows the reader how to transform 75 fast food favorites into healthier versions that are even more flavorful than the originals. Fast Food Fix:• demystifies the special seasonings and secret sauces of choice fast foods—showing how to reproduce their flavors quickly and easily from common ingredients• teaches how to lighten many dishes with new cooking techniques, such as the oven-frying method that yields incredibly crunchy popcorn chicken with 35 fewer fat grams than the original version from KFC• reveals simplified cooking methods that save time in the kitchen, proving that "fast food" can still be fast even when prepared at homeFor Americans hooked on fast food flavors, these recipe makeovers by a chef with an impressive repertoire of culinary tricks will quickly become a kitchen staple.
I Can't Believe It's Not Fattening! Over 150 Ridiculously Easy Recipes for the Super Busy
by Devin AlexanderFrom the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Biggest Loser" cookbooks comes a collection of amazingly simple, quick, and decadent recipes that taste sinful but are 100-percent guilt-free.
The Most Decadent Diet Ever!: The Cookbook That Reveals the Secrets to Cooking Your Favorites in a Healthier Way
by Devin AlexanderDevin Alexander, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Biggest Loser Cookbook, lets you have your cake and lose weight, too, with sinfully tempting--yet amazingly healthy--recipes for America's all-time favorite foods. Chef and former L. A. caterer Devin Alexander has maintained a fifty-five-pound weight loss for over sixteen years by transforming the dishes she and millions of other Americans love best into guilt-free (yet still outrageously mouth-watering) indulgences--Rigatoni with Meat Sauce, BBQ Bacon Cheeseburgers, Eggplant Parmesan, Sinless Yet Sinful Sticky Buns, and even Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. These simple-to-prepare recipe--for the kind of delectable dishes people crave but feel they can't eat when trying to be healthy and trim--actually can be the basis of a personal weight-loss plan. They can also be a way to add "off-limit" foods back into an already successful diet. Or they can simply be part of an exciting new way to eat healthfully--and with pleasure. In The Most Decadent Diet Ever!Devin Alexander proves that even the most decadent dishes--Chipotle Chili with Blue Cheese Crumbles, "Fried" Jumbo Shrimp, Super-Stuffed Steak Soft Tacos, Fettu-Skinny Alfredo, Godiva Brownie Sundaes, and Chocolate Chip Pancakes--can lead to weight loss, good health, and carefree enjoyment.
Bagua Daoyin: A Unique Branch of Daoist Learning, A Secret Skill of the Palace
by David Alexander Jinghan HeThe beautiful, complex movements of Bagua require a lifetime to master fully, but can be practised with significant physical and mental health benefit at any level. In this highly illustrated guide, Master He, a fifth generation practitioner, introduces the ancient Daoist principles on which Bagua is based, its place within the Chinese martial arts, and the approach to life it nurtures. Many pages of photographs illustrate a programme of sequences, showing the beauty of the movements, and the positions and transitions the practitioner is aiming for. Bagua Daoyin supports and trains the body and the mind to promote balance and harmony. The external movements are echoed in the internal body, which promotes the flow of energy that leads to greatly improved health, a tranquil and focused mind, and increased longevity. Practitioners quickly report reduced stress levels and increased enjoyment of life. This fully illustrated introduction to Bagua Daoyin will be essential reading for Bagua, Xingyi and Taiji practitioners at all levels, dancers, and indeed anyone interested in improving their physical and mental wellbeing.
Arthritis and Common Sense: With Illustrations And Menus (Cedar Bks.)
by Dan Dale AlexanderA startling revelation on arthritis…and what you can do about it in your own home.Here are the results of 12 years of research by the author, Dan Dale Alexander. In these pages an authority reports on his findings about the disease…he lists successful steps which can be taken to bring relief.Laboratory tests by the author developed a plan and a dietary regime which have brought better health to arthritics and have caused their pains to disappear.The Science Editor of The New York Times has reported that arthritis is a lubrication problem. The Times said, in part, that while both cortisone and ACTH are still more precious than radium it is predicted that both are on the way out as far as arthritis is concerned.Unlike present “cures supposedly caused by costly miracle drugs, this book gives a complete outline of an inexpensive corrective diet which lubricates the patient’s joints and returns arthritis to better health.
Arthritis and Common Sense (3rd edition)
by Dan Dale AlexanderThis book tells the proper diet, the selection and rotation of food, plus a dietetic therapy, so that more of the correct oils in your food can serve the joints. It also shows how these oils can stimulate your adrenal glands--to successfully combat arthritis. In addition to the special diet which the author explains in the book, he also advocates the use of cod liver oil.
Good Health and Common Sense
by Dan Dale AlexanderFirst published in 1960, this is a book written by world-renowned nutritionist and lecturer Dale Alexander. In this follow-up to his bestseller Arthritis and Common Sense, Alexander provides tips on how YOU can have better health, prevent illness, live longer by using common sense and eating the right foods at the right times.
The Complete Guide To Baby Naming Ceremonies
by Becky AlexanderIf you would like to celebrate the arrival of a new baby with friends and family, but are looking for an alternative to a traditional christening, this is the book for you. Civil weddings have been popular for a long time, but you can now have a Civil Naming ceremony for your child, held either at your local registry office, or at any venue of your choice. As there is no legal requirement, you can hold the party at home, in your garden, or at any venue you like. You can host the event yourselves, or ask a registered celebrant to host the event. This book contains lots of ideas to make your civil naming ceremony memorable and unique to your family. There are ideas for poems, readings, music, themes, and special ideas for how to mark the occasion. Everyone can get involved; grandparents, siblings, and specially nominated adults who can act as guardians. There are readings suitable for all. This book includes: - How to plan the naming party and ceremony - Ideas for indoors and outdoors decor, plus simple decorations - Providing entertainment and fun for children and adults - 10 special event ideas for the day, such as star naming, planting a tree and filling a time capsule - Traditional and contemporary ideas for readings and poems with new, specifically commissioned poems that are particularly relevant to this special occasion - Ideas and recipes for delicious food and drink
The Complete Guide To Baby Naming Ceremonies
by Becky AlexanderIf you would like to celebrate the arrival of a new baby with friends and family, but are looking for an alternative to a traditional christening, this is the book for you. Civil weddings have been popular for a long time, but you can now have a Civil Naming ceremony for your child, held either at your local registry office, or at any venue of your choice. As there is no legal requirement, you can hold the party at home, in your garden, or at any venue you like. You can host the event yourselves, or ask a registered celebrant to host the event. This book contains lots of ideas to make your civil naming ceremony memorable and unique to your family. There are ideas for poems, readings, music, themes, and special ideas for how to mark the occasion. Everyone can get involved; grandparents, siblings, and specially nominated adults who can act as guardians. There are readings suitable for all. This book includes: - How to plan the naming party and ceremony - Ideas for indoors and outdoors decor, plus simple decorations - Providing entertainment and fun for children and adults - 10 special event ideas for the day, such as star naming, planting a tree and filling a time capsule - Traditional and contemporary ideas for readings and poems with new, specifically commissioned poems that are particularly relevant to this special occasion - Ideas and recipes for delicious food and drink
The Sugar Smart Diet: Stop Cravings and Lose Weight While Still Enjoying the Sweets You Love!
by Anne Alexander Julia VanTineSugar is the most controversial subject in the American diet debates today—alternately viewed as public health enemy No. 1 and an innocent indulgence. A New York Times bestseller, The Sugar Smart Diet reveals the suite of hidden sugars in food that have skyrocketed the nation’s annual sugar intake to more than 130 pounds per person (sugar is not hiding where most people think), identifies which popular sugar increases the body’s ability to store fat, and explains how excess sugar leads to diabetes, heart disease, and more.The Sugar Smart Diet’s 32-day plan uniquely addresses the emotional and physiological effects of sugar, empowering readers to take charge of sugar, rather than letting sugar take charge of them."Once rare in the human diet, sugar is now ubiquitous and often hidden in unexpected places. Simply becoming aware of sugar can help you cut your intake, which is one of the smartest moves you can make to achieve optimal wellness. This informative guide tells you how to do that." —Dr. Andrew Weil
Sugar Smart Express: The 21-Day Quick Start Plan to Stop Cravings, Lose Weight, and Still Enjoy the S weets You Love!
by Anne Alexander Julia VanTineSugar is everywhere. Once confined to candy, desserts, and the sugar bowl, it has made its way into our peanut butter, bread, tomato sauce, and salad dressing. The average American eats nearly 130 pounds of added sugar a year, and 75 percent of 86,000 foods analyzed in one study contained added sweeteners. This information is now at the forefront of media, public policy, and water cooler conversation, and Americans are wising up to what a sugar-laden diet means for their health: added pounds that won't budge; heightened risk of Alzheimer's, diabetes, and heart disease; moodiness; fatigue; and cravings that seem to rule their daily lives.Based on the New York Times bestseller The Sugar Smart Diet, Sugar Smart Express is a revamped plan to give you what you've been asking for: an easy-to-follow plan that offers great results in less time, with even more tools for success.New content includes:- a new, 21-day plan to sweet freedom that scales back each phase without sacrificing results- shopping lists and a more comprehensive dining out guide to make eating on the plan a breeze- healthy, delicious recipes the whole family-even veggie-averse kids-will gobble up- updated success stories and "Sugar Smart Hacks" from The Sugar Smart Diet test panel
Win the Fat War: 145 Real-life Secrets to Weight-loss Success
by Anne AlexanderWhether you’re trying to slim down or keep some pounds from coming back, you know how difficult it can be. Too much temptation and too little motivation can undermine even the best-laid eating-and-exercise plans. Here at last is a book that not only shows you how to mount an effective weight-loss program but also offers the moral support that you need to make your program work for you. Drawing on the real-life experiences of 145 successful “losers,” Win the Fat War offers a rare and inspirational glimpse into the lives of women and men who’ve managed to overcome a broad spectrum of weight problems. You’ll meet Karen, who learned how to slim down without giving up the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream that she craved; Shereen, who finally discovered the key to surviving the holidays without putting on pounds; and Kay, who shrewdly turned everyday activities, such as shoveling snow and cleaning the attic, into slenderizing exercise.You’ll be inspired by these people’s stories, and you’ll be the wiser for their experiences. You’ll also find direction and motivation in the Ten Commandments of Weight Loss. From believing in yourself to setting the right goals, these handy tips and helpful pointers can serve as guideposts on the road to weight-loss success. Practical, encouraging, illuminating, Win the Fat War provides invaluable advice to anyone eager to slim down, shape up, and stay fit.
The Align Method: 5 Movement Principles for a Stronger Body, Sharper Mind, and Stress-Proof Life
by Aaron AlexanderCelebrity manual therapist and movement coach Aaron Alexander shows readers how posture and body alignment are powerful tools for building strength, achieving peak performance, reducing pain, and approaching the world with a new sense of confidence. Good posture is about more than standing up straight: It can change your mood, alleviate pain, rid your body of stressful tension, and may be the difference between getting that raise you've wanted and attracting your ideal mate, or not. But in order to reap all those benefits, the body must be properly integrated. Celebrity movement coach and manual therapist Aaron Alexander offers a revolutionary approach to body alignment to build strength, reduce pain, and put you on a direct path to peak performance that is both fun and accessible. The Align Method centers on five daily optimizations that can be easily integrated into any workout, mindfulness practice, or daily life activity: Floor SittingHangingHip-HingingWalkingNose Breathing A truly aligned life isn't limited to sweating in a gym or stretching in a yoga studio, and Alexander provides the fundamental principles to optimize your physical and mental process in any situation. Blending Eastern philosophy with Western mechanics, The Align Method brilliantly outlines the necessary tools to leverage the power of your own senses and body language to feel more flexible and confident, and details exactly how to reshape your environment for enhanced creativity and longevity. This is the quintessential user's manual to feeling better than you ever thought possible, and looking great while you're at it!
Gay Sex, Gay Health: All You Need to Know About Gay Sex and Sexual Health
by Dr Alex VassWith rates of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and sexual problems at an all time high Gay Sex, Gay Health is essential reading for all gay men, with informed advice on sexual, physical and emotional problems, including practising safe sex and taking responsibility for oneself. Serious and authoritative in tone but also upbeat and informal in style, the book also includes sections on gay sex and variations in sexual activities, recreational drugs associated with gay sex and up-to-date statistics and case studies.
The Seasonal Soul: A Mystic's Guide to Inner Transformation
by Lauren AlettaBrimming with mystical practices and hundreds of evocative illustrations, The Seasonal Soul is an enchanting guide to self-discovery. Spiritual teacher Lauren Aletta takes readers through the metaphorical "seasons" of personal growth and illuminates the ways your springs, summers, autumns, and winters provide opportunities for insight, healing, transformation, and rejuvenation. Organized by season, the book is packed with enriching practices and advice, including self-care rituals, crystal and chakra guides, and journaling exercises. In an eye-catching, shimmery package with black dyed edges, this book is perfect for modern mystics and the spiritually curious.
The Sky between You and Me
by Catherine AleneAn emotional and heart wrenching novel about grief and striving for perfection. Lighter. Leaner. Faster. Raesha will to do whatever it takes to win Nationals. For her, competing isn't just about the speed of her horse or the thrill of the win. It's about honoring her mother's memory and holding onto a dream they once shared. Lighter. Leaner. Faster. For an athlete, every second counts. Raesha knows minus five on the scale will let her sit deeper in her saddle, make her horse lighter on his feet. And lighter, leaner, faster gives her the edge she needs over the new girl on the team, a girl who keeps flirting with Raesha's boyfriend and making plans with her best friend. So she focuses on minus five. But if she isn't careful, she's going to lose more than just the people she loves, she's going to lose herself to lighter, leaner, faster... "Sit quietly with this book. Feel the wind, the dusty air. Taste the sorrow and the wonder. Listen to the heart that is beating on every page. Then be grateful that Catherine Alene gave us this stunning story. It's a thing of beauty." —Kathi Appelt, Newbery Honor and National Book Award Finalist
Regulating Lifestyle Risks
by Alberto Alemanno Amandine GardeThis collection of essays looks at the role the European Union could and should play in promoting healthier lifestyle, in light of the moral, philosophical, legal and political challenges associated with the regulation of individual choices. By tackling the main non-communicable diseases (NCD) risk factors (tobacco consumption, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diets and lack of physical activity), the contributors endeavour to identify common themes and determine whether and, if so, to what extent the lessons learned in relation to each area of EU intervention could be transposed to the others. By focusing on the European Union legal order, the book highlights both the opportunities that legal instruments offer for NCD prevention and control agenda in Europe, as well as the constraints that the law imposes on policy-makers.
Pepper and Me
by Beatrice AlemagnaFrom three-time NYT Best Illustrated creator of On a Magical Do-Nothing Day comes a stunning picture book about a little girl, the scab on her knee, and the healing they do together.In this utterly enchanting and unexpected tale from international picture book star Beatrice Alemagna, a childhood mishap is the occasion for growth and self-reflection. When a little girl falls on the street, scraping her knee, her father tells her not to worry, that "a beautiful scab will form." But she does worry! The scab is not beautiful and it's keeping her from bending her knee! When will it ever go away? By the time the scab—who she has named Pepper—falls off, something astonishing has happened: the girl has come to feel affection for the scab and has a hard time letting go. With an unerring understanding of a child&’s emotional life and a dash of absurdist wit, this picture book will stand with classics from creators like Tomi Ungerer and William Steig, who explore the weird, funny essence of childhood.
Happiness and Virtue Ethics in Business
by Alejo José G. SisonResearch on happiness has steadily increased over the last decade, with different streams of inquiry converging into what has come to be known as 'modern happiness studies' (MHS). In this book, Alejo José G. Sison draws on the latest research in economics and psychology as well as Aristotelian virtue ethics to show why happiness is the ultimate value proposition for business. Using non-technical language and a number of illustrative vignettes, he proposes ways for businesses to cultivate the virtues, providing advice on production and service enhancement, customer satisfaction, employee well-being and overall organizational wellness. This book will appeal to a wide readership, including graduate students and researchers in business ethics, moral philosophy and positive psychology.
La belleza de ser tú: La historia real de cómo sobreviví al TCA
by Olga AlejandreLa dietista especializada en TCA Olga Alejandre comparte su emocionante testimonio y las claves para sanar la relación con la comida «Este libro es todo lo que me gustaría que me hubieran dicho a mí en mis momentos más oscuros». La belleza de ser tú es el testimonio de una lucha única, pero a la vez compartida por muchas personas, que te hará replantearte tu relación con la comida y con tu cuerpo y entender qué hay detrás de las enfermedades mentales.Olga Alejandre —dietista especializada en trastornos de la conducta alimentaria— nos ofrece el conmovedor relato de su propia experiencia con los TCA que sufrió, sus consecuencias y cómo logró recuperarse y enamorarse por fin de cada parte de sí misma. Esta es una historia muy real de tocar fondo y renacer; una lección de superación y de cómo el dolor a veces abre caminos inimaginables y se convierte en una oportunidad de crecer e inspirar a otros.
The 7 Wonders of Olive Oil: Stronger Bones, Cancer Prevention, Higher Brain Function, and Other Medical Miracles of the Green Nectar
by Alice Alech Cécile Le GalliardJeanne Calment, who lived to be 121, credited one thing for her long life: olive oil.Olive oil enthusiasts and experts Alice Alech and Cécile Le Galliard join forces in this complete guidebook discussing the amazing—almost miraculous—health benefits of olive oil. From slowing the effects of Alzheimer’s to building healthy bones, extra virgin olive oil is unrivaled in its natural goodness. With detailed research and findings from doctors, medical researchers, nutritionists, and chefs around the globe, The 7 Wonders of Olive Oil explores the role olive oil plays in the Mediterranean diet, covers tips for cooking with, buying, and storing the green nectar, and most of all, reveals its seven amazing health benefits including:Anti-inflammationCancer preventionSkin rejuvenationHealthy bonesAlzheimer’s disease preventionReduction in risk for diabetesStroke and heart attack prevention
Buddha and Einstein Walk Into a Bar: How New Discoveries About Mind, Body, and Energy Can Help Increase Your Longevity
by Guy Joseph AleBuddha and Einstein Walk Into a Bar presents the revolutionary idea that sensing how long we can live is a latent capacity in us, currently unknown, just like the introduction of fire, the invention of flying, and the discovery of radio waves were before we “discovered” them. Understand how the knowledge of transcendence, consciousness, and self-healing are integral to your well-being. You could drive a car without a fuel gauge, but knowing how much gas you have clearly gives you more control of your vehicle. Using the latest breakthroughs in cosmology, neuroplasticity, superstring theory, and epigenetics, Buddha and Einstein Walk Into a Bar helps you to master your entire system of mind, body, and energy and provides practical tools to help you live your longest and healthiest life. <P><P>You will learn Lifespan Seminar’s multiple-award-winning tools of: <P><P>Exercises that align the different systems of the body. <P><P>Mindfulness and meditation—to relieve daily stress. <P><P>Good nutrition—simple rules sustainable for a lifetime. <P><P>Proper rest—for your mental and physical peak performance. <P><P>Active lifestyle—to stay vibrant through your entire life.