The movement towards juicing and juice fasting as a dietary option is growing as both a lifestyle practice and as a viable industry. Whether household or commercially based, it is essential that users serious enough to purchase products take the time to educate themselves with regard to the numerous options that are available. Equally important, knowledge of sound and safe juicing practice is essential in matching both juicing equipment and foods to individual need and preference. Juicing programs require direction in order to allow for proper and successful planning. This book examines many of the considerations related to successful juicing. It looks at basic equipment requirements, outlines options for start-up and selection of programs and products, and provides numerous ideas on how to go about creating pleasantly tasting juice mixtures. A great deal of the article is devoted to nutritional considerations, outlining benefits, potential hazards, and specific guidelines for best nutritional choice juicing practice. A significant consideration dealt with is how to best approach juicing as a means of weight loss. Closely related, the book also presents guidelines for successful juice fasting."People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas."~ Eric Tompkins

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The world is at war, the country is in famine, and John Cummings is overcome with illusions of nobility and grandeur after reading too many books about knights in shining armor. Plagued by his past and feelings of unworthiness about his future, John convinces his closest childhood friend, Ben Halpert, to join him in the marines. It is September 1941 when they arrive together on Wake Island to begin a new chapter in their lives. Ben, who has no expectations of military life, soon discovers that being stationed on a remote island comes with its drawbacks like being awakened by horns, dealing with the monotony of dull work, and chewing sand with every bite of food. As the men complete their assignments, Ben takes solace in his childhood memories while John relies on his scrappiness to overcome frustrations and obstacles. But as time drags on the remote island, Ben becomes concerned that John will come to discover a secret he has been hiding from him for two years-a secret with the potential to destroy their friendship forever. John is the poignant tale of two childhood buddies embroiled in the chaos of World War II as they battle the enemy, attempt to overcome their pasts, and discover that life sometimes does not go as planned.

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYHaving won or been nominated for just about every known prestigious culinary award, Michael White is hailed by food critics as the next great hero of Italian gastronomy. His reach extends around the globe with a clutch of acclaimed fine dining restaurants, including Marea, Ai Fiori, Osteria Morini, and pizzeria Nicoletta. Now, in Classico e Moderno, White brings his passion for authentic Italian cuisine to the home kitchen, with recipesnearly 250that cover both the traditional and contemporary dishes of the region. In the ';Classico' portion, White shares such iconic dishes as Meatballs Braised in Tomato Sauce; Pasta and Bean Soup; Cavatelli with Lamb Rag and Bell Peppers; and Roasted Pork Leg with Rosemary and Black Pepper. The ';Moderno' chapters feature recipes that have put White's restaurants on the map, including Chicken Liver Crostini with Marsala-Braised Onions; Fusili with Red WineBraised Octopus and Bone Marrow; and Veal Chops with Roasted Endive and Pancetta Cream Sauce. Both the Classico and Moderno sections offer ideas for your whole meal: first courses (Vitello Tonnato, Garganelli with Caviar Cream ), soups (Zuppa di Baccal, White Bean Soup with SautAAAaAA(c)ed Shrimp), pastas (Tortellini alla Panna, Ricotta and Swiss Chard Tortelli), main courses (Pollo alla Diavola, Braised Lamb Shanks with Farrotto), and desserts (Crostata di Ricotta, Panna Cotta with Meyer LemonBasil Sorbet and Almond Milk Froth), as well as salads, pizzas, and basic formulas for pesto, stocks, and vinaigrettes. Including personal notes and anecdotes about White's early sojourn in Italy and his flavorful career, Classico e Moderno will give you all the tools, tips, and tricks you need to cook tantalizing Italian dishes with the confidence of a seasoned chef. Praise for Michael White and Classico e Moderno ';A masterpiece of culinary acumen and perfection in presentation. White once again sublimely deals with hi.

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Cardiovascular drugs have dramatically changed the way we treat heart disease in the last decade-allowing us to effectively combat hypertension, lower cholesterol, reduce the risk of heart attacks, and, in some cases, even reverse heart disease. Yet, if you are on of the more than 30,000,000 Americans who take heart drugs, chances are you are not getting all the information you need to take these medications safely and effectively. Dr. Martin Goldman has written the first book that deals with all the issues surrounding the use of these life-preserving drugs-how they work on the body's systems and how life-style, diet, and exercise enhance or impede their effectiveness. In clear and accessible prose, using examples from his own practice, Dr. Goldman also presents guidelines for choosing and communicating with your cardiologist, examines the value of new screening tests and procedures, and even shows patients how to keep a cardiovascular diary to monitor their own heart care. The second half of the book provides comprehensive profiles of more than ninety commonly used heart drugs-among them beta blockers, anticoagulants, and antihypertensives-examining their possible side effects; their interactions with food, alcohol, and other drugs' and life-style alterations to consider while using them. This is an indispensable guidebook for anyone concerned about complete cardiac care.

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ABOUT THE BOOK "Gluten-free" seems to be all the rage these days. As diagnoses of gluten sensitivity and the autoimmune disorder Celiac disease have increased, more and more restaurants are offering gluten-free options, some supermarkets have aisles dedicated to the stuff, and even national coffee shop chains have jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon. Even people without allergies have begun to eschew gluten, citing improved digestion, clearer thinking, and better moods. So what's the deal with "gluten-free"? What does it mean? Is it just a gimmick? Or is it a healthful eating choice? And here's the big question: can you lose weight by adopting a gluten-free diet? All these questions will be answered in this guide, but let's get the biggie out of the way: yes, you can lose weight by adopting a gluten-free diet. You can also, however, gain weight on a gluten-free diet. Ditching the gluten is not a dieting "Get Out of Jail Free" card. Switching out wheat and other gluten-containing foods can help your body streamline its fat-burning processes and improve your overall health, but it's not a magic bullet. Gluten-free foods can contain just as much sugar, fat, artificial preservatives, and other "bad" stuff as their "normal" counterparts. MEET THE AUTHOR Lily is very close to finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford. She also has an utterly non-lucrative Masters of Fine Arts in poetry. "Lily McNeil" is a pseudonym. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Although Celiac disease affects less than 1% of the population, it is a serious autoimmune condition that is triggered by eating the gluten protein. In response to the protein, the small intestine destroys its own villi, which are responsible for absorbing nutrients from food. Without these nutrients, the body becomes severely malnourished. That's where a gluten-free diet comes in. Those who have Celiac disease must adhere to a very strict diet of no gluten whatsoever, even in vitamin pills and lip balm. But even if you don't have C

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Confectionery and chocolate manufacture has been dominated by large-scale industrial processing for several decades. It is often the case, though, that a trial and error approach is applied to the development of new products and processes, rather than verified scientific principles. The purpose of this book is to describe the features of unit operations used in confectionary manufacturing. In contrast to the common technology-focused approach to this subject, this volume offers a scientific, theoretical account of confectionery manufacture, building on the scientific background of chemical engineering. The large diversity of both raw materials and end products in the confectionery industry makes it beneficial to approach the subject in this way. The industry deals with a variety of vegetable based raw materials as well as milk products, eggs, gelatin, and other animal-based raw materials. A study of confectionery and chocolate engineering must therefore examine the physical and chemical, as well as the biochemical and microbiological properties of the processed materials. By characterizing the unit operations of confectionery manufacture the author, who has over 40 years' experience in confectionery manufacture, aims to open up new possibilities for improvement relating to increased efficiency of operations, the use of new materials, and new applications for traditional raw materials. The book is aimed at food engineers, scientists, technologists in research and industry, as well as graduate students on relevant food and chemical engineering-related courses.

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I've worked side by side with Dr. Pescatore for many years. In this book-which I heartily recommend-Dr. Pescatore teaches you how to bring health and nutrition to the next generation."-Robert C. Atkins, M.D, author of the multimillion copy bestseller Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution."Feed Your Kids Well offers a sensible approach to the difficult problem of childhood obesity-and many other children's health problems. Dr. Pescatore provides parents with excellent strategies for dealing with their children in a positive, sensitive way."-Carol Colman, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Melatonin Miracle."Feed Your Kids Well is an excellent book that explains the importance of a well-balanced diet. It exposes the dangers associated with high-sugar foods and reveals the true cause of childhood obesity."-Joyce and Gene Daoust, authors of 40-30-30 Fat Burning Nutrition."I helped nutritionally vet Adelle Davis's book, Let's Have Healthy Children. In my opinion, Feed Your Kids Well replaces that important work."-Fran Gare, nutrition expert, CBS-TV. Today, one-third of North American children and teenagers are overweight. And despite decades of medical and scientific breakthroughs, the percentage of children with health problems today is the highest in history. Feed Your Kids Well will be a revelation for millions of worried parents. Dr. Fred Pescatore, who was overweight and asthmatic as a child, brings an empathetic and hopeful tone to this groundbreaking guide to achieving optimum nutrition, ideal health, and self-confidence. Building on the low-carbohydrate principles of the hugely popular Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution-which has helped millions of adults lose weight permanently-Dr. Pescatore applies the Atkins Center's proven nutritional program to children and teenagers. Thoroughly tested over years of exhaustive research, his Next Generation Diet is the first health program to recognize that simply applying adult diet plans to children is ineffective

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The largest and most comprehensive collection of thermodynamic data on carbon dioxide ever produced, this volume is now the ONLY book of its kind in print. With carbon dioxide sequestration gaining in popularity around the world in the scientific and engineering communities, having this data in an easy-to-access format is more useful and timely than ever. With data that is accurate down to within a fraction of a degree, this handbook offers, in one volume, literally thousands of data points that any engineer or chemist would need when dealing with carbon dioxide. Not available in other formats, these easy-to-read tables are at your fingertips and are accessed within seconds and does away with the need for constantly working with mathematical formulas. Carbon dioxide is used in many fields, across many industries, including the oil and gas industry and food processing. Even coffee is decaffeinated using carbon dioxide! Though CO2 has many uses in industry, it is also one of the most offensive of the greenhouse gases, on which many scientists and engineers are working to eradicate in the future production of power and fuel.

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The dictionary meaning of detoxification is the process of removing toxic substances or qualities and a medical treatment of an alcoholic or drug addict involving abstention from drink or drugs until the bloodstream is free of toxins. This is how detoxification is defined. According to a source, "Detoxification is a normal body process that eliminates or neutralizes toxins via the colon, liver, kidneys, lungs, lymph and skin."1From the above definitions it is quite explicit that detox drugs only deals in getting rid of the toxics that are born or made by drugs. Every medicine gives rise to toxic bodies and "repeated use of medications can weaken your detoxification organs and your body's ability to detoxify."2The definitions mentioned above are correct but they miss out one important on which this book is based. Toxins are not only created by alcohol and medicinal drugs but also by our extremely polluted environment and the daily chemically processed foods we eat. These toxins are accumulated daily because we don't live in vacuum, so, they have to be removed on daily basis as well. The medicinal methods of detoxifying are known to people for decades, but, a common man is less aware of the natural ways of removing toxins. This e-book focuses on the natural ways of getting rid of the daily toxins by fruits, water, special diets and etc. Moreover, detoxification by fruits and other natural ways is the best idea as they have no side effects, whereas, detox drugs may have side effects which the seller will not tell you in order to sell their products. Now don't get fooled by the detox drugs sellers, do your own detox by the natural detoxifiers!

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The Eden Diet Workbook reinforces and reaffirms the weight loss principles in The Eden Diet main book. It explores the scientific, psychological, emotional, and spiritual aspects of weight loss, and provides practical and useful tools to support the weight loss process. The workbook includes sample prayers, behavior modification skills, tools to identify and overcome the triggers that lead to unnecessary eating, tools for dealing with sabotage, helpful quotations from Scripture, and an endless supply of godly encouragement. Templates are provided for charting success in 30-day blocks and for keeping the food diary when it is indicated. "For more information, visit www. TheEdenDiet.com.

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Quick Easy Meals: Grain Free Cooking and Lose the Belly Fat Are you tired of dealing with constant digestive problems and stubborn belly fat in your search for quick, easy meals? This book is here to help. You may have been promised quick weight loss by mainstream diets, only to discover that getting rid of a stubborn belly is a lot harder than it sounds. You might try, time after time, to cook quick healthy meals that can help you slim down and feel better, only to discover that food has once again failed you. The quick, easy recipes contained in this book are here to make a difference. They're designed to help remove problem belly fat and help you get rid of health problems caused by reliance on processed grains like wheat and corn. You'll find lots of quick dinner recipes, snacks, breakfasts and more, all designed to help you enjoy your food again. There's no need to worry about gaining when you use these quick meals. Belly fat is a serious problem, and it can be very hard to deal with it. Whether you've tried quick low carb solutions or seriously restricted your fat intake, you probably know that no solution seems to stick. Until you've rebalanced your diet and learned quick cooking that's designed to help you feel good and lose weight, you won't be able to conquer your problems. The recipes included in this book are ready to help you get the job done. You'll enjoy all kinds of flavorful foods rich in beneficial fats and low in unhealthy processed carbohydrates. With foods like tomato-pesto eggs Florentine and grain-free chicken curry, you'll be ready to take on belly fat and calm your body without giving up on taste. If you're sick of constantly trying to lose weight only to find out that food is your enemy, now's the time for a change. Try some of these great, belly-busting foods and feel better faster!

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1. Characteristics of A Labrador Retriever As A Hunting and Family Dog 2. Why A Labrador Retriever is a Good Choice for Families 3. What You Should Know About Puppy Teeth 4. How to Crate Train Your Labrador Retriever 5. When Your Labrador Retriever Makes Potty Mistakes 6. Some Items You Should Never Let Your Puppy or Dog Eat 7. How to Stop Your Labrador Retriever From Jumping Up On People 8. When Your Labrador Retriever Has Separation Anxiety, and How to Deal With It 9. Some Helpful Tips for Raising Your Labrador Retriever Puppy 10. When Your Labrador Retriever Is Afraid of Loud Noises 11. How to Build A Whelping Box for a Labrador Retriever or Any Other Breed of Dog 12. Are Rawhide Treats Good for Your Labrador Retriever? 13. How to Stop Your Labrador Retriever From Eating Their Own Stools 14. Why Your Labrador Retriever Needs a Good Soft Bed to Sleep In 15. How to Stop Your Labrador Retriever From Running Away or Bolting Out the Door 16. Some Helpful Tips for Raising Your Labrador Retriever Puppy 17. How to Socialize Your Labrador Retriever Puppy 18. How to Stop Your Labrador Retriever Dog From Excessive Barking 19. When Your Labrador Retriever Has Dog Food or Toy Aggression Tendencies 20. How to Stop Your Labrador Retriever Puppy or Dog From Biting 21. What to Expect Before and During your Dog Having Puppies 22. What the Benefits of Microchipping Your Dog Are to You 23. How Invisible Fencing Typically Works to Train and Protect Your Dog 24. How to Make Sure Your Dog is Eating A Healthy Amount of Food 25. How to Get Something Out of a Puppy or Dog's Belly Without Surgery.

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Today's shopping culture is turning the shopper into a zombie-and the thrill of the hunt into the robotic management of inventory. We are in danger of losing a resonant personal ritual, replaced by the boring habitual. For millions of us, the sizzle of a daily shopping experience has devolved into a relentless acquisition of the okay, available, and cheap. Why are we willing to pay $3.50 for a latte at Starbucks, but bristle at a 10-cent increase in the price of toothpaste? Why do we drive miles out of our way to buy a bag of 100 razor blades for 50 cents less than at our local store, and then spend $3.99 on a tub of pretzels that we don't need? We're wasting our time and money at the cost of our patience and good will. In Shopportunity-a manifesto-cum-exposé-marketing expert Kate Newlin looks behind the aisles of our best-known retailers to reveal that the dopamine rush of getting a good deal is confusing shoppers' wants with their needs. Packed with perceptive reporting, Shopportunity! provides an insider's view of how marketers create a brand and the overwhelming power of retailers to interfere with the transformational joys that great brands bring to our daily lives. It is time for shoppers to revolutionize their shopping experience and take the power away from retailers. One generation of marketers has hooked three generations on the addiction of price promotion, and it has wreaked havoc on our waistlines, credit ratings, and life experience. From Wal-Mart to Macy's, Ralph Lauren, Whole Foods, and the Home Shopping Network, Newlin reveals what the world's leading retailers really know about us, and what it takes to kick the addiction to getting the best deal possible. Culminating in a Shopper's Bill of Rights, Shopportunity! will liberate shoppers-as well as the manufacturers and retailers who serve them-from the tyranny of the cheap.

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This book offers advice to people who would like to hopefully increase their longevity and have as much enjoyment and fulfillment out of life as possible. I present an honest and commonsense approach on how to remain as healthy as theoretically possible while keeping some credibility and satisfaction in life. I provide many recommendations that deal with real-life situations instead of fantasies and present conclusions based on my having personally performed over 1,500 autopsies and my own deleterious consequences of having developed atherosclerotic disease from being over four hundred pounds for over thirty years. In this book, I detail a very strict diet plan, the perfect diet, which I created, that resulted in my losing 272 pounds over a ten-month period and whereby my continued adherence has allowed me to be able to maintain this weight. However, I relate the many problems that I developed in following such a rigorous diet program and offer prophylactic advice to people electing to lose weight extremely fast so that they won't encounter the same problems. I also provide some very inexpensive and easy-to-prepare low-calorie recipes that I concocted, which are good appetizers and filler-uppers. In my usual witty, satiric manner, I discuss many dangerous drugs that should be avoided and mention several foods that should be eliminated from a person's diet, along with furnishing some of my own little homemade poems along the way. Through my experiences as having served as coroner, I disclose many hazards that exist in our environment, mention some simple things that people tend to forget that, too often, result in fatalities, and present my views of many of the over-the-counter products. By making overweight and diabetic individuals aware of certain physiological processes that are continuously occurring in our bodies, hopefully they would be in a better position to understand and interpret my suggestions. In brief, I have something to offer all my readers from the m

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There is a profound absence of scientific evidence to support the claims of most of the popular weight-loss programmes. Most diets can guarantee that if you eat 1,200 calories a day and exercise moderately, you will lose weight. It would probably be safe also to guarantee that you cannot sustain this regime. That is the problem with most weight-loss diets: they create loss but the loss cannot be sustained. Brooks Carder, a scientist with a businessman's mentality for the bottom-line, made a firm decision never to go on a calorie-controlled diet again. Yet he was facing health problems and needed to lose weight. Dr. Carder's salvation began with his love for Italian food and his introduction to the Mediterranean diet - not an actual diet - but a set of dietary principles focusing on whole foods that have been proven to promote health. When he began to lose weight without deprivation or discomfort, his scientific curiosity was challenged and he began to read the scientific literature on obesity, weight loss and diets to understand what was happening. THE LAGUNA BEACH DIET is the culmination of these findings. The book presents an eating and exercise plan for sustained weight loss, along with the science that backs it up. It conforms to the principles of the Mediterranean diet, yet is adapted to the cuisines (besides Italian) of Asia and Mexico, representing the ethnic diversity of Southern California, where THE LAGUNA BEACH DIET originates. Unlike most diets, you do not have to buy special meals, weight portions, count calories or anything of the sort. You simply keep the principles in mind and make the best choices you can, according to the ingredients that you have on hand. Assessment tools for tracking your compliance with the diet and your exercise and charting these along with your weight, will tell you if the process is succeeding. And if it's not, using problem-solving tools will assist you in understanding the problem and dealing with it effectively. Rec.

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Open Science is about how we address the profound challenges which now confront humanity-climate, the food crisis, environmental degradation, resource scarcity and disease-through science communication. These call for the sharing of scientific knowledge among billions of humans, on a scale never before attempted. Open Science offers practical ways to communicate science in a highly networked world where billions of people still have little or no access to advanced knowledge or technologies. The authors describe low-cost, effective means to transfer knowledge to target audiences in industry, government, the community and to the public at large. The book features sections on good science writing, practical advice on how to develop communication and media strategies, ways to measure communication performance, how to handle institutional "crises", how to deal with politicians and much more. Features Practical advice on how to communicate science effectively with different audiences, including government, industry and the general public How to develop organizational communication policy and strategy Current issues of e-communication, repositories and open access discussed

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In this book, you will spend some quality "family time" in each room of a typical home. We enter and work out what turns a house into a home. Then, we visit the parents' bedroom, the nursery, the children's room, the teenager's room, the bathroom, the kitchen, and the living room. In each room, a range of typical situations are analyzed-things most families have to deal with. How do you get young children to help with the cooking? What happens to a fifteen-year-old who has taken drugs? There are hundreds of other challenges that deal with sleep, tantrums, play, food, friends, hygiene, independence, respect, boundaries, and so forth. In a conversational style, Jesper Juul and Monica 0ien reflect on why we do things rather than on how we do them. "Family time" is packed with inspiring, practical, and down-to-earth suggestions. Sometimes they are challenging, but they are always focused on how we build trust and develop the best possible relationships with each other and our children.

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Do you know a great deal about losing weight and staying fit, but are having a hard time following through? Do you feel like you are doing everything right, but not losing the weight you want? The Cheat System Diet works because it acknowledges that a certain amount of "cheating" when you eat is normal, and gives you a plan do to this the RIGHT way. The Cheat System Diet helps you feel better quickly, because it removes the stress and the guilt around traditional diet and exercise. For nearly a decade, PEERtrainer - a wildly successful online "weight-loss lab" - has provided its members with the best information on how to be successful at losing weight. Now The Cheat System Diet, tested and proven by hundreds of thousands of PEERtrainer members, brings this expertise to you. The Cheat System Diet is based on a simple list that divides foods into two categories: Cheats and Eats. Cheats are the foods we all crave (cookie, anyone?) and Eats are nutrient-dense foods. You can eat as many Eats as you like. And you start with a certain number of Cheats every day, then earn more by making especially healthy choices, like having a big salad before dinner. With The Cheat System Diet, PEERtrainer founder Jackie Wicks takes all the information you know about dieting and gives you a proven framework to make eating work for you. Follow Jackie's smart three-week program and you'll find:*Nothing is restricted - eat any food you like*Eats are unlimited - eat as many Eats as you want*Exercise is reasonable - no more spending hours every day at the gym. *No need to count calories, fat, fiber, or sugar - just focus on eating your Eats! With three weeks of comprehensive meal plans, an easy-to-follow exercise schedule, and more than 100 delicious recipes, The Cheat System Diet will revolutionize your approach to food and shrink your waistline at the same time. This supportive, easy-to-follow program allows you to eat well and lose weight, while still enjoying your favority guilty plea

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Next time you are in a crowded public place; look to the person on your left and look to the person on your right. One of you, statistically, will die of cancer. Another one of you will die of a heart attack… unless things change! I can already hear cries of, "It won't be me!" And I hope so. A third of people in Europe, North and South America are dying from cancer, and half are dying from heart attack, and it's spreading rapidly around the world. But it's worse than that; chronic disease, due to obesity and poor diet, is hitting people at a younger age, as the years progress. Our children are becoming chronically ill young adults, who are destined to extend their life by medicine, in pain and misery, without the good quality of life they deserve. Whilst you will find me outspoken and blunt in this book, it is not meant to be judgemental. It just 'is'. I have opinions and I have written them; but I have also drawn this information from masses of research. I grew up with a very fat mother, who was always over-eating and eating the wrong things. She ended up a life-time diabetic around the age of 50, with adult onset diabetes. My way of dealing with this, was to develop a fear of getting fat; and at an early age, got heavily into sport and exercise. I had no idea that 'what' I ate, was equally as important as the amounts that I ate. As the years went by, my nutrition expertise grew, especially when I got into body-building for a period in my life. I met Jill in 1994, and as the years went by, gained weight and maxed out at my heaviest-ever weight, at the age of 57, which was about 5 stone overweight. Because I carried a lot of muscle, I didn't look really fat, just big, and my BMI (Body mass Index) was not overly excessive at 32. My blood pressure though, was high, and although I didn't realise it, my body was crying out for the right food, and in smaller quantities. In November 2011, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and was told if I didn't have it cut out or ra

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It started very small and full of hope. But its daring campaigns have placed Fairtrade goods at the heart of the supermarket shelves. From bananas and coffee beans to cotton and chocolate, Fairtrade has grown to become an important global movement that has revolutionised the way we shop. As Harriet Lamb, Chief Executive of Fairtrade International, explains in this extensively revised and updated edition of her inspirational book, Fairtrade is about a better deal for workers and famers in the developing world. It's about making sure the food on our plates, and shirts on our backs, don't rob people in other countries of the means to feed or clothe themselves. She explores the journey, through an often unjust system, that Fairtrade items make from farm to consumer. And she uncovers the shocking cost of our demand for cheaper food. There is much still to be done. But by hard work and high ideals, Fairtrade is starting to transform the lives of over 7 million farmers, workers and their families, and is a powerful symbol of how extraordinary change can be achieved against all the odds - by us all.

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