Diet & Nutrition
27 books
Ayurvedic Nutrition opens up the world of Ayurveda and its invaluable wisdom to everyone from novices to those who have been practicing for some time. Dr. Deepak Chopra.
I am inspired by your highly practical approach and your efforts to bring Vedic concepts to the West in its totality, without diluting it. I am amazed by your ability to express Ayurveda in the most holistic way. Dr. Vijay Srinivasamurthy, Head of Faculty, Ayurvedic medicine Wellpark College of ...
You may have tried dieting before, but have you ever managed to change your shape in just four weeks? Namita Jain, a renowned wellness expert, draws on her experience of twenty years as a weight management and fitness specialist to design a diet regime that you can easily work into your everyday schedule. And if you follow it properly, you could drop a trouser size a month!
What’s more, there is no need to run to the grocery store for unheard-of ...
The nutritional status of a population depends on the availability of food, its consumption, and its biological utilization. Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet. The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the perceived palatability of foods. Dietitians are health professionals ...
The Don’t Diet Diet Book’s mantra is easy: don’t diet. Eat! Eat satisfying and wonderfully filling food. Eat food that your taste buds will actually love. Eat so you find your way to good health!The book is the result of over two years of vigilant research, scientific planning on the principles of nutrition, stringent testing, and extensive tasting as well! It contains a carefully structured selection of recipes that are healthy, low-fat and ...
In this one-of-a-kind of book, Bijoylaxmi Hota showers gems of information taken from the treasure troves of our ancient sources of knowledge. Alongside explaining the origins of certain thoughts and practices, the book tells you what to do along with the whys and hows. Cancer, that can be caused by toxins, stress, parasites, wrong food, negative past impressions, or karma, effect every aspect of the sufferer. The book contains remedies to deal ...
At the time of Independence in 1947, health care services in India were utterly inadequate, urban-based and curative in nature. Majority of the population, especially the poor and those residing in rural areas, did not have access to health facilities. Consequently, the morbidity and mortality rates were quite high. Many women died while seeking abortion to get rid of unwanted pregnancy because access to contraceptives for preventing pregnancies was not ...
There are a large number of books that deal with the subject of nutrition but the present book deals with the basic principles of nutrition in such a way that they are of interest to the inquisitive students. Various topics related to nutrition such as the nutrients present in diet, their necessity, their functions, their sources, their food value, their role for an individual, their inter-relationship, their use to make life more useful etc. have been dealt with ...
Health, Nutrition and Early Childhood Education contains authoritative information on diverse aspects of health and nutrition. The major topics dealt are: A Time to Look at Child Health; Child Health & Social Work Intervention; Child Health : A Situational Analysis; Health Problems among Slum Children; Voluntary Action for Community and Child Health; An Appraisal on Child Health; Health Culture-Problems and Prospects; Health and Educational Needs of Rural ...
Few people understand the true meaning of natural foods. Refrigerated, devitalized, denatured and manufactured foodless foods and relished and consumed day in day out. Another menace is pesticides, spraying of vegetables, fruits and in farms of organic, blood diseases, and even cancer. Under such circumstances, a revision to the diet of primitive man is not a viable proposition but we could try to give preference to foodstuffs, which retain their full natural ...
Healthy food habit is necessary for healthy development of human body. 'Balanced diet' in a poverty ridden society is really a problem. As such, malnutrition is the major cause of many diseases. This book intends to cope with the problem of malnutrition and community health. Major issues like food preparation, classification of foods, Health foods and nutrients, health education, overview of nutrition and starch composition and foods preservation are elaborately ...
The habitual dietary of a community or a family have a complex but important role in diseases of multiple aetiology. At one extreme of a range of nutritional relevance to the causation and management, disease lies in the classical inborn error of metabolism, galactoasaemia, in which there is an inherited lack of a single enzyme, which makes it. Applied Nutrition and Diseases, as is obvious from the name, contains highly useful information on nutritional ...
This book contains Gastrointestinal System; Digestion; Digestion; Chemical digestion; Role of Stomach in Digestion; Digestion in the Intestine; Digestion in Some vertebrate. Students in biological, medical and health oriented programmes will find this as most useful and informative. The students aiming for a career as a nurse, medical assistant, physician’s assistant, medical laboratory technologist, radiologist, inhalation therapist, dental hygienist, and ...
This book contains Physiology of food & Feeding; Energy; Minerals; Vitamins; Feeding; Enzymes; nutrition in Protozoa.Students in biological, medical and health oriented programmes will find this as most useful and informative. The students aiming for a career as a nurse, medical assistant, physician’s assistant, medical laboratory technologist, radiologist, inhalation therapist, dental hygienist, and physical therapist, will find this book as vade-mecum.
Diet perhaps is the most critical component of our day-to-day existence.Wrong diet can play havoc with our lives and make our lives miserable forever-while the right diet can make us healthy and happy.! Consequently its role in promoting or preventing a disease remains critical.The appropriate therapeutic diet can speed up the recovery process and even boost the immune system. Simply put, over-nutrition, under-nutrition or wrong nutrition must equally be avoided ...
Your life is filled with choices. Everyday you make choices related to clothes, shoes-- and sometimes even about marriage proposals and jobs, for your sons and daughters, if not for yourself. Some seem trivial, while others are important. But apart from these, there is one choice which can have a major impact on your health and your life. That choice is of food. It is not a trivial matter. This choice affects not only your individual life but also the life of ...
This book covers the A-Z of Detoxification including: Why do it? When to do it? What to expect? How it works, and how long it takes. Explains the uses of specific raw foods and herbs for cleansing and healing every organ, system and unbalanced condition in the body. Details the interface of body, mind and soul in the achievement of lifelong health. Includes dozens of easy-to-use references: lists of herbs, properties of foods and minerals, etc. It contains a ...
The Times Food Guide-Hyderabad captures the blend of tradition and modernity in the city. From the typical Hyderabadi Biryani food joints to restaurants serving fusion food, we have covered all. Due space has been devoted to confectioneries, mithai shops and to watering holes. Times City Guide-Hyderabad traces the growth of the city and dwells especially on its cosmopolitan IT character of today. Objectively reviewed and grouped into sections like a Must Have, ...
The Times Food Guide, Mumbai reflects the rapidly increasing choices of food available in Mumbai. To make the good food experience convenient and complete, this book includes value-for-money streetfood, healthfood, vegetarian options etc. Food in Mumbai is synonymous with the dabbawalas and this book lists a few well known ones along with some famous caterers. And guiding you through this pleasurable journey are maps and a comprehensive Index. The Times Nightlife ...
Food Guide-Let's face it. We all love to eat, drink and make merry. And this is what the Times Food & Nightlife Guide helps you in! The much-needed Food Guide lists every flavour of the city from the humble dhabas to the chic and classy restaurants. From bakeries, mithai shops to the best street-side eateries and even caterers! City Guide-Objectively reviewed and grouped into sections like a Must Have, Must Do, Must Know and Must See the Times City Guides ...