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Are you constantly struggling with health issues or suffering from chronic disease?Are you on medication to treat your symptoms but continue to feel sick?Do you long to get well again?TREATING YOUR BODY, NOT THE DISEASEThis book demonstrates that by treating the underlying root causes of ill health - you can turn the clock back AND GET WELL AGAIN.YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:Recognise the major root causes of ill health and diseaseCorrect these root causes, reverse symptoms, and heal the bodyUse self-help treatment plans for dealing with your health issuesReplace faulty diet and lifestyle with health-promoting food and healthy habitsUnderstand how medicinal plants, not drugs, can treat infections and promote optimal healthGaynor Greber, a Clinical Nutritionist with over 30 years' experience, shows how the absolute key to completely healing the body is to improve the health of all your body systems with the Functional Medicine approach.

In this guide about Candida Albicans, you will read about: Its causes and symptoms Its diagnosis How it affects women Prevention and medication 3-step guide of managing this through diet.

The fight against childhood malnutrition is a world problem, but there is hope in the form of programs that give undernourished kids more power. This good cause, which comes from caring about others and wanting a better future, is based on the idea that combining healthy food with education can greatly improve the nutrition of young, vulnerable people.The idea of "enriched food" is at the heart of this project. Scientifically made and healthily enhanced, this special food is more than just a source of calories. Food supplements are lifelines for kids who aren't getting enough to eat because they contain important vitamins, minerals, and fats that are needed for their physical and mental growth. These kinds of well-balanced meals not only satisfy instant hunger, but they also help break the cycle of malnutrition, making sure that these kids grow up to be healthy, capable adults.Along with this nutritional strategy is education, which gives people power. Education changes people's lives and the places they live in. For children who aren't getting enough food, schooling is very important for making them aware of good nutrition and teaching them healthy habits. It's not just traditional subjects that are taught in schools and other educational institutions; kids and their families can also learn about the importance of healthy eating, good hygiene, and general wellness. Children learn how to make healthy food choices through hands-on activities, workshops, and interactive sessions. This gives them the power to take care of their own health.This whole-person method doesn't stop in the classroom or at the dinner table; it spreads through whole neighborhoods and encourages a culture of health and well-being. Being an involved participant means that families learn with their kids and reinforce good habits in the home. People feel more in control, which breaks the chains of poverty and ignorance and opens the door to a future where every child is not only fed but also taught.Basically, the project to give undernourished kids more power by giving them better food and schooling is proof of how compassion and knowledge can change things. It is a promise of a better tomorrow where every kid, no matter what their situation is, has the chance to do well. Many people, including governments, non-profits, groups, and individuals, are working together on this project to change the future for future generations. If these programs keep going strong, they will help make the world a place where no child goes to bed hungry, no child misses school, and every child grows up strong enough to reach their goals.

Discover the alkaline diet's history and benefits for health, skin, and weight loss, with insights from Dr. Hay's 1920s approach. Learn how to incorporate alkaline smoothies into your diet.

The book delves into the intricate interplay of stress and adaptive responses, and their multifaceted dynamics influenced by stress type, exposure duration, genetic factors, and lifestyle elements. It unveils the complexity of stress management, unveiling how adaptive strategies evolve in response to stressors. By harnessing scientific breakthroughs in stress response comprehension, the book navigates the path to effective stress mitigation. Through avenues such as pharmacological interventions, dietary adjustments, psychological enhancement, and more, the book advocates for achieving adaptive resilience¿a state where the system effectively copes with stress. The text encapsulates an array of stressors, including extreme stress, oxidative stress, and genotoxic stress, dissecting their impact on systemic equilibrium and health. The book's focal point rests on adaptive mechanisms that vary with stressor types, while also spotlighting how these mechanisms can be calibrated through pharmacological and alternative means. This is an invaluable resource for understanding, mitigating, and harnessing the power of adaptation in the face of stress-induced challenges.

Coconut water, a naturally-canned tropical beverage, has been gaining popularity in recent years and has drawn the attention world over as a natural and nutritional wellness beverage. The research published thus far on coconut water has mainly focused on its specific uses, biochemical composition and health benefits as well as processing and preservation techniques and has been published mostly in journal articles. Only a few books covering a wide spectrum of coconut water for health and wellness are currently available. This work offers a comprehensive and fully updated overview of coconut water from processing techniques to value addition to safety to nutritional benefits and beyond.  Coconut Water: Processing, Distribution & Nutritional Benefits provides in-depth details on all of the major processing techniques required to produce and maintain a quality product free of contamination and adulteration. The book covers the standards of coconut water production and distribution in various countries enabling the processors and exporters to manufacture and export for better revenue realization. The book also provides details of patents related to coconut water granted to researchers. Another important aspect of this work is comprehensive coverage on the various nutritional and health benefits of coconut water consumption as well as on the value addition (traditional and innovative products). In markets across the world, consumers of all ages have been turning to coconut water for its taste and nutritional benefits. This book will provide researchers, processors and exporters the comprehensive information needed to produce and market quality, nutritional coconut water for consumers. 

This book deliberates on the various aspects of plant-based nutrition. Plant-based nutrition has numerous potential health benefits as it is low on calories nevertheless high on nutrient density and satiety, and also nutrient supplementation makes them wholesome diets.Starting with the importance of biodiversity contributing to the nutrition, the book discusses the development or utilization of nutrient-dense crops/foods with their bioavailability properties and health effects. Further, it deals with the enrichment of micronutrients through bio-fortification, fortification, the role of food matrix, and nutrient bioavailability, including the role of plant-based milk alternatives. The linkage between food and health is also being discussed in the context of anti-nutritional factors, metabolic fate of the food, and genomics. Finally, the implications of next-gen biotech crops and food safety issues imperative to define the concept of safe nutrition are discussed.With contributions from plant nutrition experts, this book serves as a one-stop reference for plant scientists, food technologists, and nutritionists looking to understand the concept of plant-based nutrition and its linkage with human health.

Do you know why honey drips whereas ketchup refuses to budge in the bottle? Or what kettles have in common with power stations, or how to cook with radar?This delightful and accessible book provides a smorgasbord and a whirlwind tour of the multitude of physical phenomena that occur in a kitchen: from the diffusion of nutrients during cooking to how an extractor fan works, how smells disperse, and where quantum effects are hidden. These and numerous other fascinating phenomena are served up in an engaging manner that will fascinate and tantalise the taste buds of anyone who enjoys eating, cooking or simply spending time in the kitchen. No specialist technical or mathematical knowledge is required to enjoy this book. Tuck right in and discover the universe of physical laws in your very own kitchen...

This Handbook on cancer biology comprehensively reviews the current status of the oncobiology of major cancer types, cancer detection and treatment strategies, principles and processes of cancer drug development, and nanomedicine and other emerging cancer medicine applications to cancer diagnosis and treatment. The book also provides practical and implementable nutritional guidance in cancer prevention, treatment, and quality of life for cancer survivors. It discusses pharmacogenetics strategies for predicting cancer prognosis and treatment exposure, response, and toxicity. Further, it presents bioinformatics approaches for predicting anti-cancer drugs and drug combinations based on the multi-omic data, including transcriptomics, toxicogenomics, functional genomics, and biological networks. The Handbook also examines major factors and pathways that regulate cancer stem cells development and discusses potential targeted therapy for cancer stem cells. The book explores the application of the CRISPR/Cas9-based gene-editing technique in basic cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. This Handbook is an invaluable source for oncologists, researchers, public health specialists, epidemiologists, and policy makers.¿

This book is the result of thousands of encounters with tube-fed infants and their families over the past four decades. The ailing and fragile children, suffering from a myriad of medical conditions acted as muses and mentors teaching more than could be expected. This book is addressed to medical professionals, early interventionists, pediatricians, child surgeons, nurses, dieticians, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists (SLPs), feeding specialists, psychologists, physiotherapists, infant psychiatrists as well as parents. The medically fragile child (MFC) is the subject of the authors' work when it is concerned with enteral nutrition support (ENS) by means of a feeding tube (ENT). As pediatricians and psychotherapists, they have been treating eating and feeding disorders of children since 1986 and with this book they pass on knowledge they have garnered over three decades. Over 5,000 children have been weaned off their feeding tubes. Tube weaning requires the evaluation of medical, nutritional, sensory, developmental, metabolic and growth-related findings. The review of the literature around this subject has provided a source of inspiration as well as critical self-reflection; the authors wish to offer their insight and ideas on how to approach child-led tube-management and tube-weaning to all healthcare professional involved in the management of these children.