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Book cover for "The hunger habit".
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Publisher:
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety. Anyone who struggles with overeating knows what it's like to feel out of control-and to feel the guilt attached to it. While ordinary anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the siren song of food cravings feels like something we should be able to control. The result is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-loathing...
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Armin Lear Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Preventable diseases are skyrocketing. One in three Americans is prediabetic. Even our brains are changing. Here's the science: New evidence shows that foods high in saturated fat, refined carbohydrates and sugar are causing hypothalamic inflammation and metabolic dysfunction, disrupting the normal function of the hunger and fullness hormones, ghrelin, and leptin. What does that mean? We're making ourselves and our kids sick. We are chronically ill,...
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"In First Bite, acclaimed food historian Bee Wilson delves deep into the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and nutritionists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. We do not come into the world with an innate sense of taste or nutrition as omnivores, we have to learn how and what to eat, how sweet is too sweet and what food will give us the most energy for the coming...
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Sacred Hunger volume 2
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English
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Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy. But as the novel

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The Pursuit of God teaches us the value of knowing God through our personal experience instead of thinking of Him as an abstract being. With constant communication with God, we will be able to develop a personal relationship with Him. Tozer asserts that God never ceases to speak to us, and we only need to listen and engage in a conversation with our Heavenly Father. The author main goal is to provide insights on how we can establish habits and a lifestyle...
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Let them eat cake! From one of the most popular blogs on the internet comes an innovative, even fun way to diet. Carrots N Cake is all about eating your carrots…and savoring your cupcake, too.
  For some people, losing weight means restrictive dieting, obsessive calorie counting, and constant hunger. Not Tina Haupert! She learned that it didnt have to be that way. Tina shows how to drop the pounds and keep them off by adopting eating...
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New Harbinger Publications
Language:
English
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What would it be like to really savor your food? Instead of grabbing a quick snack on your way out the door or eating just to calm down at the end of a stressful day, isn't it about time you let yourself truly appreciate a satisfying, nourishing meal?

In our modern society, weight concerns, obesity rates, and obsession with appearance have changed the way we look at food—and not necessarily for the better. If you have ever snacked

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(Pearl) Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. He became especially interested in the West in 1907, after joining a friend on an expedition to trap mountain lions in Arizona. Grey wrote steadily, but it was only in 1910, and after considerable efforts by his wife, that his first western, Heritage of the Desert, became a bestseller....
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"Amy Shah MD, leading medical doctor and Instagram personality @fastingmd, shares her 5-step program for battling excessive hunger and food cravings by harnessing the power of psychobiotics and intermittent fasting"--
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Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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To make her dreams of becoming a great lawyer come true, Yoshi, brilliant, calculating and reckless, infiltrates the privileged circle of the school's wealthiest students until she gets too close to a secret she isn't willing to keep, which could cost her more than her life.
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"Discover your truest hungers and your deepest spiritual reserves as Christine Paintner, aka The Online Abbess, shares 6 unique fasts helping reveal harmful patterns and re-orienting us toward nourishing fulfillment. Drawing on desert wisdom and contemplative practice, Paintner helps us enter our own journey of spiritual growth"--
Book cover for "The twentysomething handbook".
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Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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"The ultimate, one-stop-shop resource for navigating and winning at life's most bewildering period"--
Book cover for "Voices of the food revolution".
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Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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Conversations about the power of plant-based diets with Bill McKibben, Marianne Williamson, Neal Barnard, and others. In this book, the bestselling author of the "groundbreaking" Diet for a New America (Mark Bittman, The New York Times), John Robbins, in collaboration with his daughter, presents a collection of interviews with prominent figures exploring the connections among diet, physical health, animal welfare, world hunger, and environmental issues....
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A collection of five short stories, including Sipper:Poverty has shaped Tia's life since childhood, labeling her a roach. A day without hunger pains or despising looks is pure fantasy until she accepts a job offer to explore a wondrous deserted city on a distant world. All she can think about is the life-altering payout she'll receive in six months.A hundred roaches are set free in the city of crystal spires. Their mission: To learn what they can...
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Zondervan
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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The Counter-Cultural Move from Accumulation to Abundance. Why is it so hard to find the contented, satisfied life? What deep hungers drive our purchasing habits, accumulation, and consumer lifestyle? Satisfied is for those drowning in debt, but also those getting farther and farther ahead financially. It is for those who have forgotten who they are and mistakenly equate their self-worth with their net worth. It is for those who are crippled by comparison....
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Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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2 stars
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You don't need food to self-soothe! A straightforward guide to help you change your compulsive or emotional eating habits. Are you feeding your feelings? We often turn to food for comfort, to cope with everyday stress and anxiety, and for other reasons that have nothing to do with physical hunger. In Stop Eating Your Heart Out, professional clinical counselor Meryl Hershey Beck teaches us that contrary to popular belief, you don't have to eat your...
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Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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When Elizabeth Bard, a New Yorker raised on Twizzlers and instant mac and cheese, fell for a handsome Frenchman and moved to Paris, she discovered a whole new world of culinary delights. First in Paris, then in a tiny village in Provence, Elizabeth explored the markets, incorporating new ingredients and rituals into her everyday meals and routines. After 15 years of cooking in her own French kitchen, making French friends--and observing her slim...
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Bird Street Books
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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In The 20/20 Diet, Dr. Phil McGraw identifies seven reasons other diets fail people over and over again: hunger, cravings, feeling of restriction, impracticality and expense, boredom, temptations, and disappointing results or plateaus. Then, he addresses each of these roadblocks by applying the latest research and theories that have emerged since his last best seller on the same topic, The Ultimate Weight Solution. Dr. Phil and his team have created...
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Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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The ability to use body fat for energy is essential to health -- but over decades of practice, family physician Catherine Shanahan, M.D., observed that many of her patients could not burn their body fat between meals, trapping them in a downward spiral of hunger, fatigue, and weight gain. In this book, Dr. Shanahan shows us how industrially produced vegetable oils accumulate in our body fat and disrupt our body's energy-producing systems, driving...
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In "Desperate for God's Presence: Supernatural Atmospheres and Revival (Expanded Edition)," Bill Vincent takes you on an inspiring journey into the heart of divine encounters and the pursuit of God's presence. This expanded edition delves deeper into the transformative power of a life immersed in God's presence, offering practical insights and spiritual wisdom for believers seeking a more intimate relationship with the Creator. Through a series of...