
Nutrition
Beating Diabetes: The First Complete Program Clinically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Glucose Tolerance
Beating Diabetes provides readers with a practical understanding of how today's typical lifestyle has led to major health problems, including diabetes, and gives them proven strategies to improve health for people who have, or are at risk for, diabetes. Learn more »
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
Drawing on the latest nutrition research, Dr. Walter Willett has written Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy as an alternative — and antidote — to the flawed new USDA Pyramid. The book features eye-opening new research on the healthiest carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; an explanation of why weight control is still the single most important factor for long-term health; and menu plans and brand-new recipes that make it even easier to reinvent your diet. Learn more »
Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart
Despite major advances in drugs and medical treatments, maintaining a healthy diet, being physically active, and not smoking are still the best approaches to preventing heart disease. Improving your diet lowers your risk for heart disease in many ways, including helping to lower high cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar and insulin levels, as well as preventing obesity and improving the function of your heart and blood vessels. Fortunately, a heart-healthy diet is relatively easy to... Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School 6-Week Plan for Healthy Eating
This week-by-week plan will help you transform your eating habits into a program of nutritious and delicious food choices that can last a lifetime. Using the latest results of nutrition science, Harvard experts take you by the hand as you learn to eat for heart health, longevity, energy, and vitality. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health is the ultimate in men's health information, assembled into a single volume containing a quarter-century's worth of hard-won knowledge about men's health — knowledge that men need to lead longer, healthier, more vigorous lives. With results taken from Harvard studies of more than 96,000 men, this all-in-one men's health book features the best and most current information on the behaviors, foods, and preventative activities that make — and... Learn more »
Vitamins and Minerals: Choosing the nutrients you need to stay healthy
About half of all Americans routinely take dietary supplements, the most common being multivitamin and multimineral supplements. This report explains the different types of studies used to assess the benefits and safety profiles of various nutrients. It also includes the recommended minimum and maximum amounts of the vitamins and minerals you should consume, as well as good food sources of each. Learn more »
The Fertility Diet
For many couples struggling with infertility, the best hope for having a baby often comes from expensive high-tech medical procedures coupled with sometimes unpleasant drugs. Now there's a safer, natural, and virtually free way to improve fertility that's available to all couples: ten simple changes in diet and lifestyle. Learn more »
