Highly reviewed physical health books

Through the accomplished marathon athlete and olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her year-long discovery of different international running cultures. Yet after years of sticking closely to the practice techniques she learned, Becky became intrigued about how her peers in other countries treated the sport she had spent more than half of her life practicing. And in 2012, she packed four pairs of running shoes as a recipient of the Watson Fellowship, cleared her calendar for the year, and set off on a trip to observe and join numerous running groups around the world. Becky discussed the diverse strategies of athletes across the world over the next twelve months. Since she made her marathon debut in 2013, completing the race in a dazzling 2:30, she was the third fastest female marathon athlete in U.S. history under the age of 25, qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Trials and securing an Asics brand endorsement. Becky reveals the secrets of success of athletes and trainers around the world, ranging from the feel-based approach to fitness she learned from the Kenyans, to the grueling mountain drills she adopted from the Swiss, to the injury-recovery strategies she learned from the Japanese. Run the World is also a call to transform the way we view the most normal and inclusive sport in the world, the story of the incredible experience of one athlete.

A beautifully illustrated, detailed cookbook of over 120 recipes for nutritious, life-saving, plant-based foods, snacks, and drinks comes from Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the doctor behind the respected and highly popular Nutritionfacts.org website, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not To Die. The first widely published book, How not to Die, by Dr. Michael Greger, provided the medical research behind the only diet that could avoid or cure some of the causes of premature death and injury. With the right recipes to add years to your life, Dr. Greger’s cookbook is intended to become an important resource for healthy kitchens in the future.

No Meat Athlete is a modern style of sporting guide that can take you from the starting block to the finishing line, providing motivation, tips and guidance along the way. No Meat Athlete blends the winning elements of validated learning approaches, inspiring anecdotes, and creative recipes to produce a roadmap unlike anything traditionally written for no meat athletes. This hybrid guidebook, healthy-eating cookbook, and dietary priming is a vital building blog for daily beginners and serious athletes live a lifestyle without meat. No Meat Athlete is a guide to adapt your diet to your training plan. Matt includes an outstanding manual of training plans of his own creation for runners at all skill levels. The book offers training strategies for specific distances from the marathon and teaches runners how to build good routines, improve results, while preventing injury.

A groundbreaking exercise plan who mixes physical and spiritual training with great strengths for both body and soul. Sakyong Mipham has always considered physical exercise important for spiritual well-being as a Tibetan lama and Shambhala leader. He integrates running with his religious practice, providing simple meditation advice and the core concepts he has developed.

Once Bobbi Gibb had her eyes on the Boston Marathon, she only wanted to be a part of it. Yet she was denied admission when the time came to apply for the marathon. This book tells the real story of how she broke the law in 1966 and how her courage and persistence changed the world one step at a time. Made in partnership with Bobbi Gibb and the ideal present for runners and anyone with a love for sport out there.

Peter Walker explains that the bicycle will be essential to the survival of mankind. Motorized vehicules culture has eaten up a lot of the world ressources. Yet as the mentalities change, everybody agrees on the huge price we pay for our cars, with the drastic impact of emissions, increasing number of people being injured or killed in accidents. Walker claims that one of humanity’s most successful inventions is the best way to solve most of these things at once. Walker takes us on a tour of cities like Copenhagen and Utrecht in Why Cycling Will Save the World, where daily biking has taken hold, demonstrating the proven impact of cycling on lowering smog and pollution, and improving quality of life and mental health. He shows that with only a few cycling lanes and an other mindset you can make a major difference. How Cycling Can Save the World delivers on its ambitious promise, carefully studied and beautifully inspiring, which encourages readers to understand that cycling can not only save the world, but can have a profound and positive effect on their lives.

The Sports Nutrition Guidebook by Nancy Clark will help you make the best decisions in restaurants, convenience stores and your own kitchen. Whether you’re training for a race or only planning for an healthy lifestyle, let this top sports nutritionist teach you how to get full value from your meals. You will learn how to eat before and after workouts and activities, how to prepare for optimum healing and how to bring the meal plans of Clark into action. You will find the latest studies and guidelines on vitamins, energy drinks, natural foods, intake of carbohydrates and proteins, exercise, competitiveness, reduction of fat and development of muscles. Whether you are finding tips to get energized for workouts and to improve your fitness and performance, the Sports Nutrition Guidebook of Nancy Clark has the answers you can trust.

It’s time to break all the myths about nutrition and diets. The Revised Edition of the 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth contains nutritional facts and only facts. In this reference guide, Jonny Bowden debunks common nutritional misconceptions, protects the reputations of long-suffering ingredients from poor marketing, so that you can make healthy choices on what foods you and your family should have. You may discover the newest information on some of your favorite products, as well as many interesting new results regarding the health effects of ingredients that you may have previously ignored. No vegetables nor fruits contains all nutrients at once, but they contains proteins, nutrients, minerals, anti-inflammatory elements, and healthy fats, all keeping you safe and flourishing. Learn how easy it is to find healthy food for you and your family.

A series of 125 tasty recipes developed by Rebecca Katz’s health expert to fight and avoid chronic diseases. Despite our anti-aging hysteria and many scientific advances, owing to bad lifestyle choices, life spans stopped increasing. Rebecca Katz, a nutrition pioneer, discusses the top seventeen foods that have been shown to combat the most serious medical illnesses. Katz draws on the latest science studies to understand how superfoods such as asparagus, basil , cocoa, dark chocolate, kale, olive oil, sweet potatoes, and wild salmon can improve immunity, lower cholesterol, enhance memory, protect the heart, and minimize the risk of contracting diabetes and other diseases. Katz discusses each ingredient’s benefits and provides meal plans for treating different effects and detailed dietary information for each recipe. The Longevity Kitchen allows you to feed your family well and lead a healthy and happy life.

This research work, which Dr. Andrew Weil calls for a spectacular achievement with unexpected results, offers guidance on how to age in healthy ways. The Longevity Report, focused on the most detailed longevity research ever performed, reveals what truly affects our lifetime, including mates, families, temperament, and jobs. Dr. Howard Friedman and Dr. Leslie Martin are busting misconceptions about maintaining health and long life by gathering information from a study involving thousands of people over eight decades. Including questionnaires to help you decide where you are headed on the continuum of aging and advice about how to stay alive, this book transforms the dialogue around leading a long, happy life.