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The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Baking Book: Delicious Soup, Salad And Sandwich Recipes To Delight Not Only Heart And Hypertension Patients But Their Doctors As Well
by Donald A. Gazzaniga Jeannie Gazzaniga MolooBeware of sodium? No need to forego baked goodies with this unusual baking book by the author of the No-Salt, Lowest Sodium Diet Cookbook. Donald Gazzaniga, diagnosed with congestive heart failure, was headed for a heart transplant. Urged by his doctor to keep his sodium intake "under 1,500 to 2,000 milligrams a day," Don headed for the kitchen and went to work devising recipes for delicious low-sodium dishes that added up to less than 500 milligrams daily. The results? Don's name has been removed from the transplant list, and Don shared his recipes with the world in The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook.Readers of that first book have kept in touch with Don via his Web site, and have written him letters asking for more. What they most often ask for is a book with more bread recipes, more recipes for cakes and cookies and muffins and tea breads, more of all those great baked things—in short, for the book you now hold in your hands. Don teamed up with his daughter, professional nutritionist Dr. Jeannie Gazzaniga Moloo, to fill The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Baking Book with recipes that are as healthy and delicious as possible. As in the previous book, they tell you just how much sodium is in each ingredient. They provide satisfactory substitutes for flavorings that patients with congestive heart failure and high blood pressure shouldn't have. All easy to make and delicious to eat. Go for it!
The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium International Cookbook
by Donald A. Gazzaniga Maureen A. GazzanigaWhen a serious heart problem caused Don Gazzaniga to give up his career in communications, he was warned to keep to a diet with very little salt or other sodium. Undaunted, he discovered a way to continue enjoying the meals he loved and still keep his sodium level far below what most cardiologists feel they can expect from their patients.The idea has led to three published books found on the kitchen shelves of thousands of grateful families dealing with congestive heart failure. First came a large general cookbook. It was followed by a baking book, and then a book of recipes for light meals and snacks. What could be next?Before Don's illness, he and his wife, Maureen, traveled a lot. Don's job took him all over the globe. And wherever they went, they sought out that country's traditional dishes. When the light-meals book was finished, Don was looking for yet another low-sodium cookbook idea. He and Maureen pulled out their collection of recipes, did their magic of making them very low on sodium, and voilà! The No-Salt, Losest-Sodium International Cookbook is a delicious and healthy treat for the entire family.
The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium, Light Meals Book: Delicious Soup, Salad, and Sandwich Recipes to Delight Not Only Heart and Hypertension Patients but Their Doctors as Well
by Donald A. Gazzaniga Maureen A. GazzanigaPerhaps heartbreaking is the wrong word for a very happy event, one that brings tears to your eyes because you know what the alternative would have been. But however you describe it, the letters that Don Gazzaniga finds on his web site ever since his first cookbook was published easily bring tears to the reader's eyes. "The doctor told him that the very low-sodium diet is the main thing responsible for this success and I couldn't wait to share it with you." "When I said that your book saved [my husband's] life, I meant it." That first cookbook was a surprise to medical professionals and their patients alike. Doctors have always believed that no one could ever get below 1500 milligrams of sodium a daily diet. "Keep it at that level," Don's doctor told the sixty-three-year-old Gazzaniga in 1997. He had diagnosed his patient's problem as congestive heart failure and was about to sign him up for the only solution believed possible, a heart transplant.To Don, this was a challenge. After a lot of research, the help of nutritionist daughter, Jeannie, familiarity with the cuisines of many different countries, and hours in the kitchen, Don came up with a large selection of recipes and a twenty-eight-day menu that never went above five hundred milligrams of sodium a day! Yep! That's five hundred. And the food was delicious.The recipes in that first diet were gathered in a general cookbook that told readers just about everything they needed to know: where to find the right ingredients, how to make tasty substitutions that did not raise the sodium level, and more, with the sodium count given for each ingredient and each recipe. That was The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook. Don decided to embellish the general work with some specialties and, with his wife, Maureen, created The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Baking Book. If anyone thinks that you can't make delicious bread and pies and cookies and other baked goodies with very little or no sodium, try a few of Don's recipes. i0But suppose you want to celebrate your grandson's third birthday, or your doctor's latest green light, with a party and need delicious tidbits for the guests. Here they are in their new book. Sometimes you feel like a light lunch---a salad, a sandwich, a bowl of soup. Here they are. There are sections explaining where to buy special flavorings and the like, how to substitute low-sodium or sodium-free ingredients, and a foreword by Dr. Michael Fowler, director of the Stanford Heart Transplant Program and medical director of the Stanford Cardiomyopathy Center.
The No-Sugar Cookbook
by Kimberly A. TessmerWhether you are a person with diabetes or high blood pressure, or you just want to cut sugar out of your diet, The No-Sugar Cookbook is for you! Edited by registered dietitian Kimberly A. Tessmer, this practical cookbook shows you how to sacrifice sugar but not flavor! Packed with more than 200 recipes, some of the treats you will find include: Fruit Salsa; Buckwheat Pancakes; Chicken a la King; Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse; Honey Raisin Bars; and more. All these recipes contain no added sugar or provide a healthier alternate sugar substitute, but still taste great! With The No-Sugar Cookbook, sugar-free food never tasted so sweet!
The No-Sugar Cookbook: Delicious Recipes to Make Your Mouth Water...all Sugar Free!
by Kimberly A TessmerLearn to cut out sugar—but not taste—with this cookbook that features over 200 recipes!If you are a person with diabetes, suffer from high blood pressure, or just want to cut sugar out of your diet, The No-Sugar Cookbook is for you! Edited by registered dietitian Kimberly A. Tessmer, this practical cookbook shows you how to sacrifice sugar but not flavor! Features more than 200 recipes, including the following treats: -Fruit Salsa -Buckwheat Pancakes -Chicken à la King -Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse -Honey Raisin Bars All these recipes contain no added sugar or provide a healthier alternative sugar substitute—but still taste great! With The No-Sugar Cookbook, sugarfree food never tasted so sweet!
The No-Time-to-Lose Diet: The Busy Person's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss
by Melina JampolisThe No-Time-To-Lose Diet reveals a weight-loss plan you can successfully use in the real world.Busy people see to everything and everyone - except themselves. This revolutionary approach to weight loss embraces the hectic lifestyle and provides realistic strategies for staying on target, including:a program that is easily tailored to fit individual dieting needshelpful dining options for eating out healthy, flavorful, and FAST menu ideas for eating in, andtime saving strategies to maximize results.No two people lose weight the same way, and Dr. Jampolis has developed variations on the No-Time-To-Lose plan that will work with every lifestyle and every schedule. You can even create your own plan by applying her seven No-Time-to-Lose principals into a plan that suits your lifestyle.
The No-Wheat Cookbook
by Kimberly A. Tessmer250 wheat-free and worry-free recipes Many of your favorite meals may be filled with wheat products that leave you feeling tired and bloated, but that doesn't mean you have to give them up entirely. With The No-Wheat Cookbook, you can ease your mind knowing that each of these delicious dishes is not only packed with rich flavor, but also missing that one key ingredient that you really don't want to use--wheat. Covering everything from breakfast to dessert, this book shows you how to create 250 mouthwatering, wheat-free recipes, including: Ginger, soy, and kale chicken Red snapper in white wine sauce Fiesta lime-lentil salad White bean, kale, and turkey sausage stew Double chocolate-quinoa muffins These simple, wheat-free meals make it easy for you to indulge in the tastes you love without ever feeling an ounce of guilt or worry!
The No-Wheat Cookbook: Easy, Delicious Recipes for a Wheat-Free Diet
by Kimberly A Tessmer250 wheat-free and worry-free recipesMany of your favorite meals may be filled with wheat products that leave you feeling tired and bloated, but that doesn't mean you have to give them up entirely. With The No-Wheat Cookbook, you can ease your mind knowing that each of these delicious dishes is not only packed with rich flavor, but also missing that one key ingredient that you really don't want to use--wheat. Covering everything from breakfast to dessert, this book shows you how to create 250 mouthwatering, wheat-free recipes, including:Ginger, soy, and kale chickenRed snapper in white wine sauceFiesta lime-lentil saladWhite bean, kale, and turkey sausage stewDouble chocolate-quinoa muffinsThese simple, wheat-free meals make it easy for you to indulge in the tastes you love without ever feeling an ounce of guilt or worry!
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
by Dr. Guy LeschzinerA renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night’s rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders.For Dr. Guy Leschziner’s patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep—and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations frighten people into paralysis. Restless legs rock both the sleepless and their sleeping partners with unpredictable and uncontrollable kicking. Out-of-sync circadian rhythms confuse the natural body clock’s days and nights.Then there are the extreme cases. A woman in a state of deep sleep who gets dressed, unlocks her car, and drives for several miles before returning to bed. The man who has spent decades cleaning out kitchens while “sleep-eating.” The teenager prone to the serious, yet unfortunately nicknamed Sleeping Beauty Syndrome stuck in a cycle of excessive unconsciousness, binge eating, and uncharacteristic displays of aggression and hypersexuality while awake.With compassionate stories of his patients and their conditions, Dr. Leschziner illustrates the neuroscience behind our sleeping minds, revealing the many biological and psychological factors necessary in getting the rest that will not only maintain our physical and mental health, but improve our cognitive abilities and overall happiness.
The Nocturnal Brain: Tales of Nightmares and Neuroscience
by Dr Guy Leschziner‘With my job on Today, I have become obsessed with sleep. The Nocturnal Brain interweaves bizarre real life stories with cutting edge neurological science in the true tradition of Oliver Sacks. A fascinating read.’ – Martha Kearney, BBC Radio 4What happens to our brain at night? Are we really fully asleep and if so how is it that some individuals end up doing what they do? Or can it be the case that perhaps the brain never fully goes to sleep and that in some individuals there is a disconnect between the sleeping part of their brain and the active part of their brain so that the two become confused? Does this happen to all of us in varying degrees and can the reverse be the case too – so that some individuals are actually asleep during the day while appearing to be awake?!In this ground-breaking book, Dr Guy Leschziner takes us on a fascinating journey through the nocturnal brain to illustrate the neuroscience behind nightmares, night terrors and sleep walking.
The Non-Toxic Avenger
by Deanna DukeMost of us turn a blind eye to the startling array of chemicals lurking in everything from shampoo to baby bottles to the money in our wallets, choosing to believe that government agencies ensure the safety of the products we wear, use, ingest, and breathe in daily. Yet the standards for product safety in North America lag far behind those of other countries. We frequently hear that a substance we've relied on for years turns out to have serious effects on our health, the environment, or both. After coming to terms with the fact that the autism and cancer which had impacted her family were most likely the result of environmental toxins, author Deanna Duke undertook a mission to dramatically reduce her family's chemical exposure. She committed to drastically reducing the levels of all known chemicals in both her home and work environments, using the help of body burden testing to see what effect, if any, she was able to have on the level of toxins in her body. Follow Deanna's journey as she uncovers how insidious and invasive environmental toxins are. Learn about your day-to-day chemical exposure, the implications for your health, and what you can do about it. And find out whether the author's quest is mission impossible, or whether she is ultimately able to improve her family's health by taking steps towards leading a chemical-free life. Deanna L. Duke is an environmental writer, urban homesteader, and author of the highly acclaimed environmental blog The Crunchy Chicken.
The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women
by Dawn DaisDawn Dais hated running. And it didn't like her much, either. Her fitness routine consisted of avoiding the stairs in her own house, because who really has the energy to climb stairs? It was with this exercise philosophy firmly in place that she set off to complete a marathon.The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women is a fun training manual for women who don't believe that running is their biological destiny but who dream of crossing the finish line nonetheless. Revised in 2013, it now includes a new chapter on using technology as a training aid.Dais's book features a realistic training schedule and is chock-full of how-to's, quizzes, and funny observations, which she felt were lacking in the guides she had consulted. She also integrates entries from her journal, sharing everything would-be marathoners need to know about the gear, the blisters, the early morning workouts, the late-night carb binges, and-most important of all-the amazing rewards.Anyone can do a marathon. This book just makes the experience a little more bearable and a lot more fun.
The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women: Get Off Your Butt and On with Your Training
by Dawn DaisAnyone can run a marathon. Dawn Dais makes it a little more bearable -- and a lot more fun Dawn Dais hated running. And it didn't like her much, either. Her fitness routine consisted of avoiding the stairs in her own house, because who really has the energy to climb stairs? It was with this exercise philosophy firmly in place that she set off to complete a marathon. The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women is the ideal training manual for women who don't believe that running is their biological destiny but who dream of crossing the finish line nonetheless. Nonrunners offers a realistic training schedule and is chock-full of how-to's and funny observations, which she felt were lacking in the guides she had consulted. She also integrates entries from her journal, sharing everything would-be marathoners need to know about the gear, the blisters, the early morning workouts, the late-night carb binges, and most important of all, the amazing rewards. Running may not seem like a friendly endeavor, but with Dawn Dais, you can tame the beast and hit the marathon trail.
The Noodle Cookbook: 101 healthy and delicious noodle recipes for happy eating
by Damien LeeTasty noodle bowls, real quick.From Shanghai 'Yum Cha' Noodles, Mr Lee's Cracking Katsu and Bamboo Buckwheat Noodles to Tonkotsu Pork Noodles and Cantonese Wanton Soup, The Noodle Cookbook has a recipe for every craving, including vegetarian, vegan and gluten free friendly options. Get to know your noodles with an essential store-cupboard section, notes on health-boosting 'hero ingredients' and healthy swap ins for your favourite Asian condiments.With tasty dishes from Vietnam to China, The Noodle Cookbook will spice up your meals and satisfy those instant noodle cravings.No worries, eat happy!
The Noom Kitchen: 100 Healthy, Delicious, Flexible Recipes for Every Day
by NoomThe only official Noom cookbook! Easy, healthy, nutritious recipes for achieving your health goals deliciously!Noom is a global phenomenon—their digital health and weight management program has helped millions lose weight and feel better by focusing on the psychology of food and behavior change. The Noom Kitchen—follow-up to Noom&’s bestselling book The Noom Mindset—offers spectacularly delicious recipes that make serving health-forward foods easy for cooks of all skill levels. The majority of the recipes focus on using &“green foods&”, nutritionally dense ingredients that fill you up without weighing you down. With selections like Saucy Pizza-Stuffed Chicken Breast, Spinach & Feta &“Hot Pockets,&” and Easy Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream, The Noom Kitchen applies Noom&’s trademark approach to nutrition to help readers: -Put a healthy twist on favorite foods like french fries, pizza, and dessert -Cook meals and snacks designed to be portable and storable so you can eat well on-the-go -Learn new techniques for boosting the nutrient density [and decreasing the caloric density] of any meal These recipes will appeal to dedicated Noom users and new readers alike, providing accessible culinary guidance for anyone looking to kick-start their health and wellness in the kitchen.
The Noom Kitchen: 100 Healthy, Delicious, Flexible Recipes for Every Day
by Noom Inc.The only official Noom cookbook! Easy, healthy, nutritious recipes for achieving your health goals deliciously!Noom is a global phenomenon-their digital health and weight management program has helped millions lose weight and feel better by focusing on the psychology of food and behavior change. The Noom Kitchen - follow-up to Noom's bestselling book The Noom Mindset -offers spectacularly delicious recipes that make serving health-forward foods easy for cooks of all skill levels. The majority of the recipes focus on using 'green foods', nutritionally dense ingredients that fill you up without weighing you down. With selections like Saucy Pizza-Stuffed Chicken Breast, Spinach & Feta 'Hot Pockets,' and Easy Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream, The Noom Kitchen applies Noom's trademark approach to nutrition to help readers:- Put a healthy twist on favorite foods like french fries, pizza, and dessert- Cook meals and snacks designed to be portable and storable so you can eat well on-the-go- Learn new techniques for boosting the nutrient density (and decreasing the caloric density) of any meal.These recipes will appeal to dedicated Noom users and new readers alike, providing accessible culinary guidance for anyone looking to kick-start their health and wellness in the kitchen.
The Noom Mindset: Learn the Science, Lose the Weight
by NoomNoom&’s first-ever (and only!) official book!When it comes to setting and achieving your goals, how you think influences what you do. Whether developing a sustainable relationship with food, jump-starting a new fitness routine to shoot for a certain number on the scale, or tackling a health issue, mindset is key to meeting your goals—but it can also often be the most neglected element in any attempt to change behavior. While you might know what you want to do, the key to success is understanding why you want to do it, and how you make a plan that works for you in the long term. The Noom Mindset, created by the leading digital health company that has helped millions achieve their weight and health goals, deconstructs habits around the core drivers of body weight: what we eat and how much we move. You&’ll discover how your habits around eating and weight management are impacted by your own self-confidence, stress, habits, lifestyle choices, and the rollercoaster of motivation (yes, it&’s supposed to go up and down). Best of all, you&’ll learn skills that can be applied to any behavior you want to change, habit you want to break, or life you want to create. This book is an instruction manual for achieving sustainable lifestyle changes plus many other health-related outcomes, including weight loss. With The Noom Mindset, you&’ll learn how to: -Cultivate a growth mindset -Master the forging or deconstructing of behavior chains -Overcome thought distortions -Generate meaningful internal motivation for staying focused on your goals -Create changes that stick Based on more than a decade of research and experimentation, Noom has helped millions of users succeed by employing the mindset tactics that this book teaches. Written with an emphasis on self-awareness, goal-setting, and self-experimentation, The Noom Mindset provides powerful tools to help you reach your goals, your way.
The Noom Mindset: Learn the Science, Lose the Weight
by Noom Inc.Your health has a mind of its own.For the first time ever, the fastest growing health app, Noom, shares the strategies, science and psychology for creating lasting habit change and weight loss. The Noom Mindset offers simple strategies that are easy, actionable in everyday life and hold the promise of permanent results.Noom has helped millions of people from all over the world unlock the secrets to easy, lasting weight loss.For the first time, the techniques, resources and science behind the Noom programme will be available outside the subscription app. The Noom Mindset presents research and psychology that is not included in the app, to delve deeper into the reasons behind your behaviour and how you can achieve lasting weight loss.The book is packed with strategies for changing your behaviour when it comes to nutrition, exercise, water consumption, sleep and mindset. It makes it easy to customise a programme that will work for every reader on any day of their lives, holding their big picture reasons for setting health goals at the heart of a life they love.For new users this book will introduce the deep research and psychological concepts that lead to lasting behavioural change. For those already using the app, the book will take the programme to a next level.(P)2022 Simon & Schuster Audio
The Noom Mindset: Learn the Science, Lose the Weight: the PERFECT DIET to change your relationship with food ... for good!
by Noom Inc.Your health has a mind of its own.When it comes to setting and achieving your goals, how you think influences what you do. Whether developing a sustainable relationship with food, jump-starting a new fitness routine to shoot for a certain number on the scale, or tackling a health issue, mindset is key to meeting your goals-but it can also often be the most neglected element in any attempt to change behavior. While you might know what you want to do, the key to success is understanding why you want to do it, and how you make a plan that works for you in the long term.The Noom Mindset, created by the leading digital health company that has helped millions achieve their weight and health goals, deconstructs habits around the core drivers of body weight: what we eat and how much we move. You'll discover how your habits around eating and weight management are impacted by your own self-confidence, stress, habits, lifestyle choices, and the rollercoaster of motivation (yes, it's supposed to go up and down). Best of all, you'll learn skills that can be applied to any behavior you want to change, habit you want to break, or life you want to create.This book is an instruction manual for achieving sustainable lifestyle changes plus many other health-related outcomes, including weight loss. With The Noom Mindset, you'll learn how to:-Cultivate a growth mindset-Master the forging or deconstructing of behavior chains-Overcome thought distortions-Generate meaningful internal motivation for staying focused on your goals-Create changes that stickBased on more than a decade of research and experimentation, Noom has helped millions of users succeed by employing the mindset tactics that this book teaches. Written with an emphasis on self-awareness, goal-setting, and self-experimentation, The Noom Mindset provides powerful tools to help you reach your goals, your way.Praise for the NOOM App:'One of the BEST WEIGHT-LOSS apps out there, all based on the science of behaviour change in order to help you make lasting lifestyle changes - not just provide a quick fix' Shape magazine
The Nordic Diet: Using Local and Organic Food to Promote a Healthy Lifestyle
by Trina Hahnemann Lars RanekThe Nordic Diet is all about eating locally sourced seasonal ingredients in a balanced diet of protein, carbohydrates, and beneficial fats. The traditional diet of Northern Europe emphasizes quality homemade and homegrown food-with an attempt at moving away from processed foods-and consists of a wide variety of grains, berries, vegetables, fish, poultry, and game meats. Not only is a Nordic diet comparable in terms of nutrition to the celebrated Mediterranean diet, but it also provides an easy plan for eco-friendly eating. This soulful book includes the elements, ingredients, and basic philosophy of eating a Nordic diet with information on the nutritious benefits of each ingredient. It boasts seventy-five delicious and healthy recipes-from breakfast smoothies and cold cucumber soup to venison stew and raspberry lime sorbet-and teaches you how to incorporate the principles of the Nordic diet into your everyday cooking routine.
The Nordic Guide to Living 10 Years Longer: 10 Easy Tips for a Happier, Healthier Life
by Bertil MarklundA Swedish doctor shares the secrets of Nordic health and happiness in this short guide to living a longer life. The Nordic Guide to Living 10 Years Longer is a pragmatic little book that channels the simple, healthy lifestyle of Scandinavia. Swedish doctor Bertil Marklund covers broad ground in just over one-hundred pages, providing a comprehensive guide to lifestyle choices, including sleep, diet, exercise, and the negative impact of stress; he also introduces the concept of lagom, a Swedish take on moderation. We can all adopt the ten tips outlined in the book without completely rethinking the way we live. With his practical advice, Dr. Marklund gives you the power to make a difference in your own life—today, and in the future.
The Nordic Guide to Living 10 Years Longer: 10 Easy Tips to Live a Healthier, Happier Life
by Dr. Bertil MarklundThe Danes may have their hygge and the Norwegians their back to the land culture, but the Swedes have 'lagom': an even-keeled approach to a life of balance.Dr Bertil Marklund - a doctor and researcher at the Gothenburg University with over forty years of experience - provides the most cutting-edge research to explain the ten areas we should focus on to better our chances of a long life.This compact guide provides wisdom from the Nordics, a region long known for its healthy and progressive lifestyle. It debunks myths on things we have been told are not good for us but actually can be: did you know drinking coffee will promote your health? Or that more people die of lack of Vitamin D than they do of skin cancer? By providing pragmatic and realistic advice, Dr Marklund gives you the power to make a difference in your own life today and for the future.
The Nordic Way: Discover The World's Most Perfect Carb-to-Protein Ratio for Preventing Weight Gain or Regain, and Lowering Your Risk of Disease
by Jennie Brand-Miller Arne Astrup Christian BitzBased on the practically perfect Nordic Diet, this gimmick-free and scientifically proven approach to eating will help you keep unwanted pounds off for good. Powerhouse experts Arne Astrup, Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, and Christian Bitz know that the Nordic Diet is the “best diet in the world” for getting healthy and staying lean, even into middle age and beyond. As leaders in obesity research, glycemic science, and healthy living, respectively, they’ve learned that eating a specific ratio of proteins, whole grains, and vegetables and incorporating traditional Nordic ingredients such as rye flour, skyr yogurt, and rapeseed oil into one’s diet are the most effective paths to overall health and stable weight. There’s complex science at work behind the Nordic Diet, yet it’s remarkably simple and delicious to adopt. Readers will be able to see significant improvements in their health and weight—and even prevent the dreaded middle-age spread—without ever having to count a single calorie or eliminate carbs, dairy, and meat. Featuring an in-depth look at peer-reviewed studies that support the diet and more than 60 stunningly photographed recipes, The Nordic Way is the health-forward cookbook that readers need to get and stay healthy for life.
The Normal Bar: The Surprising Secrets of Happy Couples and What They Reveal About Creating a New Normal in Your Relationship
by Pepper Schwartz Chrisanna Northrup James WitteBased on data obtained from nearly 100,000 respondents, here is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to learn the relationship-tested ways couples can achieve satisfaction and contentment in areas such as communication, sex, affection, and financial cooperation.What constitutes "normal" behavior among happy couples? What steps you should take if that "normal" is one you want to strive for? To help answer those questions, wellness entrepreneur Chrisanna Northrup teamed with two of America's top sociologists, Yale Ph.D. Pepper Schwartz and Harvard Ph.D. James Witte, to design a unique interactive survey that would draw feedback from around the world. What has resulted is the clearest picture yet of how well couples are communicating, romancing each other, satisfying each other in the bedroom, sharing financial responsibilities, and staying faithful - or not. Since the Normal Bar survey methodology sorts for age and gender, racial and geographic differences and sexual preferences, the authors are able to reveal , for example, what happens to passion as we grow older, which gender wants what when it comes to sex, the factors that spur marital combat, how kids figure in, how being gay or bisexual turns out to be both different and the same, and -regardless of background -- the tiny habits that drive partners absolutely batty.The book is dense with revelations, from the unexpected popularity of certain sexual positions, to the average number of times happy - and unhappy -- couples kiss, to the prevalence of lying, to the surprising loyalty most men and women feel for their partner (even when in a deteriorating relationship), to the vivid and idiosyncratic ways individuals of different ages, genders and nationalities describe their "ideal romantic evening."Much more than a peek behind the relationship curtain, The Normal Bar offers readers an array of prescriptive tools that will help them establish a "new normal." Mindful of what keeps couples stuck in ruts, the book's authors suggest practical and life-changing ways to break cycles of disappointment and frustration.
The Norse Shaman: Ancient Spiritual Practices of the Northern Tradition
by Evelyn C. RysdykAn experiential guide to the wisdom preserved in Europe’s far north• Includes shamanic journeys to connect with deities and your ancestral shamans• Provides step-by-step instructions to prepare for and conduct a seiðr ceremony• Draws on archaeological evidence and surviving written records from Iceland• Reveals the long tradition of female shamans in northern European shamanismShamanism is humanity’s oldest spiritual tradition. In much of the Western world, the indigenous pre-Christian spiritual practices have been lost. Yet at the northern fringes of Europe, Christianity did not displace the original shamanic practices until the end of the Viking age. Remnants of Norse shamanic spirituality have survived in myths, folk traditions, and written records from Iceland, providing many clues about the ancient European shaman’s world, especially when examined in conjunction with other shamanic cultures in northern Eurasia, such as the Sami and the tribes of Siberia.Reconstructing the shamanic practices of the hunter-gatherers of Scandinavia, Evelyn Rysdyk explores the evolution of Norse shamanism from its earliest female roots to the pre-Christian Viking Age. She explains how to enter Yggdrasil, the World Tree, to travel to other realms and provides shamanic journeys to connect with the ancestral shamans of your family tree, including the Norse goddess Freyja, the very first shaman. She offers exercises to connect with the ancient goddesses of fate, the Norns, and introduces the overnight wilderness quest of útiseta for reconnecting with the powers of nature. She explains the key concepts of Ørlög and Wyrd--the two most powerful forces that shape human lives--and provides exercises for letting go of harmful behavior patterns and transforming simple knowledge into profound wisdom by connecting with Óðinn.Thoroughly examining the shamanic rituals of seiðr, the oracular magic of the Nordic cultures, the author provides step-by-step instructions to prepare for and conduct a seiðr ceremony, including creating your own seiðr staff and hood, and explores the ancestral use of shamanic songs or varðlokur to accompany the ceremony. Woven throughout these exercises, Rysdyk provides archaeological evidence from Neolithic sites supporting the long tradition of venerating wise women, grandmothers, and mothers in ancient cultures and the important role of female shamans at the heart of northern European shamanism. Providing an accessible guide for anyone trying to fulfill their shamanic callings, these powerful rituals can provide personal healing and a clear path for finding our way into a harmonious relationship with the natural world.