Vicki Edgson Livres

The best-selling "Food Doctor" (a leading clinical nutritionist) invites parents to become experts on kids' health and nutrition. With her menu-planning wisdom, you'll turn the kitchen table into a fun place for your children, and also promote high energy, brain growth, strong bodies, weight control, and immunity from disease. Delicious recipes, including vegetarian dishes that will actually get a hearty thumbs-up from kids, focus on youngsters' nutritional needs from birth to adolescence. Concerned parents will find abundant practical tips for handling eating problems; advice on food allergies and intolerances; solutions for behavioral problems linked to food, such as hyperactivity; and ideas for helping overweight or underweight youngsters. You'll even find out what to do when your child refuses a particular healthy food (or won't eat at all). And in addition to the tempting, varied recipes for main meals, the Food Doctor reveals some sweet and "sneaky" ways to get vitamins and minerals into snacks and desserts.

This is the newly revised and updated edition of the best-selling and ever-popular 'The Food Doctor', which has sold over half-a-million copies worldwide. With the latest research, new and inspiring recipes and a new chapter on vegetarian and vegan eating, this invaluable guide will provide all the information you need to improve your health and wellbeing. Packed with nutritious advice, it introduces simple foods with amazing healing properties, gives the definitive list of the top 100 foods for health, vitality and happiness, and shows exactly what to eat to improve your energy, mood and stress levels. There are numerous small changes that you can make to your diet which make a real difference to how you feel. Along with hundreds of nutrition facts you'll discover which foods aid concentration, what can boost your energy or make you sleep better, and how to alter your diet to help with common ailments such as eczema, migraine, hayfever and arthritis. Including, with its expert but practical advice, case studies and 'food cures', health tips and delicious recipes, 'The Food Doctor' will help you to improve your mood and appearance, reduce your stress levels and boost your energy.

The nation's health is in crisis. In just five years' time it's estimated that almost three quarters of the population will be clinically obese and plagued with associated health problems. Diet Doctors: Inside and Out looks at the toll our lifestyles and diets are taking on our health and, with the help of carefully chosen 'patients', shows us not only how we can diagnose key health problems ourselves but how with the correct diet and lifestyle adjustments we can address them and avoid more serious problems in the future. Written by the show's charismatic presenters and packed with before-and-after case studies; self-diagnostic techniques and expert diet and lifestyle advice, Diet Doctors: Inside and Out promises to be an entertaining, informative and life-changing read.

Improve your physical health, as well as your energy, mood, and stress levels by eating the right foods. Written by two nutritionists and featuring case studies, delicious recipes, and easy-to-follow eating plans to suit every lifestyle, this practical guide will help improve your life by taking advantage of the health benefits of simple foods. Learn how to eat to balance everyday highs and lows and avoid cravings for sweets. Find which foods increase memory and concentration, enhance sleep, and encourage relaxation. Follow the recipes to make an energy-boosting office lunch, a midnight feast to beat morning depression, and more. Uncover the links between common illnesses and ailments and certain foods, and find out what to eat to aid circulation, lower blood pressure, alleviate arthritis and rheumatism, help digestive problems, build up the immune system, and help prevent cancer. By incorporating these food "cures" into your life, you can be healthier and happier than ever before. Bonus: a chart of the hundred most important healing foods. A Main Selection of the Spirit Book Club. 160 pages (all in color), 7 3/4 x 10 1/4.

Natasha Corrett and leading nutritional therapist Vicki Edgson, it's packed with recipes, tips, and tricks for tracking daily alkaline and acid intake. They clearly explain the principles and benefits of keeping a balanced diet, the role played by vitamins, carbs, and protein, how to identify alkalizing and acid-forming food and how an alkaline diet nourishes the body without stressing the digestive system.

This unique and authoritative book introduces a whole new way of eating and promotes lifestyle choices that are best for your body.

This unique and authoritative book introduces a whole new way of eating and promotes lifestyle choices that are best for your body.

Nourishing, restorative and comforting, bone broth is the concentrated meaty elixir with a clear, bright, essential flavour. Whether you call it broth, bouillon or brodo, it' s good for your health, your gut, your immune system, your bones, joints and skin, and is a simple route to enjoying optimum health and wellbeing.

Hormones play a crucial role in our health and well-being, yet few of us understand the toll they take on our bodies when we don't achieve a balance.Whether you're riding the roller coasters of puberty, pregnancy or the menopause, we're all a slave to our hormones at some point in our lives, and they can leave you feeling tired, low and irritable.In It Must Be My Hormones, leading specialists in women's health Dr Marion Gluck and nutritionist Vicki Edgson, show you the role that each of our major hormones plays, how a deficiency can affect our well-being, and what we can do to restore the balance.Discover...- How to keep the weight off with thyroid boosting mega-foods - The vitamins that will do wonders for your skin- Which aromatherapy herbs are actually beneficial to use- Ways to improve cognitive function through mineral supplements - How herbs and spices can give you a caffeine-free energy kick From boosting fertility to easing symptoms of PMS, this practical, easy-to-implement guidance will restore mental and physical well-being. Filled with inspiring personal stories, nutritional suggestions and advice on bio-identical hormone therapy, this book will help you regain control of your hormones and your life