Showing results for "Lies" in Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating

The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us...

For years, you’ve been sold a sugarcoated story: count calories, starve yourself, sweat it out, or pop a pill—and voilà, the pounds will melt away. But here you are, still battling the scale, still dreading the mirror, still wondering why every diet fails. Craig Beck, a man who once hauled around 252 pounds of regret, is here to shatter the myths and hand you the real secret to a slimmer, healthier you. Sugarcoated Lies isn’t just another diet book—it’s a wake-up call, a battle plan, and a promise: you can lose weight, feel amazing, and never go hungry again.

The media, celebrities, weight-loss gurus, and the Internet bombard society with recommendations about how to shed unwanted pounds: Count calories, cut carbs, exercise more, skip meals, drink more water, pop a pill. Yet as more people try diligently to follow this advice, waistlines continue to expand. In Supersized Lies, Robert J. Davis, PhD, a.k.a. The Healthy Skeptic, shows you why this inability to lose weight isn't your fault as he reveals how hype, half-truths, and unproven solutions have steered you into fruitless quests that inflict emotional and physical harm.

Cut through the noise and get to the truth with Dr David Craig’s "Lie Catcher: Becoming a Human Lie Detector in Under 60 Minutes". From making a purchase, negotiating a contract to dealing with children, "Lie Catcher" provides fast, simple and effective techniques to enable you to harness expert detective skills in your day-to-day life - in less than 60 minutes. With over 20 years of practical and academic experience, Dr David Craig provides a fully credentialed and accessible guide. Ideal for education, parents, relationships, and business activities.

There's so much confusion about what to eat. Are you jumping from diet to diet and nothing seems to work? Are you sick of seeing contradictory health advice from experts? Just like the tobacco industry lied to us about the dangers of cigarettes, the same untruths, cover-ups, and deceptive practices are occurring in the food industry. Vani Hari, a.k.a. The Food Babe, blows the lid off the lies we've been fed about the food we eat - lies about its nutrient value, effects on our health, label information, and even the very science we base our food choices on.

In this groundbreaking work, Alan Levinovitz, PhD, exposes the myths behind how we come to believe which foods are good and which are bad and points the way to a truly healthful life, free from anxiety about what we eat.