In his new book, The Ketogenic Metabolic Breakthrough, Dr. David Jockers delivers a revolutionary new approach to transforming your health by using the principles of the ketogenic diet to reset your metabolism. Chronic illness, degenerative disease, and obesity often appears as a direct result of metabolic dysfunction. Using the principles of the low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet, Jockers will show you how remedy these health problems on finite level by changing your metabolic state. Throughout his book, Dr. Jockers brings you a wealth of expertise, and walks you step by step through how to begin and sustain a ketogenic diet. He also highlights and debunks the most common myths circulating about the keto diet and offers the real science behind this nutritional plan that—with the right approach—can forever change your life! This book is also designed to help people troubleshoot common challenges they may experience as they go through the process of keto adaptation so they know what to expect and what to do if they are struggling through this phase. Jockers incorporates best practices for how to transition from the standard American diet and into the keto diet and lifestyle in a way that is gentle on the body. He also provides exceptional resources for how to shop, set up your refrigerator and pantry, and meal plan to ensure success!

Pritikin lays out a step-by-step program to bypass our genetic code and learn the behaviors that allow us to eat a naturally low-fat, high-fiber diet. Includes sixty new recipes.

After years of dedicated study, internationally renowned biochemist Stephen Cherniske has arrived at a new paradigm that radically alters our understanding of the aging process. Far from giving out due to inevitable wear and tear, the human body is naturally endowed with astonishing powers of renewal, self-repair, and regeneration.The Metabolic Plan takes you step-by-step through the process of restoring the body's ability to repair its own cells. By restarting this "anabolic" metabolism we combat cardiovascular disease, increase muscle, reduce fat, enhance memory and vision, and restore that youthful glow. Detailed are metabolic plans geared to the different needs of men and women and to every decade of our lives -- so we'll know exactly what to focus on when.Longer life, more energy, improved health, a pervasive sense of well-being: it sounds too good to be true, but it's all within our grasp. At once revolutionary and eminently practical, this is the book that finally solves the puzzle of aging.

Describes the high fat. low protein, vegetables, and sugar diet used under medical supervision to control epilepsy in children. Includes comments from parents, children, and medical personnel.

Abstract: A college textbook for life science undergraduates majoring in health-related fields covers basic nutrition principles and their clinical applications in patient therapy. The 9 sections of the text, comprising 45 individual topics, are grouped among 4 principal parts: general aspects of the art and science of nutrition and of the nutritional health care team; the composition, utilization, preservation, safety, and nutritive value of foods; the role of nutrition in human health, covering dietary goals, nutritional assessment, nutritional requirements at the different life cycle stages, and the effects of different life styles and cultures on nutritional needs; and the principles and application of therapeutic nutrition in treating, curing, and preventing specific disease states (e.g.: diabetes, anemias, cancer, and gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, metabolic, and renal diseases). The latter part includes case studies with questions and answers. A glossary of technical terms is appended.