"Explores the effects of complex carbohydrates (starch, gums, and dietary fibers) on human physiological function and establishes an appropriate dietary intake level for inclusion on nutritional labels. Addresses current research, applications, and implementation issues."

Our bodies are alkaline by design but acidic by function. Metabolic acidosis, a silent saboteur, occurs when our bodies acidity level rise, resulting in the breakdown of metabolically active bone and muscle. Left uncontrolled, the acids produced by life's processes wreak havoc on all of our hormones, leaving our bodies in a state of dysfunction and ultimately disease. Metabolic acidosis not only results from life's processes - stress, disease, and physical activity, but is also caused by diet. It can also be prevented by diet, and The Kick Acid Diet will show you how! Dr. Alwyn Wong, will teach you how to prevent acidosis, improve your health, and lose fat. The Kick Acid Diet plan includes: assessing your own pH levels; controlling acidity through the consumption of alkaline foods; and a muscle-building, calorie burning workout program. If your metabolism is acidic, the Kick Acid Diet is for you!

The fun and easy way® to keep track of your caloric intake The Calorie Counter For Dummies provides you with vital information on the nutritional and caloric value of the foods that you eat everyday-at home, the supermarket, and restaurants. Whether you're trying to lose weight, eat healthier, or control and prevent diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, this take along guide provides you with a portable, quick, and easy way to get nutritional information whenever and wherever you need it. The Calorie Counter For Dummies provides you with access to the calorie, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, fiber, protein, and sodium counts found in thousands of fast-food and chain-restaurant menu items and the foods like the fruits, vegetables, and meats you eat everyday. Tuck this compact guide into your glove box, briefcase, or purse, and have key calorie information at your fingertips at all times!

"Food For Thought: An Epigenetic Guide to Wellness" By George J. Febish and Jo Anne Oxley You Make Your Own Luck! How to Change Your Health Luck! We have more Control Than we Think! American health is getting worse and people actually believe that getting old equates to getting ill. Co-authors George J. Febish and Jo Anne Oxley declare that this is absolutely not true. People are empowered to be as healthy as they can be. People do not have good or bad genes. The problem is that genes are being turned ON or OFF, which causes health or illness. In Food For Thought: An Epigenetic Guide to Wellness, the authors reveal what turns genes on and off and how people can control these switches. In this book, readers can explore two new fields of biology that impact the quality of life. Epigenetics is the study of how human genes are switched on and off. For example, cancer genes can either be turned on or off and tumor fighting genes can be turned on or off. Nutrigenomics is the study of how different foods cause epigenetic switches to our genes. It is a mapping of which foods switch on or off which genes. The state of ones health is not random nor is it luck. It is the sum of all the decision a person makes in his of her life. It includes foods eaten and those not eaten, how one thinks, what one believes in as well as the physical environment one lives in. Food For Thought: An Epigenetic Guide to Wellness will teach readers how they can control life changing switches to improve their health, lifestyle, and mental attitude. Each one is responsible for his or her health. Doctors and the government are not responsible. Making the right decisions and living a better life is everybodys choice.