Foodies rejoice! No more dangerous dieting; no more trash talking; no more self-loathing... When Anita Revel lost her libido, her self-respect and her aspiration to get another season out of her bikini, she embarked on a life-changing process to find her goddess within. In creating The Goddess DIET, she found dozens of Daily Intentional Empowerment Tools to realign her physical, emotional and spiritual behaviours for holistic well-being. The Goddess DIET works because it connects the three crucial relationships between body, mind and spirit. Lose your inner critic, gain more energy and fall in self-love.

The Goddess Guide to Chakra Vitality contains many easy and fun ways to sass up your chakras - the energy centres that rule every aspect of your life. This guides introduces empowerment tools such as sound, elements, symbols, colours, flowers, gemstones, essential oils, yoga, visualisations, affirmations and goddess messages to bring balance back into your life. Creatrix of ChakraGoddess.com, Anita Revel introduces ways you can: * create balance in all seven essential aspects of life; * recognise which archetypal goddess energy is influencing your choices and behaviour; and * model yourself on the archetypal role models that will see you shine your way to success. Be guided by your intuition and open yourself to the insights offered by any one of the 49 ancient goddesses in this book. Use the advice to live fully, purposefully and with a gorgeous goddess glow.

'From now on,' Ruby says to her friend, the narrator, 'We're going on the Stone Age diet. It means we only eat the sort of healthy things our ancestors would have eaten. Raw grains and fruits and stuff like that. That's what our bodies are made for.' An admirable plan, but Ruby never eats and the narrator's attention span doesn't lend itself to routine. He's too busy pining for his ex-girlfriend, who broke up with him and left him with self-pity and a plant: an Aphrodite Cactus that, when it flowers, is supposed to seal the love of the giver to the receiver, according to Ruby. Ruby, who never wears any shoes (even in the dead of winter). Though lovelorn and lonely, the narrator's life is rich with myth, demons, werewolves, gods and goddesses; everything is imbued with a spirit. There's Helena, goddess of electric guitar players; Ascanazl, an ancient and powerful Inca spirit who looks after lonely people; Shumash the sun god; the war and sexuality goddess Astarte; the muse Clio. In fact the only thing stronger and more sustaining than the narrator's fantasy life is his friendship with Ruby - the kind of friendship a body is made for.

Ancient Secrets of the Goddesses offers healing to the feminine and masculine energies of the world. The wisdom of thirty-three powerful goddesses appears alongside Velva Dawns own story of how she used the energy from each goddess to heal her emotional wounds. Each goddess carries a powerful energy that can be used to heal ones soul, and this book weaves multidimensional energy with the energies of all of the goddesses. Both a spiritual adventure and guide, this book links crystals and affirmations with each goddess, listing the aura colors of the goddesses to help you identify which goddess may be around you. The book may magically open up for you and show all of the goddesses reaching out to connect with you in a loving way. By exploring the goddess energy and using these sacred healing meditations and words, one will connect with the divine feminine while empowering the feminine within oneself. Readers can find more information at Velva Dawns website,www.velvadawn.com. Through the guidance of these mythic bearers of feminine wisdom, this book will take you on an inward journey of self-discovery and healing. Savor every word. I highly recommend this book. Colette Baron-Reid, number-one bestselling author of The Map: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life I am honored to have worked with Velva Dawn and the goddesses, and I have seen first hand the healing effects, empowerment, and fulfillment that comes forth when you invite the divine goddess energy into your daily life. Ancient Secrets of the Goddesses author, Velva Dawn Silver Hughes has captured the loving energy and vibrations of these divine beings. This book activates feminine empowerment and enlightens your soul, preparing you for a new and exciting level of spiritual growth. Kathy Huber

Food constitutes an integral aspect of the intellectual and cultural milieu of Bengal, and rituals, social customs and day-to-day routine are closely intertwined with the preparation of traditional dishes by the women of the household. The quintessential Bengali emphasis on food was brilliantly encapsulated by Chitrita Banerji in Life and Food in Bengal. In The Hour of the Goddess, she returns with an unbeatable combination of cultural insight, personal anecdote and mouthwatering recipes. Intimate yet objective, it examines the complex connection between gender and food preparation, and the intricate relationship between food, ritual and art in Bengal. Written in her inimitable style, the book takes the reader on a journey that spans Banerji's personal growth from girlhood to womanhood in Calcutta. Gastronomy and social commentary combine to form a lucid, thoroughly enjoyable book that covers, among other things, offerings made to gods, restrictions imposed on widows, cooking tools, the role played by maidservants in Bengali households, and customs associated with eating. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, The Hour of the Goddess is a finely crafted masterpiece that is at once memoir, food guide and cultural history.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Though we talk about wanting to "age gracefully," the truth is that when it comes to getting older, we’re programmed to dread an inevitable decline: in our health, our looks, our sexual relationships, even the pleasure we take in living life. But as Christiane Northrup, M.D., shows us in this profoundly empowering book, we have it in us to make growing older an entirely different experience, both for our bodies and for our souls. In chapters that blend personal stories and practical exercises with the latest research on health and aging, Dr. Northrup lays out the principles of ageless living, from rejecting processed foods to releasing stuck emotions, from embracing our sensuality to connecting deeply with our Divine Source. Explaining that the state of our health is dictated far more by our beliefs than by our biology, she works to shift our perceptions about getting older and show us what we are entitled to expect from our later years—no matter what our culture tries to teach us to the contrary—including: · Vibrant good health · A fulfilling sex life · The capacity to love without losing ourselves · The ability to move our bodies with ease and pleasure · Clarity and authenticity in all our relationships—especially the one we have with ourselves "Taking all the right supplements and pills, or getting the right procedure done, isn’t the prescription for anti-aging," Dr. Northrup explains. "Agelessness is all about vitality, the creative force that gives birth to new life." Goddesses Never Age is filled with tools and inspiration for bringing vitality and vibrancy into your own ageless years—and it all comes together in Dr. Northrup’s 14-day Ageless Goddess Program, your personal prescription for creating a healthful, soulful, joyful new way of being at any stage of life.

The Healthiest Diet for You: Scientific Aspects is unique in a sense because it focuses on the most recent advances in Nutrition, Metabolism, and Genetics that are the basic components of Personalized Nutrition. The book also emphasizes the importance of evolutionary aspects of diet and exercise and the need to select foods that are consistent with the evolutionary aspects of diet because these are the foods that contain the nutrients that our genes are programmed to respond. This book is the antidote to ultra-processed foods and imitation foods that are proinflammatory and contribute to increases in chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease. It is a book for Health! The aim of the book is to provide readers with the basic factual information necessary to comprehend the enormity and potential effects of nutrients and foods on overall health and well-being. This book should be of interest to the educated public, teachers, health professionals, physicians, medical students, nutritionists, dietitians, historians and policy makers.

Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.

The Cause and Effect Diet. The Cause and Effect Diet book does not tell you what to eat and when to eat! It shows you how to understand your own unique bodily requirements. This slim volume is packed with valuable information on how to find your way through the modern nutritional maze. Start with completing your Metabolic Type Test and begin to keep your Food/Mood Diary for a couple of weeks, take the before photo and be ready to show it off! Yes Really. The bonus hypnotic recordings will match and pace your progress, making it easy this time to keep your nerve. The power of hypnosis plus NLP is here to make your efforts work and work very well indeed. You will learn the importance of having a plan and be shown how to control cravings and boost motivation. Written in clear language for the serial dieter and the beginner, the Cause and Effect Diet book will reveal the cause of your weight gain and make very clear the effects you can achieve.

Multicultural Handbook of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics is the must have practical resource for dietitians, nutritionists and students working with both well settled but also recently migrated ethnic groups. Written by a team of authors drawn from the British Dietetic Association's Specialist Multicultural Nutrition Group the book provides in-depth information to equip the reader in the provision of nutrition advice to minority groups. Spanning a broad range of cultural groups the book seeks to consider religious and cultural requirements in relation to traditional diets; research on migration studies and chronic disease states; and nutrition and dietetic treatment in relation to key chronic diseases.