Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be "prevented" and "managed." Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed epidemic. Examining obesity in its cultural and historical context, the book's contributors ask how we measure health and wellness, where our attitudes to obesity develop from, and what the consequences are of naming and targeting as "obese" those whose body weights do not match our expectations. A broad survey of the issues surrounding the obesity panic in Canada, it is the first collection of fat studies and critical obesity studies from a distinctly Canadian perspective.

Quick Healthy Cooking Recipes: The Grain Free Way with Delicious Green Smoothies The Quick Healthy Cooking Recipes book covers two diet plans the Grain Free Diet and the Green Smoothie Diet. Both of these diets offer quick healthy meals through quick healthy recipes that will work together to give you nutritious choices in your menu. You will find both healthy cooking recipes with the super fast green smoothie recipes to help you come up with healthy meal ideas for today's fast-paced lifestyle. These healthy food recipes offer you a variety of flavors and textures to satisfy the entire family. Start now by preparing the easy food recipes for your meal plan.

Recipes for Cooking Light: Comfort Foods and Dieting Cookbook The Recipes for Cooking Light book is about two cookbooks, the Dieting Cookbook and the Comfort Food Diet. Don't let the term "comfort food" fool you though. Each one of these is a cooking light recipe meaning you will find great light recipe ideas within this book, healthy meal ideas, and even weight loss recipes. Each of these cooking light quick recipes will help you to cook and serve healthy meals that taste great. It is hard to beat a quick easy dinner that is made from the best healthy recipes. Everyone will love these quick dinner ideas (and more) from these quick healthy recipes. The first section of the Recipes for Cooking Light book contains these chapters: Low Fat Recipes: The Basic Weight Loss Recipes, Low Carbohydrate Recipes: somewhat Misunderstood but Very Helpful for Weight Loss, Muscle Building Recipes to Boost the Metabolism, Fish Recipes to Lose Weight, Raw Food Diet Recipes for the Daring, Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes for Weight Loss, Paleolithic Diet Recipes: Turning Back the Clock A Lot, Breakfast Recipes for Weight Loss, and Desserts for the Diet Conscious. The second section of the Recipes for Cooking Light book contain these chapters: Comfort Food - What Is It, Comfort Food Breakfast Recipes, Comfort Food Lunches, Comfort Food Dinners, Comfort Food Desserts, Your Comfort Food Meal Plan, Eating with Comfort in Mind, Comfort Food - A summary, A five Day Sample meal Plan, and Final Words that are Not So Final. There are many recipes within this book, enough to plan the menu for a couple of weeks without repeating a recipe.

Healthy Cooking Recipes: Eating Clean and Green Juices The Healthy Cooking Recipes book covers two diet plans, the Green Juice Diet and the Eating Clean Diet. Both of the health meal plans offer easy healthy recipes and makes preparing healthy foods to eat a breeze by following the recipe directions. You have enough quick healthy recipes to make plan healthy meals for weeks in advance. If your goal is to cook healthy meals you have a wide variety of healthy food recipes in this book. The first section of the Healthy Cooking Recipes book is on the Green Juice Diet with these chapters: What is the Green Juice Diet, Common Green Juice Diet Myths, Benefits of the Green Juice Diet, Helpful Tips for Dieting Success, Delicious and Nutritious Green Juice Recipes, and Your 7 Day Green Juicing Diet Meal Plan.

Meal Courses: Eating Clean and Gorgeous Crockpot Flavours Putting together healthy meals on a budget can be an incredible difficult process. Most of us end up relying on convenience foods like pre-sauced frozen veggies, boxes of "helpers" and mixes, and already-cooked toppings. This can make the meal planning process a whole lot faster and simpler, but it tends to play havoc with our health. If you've been suffering from weight gain and health issues no matter what you try, the issue might be your meal plan. With so many processed foods available on the market, a lot of us have trouble coming up with meal ideas that don't use them. The ingredients in these meal courses are often over-processed and devoid of beneficial nutrients, however. They encourage us to eat more, gain too much, and experience serious health issues.

Quick Easy Meals: Grain Free Cooking and Lose the Belly Fat Are you tired of dealing with constant digestive problems and stubborn belly fat in your search for quick, easy meals? This book is here to help. You may have been promised quick weight loss by mainstream diets, only to discover that getting rid of a stubborn belly is a lot harder than it sounds. You might try, time after time, to cook quick healthy meals that can help you slim down and feel better, only to discover that food has once again failed you. The quick, easy recipes contained in this book are here to make a difference. They're designed to help remove problem belly fat and help you get rid of health problems caused by reliance on processed grains like wheat and corn. You'll find lots of quick dinner recipes, snacks, breakfasts and more, all designed to help you enjoy your food again. There's no need to worry about gaining when you use these quick meals.

Meals: Healthy Low Carb and Detoxing Recipes Putting together meals on a budget can be tricky, but it gets even more confusing if you're trying to stick to a healthy diet, too If you're tired of cookbooks that tell you what you can't eat, but don't provide any worthwhile answers to what you can, it's time for this helpful collection of meal ideas. Whether you're eating low-carb or you're trying to figure out meal planning while you detox, this book is ready to help you. Each section includes a large range of recipes, as well as ideas to help you put them together into complete meals. Plus, at the end of the section you'll find a meal plan designed to help you eat delicious food for a full week without worrying or needing to make difficult decisions. The meal guide isn't set in stone, of course, but it's a great way to get started on your new diet or healthier eating plan.

Juicing is the process of extracting the juice from different fruits and vegetables and drinking the juice instead of eating the whole fruit and vegetable raw or cooked. Juicing is now a popular method of consuming fruits and vegetables because of several reasons. One, juicing makes it easy for people to consume vegetables especially if they don't love the taste of these foods. Since juicing just means gulping down the juice instead of chewing it, the taste no longer has to linger in the taste buds longer. This is the same with those who do not love the taste of certain fruits. Two, juicing is a lot easier and healthier than when you cook vegetables because it only takes minutes and you can already have a nutrient-packed meal or snack.

Transform Mind and Body with the Lap-Band by Lisa Gentile provides simple, yet effectively precise techniques for properly utilizing the Lap-Band surgical tool as a means of successfully achieving a long-term healthy weight. With more and more people of all ages, genders and race suffering from this genetically stimulated, environmentally hindering disease of obesity; externally driven weight loss modalities (dieting) have proven to be inadequate. Programs such as Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, and Nutri-System have perpetuated the disease driven entity that lies at the core of weight-challenged individuals. Common weight loss programs fail because they are primarily based on factors that obese individuals are physiologically unable to control. Dieting entails trying to control numerous aspects related to food from "outside" the body, rather than achieving success in transforming eating habits from a place "within." Without developing internal awareness governing all aspects of food consumption, hunger will continue to be a consistent ailment. The Lap-Band not only places physical restriction on the stomach to help limit caloric consumption, but this amazing tool also has the ability to diminish hunger by stimulating nerves that govern satiety. Through the use of this educational manual, readers will gain expertise knowledge related to the many distinctive features of the Lap-Band including how the procedure works effectively, as well as, preparation in all nutritional, behavioral and emotional aspects both before surgery and during each step on this post-banded journey towards managing a healthy and empowering new body weight. The multidisciplinary, holistic approach outlined within this manual is both enlightening and inspirational.