‘Work on your appearance, get a good body’
Model Aparna Sharma tells us what it takes to become a model in Mumbai, how she manages to stay fit and what drew her back to modelling.
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We all know that Diets Don’t Work! Virtually Every Clinical Study conducted by Medical Groups and Universities have proven that any weight lost through a Calorie Reduction, Food Combining, Food Restriction Diet Plan will begin to return within a 3 to 6 month period for most participants. And once the diet plan finally fails the person, most people gain even more weight than when they started. If there is a repetitive work out routine as part of the Diet Plan, the ‘PLAN’ will fail even sooner.

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Millions of people are frustrated with the Endless Cycle of Weight Gain, Weight Loss, only to have more weight to try and loose on the next diet plan. Blaming themselves because they could not maintain a Calorie Reduction Diet Plan that restrict the nutrients your Highly Intelligent Body ‘craves’ and need to survive, Complex Food Combining Diet Plans that goes against natural eating habits … More >>

Creating the Perfect Body 4 YOU

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Challenging traditional assumptions that estrogen and calcium deficiencies are the only causes of osteoporosis, this book explores the disorder from a wider perspective that includes lifestyle and exercise. This newly revised second edition features a personal osteoporosis risk assessment questionnaire and a step-by-step program for strengthening bones and improving overall health and well-being…. More >>

Better Bones, Better Body : Beyond Estrogen and Calcium

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We live in a toxic world. Environmental pollution and disease-causing germs assault us continually day after day. Our food is nutrient deficient and our water supply dangerously contaminated. People today are exposed to chemicals in far greater concentrations than were previous generations. Diseases that were rare or unheard of a century ago are now raging upon us like a plague. Millions are dying from diseases that were virtually unknown in the past. Experts tell us that by the time we reach middle age, each one of us will have already been affected by either cancer, cardiovascular disease, or some other serious degenerative condition. Conventional medicine has no sure cure. Drugs, surgery, and radiation treatments can be as dangerous and debilitating as the diseases they attempt to cure. This book outlines the steps you need to take to thoroughly detoxify and cleanse your body from these disease-causing agents. You will also learn how to reduce your toxi… More >>

The Detox Book: How to Detoxify Your Body to Improve Your Health, Stop Disease, and Reverse Aging, 2nd Edition

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Dr. Scott Connelly, founder of Met-Rx, the sports supplement used by millions, has woven his lifetime’s experience in physical fitness, body composition, and nutrition science into a precise yet easy-to-follow program for fitness and fat loss.Amazon.com Review
“You can have the body you want,” promises A. Scott Connelly, M.D., a physician, personal trainer, sports nutrition specialist, and sports-supplement designer. His “6-Pack Prescription” is a program of four six-week cycles (strength training, sculpting, fat burning, and maintenance/endurance), each with its own eating plan, exercise program, and optional supplementation. Six months, promises Connelly, will give you the body you want. “To change how you look on the outside, you need to reverse what’s happening on the inside” by reprogramming your body to manufacture muscle, says Connelly. He emphasizes “nutrient partitioning,” the principle that “a metabolic traffic cop” directs nutrients i… More >>

Body Rx

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Balancing the body’s acid alkaline pH factor to improve health is the hot new treatment in alternative medicine. The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet clarifies for you this cutting-edge option with an easy-to-follow food combination program and herbal therapy regime that redefines the notion of a “well-balanced diet.” By balancing the body’s acidity levels, this simple plan can help toward curing various medical conditions, including arthritis, hepatitis, insomnia, alcoholism, and kidney disease. With information organized by affliction, you can quickly find the help you need. Anecdotal success stories offer inspiring evidence that this dietary/lifestyle change really works…. More >>

The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet : An Innovative Program for Ridding Your Body of Acidic Wastes

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Becoming lean and fit is not a matter of training for a few weeks, like Rocky, to become a world champion. That only happens in Hollywood movies that portray professional athletes exercising for hours every day until they re exhausted. Real athletes never do that. They train only to the point that they can recover for the next day s training. Their progress comes in small increments, not heroic triumphs. Unfortunately, movies have persuaded people that they can become lean and fit virtually overnight. Even the weight loss and fitness industry bought into this distortion and began pushing people to become like Rocky. When that approach failed, because people were injuring themselves or burning out or jumping from one program to another, trainers began to entertain their clients instead of finding solutions to their problems. If you want to become truly lean and fit, you must work at it like an athlete, following a structured routine and that is easier and m… More >>

The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation

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any people don’t realize that the simple daily act of eating can be a profound catalyst for spiritual growth, from experiencing a renewed sense of vitality to living a richer and more satisfying life. That’s because each time we eat we have the opportunity to pay attention, care for ourselves, and feed the real source of our hunger: our spirit. Nourishment isn’t a fad diet but a lifelong journey, and Hal Sofia Schatz is the ideal guide. Gentle, wise, and humorous, she shows us how to feed our Buddha within. A perfect blend of inspirational guidance and practical suggestions, If the Buddha Came to Dinner includes guidelines for selecting vital foods, tips for keeping your energy balanced throughout the day, a cleansing program, and recipes to awaken your palate…. More >>

If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body to Awaken Your Spirit

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It’s time to rescue snacks from the realm of empty-calorie packaged junk food and transform everyday pick-me-ups into healthful, satisfying mini meals. Why waste calories on cookies or chips that have no nutritional value and provide only short-term satisfaction when raw foods are delicious, simple to prepare, and bursting with natural energy boosters that everybody needs to stay fit and healthy?

Thanks to Raw Energy, it has never been easier to add a full spectrum of raw ingredients to a healthful lifestyle. Author Stephanie Tourles’s 125 recipes for trail mixes, parfaits, energy bars, juice blends, smoothies, soups, vegetable chips, zippy dips, candies, and cookies combine raw ingredients in delicious snacks that are chock-full of nutrients and long-term energy boosters.

Made from real, whole foods that are uncooked, unadulterated, and unprocessed, these snacks are 150- to 250-calorie packages of health and vitality, dense with naturall… More >>

Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body

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A healthy body makes for a healthy brain, and this fun, creative guide is designed to help readers have both — they can be smarter, stronger, happier, and more energetic by changing a few dietary habits. Nutritionist and frequent morning talk show guest Samantha Heller has created a life raft in a sea of confusing and contradictory nutrition and diet information. Heller’s Nutrition Prescription plan considers each person’s habits, budget, and food preferences when making lifestyle recommendations. Raised on white rice and beans? Switch to brown rice instead. Can’t afford fresh Atlantic salmon? Canned salmon will do just as well. Fresh vegetables unavailable at the neighborhood bodega? Frozen are just as nutritious. Heller’s unique, user-friendly approach is based on the most current scientific and medical research, while her food lists, meal plans, substitutions, and recipes are easy to follow. Heller links the benefits of good nutrition to healthy brain … More >>

Get Smart: Samantha Heller’s Nutrition Prescription for Boosting Brain Power and Optimizing Total Body Health

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Nutrition expert Jackie Keller explains that women’s bodies are designed naturally to drop pounds in the thirty days after childbirth. With this in mind, she developed a thirty-day nutrition and workout program composed of easy-prep meals and gentle daily workouts that take ten minutes or less to complete. The Body After Baby plan provides: – Meal plans and more than one hundred delicious recipes rich in the nutrients new moms need; – Helpful weekly shopping lists and label-reading tips; – Nonvegetarian and vegetarian meal options for both breast-feeding and bottle-feeding moms; – and fun movements that mom and baby can do together. Jackie Keller’s unique, doctor-approved program has helped some of the most famous celebrities in Hollywood shed their baby weight. Now, women everywhere can follow her plan and not only learn how to lose weight but also how to create a healthy lifestyle for their families…. More >>

Body After Baby: A Simple, Healthy Plan to Lose Your Baby Weight Fast

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Now beginners, experts, and teachers alike can make rejuvenating meditations part of daily life with this beautifully illustrated deck of fifty yoga poses and meditations. Each easy-to-use card gives detailed instructions, benefits, and an affirmation. If you’re short on time, you can pick just a single card, or for a more guided experience, follow one of the sequences provided. Create an exercise routine that focuses on your specific needs. In the park or at the office, these portable cards are perfect for stress relief, promoting strength and energy, and relaxation–anytime, anywhere…. More >>

The Yoga Deck: 50 Poses & Meditations for Body, Mind, & Spirit