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American Heart Association 6 Weeks To Get Out The Fat: An Easy-To-Follow Program For Trimming The Fat From Your Diet

Author: American Heart Association

Now, the American Heart Associations gives you an easy-to-follow six-week plan to help you get the excess fat out of your diet. The good news is that you can do it! How? Take it one week at a time. 6 Weeks in Get Out the Fat gives you a realistic week-by-week approach you can follow. You can even tailor it to fit your personal needs. Every week is filled with easy things you can do reduce the fat in your diet. This book will show you how to make gradual, lasting changes for meals, snacks, cooking techniques, eating out, and more. By Week 6, you'll be eating right - and chances are you won't miss the fat and calories one little bit.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowlegments
	Introduction
	Taking Stock: How Much Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol Are You Eating?	1
1	An Easy Takeoff	34
2	Eating the Right Amount	56
3	Variety Is the Spice of Life	72
4	Cooking with Your Heart in Mind	86
5	How to "Cheat"	104
6	Tricks of the Trade	117
	Putting It All Together	133
	Appendix: Where to Reach Us	137
	Index	141

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Natural History of Medicinal Plants

Author: Judith Sumner

Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western pharmacopoeia, was first isolated from willows to treat fever, pain, and inflammation. Today it is synthesized in the laboratory, and its use as an anticoagulant eventually could overshadow its use as an analgesic. Other botanical medicines that became significant to human health and well-being are pain-relievers from opium and coca, muscle relaxants from curare, blood anticoagulants from sweet clover, anticancer alkaloids from Madagascar periwinkle and Pacific yew, tranquilizers from snakeroot, and oral contraceptives from molecular precursors in tropical yams.

Although we may be tempted to think of these and other plant chemicals existing primarily for our medicinal use, in reality they are defense strategies in a natural world colonized by organisms competing for survival. In this fascinating introduction to the botanical compounds used medicinally, Dr. Sumner describes their biological and ecological importance as toxins and deterrents in protecting plants. Some of these chemicals discourage predators by rendering plant leaves unpalatable, while others disrupt the usual developmental and reproductive stages of their attackers. Still others are well known for their potent psychotropic effects that can dangerously alter the awareness and reflexes of plant-eating animals. An exciting chapter on the new field of zoopharmacognosy provides some interesting examples of birds, primates, and elephants that seemingly recognize and use plants as medicines. The author concludes with a thought-provoking analysis of the issues behind using medicinal plants to improve human needs without destroying the earth's biodiversity.

Written for the lay reader, The Natural History of Medicinal Plants will inspire a greater appreciation of the vast natural pharmacy of plant medicines. Numerous black and white illustrations and 30 color plates accompany the text.

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A botany instructor at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard U. enlightens users of willow-derived aspirin on how plant defenses were found to be useful medicinally; and introduces the new field of zoopharmacognosy that studies how other animals use plants for healing. Includes 30 color plates, line drawings, and a glossary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Before discoveries were made in the labs, plant medicines accounted for most of the substances used to cure disease. Natural History of Medicinal Plants provides a fascinating and informative science history of plantbase medicine, how people have learned the applications of such medicine, and why plants developed curative properties. Chapters will prove of use to both those involved in health professions and botanists alike.