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Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
Advocare Products
Easy to use multivitamin and supplements include the Trim Line (Metabolic Nutrition System), the Active line, the Performance Line, the Wellness line, the Kickstart Kids line and the Definite Difference skincare line.
Healthy Snack Foods
DrSoy Great Tasting Snacks
People have been raving about these nutrition bars that taste fabulous and are healthy for you, too. Clinical trials have proven the benefits of soy to provide good heart health.
Online Diet Plans
The Kimkins Diet Plan includes personalized coaching from Kimmer, who lost 198 pounds in just one year! Find out how she did it and how she helped hundreds of other people to lose weight without pills or surgery.
Books
You, On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
Very helpful in understanding the biology behind weight loss and how to make it work for you. The doctors make it fun with easy to understand charts and graphs. Also included are quizzes to help you customize your own weight loss plan. And recipes, of course! It even has a chapter on emotional eating!
Protein Power LifePlan
From the book jacket..."A New Comprehensive Blueprint for Optimal Health." Includes menu plans and kitchen pointers that make this a practical plan for regular people.
Consumerlab.com's Guide to Buying Vitamins and Supplements: What's Really in the Bottle?
Includes tips for consumers to consider before buying and taking supplements.
Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet: A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body
A look at the science behind weight gain. Details how you can lose weight by following a regimen based on good nutrition, exercise and holistic therapies.
Prevention's Best Healing Herbs
A list of natural herbal remedies that can help you beat stress, increase your energy level and fight common colds, flu and other illnesses.
Fiber Prescription
This is a good basic book of "hard facts" on dietary fiber. Explains how to lose weight by using fiber and includes menus and recipes!
Fight Fat after Forty: The Revolutionary Three-Pronged Approach That Will Break Your Stress-Fat Cycle and Make You Healthy, Fit, and Trim For Life
This is a great source of info for older mom's who feel like they can't do anything to lose weight. Explains how stress affects weight gain and how to "break your stress-fat cycle" and make you healthy for life.
The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss
Very popular bestseller that everyone has heard about. Learn the difference between "good carbs" and "bad carbs". This healthy eating plan will bring weight loss and overall well-being.
Vitex: The Women's Herb
Explains how Vitex works and includes an overview of clinical studies that have been completed on the effects of Vitex on PMS.
Truth about Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break Free from the Medical Myths of Menopause
Excellent resource on Hormone Therapy as a treatment for perimenopause and menopause. Explores the history of its use, how its evolved and includes an in-depth analysis of the clinical studies so that you can make an informed decision.
Prevention's Ultimate Guide to Women's Health and Wellness: Action Plans for More than 100 Women's Health Problems
Fairly good resource for general information on health issues relevant to women. (I was a bit shaken by it's advice regarding the use of Vitex. They say that it increases libido while 2 other sources I have say that in rare cases it decreases libido.)
The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health
A great resource on the facts of women's health. It is exactly what the title says: "A guide to women's health". Gives you a good base of knowledge from which to ask questions of your doctor.
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