Why Diets Fail (Because You're Addicted to Sugar)
Why Diets Fail (Because You're Addicted to Sugar)

Author: Nicole M. Avena, PhD

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2013-12-31

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1607744872

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This revolutionary eating plan reveals definitive proof that sugar is addictive, and presents the first science-based program to cut out the sugar, stop the cravings that cause most diets to eventually fail, and lose weight--permanently. If you’re like most people, you’ve tried a few (or maybe many) different diets without success. The truth is, most diets work for a while, but there’s usually a point at which the dietary restrictions become too difficult to maintain. Why? Because whether you’re following a low-carb, paleo, gluten-free, or even an all-liquid green juice diet, the addictive nature of sugar causes cravings to take over and sabotage your diet-of-the-moment. In Why Diets Fail, Dr. Nicole M. Avena and John R. Talbott reveal definitive proof that sugar is addictive and present the first science-based program to stop the cravings and lose weight—permanently. A neuroscientist and food addiction expert, Dr. Avena has conducted groundbreaking research showing that sugar triggers the same responses in the brain as addictive drugs like cocaine, nicotine, and alcohol. And like those other substances, the more sugar you eat, the more you need to get the same pleasurable feelings. (No wonder your last diet didn’t stick.) Avena and Talbott’s eight-step plan walks you through the process of going sugar-free and surviving the make-or-break withdrawal period—those first few weeks when your body feels the absence of its favorite sweetener most acutely. An easy-to-use Sugar Equivalency Table developed by Talbott lists the amount of sugar in hundreds of common foods so you know precisely what to eat and what to avoid. And when it comes to what you can eat, you have a lot to choose from. In fact, you’ll probably eat more on this diet than you normally do—while continuing to lose weight. This science-based program is the diet to end all diets. It will help you break the yo-yo dieting cycle, end those maddening sugar cravings, and develop a new longing for the good food that will keep you fit, healthy, and happy.

Addicted to Failure
Addicted to Failure

Author: Brian Loveman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780742540989

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For supplementary documentation and useful websites, click here. This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.S. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and the war on terror to be conflated? Why do U.S. policies--ostensibly designed to promote the rule of law, human rights, and democracy--instead contribute to widespread corruption, erosion of government authority, human rights violations, and increasing destabilization? Why have the war on drugs and the war on terror neither reduced narcotics trafficking nor increased citizen security in Latin America? Why do Latin American governments, the European Union, and U.S. policymakers often work at cross-purposes when they all claim to be committed to "democratization" and "development" in the region? Leading scholars answer these questions by detailing the nature of U.S. economic and security strategies in Latin America and the Andean region since 1990. They analyze the impacts and responses to these strategies by policymakers, political leaders, and social movements throughout the region, explaining how programs often generate or exacerbate the very problems they were intended to solve. Reviewing official policy and its defenders and critics alike, this indispensable book focuses on the reasons for the failure of U.S. policies and their disastrous significance for Latin America and the United States alike. Contributions by: Adri n Bonilla, Pilar Gait n, Monica Herz, Kenneth Lehman, Brian Loveman, Enrique Obando, Orlando J. P rez, Eduardo Pizarro, Philipp Sch nrock-Mart nez, and Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease
How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease

Author: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13:

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This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.

Addicted to Reform
Addicted to Reform

Author: John Merrow

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1620972433

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The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.

Lifestyle Business Blueprint
Lifestyle Business Blueprint

Author: Tyler Basu

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-10

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781508471646

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Learn How To Build A Successful Business That Gives You The Freedom And Lifestyle You Dream OfIf you dream of running your own business and having the freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want, regardless of the cost, then you may just be destined to become a lifestyle entrepreneur.What is a lifestyle entrepreneur, you ask?A lifestyle entrepreneur is a business owner who prioritizes lifestyle benefits over profits. With freedom and fulfillment as their ultimate goal, they organize their work and business activities around their lifestyle goals. By leveraging the power of the internet, lifestyle entrepreneurs create and manage businesses that can be fully or semi-automated. They build businesses that make it possible for them to spend their time doing what they love to do, from wherever they want to do it. Top 5 Strategies For Making Money Doing What You Love From Anywhere In The WorldThe first section of this book provides a detailed overview of 5 specific strategies that you can use to make money doing something that you are passionate about. The only requirement to implement these strategies is a laptop and an internet connection, enabling you to implement them from virtually anywhere in the world. Here's a quick look at the 5 strategies outlined in this book:1. Starting A Blog2. Hosting A Podcast3. Selling Information Products4. Offering Services As A Freelancer5. Helping Others As A Coach Or ConsultantEach of the 5 strategies listed above will be examined in detail. You will learn the benefits of each strategy, proven ways to use them to make money online, and a step-by-step game plan to start implementing them immediately. On their own, each of these strategies can be quite lucrative, but they also complement each other very well. In fact, many of the lifestyle entrepreneurs featured in this book have used several of these strategies simultaneously to build their online business.Discover The Business Principles That Enable All Lifestyle Entrepreneurs To SucceedThe second section of this book outlines 7 specific principles that enable all lifestyle entrepreneurs to succeed, regardless of the strategies they use. These principles are equally as important as the strategies (if not more important!), because if you learn a strategy but you don't learn the underlying principles that enable someone to succeed, you are probably going to fail. Featuring 12 Case Studies Of Successful Lifestyle EntrepreneursEvery strategy outlined in the book is backed up by a real life example of a successful entrepreneur who has used one or more of the strategies to build their business, including:John Lee Dumas, host of the top ranked podcast Entrepreneur On FireJesse Krieger, Founder of Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Academy and Author of Lifestyle EntrepreneurPejman Ghadimi, Founder of SecretEntourage.comStefan Pylarinos, Founder of ProjectLifeMastery.comErlend Bakke, Founder of Mr. Outsource and Author of Never Work Again...and many others!Take The First Step Towards Building Your Business And Becoming A Lifestyle Entrepreneur

Choose to Learn
Choose to Learn

Author: Russell T. Osguthorpe

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2008-07-17

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1452280533

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"There is a real power in this book that offers a way of understanding failure and overcoming it. The authors present a message of possibility and hope to learners and teachers alike and foster a resolve to put the strategies for changing behavior and attitudes into practice." —Robert S. Patterson, Emeritus Professor of Education Brigham Young University Discover powerful principles that help students raise their goals, expect success, and make extraordinary strides in achievement! Education becomes exciting and successful when both learners and teachers accomplish what they previously thought to be impossible. Written in an inspirational, compelling style, this resource shows educators how to motivate students to be successful learners through the development of key personal attributes that foster success. This user-friendly book is organized around an easy-to-use, research-based model derived from multiple fields, including education, psychology, and philosophy, and is focused around eight field-tested principles, including the "Three D′s of Success"—desire, decision, and determination—that can Increase every learner′s self-confidence Create new expectations and infuse students with new energy and motivation Encourage individuals to go beyond familiar goals, take manageable risks, and achieve desired outcomes Choose to Learn gives teachers a proven approach for helping students exceed their expectations and experience academic growth by making a conscious decision to learn and to succeed.

Addiction and Virtue
Addiction and Virtue

Author: Kent Dunnington

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2011-07-26

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0830839011

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In this interdisciplinary work, Kent Dunnington brings the neglected resources of philosophical and theological analysis to bear on the problem of addiction. Drawing on the insights of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, he formulates a compelling alternative to the two dominant models of addiction--addiction as disease and addiction as choice.

The Addiction Inoculation
The Addiction Inoculation

Author: Jessica Lahey

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0062883801

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“The Addiction Inoculation is a vital look into best practices parenting. Writing as a teacher, a mother, and, as it happens, a recovering alcoholic, Lahey's stance is so compassionate, her advice so smart, any and all parents will benefit from her hard-won wisdom.” —Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls & Sex and Boys & Sex In this supportive, life-saving resource, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure helps parents and educators understand the roots of substance abuse and identify who is most at risk for addiction, and offers practical steps for prevention. Jessica Lahey was born into a family with a long history of alcoholism and drug abuse. Despite her desire to thwart her genetic legacy, she became an alcoholic and didn’t find her way out until her early forties. Jessica has worked as a teacher in substance abuse programs for teens, and was determined to inoculate her two adolescent sons against their most dangerous inheritance. All children, regardless of their genetics, are at some risk for substance abuse. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, teen drug addiction is the nation’s largest preventable and costly health problem. Despite the existence of proven preventive strategies, nine out of ten adults with substance use disorder report they began drinking and taking drugs before age eighteen. The Addiction Inoculation is a comprehensive resource parents and educators can use to prevent substance abuse in children. Based on research in child welfare, psychology, substance abuse, and developmental neuroscience, this essential guide provides evidence-based strategies and practical tools adults need to understand, support, and educate resilient, addiction-resistant children. The guidelines are age-appropriate and actionable—from navigating a child’s risk for addiction, to interpreting signs of early abuse, to advice for broaching difficult conversations with children. The Addiction Inoculation is an empathetic, accessible resource for anyone who plays a vital role in children’s lives—parents, teachers, coaches, or pediatricians—to help them raise kids who will grow up healthy, happy, and addiction-free.

Turning Pro
Turning Pro

Author: Steven Pressfield

Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC

Published: 2012-06-27

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1936891050

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The follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice. "You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind." --Steven Pressfield TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASY. When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own. TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE. The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro. WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO. What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.