Nutrition

Specifically developed for men, this meal plan can help you get started on planning healthy meals to help prevent or manage diabetes.

This is a book about disease-fighting powerhouse foods. The authors describe how often to eat these foods and in what quantities. This is an eating plan that's smart,  healthy and filled with delicious, nutrition-packed recipes.

This is a useful resource if you are suffering from a chronic illness and need to find a dietitian near you. With this web page located on the Dietitians of Canada website, you can search for local dietitians according to location, language, conditions, and lifestyle habits.

This book provides basic information about cancer, provides nutritional strategies and a comprehensive diet plan to combat cancer metabolism by depriving cancer cells of fuel needed for their growth. Authors suggest easy-to-follow lifestyle changes and include 150 recipes based on dietary principles explained in the book.

This guide offers food servings, daily calories, types of beneficial foods and other nutritional recommendations from Health Canada.

This book explains how blood sugar works in the body and how a paleo approach to eating can help to restore healthy blood sugar function. It offers meal plans and over 1000 paleo recipes.

Specifically created for women, this meal plan can help you get started on planning healthy meals to help prevent or manage diabetes.

This resource is designed for those who are undergoing or are about to undergo treatment for cancer. With this guide you can find information about different foods you can include in your diet plan to increase your consumption of calories, how diet can keep your strength up, and how to address food-related challenges during treatment.

This book is a unique combination of medical guidebook and cookbook. Pain and inflammation are a daily burden on anyone with arthritis, but this very informative guidebook provides useful information on how to manage pain and how different foods work for or against this effort. The book also provides menu plans, supplement information and various useful tables and charts.

On UnlockFood.ca you’ll find information on nutrition, food and healthy eating as well as recipes, videos and interactive healthy eating tools. You can also use a searchable directory of dietitians to find a dietitian in your area.

The authors identify the nutritional deficiencies and dependencies caused by our diet that lead to malnutrition and other serious dietary diseases. The book features a 12-step program for developing an individualized diet and a 30-page section on the nutrient content of common foods.

 In addition to giving advice on reading food labels, this site lists high and low sodium foods. It also makes suggestions for using herbs and spices as salt supplements when preparing meals.

This book offers over 150 brain exercises and puzzles which cover mental speed, visual-spatial acuity, language acquisition, sensory growth and more. It also provides information on the connection between brain and diet and includes menu plans and more than 125 recipes.

This resource provides guidelines and tips for people with diabetes and chronic kidney disease with concerns regarding the control of blood sugar and high blood pressure.

Whether you are looking for diabetes-friendly recipes for yourself or for someone with diabetes, you can search the Canadian Diabetes Association's delicious collection of savoury and sweet recipes by keywords, category or main ingredient to help you live well with diabetes.

This resource lists tips for healthy living and preventing development of arthritis. The focus is on healthy eating, weight management and physical activity. There are a number of references to programs and publications from Eat Right Ontario, Arthritis Society and government sources.

Breaking the Vicious Cycle was written by Elaine Gottschall, biochemist and cell biologist. It provides an alternative way to help combat digestive disorders using dietary changes; and also a practical book that addresses the problems of intestinal conditions such as: Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Diverticulitis, Celiac Disease as well as less severe complaints like: indigestion, "nervous stomach", chronic diarrhea & spastic colon.

This book explains science behind 10 major recommendations that are the best weapon at our disposal to prevent cancer and to give cancer survivors practical tools to prevent recurrence. The book shows statistical evidence for disease prevention and explains beneficial life changes to combat cancer.

This book provides a thorough understanding of why the thyroid may be out of balance and what to do about it. Each chapter shows a connection of different body systems with the thyroid and explains what leads to thyroid disorders. The authors provide an in-depth look at autoimmune thyroid disease, which is the most common cause of thyroid disorders. The second half of the book is filled with thyroid-healthy recipes and nutritional strategies to ensure better metabolism and wellbeing.

Making the right food choices will help you achieve and maintain a healthy body weight and keep your blood glucose stable. This Meal Planner will help you to choose the best foods and the correct portions to manage your diet better.

This comprehensive guide helps in achieving and maintaining an optimal balance of prebiotics and probiotics in the digestive system. It explains what prebiotics and probiotics are, how they work, and how they are linked to diseases like inflammatory bowel disease and urinary tract infections. The health benefits of prebiotics and probiotics are also covered and their role in maintaining a healthy digestive system and prevention of many diseases is explained. The book offers a vegetarian plan and strategies for creating a healthier gut.

This updated second edition, in a very informative and easy-to-understand manner, provides all the necessary guidelines regarding the specific foods that might cause problems, as well as nutritious recipes that can be enjoyed without compromising this difficult condition.

Authors of this book present a new paradigm; we are deeply connected to nature through our microbiomes, the rich microbial ecosystem of our guts and skin. They show how to nurture our microbiome to ensure its biodiversity important in leading healthier and happier life.

This web page introduces some effective ways to reduce high blood pressure without the use of medication.

This video addresses the importance of nutrition in preventing arthritis, how to make wise food choices; how to shop on a budget and how to decipher labels on everyday items in the supermarket.

The book shows how you can recognize your nutritional shortfalls, deficits in your diet that will increase your risk of the degenerative diseases of age, including diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia and others. It helps you to understand how to optimize health with selected vitamins and other supplements, increase energy, strengthen your immune system, maintain a healthy brain.

The author presents findings grounded in his 45 years of medical practice in the United States and Japan. This research supports the idea of a miracle enzyme out of which all the enzymes the body needs are produced. He suggests cancer and other diseases occur when this key enzyme is depleted and cannot properly do its job. In this book he clearly shows how what we eat affects that enzyme. The suggestions for diet and lifestyle based on this science are simple and easy to follow.

The gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), is a serious affliction affecting millions of people. This book is a comprehensive resource to crucial medical facts and coping mechanisms for those who suffer from this condition. Since healthy eating is the key to the management of acid reflux and GERD, the authors include 100 specially tailored recipes.

This is a comprehensive guide to disease-fighting foods. It's a manual of which foods to eat and how often, in what amounts, and how to add them to your family's diet in unique and delicious recipes. It will help you discover power foods, the nutrient-packed whole foods that have been shown in scientific studies to lower the risk of many chronic diseases.

The website provides information on nutrition, heathy eating, weight loss and diets for all age groups. In addition to articles on nutrition, there are also videos, health tips, and useful links to other subject-related sites.

As Parkinson’s disease worsens, everyday activities like eating and drinking can become more difficult. This resource explains how Parkinson’s disease can cause swallowing problems and how there are different choices for feeding.

This book is designed to educate patients suffering from CFS/FM about their illnesses and to teach them coping skills that will improve their quality of life. It knowledgably sheds light on these invisible and misunderstood conditions and epidemics many people are straggling to understand. It covers causes, symptoms, diagnosis and available medications. The book also discusses the value and limitations of alternative and complementary therapies.

The book explains how the eye functions and what nutrients influence these physiological processes, and includes tailored, easy-to-understand instruction on which foods and nutrients will target the reader's specific concerns. Author uses clear, accessible language to translate research from hundreds of clinical studies in ophthalmology and nutrition to show how we can restore and maintain eyesight by changing our diet.

The book explains the five common food triggers that can set off the symptoms of MS. Yet because MS is such a complex disease, different foods play a role of culprits or aides. Readers learn how to pinpoint their specific problem foods and sensitivities. The book also offers more than one hundred simple recipes, strategies to improve digestion, ways to balance the immune system and repair the body's myelin membranes.

This is a guide to eating well with diabetes. You can find here practical tips and strategies to help plan healthy meals and diabetes-friendly recipes.

This website provides extensive information on osteoporosis, its causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention. It includes a proactive prevention plan, osteoporosis food quiz and a slide show explaining this medical condition further.

This is a book book for people who are struggling with what they can eat after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The authors provide sound nutrition information in a clear and concise manner and relate it to everyday eating with helpful tips. They also offer nutrition facts plus resources for obtaining additional information if the reader is interested.

Author shows how you can prevent and reverse diabetes and its related symptoms and lose weight in the process. Designed for anyone ready to enjoy a healthier and longer life, Dr. Fuhrman's plan is based on theory that foods with a high nutrient density turn our bodies into self-healing. The book supplies the science and clinical evidence to prove that diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure and are reversible and preventable.

This factsheet explains the main nutritional problems faced by people with cystic fibrosis (CF) and symptoms of malabsorption. It also provides nutritional recommendations and advice on how to help by adding nutritional supplements and enzymes to the diet.

The book offers a step-by-step plan and over 75 recipes for reversing some of the most persistent conditions. It explains the science and rationale for the silent epidemic of diabetes and weight gain that occurred in North America.

This web page provides general information on celiac disease, including its symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, and how to choose the right foods.

Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland lays out a road map for good health by helping us to understand body processes and the root causes of chronic illness. As Bland teaches us, no two people have the identical form of any disease, so with the right personalized program, we can safely and effectively manage and ultimately cure what ails us.

It's not always easy to follow your diabetes meal plan day after day, but this collection of recipes may help.

This book shows how all members of the family can gleefully boost their nutrition and maintain strong immune systems with delicious smoothies. One hundred recipes for special smoothies include an assortment of food and flavors, take minutes to prepare, and are packed with the vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals that fight autoimmune disorders.

This book contains over 400 mouth-watering-recipes produced by more than 50 of the world’s top raw food chefs, and is an essential resource on choosing ingredients, eating right and creating delicious dishes. There is also advice on choosing ingredients, resources to buy the tools you need to create raw dishes, and a comprehensive Raw Food Glossary.

This practical, comprehensive guide will help you take charge of your health and eliminate this painful disease from your life. It includes the latest information on risk factors, dietary and lifestyle choices, and state-of-the-art treatments.

This book could help you to reduce your risk of developing diabetes, improve your insulin sensitivity, keep your blood glucose levels and blood pressure under control and maintain a healthy body weight. With tips and strategies for working with your doctor, the most recent info on medications, and guidance on the best foods to eat it offers straightforward advice for a healthier lifestyle.