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With obesity rising to epidemic proportions in the Western world, it is increasingly evident that one of the principal culprits is the amount of calorie-laden refined sugar many of us consume on daily basis. And although we may be well aware of the obvious ways we add sugar, how many of us really know just how much 'hidden' sugar there is in the food on our table?We cannot afford to let this crisis, which is a major factor in weight gain, diabetes, health disease and cancer, continue.The Fast Diet is a massive step to a slimmer, healthier, longer life but we need to go further and reduce our sugar intake dramatically to optimize our chances of becoming and remaining healthy.Alicia Brent shows you how to avoid the highly addictive 'sugar trap' whilst enjoying a sweeter, happier enjoyable lifestyle, with a wide range of delicious smoothie recipes, free from refined sugar, to incorporate into your diet.

'I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.' - Woody AllenDeath, for reasons that are quite understandable, has become somewhat of a taboo subject in everyday conversation. Though it is the most certain aspect of life, it goes largely unmentioned until the day we are forced to confront it.Yet over the ages there have been many views expressed about our inevitable demise. This book brings together some of the funniest, most interesting and most poetic quotes from a variety of people across the ages.

Samuel Johnson (often referred to as Dr Johnson, though he was not a medical doctor) was one of the shining lights of eighteenth century English literature. He wrote poetry, stories, plays and essays that were well received by the public of his day. In our day his fame rests securely on his nine-year-long work to produce the first comprehensive and structured English dictionary, which remained unrivalled until the Oxford English dictionary appeared in 1928.Many of his sayings have entered regular usage, such as 'When a man is tired of London he is tired of life.' With a whole dictionary at his disposal he was certainly not short of words, as you will find for yourself in this book, where many of his best quotations may be found.

Ellen G. White was, among other things, the co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. During her long life she claimed to have had over two hundred visions, regarded by her church as divine revelations and which formed the basis of her teachings and much of her writing.She was also a vegetarian, a subject on which she also wrote and which inspired the creation of that much-loved breakfast cereal, the corn flake.Her writing was very extensive and so influential that she is generally believed to be the most translated female writer of non-fiction in the history of literature.She is a figure both revered and controversial. You can discover more about her from the collection of quotations contained within this book.

A New Year, a New You..?Do you try, year after year, to make resolutions that you honestly believe you can stick to, only to see them tumble by the wayside before January is out? Or have you actually managed to achieve something through this annual ritual? Are your resolutions truly realistic or do you start with high hopes only to find them out of reach?This little volume looks, through quotes from many sources, at the whole business of trying to change ourselves for the better, not only at the turn of the year but in a wider context too. There are anecdotes, facts, reminiscences, ideas, inspiring and wise words for you to reflect on, to help you manage your own program of change, or make you feel better about having at least tried.