Books with author John Chatty

Do you know why the DASH diet is voted the “Best Diet” year after year?It’s simple: The DASH diet is an easy and sustainable tool for creating a healthful lifestyle. Based on research by the National Institutes of Health, and chosen by U.S. News & World Report as its number-one choice in Best Diets Overall, Best Diets for Healthy Eating, and Best Diabetes Diets, the DASH diet rises above the noise of the gimmicky weight-loss plans.Created as a way for people with high blood pressure to enjoy the foods they love while working to reduce or correct their hypertension, the DASH diet uses healthful food choices, along with more nutritious ways to prepare favorite dishes, to allow people to eat a varied, delicious, and balanced diet. And although it wasn’t created as a weight-loss diet, the DASH diet often does result in weight loss, which is a huge benefit to those who have diabetes or high blood pressure, or are at high risk of developing either disease.In The DASH Diet for Beginners, best-selling health and nutrition author John Chatham provides a straightforward approach to losing weight, reducing hypertension, and improving overall cardiovascular health. More than just a brief overview of the DASH diet, The DASH Diet for Beginners compiles everything you need to know to get started on a healthful new lifestyle. •40 delicious and DASH-approved recipes include low-sodium versions of your favorite foods, from Creamy Spinach Dip and Beef Tostadas to Blackened Salmon Filets and Chocolate Strawberry Mousse. •DASH Diet for Beginners outlines much more than just the basic essentials to get started; it includes DASH diet guidelines and health benefits, scientific studies, a DASH diet foods list, and a healthy fitness and meal plan. •The Seven-Day DASH Diet Meal Plan provides an easy guide to jumpstart your health and weight loss.Lose weight, improve your health, and reduce your risk of heart disease with John Chatham’s The DASH Diet for Beginners.

If you were raised to be a wolf, how would you ever know you were human?A murderous witch orders that her step-daughter is killed in the woods. Yet instead, the child is raised by a kindly she-wolf, exactly as she would have raised her own cub.Brought up as a wild wolf, the girl nevertheless knows that she is different. And when the time comes for her to leave the forest she must learn all over again what it means to be human and who she really is.A princess, a witch, magic, wolves and an awkward question of identity – it all makes for a refreshing take on the classic theme of the lost girl in the woods, a tale with a slightly sinister twist for a new readership.

Who would want to be a 'proper princess'?If being carried around, staring out of castle windows, not wearing out your shoes and endlessly having your hair combed were not bad enough, try sleeping atop a one hundred foot mountain of mattresses.It's all in a day's work as a useless prince sets off to find his equally useless princess in this quirky retelling of the classic fairytale.

A mean and greedy king is nothing but trouble, especially for a daughter whose father cannot stop boasting about just how wonderful she is.Locked in the royal palace, if the poor girl can't spin straw into gold she risks ending up a head shorter. And when a magical and mysterious man comes to her rescue, you can be sure things are only going to get more complicated.Rumpelstiltskin with a twist, for those of us who thought the original didn't quite end properly…

In this darker retelling of the original, the Pied Piper exacts a terrible vengeance against those who betray him.In Hamelin there is an old saying– "If you wound a man well enough it is a sin not to kill him too, because an injured man left alive will seek out his revenge, doing more evil than that done to him."The people of the town should have kept to their saying – it would have been better for them if they had…