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The Shift: How I Finally Lost Weight and Discovered a Happier Life

Tory Johnson · Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

For Tory Johnson, weight was always an issue; although she felt ashamed of how she looked, Tory could never find the will to change. When a network executive warned her that if she didn't lose weight her television career could be in jeopardy, Tory experienced something profound: A Shift....
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Tripping over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms

Travis Christofferson · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

With a new foreword by Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, PhD and epilogue by the author A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanities darkest diagnosis. In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible roadmap...
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss · Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Atlantic * The Huffington Post * Men's Journal * MSN (U.K.) * Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATUREFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative...
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Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up: Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World

Ellen Braaten PhD · The Guilford Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby...
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Sleep: What Every Parent Needs to Know

The American Academy of Pediatrics · American Academy Of Pediatrics
Pages: 219
Format: Paperback

Sooner or later, most parents face challenges at bedtime. From infants and toddlers, to school-age kids and adolescents, sleeptime problems can affect everyone in the family. And no matter what your child's difficulty may be - getting to sleep, staying asleep, bed-wetting, fears or nightmares...
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My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

Scott Stossel · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

A Washington Post Notable BookA Seattle Times Best Book of the YearDrawing on his own longstanding battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents a moving and revelatory account of a condition that affects some 40 million Americans. Stossel offers an intimate and authoritative history of efforts...
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Mind Without a Home: A Memoir of Schizophrenia

Kristina Morgan · Hazelden
Format: Print book

Experience the inner world of a woman with schizophrenia in this brutally honest, lyrical memoir.Have you ever wondered what it is like in the mind of a person with schizophrenia? How can one survive day after day unable to distinguish between one's inner nightmares and the everyday...
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Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

Stephen Westaby · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

One of the world's leading heart surgeons shares the hard-won lessons of a life lived where failure and death are just a heartbeat away
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Navigating the Complexities of Stroke (Neurology Now)

Louis R. Caplan · Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Strokes afflict thousands of people every year. Yet, for every fatal case, many more victims survive, often going on to live long, productive lives. Of course, none of it is simple-not preventing a brain attack, nor survival, rehabilitation, or living with cerebrovascular disease. The key is education,...
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Redefining Aging: A Caregiver's Guide to Living Your Best Life

Ann Kaiser Stearns · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving.In this comprehensive book, best-selling author Ann Kaiser Stearns explores the practical and personal...
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Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Med ical Center

Adele Levine · Avery
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover

M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, darkly funny, and totally unique debut memoir from physical therapist Adele Levine. In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape. As body armor and advanced trauma...
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Get Inside Your Doctor's Head: Ten Commonsense Rules for Making Better Decisions about Medical Care

Phillip K. Peterson · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

With so many medical tests and treatments and so much scientific and medical information—some of it contradictory—how can people make the best medical decisions?Most medical decisions, it turns out, are based on common sense. In this short and easy-to-read book, Dr. Phillip...
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Best Lunch Box Ever: Ideas and Recipes for School Lunches Kids Will Love

Katie Sullivan Morford · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Best Lunch Box Ever is full of recipes, ideas, and strategies for packing creative and healthful lunches for kids, solving what is for many parents the most taxing of daily chores. Kids will love the scrumptiousness, while busy moms and dads will appreciate the quick and simple solutions...
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