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Why Diets Fail

Nicole M. Avena Ph.D. · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover

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...
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Heart: An American Medical Odyssey

Dick Cheney · Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

For as long as he has served at the highest levels of business and government, Vice President Dick Cheney has also been one of the world’s most prominent heart patients. Now, for the first time ever, Cheney, together with his longtime cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, MD, shares the very...
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The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline

DALE BREDESEN · Avery
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking plan to prevent and reverse Alzheimer's Disease that fundamentally changes how we understand cognitive decline. Everyone knows someone who has survived cancer, but until now no one knows anyone who has survived Alzheimer's Disease. In this paradigm shifting book,...
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Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition

PIA DE JONG · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Pia de Jong's vivid memoir about her newborn daughter's battle with leukemia and the startling decision that led to her recovery.On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdam's old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed...
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Unexpected Recoveries: Seven Steps to Healing Body, Mind, and Should When Seious Illness Strikes

Tom Monte · Square One Pub
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

For more than three decades, Tom Monte has been a leading writer, teacher, and counselor within the natural healing community. As a national best-selling author, he has helped bring to the public's attention the work of many cutting-edge doctors, medical researchers, and scientists....
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American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System

E. Fuller Torrey · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health...
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Everybody's Got Something

Robin Roberts · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover

"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's...
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Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes

Tim Spector · Overlook Hardcover
Format: Print book

If you share most of the same genetic material, what makes you so different from your siblings? How much are the things you choose to do everyday--what you eat, how you vote, who you love--determined by your genes, and how much is your own free will? Using fascinating case studies of identical...
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ADHD Does Not Exist: The Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

Richard Saul · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 313
Format: Print book

In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder - one of the fastest growing and widely diagnosed conditions today - to argue...
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Southern Living Slim Down South Cookbook: Eating well and living healthy in the land of biscuits and bacon

Carolyn O'Neil · Oxmoor House
Format: Book

With the combined expertise of Southern Living and author Carolyn O'Neil, The Slim Down South Cookbook offers strategies, recipes, and expert tips for enjoying great Southern food while maintaining a healthy, balanced diet-without feeling deprived! Carolyn's Slim Down South plan...
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis

Arthur Allen · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From a laboratory in wartime Poland comes a fascinating story of anti-Nazi resistance and scientific ingenuity. Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed -- refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples -- causing hallucinations, terrible...
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The 3-1-2-1 Diet: Eat and Cheat Your Way to Weight Loss--up to 10 Pounds in 21 Days

Dolvett Quince · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 291
Format: Print book

This 21-day program works by manipulating your body's natural tendency to slow its metabolic rate in response to calorie restriction. It takes a new approach to getting lean--one scientifically based on changing up food and calories to tap into your body's potential to burn fat....
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Ending Back Pain: 5 Powerful Steps to Diagnose, Understand, and Treat Your Ailing Back

Dr. Jack Stern M.D. Ph.D. · Avery; 1 edition
Format: Book

A totally new paradigm for treating back pain Virtually every American will suffer from back pain at some point. Dr. Jack Stern, a neurosurgeon and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, brings relief to these millions of sufferers (including himself) who literally ache for help....
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A Nation in Pain: Healing our Biggest Health Problem

Judy Foreman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 446
Format: Hardcover

Out of 238 million American adults, 100 million live in chronic pain. And yet the press has paid more attention to the abuses of pain medications than the astoundingly widespread condition they are intended to treat. Ethically, the failure to manage pain better is tantamount to torture....
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