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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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How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide

Toni Bernhard · Wisdom Publications (MA)
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Comfort, understanding, and advice for those who are suffering--and those who care for them.Chronic illness creates many challenges, from career crises and relationship issues to struggles with self-blame, personal identity, and isolation. Beloved author Toni Bernhard addresses these challenges...
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Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family

Alice Randall · Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

A mother-daughter duo reclaims and redefines soul food by mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger. In May 2012, bestselling author Alice Randall penned an op-ed in the New York Times titled "Black...
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Move or Die: How the Sedentary Life is Killing Us and How Movement Not Exercise Can Save Us

Tim Sitt · Self-Counsel Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

If you've ever struggled to create health in your life, this book is your guide towards a new vision of sustainable health. It encourages you to free your body through movement in all environments and at all moments whether that is at work or home. Research is demonstrating that the negative...
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Cooking Light Snacktastic!: 150-Calorie Snacks That Keep You Satisfied

The Editors of Cooking Light Magazine · Oxmoor House
Format: Book

When hunger strikes, its often unhealthy, highly processed foods that beckon, even though nutrition-dense and delicious snacks can be prepared in less time than an elevator ride to the breakroom or vending machine. Cooking Light Snacktastic! provides busy people with recipes and ideas for quick,...
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Clear Skin Detox: A Revolutionary Diet to Heal Your Skin from the Inside Out

Lauren Talbot · Ulysses Press
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback

BEAUTIFUL SKIN STARTS FROM WITHINTransform your skin by flushing toxins and fueling your body the natural way. Clear Skin Detox Diet shows you how to achieve the youthful, radiant complexion you desire by packing your diet with sustainable, life-force building nutrition. Rather than trying...
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Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician

Sandeep Jauhar · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist. Hoping for the stability...
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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

Walter Mischel · Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior...
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The Age of Longevity: Re-Imagining Tomorrow for Our New Long Lives

Rosalind C Barnett · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Long, productive lives are the destiny of most of us, not just the privilege of our great-grandchildren. The story of aging is not one of steady decline and decay; we need a new narrative based on solid research, not scare stories. Today Americans enjoy a new, healthy stage of life, between...
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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes

Sharon Moalem · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.INHERITANCEConventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception....
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Idiot's Guides: Reflexology

Bill Flocco · Alpha Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Reflexology is a safe and gentle therapy that uses pressure points to combat stress, boost the immune system, and stimulate the natural healing process. Idiot's Guides: Reflexology is geared to the absolute beginner and uses dozens of full-color, step-by-step photographs to teach techniques...
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Diet for the MIND: The Latest Science on What to Eat to Prevent Alzheimer's and Cognitive Decline -- From the Creator of the MIND Diet

MARTHA CLARE MORRIS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of the MIND diet, the authoritative guide to eating for a healthy brain and optimal cognitive function.Several factors play into whether you will suffer from cognitive decline and develop Alzheimer's disease -- lifestyle, health conditions, environment, and genetics, for example....
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Year of No Sugar: A Memoir

Eve O Schaub · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

For fans of the New York Times bestseller I Quit Sugar or Katie Couric's controversial food industry documentary Fed Up, A Year of No Sugar is a "delightfully readable account of how [one family] survived a yearlong sugar-free diet and lived to tell the tale...A funny, intelligent,...
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Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them

Isaac Fitzgerald · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearers true self or the accidental consequence of a bender. These most permanent and intimate of body adornments are hidden by pants legs and shirttails,...
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