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Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

Victoria Sweet · Riverhead Books
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover

A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs...
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Dangerous Boobies: Breaking Up with My Time-Bomb Breasts

Caitlin Brodnick · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

After watching too many family members die of cancer, at age 28, public speaker and comedian Caitlin Brodnick was tested for the BRCA1 gene mutation and tested positive, indicating an 87% chance she'd likely be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. She had a preventative double...
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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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The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell YOU

Mike Dooley · Hay House
Pages: 217
Format: Print book

" "I know this may come as a shock, and you know I m not fond of using stale one-liners, but reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I m as alive now as I was on the day we met, except, maybe, more so. If the dead could speak, don t you wonder what they would say to those...
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The Purification Plan: Pure Vitality, Pure Resilience, Pure Health

Peter Bennett · Rodale Books
Format: Print book

Proven strategies to repair toxic damage and restore the body to vibrant health--in as little as 7 days!A growing body of research points to toxins as a major contributor to weight gain, fatigue, and chronic illness. Now anyone can safely and effectively cleanse the body of these harmful...
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The Chemistry of Calm: A Powerful, Drug-Free Plan to Quiet Your Fears and Overcome Your Anxiety

M.D. Henry Emmons M.D. M.D. · Touchstone
Format: Paperback

Marrying Eastern techniques of meditation with traditional Western solutions of diet and exercise, celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Henry Emmons offers a proven plan to combat anxiety—without medication—that has helped tens of thousands gain inner peace and start enjoying life.The...
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I'm Too Young for This!: The Natural Hormone Solution to Enjoy Perimenopause

Suzanne Somers · Harmony
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Why Wait to Feel Good Again? If you're in your thirties or forties, your body is changing, and so are your moods, sleep, health, and weight. Tired of being at the mercy of your hormones? Armed with the knowledge in this book, you don't have to be. Perimenopause can be enjoyable if you know...
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10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

Dan Harris · It Books
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 Living Now Book Award for Inspirational MemoirNightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.After having...
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Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

T. Colin Campbell · BenBella Books, Inc.
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerWhat happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important...
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When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests

Leana S Wen · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

In this examination of the doctor-patient relationship, Drs. Wen and Kosowsky argue that diagnosis, once the cornerstone of medicine, is fast becoming a lost art, with grave consequences. Using real-life stories of cookbook-diagnoses-gone-bad, the doctors illustrate how active patient participation...
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Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide To Kidney Cancer

Janet R. Walczak · Jones & Bartlett Learning; 1 edition
Format: Book

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Kidney Cancer is a concise, easy-to-follow “how to” guide that puts you on a path to wellness by explaining kidney cancer treatment from start to finish. It guides you through the overwhelming maze of treatment decisions, simplifies the complicated...
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Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future

M.D. Andrew Weil · Hudson Street Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Unabridged CDs, 6 CDs, 7 hours Read by the author A landmark book that shows us exactly how we have let health and medicine become a crisis in our society and what we can all do to resolve it. ,
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6-Day Body Makeover: Drop One Whole Dress or Pant Size in Just 6 Days--and Keep It Off

Michael Thurmond, personal trainer. · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback

The US national bestseller by tv fitness guru Michael Thurmond, now in paperback, offers a proven programme that allows you to eat more, exercise less and shed as much as ten pounds in just 6 days.
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