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Beating Cancer with Nutrition: Optimal nutrition can improve outcome in medically treated cancer patients

Patrick Quillin
Format: Paperback

Cancer has escalated from a once obscure disease to a leading cause of death worldwide. Chemo, radiation, and surgery can reduce tumor burden but do nothing to change the underlying causes of cancer. Enter the need for this book. Using evidence-based guidelines, this book gives you a simple...
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The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

Michael Easter · Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild.In many ways, we're more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading...
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Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work

Alex Bezzerides · Hanover Square Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover

"An unforgettable journey through this twisted miracle of evolution we call 'our body.'" - Spike Carlsen, author of A Walk Around the BlockFrom blurry vision to crooked teeth, ACLs that tear at alarming rates and spines that seem to spend a lifetime falling apart, it's...
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID

Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Beginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year surges forward with essential information--and...
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The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness

Kelli Harding M.D.
Format: Paperback

When Columbia University doctor Kelli Harding began her clinical practice, she never intended to explore the invisible factors behind our health. But then there were the rabbits. In 1978, a seemingly straightforward experiment designed to establish the relationship between high blood cholesterol...
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Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic

Emma Goldberg · Harper
Format: Hardcover

The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening book in the tradition of both Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial and Scott Turow's One L.In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting "match...
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

President Barack Obama (on Twitter) "An important book." - Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book Review Now also a PBS documentary series: the surprising story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where...
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Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno

Nancy Jo Sales · Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

At 49, famed Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales was nursing a broken heart and wondering, "How did I wind up alone?" On the advice of a young friend, she downloaded Tinder, then a brand new dating app. What followed was a raucous ride through the world of online dating. Sales,...
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Little and Often: A Memoir

Trent Preszler · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Little and Often is a beautiful memoir of grief, love, the shattered bond between a father and son, and the resurrection of a broken heart. Trent Preszler tells his story with the same level of art and craftsmanship that he brings to his boat making, and he reminds us of creativity's...
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Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It

Sharman Apt Russell · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one-fourth of the world's children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients. These children do not die but endure a lifetime of diminished potential. During the past thirty years, says Sharman Russell,...
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