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The Alzheimer's Prevention & Treatment Diet

Richard S. Isaacson MD · Square One Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Alzheimer s disease (AD) is a type of dementia that can be very hard on both the patient and the caregiver. Currently, five million Americans have been diagnosed with AD--and that number is likely to triple by 2050. While the cause of Alzheimer s disease is still a mystery, new research...
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Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair

Emma Tarlo · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

When it's not attached to your head, your very own hair takes on a disconcerting quality. Suddenly, it is strange. And yet hair finds its way into all manner of unexpected places, far from our heads, including cosmetics, clothes, ropes, personal and public collections, and even food....
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Nora Ephron · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests,...
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The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life

Judith Orloff · Random House Inc
Pages: 401
Format: Print book

Are you longing for your life to be easier and more fun? Would you like to stop pushing, micromanaging, and forcing things so you can relax? What if you could enjoy what you have instead of always lusting for "more"? What if you could live in "the zone," propelled by powerful...
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Breath Perception: A Daily Guide to Stress Relief, Mindfulness, and Inner Peace

Barbara Ann Kipfer · Skyhorse Pub Co Inc
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

A daily guide to harnessing the amazing power of breath.Breath Perception is your companion to understanding the power of breath and using it as a tool to improve your physical and mental health. Partly because we take breath for granted and do not "work" with it, we are somewhat...
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Living with Cancer: A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis

Vicki A Jackson · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast amount of medical information online, this advice is often unreliable or confusing. In Living with Cancer, Drs. Vicki A. Jackson and David P. Ryan have crafted...
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The Diabetes Breakthrough: Based on a Scientifically Proven Plan to Lose Weight and Cut Medications

Osama Hamdy · Harlequin
Format: Hardcover

Why WAIT? In this groundbreaking book, diabetes and weight management expert Osama Hamdy, M.D., Ph.D., reveals how you can reverse the course of your type 2 diabetes, lose weight for good and finally reclaim your health—in just 12 weeks! Dr. Hamdy is at the forefront of cutting-edge...
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Should I Scoop Out My Bagel?: And 99 Other Answers to Your Everyday Diet and Nutrition Questions to Help You Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Live Healthy

Ilyse Schapiro · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 225
Format: Print book

"This fun, breezy guide positions the authors as both experts and the reader's best friends, encouraging, advising, and cheering on." - Publisher's WeeklyAs a registered dietitian and a health industry expert, Ilyse Schapiro and Hallie Rich are "Dear Abby" meets Sex and the City...
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Witchy Mama: Magickal Traditions, Motherly Insights & Sacred Knowledge

Melanie Marquis · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

Written for mothers, by mothers, Witchy Mama offers practical and magickal ideas, inspiration, and information to help you overcome stress and exhaustion, banish bad dreams, soothe boo-boos, create a magickal home, achieve personal goals, and more. Discover stones, scents, and colors...
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Not As Prescribed: Recognizing and Facing Alcohol and Drug Misuse in Older Adults

Harry L Haroutunian · Hazelden
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

The older adult population is growing by leaps and bounds. Dramatic lifestyle changes, along with growing health problems, have led many to turn to alcohol, prescription painkillers and marijuana to medicate their physical and psychic pain. You may think, "Dad is just enjoying cocktails...
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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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Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records

Adam Tanner · Beacon Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomesHidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies,...
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Go your Crohn way : a gutsy guide to living with Crohn's disease

Kathleen D Nicholls · Philadelphia
Pages: 205
Format: Print book

For Kathleen Nicholls, life with Crohn's disease has been a constant battle against her bowels. But life has also been about David Bowie, dancing, and laughter. "Go Your Crohn Way" follows the highs and lows of Kathleen's experiences, and is full of useful advice for maintaining...
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Passionate Nutrition: A Guide to Using Food as Medicine from a Nutritionist Who Healed Herself from the Inside Out

Jennifer Adler · Sasquatch Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This power-foods healthy-living guidebook will inspire readers to eat well, lose weight, and embrace food as medicine. "Food as medicine" is a powerfully healing way to eat and was embraced by nutritionist Jennifer Adler as she recovered from a malnour­ished childhood and adolescence....
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Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace & Savor Your Next Chapter

Ron Pevny · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Paperback

We financially plan for our retirement, but do we plan for our wellbeing? Here is an empowering guide with practical tools to help you live a passionate, fulfilling second half of life.If you're part of the Baby Boomer generation, then you belong to 26 percent of the US population that...
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