a great reference book in shaping and toning your body.
Time Life Education
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9780809461585
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Hardcover
The Cut
By Chestnut, Morris
Transform Your Body in Just 12 WeeksHollywood leading man Morris Chestnut may be known for his washboard abs and ripped arms, but not too long ago he was in the worst shape of his life - 30 pounds overweight, avoiding the gym, and frequenting the drive-through. Morris turned to celebrity fitness and nutrition expert Obi Obadike to help get back in shape and the results were astounding. Morris went from 220-pounds to 187 pounds in just 12 weeks, and audiences haven't stopped raving about his new look since. Now Morris and Obi are joining forces to share their life-changing program with fans nationwide. Backed by the latest cutting-edge nutrition science and featuring Obi's trademark fat-burning exercise program, THE CUT is designed to help readers drop pounds quickly - up to 10 pounds in 10 days and 40 pounds in 12 weeks- without stalling on the scale. Featuring Morris's personal diet and exercise plan, plus dozens of success stories from everyday people who've lost weight and kept it off, THE CUT will help readers reclaim their health and discover the lean and toned body they've always wanted. Join the revolution and get ready to get cut
Grand Central Life & Style
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9781455565238
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Print book
The Dubrow Keto Fusion Diet
By Dubrow, Heather
The authors of the extremely popular The Dubrow Diet return with a new diet book that draws on the best parts of keto and interval eating to provide the simple secrets to weight loss success - backed up by science, their proven results, and 12:8:4 eating schedule.Heather and Terry Dubrow, M.D., taught people how to adapt interval eating into their daily lives with their smash hit The Dubrow Diet. While many people want a healthier, more regimented lifestyle, they find that interval eating often leaves them hungry.Now, these wellness experts offer a solution - a fusion of "Keto" diet and interval eating. The Dubrow Keto Fusion Diet is the ultimate answer for anyone trying to get healthy, lose weight, and maintain a fit lifestyle, while still truly enjoying their life.
William Morrow
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9780062984326
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Hardcover
Finish Strong
By Lee, Barbara Coombs
From the president of Compassion & Choices, the guide to achieving the positive end-of-life experience you want and deserve. It's hard to talk about death in America. But even though the topic has been taboo, life's end is an eventual reality. So why not shape it to our values? FINISH STRONG is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick. The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate. This book describes concrete action in the here and now to help live our best lives to the end. FINISH STRONG will guide you through: * Finding a partner-doctor to honor your values and beliefs with humanity, deference and candor.
Compassion & Choices
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9781732774407
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Paperback
Chronic
By Steven, Phillips,
After nearly dying of the disease himself, Steven Phillips, MD, experienced firsthand the confusion in the medical community about Lyme disease that too often leads to misdiagnosed and undiagnosed cases. He has made it his mission to separate facts from misconceptions, working with top universities to find cures and novel therapies for this often debilitating disease that affects so many. In this eye-opening and controversial book, Dr. Phillips and his former patient, Dana Parish, who has become a major voice in the field of Lyme disease, take on the medical establishment. Dr. Phillips posits that the bacteria that causes Lyme, Borrelia burgdorferi, and its germy relatives can trigger other autoimmune diseases (including MS, rheumatoid arthritis, ALS, fibromyalgia, lupus, and others) and allow them to persist.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
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9780358064718
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Glow15
By Whittel, Naomi
Based on Nobel Prize-winning research, an easy-to-follow lifestyle plan for losing weight, looking younger, and feeling energizedThe 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to a Japanese scientist for his discoveries on autophagy, the process of cells recycling their content. Glow15 is the first book for a general audience to take that fascinating science and translates into an accessible, practical guide to losing weight, looking younger, and feeling energized. On Glow15, you start each day with an autophagy-activating ketogenic tea and a light, full-fat breakfast, followed by intermittent fasting and protein cycling. You eat foods that activate autophagy, like dairy, red wine, grains, and a blueberry smoothie. It can be that simple to see dramatic results in just 15 days - fast weight loss and glowing, radiant skin. You don't count calories. You don't give up entire food groups. And you don't obsess about the gym. You'll also learn Naomi Whittel's life hacks for sleep, travel, stress reduction, and productivity, as well as delicious and nutritious recipes for eating the Glow15 way - everything that this 42-year-old CEO and mother of four young children does to look and feel amazing.
Publisher: n/a
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9781328897671
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Hardcover
Elegant Defense, An
By Richtel, Matt
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA grand tour of the human immune system and the secrets of health, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist"One of those rare nonfiction books that transcends the genre. ... Extraordinary." - Douglas PrestonA terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them. Matt Richtel's An Elegant Defense uniquely entwines these intimate stories with science's centuries-long quest to unlock the mysteries of sickness and health, and illuminates the immune system as never before.The immune system is our body's essential defense network, a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Its legion of microscopic foot soldiers - from T cells to "natural killers" - patrols our body, linked by a nearly instantaneous communications grid. It has been honed by evolution over millennia to face an almost infinite array of threats. For all its astonishing complexity, however, the immune system can be easily compromised by fatigue, stress, toxins, advanced age, and poor nutrition - hallmarks of modern life - and even by excessive hygiene. Paradoxically, it is a fragile wonder weapon that can turn on our own bodies with startling results, leading today to epidemic levels of autoimmune disorders. Richtel effortlessly guides readers on a scientific detective tale winding from the Black Plague to twentieth-century breakthroughs in vaccination and antibiotics, to the cutting-edge laboratories that are revolutionizing immunology - perhaps the most extraordinary and consequential medical story of our time. The foundation that Richtel builds makes accessible revelations about cancer immunotherapy, the microbiome, and autoimmune treatments that are changing millions of lives. An Elegant Defense also captures in vivid detail how these powerful therapies, along with our behavior and environment, interact with the immune system, often for the good but always on a razor's edge that can throw this remarkable system out of balance.Drawing on his groundbreaking reporting for the New York Times and based on extensive new interviews with dozens of world-renowned scientists, Matt Richtel has produced a landmark book, equally an investigation into the deepest riddles of survival and a profoundly human tale that is movingly brought to life through the eyes of his four main characters, each of whom illuminates an essential facet of our "elegant defense."
William Morrow
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9780062698537
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Hardcover
The Song of Our Scars
By Warraich, Haider
A doctor's personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine's failure to understand pain has made care less effectiveInThe Song of Our Scars,physicianHaider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.Warraich,himselfa sufferer of chronic pain,considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power,bywhose suffering mattered and whose didn't.He weavesa provocative historyfrom theRenaissance, when paintransformed into a medical issue,throughthe racial legacy of pain tolerance,to the opiate epidemics of both thenineteenthandtwenty-firstcenturies, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. Theconclusionis clear: only by reckoning with both pain'scomplicated historyanditsbiologycan today's doctors adequately treat their patients' suffering.
‎Basic Books
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9781541675308
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Hardcover
The Bird Way
By Ackerman, Jennifer
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think."There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." This is one scientist's pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive.
Penguin Press
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9780735223011
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Hardcover
A Mind Unraveled
By Eichenwald, Kurt
The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy - his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive, but to thrive.As a college freshman, Kurt Eichenwald awoke one night on the floor of his dorm room, confused and in pain. In the aftermath of that critical moment, his once-carefree life would be consumed by confrontations with medical incompetence, discrimination that almost cost him his education and employment, physical abuse, and dark moments when he contemplated suicide. This is the story of one man's battle to pursue his dreams despite an often incapacitating brain disorder. From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment, Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition. He recounts his encounters with the doctors whose negligence could have killed him, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who fought for him. Many of Eichenwald's recollections are drawn from his diaries, vivid and painstakingly kept records that helped sharpen his skills as a journalist. He raises important questions about the nature of memory, the revelations of brain science, and the profound mysteries of human perception. Ultimately, A Mind Unraveled is an inspirational story, one that chronicles how Eichenwald, faced often with his own mortality, transformed trauma into a guide for reaching the future he desired. Defying relentless threats to his emotional and physical well-being, he affirmed his decision to never give up, and in the process learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success.
Getting Firm
By Books, Time Life
a great reference book in shaping and toning your body.
The Cut
By Chestnut, Morris
Transform Your Body in Just 12 WeeksHollywood leading man Morris Chestnut may be known for his washboard abs and ripped arms, but not too long ago he was in the worst shape of his life - 30 pounds overweight, avoiding the gym, and frequenting the drive-through. Morris turned to celebrity fitness and nutrition expert Obi Obadike to help get back in shape and the results were astounding. Morris went from 220-pounds to 187 pounds in just 12 weeks, and audiences haven't stopped raving about his new look since. Now Morris and Obi are joining forces to share their life-changing program with fans nationwide. Backed by the latest cutting-edge nutrition science and featuring Obi's trademark fat-burning exercise program, THE CUT is designed to help readers drop pounds quickly - up to 10 pounds in 10 days and 40 pounds in 12 weeks- without stalling on the scale. Featuring Morris's personal diet and exercise plan, plus dozens of success stories from everyday people who've lost weight and kept it off, THE CUT will help readers reclaim their health and discover the lean and toned body they've always wanted. Join the revolution and get ready to get cut
The Dubrow Keto Fusion Diet
By Dubrow, Heather
The authors of the extremely popular The Dubrow Diet return with a new diet book that draws on the best parts of keto and interval eating to provide the simple secrets to weight loss success - backed up by science, their proven results, and 12:8:4 eating schedule.Heather and Terry Dubrow, M.D., taught people how to adapt interval eating into their daily lives with their smash hit The Dubrow Diet. While many people want a healthier, more regimented lifestyle, they find that interval eating often leaves them hungry.Now, these wellness experts offer a solution - a fusion of "Keto" diet and interval eating. The Dubrow Keto Fusion Diet is the ultimate answer for anyone trying to get healthy, lose weight, and maintain a fit lifestyle, while still truly enjoying their life.
Finish Strong
By Lee, Barbara Coombs
From the president of Compassion & Choices, the guide to achieving the positive end-of-life experience you want and deserve. It's hard to talk about death in America. But even though the topic has been taboo, life's end is an eventual reality. So why not shape it to our values? FINISH STRONG is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick. The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate. This book describes concrete action in the here and now to help live our best lives to the end. FINISH STRONG will guide you through: * Finding a partner-doctor to honor your values and beliefs with humanity, deference and candor.
Chronic
By Steven, Phillips,
After nearly dying of the disease himself, Steven Phillips, MD, experienced firsthand the confusion in the medical community about Lyme disease that too often leads to misdiagnosed and undiagnosed cases. He has made it his mission to separate facts from misconceptions, working with top universities to find cures and novel therapies for this often debilitating disease that affects so many. In this eye-opening and controversial book, Dr. Phillips and his former patient, Dana Parish, who has become a major voice in the field of Lyme disease, take on the medical establishment. Dr. Phillips posits that the bacteria that causes Lyme, Borrelia burgdorferi, and its germy relatives can trigger other autoimmune diseases (including MS, rheumatoid arthritis, ALS, fibromyalgia, lupus, and others) and allow them to persist.
Glow15
By Whittel, Naomi
Based on Nobel Prize-winning research, an easy-to-follow lifestyle plan for losing weight, looking younger, and feeling energizedThe 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to a Japanese scientist for his discoveries on autophagy, the process of cells recycling their content. Glow15 is the first book for a general audience to take that fascinating science and translates into an accessible, practical guide to losing weight, looking younger, and feeling energized. On Glow15, you start each day with an autophagy-activating ketogenic tea and a light, full-fat breakfast, followed by intermittent fasting and protein cycling. You eat foods that activate autophagy, like dairy, red wine, grains, and a blueberry smoothie. It can be that simple to see dramatic results in just 15 days - fast weight loss and glowing, radiant skin. You don't count calories. You don't give up entire food groups. And you don't obsess about the gym. You'll also learn Naomi Whittel's life hacks for sleep, travel, stress reduction, and productivity, as well as delicious and nutritious recipes for eating the Glow15 way - everything that this 42-year-old CEO and mother of four young children does to look and feel amazing.
Elegant Defense, An
By Richtel, Matt
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA grand tour of the human immune system and the secrets of health, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist"One of those rare nonfiction books that transcends the genre. ... Extraordinary." - Douglas PrestonA terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them. Matt Richtel's An Elegant Defense uniquely entwines these intimate stories with science's centuries-long quest to unlock the mysteries of sickness and health, and illuminates the immune system as never before.The immune system is our body's essential defense network, a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Its legion of microscopic foot soldiers - from T cells to "natural killers" - patrols our body, linked by a nearly instantaneous communications grid. It has been honed by evolution over millennia to face an almost infinite array of threats. For all its astonishing complexity, however, the immune system can be easily compromised by fatigue, stress, toxins, advanced age, and poor nutrition - hallmarks of modern life - and even by excessive hygiene. Paradoxically, it is a fragile wonder weapon that can turn on our own bodies with startling results, leading today to epidemic levels of autoimmune disorders. Richtel effortlessly guides readers on a scientific detective tale winding from the Black Plague to twentieth-century breakthroughs in vaccination and antibiotics, to the cutting-edge laboratories that are revolutionizing immunology - perhaps the most extraordinary and consequential medical story of our time. The foundation that Richtel builds makes accessible revelations about cancer immunotherapy, the microbiome, and autoimmune treatments that are changing millions of lives. An Elegant Defense also captures in vivid detail how these powerful therapies, along with our behavior and environment, interact with the immune system, often for the good but always on a razor's edge that can throw this remarkable system out of balance.Drawing on his groundbreaking reporting for the New York Times and based on extensive new interviews with dozens of world-renowned scientists, Matt Richtel has produced a landmark book, equally an investigation into the deepest riddles of survival and a profoundly human tale that is movingly brought to life through the eyes of his four main characters, each of whom illuminates an essential facet of our "elegant defense."
The Song of Our Scars
By Warraich, Haider
A doctor's personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine's failure to understand pain has made care less effectiveInThe Song of Our Scars,physicianHaider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.Warraich,himselfa sufferer of chronic pain,considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power,bywhose suffering mattered and whose didn't.He weavesa provocative historyfrom theRenaissance, when paintransformed into a medical issue,throughthe racial legacy of pain tolerance,to the opiate epidemics of both thenineteenthandtwenty-firstcenturies, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. Theconclusionis clear: only by reckoning with both pain'scomplicated historyanditsbiologycan today's doctors adequately treat their patients' suffering.
The Bird Way
By Ackerman, Jennifer
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think."There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." This is one scientist's pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive.
A Mind Unraveled
By Eichenwald, Kurt
The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy - his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive, but to thrive.As a college freshman, Kurt Eichenwald awoke one night on the floor of his dorm room, confused and in pain. In the aftermath of that critical moment, his once-carefree life would be consumed by confrontations with medical incompetence, discrimination that almost cost him his education and employment, physical abuse, and dark moments when he contemplated suicide. This is the story of one man's battle to pursue his dreams despite an often incapacitating brain disorder. From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment, Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition. He recounts his encounters with the doctors whose negligence could have killed him, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who fought for him. Many of Eichenwald's recollections are drawn from his diaries, vivid and painstakingly kept records that helped sharpen his skills as a journalist. He raises important questions about the nature of memory, the revelations of brain science, and the profound mysteries of human perception. Ultimately, A Mind Unraveled is an inspirational story, one that chronicles how Eichenwald, faced often with his own mortality, transformed trauma into a guide for reaching the future he desired. Defying relentless threats to his emotional and physical well-being, he affirmed his decision to never give up, and in the process learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success.