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Atkins: Eat Right, Not Less: Your Guidebook for Living a Low-Carb and Low-Sugar Lifestyle (5)

Colette Heimowitz - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

Enjoy the benefits of a lower-carb lifestyle on your own terms - including a better keto diet: This is Atkins® your way.For more than forty years, Atkins has used proven scientific research to help millions achieve weight-loss goals and improve their health by controlling carbohydrate...
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AIDS Sourcebook, 7th Ed.

Not Available - Omnigraphics, Inc.
Format: Library Binding

Health information about HIV and AIDS, including information about the stages of the disease and how it is transmitted, prevention guidelines, treatment options, and tips for living with AIDS. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.
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Yoga: THE PATH TO HOLISTIC HEALTH

B K S Iyengar - Dorling Kindersley
Format: Hardcover

Around the world, increasing numbers of people are turning to yoga as a means of keeping fit and reducing stress. In this comprehensive and highly illustrated guide B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's leading teacher of yoga, shares his unique, holistic approach. For Iyengar, yoga is more than...
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The Program: 21 Days to a Stronger, Slimmer, Sexier You

Jessie Pavelka - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

Simple Changes = Powerful Results in Only 21 Days For more than 10 years--most recently as the newest trainer on the hit television show "The Biggest Loser "and now inspiring its huge online community--fitness expert Jessie Pavelka gets results by keeping it simple. Pavelka knows...
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Food What the Heck Should I Eat?

Mark Hyman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman sorts through the conflicting research on food to give us the skinny on what to eat. Did you know that oatmeal actually isn't a healthy way to start the day? That milk doesn't build bones, and eggs aren't the devil? In Food:...
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Aging with Wisdom: Reflections, Stories and Teachings

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle - Monkfish Book Publishing
Format: Paperback

"Opens the door to aging's wisdom and love in a beautiful and heartfelt way." -- Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with HeartHow do we enter our elder years with openness, curiosity, and engagement? A central assumption of this book is that deepening one's inner life is central...
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Manly Health and Training: To Teach the Science of a Sound and Beautiful Body

Walt Whitman - Regan Arts.
Format: Hardcover

A truly significant discovery, Walt Whitmans Manly Health and Training is an entertaining health manifesto that sheds new light on one of Americas major nineteenth-century authors. . In the fall of 1858, a thirteen-part essay series appeared in the New York Atlas, under the title Manly...
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Smart Fat: Eat More Fat. Lose More Weight. Get Healthy Now.

Jonny Bowden - HarperOne
Format: Print book

The innovative guide that reveals how eating more fat - the smart kind - is the key to health, longevity, and permanent weight loss.For years experts have told us that eating fat is bad. But by banning fat from our diets, we've deprived ourselves of considerable health benefits - and have...
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Complementary & Alternative Medicine Sourcebook, 6th Ed.

Not Available - Omnigraphics, Inc.
Format: Library Binding

Consumer health information about alternative and complementary medical therapies, including treatments for specific diseases and conditions. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.
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Pilates for Living: Get stronger, fitter and healthier for an active later life

Harri Angell - Bloomsbury Sport
Format: Paperback

Aging successfully means learning how to make and maintain positive lifestyle changes to remain in the best of health. Not just living longer, but better, and embracing aging, rather than dreading it. Regular Pilates practice can enable a fulfilling and active later life, helping to lower...
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Goop Clean Beauty

Goop. - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Print book

The ultimate beauty guide from the experts at GOOP--the trusted resource for healthy, mindful living, curated by Gwyneth Paltrow Millions of women around the world turn to the clean-living team at GOOP for beauty advice. From nontoxic product recommendations, red carpet- (and everyday-)...
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Let It Bleed: How to Write a Rockin' Memoir

Pamela Des Barres - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

Author of the international bestseller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing.For the last fourteen years, Pamela Des Barres has been teaching an eight-week women's "femoir" writing workshop. She found...
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The Prime: Prepare and Repair Your Body for Spontaneous Weight Loss

Kulreet Chaudhary - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

Prepared to live at your prime?. Integrative neurologist Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary discovered a beautiful side effect to the eating and lifestyle tools she gave her brain patients--spontaneously shedding excess pounds. In this, her first book, she shows us how to sharpen the brain, and smarten...
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Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health

Jay Lemery - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens readers about the most important aspect of one of the greatest challenges of our time. The global environment...
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A Juice a Day: 365 juices smoothies for every day of the year

Hamlyn - Hamlyn
Format: Paperback

Discover new ways to enjoy your fruit and vegetables, and learn why certain ingredients are so good for you. With such a wide range of juices you will have a wealth of choices - recipes include Nutty Banana, Nectarine and Basil, Beet and Blueberry, Kumquat and Pear, and Chocolate Blackcurrant...
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Prescription Drug Abuse: A Reference Handbook

David E Newton - ABC-CLIO
Format: Print book

Evidence suggests that both adults and youth are abusing a wider range of prescription drugs and abusing them more frequently than has been the case in the past. Prescription drugs are the second most common class of drugs abused by Americans, more than twice as commonly abused as cocaine,...
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The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

MICHAEL M D GREGER - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifully-designed, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious,...
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Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser

Martie Haselton - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The hidden intelligence of the hormonal cycle and its role in empowering women to succeed sexually, reproductively, and socially. Hormones don't make women irrational; they help women choose mates, compete with female rivals, produce healthy offspring, and conquer other biological challenges....
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Stretching for 50 : A Customized Program for Increasing Flexibility, Avoiding Injury and Enjoying an Active Lifestyle

KARL KNOPF - Ulysses Press
Format: Paperback

An easy-to-start program for maintaining a mobile, active, and healthy lifestyle after 50 and beyondJust ten minutes a day of these modified stretches is guaranteed to help you improve your mobility without pain or injury. Stretching for 50+ is filled with safe, easy routines for any age....
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The Shred Power Cleanse: Eat Clean. Get Lean. Burn Fat.

Ian K Smith - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

Dr. Ian is answering Shredder Nation's call for a short-term, fast-acting cleanse that will help you reset and power through to your new weight loss goal!The SHRED Power Cleanse takes the classic detox plan to a new level. You won't find any fiberless, anemic juices on this regimen!...
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The Songaminute Man: A Tribute to the Unbreakable Bond Between Father and Son

Simon McDermott - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and emotional memoir about family and memory from the father-son singing sensation whose heartwarming carpool karaoke video took social media by storm.At first, Simon's beloved father, Ted, suffered sudden bad moods and forgetfulness. Then the diagnosis: Alzheimer's.Ted...
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Live Long And . . .: What I Learned Along the Way

William Shatner - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Book

Star Trek legend and veteran author William Shatner discusses the meaning of life, finding value in work, and living well whatever your age."I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who lived...

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The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Acupressure with Aromatherapy Treatments: Relief for 64 Common Health Conditions

Karin Parramore - Robert Rose
Format: Print book

Acupressure uses the same pressure points of acupuncture but instead of needles, you simply use your fingers to gently but firmly stimulate your body's natural ability to heal. With its easy and conversational style along with step-by-step photos, you'll discover how to heal...
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The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too!

Bryant Johnson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A fun, fully illustrated exercise book that details Ruth Bader Ginsburg's workout, written by her trainer Have you ever wondered what keeps Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the Supreme Court's favorite octogenarians, so sprightly? She owes it all to her personal trainer, Bryant Johnson, whom...
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Lush: A Memoir

Kerry Cohen - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

"For those of us wrestling with demons -- and who isn't? -- Lush is a solace and as powerful as red wine." -- Claire Dederer, bestselling author of Love and Trouble: A Midlife ReckoningWhen Loose Girl author Kerry Cohen reached her early 40s, she realized she had a drinking...
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In This Together: My Story

Ann Romney - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

When Mitt and Ann Romney met in their late teens, a great American love story began. And their life together would be blessed: five healthy sons, financial security, and a home filled with joy. Despite the typical ups and downs, they had a storybook life.Then, in 1998, Ann was diagnosed...
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The Wonder Down Under: The Insider's Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina

Ellen Støkken Dahl - Quercus
Format: Hardcover

The Wonder Down Under is a comprehensive guide to a miraculous and complex part of the body that too few of us (regardless of gender) are all that familiar with--the vagina. With wisdom, humor, and scientific aplomb, medical student Ellen Stkken Dahl and Dr. Nina Brochmann take...
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Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition

Pia de Jong - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Pia de Jongs vivid memoir about her newborn daughters battle with leukemia and the startling decision that led to her recovery.On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdams old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed baby...
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Psoriasis, Second Edition

Alan Menter - CRC Press
Format: Hardcover

The new edition of a concise yet thorough illustrated review of the diagnosis and treatment of many forms of psoriasis now includes the many new therapies available and in development, as well as more material on psoriasis as a systemic disease and on comorbidities. This will be of interest...
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Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries

Mark Leslie - Dundurn
Format: Print book

A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world, focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations. Throughout history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched us. They have also kept us up through the night, thrilled us, and lured into their endless...
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The Complete Yoga Tutor: A structured course to achieve professional expertise

MARK KAN - Gaia
Format: Paperback

Mark Kan, one of the UK's leading yoga teachers, demonstrates how this ancient practice will show you the way to radiant health, mind control and peace within one's self and with nature. This practical guide takes you through the practices of asana (postures) , pranayama (breathing...
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Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer

Catherine Guthrie - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A feminist breast cancer memoir of medical trauma, love, and how she found the strength to listen to her body. As a young, queer woman, Catherine Guthrie had worked hard to feel at home in her body. However, after years writing about women's health and breast cancer, Guthrie is thrust...
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Mindfulness in Music: Notes on Finding Life's Rhythm

Mark Tanner - Leaping Hare
Format: Hardcover

Mindfulness in Music is a joyful exploration into the meditative nature of music and its holistic beauty. Mark Tanner reveals how composers and musicians have always embraced mindful connections, and how everyone can cherish the same life-affirming chords. Whether listening to a forest...
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The postnatal depletion cure : a complete guide to rebuilding your health and reclaiming your energy for mothers of newborns, toddlers, and young children

Oscar Serrallach - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Print book

"While postpartum depression has become a recognizable condition, THE POSTNATAL DEPLETION CURE is the first book to treat the nutrient depletion, sleep loss, and emotional shifts that afflict women up to a decade after giving birth. Most mothers have experienced exhaustion, pain, forgetfulness,...
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Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment

August McLaughlin - Amberjack Publishing
Format: Hardcover

What's a girl boner? And why is a woman's pleasure always an afterthought? In Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, August McLaughlin offers the perfect companion for women of all ages seeking richer, fuller, and more pleasure-filled lives -- on their terms. In a culture...
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How to Leave: Quitting the City and Coping with a New Reality

Erin Clune - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

An uproarious memoir/tongue-in-cheek guide to leaving the cool city in which you "found" yourself and moving somewhere far more ordinary. So you escaped whatever humdrum little town you grew up in and moved to The Big City. Maybe it was New York. Maybe it was Seattle or Kansas...
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The Yoga Lifestyle: Using the Flexitarian Method to Ease Stress, Find Balance, and Create a Healthy Life

Doron Hanoch - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback

Create a new world of personal wellness with Doron Hanoch. The Yoga Lifestyle expands on the concept of the flexitarian diet to help you build an entire flexitarian lifestyle. Integrating yoga, Ayurveda, breathing practices, meditation, nutrition, and recipes -- the flexitarian method takes...
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Sugar swap diet : eat carbs, crush cravings, and drop up to 14 pounds in 14 days

David Zinczenko - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lose up to a pound a day and curb your craving for sweets with delicious recipes and simple, science-based food swaps from David Zinczenko, Good Morning America's health and wellness editor and bestselling author of Zero Belly Diet, Zero Belly...
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Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration

Dana Cohen - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Chronic headaches...brain fog...fatigue...weight gain...insomnia...gut pain...autoimmune conditions. We may think these and other all-too-common modern maladies are due to gluten intake or too much sugar or too little exercise. But there is another missing piece to the health puzzle: Proper...
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Metabolism Revolution: Lose 14 Pounds in 14 Days and Keep It Off for Life

Haylie Pomroy - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

Lose 14 pounds in 14 days - harness the power of food to reset your metabolism for good with this breakthrough program complete with recipes and a detailed, easy-to-use diet plan from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet.The diet industry has been plagued...
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Brain-Powered Weight Loss: The 11-Step Behavior-Based Plan That Ends Overeating and Leads to Dropping Unwanted Pounds for Good

Eliza Kingsford - Rodale
Format: Print book

Losing weight and successfully maintaining it over the long term is not as much about what you put in your stomach; it's more about what's happening in the brain. In Brain-Powered Weight Loss, psychotherapist and weight management expert Eliza Kingsford shows that more than 90 percent...
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Target 100: The World's Simplest Weight-Loss Program in 6 Easy Steps

Liz Josefsberg - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

"When I was losing weight, Liz was more than my coach; she was my rock, and I couldn't have done it without her. She just got it, because she'd been through it herself (and helped about a million other people through it, too) . Target 100 is Liz in book form - smart, supportive,...
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Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga

Amy Weintraub - Three Rivers Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Take the natural path to mental wellness More than 25 million Americans are treated with antidepressants each year, at a cost in excess of $50 billion. But the side effects of popular prescription drugs may seem nearly as depressing as the symptoms they’re meant to treat. Veteran...
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Shift for Good: Simple Changes for Lasting Joy Inside and Out

Tory Johnson - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Good Morning America contributor Tory Johnson truly believed that she would live happily ever if only she could lose weight. She seemed to be well on her way to that ever-lasting joy after losing 62 pounds in a year--a journey she detailed in her inspirational #1 New York Times bestseller...
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Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives

Tom Farley MD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited...
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Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body.

Jessamyn Stanley - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

From the unforgettable teacher Jessamyn Stanley comes Every Body Yoga, a book that breaks all the stereotypes. It's a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we. It's a book for readers already...
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Let's Talk about Sleep: A Guide to Understanding and Improving Your Slumber

DANIEL A BARONE - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

News about sleep is everywhere we turn, and the statistics are numbing: Some 50-70 million Americans are affected by chronic sleep disorders and intermittent sleep problems; an estimated 30-35% of adults complain of insomnia; one in every 25 Americans takes a prescription sleep medication;...
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Lemons Are a Girl's Best Friend: 60 Superfood Recipes to Look and Feel Your Best

JANET HAYWARD - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

Lemons Are a Girl's Best Friend is a handy, pocket-sized guide to thirty superfoods, each with two simple recipes--one to eat and one to use as a beauty treatment, complete with notes about each food's benefits and best uses.With 60 recipes for healthy dishes and all-natural beauty...
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Unexpected Recoveries: Seven Steps to Healing Body, Mind, and Should When Seious Illness Strikes

Tom Monte - Square One Pub
Format: Paperback

For more than three decades, Tom Monte has been a leading writer, teacher, and counselor within the natural healing community. As a national best-selling author, he has helped bring to the public's attention the work of many cutting-edge doctors, medical researchers, and scientists....
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Chronic Diseases

Jean Kaplan Teichroew - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover

This comprehensive two-volume work provides an overview of an area of growing concern, offering readers a one-stop resource for researching the chronic conditions that increasingly plague our society.* Presents comprehensive, up-to-date information in an easily accessible style* Examines...
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An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere

Mikita Brottman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere -- a once-grand hotel -- and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed...
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The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer

CHARLES GRAEBER - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of The Good Nurse, Charles Graeber details the discovery of cancer's secret weakness, and how a new generation of scientists finally cracked the code on how the human immune system can fight -- and beat -- the disease. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font:...
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Staying Alive: The Signs That You Have to See a Doctor Right Now (and the Ways to Avoid Having to See One Again)

Matthew Hahn M.D. - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

Staying Alive is the ultimate medical survival guide for the twenty-first-century patient. Written by the award-winning family physician Dr. Matthew Hahn, the book details what most effectively saves patients lives and keeps them well. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dr. Hahn teaches...
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Your Best Age Is Now: Embrace an Ageless Mindset, Reenergize Your Dreams, and Live a Soul-Satisfying Life

Robi Ph D Ludwig - Harper One, 2016.
Format: Print book

Although we've been conditioned to think "middle aged" is practically a four-letter word, the realities of women in midlife today are far different than what our mothers experienced. Women in their 40s, 50s, and even 60s are living younger, vibrant lives. But influenced by our youth-obsessed...
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark...
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YOU: Raising Your Child: The Owner's Manual from First Breath to First Grad

Varios - SIMON & SCHUSTER INC

There's little doubt that parenting can be one of the most rewarding and satisfying experiences you'll ever have. But it can be plenty tough, too: Around the clock, you're working to keep your little one healthy, teach her the difference between right and wrong, and make sure none of her little...
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The Healing Powers of Tea

CAL OREY - Citadel
Format: Paperback

HEALTHY RECIPES * HOME CURES * WEIGHT LOSS TIPS With a Foreword by Will Clower, Ph.D., CEO Mediterranean Wellness and Author of The Fat Fallacy and The French Don't Diet Plan "A fascinating book that goes beyond just 'green' to include the medicinal benefits of black,...
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Breast Cancer Smoothies: 100 Delicious, Research-Based Recipes for Prevention and Recovery

Daniella Chace - HCI
Format: Print book

The statistics are staggering. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women--About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Second only to heart disease by a mere one percent, every ounce of prevention and every...
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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

Alison Gopnik - Farrar
Format: Print book

One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of "good parenting"Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting...
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Mayo Clinic Family Health Book

Scott C. Litin - Mayo Clinic
Format: Hardcover

The comprehensive 5th edition of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book draws upon the knowledge and expertise of more than 4,500 physicians, scientists and researchers. Prior editions of this trusted medical reference guide have sold more than 1.5 million copies. And with 38 chapters and almost...
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Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

JOEL FUHRMAN - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and The End of Diabetes, an unflinching, provocative exploration of how our food is killing us and the ways in which we are unwitting participants in an unprecedented and exploding health crisis. Fast food is far more than just...
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Disease Management

Omnigraphics, Inc. - Omnigraphics, Inc.
Format: Library Binding

This print and online resource provides information about navigating the health care system, communicating with health care providers, and finding and evaluating health information.
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25Days: A Proven Program to Rewire Your Brain, Stop Weight Gain, and Finally Crush the Habits You Hate--Forever

DREW LOGAN - North Star Way
Format: Hardcover

Celebrity trainer and cast member of NBC's Strong, Drew Logan shows us how to rewrite our neurological patterns and break the habits that prevent us from losing weight and living a healthy life.What if we could train our brains to stop weight gain in our quest to be lean, healthy,...
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The Zika Prevention Handbook: Everything You Need To Know To Stay Safe

Alexander Webb - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

As the Zika virus continues to spread throughout North America, people need answers. What are the origins of this virus? How does it spread? Should we be concerned? How can we stop the spread of infected mosquitos? With the increasing prevalence of Zika, concrete answers are needed now more...
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Dynamic Aging: Simple Exercises for Better Whole-body Mobility

Katy Bowman - Propriometrics Press
Format: Print book

What if your pain and lack of mobility isn't due to your age, but your habits? What if changing how you move can change how you feel, no matter your age? Dynamic Aging is an exercise guide to restoring movement, especially for healthy feet, better balance, and the activities of daily...
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A Book About Love

Jonah Lehrer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the mysterious subject of love.Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites,...
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The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor: My Years at the CDC

William H Foege - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover

In its seventy years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has evolved from a malaria control program to an institution dedicated to improving health for all people across the world. The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor is a revealing account of the CDC's development...
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The 6 Keys: Unlock Your Genetic Potential for Ageless Strength, Health, and Beauty

JILLIAN MICHAELS - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

Eight-time New York Times-bestselling author Jillian Michaels presents a revolutionary program to reverse the effects of aging and maintain optimal health for life. With Master Your Metabolism, Jillian Michaels showed us how to take control of the metabolic machinery underneath...
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The Beauty of Dirty Skin: The Surprising Science of Looking and Feeling Radiant from the Inside Out

Whitney Bowe - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Internationally renowned dermatologist and research scientist Dr. Whitney Bowe presents, for the first time, the connection between a healthy gut and radiant, clear skin, with a 21-day program to maximize skin health and beauty.Every year, nearly 80 million Americans will consult their...
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Medical Medium Liver Rescue: Answers to Eczema, Psoriasis, Diabetes, Strep, Acne, Gout, Bloating, Gallstones, Adrenal Stress, Fatigue, Fatty Liver, Weight Issues, SIBO & Autoimmune Disease

ANTHONY WILLIAM - Hay House Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times best-selling author and beloved healing authority reveals how taking your liver off overload can help resolve a wide range of symptoms and conditions--and transform your health in ways you've never imagined.What if you could focus on one aspect of your well-being to transform...
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Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

Leo Braudy - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting...
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Sonya Huber - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book

Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous...
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Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World

Dahlia Schweitzer - Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback

Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even...
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

Renee Ph D Engeln - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein,...
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A funeral for my fat : my journey to lay 100 pounds to rest

Sharee Samuels - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

I wear black when I work out; it's a funeral for my fat.Why a funeral? Because death is permanent; when something dies, it's not coming back. Sharee Samuels was seventeen and 256 pounds when she hit her rock bottom. But with incredible determination and an unflaggingly positive attitude,...
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The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington - Harmony
Format: Print book

We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, writes Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post. And this has profound consequences - on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed, she boldly asserts,...
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Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide

Penny Simkin - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback

Available for the first time in full color, the up-to-date and authoritative pregnancy guide that has sold 1.5 million copies--by recognizing that "one size fits all" doesn't apply to maternity careParents love this book because it puts them in control; experts love it because...
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Breast Cancer Clear & Simple: All Your Questions Answered

American Cancer Society. - American Cancer Society
Format: Print book

A breast cancer resource for the newly diagnosed from the experts at the American Cancer Society With an easy-to-understand, question-and-answer format, this book guides patients through the important decisions they'll need to make, from diagnosis through treatment. It helps women with...
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The End of Old Age: Living a Longer, More Purposeful Life

Marc E Agronin - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover

In his last book, How We Age, Dr. Marc Agronin wrote passionately about how we need to place greater value on our elders and hope for a better old age, even in the throes of illness and dementia. But he doesn't want us to simply gaze at the holiness of old age, nor does he want us searching...
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Sick: A Memoir

POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author Porochista Khakpour's struggles with late-stage Lyme disease.

For as long as writer...

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What to Eat When: A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food

Michael Roizen - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

NY Times best-selling author Dr. Michael Roizen reveals how the food choices you make each day--and when you make them--can affect your health, your energy, your sex life, your waistline, your attitude, and the way you age.What if eating two cups of blueberries a day could prevent...
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Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own

Andrew Weil - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Too many Americans are taking too many drugs -- and it's costing us our health, happiness, and lives.
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Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

Stephen Westaby - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

One of the world's leading heart surgeons shares the hard-won lessons of a life lived where failure and death are just a heartbeat away
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Paramedic Certification Exam

Learningexpress. - Learning Express
Format: Print book

This completely revised and updated edition of Paramedic Certification Exam offers targeted preparation to help applicants pass their EMT-certification exam. Inside:Access to SIX complete practice tests based on the most current National Registry Exam;Up-to-date and revised review lessons...
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TEAS Exam Practice Questions: TEAS Practice Tests & Review for the Test of Essential Academic Skills

TEAS Exam Secrets Test Prep Team - Mometrix Media LLC
Format: Paperback

TEAS Exam Practice Questions are the simplest way to prepare for the TEAS test. Practice is an essential part of preparing for a test and improving a test taker's chance of success. The best way to practice taking a test is by going through lots of practice test questions.If someone...
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You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Virgie Tovar - The Feminist Press at CUNY
Format: Paperback

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it -- and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry...
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A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia

Sandra Allen - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia...
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Complete guide to medicaid and nursing home costs : how to keep your family assets protected.

Atlantic Publishing Group. - Atlantic Publishing
Format:  Print book : English

In this book, you will learn all the legal means to protect your assets: the Federal Spousal Impoverishment Act, Medicaid trusts, and Medicare supplemental insurance. This book explains the complicated issues, terminology, and planning strategies of asset protection to the layperson.
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Communication For Nurses: Talking With Patients

Lisa Kennedy Sheldon - Jones & Bartlett Learning; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

Communication for NursesTalking with Patients, Third Edition is a comprehensive text that prepares Nursing students for a career in healthcare. This must have text is suitable for students and professionals alike as it providing the reader with the tools necessary to develop a professional...
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The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Dalai Lama - Avery
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestsellerTwo spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their...
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Glow15: A Science-Based Plan to Lose Weight, Revitalize Your Skin, and Invigorate Your Life

NAOMI WHITTEL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

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....
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The Word Escapes Me: Voices of Aphasia

Mona Greenfield Ellayne Ganzfried - Balboa Press
Format: Hardcover

A loss for words...something we all have experienced. Imagine living each day trying to find the words, understand what is being said, having trouble reading and writing. Welcome to the world of aphasia. This book provides much needed insight into this devastating communication disorder...
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

MICHAEL POLLAN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller.A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing...
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Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body

Kate Hudson - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book

I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this,...
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Skinny Habits: The 6 Secrets of Thin People

Bob Harper - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Bob Harper lets us in on the secret behaviors of people who not only lose weight but keep the pounds off for good - and make it look easy. In Bob Harper's #1 New York Times bestselling book The Skinny Rules, the trusted trainer and coach of NBC's The Biggest Loser laid out the twenty...
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EMT Basic Exam Study Guide: Textbook and Practice Test Questions for the National Emergency Medical Technicians Basic Exam

Trivium Test Prep (Firm) - Trivium Test Prep
Format: Print book

Think all EMT-B study guides are the same? Think again! With easy to understand lessons and practice test questions designed to maximize your score, you'll be ready. You don't want to waste time - and money! - having to study all over again because you didn't get effective studying...
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Cancerland: A Medical Memoir

DAVID T M D SCADDEN - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

A doctor's riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer.What is it like to encounter cancer? How does it feel to face the unknown, to enter a world of hope, loss, and dread?From the diagnosis of his childhood friend's mother to his poignant memories in the lab, David Scadden's...
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The Clarity Cleanse: 12 Steps to Finding Renewed Energy, Spiritual Fulfillment, and Emotional Healing

Habib Sadeghi - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

A liberating 12-step guide to recognizing the emotional issues that hold us back, with strategies to increase our energy and help us reach our full potential, by the health and spiritual advisor to Gwyneth Paltrow.A regular GOOP contributor in health and spirituality, Dr. Sadeghi offers...
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Beyond Beautiful: Using the Power of Your Mind and Aesthetic Breakthroughs to Look Naturally Young and Radiant

Doris Day - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

From celebrities, to supermodels, to busy moms, renowned cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Doris Day has kept them glowing in over twenty years of practice. And she knows that all women have something in common: they want to look and feel more beautiful. Everyone deserves to feel gorgeous, but Dr. Day has learned...
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The Big Thing: How to Complete Your Creative Project Even if You're a Lazy, Self-Doubting Procrastinator Like Me

Phyllis Korkki - Harper
Format: Print book

A New York Times business journalist explains why it's important for people to pursue big creative projects, and identifies both the obstacles and the productive habits that emerge on the path to completion - including her own experience writing this book.Whether it's the Great...
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Women's Health Lift to Get Lean: A Beginner's Guide to Fitness & Strength Training in 3 Simple Steps

Holly Perkins - Rodale Books; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Research shows that building muscle helps the body burn more calories 24/7 and that resistance training is the most effective way to torch body fat. Yet that message is still lost on many women who fear that weight lifting will make them bulky, turn their skin green, and give them Incredible...
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Oh Sugar!: How to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth Naturally for a Happy, Healthy Lifestyle

Daisy Godwin - Summersdale
Format: Print book

Are you addicted to the "white stuff"? And are you aware of the dangers in your diet? Sugar, in everything from blatantly indulgent chocolate to seemingly innocent fruit juices, is not something that manufacturers like to shout about, but the truth is it's everywhere. Sweet...
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Sleeping Your Way to the Top: How to Get the Sleep You Need to Succeed

Terry Cralle - Sterling Publishing
Format: Print book

Many people today believe that the less sleep you get, the more productive you are. But two nationally recognized experts are here to debunk that myth and show that sufficient sleep and success go hand in hand. A groundbreaking collaboration between certified clinical sleep educator Terry...
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Beat IBS: A simple, five-step plan for restoring your digestive health

Hilda Glickman - Robinson
Format: Paperback

Are you suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome Do you have episodes of wind, bloating, constipation and diarrhoea If so, this probably means that your digestive system is not functioning properly and you need to find out why. Based on proven methods applied in her own practice, Hilda Glickman...
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GQ How to Win at Life: The Expert Guide to Excelling at Everything You Do

Charlie Burton - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

Featuring Jamie Oliver on cooking, Richard Branson on business, Tom Daley on sports, and much more. Essential skills from the best-selling men's magazine on looking sharp and living smart. Based on personal expertise, interviews with foremost authorities and wisdom from GQ's editors,...
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What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

Nina Lorez Collins - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

When Nina Collins entered her forties she found herself awash in a sea of hormones. As symptoms of perimenopause set in, she began to fear losing her health, looks, sexuality, sense of humor-perhaps all at once. Craving a place to discuss her questions and concerns, and finding none, Nina...
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

Benjamin K Bergen - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

It may be starred, beeped, and censored--yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains.Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks,...
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Hunger: A Memoir of

Roxane Gay - Harper
Format: Print book

"New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes...
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Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness

Timothy Caulfield - Beacon
Format: Print book

An exploration of the effect our celebrity-dominated culture has on our ideas of living the good life What would happen if an average Joe tried out for American Idol, underwent a professional makeover, endured Gwyneth Paltrow's "Clean Cleanse," and followed the outrageous...
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The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain

Steven R. Gundry - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

"I read this book... it worked. My autoimmune disease is gone and I'm 37 pounds lighter in my pleather." --Kelly ClarksonMost of us have heard of gluten - a protein found in wheat that causes widespread inflammation in the body. Americans spend billions of dollars on gluten-free...
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The Complete Human Body: The Definitive Visual Guide

Alice Roberts - DK
Format: Hardcover

Intricate details of all aspects of the human body down to the smallest detail - from our cells and DNA to the largest bone in our bodies, the femur.. 3D generated illustrations and medical imaging provide a close look at the bodys forms and functions in physiology and anatomy, showing...
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The Stash Plan: Your 21-Day Guide to Shed Weight, Feel Great, and Take Charge of Your Health

Laura Prepon - Touchstone
Format: Print book

From Laura Prepon, star of Orange Is the New Black, and integrative nutritionist Elizabeth Troy comes an exciting 21-day plan combining the latest in food science with ancient dietary wisdom, to shed stubborn weight for good and achieve overall wellness.Despite her glowing on-screen...
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Food Can Fix It: The Superfood Switch to Fight Fat, Defy Aging, and Eat Your Way Healthy

MEHMET OZ - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Includes the 21-Day Weight Loss Jumpstart! Improve your life through your diet with a friendly, non-punishing, and completely authoritative approach to harnessing the healing power of food from Dr. Mehmet Oz, America's #1 authority on health and well-being.What if you had an effortless...
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You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between

Daniela Lamas - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A critical care doctor's breathtaking stories about what it means to be saved by modern medicineModern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate in survival...
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Wired to Eat: Turn Off Cravings, Rewire Your Appetite for Weight Loss, and Determine the Foods That Work for You

Robb Wolf - Harmony
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Solution... One Month to Reset Your Metabolism for Lasting Fat LossOne Week to Discover the Carbs that are Right for You Do you struggle to lose weight and get healthy? Are you playing the blame-game and berating yourself for "cheating"...
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