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Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Fight fat at its true source: your cells. An MIT-trained scientist explains the one secret you need to know to lose weight and keep it off. Raymond Francis is the scientist people turn to when diets don't work. His groundbreaking approach treats excess weight for what it really is—a disease caused by malfunctioning cells. As Francis explains, many of the foods we eat every day, especially the “health” and “diet” ones we dutifully buy to...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When we receive diagnoses from medical professionals, we are often so overwhelmed that we give up authority over our own health and well-being. But the truth is, we have more control over our health and life that we have been led to believe, and that belief is at the core of our body's capacity to heal itself. Based on the groundbreaking documentary of the same name, Heal follows two people on their healing journeys, while combining science-backed...
Author
Publisher
Beyond Words Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Jon Gabriel lost 225 pounds in two-and-a-half years, going from 409 pounds to 184, without suffering, dieting, or anguishing over his body. In his book, he teaches you how to train your body to want to be thinner. Following the "Gabriel Method," you'll simply crave less food, you'll crave healthier foods, your metabolism will speed up and you'll become very efficient at burning fat, just like a naturally thin person.
Author
Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Caroline Leaf packs an incredible amount of information that will change listeners' eating and thinking habits for the better. Rather than getting caught up in whether people should go raw or vegan, gluten-free or paleo, Leaf shows that every individual is unique, has unique nutritional needs, and has the power to impact their own health through the right thinking. There's no one perfect solution. Rather, she shows listeners how to change the...
Author
Publisher
Fireside/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Marla Cilley (The Flylady) and Leanne Ely (The Dinner Diva) team up to provide the same "baby-step-at-a-time" approach to erase the clutter they carry on their bodies and minds when it comes to body image and understanding sound nutrition.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul returns to his health and wellness roots with an exciting new approach to weight loss that focuses on the hungers we experience physically, mentally, and spiritually"--
Author
Publisher
Da Capo
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the author was advised to focus her attention on others as part of her therapy after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, describing the transformative benefits of giving gifts that inspired her to create the online 29-Day Giving Challenge to help others to renew life energy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating a name no one in his civilian life has ever heard--that of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline. David decides to return something precious he long ago stole from the man he now calls Clayton Fire Bear. It may be the only way to find...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From journalist and poet Melissa Bond, [an] ... account of [her] addiction to benzodiazepines (a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan) and the hidden dangers they pose. As Melissa mothers her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or [fewer] each night ... Following her doctor's orders, Melissa takes [benzodiazepines] night after night; her body begins...
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Exploring both the spiritual and personal aspects of cancer, as well as the social and cultural views of health, disease, life, and death, Jarvis's account speaks to the uncertainties, fears, and overall process inherent in dealing with the disease.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Maintaining and improving your brain's health is vital to your quality of life--a fact that becomes more important as you age. This essential guide offers tons of helpful information and tangible steps you can take to keep an active mind throughout your life."
Author
Language
English
Description
" At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. "When Breath Becomes Air" chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Honest, warm, and witty, this memoir reads like a conversation with a dear friend, a woman sharing her vulnerabilities and confidence, her pain and loss, as she endures infertility, illness, and recovery. With self-awareness and humor, the author takes readers along as she heals by focusing on the experiences of her mother and grandmothers, the wonders of the natural world, and creating a legacy for herself. Perfect for readers of Anne Lamott and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
" BREATHE is a groundbreaking look at a health topic we have all taken for granted. In a fascinating, straightforward, jargon-free exploration of how our bodies were meant to breathe, Dr. Belisa Vranich delves into the ins and outs of breathing. In the first book of its kind, BREATHE offers readers an intuitive correcting of a widespread health issue. By combining both anatomy and fitness with psychology and mindfulness, Dr. Vranich gives readers...