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42) The American Yoga Association's easy does it yoga: the safe and gentle way to health and well-being
Author
Publisher
American Yoga Association
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bulsiewicz gives readers information to help optimize the gut microbiome, sharpen immunity, lower cholesterol, and promote weight loss through a diet rich in diverse fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and legumes. Caspero shares plant-based recipes that make Bulsiewicz's fiber fueled plan easy to follow, as well as delicious and satisfying.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Aging, despite its dismal reputation, is actually one of the great mysteries of the universe. Why don't we just reproduce, then exit fast, like salmon? Could aging just be one big evolutionary accident? Is senescence, the gradual falling apart of our bodies, at least partially avoidable? Can we extend the healthy lifespan and reduce the lingering, debilitating effects of senescence?
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the authors of the Forks Over Knives Plan comes a complete guide to a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle for your entire family, with more than 125 delicious kid-friendly recipes and tips for raising a whole-foods-loving child in a junk-food-laden world.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on counterintuitive new research to reveal the health potential of coffee, explaining how to consume coffee strategically to enable specific benefits, including weight loss and resilience against disease.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The book offers an account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in 2020, and on how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on a combination of case studies and research from a range of scientific disciplines, author, physician, and sociologist Nicholas Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague -- an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvii, 221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A leading voice in public health policy and environmental medicine reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives -- and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back. Lurking in our homes, hiding in our offices, and polluting the air we breathe is something sinister. Dr. Leonardo Trasande tells the story of how our everyday surroundings are making us sicker, fatter, and poorer. Dr. Trasande exposes...
59) Sick from freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive health book and lifestyle plan to help manage the body's natural rhythms, offering advice to overcome difficulty sleeping, hunger at odd times, and sudden fatigue.
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