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And Then We Rise is about Common's journey to wellness as a vital element of his success. A testimony to the benefits of self-care, this book is composed of four different sections, each with its own important lessons: "The Food" focuses on nutrition. "The Body" focuses on fitness. "The Mind" focuses on mental health. And "The Soul" focuses on perhaps the most profound thing of all--spiritual well-being. Common's personal stories act as the backbone...
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"The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. Greger examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America -- heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more -- and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives. The simple...
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Updated with the latest available research and the new 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines You are what you eat: no, really--it's a scientific fact! Good nutrition is your meal-ticket to staying sleek, healthy, and strong--both physically and mentally. Nutrition For Dummies, 7th Edition is a one-size-fits-all guide to nutrition that shows you how to maintain a healthy weight, promote health, and prevent chronic disease. This book gives you the know-how to...
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Allen Carr is recognised as the world's leading expert on helping smokers to quit, and has sold over 14 million Easyway books to date. This book applies Allen Carr's Easyway method to the problems of addiction to gambling and, in doing so, allows addicts to take back control of their lives.
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Explaining what psychiatry is and what it does, this work looks at the major mental illnesses and how they are treated. It outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.
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"Learn to understand lower back pain and heal it through gentle yoga exercises. Liz Owen, a yoga instructor who specializes in alleviating back pain, describes the anatomy of the sacrum and the region around it, including the hips and lumbar spine. She discusses both the Western and Eastern approaches to understanding back pain--particularly the Eastern medical notion of energy flow and how that relates specifically to the sacrum and the many related...
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Bring your mind, body and spirit into perfect harmony-- the natural way! Ayurveda is a holistic approach to disease prevention and treatment. Recognizing that each of us is unique, it aims to achieve and maintain optimal health and vitality through finding the right combination of diet, exercise, massage, yoga and herbal remedies for each body type.
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The cookbook that answers the question every person with diabetes and prediabetes asks: What do I cook now? From the authors of the bestselling What Do I Eat Now? nutrition and meal planning bible comes the cookbook that puts meal planning advice into practice. If you've been diagnosed with diabetes or prediabetes, you probably know that healthy eating is essential to the successful management or prevention of type 2 diabetes. With so much nutrition...
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Very short introductions volume 504
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What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants - and should they be? Covering depression, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, this Very Short Introduction gives a brief account of the history of these concepts, before focusing on the descriptions and understanding of these disorders today. Jan Scott and Mary Jane Tacchi...
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Six out of ten people admit to wanting to lose weight but are bewildered by the number of diets out there, from those that eliminate fats or carbs to those that tout superfoods or fasting days, but all claiming to be the one that will work. This book gathers together 30 of the most popular and talked-about diets from the last 50 years and examines each one in turn, helping the reader to find a diet that is best suited to them and their lifestyle.
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What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it? When something traumatic happens to us, we dissociate and our bodies shut down their normal processes. This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body. With wonderful artwork, cat and mouse metaphors, essential scientific facts, and a healthy dose of wit, the narrator reveals how trauma resolution involves...
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"Czy obudziłeś się dziś świeży i wypoczęty? Wyłączenie wszystkich urządzeń elektronicznych na 90 minut przed snem korzystnie wpłynie na jakość twojego snu. Ile kolorów już dziś zjadłeś? Codzienne spożywanie warzyw w 5 różnych kolorach wzmocni twój organizm i poprawi jakość mikrobiomu. Czy znalazłeś dziś choć chwilę dla siebie? Wystarczy poświęcić 15 minut dziennie na nicnierobienie, aby obniżyć poziom stresu, a...
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Divided into six distinctly different parts, ranging from an introduction to the profession of personal training to how to run a personal training business, ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer provides coverage of anatomy, exercise physiology, biomechanics, behavior modification, and nutrition as well as assessment of strength and flexibility and the development of resistance and cardiorespiratory training programs -- Provided by the publisher....
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Authored by the lead author of the bestselling 'Medical Microbiology' and written in the same tradition, 'Basic Medical Microbiology' was designed as a straight-forward, practical introduction to this difficult topic. It provides students with a firm foundation in the principles and applications of microbiology, serving as an effective prep tool for examinations and the transition into clinical application. Carefully curated contents focus on the...
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The fifth edition of this book is designed to introduce students to the many areas of study and possible professions in the field of exercise science, whether in an academic setting, at a fitness or sport venue, or in an organization such as the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
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What happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel, or do what it's supposed to do? Who or what defines the ideals behind these expectations? How can we challenge them and live more peacefully in our bodies? Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement Eexplores these questions by examining how traditional religious norms and narratives are tacitly embedded in the construction...
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