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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease,...
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It's a common sentiment among all women: we want to be fit, we want to get healthy, and we want to have more energy to live our busy, beautiful lives. Denise understands women's wants and needs, and the hurdles that they face in achieving that healthy balance. In Side Effect: Skinny (Bird Street Books, Inc.), she shares her secret fat-blast diet tips and healthy, delicious eating plans, along with fun and effective workout regimens you can do right...
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"This dynamic plan will help the whole family kick-start their health and wellness and set the stage for long-term, lasting improvements in nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress, and screen use habits. Dr. Natalie Digate Muth walks families through this thirty-day transformation that establishes a baseline and goals, creates routines and healthy habits, and provides strategies for overcoming frustration and recognizing obstacles. At the end of thirty...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Reveals the secret ingredients for staying vibrant in midlife and beyond, by combining more than 60 clean, nourishing recipes with revitalizing routines and self-care practices. -- adapted from back cover.
Combining form and function, this book is both a resource and an inspiration. Fresh, approachable recipes for all occasions--including drinks, of course--deliver a number of benefits that boost immunity, strengthen memory, lift moods, support digestive...
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"Feel great and perform at your best in the boardroom, weight room, bedroom, and beyond with this indispensable health and wellness guide: Your New Prime debunks current thinking about men's health and shows how every man can continue to operate at his peak at any age.Getting older may be inevitable, but in Your New Prime, serial entrepreneur and men's health expert Craig Cooper shows men that they don't have to accept the "natural" aging process....
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Being a woman in the health care system is inherently hazardous to your health. Women often experience misdiagnosis and ignorance of their symptoms, in part because for centuries females were excluded from important medical research. This work reveals the gender bias that can cause harm. Tips and tools guide women to better health outcomes. "Why do so many women have trouble getting effective and compassionate medical treatment? [This book] examines...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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From best-selling author and social-media-star doctor comes a step-by-step guide to reversing the effects of aging at any stage in life.
Growing older is a blessing. But the slow decline and the loss of functionality associated with aging has led us to treat the process like a disease. These negative effects of aging, however, are not inevitable. Rather, they're largely the result of environmental and lifestyle factors that, when properly addressed,...
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"In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman went from a healthy, ambitious college sophomore to an emaciated, wandering girl ... For weeks she was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. Unable to get out of bed ... Norman dropped out of school and embarked on what would become a years-long journey to discover what was wrong with her. Along the way she would...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"In her ... memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn't diagnose or treat. Worse, as they failed to cure her, they hinted that her problems were all in her head. [This book] is a memoir with a mission: to help the millions of (mostly) women who suffer from unnamed or misunderstood conditions:...
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"Growing up isn't as easy as it looks. With changing emotions, friends, expectations, and bodies, some days it can seem like life is one big roller coaster ride. The Boy's Body Book is the #1 bestselling guide for boys, and it's here to help with expert advice, common sense tips, fast facts, and answers to all questions a boy might have. Topics include: From hair care to athlete's foot, a head to toe guide to what's happening with your changing body...
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Avery, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
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" A renowned physician shares her complete 10-day digestive tune-up for women, with important revelations about good gastrointestinal health. Many so-called cures for women's bloating and indigestion, from juice cleanses to specialty diets, are based on junk science. For women seeking true relief from that overall feeling of discomfort in any size jeans, Dr. Robynne Chutkan has the perfect plan for feeling light, tight, and bright in ten days. Gutbliss...
96) The vagina bible: the vulva and the vagina--separating the myth from the medicine /|cJen Gunter, MD
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Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Dr. Gunter knows the questions women (and men) have about female sexual health, and in [this book], she answers them all. For the sixteen-year-old trying to figure out tampons; the twenty-six-year-old wondering how to avoid a UTI; the thirty-six-year-old trans woman navigating her new anatomy; the forty-six-year-old worried about the changing appearance of her vulva; the fifty-six-year-old looking into the HPV vaccine for her daughter (and maybe...
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"This fully illustrated picture book explores the science behind basic health habits including hand washing, appropriate ways to cough and sneeze, how medicines work, and the importance of a healhty diet and exercise through diagrams, photos, and informative and engaging text."--Publisher's description.
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"Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They're taboo. They're embarrassing. They're gross ... Because of these stigmas, [the author believes that] a status quo has been established to exclude people who menstruate from the seat at the decision-making table, creating discriminations like the tampon tax, medicines that favor male biology, and more. [This book] aims to explain what menstruation is, shed light on the stigmas and...
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