Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions:Self Management of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema and others (Third Edition)
Quantum Wellness Cleanse: The 21-Day Essential Guide to Healing Your Mind, Body and Spirit
Kathy Freston’s appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show prompted Oprah to
commit to the “21-day cleanse” featured in Quantum Wellness, making an
instant bestseller and a national trend. During her 21-day cleanse, Oprah’s
daily blog provided updates on her progress, intriguing millions of readers and making a media frenzy.
Now, with The Quantum Wellness Cleanse, Kathy Freston gives readers the tools they need to fully harness the 21-day cleanse and stay motivated. This simple-to-follow guide lays out a comprehensive plot to turn our lives around in each of the areas of body, mind, and spirit. By following an essential day-by-day map of what to eat, how to deal with the complex feelings that arise as we detox, and how to fully redirect our energy so our lives take on a fresh momentum, this indispensable companion offers recipes that can be mixed and matched, and answers all the questions that may arise so that we can forever change the course of our lives.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted
THE KEY TO A BETTER BODY-in shape, energized, and youthful-is a healthy brain. Based on the latest medical research, as well as on Dr. Amen’s two decades of clinical practice at the renowned Amen Clinics, where Dr. Amen and his associates pioneered the use of the most advanced brain imaging technology, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body shows you how to take the very best care of your brain.
With fifteen practical, simple-to-implement solutions involving nutritious foods, natural supplements and vitamins, positive-thinking habits, and, when necessary, highly targeted medications, Dr. Amen shows you how to:
* Reach and maintain your ideal weight
* Soothe and smooth your skin at any age
* Reduce the stress that can impair your immune system
* Sharpen your memory
* Increase willpower and eliminate the cravings that keep you from achieving your exercise and diet goals
* Enhance sexual desire and performance
* Lower your blood pressure without medication
* Avoid depression and elevate the enjoyment you take in life’s pleasures.
Whether you’re just coming to realize that it’s time to get your body into shape, or are already fit and want to take it to the next level, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body is all you need to start putting the power of the brain-body connection to work for you today.
Gillian McKeith’s Food Bible: How to Use Food to Cure What Ails You
From the author of the 2-million- copy international bestseller You Are What You Eat-the essential guide to health and nutrition
The celebrated clinical nutritionist, author of the internationally bestselling You Are What You Eat, and host of the BBC America show of the same name offers a comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to the health effects, uses, and benefits of the foods we eat and how nutrition affects our general health, aging, ability to fight disease, and quality of life. Gillian McKeith’s Food Bible is as user-friendly as it is thorough, featuring food based treatments for common illnesses and diseases, from arthritis to diabetes and chronic fatigue syndrome to migraines. For example:
· Almonds can help in weight loss.
· Wild yams help promote fertility.
· Berries, spinach, romaine lettuce and broccoli combat dry skin by stimulating oil and collagen production.
· Tomatoes contain an antioxidant that can help prevent cancer.
Gillian provides cutting-edge Food Action Plot Prescriptions incorporating the right foods, herbs and quick tips for over 100 everyday ailments. The solutions in this book are tried and tested and based on more than 15 years of consulting with clients in private practice.
The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine
In The Choice Tree, Thomas Goetz proposes a new strategy for thinking about health, one that applies cutting-edge technology and sound science to place us at the center of the equation. An individual’s Choice Tree starts with genomics, where $400 and a test tube of spit provides a peek at how your DNA influences your health. It taps self-monitoring and collaborative health tools, where iPhone applications and next-generation monitoring gadgets can help individuals successfully change their behavior, once and for all. And it turns to new screening techniques that detect diseases like cancer and diabetes far earlier and with far better prospects for our health. Full of thoughtful, groundbreaking reporting on the impact personalized medicine will have on the average patient, The Choice Tree will show you how to take advantage of this new frontier in health care.
