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How can we unlock whole-body movement when our feet have been bound for decades? Is it as simple as kicking off our shoe-shackles and releasing our feet into the wild? Whole Body Barefoot will help you safely and effectively transition to minimal footwear, reaping the enormous benefits of freeing your feet without injuring yourself along the way. -- Source other than Library of Congress.
2) Expecting better: why the conventional pregnancy wisdom is wrong--and what you really need to know
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"Pregnancy -- unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood -- can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. Pregnant women are told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee without ever being told why these are forbidden. Rules for prenatal testing are similarly unexplained. Moms-to-be desperately want a resource that empowers them to make their own right choices. When award-winning economist Emily...
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"In her new book, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Thrive delves into the sleep revolution that is happening all across the world - a revolution that can transform our lives. Sleep, she writes, is one of humanity's great unifiers, binding us to each other, to our ancestors, to our past, and to the future. Yet we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis...
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[2017]
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Blends historical perspectives with cutting-edge research to examine body fat as a critical endocrine organ that can be better understood and managed when recognized as a necessary component of human health.
Biochemist Sylvia Tara explores the surprising science behind our most hated body part. Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringingand, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body. You...
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2016.
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Walking is a great way to exercise. This book gathers the intelligence of the proper ways to walk to achieve the goals illness prevention, weight loss, and ease off fatigue. It may look easy, but the detail is in the proper form.
这是一本运动爱好者必备的入门书。 走路对于任何人来说都可以轻松开展,因此广受不擅长运动的人的青睐。作为有氧运动的代表,走路带给身体的负担较轻,实施起来较为方便,容易养成习惯,因此颇为流行。走路健身有很多益处,如预防疾病、减肥、消除疲劳、保持健康等。走路看似是世界上最简单的健身运动,然而走路爱好者们的姿势却千差万别。你真的会走路健身吗?如果方法不对,走路也会让你受伤。...
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[2010]
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Don't eat your veggies, drink them! If you're one of the millions of Americans who doesn't get their recommended daily amounts of fruits and vegetables, juicing is the perfect solution! This book is packed with 150 recipes to make consuming fruits and veggies fast, delicious, and fun.-- Publisher
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2022.
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"Optimism is the true vaccine for happiness. The book we all need to be reading right now. In this new book by renowned psychiatrist Luis Rojas Marcos: We will learn that positive feeling and thinking are extremely profitable investments to fully develop the possibilities of living healthy and happy. We will know the ingredients that differentiate optimism from pessimism, and we will identify the most harmful poisons for optimism. We will explore...
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A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia, ADHD, and depression, and offers a plan for improving focus, creativity, and sleep.
"Jennifer Heisz shares paradigm-shifting research on how exercise affects the brain, finding that intervals of intense workouts, or even leisurely walks, help stop depression and dementia, lessen anxiety and ADHD, and encourage...
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"Improve all areas of your health from your weight, sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, and even slow down aging, with easy-to-implement, science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar levels while still eating the foods you love. Glucose, or blood sugar, is a tiny molecule in our body that has a huge impact on our health. It enters our bloodstream through the starchy or sweet foods we eat. Ninety percent of us suffer from too much glucose in our...
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The traditional meals of the day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, have a new partner: the sugary and salty snack. Our favorite junk foods are easier to find than ever before, and the snack industry is growing by leaps and bounds. As of 2003, the industry was taking in an estimated $66 billion annually. Increases in many serious diseases are on the rise due to this trend, and many are being seen in younger and younger people. While sugar and salt are...
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[2024]
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"Exercise. Eat a balanced diet. Go to therapy. Most wellness advice is focused on achieving and maintaining good physical and mental health. But Harvard-trained social scientist and pioneering social health expert Kasley Killam reveals that this approach is missing a vital component : human connection. Relationships not only make us happier, but also are critical to our overall health and longevity. Research shows that people with a strong sense of...
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"When should we eat, and when shouldn't we? The answers to these simple questions are not what you might expect. As Steve Hendricks shows in The Oldest Cure in the World, stop eating long enough, and you'll set in motion cellular repairs that can slow aging and prevent and reverse diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Fasting has improved the lives of people with epilepsy, asthma, and arthritis, and has even protected patients from the worst of...
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The thrive diet is a long-term eating plan to help all athletes (professional or not) develop a lean body, sharp mind, and everlasting energy. As one of the few professional athletes on a plant-based diet, Brendan Brazier researched and developed this easy-to-follow program to enhance his performance as an elite endurance competitor. Brazier clearly describes the benefits of nutrient-rich foods in their natural state versus processed foods, and how...
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The up-to-the minute latest news about meat-eating that our government and the meat lobby does not want us to know:
-How likely is it that mad cow disease could happen here?
-What are the latest additives being added to our livestock feed?
-Why are our children being bombarded with hours of meat advertisements a day?
-How can your family gradually cut down your meat consumption?
-What do some researchers think that some Alzheimer's patients really...
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[2019]
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Dr. Joseph Mercola, one of the world's foremost authorities on alternative health, collaborates with fasting expert Dr. Alan Goldhamer to offer a guide to optimizing health using ketogenic and fasting principles. Fasting is one of the most powerful metabolic interventions there is--one of the single best things you can do for your health. Strategically timed and planned fasts dovetail perfectly with a ketogenic diet, as they activate your body's fat-burning...
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"Completely revised, this seminal classic offers fresh insights into the implications of becoming vegan -- for individuals, for animals, and for our fragile planet. It includes new information on the health benefits of vegan diets and a blueprint for clean eating. This streamlined "express" version is extensive yet easily understandable for anyone who wants to construct an optimal plant-based diet."--Cover page 4. Subject Headings Veganism -- Health...
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[2018]
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"Una tendencia de salud que cada dia tiene más seguidores, el ayuno, basado en restringir calorias de una forma muy diferente a las dietas, brindándole al cuerpo la oportunidad de regenerarse, desintoxicarse y repararse. Este libro describe brevemente lo diversos tipos de ayuno, sin embargo, se enfoca principalmente en el ayuno intermitente, en que consiste, sus implicaciones científicas y como puedes implementarlo. Ademas incluye un capítulo...
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2015.
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This health book shows a series of 5-minute walking exercise that will cure sore and pain on neck, shoulders, back, waist, and knees, lose extra weight, and reshape body curve. The author, Sakai Shintaro (1970), is a Japanese manipulative therapist and Judo bonesetter, specializing in treatments of athletic injuries.
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