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Best Health Books

Category99 of 353 books118 recommendations total

Health books recommended most by doctors, nutritionists and coaches — sleep, exercise, longevity and preventive medicine. From writers who read the studies rather than the headlines.

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No coverBreath
Breath

The New Science of a Lost Art

11 recommendations
Description

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly.There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability ...

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No coverIn Defense of Food
In Defense of Food

An Eater's Manifesto

8 recommendations
Description

#1 New York Times BestsellerFood. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend itBecause in the socalled Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusionmost of what we?re consuming today is no longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Mich...

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Book cover for “Living with a SEAL”
Living with a SEAL

31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

7 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Fitness, NonFiction, Personal Development, Health lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for self-improvement and practical behavior change. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverOn Immunity
On Immunity

An Inoculation

6 recommendations
Description

The hugely acclaimed New York Times Best Seller, now available in paperback!A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2014:The New York Times Book Review (Top 10), Entertainment Weekly (Top 10), New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune (Top 10), Publishers Weekly (Top 10), Time Out New York (Top 10), Los Angeles Times, Kirku...

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No coverThe Body
The Body

A Guide for Occupants

6 recommendations
Description

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a headtotoe tour of the marvel that is the human bodywith a new afterword for the Vintage paperback. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human bodyhow it functions, its remarkable ability to heal i...

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No coverIkigai
Ikigai

The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

5 recommendations
Description

Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai (pronounced eekeyguy)the happiness of always being busyas revealed by the daily habits of the worlds longestliving people.Whats your ikigaiOnly staying active will make you want to live a hundred years. Japanese proverb According...

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Book cover for “Fast Food Nation”
Fast Food Nation

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

4 recommendations
Description

Eric Schlosser’s exposé revealed how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. The book changed the way millions of people think about what they eat and helped to launch today’s food movement.In a new afterw...

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No coverTripping Over the Truth
Tripping Over the Truth

How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms

4 recommendations
Description

A masterful synchronization of history and cuttingedge science shines new light on humanity's darkest diagnosis.In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible roadmap to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of old and new perspectives on the disease. Tripping over the ...

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No coverHealing Back Pain
Healing Back Pain

The Mind-Body Connection

4 recommendations
Description

Dr. John E. Sarno's groundbreaking research on TMS (Tension Myoneural Syndrome) reveals how stress and other psychological factors can cause back painand how you can be pain free without drugs, exercise, or surgery.Dr. Sarno's program has helped thousands of patients find relief from chronic back conditions. In this New York Times bestseller, Dr. ...

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No coverEndure
Endure

Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

4 recommendations
Description

From the National Magazine Awardwinning Runner?s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contributor, and Cambridgetrained physicist: a fascinating and definitive exploration of the extraordinary science of human endurance and the secrets of human performance, for fans of The Sports Gene, Born to Run, and Grit.From running a twohour marathon...

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Book cover for “The Paleo Solution”
The Paleo Solution

The Original Human Diet

4 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, NutritionFood, Hobbies, NutritionFoodHobbies, Health lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “The 100-Year Life”
The 100-Year Life

Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

3 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Finance, NonFiction, Business, Personal Development, Health lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverAltered Traits
Altered Traits

Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

3 recommendations
Description

Two New York Timesbestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent BandAid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cu...

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No coverThe Case Against Sugar
3 recommendations
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From the bestselling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eyeopening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% ...

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Book cover for “Bottle of Lies”
Bottle of Lies

The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

3 recommendations
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019New York Public Library Best Books of 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Health and Science Books of 2019Science Friday Best Books of 2019 New postscript by the authorFrom an awardwinning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and lifet...

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No coverMindless Eating
Mindless Eating

Why We Eat More Than We Think

3 recommendations
Description

This book will literally change the way you think about your next meal. Food psychologist Brian Wansink revolutionizes our awareness of how much, what, and why we?re eating?often without realizing it. His findings will astound you. ? Can the size of your plate really influence your appetite? Why do you eat more when you dine with friends? What ?h...

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Book cover for “Salt Sugar Fat”
Salt Sugar Fat

How the Food Giants Hooked Us

3 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, FoodHobbies, Science, Food, Hobbies lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “8 Weeks to Optimum Health”
8 Weeks to Optimum Health

A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power

2 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Personal Development, Health lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for self-improvement and practical behavior change. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverStress Less, Accomplish More
Stress Less, Accomplish More

Meditation for Extraordinary Performance

2 recommendations
Description

Foreword by Mark Hyman, MDPreface by Andrew Huberman, PhDYou know you should be meditating, so what’s stopping you This entertaining and enlightening book by the founder of Ziva Meditation—the favorite training for high achievers—will finally take meditation mainstream.“We meditate to get good at life, not to get good at meditation.”—Emily Fletche...

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No coverReal Happiness
Real Happiness

The Power of Meditation

2 recommendations
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Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience greater calm. Meditation connects us to our innermost feelings and challenges our habits of selfjudgment. Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and...

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No coverThe Macrobiotic Way
The Macrobiotic Way

The Definitive Guide to Macrobiotic Living

2 recommendations
Description

Rare book...

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No coverEradication
Eradication

Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?

2 recommendations
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How shall we improve human health One answer is: by eradication. The Gates Foundation announced in 2007 that their goal is malaria eradication; another of their priorities is polio eradication. Eradication means the complete elimination of a disease through deliberate human intervention. It stands for an absolute in public health.This book by the ...

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No coverThe Warrior Diet
The Warrior Diet

Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body

2 recommendations
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Along with the many benefits of leisureclass living comes obesity and its attendant ailments. In The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler looks not forward but backward for a solution–to the primal habits of early cultures such as nomads and huntergatherers, the Greeks, and the Romans. Based on survival science, this book proposes not ordinary dietary cha...

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Book cover for “Should We Eat Meat?”
Should We Eat Meat?

Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory

2 recommendations
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This book is a wideranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout history and around the world. Setting the scene with a chapter on meat's role in human evolution and its growing influence during the development of agricultural practices, the book goes on to examine modern production systems, their...

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Book cover for “Sacred Cow”
Sacred Cow

The Case for (Better) Meat

2 recommendations
Description

We’re told that if we care about our health—or our planet—eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is bad for us and cattle farming is horrible for the environment. But science says otherwise. Beef is framed as the most environmentally destructive and least healthy of meats. We’re often told that the only solution is to reduce or q...

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Book cover for “An American Sickness”
An American Sickness

How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

2 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Social Sciences, Finance, NonFiction, Politics, Health lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for decision-making, behavior, or human motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverThe Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity
The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity

A Modern Practical Guide to the Ancient Way

2 recommendations
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With a detailed introduction to the ancient philosophical, ethical, and religious Chinese practice of Taoism, The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity is a unique, comprehensive, and practical selfhelp guide to live a balanced and positive Taoist lifestyle.Written by a Westerner for the Western mind, The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity is perfect f...

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No coverEpic Measures
Epic Measures

One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

2 recommendations
Description

Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a ...

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No coverHouse on Fire
House on Fire

The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox

2 recommendations
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A story of courage and risktaking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man who was one of the architects of a radical vaccinat...

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No coverQuit Like a Woman
Quit Like a Woman

The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

2 recommendations
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The founder of a femalefocused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety.“You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30 cofounder and CEOWe live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduati...

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Book cover for “The HeartMath Solution”
The HeartMath Solution

The Institute of HeartMath's Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart's Intelligence

2 recommendations
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The Intelligent HeartAccess the power of your heart's intelligence to improve your focus and creativity, elevate your emotional clarity, lower your stress and anxiety levels, strengthen your immune system, promote your body's optimal performance, and slow the aging process....

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No coverThe How Not to Die Cookbook
The How Not to Die Cookbook

100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

2 recommendations
Description

From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifullydesigned, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious, lifesaving, plantbased meals, snacks, and beverages.Dr. Michael ...

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Book cover for “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life”
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems

1 recommendation
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In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Renowned neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes cutt...

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No coverKetotarian
Ketotarian

The (Mostly) PlantBased Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation

1 recommendation
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A Goop Book Club Pick A new twist on keto: The fatburning power of ketogenic eating meets the clean green benefits of a plantcentric plateThe keto craze is just getting warmed up. The ketogenic diet kickstarts your body's metabolism so it burns fat, instead of sugar, as its primary fuel. But most ketogenic plans are meat and dairyheavy, creati...

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No coverThe End of Overeating
The End of Overeating

Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

1 recommendation
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Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food?when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it?s harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating?even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food Dr. David Kessler, the dynami...

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No coverThe Vagina Bible
The Vagina Bible

The Vulva and the Vagina

1 recommendation
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OB/GYN, writer for The New York Times, USA Today, and Self, and host of the show Jensplaining, Dr. Jen Gunter now delivers the definitive book on vaginal health, answering the questions you've always had but were afraid to askor couldn't find the right answers to. She has been called Twitter's resident gynecologist, the Internet's OB/GYN, and one...

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No coverThe Big Fat Surprise
The Big Fat Surprise

Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

1 recommendation
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In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the lowfat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health.For decade...

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No coverDeep Nutrition
Deep Nutrition

Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

1 recommendation
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One of the Best Health and Wellness Books of 2017 Sports Illustrated A selfpublished phenomenon examining the habits that kept our ancestors diseasefreenow with a prescriptive plan for "The Human Diet" to help us all live long, vital, healthy lives.Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, M.D. examined diets around the world known to help peo...

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Book cover for “Becoming Vegan”
Becoming Vegan

The Complete Reference to PlantBased Nutrition

1 recommendation
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Two of North America's foremost vegan dietitians present the complete reference to plantbased nutrition designed for health practitioners, nutrition professionals, college coursework, or the sophisticated lay reader. The "express" edition of Becoming Vegan helps lay readers understand the impact of a vegan diet on their health and that of the plan...

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No coverRunning Like a Girl
Running Like a Girl

Notes on Learning to Run

Description

The inspiring, hilarious memoir of a ?Bridget Joneslike writer? (The Washington Post) who transforms her life by learning to run, with stories of miserable defeat, complete victory, and learning to choose the right shoes.When Alexandra Heminsley decided to take up running, she had hopes for a blissful runner?s high and immediate physical transform...

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No coverBrain Training for Runners
Brain Training for Runners

A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, and Res ults

Description

Based on new research in exercise physiology, author and running expert Matt Fitzgerald introduces a firstofitskind training strategy that he's named "Brain Training." Runners of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels can learn to maximize their performance by supplying the brain with the right feedback. Based on Fitzgerald's eightpoint brain ...

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Book cover for “Body Kindness”
Body Kindness

Transform Your Health from the Inside Outand Never Say Diet Again

Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Social Sciences, Intuitive, Eating, NonFiction, Confidence lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for decision-making, behavior, or human motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics”
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

A 10% Happier Howto Book

Description

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF 10% HAPPIERToo busy to meditate Can't turn off your brain Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym This book is for you.You'll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that ...

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Book cover for “The MindGut Connection”
The MindGut Connection

How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health

Description

Combining cuttingedge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practical guide in the tradition of Wheat Belly and Grain Brain that conclusively demonstrates the inextricable, biological link between mind and body.We have all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut?the decision we made because it ?felt ri...

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Book cover for “The Clean Plate”
The Clean Plate

Eat, Reset, Heal

Description

Clean lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow shows that delicious food can also heal the bodywith 100 foodlover's recipes that can be customized into targeted meal plans and detox programs.Gwyneth Paltrow stands behind the power of simple, quality food. Her recipes always focus on delicious flavors and clean ingredientspillars that have launched her c...

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No coverThe Paleo Diet
The Paleo Diet

Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat

Description

As seen on Dateline NBC Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet our genes were made for. This book presents readers with a program that causes weight loss in overweight people up to seventyfive pounds in six months while normalizing blood cholesterol, and increasing energy levels....

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Book cover for “DepressionFree, Naturally”
DepressionFree, Naturally

7 Weeks to Eliminating Anxiety, Despair, Fatigue, and Anger from Your Life

Description

In this groundbreaking book, nutritionist Joan Mathews Larson, Ph.D., founder of Minnesota's esteemed Health Recovery Center, offers her revolutionary formulas for healing your emotionsbiochemically. Through proven allnatural formulas, Seven Weeks to Emotional Healing will help you find the emotional wellbeing you've been missing your entire li...

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Book cover for “The FastDiet”
The FastDiet

Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting

Description

The #1 New York Times bestseller!Is it possible to eat normally, five days a week, and become slimmer and healthier as a resultSimple answer: yes. You just limit your calorie intake for two nonconsecutive days each week?500 calories for women, 600 for men. You?ll lose weight quickly and effortlessly with the FastDiet.Scientific trials of intermitt...

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No coverHappiness Is a Choice You Make
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A New York Times Bestseller!An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to wellbeing, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the "oldest old"those eightyfive and up.In 2015, when the awardwinning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New ...

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No coverDiet Cults
Diet Cults

The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us

Description

From ?The Four Hour Body,? to ?Atkins,? there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the ?One True Way? to eat for maximum health. Paleo Diet advocates tell us that all foods less than 12,000 years old are the enemy. Lowcarb gurus demonize carbs, then there are the lowfat prophets...

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Book cover for “The SelfCare Solution”
The SelfCare Solution

A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and FitterOne Month at a Time

Description

ABC?s chief medical correspondent helps you ring in the New Year right with a resolution that?s actually doable: a yearlong plan to improve your emotional and physical health?from giving up alcohol to a doing a digital detox, but each for only one month.Dr. Jennifer Ashton is at the top of her field as an obgyn and news correspondent. But even at...

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Book cover for “Taking Charge of Your Fertility”
Taking Charge of Your Fertility

The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health

Description

Celebrating 10 years of helping hundreds of thousands of women achieve pregnancy, avoid pregnancy naturally, and gain better control of their health and lives, the 10th Anniversary Edition of the classic bestseller will include:New 'Preface to the 10th Anniversary Edition"Updates on new fertility technologiesNatural approaches to conceptionUpda...

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Book cover for “Eat Rich, Live Long”
Eat Rich, Live Long

Mastering the LowCarb & Keto Spectrum for Weight Loss and Longevity (1)

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You can take control of your health, lose weight, prevent disease, and enjoy a long and healthy life. The unique nutritional program outlined in Eat Rich, Live Long is designed by experts to help you feel great while you eat delicious and satisfying foods. Millions of people have gotten healthy through lowcarb plans over the years?and a growing nu...

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Book cover for “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding”
The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding

The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised

Description

From elite bodybuilding competitors to gymnasts, from golfers to fitness gurus, anyone who works out with weights must own this book?a book that only Arnold Schwarzenegger could write, a book that has earned its reputation as ?the bible of bodybuilding.?Inside, Arnold covers the very latest advances in both weight training and bodybuilding competit...

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No coverKeto Restaurant Favorites
Keto Restaurant Favorites

More Than 175 Tasty Classic Recipes Made Fast, Fresh, and Healthy

Description

The ketogenic diet has taken the world by storm, and deservedly so: its results in helping people lose weight, manage chronic health conditions, and simply feel great are unmatched. Bestselling cookbook author Maria Emmerich sits at the forefront of the keto movement and has become the goto source for highfat, lowcarb recipes that both please th...

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No coverIna May's Guide to Childbirth
Description

What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.Drawing upon her thirtyplus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation?s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based on the femalec...

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No coverPrevent and Reverse Heart Disease
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, NutritionBased Cure

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Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease challenges conventional cardiology by posing a compelling, revolutionary ideathat we can, in fact, abolish the heart disease epidemic in this country by changing our diets. Drawing on the groundbreaking results of his twentyyear nutritional study, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former surgeon, researcher, and ...

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No coverAlchemy of Herbs
Alchemy of Herbs

Transform Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies That Heal

Description

Did you know there?s a powerful herbal medicine chest in your kitchenImagine being prepared for that next cold, scrape, headache, digestive issue, stressful day, or sleepless night with simple ingredients from your cupboard. Instead of pills, reach for:Cinnamon Tea to soothe your throat . . . Garlic Hummus to support your immune system . . . Ginge...

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No coverThe Anatomy Coloring Book
Description

Key Benefits: Why use this coloring book For more than 35 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the #1 bestselling human anatomy coloring book! A useful tool for anyone with an interest in learning anatomical structures, this concisely written text features precise, extraordinary handdrawn figures that were crafted especially for easy colori...

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No coverThe Wisdom of Yoga
The Wisdom of Yoga

A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

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For modern spiritual seekers and yoga students alike, here is an irreverent yet profound guide to the most sophisticated teachings of the yoga wisdom traditionnow brought to contemporary life by a celebrated author, psychotherapist, and leading American yoga instructor.While many Westerners still think of yoga as an invigorating series of postures...

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No coverSacred Woman
Sacred Woman

A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit

Description

Queen Afua is a nationally renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and dedicated healer of women?s bodies and women?s souls who practices a uniquely Afrocentric spirituality. Her classic bestseller, Heal Thyself, forever changed the way African Americans practice holistic health. Now, with Sacred Woman, she takes us on a transforming journey of ...

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Book cover for “Practical Programming, for Strength Training”
Description

There is a difference between Exercise and Training. Exercise is physical activity for its own sake, a workout done for the effect it produces today, during the workout or right after you're through. Training is physical activity done with a longerterm goal in mind, the constituent workouts of which are specifically designed to produce that goal. ...

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No coverThe Upward Spiral
The Upward Spiral

Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

Description

Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you down into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. Based in the latest research in neuroscience, this audiobook offers dozens of little things you can do every day to rewire your brain and create an upward spiral towards a happier, healthier life.Depression doesn't happen all at once. It star...

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No coverLight on Pranayama
Description

The definitive guide to yogic breathing from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga teacher. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar's unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the practice, as well as a mindset of 'yoga for all', which has made it into a worldwide phenome...

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Book cover for “Keto Comfort Foods”
Keto Comfort Foods

Family Favorite Recipes Made LowCarb and Healthy (1)

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The ketogenic diet is all about nourishing and healing your body with nutrientdense whole foods, as international bestselling author Maria Emmerich has demonstrated in her previous books, including The Ketogenic Cookbook (with Jimmy Moore) and The 30Day Ketogenic Cleanse. But food is more than just nourishment; food is tradition, food is love, an...

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Book cover for “Natural Hospital Birth 2nd Edition”
Natural Hospital Birth 2nd Edition

The Best of Both Worlds

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Many motherstobe find themselves torn between choosing a natural childbirth with minimal medical intervention, and the peace of mind offered by instant access to lifesaving Technology, that only a hospital can provide. Cynthia Gabriel, a doula who has attended hundreds of births and who advises hospitals on how to facilitate lowintervention chil...

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No coverNever Let Go
Never Let Go

A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning

Description

Dan John breaks down the most complicated concepts of strength training and highperformance athletics in his personal, nononsense, thoughtprovoking and motivating style....

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Book cover for “The Mama Natural WeekbyWeek Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth”
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With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fiftytwo million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland?s (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page, offering up the first weekbyweek natural pregnancy book for...

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No coverThe Secret Language of Your Body
The Secret Language of Your Body

The Essential Guide to Health and Wellness

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The Secret Language of Your Body unveils the secrets to understanding the messages of your body, revealing the underlying causes of symptoms and medical conditions, and offers processes for healing. Foreword by Bernie Siegel, M.D.This inspiring handbook delves deeply into the possible reasons for health issues in all areas of your body. Author Inna...

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Book cover for “Stretching”
Stretching

30th Anniversary Edition

Description

This is the book that people tell their friends about, that trainers suggest for virtually every sport and activity, and that medical professionals recommend to people just starting to get back in shape. Stretching first appeared in 1980 as a new generation of Americans became committed to running, cycling, aerobic training, and workouts in the gym...

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Book cover for “Every Body Yoga”
Every Body Yoga

Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body.

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From the unforgettable teacher Jessamyn Stanley comes Every Body Yoga, a book that breaks all the stereotypes.It?s a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we.It?s a book for readers already doing yoga, looking to refresh their practice or find new ways to...

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No coverIgnite the Fire
Ignite the Fire

The Secrets to Building a Successful Personal Training Career

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""Personal Trainers are now expected to be salespeople, psychologists, nutritionists, postrehabilitation specialists, and motivational speakers. You can have all the training expertise in the world, but you must also be able to inspire passion in your clients, and develop relationships with the people you serve.""Have you ever struggled to get cli...

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No coverTeaching Yoga
Teaching Yoga

Essential Foundations and Techniques

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Teaching Yoga is an essential resource for new and experienced teachers as well as a guide for all yoga students interested in refining their skills and knowledge. Addressing 100% of the teacher training curriculum standards set by Yoga Alliance, the world's leading registry and accreditation source for yoga teachers and schools, Teaching Yoga is a...

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Book cover for “Guide To Getting It On”
Description

From the author: I originally wrote this book for people who wanted to have better sex. But then it started winning awards and being used in college sexed courses. So I tried to make the book all things to all people, and it started to grow, and grow, and grow. But with this new edition, I've taken the Guide To Getting It On back to its roots. It ...

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Book cover for “Keto”
Keto

The Complete Guide to Success on The Ketogenic Diet, including Simplified Science and Nocook Meal Plans (1)

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The ketogenic diet has gained in popularity, but that has led to some bad information being shared. You can do keto right, and you can do keto wrong. This book is all about how to do keto the right way!Despite what health science has beaten into us over the last fifty or so years, humans thrive on highfat, lowcarb diets. Millions of people around...

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No coverNourishing Traditions
Nourishing Traditions

The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and Diet Dictocrats

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The Diet Dictocrats don't want you to know that... Your body needs oldfashioned animal fats Newfangled polyunsaturated oils can be bad for you Modern whole grain products can cause health problems Traditional sauces promote digestion and assimilation Modern food processing denatures our foods but Ancient preservation methods actually increa...

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No coverThe Men's Health Big Book of Exercises
The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises

Four Weeks to a Leaner, Stronger, More Muscular You!

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Revised edition includes 100 new exercises!The Men?s Health Big Book of Exercises is the essential workout guide for anyone who wants a better body. As the most comprehensive collection of exercises ever created, this book is a bodyshaping power tool for both beginners and longtime lifters alike. This book contains hundreds of useful tips, the la...

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Book cover for “Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn”
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Available for the first time in full color, the uptodate and authoritative pregnancy guide that has sold 1.5 million copiesby recognizing that "one size fits all" doesn't apply to maternity careParents love this book because it puts them in control; experts love it because it's based on the latest medical research and recommendations from leadi...

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No coverAmazing You!
Amazing You!

Getting Smart About Your Private Parts

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Mom, where do babies come from Many parents live in fear of the day their child asks this questionwhich inevitably happens, often as early as the preschool years. Here is a picture book designed especially for young children who are becoming aware of their bodies, but arent ready to learn about sexual intercourse. Written with warmth and hones...

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Book cover for “Lore of Running, 4th Edition”
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Lore of Running gives you incomparable detail on physiology, training, racing, injuries, worldclass athletes, and races.Author Tim Noakes blends the expertise of a physician and research scientist with the passion of a dedicated runner to answer the most pressing questions for those who are serious about the sport:How your body systems respond to...

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Book cover for “Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking”
Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking

Meal Plans and Time Saving Paleo Recipes to Inspire Health and Shed Weight

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With Quick Easy Ketogenic Cooking, nutritionist and popular food blogger Maria Emmerich takes the guesswork out of ketogenic cooking.What is the ketogenic diet It's a way of eating that shifts your body from being a sugar burner to being a fat burner. It's also a revolutionary way to support better health?it can improve everything from epilepsy to...

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No coverThe PlantBased Solution
The PlantBased Solution

America's Healthy Heart Doc's Plan to Power Your Health

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A passionate, compelling, and scientific argument for plantbased nutrition Are you ready to feel better, look better, and heal the planet at the same time Then it?s time to revolutionize your health from the inside out. With The PlantBased Solution, leading cardiologist Dr. Joel Kahn shows how everyone can cultivate optimal wellbeing with a who...

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No coverDying To Be Me
Dying To Be Me

My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing

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In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down?overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary neardeath experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause o...

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Book cover for “Essential Reiki”
Essential Reiki

A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art

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Reiki is an ancient and profoundly simple system of "laying on of hands" healing derived from Tibetan Buddhism. In the West, Reiki has been kept highly secret for many years. ESSENTIAL REIKI presents full information on all three degrees of this healing system, most of it in print for the first time. Teaching from the perspective that Reiki healing...

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Book cover for “The Hungry Brain”
The Hungry Brain

Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearFrom an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cuttingedge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about itNo one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end...

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No coverThe Fitness Mindset
The Fitness Mindset

Eat for energy, Train for tension, Manage your mindset, Reap the results

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HOW WOULD IT FEEL TO HAVE THE BODY YOU?VE ALWAYS WANTED, A HUGE BOOST IN ENERGY, AND THE MINDSET TO KEEP IT FOREVER Have you ever felt frustrated about not getting the results you want Do you feel you are eating the right foods and doing the correct workouts but your body still isn?t changing as quickly as you want Are you grinding through your ...

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Book cover for “The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing”
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Are you a triathlete, runner, cyclist, swimmer, crosscountry skier, or other athlete seeking greater endurance The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing teaches athletes how to stay healthy, achieve optimal athletic potential, and be injuryfree for many productive years. Dr. Philip Maffetone?s approach to endurance offers a truly ?individual...

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Book cover for “Own the Day, Own Your Life”
Own the Day, Own Your Life

Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

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The founder and CEO of Onnit, the mega lifestyle brand and one of the fastest growing companies in the country, teaches us how one single day of positive choices leads to a lifetime of concrete strategies for better living, optimal performance, and a stronger mind, body, and spirit.Human optimization thought leader Aubrey Marcus?s personal and prof...

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No coverThe No Meat Athlete Cookbook
The No Meat Athlete Cookbook

Whole Food, PlantBased Recipes to Fuel Your Workouts and the Rest of Your Life

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A Sports Illustrated Best Health and Wellness Book of 2017Plantpowered recipes to power you?perform better, recover faster, feel great! A fastgrowing global movement, No Meat Athlete (NMA) earns new fans every day by showing how everyone from weekend joggers to worldclass competitors can become even healthier and fitter by eating whole plant foo...

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No coverChange Your Schedule, Change Your LIfe
Change Your Schedule, Change Your LIfe

How to Harness the Power of Clock Genes to Lose Weight, Optimize Your Workout, and Finally Get a Good Night's Sleep

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An eyeopening handbook from a leading Ayurvedic physician that blends cuttingedge science on "clock genes" with ancient eastern wisdom to help us understand how to harness the power of chronobiology to effortlessly lose weight, sleep better, exercise stronger, reduce stress, and boost our wellbeing."It?s not you, it?s your schedule." Does it soun...

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No coverBreak Through Pain
Break Through Pain

A StepbyStep Mindfulness Meditation Program for Transforming Chronic and Acute Pain

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The newest treatment for pain is one of the oldest, most effective strategies for painfree living; meditation. With Break Through Pain, meditation expert Shinzen Young teaches you how to retrain your relationship to pain through traditional meditation practices. Drawing from 30 years of results in the field, this widely respected teacher offers th...

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No coverThe Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
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Celebrating 30 years as a classic in its field and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook is an unparalleled, essential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias. Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like you aren?t in control of your life. Tackle the fears that hold you back...

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No coverNo Meat Athlete
No Meat Athlete

Run on Plants and Discover Your Fittest, Fastest, Happiest Self

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No Meat Athlete is a new kind of athletic guide that will take you from starting block to finish line, while providing encouragement, tricks, and advice along the way.No Meat Athlete combines the winning elements of proven training approaches, motivational stories, and innovative recipes to create a guide for meatless athletes unlike anything print...

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No coverNatural Childbirth the Bradley Way
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The classic guide to an unmedicated childbirth, fully revised in 2018 for the twenty-first century, with updated information and attractive new illustrations and photos throughout. For women birthing vaginally, 90% of Bradley births are drugfree!The Bradley Method used and praised by women for almost seventy years, prepares you for drug and surge...

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Book cover for “The First Forty Days”
The First Forty Days

The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother

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The first 40 days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and recovery for the new mother. Based on author Heng Ou?s own postpartum experience with zuo yuezi, a set period of ?confinement,? in which a woman remains at home focusing on healing and bonding with her baby, The First Forty Days revives the lost art of c...

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No coverEat Dirt
Eat Dirt

Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It

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National BestsellerDoctor of Natural Medicine and wellness authority Dr. Josh Axe delivers a groundbreaking, indispensable guide for understanding, diagnosing, and treating one of the most discussed yet littleunderstood health conditions: leaky gut syndrome.Do you have a leaky gut For 80% of the population the answer is ?yes??and most people don?...

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Book cover for “The New Rules of Lifting”
The New Rules of Lifting

Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle

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Want to get more out of your workout and spend less time in the gym Many guys devote so many hours to lifting weight yet end up with so little to show for it. In many cases the problem is simple: they aren't doing exercises based on the movements their bodies were designed to do. Six basic movements the squat, deadlift, lunge, push, pull and twi...

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No coverBirthing from Within
Birthing from Within

An ExtraOrdinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation

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Here is a holistic approach to childbirth that examines this profound riteofpassage not as a medical event but as an act of selfdiscovery. Exercises and activities such as journal writing, meditation, and painting will help mothers analyze their thoughts and face their fears during pregnancy. For use during birth, the book offers proven techniqu...

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Book cover for “Thinner Leaner Stronger”
Thinner Leaner Stronger

The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body

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