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Wellness is more than the absence of disease. It's a vital combination of vibrancy, vitality, abundant energy, and extraordinary health. Here, the authors reveal two essential wellness factors which are often missing in people's diets - omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA.
Discusses omega-3 fatty acids and their impact on health.
Argues that laws that enforce what is good for the individual's well-being, or hinder what is bad, are morally justified.
You have choices in heart disease. You can choose to do nothing, then perhaps have a heart attack and die prematurely. If you survive the heart attack, you could have the fun of a $30,000 bypass. You might get lucky and just need a $7,500 angioplasty. However, for very little money, you can read and apply the information in this book. The vast majority of people are nutrition/lifestyle responsive, and this book tells you what to do. Heart disease is the number one cause of death both in men and women in North America. This is tragic, because of all of our major causes of death this is the easiest to prevent. Over 50 percent of adults have an increased risk of heart attack because their blood...
Bestselling author David Agus unveils the brave new world of medicine, one in which we can take control of our health like never before and doctors can fine-tune strategies and weapons to prevent illness. In his first bestseller, The End of Illness, David Agus revealed how to add vibrant years to your life by knowing the real facts of health. In this book, he builds on that theme by showing why this is the luckiest time yet to be alive, giving you the keys to the new kingdom of wellness. Medicine is undergoing rapid change. In the old world, you followed general principles and doctors treated you based on broad, one-size-fits all solutions. In this new golden age, you’ll be able to take fu...
"Thousands of tips for a healthy mind and body"--Cover.
No matter how successful you are in other areas of your life, you won’t enjoy your success with poor health. Maintaining good health and preventing or delaying the onset of physical problems should be the most important goal as you mature. Some diseases are more common as you age. The good news is that most of these diseases can be prevented or delayed. Eventually, death is non-negotiable. However, when you die, what you die of, and in what condition, depends to a very great extent on how you choose to live from this moment on. Lifestyle choices are totally under the control of the individual. The problem is that many people are unaware of the risks involved in their current lifestyle. The goal of this book is to identify those most damaging to your health and give ideas for modification. You will learn some amazing new discoveries on how to have a healthier longer life. This book can truly add years to your life and life to your years!
If you only have 30 seconds, there is time – using this book – to bone up on how to eat well. We’re served a daily diet of food facts, fads and often far-fetched claims for what we put on our plates, which makes it difficult to distinguish healthy from harmful. With obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other life-threatening conditions rapidly rising, it pays to understand that we are very much what we eat and that good food – in the right proportions and portion sizes – is essential for our health and well-being. Strip away the flab with this accessible, jargon-free, guide to good nutrition served up in manageable bites. From fasting to fats, enzymes to E-numbers, if you have an appetite for expert advice on real food, this is the perfect book to dip into.
Fake news is bad enough. We cannot allow ourselves to be buried in fake medicine. This book looks at quackery practiced under the cover of CIM (Complementary and Integrative Medicine). Why? To inform the consumer that there is a better way to spend their health-care dollar. How? By a better understanding of science and the scientific method. A brief summary of the development of science is given, from early Greece, through the Dark Ages, and into the twenty-first century. This history emphasizes that the development of the scientific method originated purely in Western culture, contrary to other interpretations by Islam and the Chinese. It traces the origins of anti-science in the United Sta...