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Succinct yet thorough, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine, 3rd Edition brings you today's best knowledge on epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health—in one convenient source. You'll find the latest on healthcare policy and financing · infectious diseases · chronic disease · and disease prevention technology. This text also serves as an outstanding resource for preparing for the USMLE, and the American Board of Preventive Medicine recommends it as a top review source for its core specialty examination. Discusses the financial concerns and the use and limitations of screening in the prevention of symptomatic disease. Emphasizes the application ...
Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health is the only textbook that combines the disciplines of medical epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health in one convenient resource. Written by renowned epidemiologists and public health experts, this text presents the information you need with a clinical focus, using real-life medical examples throughout. With review questions in each chapter to maximize knowledge retention and target key areas of review, it serves as an outstanding resource for USMLE prep - and is recommended by the American Board of Preventive Medicine as a top review source for its core specialty examination! Grasp and re...
An iconoclastic celebration of canned, packaged, and preserved foods. By turns a scientific, feminist, and economic critique, this book gleefully attacks received wisdom about the dangers of processed food. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo argues that, in fact, most processed foods are relatively healthy and that their consumption is an undisputed boon to women’s equality—since the burdens of cooking disproportionately fall on women. In de Salcedo’s account, processed foods take too much blame for the negative effects of modern sedentary life, and alternative food systems are doomed to economic dysfunction. Ultimately, de Salcedo embraces the preserved foods in her pantry and encourages the reader to do the same.
This book examines current diets to help you make decisions about your eating style as well as taking a look at sleep patterns in association with our overall health. Health and physical education warrant a bigger role in our children’s overall health and well being. One of the chapters is entitled: Games People Play, which focuses on games you played growing up. Will Shelton is deeply concerned that some neighborhoods, including parks are too violent for youth to play in. He presents some innovative ideas that can help curtail violence in neighborhoods. “We need to bring back pride as a core value in some neighborhoods so youth have a vested interest in their respective neighborhoods, b...
Because of its high Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and sheer volume, waste from food processing has significant potential to pollute land, water, and air. Both environmentally and economically, it is important to properly treat food processing wastes including the recovery of valuable products. Food Processing Waste and Utilization: Tackling Pollution and Enhancing Product Recovery discusses possible solutions to tackle food waste generation and its further utilization. It addresses process engineering economics, microbiology of waste recycling, biochemical and nutritional aspects of food waste processing. The book includes detailed guidance and case studies about utilization/valorization of f...
Learn what marketing practices can positively impact behavior The success of the application of commercial marketing practices to change behavior for the betterment of society and the individual is getting more attention. Social Marketing: Advances in Research and Theory explores the use of social marketing through a variety of effective approaches. Chapters examine case studies and qualitative research to gain insight into the adoption of marketing practices to enable social change. This superb collection of top presentations from the SMART (Social Marketing Advances in Research and Theory) inaugural conference held in 2004 in Alberta, Canada provides examples of the latest commercial marke...
You'll find the latest on healthcare policy and financing, infectious diseases, chronic disease, and disease prevention technology.
Do you know why you are fat? Do you know why you can’t lose weight? Do you know who is to blame for you being in a deadlock and continuously occupied with diets and health foods? The person who is to blame is in your house, and you can’t do anything to her – it’s your mother. Because of her ignorance or because of following the fashion of the time, she has accustomed you to eating ‘flavours’ that are ‘killing’ you. These are found in foods that act like drugs, and with each passing day, they are shortening instead of lengthening your life. • The ancient Greek diet that creates a beautiful body and longevity • The forgotten superfoods • Do not ‘kill’ your children with sweet and salty foods. Heal yourself with bitter and sour flavoured foods • How I lost those kilos and gained health in return • Eat like a Greek – eat bitter and sour foods • Three examples of longevity and slimming • What to leave out, what to replace, and what to add • Create a diet plan that suits you
We must take applied epigenetics concepts from the ivory tower of the academics down to daily healthy practice!
This third book in the trilogy of Your Body Is A Self-Healing Machine explains the basics of applied epigenetics and its practical use. It is in this book Your Body is a Self-Healing Machine: Understanding How Epigenetics Heals You where you will learn how you can reprogram epigenetics information to influence your gene expression. Your decisions, either big or small, on each factor, will positively or negatively update or downgrade your epigenome. What you feel, think, eat, breathe, drink, sleep, sun exposure, detox, fast and pray are all epigenetic in...