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Mind and Body Fitness February 2017
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| If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body by James HamblinIn this engaging, convenient book, the physician behind The Atlantic's video series with the same title presents a host of queries about the human body and briefly discusses the answers. Drawing on his medical training and interviews with other physicians and biological scientists, author James Hamblin provides information, counters misinformation, critiques health-related marketing, and bemoans the effects of money and politics on health policy. Whether you're looking for specific answers or want an informative and thought-provoking overview of health issues, If Our Bodies Could Talk offers a one-stop resource. |
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Big miracles : the 11 spiritual rules for ultimate success
by Joanna Garzilli
The celebrity psychic and intuitive reader outlines 11 spiritual rules for manifesting everyday miracles and living a life of purpose, outlining meditations, journaling exercises and other strategies for building confidence, forgiving mistakes and more. 50,000 first printing.
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| The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ... by Sylvia TaraAccording to biochemist Sylvia Tara, fat is the least-understood organ in our bodies, which may explain why, though we're spending billions of dollars on the war on fat, we're fighting a losing battle. In this well-researched book, Tara explains how fat works, providing fascinating scientific explanations of its biochemistry, its influence on the rest of the body, and why some people stay slim while others gain weight easily. Whether your body type runs more to Sumo wrestler or to supermodel, you'll find The Secret Life of Fat revealing. |
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The Mayo Clinic diet
by M.D. Hensrud, Donald D.
Presents a weight loss and diet plan engineered to help readers lose up to 10 pounds in two weeks through a reevaluation of nutrition and daily exercise, in a book that includes meal planners and healthy recipes. Original. A #1 New York Times best-seller
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Walking on sunshine : 52 small steps to happiness
by Rachel Kelly
In a pocket-sized life-changing book, a journalist and award-winning author, who campaigns to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness, offers 52 tips and tools, for each week of the year, to increase happiness and help manage the mood-altering pressures of everyday life.
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Deep nutrition : why your genes need traditional food
by Catherine Shanahan
A rerelease of a formerly self-published guide detailing "The Human Diet" examines the habits believed to have kept our ancestors disease-free, outlining a prescriptive plan for living a long, vital and healthy life.
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Running With a Police Escort : Tales from the Back of the Pack
by Jill Grunenwald
In Running with a Police Escort, Jill chronicles her racing adventures, proving that being a slow runner takes just as much guts and heart as being an Olympic champion. At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Running with a Police Escort is for every runner who has never won a race but still loves the sport.
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Focus on: Animals and Human Health
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| A Dog's Gift: The Inspirational Story of Veterans and Children Healed by Man's Best Friend by Bob DruryAfter former military counterintelligence officer Terry Henry and his 12-year-old daughter saw what their golden retriever had to offer residents of a nursing home, they started a service dog organization to provide people in need of healing with assistance dogs. A Dog's Gift describes how they founded paws4people.org, details their training methods, and relates moving stories about matching the dogs with their new owners. This uplifting tale also relates how Henry found his own healing from PTSD through his paws4people work. Both dog-lovers and people-lovers will find inspiration here. |
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| Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust... by Michael Hingson with Susy FloryIn Thunder Dog, author Michael Hingson relates how he grew up blind and learned to rely on guide dogs, providing details about how he gets along in the world. In this engaging and inspiring memoir, he also shares how, on September 11, 2001, he was at work on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center when a terrorist-flown airliner crashed into it. Hingson's guide dog Roselle proved her worth as the pair walked down 1,463 stairs in the collapsing skyscraper, helping others remain calm during the ordeal. This book offers an absorbing account of the guide dog's essential role in Hingson's life, woven into the harrowing chronicle of 9/11. |
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My therapist's dog : lessons in unconditional love
by Diana Wells
Wells analyzes what we name our dogs, how we breed them, how we've explored the wilderness with them, the kinds of literature we write about them, why we love them, and, most important, what we can learn from them.
When an unexpected illness befalls Beth, Luggs comforts the two women, and his devotion helps Wells come to accept that relationships--despite the possibility of hurt and pain--are what life is all about.
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Wesley the owl : the remarkable love story of an owl and his girl
by Stacey O'Brien
Chronicles the author's rescue of an abandoned barn owlet, from her efforts to resuscitate and raise the young owl after an injury that prevented it from returning to the wild through their nineteen years together, during which the author made key discoveries about owl behavior. 50,000 first printing.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Bedford Public Library
2424 Forest Ridge Dr.
Bedford, Texas 76021
817-952-2350
www.bedfordlibrary.org
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