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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2017
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Eat Well, Move Well, Live Well : 52 Ways to Feel Better In a Week
by Roland Denzel
Both inspiring and grounded, this book provides historical context for common health myths and ideas of normal, helping readers wade through fads to find the way toward lasting change, with each chapter including tasks to enable readers to embark on real, immediate change, and invitations to share one's progress and ideas with a community of fellow readers.
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Blast the sugar out! : lower blood sugar, lose weight, live better
by Ian K Smith
The best-selling author of the SHRED diet shares nutritious recipes and more than two dozen satisfying food substitutes that minimize dietary sugars, counseling beginners on the essential steps of promoting health through sugar reduction, exercise and lifestyle changes.
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Undoctored : why health care has failed you and how you can become smarter than your doctor
by William Davis
"In his New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly, Dr. William Davis changed the lives of millions of people by teaching them to remove wheat from their diet to reverse years of chronic health damage. Now he'll go beyond cutting wheat to help you take chargeof your own overall health in Undoctored. Dr. Davis wants you to understand that conventional medicine is no longer working in your favor. He will expose how millions of people are prescribed unnecessary medications, given dietary recommendations craftedby big business, and undergo unnecessary procedures recommended by healthcare practitioners to feed revenue-hungry healthcare systems. He then shows how the modern boom in information tools can be applied to create a comprehensive program to reduce, reverse, and cure common health issues through simple strategies, including harnessing the collective wisdom of new online technologies, so that you can break free of a health care system that puts profits over health. Undoctored is the spark of a new individually-empowered health care movement. The results of Dr. Davis' 6-week program are superior to solutions provided by the conventional healthcare system. You will be equipped to manage your own health and sidestep the misguided motives of a profit-driven medical system. "
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| Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition by Elijah C. NealyTransgender issues are much in the news these days, and society is not always friendly to transgender people. In this comprehensive volume, author Elijah Nealy, a trans man, therapist, and college professor, provides guidance to family members, teachers, and counselors of young people who are transgender. Rounding out his user-friendly and well-informed book with a list of "Top 10 Life-Affirming Practices for Adults in the Lives of Trans Kids," Nealy's "knowledgeable and empathetic" writing (Booklist, starred review) provides the go-to resource for this subject. |
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This Close to Happy : A Reckoning with Depression
by Daphne Merkin
A former New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author of Dreaming of Hitler draws on her journalistic essays on depression to trace her lifelong battle with the disease, marked by her wealthy but inconsistent family and her numerous pursuits in therapy and hospitalization.
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| When Your Child Has Food Allergies: A Parent's Guide to Managing It All by Mireille SchwartzIn When Your Child Has Food Allergies, author Mireille Schwartz assembles what she's learned as a person with allergies and mother of an allergic child. This easy-to-follow guide provides advice on understanding and treating allergies, keeping children safe from exposure to allergens, and dealing with schools and group events. There's a chapter on allergen-free cooking, too. If there's an allergic person in your family, or you just suspect someone has an allergy, pick up this up-to-date and thorough handbook. |
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Sleep: How to Get It, and Why
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| Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts & Get a Good Night's Sleep by Colleen E. Carney and Rachel ManberAccording to sleep specialists Colleen Carney and Rachel Manber, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder in the general population. If it's your story too, check out this guide to using behavioral therapy to help you quiet your mind and get a good night's rest. Starting off with an explanation of their method, Carney and Manber provide tips and tricks for getting ready for sleep, relaxing, and calming your mind. Sleep well! |
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| The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna HuffingtonFollowing a scary episode of exhaustion, journalist and Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington dug deeply into the science of sleep and wrote this informative book about it. Describing a global culture in which being sleep-deprived can be a badge of honor, she argues persuasively that people who get by on less than seven hours of sleep per night should change their ways. Then she describes techniques for getting more rest, targeting different age groups and lifestyles. The Sleep Revolution is an eye-opening and potentially life-changing tract. |
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| Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes by Tom RathIn Eat Move Sleep, motivational author Tom Rath explains that diet, exercise, and sleep are all necessary to good health and longevity. Providing details on how to eat well, exercise effectively, and get plenty of rest, he lays out a plan for balancing your lifestyle. He emphasizes that better sleep = greater productivity, contradicting the belief that overwork + sleeplessness = success. If you want to achieve more while feeling healthier, try Rath's upbeat and realistic advice. |
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Sleep : What Every Parent Needs to Know
by M.d. Moon, Rachel Y.
Identifies a variety of sleep problems in children from infancy through adolescence, and provides practical strategies for establishing good sleep habits and solving common sleep problems such as difficulties falling asleep and night fears
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Yolo County Library
226 Buckeye St. Woodland, California 95695 530-666-8005
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