January 2017 list by Tami Austin
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The Case Against Sugar
by Gary Taubes
The best-selling author of Why We Get Fat outlines compelling arguments about the health dangers of sugar, identifying the powerful lobbies behind its overuse while citing its role in a range of challenges from obesity to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook
by Nicola Davies
This empathetic handbook has been created for people affected by any form of disordered eating. Thoughtfully compiled by experienced authors, it will be a comprehensive guide through every stage of your recovery, from recognising and understanding your disorder and learning fully about treatment, to self-help tools and practical advice for maintaining recovery and looking to the future.
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The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
by Blaine T. Bettinger
Discover the answers to your family history mysteries using the most-cutting edge tool available. This plain-English guide is a one-stop resource for how to use DNA testing for genealogy. Inside, you'll find guidance on what DNA tests are available, plus the methodologies and pros and cons of the three major testing companies and advice on choosing the right test to answer your specific genealogy questions. And once you've taken a DNA test, this guide will demystify the often-overwhelming subject and explain how to interpret DNA test results.
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Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit & Revitalize Your Life
by Amy Leigh Mercree
Experience joy each day and equip yourself for the ups and downs of life with Joyful Living, a practical roadmap to achieving inner and outer happiness. Using a mindful and balanced approach, Amy Leigh Mercree presents over a hundred ways to enliven your spirit and step into the blissful life you desire.
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Juice Manifesto
by Andrew Cooper
Promising 100 percent natural and unprocessed nutrition, Andrew Cooper's Juicemanifesto is brimming with easy juices, smoothies, teas, tonics, and nut milks as well as energizing breakfasts and wholesome snacks. This diverse range of 120 recipes packed with beauty and health benefits—from medicinal juices that combat digestive problems to smoothies for detoxing—helps achieve and maintain optimum wellness and is super–family friendly.
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Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADD/ADHD
by David A. Greenwood
Offers hope and guidance to adults suffering with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), describing how the major features of the disorder affect one's job, explaining how to customize a career to minimize symptoms and how to leverage the positive aspects including hyper-focusing and creativity.
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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
A Silicon Valley strategist challenges beliefs about the value of harder work in today's demanding world, combining scientific research with the examples of minds ranging from Darwin to Stephen King to explain that qualitative, deliberate rest is an essential component of productivity.
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Still Down: What to do When Antidepressants Fail
by Dean F MacKinnon
Major depressive disorder is a common medical condition that can be disabling and can persist for months, even years. Many people experience depression symptoms that resist treatment. Although they try various combinations of medications, psychotherapy,or electroconvulsive therapy, their symptoms don't improve. These people, who suffer from true treatment-resistant depression (TRD), can benefit from a variety of treatments to feel better. Still Down points the way for people with TRD and their families to find appropriate diagnoses and the best possible care.
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Walking for Fitness
by Nina Barough
Explains how to use walking to tone the body, increase vitality, and enhance overall health, with seven twelve-week-long walking programs, stretching and strengthening exercises, and step-by-step photographs that demonstrate correct techniques.
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Zero Sugar Diet
by David Zinczenko
A science-based plan for rapid fat burning and long-term weight loss builds on a two-week starter diet designed to eliminate added sugars and replace empty calories with essential ones.
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