January 2018 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Diet for the Mind: The Latest Science on What to Eat to Prevent Alzheimer's and Cognitive Decline
by Martha Clare Morris
Several factors play into whether you will suffer from cognitive decline and develop Alzheimer's disease — lifestyle, health conditions, environment, and genetics, for example. But now there is scientific evidence indicating that diet plays a bigger role in brain health than we ever thought before. In Diet for the Mind, one of the leaders in this research provides an easy, non-invasive, and effective way to prevent cognitive decline and reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease through diet and lifestyle.
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The Dr. Sears T5 Wellness Plan: Five Changes in Five Weeks
by William F. Sears
The acclaimed author of The Baby Book and his daughter outline a five-week nutrition and lifestyle guide for overcoming chronic poor health, sharing recommendations specifically designed to decrease inflammation, protect the brain and heart, strengthen the gut, balance hormones and improve biochemistry.
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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book
by Dan Harris
The co-anchor of Nightline and author of the best-selling 10% Happier presents a lighthearted, practical guide to meditation that debunks the myths, misconceptions and self-deceptions that make everyday people reluctant to participate.
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The Personalized Diet: Discover Your Unique Diet Profile and Eat Right for You
by Eran Elinav
A full-length guide based on the authors' research into personalized nutrition and the ways that different people respond to the same foods challenges the philosophies of universal diet programs and outlines tools for creating a healthy diet and lifestyle based on how a given person's body reacts.
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Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education
by S. Wise Bauer
How many parents have a child struggling in school? The answer: a great many. This book is an informed, practical resource for such parents. As the author of the classic book on home-schooling, The Well-Trained Mind, Susan Wise Bauer knows how children learn and how schools work. Her advice here is comprehensive and anecdotal, including material drawn from experience with her own children. She shows parents how to take control of grade placement, pace, style of instruction, disability diagnosis, gifted services, and many other aspects of our school system that seem inflexible, in order to shape them to a child's needs.
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Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More
by Courtney Carver
We are often on a quest for more, giving in to pressure every day to work more, own more, and do more. For Courtney Carver, this constant striving came to a stop when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Stress was like gasoline on the fire of her symptoms, and it became clear she needed to root out the physical and psychological clutter adding to her debt and discontent. Now Carver takes what she learned and shows us how to pursue practical minimalism so we can create more with less-more space, more time, and even more love.
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Target 100: The World's Simplest Weight-Loss Program in 6 Easy Steps
by Liz Josefsberg
A 15-year veteran of the weight-loss industry—who has both lost a significant amount of weight and helped celebrity clients—challenges the approaches of impractical and contradictory diets to outline holistic and manageable weight loss practices that involve drinking water, exercising, sleeping more and reducing stress.
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
by Women's March Organizers and Conde Nast
Together We Rise interweaves recollections from women across the world who were part of the largest global protest in history with 22 short, thought-provoking essays by esteemed writers, celebrities and artists including Rowan Blanchard, Senator Tammy Duckworth, America Ferrera, Roxane Gay, Ilana Glazer, Ashley Judd, Valarie Kaur, David Remnick, Yara Shahidi, Jill Soloway, Jia Tolentino, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and Elaine Welteroth. An inspirational call to action that reminds us that together, ordinary people can make a difference, Together We Rise is an unprecedented look at a day that made history—and the beginning of a resistance movement.
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