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Alzheimer's in America
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The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's will be the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary look at these questions at this transformational moment. The Report will digest the current trends in thinking about Alzheimer's, examine cutting-edge medical research, look at societal impacts, and include a groundbreaking and comprehensive national poll. It will feature original photography and personal essays by men and women - some from the public arena with names you know, some from everyday America - sharing their personal struggles with the disease as patients, caregivers and family members.
Healing Through Exercise
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InHealing Through Exercise, internationally bestselling science writer Jörg Blech sets out the actual physiological effects of exercise: it triggers the growth of new brain cells, induces stem cells in blood vessels, and reverses symptoms of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Doctors are now using exercise to combat common ailments such as heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis, and depression. Every one of us--whether a healthy athlete, a patient seeking to overcome a chronic disease, or a person desiring a longer, more mentally active life--can use the new and important information in this book.
Can Diets Be Harmful?
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Every time we're a little overweight, we hear these same things, get more exercise and observe a better diet. Even in watching television for a few hours, viewers are inundated with several commercial about diet plans where you will shred the weight to a much tinier version of yourself. How diet-centric is our culture? Can fat acceptance promote well-being? Are we harming our young girls with our diet obsessions? Essays presented here answer these questions, on both sides of the story so that readers can think critically while learning new information.
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