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Health & Wellness Book List

How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America

Author: Otis Webb Brawley, M.D., with Paul Goldberg

How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians’ provide, insurance companies that don’t demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm.

Natural Remedies for Healthy Living

Author: Reader's Digest
Publication Date: 2012-02-29

Old-fashioned wisdom still works! Forget those new, expensive products that are long on promise but short on performance. Here is proven, environmentally safe, economical advice that has stood the test of time.

The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

Author: Mark Hyman
Publication Date: 2012-02-28

Dr. Mark Hyman reveals that the secret solution to losing weight and preventing not just diabetes but also heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer is balanced insulin levels. Dr. Hyman describes the seven keys to achieving wellness-nutrition, hormones, inflammation, digestion, detoxification, energy metabolism, and a calm mind-and explains his revolutionary six-week healthy-living program. With advice on diet, green living, supplements and medication, exercise, and personalizing the plan for optimal results, the book also teaches readers how to maintain lifelong health.

Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting

Author: Dr. Wayne Dyer
Publication Date: 2012-02-28

Wishes Fulfilled is designed to take you on a voyage of discovery, wherein you can begin to tap into the amazing manifesting powers that you possess within you and create a life in which all that you imagine for yourself becomes a present fact.

New World Mindfulness: From the Founding Fathers, Emerson, and Thoreau to Your Personal Practice

Author: Donald McCown and Marc Micozzi

We are all busy--and we all long for quiet and connection. Yet despite the growing body of evidence supporting the benefits of mindfulness, the hectic pace of modern life leaves little time to devote to meditation, relaxation, and contemplation. In New World Mindfulness, mindfulness teacher and therapist Donald McCown and physician Marc Micozzi provide techniques to successfully integrate mindfulness into real life so we can rise above the stress of work, family, and community that can easily pull us out of the moment and into states of tension, anxiety, or depression.

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