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Japan has a way of thinking that is just . . . different. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Tokyo-born journalist Lisa Katayama's collection of urawaza (a Japanese word for secret lifestyle tricks and techniques). Want to turbocharge your sled? Spray the bottom with nonstick cooking spray. Can't find someone to water your plants while you're away? Place the plant on a water-soaked diaper, so it slowly absorbs water over time. The subject of popular...
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The New York Times's intrepid health reporter investigates the truth about sex, eating, exercise, and other health conundrums
For more than two years, the New York Times's science and health columnist Anahad O'Connor has tracked down the facts, fictions, and occasional fuzziness of old wives' tales, conventional-wisdom cures, and other medical mysteries. Now in this lively and fun book, he opens up his case files to disclose the experts' answers...
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This book teaches readers to stop turning to potentially harmful prescription and over-the-counter medicines to ease whatever ails them, and to turn instead to Mother Nature for safe, natural and effective remedies to relieve troublesome health conditions. Dr. Earl Mindell shows how to use nutritional and herbal supplements to treat common ailments, both large and small. From Allergies to Vertigo, Arthritis to Weight Loss, Dr. Mindell's favorite time-tested...
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When faced with common health emergencies, many of us automatically turn to costly, over-the-counter medications for what we hope will be fast relief. We do not realize that we have another option -- easy-to-use, safe, inexpensive, and highly effective natural medicines. Natural Medicine First Aid Remedies provides everything you need to know to treat a range of ailments and health concerns, including burns, muscle cramps, hot flashes, shock, sore...
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In this giftable mini booklet of The Little Book of Home Remedies, Mind and Body, Barbara H. Seeber and Barbara Brownell Grogan join Dr. Linda White to draw on years of training in the area of natural healing to help you ease your stress and the effects that it has on the body. This handy guide provides remedies and advice for stress, anxiety, fatigue, depression, and more. The Little Book of Home Remedies, Mind and Body is a giftable and handy mini...
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"When her daughter is prescribed diet after diet by doctors who label her 'failure to thrive,' Debi Lewis wrestles with her own attitudes about food and cooking, emerging triumphant, spatula in hand. In Kitchen Medicine, parents of picky eaters and caregivers of all kinds will find a kindred spirit"--
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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2021.
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"This book dissects medical myths and pseudoscience and explores how misinformation can spread faster than microbes. Yasmin debunks public health myths ranging from the spurious link between vaccines and autism to the truth about so-called chemtrails left behind by airplanes. In short chapters covering popular myths, Yasmin parses the science behind fearful rumors and models how to be a more informed consumer of health news"--
12) You-- the owner's manual: an insider's guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger
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Outlines steps to achieving overall physical health, addressing each area of the body in a series of chapters designed to challenge popular myths while informing readers on a range of dietary, exercise, and therapeutic concerns.
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Charles Scribner's Sons
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[2017]
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Presents information on numerous diseases and conditions. Articles include a definition of the disease or condition, an explanation of how it works in the body, information on causes, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment or cure, and lifestyles.
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Da Capo/Life Long
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Take Care of Yourself is simple to use. Readers can look up their symptoms to locate an explanation of likely causes and possible home remedies, while diagrams show how to recognize problems and treat them, and decision charts advise when its time to see a doctor.
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Harvard University Press
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2004
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With the publication in 1996 of The Harvard Guide to Women's Health, women seeking answers to questions about their health had access to the combined expertise of physicians from three of the world's most prestigious medical institutions: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. With complete information on women's health concerns, physical and behavioral, this A to Z reference quickly became a definitive...
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DK Publishing
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[2018]
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"Diagnose any health problem with this simple visual symptom guide: simple illustrations of every part of the body lead you straight to the problem ; easy-to-follow descriptions of symptoms guide you to the likely cause and more information about the condition ; symbols indicate the appropriate form of medical help ; ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged ; written and authenticated by a team of doctors."--Page [4] of cover.
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Collins
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c2007
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Outlines an integrated approach to treating two hundred common illnesses, citing conventional medical methods while listing four alternative treatments for each, in a reference that draws on principles of homeopathy, naturopathy, herbalism, and traditional Chinese medicine to enable patients to make informed choices.
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