Healthy Highways: The Traveler's Guide to Healthy Eating

This is the second edition of the popular healthy eating guide from best- selling food writers Nikki & David Goldbeck. This new edition has 1000 new listings for a total of 2800 all verified. Exclusive local driving directions guides you to each listing. Indispensable to vegetarians, vegans, organic and sustainability fans and those with special dietary needs.
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Energy Every Day

Aimed at general readers, this volume argues that personal energy is the key to leading a fulfilling life and outlines ways to boost energy based on science and practical application. The authors discuss the role energy plays in a person's life; sources like nutrition, hydration, sleep, and breathing regulation; self-assessment; using stress productively; finding physical activities; and putting a plan into action and combating obstacles. Warm-ups and exercises are included, with color photos illustrating movements. Both associated with the Human Performance Institute, Woods (sport science, U. of Tampa and U. of South Florida) is a performance coach, and Jordan is a former fitness consultant and exercise physiologist, a strength and conditioning and health fitness specialist, and personal trainer.
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Fat Chance: Losing the Weight, Gaining My Worth

The author, one of the finalist on the TV show "The Biggest Loser," discusses her struggles with weight as a stay-at-home mother, her experiences during the contest, and the changes in her feelings of self-worth that resulted from her weight loss.
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The Menopause Makeover: The Ultimate Guide to Taking Control of Your Health and Beauty During Menopause

"Hot flashes and sleepless nights? Feeling anxious and irritable? Feel like you're losing your mind? Frustrated with weight gain? It's time for a makeover, a menopause makeover! Staness Jonekos knows all too well how you feel. Leading up to her wedding day at the age of forty-seven, she was sporting a not-so-sexy belly bulge, suffering from hot flashes and feeling in no mood for a honeymoon. Jonekos took drastic action and created the first-ever menopause makeover to get back into that little white dressand feel sexy again in just twelve weeks. Now she joins forces with leading menopause expert Dr. Wendy Klein to give you the relief you need, fast! Based on the latest scientific research, and designed for both pre- and post-menopausal women, The Menopause Makeover is a proven, eight-step program to help you reclaim your health and your life."
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Chronicles the story of New York City's first forensic scientists to describe Jazz Age poisoning cases, including a family's inexplicable balding, Barnum and Bailey's Blue Man, and the crumbling bones of factory workers.
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The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds

The bestselling author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I. examines the real-life cases behind the hit television series Criminal Minds Week after week, the hit TV show Criminal Minds gives viewers a look inside the psyches of the fictional serial killers tracked by the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit). This elite team of FBI agents travels the country assisting law enforcement officials by examining the crime scene, "profiling" the perpetrator, and aiding in arrest and interrogation. In this book Katherine Ramsland reveals how reality differs from fiction and how forensic psychologists actually use their knowledge of human behavior and motivations as consultants in criminal investigations-as well as detailing the real cases that influenced some of Criminal Minds's most memorable episodes.   Check Catalog

Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

The Overcoming Series offers step-by-step guides to self-improvement based on the methods of cognitive behavioral therapy. The series aims to help readers conquer a broad range of disabling conditions—from worry to body image problems to obsessive compulsive disorder and more. Cognitive behavioral therapy was developed by psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck and is now internationally favored as a practical means of overcoming longstanding and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors. Even when our situation does not change, if we change the self-defeating ways we think, we can make ourselves feel better. This positive, pragmatic approach is popular with therapists and patients alike.
The accessible, straightforward, and practical books in this series outline affordable and easy-to-follow treatment plans, and have provided tens of thousands of readers with the help they need to overcome self-defeating behavior and lead happier lives.
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The Primal Blueprint

Combining modern genetic science and evolutionary biology, The Primal Blueprint dispels a number of the myths that modern medicine and conventional wisdom have come to accept as fact. Author Mark Sisson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through human evolution, comparing the life and robust health of our hunter-gatherer ancestors with a day in the life of a modern family  exposing potential health issues that arise from trying to do the right things living in the 21st century. Sisson offers a solution in 10 empowering Blueprint Lifestyle Laws that can help us reprogram our genes away from disease and pain towards a direction of effortless weight loss, vibrant health and boundless energy. The reader learns how the right high-fat diet can actually help one lose weight; how popular low-fat, grain-based diets might trigger illness, disease, and lifelong weight gain; why doing too much cardio exercise might actually suppress the immune system and how some of today's most common medications might make a health condition even worse. The consummate book on "Paleo" or "Primal."
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