Outlines scientifically supported methods for losing weight, fighting disease, and improving energy levels by eating strategic food combinations, describing a six-week program for embracing a healthier lifestyle and detoxifying the body.
Identifies critical pollutants in today's environment, including lead, asbestos, PCBs, and pesticides, and explains how to minimize children's exposure, evaluate risks, and ensure community compliance with cleanup laws.
A thirty-day plan for individuals who want to begin a weight loss program offers nutritional advice, simple exercise routines, menus and recipes, and tips from former "Biggest Loser" contestants.
Editor Partridge (for whom no background information is given) and more than 20 contributors explore the functions, capacity, and behavior of the human brain as well as how the brain has been studied. Topics include: historic approaches to study, advances in brain-image technology, development from infancy to adulthood, language processing, aging, and efforts to understand human consciousness.
Genetics is a specialty of secrets. After thirty years as a pediatric geneticist in New York City, Dr. Robert Marion knows things about his patients that their friends, their families, and even they themselves do not. Having access to this kind of inside information is at once a terrific honor and a terrible burden. It requires Dr. Marion to play detective, philosopher, physician, and friend, sometimes all over the course of a single visit.
The CNN doctor documents emerging scientific technologies and understandings by doctors to explain how patients with conditions that were once considered terminal are able to lead healthy and productive lives, drawing on case files of unprecedented recoveries.
Presents a guide about hair loss, including an overview of the condition, prevention techniques, and reviews of popular treatment options.