Product Description: It's no secret that African-Americans top the list of groups afflicted by hypertension, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, renal failure, and cancer. What the statistics do not show is the pain, misery, and despair that these conditions create, not only for the individual, but also for family and friends...read more

Product Description: NOTE: Books a la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access code or media that would be packaged with the bound book. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX   Choosing Health uses real-life applications, behavior change tools, and mobile technologies to speak to students better than any other brief personal health textbook...read more

Product Description: A bold look at how commercial agendas distort the real science behind health and fitness studies and misinform the public about how to live a healthy life.  Researcher Timothy Caulfield talks with experts in medicine, pharmaceuticals, health and fitness, and even tries out many of the health fads himself, in order to test their scientific validity, dispel the myths, and illuminate the path to better health...read more

Product Description: Paging Dr. Jim, Dr. Travis, Dr. Lisa and Dr. Drew!   America needs your help—and your 5-minute health hints.  If you are like many, you probably think you just don’t have time to be healthy:  it’s too much work, and there’s just too much conflicting information out there...read more

Product Description: Everyone loves to eat. And everyone wants to be healthy. But how do we navigate between today’s extremes—between those offering us gastronomic gluttony and the siren song of convenient junk food and those preaching salvation only through deprivation and boring food choices? Dr...read more

Product Description: Previously published as 365 Energy Boosters.Need an energy boost to get through that long afternoon meeting? Put down that cup of caffeine and pick up Everyday Energy Boosters with 365 quick and easy tips to feel more energized all day every day! Bestselling health writers Sondra Kornblatt and Susannah Seton offer energy-boosting tips that can be used anytime or anywhere: Deep breathing techniques Dry brushing your skin Wiggling, Spinal Rocks, and other one-minute exercisesJuices, nuts and seeds to keep you energized all dayHow to track your natural energy cyclesTips for getting more sleepOriginally published in 2005 as 365 Energy Boosters, Everyday Energy Boosters is now available in a fresh new repackaged edition...read more

Offers readers the chance to assess their health and lifestyle, and then take action to improve their wellbeing and their future health. This book begins with a series of tools for assessing the reader's physical and mental fitness as well as the state of their finances and environment. It reveals the consequences of the reader's lifestyle.

Product Description: Health means different things to different people. For some, being healthy means feeling fit and being able to lead active lives. For others, health simply means survival. Health and Disease examines some of the major issues that people face around the world...read more

Product Description:   Books a la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access code or media that would be packaged with the bound book.   Built by students for students...read more