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Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
How does the food you eat affect your body? Why is it important to exercise? How does stress affect the brain? Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this high-interest book teaches students the importance of a balanced diet and regular exercise, and provides tips on how to manage stress. The intriguing sidebars, detailed images, and in-depth Reader's Guide require students to connect back to the text and encourage multiple readings....
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
From the retail supermarket outlets of huge, publicly traded corporations come processed, manipulated, engineered "food products" - produced by other wings of the same corporation. These artificial, toxic treats are then sold with the blessings of the Federal Trade Commission and the FDA - government organizations charged with safeguarding the public good - laying the foundations for future disease and chronic ill-health for the consumer, and a guaranteed...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A ground-breaking book to help dogs live healthier and longer lives. When Rodney Habib's dog, Sam, was diagnosed with cancer in 2013, it sent him on a mission to save her life. At the age of five, Sam was given only six months to live. Her plight inspired Rodney to travel the world, looking for innovative ways to arrest the progression of the disease. In his quest to save Sam, he met world-renowned veterinarian Karen Becker, a proactive pet health...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
The World Health Organization is a very important international agency. Around the world this group's volunteers and staff are working to treat disease outbreaks, provide immunizations and health education. Have you ever wondered how this important work gets done? How do organizations like the World Health Organization help? What kinds of problems do they have to solve? Read How Do They Help? The World Health Organization to learn more about many...
9) The body book: the law of hunger, the science of strength, and other ways to love your amazing body
Author
Publisher
HarperWave
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Here the author shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience. Throughout her career, she has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down to earth star was not always health conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the...
10) I Eat Well
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
280L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Learning to eat well is a tough job! Carefully leveled text allows the youngest readers to read independently and learn all about eating well.
Author
Language
English
Description
"At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Health-Care Divide takes a close look at the history of health care in the United States while addressing topics such as the Affordable Care Act and the health-care poverty gap for the elderly, children, and minority groups" --
Author
Language
English
Description
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be. Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist,...
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Women do not always receive the same healthcare as men. In fact, for too long medicine has not recognized that numerous health conditions like heart disease, stroke, stress, mental health and more impact women differently than men. Orthopedic surgeon Mary I. OConnor and medical anthropologist Kanwal L. Haq want to change that by empowering women with knowledge about the current landscape of womens health, and showing them how to actively engage...
15) I'm a paramedic
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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Description
"What does a paramedic do every day? Follow paramedics as they do the important work of treating patients in an emergency. Discover the tools they use as they work with others to keep people healthy. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first."--
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
1240L
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly 50 years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this seminal book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print this completely revised and updated edition from 2005 adds to her original research and findings perspectives on the issues of eating disorders,...
17) Younger: a breakthrough program to reset your genes, reverse aging, and turn back the clock 10 years
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Gottfried believes that ninety-percent of the signs of aging and disease are caused by lifestyle choices, not genes. Her seven week program will empower you to make the critical choices to not just look young, but also feel young and live longer. You'll learn the five key factors that will increase your health span-- and your life span.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What does a therapist do every day? What character traits are essential for therapists to have? Follow therapists as they work to keep people happy and healthy. These health heroes do the important work of helping patients care for their mental health. Discover how they work with other healthcare providers to care for patients. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first. Meet a real therapist, and find out how these...