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From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction
: :Renowned therapist, eating disorder specialist and recovering food addict Kay Sheppard helps countless individuals win their battles over food addiction-people for whom diets, pills and purging have become a way of life. In 1993, her groundbreaking book, Food Addiction: The Body Knows, explained the illness of food addiction from the physiological origins through recovery. Today, obesity is on the rise. In addition to the 300,000 overweight people in this country, millions more who may not look overweight ...
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Every Second Counts
: :In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts (co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: 'Generally, one of the hardest things in the world to do is something twice.' While he is talking here about his preparation for what would prove to be his second consecutive Tour de France victory in 2000, the sentiment could equally be applied to the book itself. And just as Armstrong managed to repeat his incredible 1999 tour victory, Every Second Counts ...
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The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It
: :In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts (co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: 'Generally, one of the hardest things in the world to do is something twice.' While he is talking here about his preparation for what would prove to be his second consecutive Tour de France victory in 2000, the sentiment could equally be applied to the book itself. And just as Armstrong managed to repeat his incredible 1999 tour victory, Every Second Counts ...
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Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
: :After being introduced for a lecture, Ram Dass eschewed the stairs and, from his front row seat, leapt up on to the stage--or tried to, anyway, but age and gravity brought him crashing back to earth. Like other baby boomers, Ram Dass has learned the hard way that aging is unkind to the body. But he has also learned that it can be an opportunity for growth. While others begin to devalue you, you can reconnect with the ...
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Track Your Plaque: The Only Heart Disease Prevention Program That Shows How to Use the New Heart Scans to Detect, Track and Control Coronary Plaque
: :It's a sad fact: 90% of all heart disease goes undetected until heart attack strikes. An annual physical won't uncover it, you may feel great, exercise and eat intelligently, your LDL cholesterol may be 92 or 192--it makes little difference. Then how can you predict your heart's future? Do you need a crystal ball? Well, you don't have a crystal ball. But you have the next best thing: Track Your Plaque, the program that shows you how ...
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Something to Live For: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life
: :Drawing on ancient and contemporary wisdom, as well as modern research, Richard Leider and David Shapiro provide insightful ways of thinking and being that help us find meaning and purpose in the second half of life. This deeply reflective book uses a safari, (referencing a trip the authors took to Africa in 2006) as a metaphor to show how the second half of life can be a journey of discovery. In what may be their most personal ...
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The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life And Beyond
:Book Description:Blair shares more than 150 short essays covering a wide range of topics relating specifically to women and aging. Encouraging women to re-envision their lives for the road ahead, Blair explores our own attitudes and cultural myths about aging, and helps us work through our own self-limiting beliefs. She even includes a special section examining love and relationships, along with tips on managing finances and sharing our decisions with family and friends. The interactive format features space ...
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The Perricone Promise: Look Younger, Live Longer in Three Easy Steps
: :For women seeking complexion perfection, Dr. Nicholas Perricone is the name to know; actress Courteney Cox counts herself among his many devotees. In The Perricone Promise, he claims that his 28-day program will help stop and even reverse the aging process, making anyone who follows his advice 'look and feel ten years younger.' Perricone says the brain and the skin both start out as the same embryonic tissue, so it follows that any efforts aimed at improving one's ...
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Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin
: :Allen Zadoff spent years reasoning that a big, healthy man should have a big, healthy appetite and that his rapidly increasing girth was no more than a regular guy thing. At 350 pounds, however, it became clear that what had started as a little weight problem was destroying his life. Desperate to find a new way of living that would carry him into thin and beyond, Zadoff began to focus less on what he ate, and more ...
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Don't Bet against Me!: Beating the Odds Against Breast Cancer and in Life
: :2008 Retailer's Choice Award winner!The wife of Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre, Deanna was inadvertently thrust into the spotlight when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. Now cancer-free, Deanna is one of breast cancer's leading activists, speaking and raising financial support for women who are 'medically underserved' (uninsured or under-insured).) Deanna's story shares the role her faith has played in her life--from her years as a single mom and her high profile marriage to ...
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