The path to old age can be fraught with health issues, family woes, and disability. But it doesn't need to be this way. Eric Larson challenges readers to embrace the future with resilience, engagement, and mindfulness. With specific guidance and personal anecdotes, this work is sure to be a favorite among readers of middle age and beyond.
Dr. Jay Cohn argues that we have been dangerously misinformed about heart disease and suggests that cardiovascular illnesses are largely inherited. He sheds light on the role of diet, obesity, cholesterol, and blood pressure in influencing health, concluding that drugs in at-risk individuals are more effective in prevention than lifestyle changes.
Older people suffer and die from avoidable disorders that simple lifestyle changes can prevent. Here, a seasoned doctor helps readers understand what causes these threats and stresses the importance of prevention, early recognition, and obtaining optimal care in order to extend years healthfully.
A Guide to Preventing and Healing from Injury and Strain
The shoulder is one of the most useful, and problematic, joints in the body. When injured, it can seriously impair one's ability to function well, sleep, or work. This book takes a look at the anatomy of the shoulder, what can go wrong with it, how to fix it, and how to prevent problems with it.
Written for patients and family members, this book deals with the toll depression takes on physical health, essentially accelerating the aging process, bringing on or worsening age-related health problems such as stroke, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's. It offers readers practical guidance for prevention and treatment.
After You Hear It's Cancer offers a step-by-step guide for recently diagnosed patients and their families as they embark on this arduous journey. The authors integrate cutting-edge research with the perspectives of numerous cancer patients to provide an empathic, but pragmatic handbook that should be required reading for every cancer patient.
Katz provides spouses and partners of men with prostate cancer with a comprehensive but reader friendly overview of what they need to know to support the man they love as he goes through the cancer journey. From diagnosis to death, the book deals sensitively with multiple topics to help spouses/partners in their roles as mates and caregivers.
This book is intended for all people in therapy or considering therapy for the first time. It helps readers understand how therapy works, how to prepare, how to find the right therapist, how to navigate insurance and billing, and how to succeed in therapy while avoiding the most common pitfalls.
