Ailments category: 10428 books
Survival of the Sickest
The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Read it.
You're already living it.
Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to the tanning salon help lower your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to...
Rabid
A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and, with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It’s a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from...
by George Morring
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2019
PTSD awareness written by a combat veteran. Take a walk, and a ride through any given day in Iraq.
Disorders of the Brain
A Guide to Mental Illnesses
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Mental illness has been recognized in people dating back to days of Ancient Greece and Rome. A number of disturbances that were described included feelings of melancholy, hysteria and phobias. The concept that mental illness must be related to biology was first considered by Hippocrates. While at...
The Dental Diet
The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Throughout the years, dental health has often been characterized as a reflection of our overall health, where bad oral health results from issues with other parts of our body. But what if we flipped the paradigm? What if we thought about dental health as the foundation for our physical health as a...
Aging Backwards
Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
PBS fitness personality on Classical Stretch and creator of the fitness phenomenon Essentrics, Miranda Esmonde-White offers an eye-opening guide to anti-aging that provides essential tools to help anyone turn back the clock and look and feel younger no matter what age.
Miranda Esmonde-White...
The Barbary Plague
The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
“San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions on Nob Hill. . . . The wharf bristled with masts and smokestacks from as many as a thousand sailing...
by Dr. Radhakrishna Shrimali
Language: Hindi
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: Hindi
Release Date: October 4, 2017
जब मनुष्य को अपनी शारीरिक एवं मानसिक शक्तियों द्वार किसी कार्य की सिद्धि में सफलता नहीं मिलती तो वह अलौकिक शक्तियों...
by Paul Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Throughout history people have sought to cope with a life that is often stressful and hard. We have actually known for some time that developing compassion for oneself and others can help us face up to and win through the hardship and find a sense of inner peace. However in modern societies we rarely...
by Sheila Hocken
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
As a girl, Sheila never let her gradual descent into blindness prevent her from trying to do everything a sighted person could do. Then at 17, unable to see to find her way around the house she grew up in, she found herself dreading her future in an 'ever darkening vacuum'.
But then the remarkable...
The Naturally Clean Home
150 Super-Easy Herbal Formulas for Green Cleaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Keep your home clean, green, and healthy! Learn how to disinfect and freshen your house using powerful all-natural cleaners made by mixing essential oils together with common nontoxic kitchen ingredients like baking soda, lemon, and vinegar. Discover how fruits and herbs can brighten any room with revitalizing scents.
by Lisa Bond
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Are you tired of spending hundreds of dollars on face creams, beauty treatments, massages, and aromatherapy? Do you question all those impossible to pronounce ingredients on the back of your bath products and lotions? Have you wondered why some products are tested on animals instead of humans? The...
by Robert G. Lahita, Robert H. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
A rheumatologist and a psychologist offer an informative and compassionate perspective on coping with lupus for patients and their families.
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that is difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms-from achy joints to skin rashes-often mimic those of other diseases....
The Allergy-Fighting Garden
Stop Asthma and Allergies with Smart Landscaping
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Breathe Easy with This Groundbreaking Gardening Guide
If you are one of the millions of people with allergies or asthma, this totally unique book shows you how to avoid plants that trigger allergies and to create a garden that will actually protect you by trapping pollen and cleaning the air...