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Lose Weight and Keep it Off
If you’ve struggled to lose weight, you’re in good company. But health experts have shifted toward recommending that people follow a healthy diet rather than trying to become thin. Many people have unrealistic expectations about how much weight they need to lose. Losing just small amounts of weight — about 10% of your body weight — can improve your health. Learn more »
Strength and Power Training: A guide for adults of all ages
If you're like many people, you've never lifted weights in your life and you may wonder why start now? As you age, muscle tissue and strength dwindles, but weight or strength training can reverse this process. It can also lighten your heart's workload, boost levels of good cholesterol, help prevent and treat diabetes, ease stiffness from arthritis, lead to weight loss, and improve your mobility. While it's clear that there are plenty of reasons to include strength training in your routine, you... Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
To take advantage of the latest medical advances, and to deal with the often-confusing world of health care, you need information that is clear, accurate, easily understandable, and accessible. Developed by 170 faculty members of Harvard Medical School, physicians who care for patients every day, The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide brings you the information you need to keep your and your family healthy and to cope with illness when it does strike. Learn more »
Vitamins and Minerals: What you need to know
Understanding how vitamins and minerals interact in our body gives us a valuable means of taking our health into our own hands. Research into the effects of these micronutrients has been enlightening. For example, we now know that a large fraction of Americans are not getting enough vitamin D, and the range of consequences may be far greater than we thought. Recent studies suggest that vitamin D does more than help build strong bones; it may help to prevent hypertension, certain types of... Learn more »
Exercise: A program you can live with
What can improve your mood, help relieve insomnia, and lower your risk for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and colon cancer? The answer is regular exercise. It may seem too good to be true, but it's not. Hundreds of studies conducted over the past 50 years demonstrate that exercise helps you feel better and live longer. This report answers many important questions about physical activity, from how your body changes through exercise to what diseases it helps prevent. Learn more »
Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition
Some foods are good for you, some are bad. But which are which? The answers, according to the latest nutritional science, are not the same as previously thought. While some age-old advice like “eat your vegetables” still holds true, many early assumptions have turned out to be wrong. This report describes the food-health connection and takes on controversial topics like food additives, cooking methods, the role of carbohydrates, and more. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure
High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been called the biggest threat to health in the United States. Nearly half of all adults have blood pressure that is too high. Sometimes, the only way to achieve a healthy blood pressure is to take medicines. However, the latest national expert guidelines emphasize that nutrition, exercise, stress management and mind-body techniques also have considerable value. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure tells you about how you can... Learn more »
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