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Core Exercises: 6 workouts to tighten your abs, strengthen your back, and improve balance
Want to bring more power to athletic pursuits? Build up your balance and stability? Or are you simply hoping to make everyday acts like bending, turning, and reaching easier? A strong, flexible core underpins all these goals. Core muscles need to be strong, yet flexible, and core fitness should be part of every exercise program. Learn more »
Exercise: A program you can live with
What can improve your mood, boost your ability to fend off infection, 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 demonstrate that exercise helps you feel better and live longer. This report answers many important questions about physical activity. It will also help guide you through starting and maintaining an exercise program that suits your abilities... Learn more »
Healthy Women, Healthy Lives: A Guide to Preventing Disease, from the Landmark Nurses' Health Study
Healthy Women, Healthy Lives provides women with information obtained from the landmark Nurses' Health Study at Harvard Medical School — as well as data from other significant women's health research — so that they can achieve and maintain good health throughout their lives. Learn more »
Low Back Pain: Healing your aching back
Treatment of low back pain has undergone a recent sea change. Experts now appreciate the central role of exercise and the importance of maintaining a healthy back. This Special Health Report, Low Back Pain: Healing your aching back, helps you understand why back pain occurs and which treatments are most likely to help. This report describes the different types of back problems and the tailored treatments that are more likely to help specific conditions. Learn more »
Pain Relief Without Drugs or Surgery
Pain Relief takes many forms. This Special Health Report looks beyond the standard treatments of drugs and surgery and explores the many other pain remedies available from acupuncture to mind-body therapies. Includes discussions of chiropractic medicine, physical and occupational therapies, herbal remedies, mindfulness meditation, and music therapy among others. Provides specific treatments for 10 common pain conditions. Learn more »
The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Fitness Plan
So much of the road to recovery is beyond the control of breast cancer patients. However, the ever-increasing number of survivors can take charge of one major component of recovery that can significantly improve their health and quality of daily life: exercise. In The Breast Cancer Survivor's Fitness Plan, Dr. Carolyn Kaelin provides effective, inspiring workouts tailored for each type of surgery and adapted for differing fitness levels. Learn more »
The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer
The No Sweat Exercise Plan: A Simple Way to Lose Weight and Improve Your Health Without Spending Hours in the Gym introduces an innovative exercise plan that shows how to be healthy and lose weight through day-to-day activities and without working up a sweat. Written for people who know they need to exercise to look better and improve their health, but who just aren’t into heavy workouts, this book is based on sound scientific data and is endorsed by physicians at Harvard Medical School. Learn more »
Unlocking the Mysteries of Eating Disorders: A Life-Saving Guide To Your Child's Treatment and Recovery
Unlocking the Mysteries of Eating Disorders is an insightful and comforting guide, written by two internationally known experts, that shatters the myths, mysteries, and misconceptions surrounding eating disorders. The book includes the widest range of professional care options available, both psychotherapeutic and medicinal, as well as preventive solutions for children who display early warning signs. Most inspiring of all are the real-life stories of families who have faced eating disorders... Learn more »
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