The end of illness
Written by a physician, this is a work that radically redefines conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life. After considering the discoveries that have led to progress in treating some diseases, the author asked an essential question: Why aren...
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New York :
Free Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- How a cancer doctor met his greatest challenge to end all illness
- The Science and Art of Defining Your Health. What is health? : a new definition that changes everything
- A pound of cure: the simple ways to measure your health today and accept trade-offs in designing your health for tomorrow
- Go back to the future: why it pays to know your history and how to get it
- Rotten eggs and cute chicks: how environmental impacts can be huge where we least expect them, and insignificant where we most expect them
- Two French restaurants, one without butter: the weakness in DNA and the power in proteins
- The Elements of Healthy Style. Proceed with caution: studies, claims, and scare tactics
- The truth about synthetic shortcuts: how to save hundreds of dollars a year and rethink the need for supplements and vitamins
- The fallacy of "fresh": hidden dangers and opportunities in your local market
- Hot and heavy: what NFL football players and nuns can teach us about deadly inflammation and how to control it
- Running to sit still: the perils of a prolonged perch
- Timing is everything: the wonder drug of keeping a regular schedule
- The Future You. High-tech health: how virtual reality and knowledge from the video game world may one day save our lives
- The give-and-take: how sharing our medical information can make us live longer and better
- The art of doing nothing: honoring our body's natural healing powers
- Of mice and men and the search for the master switch: do we have to die? ; My final notes of hope.
