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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jeannette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?"...

2) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...

3) Breath: the new science of a lost art

Author

Nestor, James

Pub. Date

2020.

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"No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure...

4) Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life

Author

Hyman, Dr. Mark

Series

The Dr. Hyman Library

Pub. Date

2023

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Bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman presents the definitive guide for reversing disease, easing pain, and living younger longer.
Aging has long been considered a normal process. We think disease, frailty, and gradual decline are inevitable parts of life. But they’re not. Science today sees aging as a treatable disease. By addressing its root causes we can not only increase our health span and live longer but prevent and reverse the...

5) Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Author

Walker, Matthew

Pub. Date

2017

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"Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book...Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for you." —Bill Gates

A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this "stimulating and important book" (Financial Times) is a fascinating dive into the purpose and power of slumber.
With two appearances on CBS...

6) The 4-hour body: an uncommon guide to rapid fat-loss, incredible sex, and becoming superhuman

Author

Ferriss, Timothy

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eBook, Juvenile Graphic Novel, Kindle

The best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek outlines a program for healthy living that draws on 15 years of research and interviews with leading doctors and health-care experts to offer insight into genetic factors, nutrition requirements and fitness practices.

7) Smile

Author

Telgemeier, Raina

Series

Smile

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1

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From sixth grade through tenth, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself.

8) Prevention

Series

Prevention

Publisher

Hearst

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Prevention magazine gives you healthy solutions you can really live with. Every issue delivers the latest news and trends on health, food, and nutrition, family, fitness, and more!

9) Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end

Author

Gawande, Atul

Pub. Date

2014.

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Mint Editions
Watermill classic

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot....

10) The story of my life

Author

Keller, Helen

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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12

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Book, Audiobooks and music, eAudiobook

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An autobiography of Helen Keller, written while she was a young woman, in which she tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher Anne Sullivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness and deafness.

11) The whole body reset: your weight-loss plan for a flat belly, optimum health, and a body you'll love--at midlife and beyond

Author

Perrine, Stephen

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2022.

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"The first-ever weight-loss plan specifically designed to stop--and reverse--age-related weight gain and muscle loss, while shrinking your belly, extending your life, and creating your healthiest self at mid-life and beyond"--

12) In defense of food: an eater's manifesto

Author

Pollan, Michael

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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...

13) Wheat belly: lose the wheat, lose the weight, and find your path back to health

Author

Davis, William

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A renowned cardiologist explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse myriad health problems.

14) The sleep fix: practical, proven, and surprising solutions for insomnia, snoring, shift work, and more

Author

Macedo, Diane

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From renowned ABC News anchor/correspondent and former insomniac Diane Macedo, comes a practical, user-friendly guide to getting better sleep. The Sleep Fix flips the switch on common advice, illuminating the reporter’s relentless search for how to get a good night’s sleep and the surprising, scientific, and practical solutions she found along the way. --Amazon.

15) Own the day, own your life: optimized practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping, and sex

Author

Marcus, Aubrey

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Book, eAudiobook

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Audiobooks and music, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Draws on cutting-edge studies and traditional world practices to demonstrate how a single day of positive fitness choices can lead to a lifetime of working strategies for optimal performance, mental clarity, and overall better health.

16) Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

Author

Li, William W

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Eat your way to better health with this New York Times bestseller on food's ability to help the body heal itself from cancer, dementia, and dozens of other avoidable diseases.
Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in Eat to Beat...

17) Women's Health

Series

Women's Health

Publisher

Hearst

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Women's Health readers strive to better their whole lives. And that's exactly why Women's Health reports on all the topics that interest them. In every issue you'll find topics on success strategies, nutrition, weight loss, health, fitness, special reports, sex & relationship, beauty breakthroughs, and style & fashion.

18) Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

Author

Sinclair, David A

Pub. Date

2019

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Brilliant and enthralling." —The Wall Street Journal

A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time's most influential people.
It's a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we've been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?

In...

19) Life in the Fasting Lane: How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health

Author

Fung, Dr. Jason

Pub. Date

2020

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