Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages of 15 and 17, in the wake of lockdown and in recovery from anorexia. In the tradition of Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar and Françoise Sagan in Bonjour Tristesse, Bellows writes with deceptively straightforward urgency, pushing through society's constraints on the bodies and minds of girls and women to offer a story both achingly familiar and devastatingly new.

In The Unappreciated Power of Naps, sleep researcher and clinical psychologist Dr. Jade Wu will uncover the truth about napping and its amazing benefits for both mind and body. Across six revealing lectures, you’ll examine what science tells us about the benefits—and, yes, the potential downsides—of napping.

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

In this highly listenable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. In addition to his five basic steps - a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels - Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight - for good.

Meditation makes you more productive because it lets you earn back time. For each minute you spend meditating, you'll earn around nine minutes back, as Chris Bailey - author of The Productivity Project and Hyperfocus - will show in this candid and counter-intuitive guide to the productivity benefits of meditation.

You will never diet again. Say goodbye to calorie counting, restrictive food bans, or other forced behaviors. In Mini Habits for Weight Loss, you will learn how to lose weight naturally in the precise way your body and brain are meant to change.

It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.

If you ask a Finn, they will likely be as baffled as you are. That’s why Melanie Dower, an expat who has been living in Finland for the past decade, has taken up the charge. Her vantage as an outsider entrenched in Finnish culture uniquely positions her to identify the keys to Finnish happiness that elude the rest of the world and that Finns take for granted. From sauna to strong social safety nets, Finnish life is made up of a constellation of habits and structures that leave its residents relaxed, healthy, and fulfilled.

These days, no one in America feels immune to violence. But now, in this extraordinary, groundbreaking book, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior unlocks the puzzle of human violence and shows that, like every creature on earth, we have within us the ability to predict the harm others might do us and get out of its way. Contrary to popular myth, human violence almost always has a discernible motive and is preceded by clear warning signs.

Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.

How can a poor man maximize health and minimize risk of disease? Easy! Book explains how to improve blood flow and tissue oxygen; how to avoid acidic foods; how to improve lymphatic flow; how to improve immune function, and many other ways to improve health. Book shows the weaknesses of cancer; how to "starve" cancer in effort to slow it's growth. Book explains how to reduce mTOR (cancer growth pathway) and to increase AMPK pathway (stops mTOR). Book is full of pictures to make it easier to understand. Peter Rogers MD is a Harvard trained imaging guided surgeon (interventionalist) & a ...

The original subtitle for this book was "Breaking out of beginner nutrition and pathophysiology." Although this book is full of jokes, it is a serious attempt to understand optimal nutrition. This books explains why the best diet for humans is 100% vegan, whole foods, low fat, and low sodium. This book discusses metabolism of sat fat, PUFA's, fructose, vitamin C, animal protein, vitamin B12, fiber and much more. Book shows how to reduce risk of leaky gut, hypertension, obesity, coronary artery disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. This book is written at the MD PhD level, but the only ...

Lack of blood flow (ischemia) is the most common cause of back pain. The disc is poorly perfused even under optimal conditions. Everybody knows that the brain and the heart need blood supply, but so does the spine. Too often the search is only for the "pain generator," and the "underlying cause" has been forgotten. We are looking at the TREE with a microscope, but we've forgotten to look at the FOREST. If all the trees have Dutch Elm disease, will it help to remove the most affected tree. This book is like an "antibiotic" to improve all the trees in the forest; to improve blood supply to ...

Blood flow is the river of life. Better blood flow means better b_ners, better brain, better energy, better healing.Popular diets are compared. Book explains benefits of vegan diet. Physiology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology of blood flow are explained.Book explains how to improve blood flow. Potassium and arugula improve blood flow because they increase nitric oxide.Sodium decreases blood flow because it lowers nitric oxide. Fructose decreases blood flow because it increases uric acid which then lowers nitric oxide.Elevated LDL cholesterol decreases blood flow, because it overcomes...

How would like to age better than your spouse, and all your colleagues. When they are all fat, sick, and cognitively impaired, you could skinny, healthy, and smart. Epidemiology makes it obvious. Traditional plant eaters like the Tarahumara in Northern Mexico, the Okinawans, the rural Kenyans, and many others hardly ever get obesity, hypertension, diabetes, myocardial infarction. They have much lower risk of breast cancer, prostate cancerm and colon cancer. This book covers the stuff you want to know about: Sodium, potassium, magnesium, fats, rice and arsenic, the OMAD (One Meal A Day) diet...