Great Health

So-called government and health "authorities" never tire of reminding those of us who live in industrialized countries that heart disease is a major cause of death. They go even further when they tell us that heart disease is eminently preventable, all the while conceding that one's genetic background predetermines numerous factors with influence over each individual's risk of succumbing to heart attack. They tout that diet is a foremost factor among causes of heart disease and that modifying your diet provides a workable means of preventing heart attacks.

The 31-Day Food Revolution is an eater's guide to liberation from a toxic food world. It offers an action plan for eating food that's healthy, ethical, sustainable, and delicious. Robbins reveals dark secrets the food industry doesn't want you to know that are making you sick. And he shows you how - in just 31 days - you can use the restorative power of foods to heal your gut, lose excess weight, and lower your risk for disease - all while contributing to a healthier planet.

Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive, but that’s not what makes them unaffordable. Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle and political debate. And while we’ve struggled for decades to agree on solutions that serve all patients without jeopardizing the invention of new medicines, many Americans suffer because they can’t afford the drugs they need. Do we really have to choose between affordability and innovation?

More than 60 million Americans suffer from digestive disorders such as gastroesophageal reflux disease and irritable bowel syndrome. In The Inside Tract by Gerard E. Mullin, MD, a comprehensive plan for overcoming these common digestive ailments, you'll learn how a simple regimen of dietary changes, supplements, and a seven-step lifestyle modification program can help heal intestinal problems and get you on track to vibrant health!

“Scale” has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn't just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It's about whether an idea that takes hold in a small group can do the same in a much larger one. Translating an idea into widespread impact, says University of Chicago economist John A. List, depends on one thing only: whether it can achieve “high voltage”—the ability to be replicated at scale. In The Voltage Effect, List explains that scalable ideas share a common set of attributes, while any number of attributes can doom an unscalable idea.

Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog - until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish - and the closest supply is 650 miles away! The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled, but can the dogs deliver it in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life.

Peak is the popular, transformative guide to doing business better, written by a seasoned entrepreneur/CEO who has disrupted his favorite industry not once but twice. Author Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of one of the world's largest boutique hotel companies, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs at a time when his company was in dire need.

Ervin Laszlo and David Lorimer, drawing on their holistic expertise and global network, have assembled a stellar cast of contributors who decode the big picture to offer exactly what we need now. The world-renowned scientists and visionaries who contribute to this book illuminate where are we today and where we can go from here. They focus on the most burning question of all: how can we upshift ourselves—our ways of healing, of thinking and feeling, and even of intuiting—to respond to the pressing requirements of our time?

Meditations for Letting Go is a collection of guided meditations designed to help you relax and let go and briefly slip away from life’s demands to experience a tranquil inner oasis. Perfect for anyone who wants to recover a sense of inner quiet and spaciousness, these meditations utilize relaxation, mindfulness, and visualization.

At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.

Meditate Your Weight is a 21-day weight-loss plan that employs a daily journaling and meditation practice to coach listeners through the various mental blocks, thoughts, habits, and behaviors that stand in their way of living in strong, healthy, well-loved bodies.

In his long-awaited book, Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energy - your undomesticated true self - and deepening your connection with the living earth. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban lives - and our vital wildness has gone dormant.

From spoonfuls in our coffee to corn syrup in packaged foods and even natural sources like fruit, sugar is a huge part of our diet, and we're consuming more of it every year. This damaging habit not only makes us sick, overweight, and listless, it also ages us well beyond our years. Now, in The Sugar Detox, acclaimed nutritionist Brooke Alpert and skincare guru Patricia Farris have combined their expertise to offer an easy plan to slim your waistline, restore your energy, and rejuvenate your skin.

Clean eating is a new term for an ancient dietary practice. Our hunter-gatherer forbears practiced clean eating, quite unconsciously. They ate whatever they could find, grow, fish, and hunt. Any preservatives they added were found in nature and not created in a chemistry lab. They ate their food in its natural state, or close to it, if you include cooking.

As crianças e os adolescentes estão em perigo. Desde o início dos anos 2010, as taxas de depressão, ansiedade e outros transtornos mentais têm crescido vertiginosamente nesses grupos. Em A geração ansiosa, o psicólogo social Jonathan Haidt explica as causas dessa epidemia e defende uma infância longe das telas.

Yoga Business Mastery is a practical guide to the business side of teaching yoga. You’ll learn the mindset, positioning, sales, pricing, and packaging strategies needed to launch or expand your career. If you’re serious about turning your passion into a sustainable lifestyle, this book offers insider knowledge that will increase both your income and your impact.

Menopause is one of the most important and least talked about changes in a woman's body. There is no shortage of myths and widespread misinformation and conflicting information about how to lose weight during menopause.

Optimal Eyesight offers a simple method that eliminates eyestrain and positively affects your overall well-being, as well as your sight. Listen to this book if you’re fed up with glasses, tired of contact lenses, feel your eyes are “weak,” are “practically blind” without lenses, or if laser surgery scares you or cannot do anything for you. In short, you want a better solution.

As long as you have entrenched anxiety about insomnia, you will struggle to improve your sleep in a lasting way. To end insomnia, you need to calm the anxiety that drives it. Rather than trying to make sleep happen, your focus must be on reducing your anxiety about insomnia and its consequences. As we’ll explore in the audiobook, when you’re stuck in a loop of anxiety about your sleep, your nervous system makes it very hard to sleep.

Growing Up Great is a body-positive guide to getting through puberty confidently by respecting the body and all of its changes. From how to handle the physical rollercoaster to coping with out-of-whack feelings, this book has your teen’s back - so they can focus on all of the good stuff ahead. When it comes to puberty books for boys, this one has it all.