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Description not available.The survivor of a deadly form of lung cancer shares her personal mind/body approach for conquering cancer and regaining one's physical and emotional health, presenting an innovative program that combines aggressive conventional medical treatments with a series of life-affirming activities, including visualization, nutrition, meditation, and music. Original. 12,500 first printing.
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body 
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 | Slim down Sister by Amanda Patten, Angela Ebron, Fabiola Gaines, Fabiola D. Gaines, Roniece Weaver
Description not available.A weight-loss guide written for African-American women addresses the cultural customs, eating habits, and leisure preferences that cause obesity in black women while serving up a diet program--with more than thirty low-fat recipes--designed to help readers lose pounds. Reprint. AUTHOR: Amanda Patten, Angela Ebron, Fabiola Gaines, Fabiola D. Gaines, Roniece Weaver
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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 | Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses by Steven M. Beresford
Description not available.Suggests techniques and therapeutic exercises for the eyes to keep them healthy AUTHOR: Steven M. Beresford
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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 | Feeling Great, Looking Hot & Loving Yourself! by Bettie B. Youngs, Jennifer Leigh Youngs
Description not available.The former Miss Teen California finalist and motivational speaker shares tips on exercise, diet, personal colors, makeup, style, and inner happiness. AUTHOR: Bettie B. Youngs, Jennifer Leigh Youngs
PUBLISHER: Health Communications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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 | Banish Your Belly, Butt & Thighs Forever! by Michele Stanten
Description not available.Offers advice on nutrition, suggests workout programs, and describes the benefits of various types of exercise AUTHOR: Michele Stanten
PUBLISHER: Rodale Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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 | Mama Might Be Better Off Dead by Laurie K. Abraham
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead is an unsettling, profound look at the human face of health care. Both disturbing and illuminating, it immerses readers in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family beset with the devastating medical problems that are all too common in America`s inner cities. The story takes place in North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago`s Loop. Although surrounded by some of the city`s finest medical facilities, North Lawndale is one of the most medically underserved communities in the country. Headed by Jackie Banes, who oversees the care of a diabetic grandmother, a husband on kidney dialysis, an ailing father, and three children, the Banes family contends with countless medical crises. From visits to emergency rooms and dialysis units, to trials with home care, to struggles for Medicare eligibility, Abraham chronicles their access (or lack of access) to medical care. Told sympathetically but without sentimentality, their story reveals an inadequate health care system that is further undermined by the direct and indirect effects of poverty. When people are poor, they become sick easily. When people are sick, their families quickly become poorer. Embedded in the family narrative is a lucid analysis of the gaps, inconsistencies, and inequalities the poor face when they seek health care. This book reveals what health care policies in Washington, D.C., or state capitals look like when they hit the street. It shows how Medicaid and Medicare work (and don`t work), the Catch-22s of hospital financing in the inner city, the racial politics of organ transplants, the failure of childhood immunization programs, the vexed issues ofindividual responsibility and institutional paternalism. One observer puts it this way: Show me the poor woman who finds a way to get everything she`s entitled to in the system, and I`ll show you a woman who could run General Motors . Abraham deftly weaves these themes together to ma AUTHOR: Laurie K. Abraham
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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