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1) When breath becomes air

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Kalanithi, Paul

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#1 on the Health list for 2017-01-15.

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At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the...

2) The subtle art of not giving a fuck: a counterintuitive approach to living a good life

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Manson, Mark

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#2 on the Health list for 2017-01-15.

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For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "Fuck positivity," blogger Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is fucked and we have to live with it." This book is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed...

3) The lose your belly diet: change your gut, change your life

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Stork, Travis

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#4 on the Health list for 2017-01-15.

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We're accustomed to thinking of bacteria as bad -- and some are -- but most of the bacteria and microbes in our guts do amazing things, like working with our immune system to fight disease and helping our bodies digest food. Not only can't we live without them, but as their numbers and diversity increase, so too does our health. In this book, we look at all of the ways you can improve your own gut health, starting with the food you eat. My diet recommendations,...

4) The gene: an intimate history

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Mukherjee, Siddhartha

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#5 on the Health list for 2017-01-15.

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The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea plants, stumbles on the idea of a "unit of heredity." It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms postwar biology. It invades discourses concerning race and identity and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions...

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6) Zero sugar diet: the 14-day plan to flatten your belly, crush cravings, and help keep you lean for life

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Zinczenko, David

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#8 on the Health list for 2017-01-15.

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It is difficult to tell how much added sugar you're eating. Food manufacturers sneak into almost everything we eat, from bread to cold cuts to yogurt, peanut butter, pizza, and even "health" foods. But with the simple steps in Zero Sugar Diet, you'll be able to eat all your favorite foods and strip away unnecessary sugars, while still enjoying the sweeter things in life. By replacing empty calories with essential ones -- swapping in whole foods and...

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

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Gawande, Atul

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#10 on the Health list for 2017-01-15.

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Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.