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Book Preview: #1 The United States has the worst health outcomes of any country in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The more money we throw at the problem, the worse it gets, and we haven't solved it yet.
#2 The epidemic of metabolic syndrome affects all ages, races, and creeds, but people are still making money off of it. The price of insulin has tripled...
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Book Preview: The Westernized diet has spread all across the world, bringing along acne, diabetes, infertility, and cancer. It is time we change our diets for the better.
Neal Barnard's “Your Body in Balance” explains how the typical meat-reliant, processed food diet is affecting our health. While there are always new medications to help treat physical and emotional ailments,...
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Book Preview: Fitness experts have long argued for the benefits of exercises that require weightlifting and cardio. However, real-life results have consistently negated their arguments.
In “Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time” (2020), John Jaquish and Henry Alkire argue against mainstream fitness and reveal its pitfalls. In fact, fitness science has overlooked several apparent concepts...
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Book Preview: What if you could get younger the more you aged? Most men think that, once they're past their fifties, life has passed them by. They think their futures are no longer exciting, and they're doomed to be grumpy grandpas with sagging bodies.
In “Younger Next Year” (2005), Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge aim to debunk this myth and teach older men how to regain their...
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#1 I'd like to thank my publisher, Hay House, who have supported me for many years through my development as an author and have always enabled me to write about the subjects I've wanted to. I also thank all the people who sent me stories of their own uses of visualization.
#2 The mind impacts the body. Thoughts, feelings, ideas, imagination, beliefs, and expectations...
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Book Preview: #1 Billy, age 9, had been having problems in school since starting kindergarten. His teachers said he was impulsive and did things without thinking. His parents knew these problems firsthand, and had tried to fix them by sending him to a pediatrician.
#2 Melissa, age 5, had been affectionately labeled the pink tornado. She had a severe case of Ring of Fire ADD. Her parents...
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#1 The Foundations section is about building a solid foundation for your life and social skills. It is a very powerful tool, but you must understand what you're trying to build before you start using it.
#2 Read the guide in order, practice what you learn, and don't go it alone. Ask friends, family, and mentors to help you with your social skills journey.
#3 Knowing...
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Book Preview: #1 The skin is the body's protective shield. It's made up of three major layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis, which is the thickest and fattiest layer. Together, these layers protect the body from bacteria and pollutants in the environment, serve as a filter for toxins that can't be handled by the body's other organs, and regulate temperature.
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#1 There are two contradictory sides of myself: the one side that is in touch with my daughter's inherent power and is deeply connected to her, and the other side that reacts to her in a blind and unthinking way, creating antipathy and disconnection.
#2 The voice in your head that controls your emotions and reactions is your ego. It is the result of fear, and it is...
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#1 Tony had just finished a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Utah named Cirque Lodge. It was a celebrity facility, and he would have been treated there anyway, but the prices were typically higher for clients who couldn't afford it.
#2 Tony began acting strangely at Zappos, his company, in 2020. He was talking a lot about outlandish ideas and plans all the...
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#1 The human mind is shaped by the intersection of two powerful forces: biology and culture. The brain is a highly flexible organ, but it is also an accident of evolution with numerous constraints. The written word has profoundly changed how we think, but literacy does not emerge spontaneously from human sociability.
#2 Pornography is a great example of how digital technology...
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#1 We often don't understand ourselves very well. We often don't know why we are feeling a certain way, and we often don't know what is going on in our own minds. We need to understand that this is inherent in the brain's architecture, and that we must work on understanding our own minds.
#2 We must learn to introspect and examine our feelings and desires, as we don't...
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#1 The frog and the scorpion are sitting on the bank of a river, and the frog needs to get to the other side. The frog is suspicious of the scorpion, but allows him to ride on his back across the river. At first everything goes according to plan, but halfway across, the frog suddenly feels a sharp pain in his back and sees the scorpion withdraw his stinger.
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#1 The keto diet is based on the idea that when you drastically reduce your carbohydrate intake and instead consume 80 percent of your daily calories from fat, your body shifts into a unique metabolic state called ketosis. In ketosis, the liver converts fat into ketones, which can be used to power the body and brain instead of glucose.
#2 Some of my patients have even...
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Book Preview: #1 Our bodies have a built-in mechanism that helps us keep our weight at a healthy level. However, for many of us, this system has gone awry. Food still tempts us long after our caloric need is satisfied, and extra calories result in extra pounds.
#2 Your body's natural weight-regulation mechanism works to maintain your setpoint weight, which is the weight your body...
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Book Preview: #1 In part I, we'll discuss your problems and the resources you have at your disposal to combat them. We'll also discuss freakout funds: time, energy, and money.
#2 Identifying the source of your anxiety is the first step to dealing with it. If you can name the what-if behind your worry, you'll be in a better position to calm the fuck down about and deal with it.
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#1 Confusing being mortal with being threatened can occur in any realm. The fact that something could go wrong does not mean that we are in danger. It means that we are alive. Mortality is the sign of life.
#2 We can project our fears and insecurities onto others, and this can lead to unnecessary separation and pain. Because the question is so big, I will start with...
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#1 Women are more likely than men to fall into overthinking and remain stuck there. Take, for example, Veronica, a 27-year-old full-time mom with auburn hair and dancing brown eyes. She adored caring for her twin toddlers, but she found herself slipping into the muck of negativity and concern called overthinking: What's wrong with me.
#2 Women are twice as likely as...
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#1 I was christened and educated in the faith of the Orthodox Greek Church. I was taught it in my childhood, and I learned it in my youth. However, at 18 years old, I had discarded all belief in anything that I had been taught.
#2 The influence of early religious teaching, accepted simply on trust and upheld by authority, gradually fades away under the knowledge and...
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#1 How you think about something can change its effect on you. The field of mindset science has demonstrated that a single brief intervention can improve your health, happiness, and success years into the future.
#2 The effect you expect is the effect you get. For example, telling yourself that watching television burns calories can lead to weight loss, but telling...
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