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Wanting to find current information on diet and exercise? Concerned about you or a loved one's health? Looking to read up on the latest medical research? Use this guide to find quality information and answer your health and wellness questions.
Last update: Mar 12th, 2010 URL: http://explore.westervillelibrary.org/health  Print/Mobile Guide  RSS Updates

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Books of Interest

  • Complete Guide to Prevention and Wellness
    Call Number: 613 AME
    For general readers, this comprehensive guide details the steps to take to prevent heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, infections, some forms of cancer, and other diseases, by making lifestyle changes relating to nutrition, exercise, weight loss, lowering stress, and rest, and understanding the body.
  • Anticancer: A New Way of Life - David Servan-Schreiber
    Call Number: 616.994 SER
    A radical synthesis of science and personal experience that advocates a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancer.
  • Health Reference Series
    Everything you might ever want to know about various health topics, diseases and disorders.
  • Healthy Child, Healthy World - Christopher Gavigan
    Call Number: 640 GAV
    The non-profit organization Healthy Child Healthy World offers parents a definitive guide to creating a healthy, nontoxic, and environmentally sound home.
  • The New Science of Perfect Skin - Daniel B. Yarosh
    Call Number: 646.726 YAR
    This book offers welcome explanations of the dizzying array of current toners, moisturizers, sun screens, etc. Readers should take it with them when they go shopping, as it identifies which ones work and which are unnecessary.
  • So Easy: Luscious, Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week - Ellie Krieger
    As weekly host of the Food Network's "Healthy Appetite," Krieger is known for creating light and healthy dishes that are easy to prepare. With 150 delicious fortifying recipes, "So Easy" makes it simple to tackle any mealtime situation.
  • The Pregnancy Bible - consulting editors, Joanne Stone, Keith Eddleman
    Call Number: 618.24 PRE
    This sourcebook covers what happens during pregnancy and labor, prenatal care, healthy eating and exercise, managing emotions and intimacy, fatherhood, and childbirth classes and labor choices.
  • The Show It Love Workout - Kacy Duke with Selene Yeager
    Call Number: 613.71 DUK
    Kacy Duke's program is an effective combination of weights and cardio with dance movement that has changed the bodies of Hollywood’s brightest stars--Kirsten Dunst, Denzel Washington, Iman, Julianne Moore, and others. Now Kacy offers her once-exclusive fun and empowering fitness plan to you so you can achieve the lean, strong body you have always desired.
  • Why Our Health Matters - by Andrew Weil
    Call Number: 362.10425 WEI
    Tackling head-on the three major myths of American medicine, Dr. Weil shows how the solution involves nothing less than the creation of a completely new culture of health and medicine in this country.
  • You: The Owner's Manual - Michael F. Roizen
    Call Number: 613.2 YOU
    Doctors Roizen and Oz have updated their very successful book on the care and understanding of the human body. It is a breezy explanation of how the body functions, what can go wrong with it and how to keep it from falling apart.

eResources

Get out your library card for these; you're going to need it!

  • Netwellness  
    Netwellness provides simple, high-quality information about health and medical conditions, including definitions, causes, symptoms, treatment, prognosis, and prevention.
  • Teen Health and Wellness  
    Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers, provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.
  • EBSCOhost's Health and Medical Databases  
    Provides access to scholarly articles, medical journals and prescription drug information.
  • ConsumerReports.org  
    ConsumerReports.org offers all of the content of the Consumer Reports website for free to Westerville Library patrons! Find reviews and ratings for everything from doctors and hospitals to prescription drugs and insurance.
 
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