American Medical Association complete guide to prevention and wellness : what you need to know about preventing illness, staying healthy, and living longer.
American Medical Association complete guide to prevention and wellness : what you need to know about preventing illness, staying healthy, and living longer.
Complete guide to prevention and wellness
- Hoboken : Wiley , c2008.
- viii, 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
The basics of prevention and wellness -- Nutrition, prevention, and wellness -- Live younger longer with exercise -- Weight, prevention, and wellness -- Stress, rest, and relaxation -- Reducing your health risks -- Health care will keep you well -- Preventing disease and health problems -- Preventing heart attacks and strokes -- Avoiding type 2 diabetes -- Preventing cancer -- Preventing infections -- Keeping your bones and joints healthy -- Keeping your digestive system healthy -- Keeping your urinary tract healthy -- Controlling allergies -- Keeping your lungs healthy -- Heading off headaches -- Keeping your ears, nose, and throat healthy -- Keeping your eyes healthy -- Reducing dementia risks -- Keeping your mouth, teeth, and gums healthy -- Prevention and wellness throughout life -- Keeping your children healthy -- Adolescents' guide to health and wellness -- Women's reproductive health and wellness -- Male reproductive health -- Preventing premature aging.
For general readers, this comprehensive guide from the American Medical Association gives advice on how to prevent diseases and stay healthy. It 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. It also describes ways to keep all parts of the body healthy, along with risk factors for diseases, and how control allergies, prevent headaches, and reduce risk for dementia. The final section addresses wellness at different life stages and for men and women. There is no bibliography.
9780470251300
2008032221
Health
Medicine, preventive
Medicine, popular
RA776 / .A435 2008
613 AME
Includes index.
The basics of prevention and wellness -- Nutrition, prevention, and wellness -- Live younger longer with exercise -- Weight, prevention, and wellness -- Stress, rest, and relaxation -- Reducing your health risks -- Health care will keep you well -- Preventing disease and health problems -- Preventing heart attacks and strokes -- Avoiding type 2 diabetes -- Preventing cancer -- Preventing infections -- Keeping your bones and joints healthy -- Keeping your digestive system healthy -- Keeping your urinary tract healthy -- Controlling allergies -- Keeping your lungs healthy -- Heading off headaches -- Keeping your ears, nose, and throat healthy -- Keeping your eyes healthy -- Reducing dementia risks -- Keeping your mouth, teeth, and gums healthy -- Prevention and wellness throughout life -- Keeping your children healthy -- Adolescents' guide to health and wellness -- Women's reproductive health and wellness -- Male reproductive health -- Preventing premature aging.
For general readers, this comprehensive guide from the American Medical Association gives advice on how to prevent diseases and stay healthy. It 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. It also describes ways to keep all parts of the body healthy, along with risk factors for diseases, and how control allergies, prevent headaches, and reduce risk for dementia. The final section addresses wellness at different life stages and for men and women. There is no bibliography.
9780470251300
2008032221
Health
Medicine, preventive
Medicine, popular
RA776 / .A435 2008
613 AME
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