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Well-Rounded is a brilliant display of overcoming barriers to fully enjoy life's pursuits. Purchase this powerful book as a gift or for your own personal development and unlock your full potential! Inside, discover helpful techniques for developing and maintaining your memory, understanding, and mental sharpness for as long as possible. Explore insightful ways to improve your finances and build meaningful relationships. Learn effective strategies...

A researcher boldly wades through commercialized health and fitness fads to bust pervasive myths—and reveal the true science—behind what it means to live a healthy life.
 
In this era of health-science research, rarely a day goes by without a public pronouncement of some exciting health-enhancing discovery: a new diet, a new fitness routine, a new drug or alternative therapy, the miracles achieved by genetic mapping....

There has to be a trick to this, right? At this point, you're certain you've inherited a gene preventing you from hitting your health and fitness goals because years of new diets and routines have gotten you nowhere. Clearly, getting healthy just isn't meant for you. But it's not you, it's them. The diets and routines you've relied on in the past never did the trick because you don't need a trick to get healthy; you simply need to learn how. In...

Loving your life is the new health, fitness, and weight loss. What's wrong with the old versions? They were never more than productized substitutes for the quality of life that we all seek. But productizing life never works out for you, only for those trying to profit from the products it creates. Unlike health, fitness, and diet practices, the act of loving your life produces superior results that require no experts, fancy buildings, expensive footwear,...

Dr. D's Handbook for Men Over 40 is a practical, down-to-earth plan that will show you how to continue to lead an exciting life and maintain a positive attitude as you grow older. With solid information and clear advice to help you stay strong, energetic, and confident, your best years are yet to come. This lighthearted yet reassuring book will help you overcome the fear of growing older, adjust to the physiological and neurological changes that occur...

"Filled with tools to help you take charge of your life with wit, energy, and confidence, this inspiring guide to aging gracefully is written by a prominent expert in the field. Inspiring and elegantly designed, this powerful, practical guide to aging will be an indispensable resource for anyone looking to live their best life. This book is a fun, fast read featuring more than a hundred easy-to-adopt "small steps"--The foundation for ingrained habits...

"Introducing Leslie's new plan that asks for just 30 minutes a day for 30 days to get real results! Imagine increased energy, firmed muscles, improved overall health, and a slimmer, more proportioned body! It's all possible. Here's how easy the 30 days will be. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday burn BIG calories by walking the BURN 30 program! Then on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday build strength on every major muscle group from shoulders to calves."--Back...

"Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner helped introduce the world to ultramarathoning. Now, after three decades of running ultramarathons across the globe, Karnazes is still going strong. This updated and revised edition includes an afterword full of the lessons he's picked up along the way. He gives personal details on the essential pillars of health--fitness, diet and sleep. What does he eat, what supplements does he take, and what...

"Discover a groundbreaking new way of eating that can reverse inflammation, heal your gut, and improve your overall health, fitness and athletic performance-in just one week-while setting you on the path to easy, sustainable weight loss for life! Journalist and bestselling author Stephen Perrine reveals how in his intensely researched, yet simple and engaging new book, The Full-Body Fat Fix. With a unique blend of humor and science, Perrine explains...