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Fast Revision for the MRCPsych CASC Exam: Don't Panic! (MasterPass)
by Gideon FeltonThe MRCPsych CASC examination tests candidates' ability to solve common problems faced by psychiatric trainees at ST4 level. The exam has a high failure rate and covers a wide syllabus, making preparation daunting and topics difficult to prioritise. Fast Revision for the MRCPsych CASC Exam condenses preparation into two dozen easy-to-read generic scenarios likely to appear in the exam. These are divided by subspecialty, allowing candidates to see and grasp what they need to know quickly. It also provides model answers at the level needed for a safe pass, along with discussion points to provide a sound, accessible basis for further learning. This will be essential reading for MRCPsych CASC candidates, but also for overseas psychiatrists trying to develop a rapid understanding of the British system.
Fast Track Surgery in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: New Standards
by Michael T. Hirschmann Rafael J. Sierra Nanne P. Kort Martin R. ThalerThis book brings together a comprehensive set of chapters that cover the basic principles of fast track surgery, clinical enhancements, but also important aspects of project management and change management in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. Although the value of care pathways and fast track surgery are probably well known by almost everyone, there are still too many differences in arthroplasty care not only around the world, but also within countries. How can it be that the fast track principles are implemented so poorly? Probably because it looks so simple, yet it's so complex that many doctors don't know where to start. This handy book, published in collaboration with ESSKA, provides an easy-to-consult guide that summarize the most important notions in a concise, accessible way.
Fast-Track in Cardiac Anesthesia: Cardiac Surgery in the Era of ERAS
by Giuseppe Sepolvere Simona SilvettiThis book, focused on fast-track approaches in cardiac surgery, covers ERAS cardiac guidelines, explores the application of loco-regional anesthesia in cardiac surgery, and addresses all aspects related to early extubation in this context. The volume includes: A comprehensive description of all minimally invasive cardiac procedures, with detailed anesthetic considerations for each. An in-depth examination of perioperative pain management, emphasizing opioid-sparing strategies and the use of chest wall blocks as a key component in fast-track protocols. A thorough analysis of early extubation, including its impact on length of stay and cost. Additionally, the book provides insights into future developments by examining Ultra-Fast-Track extubation and awake surgery. As one of the first books to focus entirely on fast-track and ERAS guidelines for early extubation of cardiac surgery patients, this volume is particularly valuable for anesthesiologists, intensivists, surgeons, and cardiologists.
Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health
by Michael MilkenPartly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken’s lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist to clean your teeth, or if a single vaccine could protect you against multiple viruses, or if gene editing could eliminate many birth defects and slow the aging process? Mike Milken believes these, and many other advances, are within reach.Beginning with a description of the 1950s civilization and culture that helped shape Milken's early views, Faster Cures traces the life-extending acceleration of progress in medical research, public health, and clinical treatments over the seven decades since Milken’s childhood—and shows how he helped transform the process of developing disease cures. Among many examples, he recognized the promise of immunology more than twenty-five years ago and provided crucial support for the emergence of immunotherapy as a powerful life-saving treatment.Detailing his unique personal journey from a curious boy with an insatiable thirst for knowledge to his storied careers in finance and health, this book focuses on the events that made Milken what Fortune magazine called “The Man Who Changed Medicine.” The combined influences of social upheaval in the 1960s and family medical crises in the 1970s propelled him to dual quests on Wall Street and in medical research.Known worldwide as a legendary financier, philanthropist, medical research innovator, and public health advocate, Milken tells fascinating anecdotes and explains his inspiring crusade to accelerate cures and treatments so that more people around the world can live longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives.
Fasting Cancer: How Fasting and Nutritechnology Are Creating a Revolution in Cancer Prevention and Treatment
by Valter Longo PhDA groundbreaking guide to how fasting and nutritechnology are revolutionizing the prevention and treatment of cancer, from the bestselling author of The Longevity DietDespite all our scientific advances, which have allowed us to prevent and treat so many deadly diseases, almost one in two people will develop cancer in the U.S. In Fasting Cancer, Dr. Valter Longo, one of the leading scientists in the field of nutrition and cancer, reveals the results of decades of research on the fasting and nutrition technology−based studies to defeat cancer in the body, making only tumor cells much more vulnerable to therapy while protecting the healthy cells.Fasting Cancer creates a new path in which the patient is an active codriver of the therapy by turning on the body&’s ability to fight cancer. Dr. Longo&’s studies show that the fasting-mimicking diet is beginning to make cancer therapies potentially more effective and less toxic to patients, thus providing an evidence-based complementary approach to mainstream treatments. The book also describes how the everyday Longevity Diet and plant-based ketogenic diet can support cancer therapies.Rich in patient stories and clinical data, Fasting Cancer is a read that invites everyone—doctors, healthcare professionals, patients, and family members—to understand the extraordinary potential of a new approach to help fight cancer.
Fasziale Schmerzen und Funktionsstörungen: Diagnostik und Therapie
by Rolf Eichinger Kerstin KlinkIn der Arztpraxis suchen oft Patienten Rat, deren Beschwerden funktioneller Natur sind und nicht unmittelbar über Labor oder Bildgebung einer Organerkrankung zugeordnet werden können. Zahlreiche dieser Störungen wie Schmerzen, Schwindel, Tinnitus, Kloßgefühl oder der "Fersensporn" haben fasziale Ursachen. Das Fasziale Organ ist das Organ der Körperdedektion, welches Bewegung und damit auch Verhalten in enger Abstimmung mit dem ZNS erst ermöglicht.Muskeln und das Netzwerk der Faszien bilden zusammen das im gesamten Körper präsente myofasziale System. Wenn Sie auch dieses System bei der Differentialdiagnose mit berücksichtigen, können Sie Ihren Patienten z.T. invasive, belastende Diagnostik ersparen und eine treffergenaue erfolgreiche Therapie bieten.Ursachen für faszial bedingte Schmerzen und Funktionsstörungen verstehen: fasziale Knoten, Faszienketten, Triggerpunkte, Wechselwirkung zwischen Schmerzursache und SchmerzlokalisationFasziale Gelosen und BlockadenKlinik, BeschwerdebilderFasziale Syndrome und Schmerzmuster zutreffend erkennenKausale und dauerhaft wirksame BehandlungsansätzeTherapie des faszialen SystemsZusammenarbeit Arzt - PhysiotherapeutDie Autoren – ein Allgemeinmediziner und eine Physiotherapeutin – ergänzen sich in ihrem Wissen und Können perfekt. Ein plausibles, praxisrelevantes, pathophysiologisches Konzept, das auf Basis langjähriger Erfahrung und Erfolge, sowie wissenschaftlicher Studien (soweit vorhanden) erstellt wurde und mit neuen - manchmal provokanten - Thesen aufwartet.Für Allgemeinmediziner, Internisten, Orthopäden, Physiotherapeuten und alle Ärzte, die bereit sind, ihre diagnostischen und therapeutischen Konzepte mit einem myofaszialen Ansatz zu bereichern.
Faszientherapie mit dem KLINEA-Konzept: Eine gelenkschonende Methode für Therapeut und Patient
by Rolf Eichinger Kerstin KlinkDieses Praxisbuch vermittelt Ihnen die Grundlagen des myofaszialen Knotenmodells und dessen Mobilisation mit Hilfe des Klinea-Konzepts: Physiologische und pathophysiologische Zusammenhänge werden anschaulich erklärt und konkrete Behandlungstechniken aufgezeigt. Für eine gelenkschonende Behandlung hat die Autorin das Behandlungstool „Klimmi“ entwickelt, mit dem gezielt Blockaden gelöst und Dysbalancen ausgeglichen werden können. Aus dem Inhalt:• Aufbau und Pathologie des myofaszialen Organs• Funktionelle Sicht-, Tast- und Funktionsbefunde• Gelenkschonende Grifftechniken für die Behandlung myofaszialer Knoten und Funktionsketten• Instrumente zur objektivierten ErgebnismessungPlus: • Zahlreiche Patientenbeispiele veranschaulichen die einzelnen Behandlungstechniken optimal. Praktischer Befundbogen zum Download!
Faszination EKG: Über 50 Fälle aus Rettungsdienst und Notaufnahme
by Steffen Grautoff Klaus Fessele Niclas KnappenIn diesem Taschenbuch finden Sie über 50 reale und einprägsame Fallbeispiele zu EKG-Befunden aus der Notfallmedizin. Die Fälle sind in Schwierigkeitsstufen von Basic, Advanced bis Nerd eingeteilt. Jeder Fall ist systematisch aufgebaut nach Einsatzszenario, Beurteilung des Patienten nach dem ABCDE-Schema, Befundung und Beurteilung des EKGs, Diagnose und Konsequenz aus dem Fall. Learning points schließen jeden Fall ab. Die spannenden und lehrreichen Fälle animieren durch ihren Aufbau zum Mitraten. Herzrhythmusstörungen, Myokardinfarkt, Elektrolytstörungen oder andere notfallmedizinisch relevante EKG-Befunde können so spielerisch und doch professionell erlernt werden. Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die präklinisch oder innerklinisch in der Notfallmedizin tätig sind: Mitarbeitende im Rettungsdienst, inklusive Notärztinnen und Notärzte sowie in der Notaufnahme Tätige. Auch für Kardiologinnen und Kardiologen sowie für den allgemeinmedizinischen Bereich praktisch relevant.
Fat Absorption: Volume I
by Arnis KuksisThis book provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the biochemical an metabolic aspects of digestion and absorption of different dietary fats and other lipids, with minimal discussion of the physical chemistry of the process, which has been covered in great detail in previous reviews. It is intended for both researchers and practitioners in the biomedical field who require detailed knowledge of the biomedical and metabolic transformations involed in the intestinal digestion and resynthesis of dietary fats and other lipids.
Fat Absorption: Volume II
by Arnis KuksisThis book provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the biochemical an metabolic aspects of digestion and absorption of different dietary fats and other lipids, with minimal discussion of the physical chemistry of the process, which has been covered in great detail in previous reviews. It is intended for both researchers and practitioners in the biomedical field who require detailed knowledge of the biomedical and metabolic transformations involed in the intestinal digestion and resynthesis of dietary fats and other lipids.
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement
by Charlotte CooperWhat is fat activism and why is it important? To answer this question, Charlotte Cooper presents an expansive grassroots study that traces the forty-year history of international fat activism and grounds its actions in their proper historical and geographical contexts. She details fat activist methods, analyzes existing literature in the field, challenges long-held assumptions that uphold systemic fatphobia, and makes clear how crucial feminism and queer theory are to the lifeblood of the movement. She also considers fat activism’s proxy concerns, including body image, body positivity, the obesity epidemic, and fat stigma. <p><p>Combining rigorous scholarship with personal, accessible writing, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is not only an invaluable contribution to the burgeoning field of fat studies, but also a vehicle for much-needed social change.
Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects (Frontiers in Neuroscience)
by Jean-Pierre Montmayeur Johannes le CoutrePresents the State-of-the-Art in Fat Taste TransductionA bite of cheese, a few potato chips, a delectable piece of bacon - a small taste of high-fat foods often draws you back for more. But why are fatty foods so appealing? Why do we crave them? Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects covers the many factors responsible for the se
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser&“An in-depth, well-researched, and thoughtful exploration of the &‘fat boom&’ in America.&” —TheBoston Globe Low carb, high protein, raw foods . . . despite our seemingly endless obsession with fad diets, the startling truth is that six out of ten Americans are overweight or obese. In Fat Land, award-winning nutrition and health journalist Greg Critser examines the facts and societal factors behind the sensational headlines, taking on everything from supersize to Super Mario, high-fructose corn syrup to the high costs of physical education. With a sharp eye and even sharper tongue, Critser examines why pediatricians are now treating conditions rarely seen in children before; why type 2 diabetes is on the rise; the personal struggles of those with weight problems—especially among the poor—and how agribusiness has altered our waistlines. Praised by the New York Times as &“absorbing&” and by Newsday as &“riveting,&” this disarmingly funny, yet truly alarming, exposé stands as an important examination of one of the most pressing medical and social issues in the United States. &“One scary book and a good companion to Eric Schlosser&’s Fast Food Nation.&” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fat Removal
by Mathew AvramThe perception of an inadequate body shape is a cause of concern to many people, and new techniques for altering body shape are increasingly being developed and offered to patients. Of these, the removal and transfer of fat is fast growing in importance and availability. This practical guide offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly-evolving field, and thorough coverage of the implementation of fat removal techniques, both invasive and non-invasive, in a cosmetic practice. It begins with an overview of basic fat anatomy and physiology as an important introduction to this topic. The distinction between the physiology and treatment of cellulite and fat is also discussed. The next section of the book covers invasive treatments of fat such as traditional liposuction, laser-assisted liposuction, fat transfer procedures and mesotherapy. The latter half of the book largely focuses on non-invasive treatments for fat, including radiofrequency, ultrasound, cooling and laser technologies for fat removal. Throughout, potential complications and pitfalls of the various treatments are discussed. Edited by Matthew Avram, with contributions from a group of clinical stars, this book will appeal to cosmetic dermatologists, plastic surgeons, aesthetic medical practitioners, and obstetricians/gynaecologists
Fat Transfer in Plastic Surgery: Techniques, Technology and Safety
by Alberto Di Giuseppe Franco Bassetto Foad NahaiOnly in recent years new available technologies, the redefinition and refining of intervention techniques, and clinical research studies have widened the spectrum of fat applications in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. Fat grafting is nowadays one of the most used techniques in plastic reconstructive surgery, as primary method or as an ancillary procedure. The optimized ratio of fat survival has led to standardized techniques followed by most practitioners.The aim of this book is to present up-to-date technologies used for fat extraction, and fat harvesting: latest tools are evaluated examining pros and cons. All recent techniques in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery and their outcomes are described in a clear, comprehensive manner; chapters present the latest research results in stem cell and regenerative medicine, their application to plastic and reconstructive surgery, in particular for hand surgery, ulcer, and capsule contractures in post breast augmentation procedures. Related specific techniques as breast fat transfer, breast hybrid implant, fat transfer and buttock fat transfer are also discussed. Safety issues in fat transfer procedures are examined accurately, particularly those involving buttock fat transfer. Each procedure is completed by a scientific analysis of the main reasons for complications, how to prevent them and the safety guidelines recommended as golden standard to be followed. The surgical part contains clinical cases related to each chapter topic, videos, and all chapters have a box with take home messages. An invaluable tool for correct decision-making for clinicians, fellows and residents in plastic surgery, Fat Transfer in Plastic Surgery focuses on indications, applications and surgical techniques for each individual body district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology.
Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century: Meanings, Measures, and Representations
by V. Lynn Kennedy Amy J. ShawIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the body was a key focus of discourse. Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century animates discussion and analyses of fatness, highlighting how corporeal expectations fit into larger social systems and showing how interpretations have shifted over time. This collection examines a host of primary sources – including literature, art, medical treatises, journalism, political cartoons, soldiers’ letters home, and popular fiction – to identify trends in how fat was perceived and promoted in the English-speaking world over the long nineteenth century. Divided into four thematic sections, the book addresses epistemologies, artistic and literary representations, the turn towards quantification and measurement, and the connections to imperialism and colonialism. It explores the complex debate about the meaning of fat and its signalling of health, beauty, moral strength, and class status. The book shows how contemporary presentations and discussions of fat offer insights into ideals of gender and race and the processes of imperialism and of professionalization in the social sciences and medicine. By tracing how debates shifted over time, the book ultimately reveals that there was no universal interpretation of fat as a positive or negative characteristic throughout the nineteenth century.
Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet To Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, And Increase Your Energy
by Dr Joseph MercolaFor over a century, we’ve accepted the scientific consensus that cancer results from genetic disease due to chromosomal damage in cell nuclei. But what if cancer isn’t a genetic disease after all? What if scientists are chasing a flawed paradigm, and cancer isn’t a disease of damaged DNA but rather of defective metabolism as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction? What if that startling truth could revolutionize our understanding of other diseases as well —and show us a radical new path to optimal health?In this groundbreaking guide, the first of its kind, New York Times best-selling author and leading natural-health practitioner Joseph Mercola explains how nearly all disease is caused by defective metabolic processes. Then he reveals what’s really causing your metabolism to go haywire: damage and dysfunction in the mitochondria, thousands of which are at work in nearly every cell in your body, generating 90 percent of the energy you need to stay alive and well. When mitochondria become damaged in large numbers, it is impossible to stay healthy.Dr. Mercola shows you that you can to take control of your health simply by giving your body the proper fuel —and it’s not what you’ve likely been led to believe. A ketogenic diet, very low in carbohydrates and high in healthy fats, is the way to optimize the biochemical pathways that suppress disease and support healing. And the benefits can be astonishing —not only in treating or preventing serious illness, but in boosting your brainpower, increasing your energy, helping you lose weight and keep it off, and much more.As you read this book, you’ll learn in clear, rational terms how your body works at a molecular level. You’ll finally understand the type of fuel it’s designed to burn in the most efficient way possible. You’ll find detailed guidelines for starting and sticking with a ketogenic eating plan. And you won’t have to wait a decade or two for metabolic mitochondrial therapy to make its way into the mainstream. You can build a healthier body and brain at the cutting edge of this exciting new discipline, starting right now.
Fat in the Fifties: America's First Obesity Crisis
by Nicolas RasmussenA riveting history of the rise and fall of the obesity epidemic during 1950s and 1960s America.Metropolitan Life Insurance Company identified obesity as the leading cause of premature death in the United States in the 1930s, but it wasn't until 1951 that the public health and medical communities finally recognized it as "America's Number One Health Problem." The reason for MetLife's interest? They wanted their policyholders to live longer and continue paying their premiums. Early postwar America responded to the obesity emergency, but by the end of the 1960s, the crisis waned and official rates of true obesity were reduced— despite the fact that Americans were growing no thinner. What mid-century factors and forces established obesity as a politically meaningful and culturally resonant problem in the first place? And why did obesity fade from public—and medical—consciousness only a decade later? Based on archival records of health leaders as well as medical and popular literature, Fat in the Fifties is the first book to reconstruct the prewar origins, emergence, and surprising disappearance of obesity as a major public health problem. Author Nicolas Rasmussen explores the postwar shifts that drew attention to obesity, as well as the varied approaches to its treatment: from thyroid hormones to psychoanalysis and weight loss groups. Rasmussen argues that the US government was driven by the new Cold War and the fear of atomic annihilation to heightened anxieties about national fitness. Informed by the latest psychiatric thinking—which diagnosed obesity as the result of oral fixation, just like alcoholism—health professionals promoted a form of weight loss group therapy modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous. The intervention caught on like wildfire in 1950s suburbia. But the sense of crisis passed quickly, partly due to cultural changes associated with the later 1960s and partly due to scientific research, some of it sponsored by the sugar industry, emphasizing particular dietary fats, rather than calorie intake.Through this riveting history of the rise and fall of the obesity epidemic, readers gain an understanding of how the American public health system—ambitious, strong, and second-to-none at the end of the Second World War—was constrained a decade later to focus mainly on nagging individuals to change their lifestyle choices. Fat in the Fifties is required reading for public health practitioners and researchers, physicians, historians of medicine, and anyone concerned about weight and weight loss.
Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have To Apologize For Your Size
by Marilyn WannFat? Chunky? Less than svelte? So what! <P><P>In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on Americas' biggest fear--worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons--our fear of fat.Statistics tell us that about a third of Americans are fat, and common sense adds that just about everyone, fat or thin, male or female, has worried about their appearance. <P><P>FAT!SO? weighs in with a more attractive alternative: feeling good about yourself at any weight--and having the style and attitude to back it up. Internationally recognized as a fat-positive spokesperson, Wann has learned that you can be absolutely happy, healthy, and successful...and fat. <P><P>With its hilarious and insightful blend of essays, quizzes, facts, and reporting, FAT!SO? proves that you can be out-and-out fabulous at any size.
Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat
by Susan GreenhalghIn recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant "fat talk" aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness to the nation, but little about the dangers of today's epidemic of fat talk to individuals and society at large. The human trauma caused by the war on fat is disturbing--and it is virtually unknown. How do those who do not fit the "ideal" body type feel being the object of abuse, discrimination, and even revulsion? How do people feel being told they are a burden on the healthcare system for having a BMI outside what is deemed--with little solid scientific evidence--"healthy"? How do young people, already prone to self-doubt about their bodies, withstand the daily assault on their body type and sense of self-worth? In Fat-Talk Nation, Susan Greenhalgh tells the story of today's fight against excess pounds by giving young people, the campaign's main target, an opportunity to speak about experiences that have long lain hidden in silence and shame.Featuring forty-five autobiographical narratives of personal struggles with diet, weight, "bad BMIs," and eating disorders, Fat-Talk Nation shows how the war on fat has produced a generation of young people who are obsessed with their bodies and whose most fundamental sense of self comes from their size. It reveals that regardless of their weight, many people feel miserable about their bodies, and almost no one is able to lose weight and keep it off. Greenhalgh argues that attempts to rescue America from obesity-induced national decline are damaging the bodily and emotional health of young people and disrupting families and intimate relationships.Fatness today is not primarily about health, Greenhalgh asserts; more fundamentally, it is about morality and political inclusion/exclusion or citizenship. To unpack the complexity of fat politics today, Greenhalgh introduces a cluster of terms--biocitizen, biomyth, biopedagogy, bioabuse, biocop, and fat personhood--and shows how they work together to produce such deep investments in the attainment of the thin, fit body. These concepts, which constitute a theory of the workings of our biocitizenship culture, offer powerful tools for understanding how obesity has come to remake who we are as a nation, and how we might work to reverse course for the next generation.
Fat: The surprising science behind the most misunderstood part of the body
by Mariette Boon Liesbeth van RossumThe International Bestseller, as featured in The Times Fat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ. Fat has become a dirty word, but we know so little about how it really works. In Fat, expert doctors and obesity researchers Dr Mariëtte Boon and Professor Liesbeth van Rossum present the ground-breaking research which explodes many of the myths and prejudices surrounding body fat and will make us completely rethink our relationship with it. Making use of the cutting-edge research in this specialist field, this fascinating and entertaining book will explain how fat generates important hormones, communicates with our brains and is, indeed, essential for staying alive. Informative yet accessible, Fat: The Secret Organ is important reading, not only for people who have struggled with their weight, but for everybody who is serious about their health.
Fat: The surprising science behind the most misunderstood part of the body
by Mariette Boon Liesbeth van RossumThe International Bestseller, as featured in The TimesFat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ. Fat has become a dirty word, but we know so little about how it really works. In Fat, expert doctors and obesity researchers Dr Mariëtte Boon and Professor Liesbeth van Rossum present the ground-breaking research which explodes many of the myths and prejudices surrounding body fat and will make us completely rethink our relationship with it. Making use of the cutting-edge research in this specialist field, this fascinating and entertaining book will explain how fat generates important hormones, communicates with our brains and is, indeed, essential for staying alive. Informative yet accessible, Fat: The Secret Organ is important reading, not only for people who have struggled with their weight, but for everybody who is serious about their health.
Fat: The surprising science behind the most misunderstood part of the body
by Mariette Boon Liesbeth van RossumThe International Bestseller Fat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ.Fat has become a dirty word, but we know so little about how it really works. In Fat, expert doctors and obesity researchers Dr Mariëtte Boon and Professor Liesbeth van Rossum present the ground-breaking research which explodes many of the myths and prejudices surrounding body fat and will make us completely rethink our relationship with it.Making use of the cutting-edge research in this specialist field, this fascinating and entertaining book will explain how fat generates important hormones, communicates with our brains and is, indeed, essential for staying alive. Informative yet accessible, Fat: The Secret Organ is important reading, not only for people who have struggled with their weight, but for everybody who is serious about their health.(P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited
Fatal Conveniences: The Toxic Products and Harmful Habits That Are Making You Sick—and the Simple Changes That Will Save Your Health
by Darin OlienThe New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost with Zac Efron of the hit Netflix series Down to Earth, Darin Olien offers invaluable advice for addressing the health of our bodies and the health of the planet by identifying common products and behaviors that are harmful and providing alternatives that are non-toxic and life-enhancing.Fatal conveniences are the toxic products we routinely use and the unhealthy things we do that our culture and corporations have made us believe are safe and necessary for living well and efficiently. These things—from deodorant, cosmetics, dental floss, and sunscreen to laundry detergent, air fresheners, carpets, and crayons to candles, tea bags, cell phones, and chewing gum—are ubiquitous in daily life . . . and they are wreaking havoc on our health and our planet. The environmental toxins found in these products create a cascade of problems, including chemical sensitivities, auto-immune issues, obesity, chronic health diseases, and more. Darin Olien has spent most of his adult life obsessively researching these “conveniences” and in this book, he raises our awareness of their dangers, demolishes the myth that “if it’s easy, it must also be good,” and gives us alternative choices to take control of our lives and our health. Fatal Conveniences offers a fresh perspective and achievable, small tweaks that will lead to big, life-enhancing changes.
Fatal Cure
by Robin CookThis bestselling thriller by the author of Coma presents an all-too-possible scenario of what could happen if "managed care" were to spin out of control. Doctors Angela and David Wison believe they have found professional bliss in the state-of-the-art facility where they've chosen to work. But their dreams are shattered when David's patients begin dying from unknown causes.