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    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness: Dr. Dean's Straight-Talk Answers to Hundreds of Your Most Pressing Health Questions
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    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness: Dr. Dean's Straight-Talk Answers to Hundreds of Your Most Pressing Health Questions
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    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness: Dr. Dean's Straight-Talk Answers to Hundreds of Your Most Pressing Health Questions

    By Dean Edell, M.D.

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    About this ebook

    America is in a chronic state of confusion and anxiety about matters ofhealth. Each day, we are bombarded with news of medical breakthroughs,wonder drugs, and hidden dangers. Now author and radio host Dr. DeanEdell clears things up with this at-home medical resource that squarelyconfronts more than five hundred common health concerns, including:

    • The skinny on fat, carbs, Atkins, and Xenical
    • Sex, with a look at Viagra, orgasms, chlamydia, and HPV
    • "Alternative medicine" and the myths of herbs, essential oils,and supplements
    • Women's issues, from fertility to breast-feeding to fibroids
    • Botox, breast implants, and the business of beauty
    • Infectious diseases, from the common cold to the WestNile virus
    • Cancer—breast, colon, prostate—and advances in early
      • screening and treatment
    • Addictions, including coffee, booze, grass, Vicodin, and Paxil

    Containing quizzes, symptom checklists, web links, and recommendedreading lists, this invaluable guide will help you take charge of your ownhealth, save time and money, and alleviate anxiety over health issues today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061748455
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    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness: Dr. Dean's Straight-Talk Answers to Hundreds of Your Most Pressing Health Questions
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    Dean Edell, M.D.

    Dean Edell, M.D., probably has the largest medical practice in the United States -- his hugely popular radio and television broadcasts are heard by more than ten million fans every week. A graduate of Cornell University Medical College and the author of the national best-seller Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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