Healing Moves: How to Cure, Relieve, and Prevent Common Ailments With Exercise - Rilegato

Krucoff, Carol; Krucoff, Mitchell, M.D.

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ISBN 10: 0609602225 ISBN 13: 9780609602225

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 2000

Riassunto

A renowned cardiologist and health journalist show readers how to use exercise as an ally against a host of maladies, including HIV, arthrisis, back pain, allergies, asthma, and eating disorders, as well as cardiac disease. 20,000 first printing.

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Carol Krucoff is a science writer and health columnist for the Washington Post.

Mitchell Krucoff, M.D., is a senior staff cardiologist and the director of the Ischemia Monitoring Laboratory at Duke University Medical Center. The Krucoffs live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Carol Krucoff is a science writer and health columnist for the Washington Post.

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ndbreaking book, two experts, a renowned cardiologist and an award-winning health columnist, show readers specific new strategies for taking advantage of a low-risk, low-cost, extremely effective, and readily available form of healing -- physical activity. The National Institute on Aging reports that "if exercise could be packed in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed, and beneficial, medicine in the nation." We know that physical activity is effective prevention, but pioneering research shows that it can also treat -- and even reverse -- America's top killers, often more effectively than drugs or surgery.

Drawing from Eastern as well as Western traditions, the authors explain how specific exercises can be powerful therapy for such life-threatening ailments as heart disease, cancer, stroke, pulmonary disease, and osteoporosis, as well as conditions that affect quality of life, including arthritis, back pain, asthma, depression, diabetes, stress, PMS, sexual dys

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0609602225
• ISBN 13: 9780609602225
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Disegnatore: Brill Adam
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 319
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile