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From James Beard Leadership Award winner Saru Jayaraman, Forked is an enlightening examination of what we don't talk about when we talk about restaurants: Is the line cook working through a case of stomach flu because he doesn't get paid sick days? Is the busser not being promoted because he speaks with an accent? Is the server tolerating sexual harassment because tips are her only income?

Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer's vision in a single, accessible volume.

Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget - nearly $175 billion - is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, instead of using them to actually improve health.

Healthy paleo salads made easy, delicious and fun! Over 100+ original paleo salad recipes to help you look and feel amazing! Paleo salads are the best solution for busy women and men who want to eat healthy and keep their taste buds satisfied. You will never get bored with over 100 paleo salad recipes from this book!

Boost your health and achieve optimal wellness with delicious, nutritious, and cruelty-free vegan smoothies. You are just about to discover a myriad of super tasty, 100% vegan smoothie recipes that are naturally rich in protein and will help you get the body you want.

It's not about deprivation. It's not about going hungry. It's about abundance and indulging in holistically healthy, delicious smoothies that help you thrive. You are just about to unleash the power of mind and body nourishing, alkaline, green superfoods that will help you have beautiful skin, nails & hair, and (if desired) lose weight!

This guide will provide you with a comprehensive and practical overview of the alkaline diet. It explains exactly how to change your lifestyle so that you can think clearly, have unlimited amounts of energy, detoxify your system and lose weight!

You are just about to discover the amazing benefits, uses & natural remedies of the miraculous mineral called Epsom salt! Thanks to this easy and practical Epsom salt guide, you can quickly learn simple tips and strategies that will help you conjure up simple holistic solutions for your everyday maladies - for your health, beauty, home and garden - and it only takes minutes!

Reduce inflammation, lose weight, and boost your energy with the vegan-alkaline-paleo way! Are you sick of not being able to lose weight or keep it off...or are you tired of having digestive issues that leave you uncomfortable, in pain, and unable to lead your normal life...or perhaps it's feeling chronically fatigued, with no energy to live life to the fullest....

A story about the substance abuse epidemic with call to action reflecting on possibilities for change from the health care, social, and political standpoints.

A young doctor falls in love with the art of acting. Surprising success in Hollywood and rewards from a lucky marriage lead him to repay life with dedicated service in West Africa. The stories relate how the doctor became a doctor, how he stumbled into acting, won an enviable Hollywood career, gained a wonderful family, and suddenly decided to leave his good fortune to provide medical service in a poor country in West Africa.

What if you had the power to start creating rituals in your daily life that could benefit you and your health? If you struggle with panic attacks or bad anxiety, this is the book for you. Anxiety is the feeling of major stress in the body, and many people have their own unique style of dealing with it. I have struggled with anxiety for many years. The major cure is creating new rituals every day, and I have given you plenty in this book to create change. You'll discover 100 proven stress-free habits that you can start applying in your life today.

In Everyone Counts, PBP co-founder and executive director Josh Lerner provides a concise history of the organization's origins and its vision, highlighting its real-world successes in fostering grassroots budgeting campaigns in such cities as New York, Boston, and Chicago.

Donald R. Prothero explains the scientific process and why society has come to rely on science not only to provide a better life but also to reach verifiable truths no other method can obtain. He describes how major scientific ideas that are accepted by the entire scientific community (evolution, anthropogenic global warming, vaccination, the HIV cause of AIDS, and others) have been attacked with totally unscientific arguments and methods.

Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional science through the contemporary alternative food movement and campaign against obesity. Charlotte Biltekoff analyzes the discourses of dietary reform, including the writings of reformers, as well as the materials they created to bring their messages to the public.

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts are beginning to understand the potential dangers of these substances, there are still more than 80,000 synthetic compounds that have not been sufficiently tested to interpret their effects on human health.

Did you know that "nontoxic" usually means "never tested"? Or that many green cleaners are good for the environment but terrible for you? Chemist and activist Monona Rossol goes from under your sink to the halls of the powerful, tracing Americas love affair with chemicals that kill, explaining how much worse the problem has gotten in the last decade. Shocking and appalling and completely reckless - thats how she describes the current prevalence of harmful chemicals in our everyday lives. Read Pick Your Poison to learn the facts and find out what you can do about the daily onslaught of toxins that are making lab rats of us all.

According to the federal Office of Minority Health, African Americans "are affected by serious diseases and health conditions at far greater rates than other Americans". In fact, African Americans suffer an estimated 85,000 excess deaths every year from diseases we know how to prevent: heart disease, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes. In this important and accessible book, Dr. Michelle Gourdine provides African Americans with the knowledge and guidance they need to take charge of their wellbeing.

Human beings have astonishing genetic vulnerabilities. More than half of us will die from complex diseases that trace directly to those vulnerabilities, and the modern world we've created places us at unprecedented risk from them. In It Takes a Genome, Greg Gibson posits a revolutionary new hypothesis: Our genome is out of equilibrium, both with itself and its environment. Simply put, our genes aren't coping well with modern culture.

What if you could have one simple guide that distills all you need to know to transform your body and lifestyle to get the health results you deserve? A guide that is modernized, practical, and totally adapted to a busy 21st-century person's needs... Wouldn't it be great to have a simple and proven Ayurvedic plan that is personalized and easy to follow?