Traces the history of sugar, discussing the introduction of sugar to the Western world, enslaved Africans being sent to work on Caribbean cane plantations, and more; and also reveals how much sugar people consume and health implications in the early twenty-first century.

"A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives--and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back"--

To protect high use areas and fragile eco-systems, campers are now often urged to haul poop home, or with increasing frequency, it is mandatory. Meyer's work features the latest in product innovations, from high-tech to inexpensive do-it-yourself. She covers the most current solutions to the health risks of drinking straight from wilderness waterways, presents natural substitutes for those swearing off toilet tissue, and offers new recommendations...

"In her new book, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Thrive delves into the sleep revolution that is happening all across the world--a revolution that can transform our lives. Sleep, she writes, is one of humanity's great unifiers, binding us to each other, to our ancestors, to our past, and to the future. Yet we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis...

A comprehensive encyclopedia devoted to the critical world of our invisible anatomy, where so much of healing actually occurs.

Did you know?... Known as Mother Nature's "nectar of the gods," honey was praised for its healing powers as far back as 5,000 years ago by Egyptians. Eating honey can help lower the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes-even help reduce body fat and unwanted weight!-and increase longevity. Super "bee foods" (including nutrient-rich bee pollen, propolis, and royal jelly) are used and touted for their healing powers by beekeepers and medical experts...

Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the age of climate change, Lyme infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia. Mary Beth Pfeiffer traces how we have contributed to this growing menace, and how modern medicine has underestimated its danger. She tells the stories...

The up-to-the minute latest news about meat-eating that our government and the meat lobby does not want us to know: -How likely is it that mad cow disease could happen here? -What are the latest additives being added to our livestock feed? -Why are our children being bombarded with hours of meat advertisements a day? -How can your family gradually cut down your meat consumption? -What do some researchers think that some Alzheimer's patients really...

We humans, as all other living beings, are electrical creatures on an electrical planet, and the ground beneath us is more than something we just stand, walk, play, and build on. Simply walking or sitting barefoot on the Earth may be the solution for chronic inflammation, which is the leading trigger of chronic pain and most major health disorders. The transfer of negative-charged free electrons from the Earth into the body will extinguish the positive-charged...