The Oldest Cure in the World

The Oldest Cure in the World
Author: Steve Hendricks
Publsiher: Abrams
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781647000028

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“An illuminating exploration of the rich and varied history—and myriad health benefits—of fasting.” —Wall Street Journal When should we eat, and when shouldn’t we? The answers to these simple questions are not what you might expect. As Steve Hendricks shows in The Oldest Cure in the World, stop eating long enough, and you’ll set in motion cellular repairs that can slow aging and prevent and reverse diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Fasting has improved the lives of people with epilepsy, asthma, and arthritis, and has even protected patients from the worst of chemotherapy’s side effects. But for such an elegant and effective treatment, fasting has had a surprisingly long and fraught history. From the earliest days of humanity and the Greek fathers of medicine through Christianity’s “fasting saints” and a 19th-century doctor whose stupendous 40-day fast on a New York City stage inaugurated the modern era of therapeutic fasting, Hendricks takes readers on a rich and comprehensive tour. Threaded throughout are Hendricks’s own adventures in fasting, including a stay at a luxurious fasting clinic in Germany and in a more spartan one closer to home in Northern California. This is a playful, insightful, and persuasive exploration of our bodies and when we should—and should not—feed them.

Summary of Steve Hendricks s The Oldest Cure in the World

Summary of Steve Hendricks s The Oldest Cure in the World
Author: Everest Media,
Publsiher: Everest Media LLC
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2022-10-12T22:59:00Z
Genre: History
ISBN: 9798350031294

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 A doctor in Minneapolis decided to cure himself of his various illnesses by fasting for 10 days. He went from being hungry to not thinking about food at all, and when his ailments got better, he continued fasting. While he didn’t reach his goal of 12 days, he did reach his goal of not eating anything and lived to tell the tale. #2 A man in Minneapolis went from being hungry to not thinking about food at all, and when his ailments got better, he continued fasting. He didn’t reach his goal of 12 days, but he did reach his goal of not eating anything and lived to tell the tale. #3 In 1847, a doctor in Minneapolis decided to cure himself of his various illnesses by fasting for 10 days. He went from being hungry to not thinking about food at all, and when his ailments got better, he continued fasting. #4 In 1880, a doctor in Minneapolis decided to cure himself of his various ailments by fasting for 10 days. He went from being hungry to not thinking about food at all, and when his ailments got better, he continued fasting. He didn’t reach his goal of 12 days, but he did reach his goal of not eating anything and lived to tell the tale.

Fasting Cure

Fasting Cure
Author: Upton Sinclair
Publsiher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781429011365

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Upton Sinclair was not only a prolifc and much admired author, but also a follower of Bernarr MacFadden's Physical Culture movement (see his Physical Culture Cook Book, 1901) and a member of the editorial staff of Physical Culture Magazine. Dedicated to MacFadden, this 1911 volume advocates the benefits of systematic fasting in producing long-lasting health benefits.

Cure

Cure
Author: Jo Marchant
Publsiher: Crown
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780385348164

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A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the body. Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's voice? If so, then you've experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your body. Yet while we accept that stress or anxiety can damage our health, the idea of "healing thoughts" was long ago hijacked by New Age gurus and spiritual healers. Recently, however, serious scientists from a range of fields have been uncovering evidence that our thoughts, emotions and beliefs can ease pain, heal wounds, fend off infection and heart disease and even slow the progression of AIDS and some cancers. In Cure, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels the world to meet the physicians, patients and researchers on the cutting edge of this new world of medicine. We learn how meditation protects against depression and dementia, how social connections increase life expectancy and how patients who feel cared for recover from surgery faster. We meet Iraq war veterans who are using a virtual arctic world to treat their burns and children whose ADHD is kept under control with half the normal dose of medication. We watch as a transplant patient uses the smell of lavender to calm his hostile immune system and an Olympic runner shaves vital seconds off his time through mind-power alone. Drawing on the very latest research, Marchant explores the vast potential of the mind's ability to heal, lays out its limitations and explains how we can make use of the findings in our own lives. With clarity and compassion, Cure points the way towards a system of medicine that treats us not simply as bodies but as human beings. A New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize

The Fasting Cure

The Fasting Cure
Author: Upton Sinclair
Publsiher: Cosimo Classics
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1911
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: HARVARD:32044010659902

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"I had taken several fasts of ten or twelve days' duration, with the result of a complete making over of my health." -Upton Sinclair, The Fasting Cure Upton Sinclair's The Fasting Cure (1911) consists of two essays in which Sinclair discusses the reasons he believes that engaging in regular fasts to remove toxins from the body is a healthy practice. While medically controversial, this book is considered worthwhile as an historical document of the "fasting fever," which occurred around the time of its writing.

A Kidnapping in Milan The CIA on Trial

A Kidnapping in Milan  The CIA on Trial
Author: Steve Hendricks
Publsiher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780393080681

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A book so compelling it deserves to become one of the nonfiction classics of our time. As propulsively readable as the best “true crime,” A Kidnapping in Milan is a potent reckoning with the realities of counterterrorism. In a mesmerizing page-turner, Steve Hendricks gives us a ground-level view of the birth and growth of international Islamist terrorist networks and of counterterrorism in action in Europe. He also provides an eloquent, eagle’s-eye perspective on the big questions of justice and the rule of law. “In Milan a known fact is always explained by competing stories,” Hendricks writes, but the stories that swirled around the February 2003 disappearance of the radical imam Abu Omar would soon point in one direction—to a covert action by the CIA. The police of Milan had been exploiting their wiretaps of Abu Omar for useful information before the taps went silent. The Americans were their allies in counterterrorism—would they have disrupted a fruitful investigation? In an extraordinary tale of detective versus spy, Italian investigators under the leadership of prosecutor Armando Spataro unraveled in embarrassing detail the “covert” action in which Abu Omar had been kidnapped and sent to be tortured in Egypt. Spataro—seasoned in prosecutions of the Mafia and the Red Brigades and a passionate believer in the rule of law—sought to try the kidnappers in absentia: the first-ever trial of CIA officers by a U.S. ally. An exemplary achievement in narrative nonfiction writing, A Kidnapping in Milan is at once a detective story, a history of the terrorist menace, and an indictment of the belief that man’s savagery against man can be stilled with more savagery yet.

The Unquiet Grave

The Unquiet Grave
Author: Steve Hendricks
Publsiher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2007-09-07
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1568583648

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In 1976 the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota — or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull. Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of American Indian activists. But the book also discovers things the Indians would prefer to keep buried. What unfolds is a sinuous tale of conspiracy, murder, and cover-up that stretches from the plains of South Dakota to the polished corridors of Washington, D.C. First-time author Steve Hendricks sued the FBI over several years to pry out thousands of unseen documents about the events. His work was supported by the prestigious Fund for Investigative Journalism. Hendricks, who has freelanced for The Nation, Boston Globe, Orion, and public radio, is one of those rare reporters whose investigative tenacity is accompanied by grace with the written word.

Miracle Cure

Miracle Cure
Author: Harlan Coben
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781101544440

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A husband and wife race to find a cure for the disease that has inspired a serial killer to terrorize Manhattan in this classic medical thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger. They’re one of the country’s most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York’s hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds—threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time. In a clinic on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. One by one, they’re being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease. There’s only one cure, but many ways to die...