Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective – a comparative approach to the analysis of health disparities and human adaptability – and specifically focuses on the pathways that lead to unequal health ou ...
Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being—defined as “the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society”—and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area for anthropological inquiry. Distinctly different in different places, but also reflecting our common human ...
Schluss mit dem Kampf gegen uberflussige Pfunde! Weg mit den Diaten, die keine dauerhafte Veranderungen bringen! Wer eine Zeitlang auf einzelne Nahrungsmittel verzichtet, nimmt kurzfristig ab, produziert auf Dauer jedoch Mangel – und Hunger. Michael Greger geht es ganzheitlich an: Er schlusselt das Thema Ernahrung bis ins kleinste Detail auf. Und zieht, wie in seinem Bestseller HOW NOT TO DIE, seine Erkenntnisse aus evidenzbasierten Fakten. Vom ...
Szukasz ciekawych pomyslow na obiad, ktory bedzie nie tylko smaczny, ale tez odzywczy? Probujesz ograniczyc ilosc miesa w diecie, ale nie wiesz, jak prawidlowo skomponowac sycace posilki? Potrzebujesz elastycznych przepisow, ktore mozna dopasowac do swoich potrzeb? Jesli tak, to mam to, czego szukasz. Trzymasz w reku ksiazke, ktora zawiera 100 pomyslow na pelnowartosciowy obiad dla Ciebie i Twojej rodziny. Klasyka w zdrowszej wersji oraz mnostwo ...
Author is a documentary producer and former CBC journalist Author of Citizens of Nowhere: From Refugee Camp to Canadian Campus About gardening as a way of coping with and healing from the loss of a spouse Author continues to maintain her victory garden and participates in the annual garden tours in Niagara-on-the-Lake ...
A new understanding of autism spectrum disorder. The experience of autistic people, real-life stories from parents, and suggested therapeutic approaches are brought together in New Ways of Understanding Autism to provide a realistic sense of autism and to build a sense of hope. Co-authors Brigitte Harrisson and Lise St-Charles, along with Governor General–award winning novelist Kim Thuy, present a new understanding of autism spectrum disorde ...
Everything doesn't (always) happen for a reason. Infertility and pregnancy loss can be devastating, yet both are often private sorrows for the one in six people who cope with the experience. This collection offers personal stories about what it's like to go through the emotional and physical facets of infertility, miscarriage, and pregnancy loss: the pain, sadness, and desperation, the hope, humour, and frustration. Through, Not Aro ...
