Prescription for a Healthy Nation Free

Author: Tom Farley
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0807021164
Category: Medical

Prescription for a Healthy Nation: A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World

America spends more than twice as much for health care as any other nation. Download Prescription for a Healthy Nation medical books for free.
So why are Americans among the sickest people in the industrialized world?

Public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show that the answer does not lie in our medical care system but rather in the world around us. As they explain, the leading killers of our time fall almost entirely into two categories: injuries and chronic diseases such as heart disease, lung and breast cancer, diabetes, and stroke. For all its inspiring, high-tech cures, modern medicine is just not very effective at combating these illnesses. Our health, as Farley and Cohen explain, depends much less on medicine than on how we lead our lives. And as their surprising and illuminating Get Prescription for a Healthy Nation our bestseller medical books.

Prescription for a Healthy Nation Free

So why are Americans among the sickest people in the industrialized world?

Public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show that the answer does not lie in our medical care system but rather in the world around us. As they explain, the leading killers of our time fall almost entirely into two categories: injuries and chronic diseases such as heart disease, lung and breast cancer, diabetes, and stroke. For all its inspiring, high-tech cures, modern medicine is just not very effective at combating these illnesses And as their surprising and illuminating

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