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Mise au point par Miranda Esmonde-White, la technique Essentrics propose des exercices d’étirements et de renforcement musculaire super accessibles, faciles à réaliser chez soi. Cette technique révolutionnaire aide à mieux comprendre le processus de vieillissement de votre corps et permet de contrer ses effets négatifs, comme les maux de dos, la douleur chronique, la perte de force et la réduction de la masse musculaire. De plus, elle permet à votre posture de s’améliorer et à votre corps de gagner en souplesse.

De façon pétillante et divertissante, John J. Medina dévoile 12 vérités scientifiques au sujet de notre matière grise et propose des idées novatrices visant à améliorer notre façon de travailler, d’apprendre et de vivre, rien de moins ! Enfin à notre portée, de l’info accessible et crédible pour maintenir notre cerveau au sommet de sa forme. Un, deux, trois, GO : c’est le temps de se fouetter les méninges.

Dans les traditions orientales, la méditation est une médecine du corps et de l’esprit. Aujourd’hui, les scientifiques du monde entier démontrent les effets positifs de cette pratique sur la santé physique et mentale. Ce livre réunit, autour du Dalaï-Lama, les plus grands chercheurs mondiaux en médecine, en psychologie et en neurosciences, pour une exploration fascinante du pouvoir de guérison de l’esprit humain : Comment la méditation peut-elle agir sur la douleur et sur la souffrance psychique ? Notre esprit peut-il influencer réellement les résultats de la maladie physique ?

For 11 months Calvin White worked for Doctors Without Borders as a mental health specialist in the off-the-radar region of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Unlike the higher profile emergency situations which draw that international humanitarian organization's attention, the milieu for White's mission was the quiet, slow death in an epidemic of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. White takes the reader inside the daily heartbeat of humans we've never heard of but come to see as sharing the same pulse.

Textbooks describe cancer as a malignant tumour or growth, caused when cells multiply uncontrollably. Researchers give no mention to the consumption of healthy thoughts, and the birth of destructive, negative feelings. Cancer bursts into your consciousness, and like its concrete form, malignant thoughts multiply uncontrollably. In Hard Lumps, Nancy-Gail Burns corrals those thoughts and feelings and illustrates that in the end, good things can be found in just about anything.

For forty years, RM Vaughan has been fighting, and failing, to get his forty winks each night. He's not alone, not by any stretch. More and more studies highlight the health risks of undersleeping, yet we have never been asked to do more, and for longer. And we can't stop thinking that a lack of sleep is heroic: snoozing is a kind of laziness, after all. But why, when we know more about the value of sleep, are we obsessed with twenty­-four-­hour workdays and deliberate sleep deprivation?

The problem of consciousness may just be a semantic one. The brain absorbs a sea of sensory input, the tiniest fraction of which reaches the shore of our awareness. We pay attention to what is most novel, most necessary at the time. At its most reductive, the word 'consciousness' refers to the synchronized firing of neurons across multiple areas of the brain, the mental experience of attending. But should consciousness be summed up simply by its subsconscious mechanism? I would prefer a more imaginative answer.

In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the nonprofit's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the 1980s AIDS crisis in Los Angeles to its position today as an aggressive, global leader in the ongoing fight to control HIV and AIDS.

Over the last thirty years, we have seen an increase in rates of cancer, neurodegenerative disease, reproductive disorders, and diabetes, particularly in developed countries. At the same time, since the end of World War II approximately 100,000 synthetic chemical molecules have invaded our environment-and our food chain. In Our Daily Poison, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin investigates the links between these two concerning trends, revealing how corporate interests and our ignorance about these invisible poisons may be costing us our lives.

In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use-a first not only in the United States but also the world. Medical cannabis is now legal in twenty states and Washington, D.C., and more than one million Americans have turned to it in place of conventional pharmaceuticals. Yet the federal government refuses to acknowledge these broader societal shifts and continues to raid and arrest people: 49.5 percent of all drug-related arrests involve the sale, manufacture, or possession of cannabis.