The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living: How to Survive Your Bad Habits
Author: David J Clayton
There are thousands of books out there on how to live a healthy life, but let's be honest: most of us don't want to live a healthy life -- we want to know how to live our unhealthy lives better. The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living is a straightforward and honest guide to maintaining the fast-paced lifestyle you're accustomed to, without giving up all the bad habits that come along with it.
Whether you stayed up all night prepping for that early presentation or want to lose ten pounds fast for a high school reunion, whether you drank too much last night or wound up in an unfamiliar bed this morning, here's the practical advice you need for minimizing the damage and moving on with your life. A few of the issues addressed in this book include:
- Drinking and drugs: From easing the hangover pain to kicking a drug habit
- Sex: Pregnancy, STDs, and why you shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet
- Pushing the limits: Sleepless nights, stress, and unavoidable life-related anxieties
- Everyday habits: Smoking, fast food, all-nighters, and the rest of those New Year's resolutions you haven't gotten around to yet
Whether you indulge yourself in Vegas or your own backyard, when it comes to your health, it's easy to assume the worst. But even if you don't live a completely virtuous life, The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living says that if you make some smart choices, you can avoid major worries or embarrassment.While this book won't take the place of your own doctor, it will give you some shortcuts to healthier habits and better living -- like safer sex and better sex, or a healthier diet and a better body -- that might become habits you can live with.
Publishers Weekly
New York City physician Clayton has put together a guidebook that should be a godsend for young adults with fast-paced, hard-partying lifestyles. He addresses popular vices from smoking, drinking and junk food bingeing to having multiple sex partners and doing recreational drugs. Clayton's view is that it's possible to reduce the negative side effects of such behaviors and minimize the risks associated with occasional poor choices. Naturally, he advocates making healthy choices to begin with, but being an urban 30-something himself, he realizes that since this won't always happen, it's better to be armed with the facts-and some great tips for damage control. Want to avoid a hangover? Lower the risks of smoking? Concoct a "morning after" pill? Avoid testing positive for drugs on a job interview? Clayton explains all in intelligent but easygoing language, as well as ways to deal with work stress, problems with sexual performance, STDs and dieting. Using real life examples and maintaining a sense of humor throughout, Clayton is the kind of unshockable, practical-but hip-doctor that any young person would be delighted-and relieved-to consult. Agents, Emily Nurkin and Laura Yorke. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
There are many guides to healthy living written for people over 40-Jeanne Wei and Sue Levkoff's Aging Well: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health; James Fries's Living Well: Taking Care of Yourself in the Middle and Later Years. Clayton, however, targets young professionals and provides practical, compassionate, nonjudgmental advice on how to make intelligent risk-reducing lifestyle choices. This approach shines in the chapters on alcohol abuse, diets, sexual performance improvement, and unwise sexual choices. Clayton wisely discourages tobacco and drug abuse (illegal and prescription); both conventional and complementary medicine therapies are discussed. Bad habits not mentioned include unsafe driving (and other potentially injurious actions) and unhealthy eating habits that contribute to cancer and cardiovascular diseases. A breezy, late-night comedy delivery is interspersed with some complex medical explanations. Overall, this is a relatively quick, informative read, though a list of resources is noticeably lacking. Best placed in urban public and consumer health libraries where interest warrants.-Janice Flahiff, Medical Univ. Lib. of Ohio, Toledo Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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Better Back
Author: John Tanner
Offering authoritative, constructive advice and information on this worldwide health problem, Better Back assesses a wide variety of available treatments and gives a detailed overview of the solutions to back pain. Explaining how the back works and outlining the many causes of pain, this is the ideal guide for anyone with a bad back pain who wants to take an active role in their own health care.
Author Biography: Dr. John Tanner is a private practitioner of orthopedics and sports medicine, with special interests in back injuries and their treatment. He is on the council of the Society of Orthopedic Medicine and the Institute of Orthopedic Medicine.
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