Wellness Prescriptions: Simple Steps to a Longer Healthier Life

By Marvin Moe Bell

Healthy lifestyle choices-doable choices each of us have the power to make-are the key to establishing and protecting good health. This message is the cornerstone of Wellness Prescriptions: Simple... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976069504
• ISBN13: 9780976069508
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Better Health Books
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

a first-rate guide

I read this cover-to-cover in only a few sittings, which should suggest one way it stands out: Most health-care books aren't nearly this readable. Dr. Bell makes his points clearly, using lots of anecdotes and colorful language, and he provides numerous easy-to-follow suggestions. Perhaps most important, he's highly credible throughout. He sticks to evidence-based medicine and explains what definitely works, what might work and what does not work when it comes to maintaining and improving health. If you follow even one of the book's many suggestions, you'll more than get your money's worth.

A methodical, easy-to-follow guide to healthy living habits

Experienced family physician Marvin Bell, M.D., M.P.H. presents Wellness Prescriptions: Simple Steps To A Longer, Healthier Life, a methodical, easy-to-follow guide to healthy living habits that help prevent illness and lengthen one's lifespan. From basic lifestyle improvements (reducing stress, quitting smoking, nutritious eating and regular exercise) to specific issues pertaining to heart health, lowering the risk of cancer and diabetes, tips for aging gracefully, and much more. A no-nonsense guide filled cover to cover with scientifically supported advice, written especially for lay readers.

A common sense guide to good health

Dr. Bell's Wellness Prescriptions ia a clear and easily digested book providing a common sense guide to good health. The book contains the latest medical research and provides real life examples that make it an easy read. Readers learn that they have far more control over their health than they might think. It was nice to hear from a Dr. who clearly would rather educate you than treat you.

Simple truths should prevail over medical myths

Dr. Bell has written a short encycopedia of medical truths for an intelligent reader who has become disillusioned with dangerous fads, nostrums, and ineffective panaceas. It is not the physician who will can protect us from disease and disability - it is ourselves. 21st century medicine has finally endorsed the belief that decisions in health care must be EVIDENCE BASED and not derived from personal anecdotes and uninformed fears. The author has clearly demonstrated that he has not only grasped current research in his field but also can convey it in a stimulating and an accurate way.