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Thrive Foods: 200 Plant-Based Recipes for Peak Health

By Brendan Brazier

This book builds on Brazier’s first book, Thrive, and continues describing how plant-based ingredients can lead to sustainable energy, high-quality sleep, physical strength and mental sharpness.

Brendan Brazier is a professional triathlete and creator of VEGA, an awardwinning whole food product line.

100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith

By Sonia Arrison

Arrison explores how the reality of humans living longer, due to scientific changes and technology, is changing life as we know it. The author attempts to look into the future to see what the effects of living longer will be on the world.

The Salt Solution

By Heather K. Jones

Cutting salt from your diet can also mean cutting inches and pounds. Salt is everywhere, even hidden in foods that you wouldn’t suspect. Heather Jones shares recipes and quick fixes. The book also acts as a shopping guide to navigate low-sodium foods in grocery stores.

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Go Ask Alice!

www.goaskalice.com

Go Ask Alice is not new. In fact, it was one of the first online health resources. Produced by the Health Services Department at Columbia University, Go Ask Alice is an anonymous question-and-answer resource on relationships, sexuality, emotional health, fitness, nutrition, alcohol, drugs and other health topics. Submitted questions are answered by respondents with advanced degrees in public health, health education, medicine and counseling.

Zygote Body

www.zygotebody.com

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Formerly Google Body, Zygote Body is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back the layers of the body – such as bones, muscles and nerves – and navigate the parts of the body that interest you. This is great for kids working on science or health projects, and even more fun to use to check out any parts of the body that are ailing you.

Can Coffee Make You Happier?

New research shows that a cup of coffee (or four) can significantly reduce the risk of depression in women. The Archives of Internal Medicine published the study after researchers observed more than 50,000 women over a 10-year period. Though the researchers say more information is needed, patients who drank four or more cups of coffee each day were 20 percent less likely to suffer from depression.

Why Do You Yawn?

You might not yawn because you’re tired after all. According to research from Princeton University published in Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, yawning helps cool the brain. When you start to yawn, stretching your jaw increases the blood flow to the face, neck and head, and the deep intake of breath forces blood and spinal fluid from the brain. The intake of breath helps to cool these fluids.