You Can't Afford To Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care - Softcover

Dr. Andrew Weil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452296609 ISBN 13: 9780452296602

Publisher: Plume, 2011

Synopsis

With a two-week plan for optimum wellness, "America's best-known doctor" (The New York Times) shows you what you need to know to be in the best health and have the best care.

The crisis in American health has hit home in very personal ways. Every thirty seconds someone in this country files for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious health problem. And although America spends more on health care than any other country, the World Health Organization recently ranked our health outcomes lowest among the developed nations. Now, in this visionary New York Times bestseller, world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine Andrew Weil, MD, busts the myths underpinning our health-care system and provides cogent strategies for change as well as specific prescriptive information explaining how--beginning with his two-week jumpstart plan for optimum wellness--to get and maintain good health.

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About the Author

ANDREW WEIL, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. His newest book, Fast Food, Good Food, was released in 2015.

Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, where he is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health and the Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology. Dr. Weil received both his medical degree and his undergraduate AB degree in biology (botany) from Harvard University.

Dr. Weil is a New York Times bestselling author and internationally-recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care. Approximately 10 million copies of Dr. Weil's books have been sold, including Spontaneous Healing, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Eating Well for Optimum Health, The Healthy Kitchen, Healthy Aging, and Why Our Health Matters.

He is the editorial director of DrWeil.com, the leading web resource for healthy living based on the philosophy of integrative medicine. He can be found on Facebook at facebook.com/DrWeil, Twitter at twitter.com/DrWeil, and Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips blog at drweilblog.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452296609
• ISBN 13: 9780452296602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288