The Reader's Digest Book of The Human Body

Part 1: Man Discovers His body Man, The Unknow. Part 2: How life begins: Secret of the human cell, from articles by J.D. ratcliff, Rutherford Platt, conception J.D. Ratcliff, Boy or Girl? The Mystery of sex Amram scheinfeld, Biography of the Unborn Margaret Shea Gilbert Nature’s way in Birth J.D. Ratcliff, What is a Baby? Part 3: The Wisdom of the Body: Our Miraculous system of defences, Climate control-From within Ruth and Edward Brecher your body’s Wonderful cooling system, Pain: First Signal of danger, When you have a fever, Repelling the unseen invaders, Your Body’s built-in Automation. Part 4: introduction the Brain, The Memory-Remarkable storage battery, Your Brain’s Unrealized Powers, Why strokes occur, The Heart-Wondrous, courageous organ, Steady, peace or heartbreak? The Why and How of heart Attacks, How to live after a heart attack, How to love with high blood pressure, Magic in Breathing, Our Wonderful lungs, How Harmful is Smoking? Part 5: The Body’s Sentinels: What your skin does for you, The Evolution of Eyes, The Mysterious power of Human sight, The Ear-A wonderful Machine, How to Prevent travel sickness, Your Educated Nose, All about Your Throat, There’s no need for stuttering, The Myth of the terrible Tonsils. Part 6: The Marvellous Team work of Command and Control: How your Nervous systems works, the Miracle of Muscle, Muscular Aches and Pains, Our busy bones, The Human hand: Our Greatest tool, what you should Know about your back. Part 7: The Laboratories of the body: Treat your Stomach with respect, The window in St. Martin’s Stomach, Your liver is your life, Your Gall-Bladder: Trouble hot spot, The Kidneys, What Urinalysis tells the doctor, The Pancreas and diabetes, Your Long-suffering colon. Part 8: The Body’s chemical Wizardry: The Blood-Stream: Chemistry in Action, Lymth: the Mysterious Fluid, The Sea within us, The Endocrine Glands: Centres of Control, Enzymes: Nature’s converters, Vitamins: Keys to Well-Being. Part 9: The Changing Cycles of life: Childhood-Wonderful and Alarming ,Why Adolescents act that way, Acne-youth’s Mysterious enemy, Menstruation: New help for Needless Misery, What to do about Chance of life, Prostate trouble, Can Science Prolong our Useful Years? How to keep young Mentally. Part 10: Man, Woman and Fertility: The Secret Strength of Women, What doctors Can do to Promote Fertility, The Rh Factor in Pregnancy, The Mysteries of the Breast, Breast-Fed is best fed, Childbirth Without Fear, Truths and Untruths about Miscarriage, Birth Control. Part 11: The Body Fights Stress: Stress- The Cause of all Disease? How to deal with yout tensions, How to live with your nerves, how to stand up under stress, Your mind can keep you well, The Case for crying, If you need a drink, Don’t take it! Part 12: The Big Nuisances: How to live without Fatigue, Why do we get so tired? Sleep and how to get more of it, How much sleep do you Need? Headaches, and What you can do about them, The Trouble some Allergies, The Common Cold. Part 13: Survival of the Slim: The Facts about food and Weight, What you should really weigh, U.S. news and World Report, How to Reduce-The Question of Eating, Does Exercise Help or Hinder? What do you eat for Breakfast? Part 14: The Body Beautiful: The Care of your skin, Facts about eye care, What you should know about your hair, If you really want healthy teeth, Mind Your own tow feet, Don’t Just sit there- exercise, Man’s best Medicine, Even Six seconds will help.

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