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Explaining Health:
what you need to know to stay healthy
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About the author:
Marcia M. Degelman is an Integrative Medicine Specialist, at The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in San Francisco. She practices massage therapy and also teaches meditation and guided visualization.

She graduated from the Boulder School of Massage Therapy in Boulder, Colorado in 1979, and has studied health and healing principles from around the world for many years. She has advised her many clients on health issues, and injury recuperation.

Explaining Health

what you need to know to stay healthy

By Marcia Degelman

Empowering people to take care of their own health by giving them the knowledge and the tools to take care of themselves. Full of useful information on diet, exercise, sleep, attitude, illnesses, and mind/body connection, this book integrates Western medical knowledge and alternative resources in an easy to understand format.
“Explaining Health is an easily accessible guide for good living and healthy aging. Degelman provides up-to-date medical science in an easily digestible, readily absorbable, unintimidating handbook, full of valuable information. Provides tips on everything from treating the common cold to living a happy life! An invaluable resource!”
Dr. Donald Abrams, Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF

“Marcia Degelman has captured the essence of healthy living in this inspirational book. All the information you need to make good choices is right here. Each chapter is clear and thorough yet succinct. This beautifully written, engaging book is instant support for healthy habits...a valuable, handy resource you will want to refer to time and time again.”
Lisa Harrison, Psy.D.
City College of San Francisco
Department of Behavioral Sciences

Watch presentation on "Explaining Health: Habits and Longevity "

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Explaining Health: what you need to know to stay healthy

What is health?

    Health is a feeling of vitality, of resilience, not just the absence of disease. Health is having the mental, emotional and physical resources to handle whatever life deals us.
        How we handle stress is especially important. If we live everyday as if it’s an emergency, and get upset over things like traffic, which we have no control over, we will wear ourselves out.
        Medicine today can keep us alive longer, but it is up to us to make it a long, healthy life. Choices you make today will influence your health tomorrow.Empowering you to take care of your own health by giving you the knowledge and tools to take care of yourself. This book is full of useful information on:
     healthy habits
    nutrition
    exercise
    yoga &t’ai chi
    sleep

    stress
    heart health
    immune system
    ergonomics
    massage &bodywork

    home remedies for 
       colds & flu
        strains & sprains
    mind/body connection
    illness


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    7/6/ 2011
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