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Healing Moves: How to Cure, Relieve, and Prevent Common Ailments with Exercise

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A well written, concise guide to the mental and physical benefits of exercise. Step-by-step instructions for gradually adding exercise with the emphasis on making it fun can encourage even the most sedentary reader to be more active.

Healing Moves is a terrific source book for people who want to improve their health and for those who just want to STAY healthy. The information is thorough, the instructions and illustrations are clear...this is stuff you can really put into practice. Check it out!

This is a good resource of clear, easy-to-follow, accurate exercise information and the authors, Carol and Mitchell Krucoff, go out of their way to dispel myths of "feeling the burn" as the only way to exercise. I did, however, feel that the tone of the book could get a little pushy (and maybe some readers need that motivation?) and I found that turning me off to the book. I did appreciate that the illustrations used "real life bodies" but always feel that pictures in books are difficult to decipher, particularly for more complicated moves. I was reading the book for the osteoporosis information and felt there were not as many "cautions" as I would like to see in terms of potentially dangerous moves, etc. Also, having several categories of illness lumped together in the same chapter could lead some readers to confusion about which exercises are specifically geared towards them. Valuable information, especially the first chapter on general principles of exercise, but read carefully.

This informative, well-written, well-organized and easy to use book stands heads above the hundreds of health books on the market today and should be read by everyone who is interested improving their well-being or maintaining their good health. Helpful illustrations, specific exercises and clear instructions for doing them. I love this book!

As one of the nations leading health writers and prominent cardiologist, Carol and Mitch Krucoff's book, Healing Moves, is a must read for those looking for improved health and wellness. Readers will appreciate the way Carol explains the medical benefits in easy to understand language.

This upbeat and inspiring book is a practical and comprehensive guide to using physical activity to treat a variety of illnesses and conditions. I just loved the quote from the National Institute on Aging on the bck cover: "If exercise could be packed in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed, and beneficial, medicine in the nation." Healing moves has more than 100 easy-to-follow illustrations of healing movements drawn from tai chi, yoga, and other aerobic and strengthening techniques and draws on experts in the fields of medicine and the mind-body connection to help you improve your physical outlook and well-being.