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Podoconiosis: Non-filarial Elephantiasis (Oxford medical publications)

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A superb guide to the disease with the shortest "denial" stage in the medical book. I found it particularly useful in coming to terms with my condition and even taking pride in it. Perhaps a lighter take on the subject is to be found in Ernest Woodward Price's earlier work "Er, Does Sir Dress To The Right?"

While in Ethiopia, we came across the disease, Podoconiosis.
I wish we would have had this book to help us with the disease progression.

While volunteering for the hospital, we were asked to make a video of the disease and I hope the readers find it as an adjunct to the book, please enjoy the video of the disease in Ethiopia.

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The National Institutes of Health say that there is a virtual epidemic of obesity occurring not only in the US, but in almost every advanced country--except, curiously enough--France. Fifty percent of adults over 40 are overweight, and our children aren't much better off.

As a result of reading this book, I think I've found the cause, since I believe I have this problem with at least a couple of my more "aesthetically challenged" body parts. But getting back to the present volume, this book seems to be on a timely and weighty topic that seems to be weighing equally heavily on the behinds and minds of both the general public and our health officials.