Top Consumer Health Books

Library Journal publishes several "Best of" lists of highly rated books. The first issue in February included the "Best of 2008 Consumer Health Titles." All of these titles are included in the collection of the Beaverton City Library. Here are 3 of the 24 titles from the list. See the entire list.
Insomniac

by Gayle Greene. University of California, 2008.

Insomnia sufferer and literature professor Gayle Greene accounts the latest developments in sleep research. Despite studies, sleeping pills, and other suggested behavior-modification techniques, there is still no cure!

Medical Myths That Can Kill You: And the 101 Truths That will Save, Extend, and Improve Your Life.
by Nancy Snyderman, M. D. Crown, 2008.

Snyderman is the medical editor for NBC News. She writes about common medical myths that can harm: only old people have heart attacks, "natural" means safe and so on. Also extends advice for staying healthy.




Anticancer; A New Way of Life

by David Servan-Schrediber, M.D., Viking. 2008.

Written by a doctor who was diagnosed with brain cancer, this book presents solid ideas about cancer prevention, including guarding against environmental imbalance and healing psychological wounds.