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By (author) Yang, Y. Tony
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“From sleep and metabolism to social connection and environmental toxins, Y. Tony Yang turns cutting-edge science into practical tactics for everyday life.” —Lynne Peeples, Harvard-trained biostatistician, and author of The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms
Use Sun Tzu”s timeless strategies to battle illness and promote health and wellness!
This innovative guide applies the ancient wisdom of Sun Tzu”s The Art of War to personal health and wellness. Y. Tony Yang, a public health and policy expert, transforms the general”s five pillars into specific battle plans centered on nutrition, exercise, self-care, work-life balance and prevention.
We all know to eat well and exercise, but our forces need to be built up in more definable and actionable ways. Reduce inflammatory markers? Improve sleep efficiency? Increase stress resilience? That”s the start of a customized health-centered battle plan, all supported by:
- Case studies laying out specific regimens: stability training, strength exercises and cardiovascular options
- Charts presenting each chapter”s key points and posing essential questions for formulating your battle plan
- Personal risk factor assessments and adaptable nutrition programs offering models to integrate
“The five factors are not separate matters,” Sun Tzu wrote. “The wise general sees them as a single integrated reality.” Wise generals never go to war with their own bodies but defend instead their most valuable territory, the body and its sustained health success.
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“Yang passionately makes the case for actively taking control of one”s well-being…an innovative approach to self-care.” —
Publishers Weekly
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“Others have applied Sun”s principles to health before, but Prof. Yang is arguably best placed to spell out the ramifications of Sun”s ideas as applied to health.…Written in plain language by a professor in public health who can read Chinese, this is compelling reading for everyone, and compulsory reading for anyone fighting the war on epidemics such as obesity and infectious diseases.” —
Dr. Bernard Cheung, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Hong Kong; Honorary Consultant Physician, Queen Mary Hospital
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“In an era dominated by reactive medicine and fragmented, isolated opinions based on individual symptoms or illnesses, Yang uses [The Art of War] to present a more integrated, holistic approach to one”s own health journey” —
US Review of Books
Biographical note:
Y. Tony Yang is an endowed Professor and Associate Dean at George Washington University and holds graduate degrees from Harvard (in public health and health policy and management) and from the University of Pennsylvania (in law). A former MIT post-doc fellow, he has served as an FDA Regulatory Science Fellow and a CDC Health Policy Fellow. In addition to contributing over 175 articles to leading journals, he”s the author of Achieving Health Equity: The Role of Law and Policy and Vaccine Law and Policy. A Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, he has received the APHA”s Early Career Award for Excellence and serves on the Academy Health Education Council, the Board of Directors for the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and WHO”s Technical Advisory Group on New TB Vaccines.
Sun Tzu was the ancient Chinese military strategist, philosopher and author of The Art of War, a timeless treatise on warfare and power. Revered for his profound understanding of tactics and human psychology, Sun Tzu and his teachings continue to be extremely influential today.
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