{"title":"Environmental Health","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnvironmental health focuses on the ways environmental factors influence human health and well-being. This subject examines how issues like pollution, climate change, toxins, and occupational hazards impact physical health, disease patterns, and public safety. Readers can use these resources to understand complexities in managing environmental risks and their significance for communities and policy makers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo narrow your reading within environmental health, consider subtopics such as toxicology, industrial hygiene, epidemiology of environmental diseases, or regulations on environmental safety. Comparing this area with other medical fields helps clarify its role in emphasizing prevention and population-level interventions, distinct from individual clinical care.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"environmental-cns-stimulation-aging-health-disease-9789811250330-new","title":"Environmental CNS Stimulation in Aging, Health and Disease","description":"\u003cp\u003eSocial and environmental factors have profound impacts on health and diseases across the lifespan. Each year, hundreds of millions of animals are used in biomedical research. Yet many experimental studies utilize animals housed in standard conditions conferring minimal physical, social, and mental stimulation. Lacking appreciation of macroenvironment impacts on physiology and disease risks of the laboratory animals may not only hinder the use of appropriate animal models for human diseases, but also question the validity of preclinical assessments of therapeutic agents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book summarizes our work on environmental enrichment, a housing condition for laboratory animals, recapitulating an active lifestyle by providing a complex physical, social, and cognitive stimulations. Environmental enrichment exerts a wide range of benefits on energy balance, cancer, immunity, stress, behavior, and healthy aging. One underlying mechanism is the activation of a specific neuroendocrine brain-adipocyte axis with brain-derived neurotrophic factor as the key brain mediator. This book integrates recent discoveries regarding mechanisms, mediators, and biomarkers of environmental enrichment, and discusses its translational potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy providing a timely review and discussion of murine models, this book should be of interest to basic, translational, and clinical researchers, as well as psychologists, nutrition scientists, and students that have interest in cancer, obesity, aging, and genetic disorders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51544344920354,"sku":"9789811250330-new","price":155.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9789811250330.jpg?v=1776401468"},{"product_id":"defense-sunlight-surprising-science-sun-exposure-9781668092163-new","title":"In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure","description":"\u003cb\u003eUpending everything we thought we knew about sun exposure, this trenchant investigation into the \"zero-sun policy\" sounds the call on the many health benefits of the sun, and what we risk when we minimize our exposure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA quiet revolution is transforming our understanding of sunlight's effects on human health. For decades, a \"zero-sun\" policy has characterized our approach to sun protection, advising us to stay out of the sun whenever possible and apply sunscreen daily to any skin that might be exposed, rain or shine, summer or winter, indoors or out. But recent studies have proved that this policy is thoroughly mistaken and that this prolific misunderstanding is causing us to miss out on many of the health benefits of sun exposure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this incisive work, acclaimed journalist Rowan Jacobsen presents the growing case for the importance of modest sun exposure for our health and well-being. Aided by the most up-to-date studies on the effects of sunlight on human health, Jacobsen presents a much-needed, lucid assessment of not only what the sun can do for us, but how a lack of sun could actively be harming us. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Sunlight\u003c\/i\u003e sounds the call on what researchers have been sure of for years, and what health care providers and media outlets have been slow to take up: that sunlight is one of the simplest, and most equitable, treatments for a variety of health issues, from diabetes to dementia to multiple sclerosis. Laying out the new science of sunlight in a straightforward and responsible manner for mainstream readers, this book is an eye-opening story of scientific discovery, outlining not only best practices for sun exposure, but the story of how current recommendations became misguided, how a few inquisitive scientists glimpsed the truth and deciphered the mechanisms responsible, and how everyone can safely incorporate this new knowledge into their daily lives. It also exposes the implicit injustice underlying current approaches, which benefit the whitest people on earth (who are the most susceptible to skin cancer) at the expense of those with darker skin (who suffer extremely low rates of skin cancer and have the most to gain from sun exposure). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA call for a return to common sense in our relationship with our local star, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Sunlight\u003c\/i\u003e offers its own seven words of advice: Get sun. Not too much. Go outside.","brand":"SCRIBNER BOOKS CO","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52568239997218,"sku":"9781668092163-new","price":23.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781668092163.jpg?v=1789612260"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/collections\/medical-environmental-health.oembed","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}