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Healing Power Of Pets, The Harnessing the Amazing Ability of Pets to Make and Keep People Happy and Healthy
by Becker, Marty
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0786868082
- ISBN 13
- 9780786868087
- Seller
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Shell Lake, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Hyperion. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0786868082 . 20 oz.; 270 pages; Unread HC w/DJ VG+ light edge soiling o/w almost new. From Dr. Marty Becker, co-author of the bestsellers Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul, and Chicken Soup for the Cat and Dog Lovers Soul comes a groundbreaking new book that reveals the stirring stories and medical miracles behind the healing power of pets. Pets and people have been living together for thousands of years, but as pets have moved indoors, there have been extraordinary changes in the relationship. In the last twenty years, medical research has increasingly proven the healing effect pets can have for the ill, the elderly, the stressed-out, and the emotionally disengaged. Research shows that people with pet companions have fewer doctor visits and recover more quickly from severe illnesses. In The Healing Power of Pets, Dr. Marty Becker, resident vet on ABC-TVs Good Morning America shows readers how pets can prevent, detect, treat, and in some cases cure a variety of maladies, from arthritis to asthma, and from Alzheimers to depression. Pets decrease cardiovascular risk factors, motivate their sedentary owners to exercise, and help people deal with chronic pain. In addition, the book offers heartwarming true stories of pets who have enrichedeven savedtheir owners lives to reveal the lasting physical, emotional, and social benefits of the human-animal bond. .
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- Bookseller
- Mistymornin Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30299
- Title
- Healing Power Of Pets, The Harnessing the Amazing Ability of Pets to Make and Keep People Happy and Healthy
- Author
- Becker, Marty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0786868082
- ISBN 13
- 9780786868087
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0786868082
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals / Other; Health Mind/Body Self Help / Other;
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