ContentsLesson One Health Today 1
The Structure and Function of the BodyLesson Two Acupuncture 13
QigongLesson Three Bottled Water Not Always As Clean As Advertised 25
Infectious DiseasesLesson Four Problem of Malnutrition 37
Nutrients and EnergyLesson Five Aspirin at 100.Still a Wonder Drug 48
Chinese MedicineLesson Six Secondhand Smoke and Heart Disease 62
What You Don t Know about Secondhand SmokeAnd Why Your Kids Are Especially VulnerableLesson Seven It May Be Easy to Live Longer——Just Stop Eating 74
The Contemporary Health FacilityLesson Eight Cloned Sheep May Age Prematurely 85
CloningLesson Nine Cold 95
Common Infectious DiseasesLesson Ten Does Tetracycline Limit Heart Attacks? 108
Using Medicines WiselyLesson Eleven The Future Is Full of Good Health 119
Physical ExaminationsLesson Twelve Doctor s Duty to Tell the Truth 132
Health Service SystemsLesson Thirteen The Perfect Exercises 143
What s Physiology?Lesson Fourteen How Love Heals? 154
Joe Wanted to Die Alone——or So He SaidLesson Fifteen How to Live to 100 166
Growth,Maturation and Aging:Development ContinuesLesson Sixteen About AIDS 176
Fighting InfectionsLesson Seventeen Antibiotic Resistance 186
Good Drugs,Dangerous DosesLesson Eighteen The Placebo Effect 199
You and Your DoctorLesson Nineteen Mother s Blood Shows Baby s Future 211
Should You Be Genetically Tested?Lesson Twenty Health for All 223
Half Century of HealthKey to Exercises 236
Chinese Translations of the Texts 263