Health and Science Essentials for Everyone

Download or read book Health and Science Essentials for Everyone written by Martin A. Winkler and published by Martin Winkler. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are deluged daily with health and scientific information from the internet, newspapers, and other media. What is missing from this hubbub is the basic scientific principles that underlie the functioning of our bodies, our cells and the physical world around us. This book guides the reader through these basics, exploring the requirements of our bodies, including nutrition, and provides rules of thumb for maintaining and improving one’s health. From the human body, the book moves into the physical world around us, the earth, and finally the universe to give a sense of the wonders that modern physics and astronomy have revealed