1st 53 pages highlighted. emboss stamp on 1st page and dustjacket. a few margin spots. cover edge wear. dustjacket spine end pieces torn off.  rub marks, smudges, dents, scratches, and edges tattered and torn.

1976 Stackpole Books hardcover. 180 pages. 9 1/4" x  6 1/4".

"Where we live determines to a large degree how we live, which determines how we shall or might live." asserts the author, who then goes a long way towards proving that environmental conditions - including climate and weather - have significant effects on health and well being. Yet medical scientists in Great Britain and North America have largely ignored or scoffed at the climatological/ environmental influences on mental and physical health, while Third World investigators have been making tremendous, and sometimes unbelievable strides in medical climatology or Biometeorology. The facts in this thoroughly documented, laymen-oriented study make sense - from the statistics linking heart disease to sudden, stressful barometric changes to the best (and worst) places to reside for health and happiness. The addictive, poisonous qualities of sugar and salt are detailed: with an Israeli study showing a significant relationship between the consumption of sugar and coronary heart disease and diabetes, and the kidney-destroying ability of sodium chloride (common table salt). Ample evidence is provided to reveal the truth about vitamin therapy. particularly those claims about vitamin C and vitamin E. As the author states: "Since we make and consume the world's worst bread, perhaps the line of the Lord's Prayer should be altered to read 'Give us this day our minimum daily requirements." Depression, that common emotional and physical crippler, cause by both climate and environment, is handled with sensitivity and uncommon sensibility. Everyone who has suffered through stages of the "blues" can find eleven easy steps to improved mental health which are as applicable to the preadolescent as the the "Golden Ager." at times biting with cold fact, at others, gentle with humor, this cogent documentary provides controversial, enlightening reading for all who are concerned about health, happiness, and long life.