Health Videos, Books and CD Resources at Cushman Wellness Center

The Cushman Wellness Center Community Health Library is a great resource for patients wanting to research and better understand their conditions and the treatments they are receiving or considering. The library has medical articles, free Internet access, and offers registration opportunities for classes and seminars.

To complement the integrative therapies performed at the Cushman Wellness Center, the library offers quality resources such as health-related videos, books, CDs and pamphlets on various health conditions that focus on complementary and alternative medicine. These items are available for monthlong borrowing or may be used while receiving treatment at the Sharp Memorial Outpatient Pavilion.

New Items Available

  • After a Stroke: Your Recovery (DVD)
  • Crohns and Colitis: Understanding and Managing IBD
  • Everyone Can Count Carbohydrates (DVD)
  • Living With Stress (DVD)
  • Overweight: Who's in Control (DVD)
  • Patient Safety: Stay Safe When You Are in the Hospital (DVD)
  • Smoking: Getting Ready to Quit (DVD)
  • Succeeding With Adult ADHD: Daily Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Goals and Manage Your Life
  • The Energetic Brain: Understanding and Managing ADHD
  • This Is Why Your Back Hurts
  • And many new health DVDs in Spanish

Librarian's Pick of the Month

The Water Secret: The Cellular Breakthrough to Look and Feel 10 Years Younger by Dr. Howard Murad

Based on the title, one might expect to read a book about the need to drink 10 glasses of water a day, and how that alone would take off years from our faces. Instead, the author offers the idea of "eating water." Dr. Murad, a pharmacist at UCLA with a specialty in dermatology, offers the reader a plan to slow the aging process through the "inclusive" focus on the whole body, cell by cell, rather than the specialized treatment of a singular disease or condition. 

Murad is in the business of skin care, but he is also a researcher committed to addressing the components of health and beauty and does not use this book to sell his skin care line. Instead, he sells the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables and taking the right supplements — with an entire chapter devoted to lowering cultural stress — and gives explanations for how and why this works to keep us younger from the inside out, at the cellular level. Murad recommends an easy menu plan, with various recipes, for the first 10-day jump-start, creating a "pitcher" of health model to keep the cells hydrated. Only slight shifts are necessary to experience the benefits, encouraging a "go at your own pace" approach.

For More Information
To learn more about the Community Health Library, please call the library directly at 858-939-5030 or send us an email.