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he writes, cry out for increased community engagement. The book “offers a call to
action,” says Will at Harper Wave. Murthy “challenges us to reconsider the paradigm
for health, and highlights with urgency the epidemic of loneliness and the need for
human connection, which is as essential to our well-being as nutrition.”
In May 2020, Kales Press, which is distributed by W.W. Norton, will release
Tapestry of Health by Daniel A. Monti and Anthony J. Bazzan, physicians who treat
patients at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health in New Jersey. The book, pub-
lisher Kenneth Kales says, gives equal wellness weight to positive relationships,
healthy diets, and “walks in the woods.” The authors write in their foreword that
readers have been “let down by conventional medicine” and need to learn to “question
dogma” to develop a whole-health plan based on nutrition and lifestyle changes.
They’re appealing to the kind of reader, often female, who Beier at St. Martin’s says
may feel dismissed by the traditional medical establishment, and who turns to books
to “feed her desire to be better informed” about matters pertaining to her own health.
Behavioral change specialist Shahroo Izadi addresses this reader in The Last Diet
(St. Martin’s, Apr. 2020), teaching here—as she did in 2019’s The Kindness Method—
how to effect lasting change without self-judgment, a pitfall of many weight-loss plans.
Other authors, too, focus on dietary changes as a path to overall well-being. In Your
Body in Balance (Grand Central, Feb. 2020), diabetes clinical researcher Neal D. Barnard
(2018’s The Vegan Starter Kit) advocates a vegan diet as central to alleviating a wide
range of health problems. Many foods, he explains, contain and influence hormones
that are linked to issues as diverse as menstrual cramps and prostate cancer.
Dermatologist and osteopath Debbie Palmer, in Mindful Beauty (Llewellyn, Apr. 2020;
written with Valerie Latona), proposes that an integrative approach to wellness is
necessary not only for feeling mentally and physically healthy, but also for looking
good. As she writes in the introduction, stressed-out patients who come to her for a
quick dermatological fix not only receive a complete skin-care plan, but also more
comprehensive lifestyle guides of the sort she features in the book, which folds meditation
and exercise into what she refers to as “me time.”
Llewellyn acquisitions editor Angela Wix says readers are beginning to make a
connection between health and beauty and as a result want, in addition to skin-care
regimens, “creative solutions” for achieving wellness, such as feng shui tips for the24 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ NOVEMBER 4, 2019