The Round Thing Publishes Latest Installment in Living Matters Series

BOSTON - March 21, 2013 - PRLog -- The Round Thing announces the publication of the third installment in the Life Matters living with science book series.  Health Matters, A Survey of Recent Advances in Understanding How the Body Works is the latest release in the series and is a follow up to Small Matters and Brain Matters.  Health Matters has been published as an ebook in four parts, each focusing on a conceptual unit of health and science.  The book was just published and is available now through Amazon.com and The Round Thing’s online bookstore at http://www.theroundthing.com/bookstore.html

Life Matters is a series of books that relate cutting edge research in basic, easy to digest terms.  The comprehensive books are composed of short articles describing each advance as it happened and how it directly impacts everyday life.  Life Matters is a series of ebooks that began with Brain Matters and subsequently followed up with Small Matters, these books examine the science of the brain and all of its many mysteries and problems and the microscopic and submicroscopic world of the body and disease.  Health Matters comes quickly on the heels of Small Matters and loosely focuses on understanding how the body maintains a healthy equilibrium in the environment and what happens when its system falls out of balance.

Health Matters like the previous books in the Life Matters series is divided into four groups of chapters.  Part 1 examines the progression of human life, from fertility to pregnancy through infancy and childhood and into adulthood and old age within a community network.  Part 2 looks at how the body behaves when a process in the system malfunctions, it shows how the interaction of host and parasite leads to allergy, asthma and infectious illness in addition to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and more.  Part 3 focusses specifically on cancers and the many forms the body’s natural machinery can take if not maintained properly.  Finally Part 4 shows how the body is a part of the outside world and responds to its unique circumstances, with chapters on pollution, alternative medicine and exercise as well as supplements and medication.  Each chapter is accompanied by numerous links to relevant websites and supporting information, so together these four sections form a comprehensive story.  The book is available as an ebook and will be important for patients looking to educate themselves about their illness or prepare for a visit to the doctor, it is also an important document for someone who is looking to raise a family, live a healthy life or live to an old age.

The ebook was produced for the Kindle e-reader and uses the platform’s linking system to connect each of the parts.  In addition to the regular table of contents, each chapter is headed by a list of linking bread crumbs, and each parental part and chapter has links to the descendant child chapter and article so it is easy to navigate and possible to flip through the ebook.  The well-organized book contains hundreds of articles in an easy to read style on dozens of topics.  The ebook series is available now through The Round Thing’s online bookstore and on Amazon.com making it accessible to a wide range of readers, patients, and students.

About the Life Matters series of ebooks.

Life Matters is a recently released series of ebooks designed to explain complex subjects in simple terms.  Brain Matters explores the topics of brain anatomy and subcellular machinery, as well as disorders and diseases of the brain and the natural processes of aging.  Small Matters examines the genomes of primates, non-primate animals as well as several pathogens and how humans and other species co-exist in many ways.  Health Matters presents human life as a spectrum of ages and events where each moment in important, and as science advances we are able to get a better picture of what goes wrong when illness arises and how it can or will be corrected.

About The Round Thing.

The Round Thing is a new imprint looking to publish the very latest in science and technology, what some may call alternative or controversial.  One of the many goals of the publisher is to circumscribe the fringe of the unknown and bring it to the reader in easy to understand terms.  The publisher hopes to help people who are dealing with illness and its many forms as well as people who are trying to preserve their health, as well as those who want to learn and help others through science and knowledge.  Visit on the web at http://www.theroundthing.com.

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