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HEALTH & FITNESS

Use subjects in this section for works aimed at nonprofessionals.  For scholarly works and/or works aimed at medical or health care professionals, use subjects in the MEDICAL section.

Subjects beginning with "HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions" are intended for popular works that discuss preventing or coping with a specific disease or condition and/or for popular works describing the experiences of people with a specific disease or condition.  For scholarly or professional works discussing diseases, use subjects in the MEDICAL section that pertain to the branch of medicine that studies the disease in question (if no specific branch of medicine applies, use subjects in the MEDICAL section for the specific disease or type of disease): for example, a textbook about cancer would be assigned a heading beginning with "MEDICAL / Oncology"; a clinical work on AIDS research would be assigned "MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV".

HEA000000   HEALTH & FITNESS / General

HEA001000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Acupressure & Acupuncture (see also MEDICAL / Acupuncture)

HEA057000   HEALTH & FITNESS / African American & Black *

HEA049000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Aging & Longevity

HEA027000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Allergies

HEA032000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Alternative Therapies

HEA029000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Aromatherapy

HEA058000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Asian American & Pacific Islander *

HEA003000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming / General

HEA003010   HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming / Hair *

HEA003020   HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming / Makeup *

HEA003030   HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming / Nails *

HEA003040   HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming / Skin Care *

HEA047000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Body Cleansing & Detoxification

HEA044000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Breastfeeding

HEA059000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Breathwork *

HEA053000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Cannabis & CBD

                                   HEALTH & FITNESS / Childbirth see Pregnancy & Childbirth

HEA046000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Children & Adolescents

HEA060000   HEALTH & FITNESS / College & University Students *

HEA048000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / General

HEA006000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Diets

HEA034000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Food Content Guides

HEA013000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Macrobiotics

HEA017000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition

HEA023000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Vitamins & Supplements

HEA019000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss

HEA018000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Disability

HEA039000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General

HEA039020   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / AIDS & HIV

HEA039140   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Alzheimer's & Dementia

                                  HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Brain see Diseases & Conditions / Nervous System (incl. Brain)

HEA039030   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer

HEA039150   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

HEA039040   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Contagious (incl. Pandemics)

HEA039050   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Diabetes

HEA039160   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Endocrine System

HEA039010   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Gastrointestinal

HEA039060   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Genetic

HEA039070   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Genitourinary & STDs

HEA039170   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Headaches & Migraines

HEA039080   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Heart

HEA039090   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Immune & Autoimmune

HEA039100   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Musculoskeletal

HEA039110   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Nervous System (incl. Brain)

HEA039120   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Respiratory

HEA039130   HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Skin

HEA007000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / General

HEA002000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Aerobics

HEA007010   HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Aquatic

HEA007020   HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Dance

HEA007040   HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Interval Training (incl. HIIT)

HEA007030   HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Pilates

HEA007050   HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Strength Training

HEA022000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Stretching

HEA045000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Fertility & Infertility

HEA033000   HEALTH & FITNESS / First Aid

HEA009000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Healing

HEA028000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues

HEA010000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living

HEA035000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Hearing & Speech

HEA011000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Herbal Medications

HEA061000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Hispanic & Latino *

HEA012000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism

HEA030000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Homeopathy

HEA056000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Indigenous Health & Healing

HEA054000   HEALTH & FITNESS / LGBTQ+ Health

HEA014000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Massage & Reflexology

HEA015000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Men's Health

HEA051000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Menopause

HEA062000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Menstruation *

HEA055000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Mental Health

HEA016000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Naturopathy

HEA040000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Oral Health

HEA036000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Pain Management

HEA041000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth

HEA020000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference

                                   HEALTH & FITNESS / Reflexology see Massage & Reflexology

HEA063000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Reproductive Health *

HEA042000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality

HEA043000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Sleep

HEA052000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Tai Chi

HEA050000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Vaccinations

HEA037000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Vision

HEA024000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health

HEA038000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Work-Related Health

HEA025000   HEALTH & FITNESS / Yoga

If your title does not have subject content, i.e. a blank book, please use the Non-Classifiable term below. Otherwise, use the Subject/General term in the closest descriptive area. NON000000 NON-CLASSIFIABLE

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