American Medicinal Plants or Aerobic Walking The Weight Loss Exercise

American Medicinal Plants

Author: Charles Frederick Millspaugh

Lavishly illustrated, definitive study describes 180 plants: green hellebore, marsh marigold, American ginseng, scarlet pimpernel, and many others. Accurate illustration for each plant. 180 plates. Table of modern nomenclature.

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Aerobic Walking: The Weight-Loss Exercise

Author: Mort Malkin

Slim down, tune up, and feel better in eight weeks

With proper technique, aerobic walking is one of the safest and most beneficial forms of exercise and a terrific way to lose weight. Now from bestselling health and fitness expert Dr. Mort Malkin offers a complete, step-by-step aerobic walking program that you can customize to reach your personal fitness and weight-loss goals. Drawing on the latest scientific findings on proper walking techniques, weight loss, safety, and nutrition, Dr. Malkin explains everything you need to know to walk your way to a slimmer, healthier you, including how to:

• Reduce stress and lower your blood pressure
• Control your appetite
• Determine how far, fast, and often to walk for your health and fitness level
• Slow down, and even reverse, osteoporosis
• Select the best footwear and accessories

Here is a complete program that will bring you a healthier and more satisfying life.

Publishers Weekly

Beyond a basic agreement about walking as the ideal exercise (it's safe, low-intensity and requires no investment other than a pair of good shoes), the approaches of these two books, both April publications, could hardly be more different. Fenton and Bauer, editors at Walking magazine, offer an encouraging, commonsensical guide to a progressive walking program designed to make even die-hard couch potatoes say, ``I can do this.'' Breezy, two-page chapters-one for each day of the training regime-offer information on such topics as stride, step and pacing and include space for the essential daily log-keeping. The authors' positive approach to walking matches the book's easy-to-follow structure. By contrast, Malkin (Walking-The Pleasure Exercise), a dental surgeon, delineates the ``Malkin Technique'' in an authoritative, nearly pedantic style. He urges a minimum of three 45-minute sessions of brisk (``moderate to hard'') walking per week, offering an eight-week training program toward that goal. Chapters discuss health, weight loss, stretching, equipment and motivation; those dealing with diet include some low-fat recipes. The surfeit of information and the moving focus of attention make for a daunting prospect, a view that could easily spill over to the fitness program Malkin prescribes. (Apr.)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Looking Good: That Special Essence	4
Ch. 2	Metabolic Magic: How to Become a Lean Machine	12
Ch. 3	Aerobic Walking: Technique Is Everything	29
Ch. 4	The Program: How Far, How Fast, How Often	49
Ch. 5	Heads, You Win: The Art and Science of Exercise Motivation	76
Ch. 6	The Aerobic Diet Guide for Reducing: The Variety Principle	89
Ch. 7	The Aerobic Diet Guide for Maintenance: More Variety, Less Vigilance	127
Ch. 8	Health: Illness and Wellness	133
Ch. 9	Perqs: Beyond Health and Weight Loss	147
Ch. 10	Safely, Safely: Gain Without Pain	161
Ch. 11	Accessories: Outfitting for Aerobic Walking	177
Ch. 12	The Masters Class: The Fountain of Youth	188
Ch. 13	Small Miracles: Blessings Left and Right	199
	References	210
	Index	228