Hair Books

Cat Herbal or Reiki for Life

2009-12-05T20:37:00.000-08:00

Cat Herbal: Simple Green Remedies for Your Cat

Author: Claire Nahmad

Cat owners who prefer to treat their ailing pets with natural remedies now have a guide to help them do so. The core of this book is an A-to-Z listing of ailments and conditions with corresponding herbal recipes and treatments. Also included is a section on preventative cat care and treating sick cats at home. Practical guidance, illustrated with diagrams, explains how to administer herbal medicines, apply bandages and compresses, administer ear drops, and give herbal baths. To strengthen the potency of the herbal remedies, information is given on traditional charms to recite while administering treatment, and on spiritual and crystal healing. The herbs used are very common and are easily gathered in the wild or bought from a supplier, and detailed descriptions and drawings make herb and plant identification easy. Claire Nahmad is descended from a long line of herbalists and wisewomen. She is the author of 10 books, including Fairy Spells.

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Reiki for Life: The Complete Guide to Reiki Practice for Levels 1, 2 and 3

Author: Penelope Quest

A comprehensive guide to the practice of advanced Reiki techniques for the beginner and more experienced Reiki practitioner, and for the client who wants to know more. Penelope Quest examines first, second and third degree Reiki, and introduces Reiki-ho, techniques from the Japanese Reiki tradition which have only more recently become available in the West. The volume: explains what Reiki is and how it works; explains how to use first degree Reiki to heal yourself and others; provides a detailed explanation of second degree Reiki including a comprehensive guide to the use of Reiki symbols; introduces Reiki-ho; outlines the path to becoming a Reiki master and third degree Reiki; reveals information you need to become a Reiki practitioner; and shows you how you can continue to grow spiritually with Reiki throughout your life.

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture or Overcoming Repetitve Motion Injuries

2009-12-04T16:26:00.000-08:00

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture

Author: Richard Feely

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA) is a microsystem of anatomical scalp acupoint treatment for neuromusculoskeletal pain as well as meridian treatment. This book offers the information essential for gaining a full understanding of the principles and use of YNSA based on specific algorithms for diagnosis and treatment. The authors' discussion of internal patient controls for verification of effectiveness of point location is particularly relevant for the practitioner seeking to optimize patient care. This text comes with an accompanying DVD-ROM containing convenient and easy-to-follow video instruction in point identification and palpatory training.
Foreword by Toshikatsu Yamamoto!

Interesting textbook: Intro to Programmable Logic Controllers or MySQL in a Nutshell

Overcoming Repetitve Motion Injuries

Author: Richard Rossiter

Unlike programs that focus on muscles, Rossiter's system, which has helped thousands of workers in companies large and small, stretches the body's connective tissue, is easy to learn, and requires only a partner, a soft mat, and a chair.

Divine Healing or Chinese Fitness

2009-12-03T12:15:00.000-08:00

Divine Healing

Author: Andrew Murray

In the ministering of the apostles, forgiveness and healing complemented each other, allowing the Spirit of God to flow freely. Andrew Murray answers these questions scripturally, showing how to walk victoriously in divine health.


Preface 5
1. Pardon and Healing 7
2. Because of Your Unbelief 12
3. Jesus and the Doctors 17
4. Health and Salvation by the Name of Jesus 22
5. Not by Our Own Power 26
6. According -to the Measure of Faith 30
7. The Way of Faith 34
8. Your Body Is the Temple of the Holy Spirit 38
9. The Body for the Lord 43
10. The Lord for the Body 47
11. Do Not Consider Your Body 51
12. Discipline and Sanctification 55
13. Sickness and Death 60
14. The Holy Spirit-the Spirit of Healing 64
15. Persevering Prayer 68
16. Let Him That Is Healed Glorify God 73
17. The Need of a Manifestation of God's Power 77
18. Sin and Sickness 81
19. Jesus Bore Our Sickness 85
20. Is Sickness a Chastisement? 89
21. God's Prescription for the Sick 93
22. The Lord That Healeth Thee 97
23. Jesus Heals the Sick 101
24. Fervent and Effectual Prayer 105
25. Intercessory Prayer 109
26. The Will of God 113
27. Obedience and Health 118
28. Job's Sickness and Healing 123
29. The Prayer of Faith 127
30. Anointing in the Name of the Lord 131
31. Full Salvation-Our High Privilege 135
32. Ye Are the Branches 144

Look this: Microtrends or Built to Last

Chinese Fitness

Author: Qingshan Liu

Qigong (Chi Kung), the Chinese study of life energy, is an ancient fitness and healing practice. This book presents two complete sets of simple, invigorating Qigong exercises that improve the flow of Qi (Chi) in your body, tone and stretch the major muscle groups, increase your energy, and help you relax. Unlike many Western exercises that center on mindless repetition and aggressive movements, Qigong is an effective fitness alternative that involves the mind as much as the body. You will learn to gently focus your attention on Qi, breathing, posture, and simple, revitalizing movements. This book also explains the basic concepts of Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The Total Temple Makeover or Planning Your Cosmetology Career

2009-12-02T08:04:00.000-08:00

The Total Temple Makeover: How to Turn Your Body into a Temple You Can Rejoice In

Author: Gregory Jantz

While the world reels with an ever-growing array of lose-weight-quick schemes, Dr. Gregory Jantz applies common sense and spiritual encouragement to lead readers on a reasonable, realistic path to healthier living.

Unlikethe radical and even dangerous tactics that often captivate those who hunger for dramatic change, Jantz advocates a gentle twelve-week program, which considers the whole person, not just body weight.

This comprehensive approach incorporates scripture study, prayer, and journaling, as well as nutrition, food-consumption plans, and body maintenance with the intention of reshaping a person's self-image in addition to dropping inches in the waistline.

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Planning Your Cosmetology Career

Author: Mary Murphy Martin

Incorporates self-assessment worksheets to help students discover discover where they are, where they are going, and how to get there. Bridges the gap between performing a job and professional achievement. Enhances students' perceptions by pointing out the demands required by specific career objectives.

Everyday Sport or Awareness of Dying

2009-12-01T03:53:00.000-08:00

Everyday Sport: 365 Ways to Get Fit

Author: Andrew Sheilds

Did you know that regular cycling can give you the fitness level of a person 10 years younger? That walking the dog can boost your energy? In fact, it only takes 30 minutes a day to become healthier and happier, and these 365 simple, inspiring ideas will help you add activity to your everyday life. They cover all the key areas: cardiovascular fitness, strength, endurance, and flexibility plus there’s nutrition and hydration advice, too. Enlivened throughout with quizzes, questionnaires, charts, tips, color photos, case studies, and motivational quotes from world-class athletes, this informative guide provides everything you need to know to sustain a more active lifestyle.

New interesting book: Napoleon For Dummies or The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr

Awareness of Dying

Author: Anselm Strauss

The authors develop theoretical constructs that will be of use in many other interactions and situations. Awareness of Dying was the first study of dying in hospitals, and has proven a useful handbook for chaplains, social workers, nurses, and doctors in confronting the many ethical and personal problems that arise in the dying situation. Now available in paperback, it is destined to reach new audiences interested in this key part of all life.

Ch. 1	The problem of awareness of dying	3
Ch. 2	Expectations of death : a problem in social definition	16
Ch. 3	Closed awareness	29
Ch. 4	Suspicion awareness : the contest for control	47
Ch. 5	The ritual drama of mutual pretense	64
Ch. 6	The ambiguities of open awareness	79
Ch. 7	Discounting awareness	107
Ch. 8	Direct disclosure of terminality	119
Ch. 9	The unaware family	136
Ch. 10	The aware family	155
Ch. 11	"Nothing more to do" : the problem of no recovery	177
Ch. 12	"Nothing more to do" : the problem of comfort	204
Ch. 13	Awareness and the nurse's composure	226
Ch. 14	The practical use of awareness theory	259
Ch. 15	Awareness and the study of social interaction	274

Five Minute Yoga or Making Changes

2009-11-29T23:42:00.000-08:00

Five Minute Yoga

Author: Quarto Publishing

This kit covers simple and straightforward yoga techniques anyone can use for toning the body, quieting the mind, and relaxing the body. Includes canvas yoga stretching strap.

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Making Changes: Family Voices on Living with Disabilities

Author: Jan A Spiegl

What are the day-to-day impacts on the family when a disabled is born? This book tackles that as well as other questions.

Last Breath or Your Guide to the Alexander Technique

2009-11-28T19:31:00.000-08:00

Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance

Author: Peter Stark

A fascinating blend of adventure and science, LAST BREATH recreates in heart-stopping detail what happens to our bodies and minds in the perilous last moments of life when an extreme adventure goes awry.

With a growing number of people setting out to climb snow-capped mountains, swim choppy seas, and hike through dark, dense jungles, extreme deaths and brushes with death seem to have become everyday occurences. A compelling synthesis of science, history, possibility, and prevention, LAST BREATH examines the physiological, psychological, and emotional stages our bodies and minds endure at the brink of death. Listeners will shiver with a man lost in snowy woods, suffering from
hypthermia, as he tears off his clothes, burning up from cold. They will hallucinate with a young woman as she succumbs to a cerebral edema stranded at the top of Anapurna. And while a kayaker tumbles helpless underwater for 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, listeners too will gasp for their last breath.

Jan Chapman - VOYA

This breathtaking collection of eleven adrenaline-charged tales of survival will grab a reader's interest until the very last page. Stark, a contributor to Outside magazine, presents harrowing accounts of extreme sports enthusiasts who battle for their lives when their daredevil efforts to push the envelope go awry. Each tale combines a suspenseful narrative of the events that plunge the victim into disaster along with the clinical and physiological details of how the body attempts to preserve life. The book also provides insight into why some are drawn to the high risk of extreme sports such as rock climbing and scuba diving. Readers will hold their breath as a snowboarder, buried under an avalanche, fights to maintain calm and preserve his last precious minutes of air. Not all of these accounts end happily; in one, a doomed kayaker tumbles endlessly in a remorseless, churning white-water hole, unable to find a way out. This collection will appeal to older teens who enjoy adventure and survival stories, such as Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (Villard, 1997) and The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (W. W. Norton, 2000). The stories are based upon Stark's interviews with accident survivors. It is a wonderful recommendation for reluctant readers, combining the intensity of true-life nonfiction with a suspenseful, well-told story. The next time a bored sports or adventure fan eyes the fiction collection with a jaded eye, pull this one off the shelf. Source Notes. VOYA CODES: 5Q 4P S A/YA (Hard to imagine it being any better written; Broad general YA appeal; Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12; Adult and Young Adult). 2001, Ballantine,

School Library Journal

Adult/High School-A fascinating look at how individuals can face death in the course of adventure and daring. Each of the 11 chapters is a separate saga of a fictitious character in a life-threatening situation. Scenarios include hypothermia, drowning while kayaking on a treacherous Chinese river, suffocation by avalanche, and heatstroke in a competitive bike race. Other dangers include altitude sickness, scurvy, falling, jellyfish stings, the bends, malaria, and dehydration. As readers begin each story, they have no way of knowing whether or not the character will survive. The physiological details of the body's attempts to endure, the psychological changes that occur as death is faced, and the serendipity that allows one to live and another to die all make for an engrossing book. Stark has a clear way of imparting a lot of detail. He describes the intricacies involved in each sport, the biological details of the body's response, and the nuances of the character's personality within the few pages. Each story is compelling and the mystery of the outcome holds readers' attention.-Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Book review: Nudge or The Ten Roads to Riches

Your Guide to the Alexander Technique

Author: John Gray

The Alexander Technique is a proven process of mind and body reeducation that reduces stress and muscle tension, and revitalization those who practice it. Used by many actors, athletes, and dancers, the technique can help anyone increase his or her energy and achieve a more dynamic presence.

Written by a veteran instructor of the Alexander Technique, this authentic and easy-to-follow guide allows everyone to learn the increasingly popular program, with clear instructions for each exercise, and dozens of helpful photographs that show correct and incorrect positions to use for the exercises and throughout the day.

Library Journal

After acknowledging that there already are numerous books on the Alexander Technique, Gray, a British former actor and current teacher of the technique, has written still another, designed to take the mystery out of the subject. Although wordy at times, his book is reasonably clear, with each chapter discussing the theory behind the technique and giving specific exercises the reader can do on his or her own. The content is very similar to Sarah Barker's The Alexander Technique: Learning to Use Your Body for Total Energy ( LJ 1/91) and Judith Leibowitz and Bill Connington's The Alexander Technique ( LJ 7/90). Libraries that already have these two titles, which are aimed at an American audience, do not need to consider Gray's, which is more British oriented. Recommended for libraries where there is an extensive demand for books on this subject or where copies disappear quickly.-- Natalie Kupferberg, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., New York

Longevity Strategy or Overcoming the Legacy of Overeating

2009-02-20T16:54:00.000-08:00

Longevity Strategy: How to Live to 100 Using the Brain-Body Connection

Author: David Mahoney

" A wise and compelling guide . . . the true fountain of youth."—Dr. Stephen R. Covey author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The acclaimed life plan for good health, fulfilling relationships, and financial security

The brain-body connection is the interaction among three factors: the health of your brain, your attitude, and your physical health. In this breakthrough guide to a longer, better life, authors David Mahoney and Richard Restak, M.D., draw on state-of-the-art brain-body research to demonstrate the vital importance of handling stress properly, lifelong education and mental activity (use it or lose it!), the social connection, physical exercise, and rearranging your brain's hardwiring toward optimism. Featuring 31 practical, essential tactics, The Longevity Strategy is a user's manual for the best years of your life.

"This book brings us good news: the more we use our brains, the more likely we need not retire." — James Watson, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

"I learned the hard way about the validity of the brain-body connection. The Longevity Strategy will make it a great deal easier for you to learn just what it means, too."—Mike Wallace

"Superb . . . chock full of practical scientific knowledge that can help one become and stay healthy, wealthy, and wise."—Bart Kosko, Ph.D., author of Fuzzy Thinking

"Intelligent, witty, and informative."—Leon Cooper, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Booknews

Mahoney, a business figure and the nation's foremost layman involved in brain research, and Restak, a neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, show how to take advantage of the connection between the brain and the body to lead a longer, better life. They explain the importance of handling stress, lifelong mental activity, social connections, physical activity, and optimism in longevity, and present a life plan for achieving a sound mind and body, a social support system, and financial security. Includes a foreword by William Safire, columnist for the . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Overcoming the Legacy of Overeating: How to Change Your Negative Eating Patterns

Author: Nan Kathryn Fuchs

Examines the link between negative eating patterns and the bond between mother and daughter. Fuchs addresses the relationship between the emotional and physiological reasons for overeating, including biochemical components that may be responsible for depression and food cravings. This updated edition contains new information on genetic, metabolic, and environmental factors that can contribute to the cycle of overeating and offers meal plans and affirmations to combat it.

Nan Kathryn Fuchs, Ph.D., is the author of The Nutrition Detective.

	Foreword	ix
	Why a Nutritionist? And why this Nutritionist?	xi
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction	xix
Part 1	Generations of Pain	1
1.	From Mother to Child to Grandchild: How It Began and How It Can End	3
2.	First Things First: Affirmations, Visualization, Meditation, and Exercise	17
Part 2	In the Beginning--and the End--Was Food	33
3.	Food as Love	37
4.	Food as Attention and Approval	41
5.	Feeding Others as Camouflage	47
6.	Food Replaces Feelings	51
7.	Food as Reward or Punishment	57
8.	Food as Power Struggle	65
9.	Food: The Mother Who's Not There, or Never Was	71
Part 3	Emotional Answers to Emotional Problems	79
10.	Learning the Meaning of Hunger: The Solution to Eating Constantly	81
11.	Learning to Plan Ahead: The Solution to Procrastinating	89
12.	Learning a "Better Than" Approach: The Solution to Being a Perfectionist	97
13.	Learning to Pace Yourself: The Solution to Eating for the Past or Future	109
14.	Learning How to Make Choices: The Solution to Being Overdisciplined	117
15.	Finding Security Within Yourself: The Solution to Feeling Lonely or Abandoned	125
16.	Learning to Enjoy Yourself: The Solution to Being Bored	131
17.	Learning to Express Yourself: The Solution to Swallowing Anger and Other Emotions	137
Part 4	Physiological Answers to Physiological Problems	143
18.	Feeling Satisfied with Starches: The Amino-Acid Solution to Carbohydrate Bingeing	147
19.	Getting Unhooked from Sugar: Diets for Low Blood Sugar and Candida	161
20.	Overcoming Chocolate Cravings: The Magnesium Solution	181
21.	Eliminating Allergies and Food Sensitivities: The Rotation-Diet Solution to Food Cravings	189
22.	Alleviating Depression: Correcting Chemical Imbalances	199
Part 5	Your New Program	209
23.	Good Foods, Bad Foods	213
24.	How to Design Your Own Eating Plan	225
25.	How to Survive Holidays and Other Celebrations	233
26.	Supporting Yourself	247
27.	How Herbs and Nutritional Supplements Can Help	263
	Afterword	281
	Resources	285
	Index	297

The Amino Revolution or The Homocysteine Revolution

2009-02-19T12:43:00.000-08:00

The Amino Revolution: The Breakthrough Program That Will Change the Way You Feel

Author: Robert Erdmann

Clinical studies have shown that amino acids--the building blocks of protein--can, if taken as dietary supplements, strongly enhance an individual's overall well-being, as well as prevent specific ailments.

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The Homocysteine Revolution

Author: Kilmer S McCully

There is a revolution brewing in our understanding not only of heart disease, but of all the degenerative diseases of aging. The Harvard-trained physician and researcher behind one of the major medical and scientific breakthroughs of this century, Kilmer S. McCully, tells his story of medical discovery and, challenging the popular lipid theory of arteriosclerosis, explains why our vitamin B-depleted food supply may be the real culprit behind the epidemic of heart disease.

	Foreword
1	Medical Discovery	1
2	Understanding the Causes of Arteriosclerosis	26
3	Beyond Cholesterol: The Homocysteine Theory of Arteriosclerosis	57
4	Reaction, Resistance and Acceptance of the Homocysteine Theory	106
5	Homocysteine and Individual Risk	136
6	The Homocysteine Revolution: Medicine for the New Millennium	191
	Index	235

Diabetes Demystified or Heal Your Heart

2009-02-18T08:30:00.000-08:00

Diabetes Demystified

Author: Umesh Masharani

Your ESSENTIAL guide to UNDERSTANDING and MANAGING diabetes

If you or someone close to you has diabetes and you need to learn more about the disease, its complications, and its treatments, help is here. Diabetes Demystified explains the causes of diabetes, the differences between type 1 and type 2, and how diabetes can be effectively controlled.

Written by a doctor specializing in diabetes, this book helps you determine the best treatment plan for your needs and understand the different medications that are available. You'll find important information on day-to-day management, diet, nutrition, exercise, and weight loss. This helpful guide also includes specific recommendations for children, the elderly, and pregnant women with diabetes.

This easy-to-understand guide offers:

Advice for assembling a treatment team and support network
An overview of various diabetes medications
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 – What is Diabetes?
Chapter 2 – What Kind of Diabetes Do You Have?
Chapter 3 – What Causes Type 2Diabetes?
Chapter 4 - Diet for Diabetics
Chapter 5 – Exercise Guidelines for Diabetics.
Chapter 6 - Vitamins and Herbs for Diabetics
Chapter 7 – Drugs in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes. New versus Old
vChapter 8 – Insulin Therapy: New versus old types of Insulin
Chapter 9 – Insulin Pump
Chapter 10- What about Islet Cell Transplants?
Chapter 11– What should my Blood Glucose values be?
Chapter 12 – What is Hemoglobin A1c? What should be my target goal?
Chapter 13 – What is Low Blood Sugar and How to Treat it
Chapter 14 – What should my Blood Pressure be?
Chapter 15 – What should my Cholesterol be?
Chapter 17 – Gestational Diabetes
Chapter 18 Complications of Diabetes Heart disease
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Heal Your Heart: How You Can Prevent or Reverse Heart Disease

Author: K Lance Gould
Dr. Gould describes how the heart works and how cardiovascular disease develops and progresses. He introduces readers to new non-invasive medical imaging technologies such as cardiac PET that may potentially provide early diagnoses for people who may be at risk. Extensive scientific references at the end of the book document Dr. Gould's conclusions. Dr. Gould demonstrates how patients and physicians can work together to conquer one of the relentless causes of disability and death. He explains what questions to ask medical staff and how to manage your own reversal program including your doctors, whether specialists or general practitioners. He also advises which cholesterol-lowering medications are safe and effective and when they should be prescribed. This reversal program may replace surgical or catheter procedures for treating cardiovascular disease in most patients. In some specific cases, some people may also need balloon dilation or bypass surgery. Dr. Gould furnishes the criteria used to identify the minority of patients who need them. For this minority, Dr. Gould's reversal program in addition to surgical treatment will provide optimal outcome by dramatically lowering the further risk. For most people, this program produces a sense of well-being and reduces or eliminates symptoms.
Dr. Gould is a pioneer of cardiovascular medicine who discovered fundamental concepts about the pathophysiology of coronary artery stenosis. His ideas have been ten to fifteen years ahead of their time. They now comprise our current knowledge of the pressure flow dynamics of coronary artery setnoses. The breadth of Dr. Gould's knowledge is astonishing: from theoretical fluid dynamics and experimental coronary physiology to clinical pathophysiology, form positron emission imaging and quantitative coronary angiography to medical economics and office practice of reversing heart disease- each step is innovative, logical, and carefully validated, and crosses subspecialty boundaries. Lance Gould has had not one but several great ideas, and the intellect, courage, and tenacity to validate them from concept to clinical application. —Ward Casscells, M.D., UT-Houston Medical School and Hermann Hospital, and James T. Willerson, M.D., UT-Houston Medical School, and editor, Circulation
Library Journal
Here, two cardiologists analyze current treatment strategies for heart disease and offer prescriptions for improving heart health. In Heal Your Heart, an authority on coronary artery narrowing advocates early diagnosis to minimize risk, a very low-fat diet, moderate exercise, and the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Unfortunately, the many current references to the clinical literature with which Gould supports his regimen require considerable effort to locate and then interpret. His recommendation of reducing daily consumption of dietary fat to no more than ten percent of calories is significantly lower than what is currently recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Cholesterol Education Program. In addition, the text could have benefited from the inclusion of tables and illustrations more accessible to a general audience. Nevertheless, his book is a worthwhile selection because it provides the sophisticated lay reader with detailed information on how the heart functions and the cause and course of atherosclerosis (coronary artery narrowing) as well as a program for taking control of heart disease that can be modified to suit a wide variety of needs. Recommended for large consumer health collections. Living Longer with Heart Disease poses more questions than it ultimately answers. Authored by the director of the Noninvasive Heart Center, San Diego, it largely serves to question traditional medical practice and much of the current medical establishment, leaving the reader stuck in a maze of medical confusion. For example, Wayne's discussion of the "Cholesterol Myth" may well lead readers to conclude that taking a "statin" (a specific class of drug designed to lower cholesterol levels) may be medically unnecessary. While blaming the pharmaceutical industry's greed for spawning a deceptive mass-marketing campaign concerning the drug's benefits, Wayne fails to inform readers about current AHA guidelines for prescribing these drugs, which clearly state the medical necessity for such therapy as well as recommended dosages and adverse effects. Given Wayne's failure to provide consumers with clear and impartial answers to their medical questions, this book is not recommended.--Gail Hendler, New York Acad. of Medicine
What People Are Saying
Charles Schwab
Achieving financial success but ignoring your heart is not a good investment. Heal Your Heart provides the guidelines and due diligence for preventing or reversing heart disease. Be successful and healthy.

Kenneth Lay
Heart disease imposes great personal and financial costs on corporate America. The successful executive has learned to handle virtually any problem except the specter of a sudden heart attack that disrupts his life and his corporation. Heal your Heart describes in simple terms the scientific basis and guidelines for living a successful corporate life, staying healthy, and saving your heart. It fits the busiest, most stressful career. Every executive, his family, and his staff should read this book and heed its contents. (Dr. Kenneth Lay, Enron Corporation, chairman)

James H. Duke
Heart and vascular disease continue to be major killers, but such does not have to be the case. Heal your Heart tells how to prevent this unnecessary tragedy. Get a copy, read it, and make it a part of your healthy life. Then give a copy to your ten best friends. (James H. "Red" Duke, M.D.)

Charles Schwab
"Achieving financial success but ignoring your heart is not a good investment. Heal Your Heart provides the guidelines and due diligence for preventing or reversing heart disease. Be successful and healthy."
Charles Schwab

S. Ward Casscells
"Dr. Gould is a pioneer of cardiovascular medicine who discovered fundamental concepts about the pathophysiology of coronary artery stenosis. His ideas have been ten to fifteen years ahead of their time. They now comprise our current knowledge of the pressure flow dynamics of coronary artery setnoses. The breadth of Dr. Gould's knowledge is astonishing: from theoretical fluid dynamics and experimental coronary physiology to clinical pathophysiology, form positron emission imaging and quantitative coronary angiography to medical economics and office practice of reversing heart disease- each step is innovative, logical, and carefully validated, and crosses subspecialty boundaries. Lance Gould has had not one but several great ideas, and the intellect, courage, and tenacity to validate them from concept to clinical application."
Ward Casscells, M.D., UT-Houston Medical School and Hermann Hospital, and James T. Willerson, M.D., UT-Houston Medical School, and editor, Circulation

Kenneth Lay
"Heart disease imposes great personal and financial costs on corporate America. The successful executive has learned to handle virtually any problem except the specter of a sudden heart attack that disrupts his life and his corporation. Heal your Heart describes in simple terms the scientific basis and guidelines for living a successful corporate life, staying healthy, and saving your heart. It fits the busiest, most stressful career. Every executive, his family, and his staff should read this book and heed its contents."
Dr. Kenneth Lay, Enron Corporation, chairman

James H. Duke
"Heart and vascular disease continue to be major killers, but such does not have to be the case. Heal your Heart tells how to prevent this unnecessary tragedy. Get a copy, read it, and make it a part of your healthy life. Then give a copy to your ten best friends."
James H. "Red" Duke, M.D.

Cool Hip and Sober or Perimenopause 2d

2009-02-17T04:18:00.000-08:00

Cool, Hip, and Sober: 88 Ways to Beat Booze and Drugs

Author: Bill H Manvill

In a refreshingly clear-headed and informed approach to addiction, Bill Manville, noted writer and radio host of the popular talk show "Addictions and Answers," has compiled a list of 88 questions and answers from, "a ton of plain and fancy drunks and dopers" and their family and friends. Cool, Hip, and Sober offers valuable advice and information from his guests: noted psychiatrists, psychologists, rehab counselors, MDs, academics and more.
Here, in first-person detail, are responses to the issues faced by alcoholics, addicts, and their loved ones, such as:
* How can I stop for good today?
* How can I tell if someone I love will relapse?
* Alcholism . . . addiction . . . and sex
* Do interventions really work? And how do I set up one?
* How do I find the best rehab for me?
*The many faces of denial
* Is alcoholism inherited?
* And much, much more . . .

A brave, transformational look at the treatment of chemical dependency, Cool, Hip & Sober is a captivating, insightful and essential handbook for overcoming denial and achieving a peaceful, long-term recovery.

Library Journal

Manville, a California-based radio show host, journalist, and rehab clinic volunteer, drew 88 questions from his program and provides answers based on research, expert opinion, and his own experience as a long-term recovering addict. Readers are instructed to consult sections of the book that concern their stage of substance abuse, from ambivalence about its costs/benefits to the recovery phase, and the questions are colorfully labeled to address specific problems (e.g., tests for assessing whether one is an alcoholic and choosing a rehabilitation program). Heavily grounded in Alcoholics Anonymous theory and a belief in a broadly defined higher power, the book successfully straddles the polar views of alcoholism as a disease and as a character defect. It also concisely presents the latest medications and common techniques for dealing with related problems, but fundamentally it is intended as a tool of encouragement and inspiration; readers seeking more in-depth information may need to go beyond the few listed web sites. Though the information is basic, Manville's presentation is attention-getting, and his message is delivered in a heartfelt manner. Recommended for personal collections and specialized collections on addiction.-Antoinette Brinkman, M.L.S., Evansville, IN Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Interesting textbook: Secrets of Self Healing or Menopause SourceBook

Perimenopause 2d

Author: James E Huston

This newly revised second edition shows women how to manage the transition to menopause. This guide includes new information on heart disease, osteoporosis, breast cancer, birth control, and hormone replacement, as well as an expanded chapter on alternative health options. The authors have also thoroughly updated their extensive references and appendices, allowing quick access to specific information.

Diets in a Nutshell or Just Love Me

2009-02-16T00:06:00.000-08:00

Diets in a Nutshell: A Definitive Guide on Diets from A to Z

Author: Mary Josephine Scales

Dieters stymied by the mind-numbing array of weight-loss plans on the market will be able to compare and contrast more than 85 modern-day dietary programs—from the Abs Diet and the Zone Diet to the Cabbage Soup Diet and the Fat Flush system—with this straightforward guide. A detailed review of more than 60 of the most popular weight-loss and fat-burning programs on the market today forms the core of the directory that contains an overview for each diet and features a discussion of how it works, the pros and cons, and a summary of key findings. An examination of more than 15 dietary plans for specific medical conditions such as acid reflux, gluten intolerance, migraine headaches, and Type 2 diabetes is included along with a survey of five diets by health and government organizations such as the American Cancer Society and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

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Just Love Me: My Life Turned Upside-Down by Alzheimer's

Author: Jeanne L Le

Just Love Me reveals the thoughts and emotions of a woman struggling with a suddenly unmanageable life; numerous hospitalizations, suicide attempts, everyday turmoil, and finally, the arduous search for an accurate diagnosis of the illness responsible for it all: Alzheimer's disease (AD). This account is unique in that most books on the subject of Alzheimer's are written by a carepartner or medical professional. There are very few books actually written by a person living with the disease, and Just Love Me should be required reading for anyone who has any contact with a person afflicted with AD. This book is especially helpful for anyone related by birth, marriage, friendship, or those people who have a professional relationship with Alzheimer's sufferers. Jeanne Lee's very personal, frank description of her life experiences before, approaching, and during the early stages of AD enables readers to better understand the disease from the inside out; a view not often seen by non-sufferers. By getting inside the mind of the author and experiencing with her the worries and frustrations that constantly torment her, the symptoms of AD become less enigmatic for the reader.

NOPINESE TRADITIONAL HENOPAL MEDICINE or Faith Healers

2009-02-14T19:54:00.000-08:00

NOPINESE TRADITIONAL HENOPAL MEDICINE: DIAGNOSIS AND, Vol. 1

Author: Michael Tierra

This first volume focuses on the theory, principles, diagnostic methods and treatment modalities that are an essential part of the pract of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is intended to not only provide the background arid theoretical framework for the reader to understand the viewpoint from which TCM starts in its understanding of human health, but also gives the reader systematic insight and practical information to permit meaningful application of these principles.

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Faith Healers

Author: James Randi

In this book, James Randi, internationally known as a magician and investigator of claims of alleged paranormal abilities, has compiled a strong indictment of such charlatans. It is a story of deception and greed on the part of many "healers" and evidence of the gullibility and misplaced faith of their victims. Astonishingly clever tricks used by some of the subjects of this book are revealed for the first time, and these disclosures are supported by strong evidence gathered by Randi and a team of colleagues over four years of careful investigation.

The Faith-Healers lays bare the practices of leading televangelists--among them Peter Popoff, W. V. Grant, Pat Robertson, and Oral Roberts--and other so-called "healers." In this expose, Randi stands up for the millions of believers who continue to be victimized and makes a strong case for legal action to end the chicanery.

Toronto Sun

A fascinating look at a world of misplaced faith and blind trust that seems more appropriate to the Dark Ages than to the end of the 20th century.

School Library Journal

YA Are there people chosen by God to heal bodily ailments through the power of prayer alone? Randi's answer is ``maybe,'' but on the basis of his three-year investigation into faith heal ers, he hasn't found any evidence of it and suggests it may be nothing more than a religious con game. The author, a professional magician, has made it a sideline to expose fraud and miscon ceptions in the realm of the paranormal. Leading evangelists such as Oral Rob erts, Peter Popoff, W. V. Grant, Pat Robertson, and others are all shown to use tactics that are at best misleading, to guide the faithful into believing that they have been supernaturally cured by prayer alone. At worst, some of these men are shown to be cynical frauds preying on the desperation of the seri ously ill. The book is not tightly writ ten, but it can be read for enlighten ment. Karl Penny, Houston Pub . Lib .

Older Audults Health Information and the World Wide Web or Diet Step 20 20 Grams Minutes

2009-02-13T15:41:00.000-08:00

Older Audults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web

Author: Roger W Ed W Morrell

Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web focuses on how age-related changes in vision, cognitive function, and motor skills impact on the delivery and comprehension of Web-based health information, and how the Web may be a viable initial or supplementary source for the delivery of this critical information. Applying knowledge and theoretical frameworks from research in aging, cognition, and human factors design, the book proposes a set of guidelines that may be implemented in order to increase accessibility to health information by older adults and their caregivers on the Web. This book is intended for researchers in aging and cognition, human factors and aging, and health education. It is also appropriate for health care providers, web designers, and anyone who provides care for older adults.

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Diet-Step 20/20 Grams Minutes: For Women Only!: The Doctor's Easy 2-Step Quick Weight Loss and Fitness Plan

Author: Fred A Stutman

Step 1 -- The unique Diet-Step Plan features a quick weight loss program, utilizing an easy to follow healthy diet. This plan is based on Dr. Stutman's trademarked, secret weight-loss formula (20 Grams Fat/20 Grams Fiber) developed exclusively for women. There are no calories or grams of carbohydrates to count, no special menus to prepare and no yucky protein shakes to gag on. Weight loss is fast, safe, easy and permanent, without all of the health risks associated with low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets.

Step 2 -- The Fit-Step Plan features a 20-minute aerobic exercise-walking program combined with strength training exercises for complete cardiovascular fitness. This plan provides you with boundless energy while keeping you fit and trim, without strenuous back-breaking exercises. You will look younger, feel better and live longer. This plan will shape your body beautifully (tight abs/trim thighs/firm buns) as you build strong bones and muscles.

	Introduction	XI
Step 1	Diet Step
1.	20 Grams/20 Minutes: For Women Only!	3
2.	Quick Weight Loss: Secret Formula!	23
3.	Fearless Fiber: Health Powerhouse	47
4.	Fearsome Fat: Be Very Afraid!	69
5.	Diet Facts and Fallacies	97
6.	Fat & Fiber Counter	121
Step 2	Fit-Step
7.	Only 20 Minutes for Aerobic Fitness	159
8.	Want to Lose Weight Faster?	179
9.	Fitness, Fun and Flowers	195
10.	Look Younger! Live Longer!	215
11.	Yes, Women Are Different from Men!	233
12.	Trim-Step: Fit, Firm, Fabulous You!	261
	Index	285

The Gabriel Method or Bald

2009-02-12T11:29:00.000-08:00

The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary DIET-FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body

Author: Jon Gabriel

The pile of recent dieting books is growing faster than the average American's waistline. From the well-known programs that deprive and restrict to ones that rely on juice alone, it seems that everybody has an answer to the growing problem of obesity.

When Jon Gabriel's life took an unexpected turn, he suddenly was awakened to the marvelous gift that he had been given — the opportunity to live — and was disgusted at how he had treated his body. At over four hundred pounds, walking, sleeping, and working was a struggle against gravity, and his life was a constant battle between emotional and physical satiation. He was slowly killing himself with food.

Like the estimated 58 percent of Americans, and rising numbers in other countries, Jon was trapped in what he came to call the FAT - Famine and Temperature - trap. By studying biochemistry, Gabriel learned that your body has an internal logic that determines how fat or thin you will be at any given time. The way to lose weight is not to struggle or to force yourself to lose weight but to understand this internal logic and work with it so that your body wants to be thinner. When your body wants to be thinner, weight loss is inevitable and becomes automatic and effortless. You simply crave less food, you crave healthier foods, your metabolism speeds up and you become very efficient at burning fat, just like a naturally thin person. And that's the real transformation — to transform yourself into a naturally thin person, so that you can eat whatever you want whenever you want and still be thin, fit, and vibrantly healthy.

After reading The Gabriel Method, you will learn:

Your body has a reason whyit's holding on to weight—and it's not your fault.
Fat is a cushion—a protective barrier that our mind believes is helping to protect us.
If you can change that belief, you can change your body; Stop the cycle of crash dieting and start eating what you want, when you want it.
How to choose healthy, nutritious foods that nourish the cells in your body, not starve them.
Delicious shakes and smoothies, and super-power supplements, that can jump start your success.
The simple way you can train your mind and body to work with your goal of health, not against it.
Eliminate the emotional and mental reasons your body holds on to weight in just 10 minutes a day.

It certainly worked for Jon; he lost 225 pounds in two-and-a-half years, going from 409 pounds to 184, without suffering, dieting, or anguishing over his body. Unlike most people who lose an extensive amount of weight, his skin tightened up and now is indistinguishable from that of a person who has been healthy his whole life.

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Bald!: From Hairless Heroes to Comic Combovers

Author: Kevin Baldwin

It’s the perfect antidote to Bloomsbury’s hit hair trilogy, Bad Hair, Big Hair, and The Mullet: Kevin Baldwin’s comprehensive book on the history and nature of baldness.

Bald! takes us into the world of those whose heads are covered by more air than hair. Entertaining but also extensively researched, Bald! examines the cultural and sociological history of baldness—its varied significance (from wisdom to impending misfortune), the oddball theories on its cause (from too much cycling to excessive sex), and its outrageous “cures” (from rubbing the scalp with bat milk to the more extreme measure of castration). Baldwin goes on to tackle the finer points of drugs, plugs, snake-oil miracle cures, the pluses and perils of rugs and combovers, and psychological tricks for overcoming the stigma. Complete with a hairless history of the world and notes on shining contemporary examples, from Julius Caesar to Michael Jordan, Bald! is a fantastic tour through a subject that’s anything but barren.

The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley

… an amusing and fairly encyclopedic inquiry into the universe of bald … it's dead on target.

	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	The Causes of Calvities	5
Chapter 2	Cures for Coots	31
Interlude I	'I'm not bald...'	53
Chapter 3	Drugs, Plugs...	54
Chapter 4	...and Rugs	65
Interlude II	Proverbs for Pilgarlics	80
Chapter 5	Combovers and Other Covers	82
Chapter 6	Getting Scalped	93
Interlude III	'Oi, Spamhead!'	101
Chapter 7	The Significance of Slapheadedness	104
Chapter 8	10 Disadvantages of Depilation	119
Interlude IV	Slapping Back	131
Chapter 9	40 Advantages of Alopecia	134
Interlude V	'As bald as...'	151
Chapter 10	A Hairless History of the World	153
Chapter 11	Shining Examples	166
Interlude VI	Bald Eagles and Hairless Mexicans	191
Chapter 12	Bald? Join the Club	195
Interlude VII	Places to Baldly Go...	202
Chapter 13	The Last Strands	205
	Acknowledgements	213

Living Longer Depression Free or The Mitzvah of Healing

2009-02-11T07:17:00.000-08:00

Living Longer Depression Free: A Family Guide to Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Depression in Later Life

Author: Mark D Miller

Depression affects people of all ages, but is both more common and more serious for those over sixty. As many as half of all nursing home residents have depression, as do up to 40 percent of those who visit primary care clinics. Late-life depression is a disease with unique risk factors. Health problems, physical limitations, the loss of loved ones, and fears about financial issues all contribute to an increased incidence of depression, which, despite its prevalence, is not a normal part of the aging process. It can intensify existing medical conditions such as chronic pain and is far more likely to lead to suicide than does depression in younger people. There is good news, however: 80 percent of older people who receive treatment for depression make a complete recovery and enjoy fulfilling lives.

In Living Longer Depression Free, Mark D. Miller, M.D., and Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D., draw on their considerable experience in geriatric psychiatry to help elderly persons, their families, and their physicians accurately diagnose and treat late-life depression. This comprehensive, up-to-date guide begins with a discussion of the different types of depression, their causes, and symptoms. The authors then describe how doctors evaluate depression; present the treatment options available to patients today, including psychotherapy, medication, and alternative treatments; and offer strategies for achieving long-term mental health. Each chapter opens with a list of frequently asked questions and uses case studies to personalize the information provided, and the book closes with a useful list of resources for further information, including hotlines and websites.

Compassionateand accessible, Living Longer Depression Free is an invaluable guide for older people and their families striving to overcome this debilitating disease and prevent its recurrence.

Library Journal

Both geriatric psychiatrists at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Miller and Reynolds here share their 20-plus years' experience of working with older people suffering from depression. As the authors remind readers, the incidence of depression significantly rises with age, and suicide, highly associated with depression, is five times more common in later life. This important, thorough work covers the various forms of and medical reasons for depression and how it's related to Alzheimer's and other diseases; reviews how to evaluate and treat depression, including medication and psychotherapy; and presents numerous strategies for staying free of depression for the long term. The helpful appendix contains hotline numbers of organizations that focus on depression and URLs related to depression and late-life issues. Though several works for health professionals contain similar information, this is the first book to address lay readers. Strongly recommended.-Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

Miller and Reynolds (both: psychiatry, U. of Pittsburgh) offer non-professionals a framework within which to understand depression in later life. Though the incidence of depression among seniors is high and growing, they say it is highly treatable, with full recovery in over 80% of elders who receive adequate treatment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Foreword
	Preface
I	Understanding Late-Life Depression
1	Recognizing Depression	3
2	The Many Forms of Depression	19
3	Medical Reasons for Depression in Later Life	34
4	Psychological and Social Reasons for Depression in Later Life	53
II	Evaluating and Treating Depression
5	Getting Help for Depression: Where to Go, What to Expect	67
6	Talking Therapy for Late-Life Depression	82
7	What Modern Medicine Can Offer for Late-Life Depression	97
8	Complementary or Alternative Treatments Used for Mental Health	116
III	Staying Free of Depression for the Long Term
9	Strategies for Living Depression Free for the Long Term	135
10	Future Research	154
	Appendix	159
	References	167
	Index	179

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The Mitzvah of Healing: An Anthology of Jewish Texts, Meditations, Essays, Personal Stories, and Rituals

Author: Hara E Person

In The Mitzvah of Healing, readers are able to explore every facet of Jewish healing, from historical perspectives to personal stories, traditional texts to modern meditations and rituals. In this valuable collection, which originated with the women's affiliate of the Reform Movement, numerous difficult questions are addressed concerning the healing of body, mind and soul. The thoughts, prayers and experiences of Debbie Friedman, Rabbi Nancy Flum, Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, Debbie Perlman and more contribute to this important collection of essays. Individuals, families and communities will be enriched, inspired and assisted on their paths of healing with this indispensable resource and guidebook.

Okay so I Dont Have a Headache or Body for Life

2009-02-10T03:04:00.000-08:00

Okay, So I Don't Have a Headache: What I Learned (and What All Women Need to Know) about PMS, Hormones, Stress, Diet, Menopause--And Sex

Author: Cristina Ferrar

Christina Ferrare shocked the country-and herself!-when she revealed something very personal on her live talk show, Home and Family-that over the last few years she had experienced a lack of sexual desire. Her relevation prompted appearances on Oprah and Dateline NBC, and she began to hear from hundreds of women who described their own experiences and were glad to know that they were not alone.

Based on information from her own doctors and other medical experts and authoritative sources, Okay, So I Don't Have a Headache helps women understand their own bodies and begin to find answers for themselves. Ferrare talks about nutrition, stress, and sexual desire, dealing with the symptoms of menopause and PMS, and how diet, exercise, and relaxation rituals work to keep the body in balance. The book also includes Ferrare's own recipes designed to help out-of-whack hormones.

What People Are Saying

Judith Reichman
Cristina Ferrare has opened a Pandora's box and exposed our shared secrets: we're not perfect, we get PMS, we gain weight, and yes, we even lose the desire to make love to our partners. Her personal odyssey and discovery will help women stop looking for excuses and begin to take charge.

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Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength

Author: Bill Phillips

Step into any gym in America, mention the name Bill Phillips, and watch the faces light up with recognition and respect.

These include:

Hundreds of thousands of men and women who turn to Phillips's monthly magazine, Muscle Media, for guidance and straight-forward information about exercise, nutrition, and living with strength.

Professional and amateur athletes--among them John Elway, Karl Malone, and Mike Piazza--and celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone, who have relied on Phillips' clear-cut information to enhance their energy and performance.

People once plagued by obesity, alcoholism, and even life-threatening ailments who accepted a personal challenge from Phillips and, with his help, turned their bodies and their lives around.

Body-for-LIFE is much more than a book on physical fitness, it's also an inspiring true story of one man's journey through life and the lives he's touched--a journey that began with a dream of helping one million people rebuild their bodies and has evolved into the challenge of a lifetime, a quest to help people from all walks of life search for, and discover, the hero inside each and every one of us.

Step-by-step, in language that is vivid and down-to-earth, Phillips maps out a guaranteed recipe for success.

This is not a vague, pie-in-the-sky "motivational" book. Neither is it a dense, technical manual about anatomy and physiology. In these pages, you will learn:

How to develop the mind-set to cross the abyss between knowledge and action
How to create not only more time but more energy in your day
How to lose fat and gain muscle by eating more, not less
How to trade hours of aerobics for minutes of weight training--with dramatic results
How thousands of ordinary people have become extraordinary role models and how you can too

The principles of the Body-for-LIFE program are profoundly simple, but remarkably powerful. So pull out your calendar, mark 12 weeks from today, and allow yourself to experience the power of the information in this book. Then get ready to take your body, and your life, to a higher point than you may have ever dreamed possible.

Change Your Mind--Change Your Body--Change Your Life

Imagine, just 12 weeks from now, having the lean healthy body you've always wanted and not having to turn your life upside-down to get it.

Imagine having the energy to be at your peak from dawn to dusk, having the confidence to do all the things you've been putting off, having the certainty to make the right decision at the right time, knowing that you really do have the power to change--not just your body but anything in this world you set your mind to.

If this sounds unlikely, or even impossible, it's time you were introduced to Bill Phillips and his Body-for-LIFE program--it's time you join the legions of people who have reaped the benefits of his expert advice.

What People Are Saying

Hank Johnson
While going through Bill Phillips' program, the physical changes I experienced were just the 'tip of the iceberg' for the changes in my mind-set. It empowered me and opened my eyes to the possibilities of change in all areas of my life.
— (Hank Johnson, Age 39 NASA Space Shuttle Engineer; Cape Canaveral, Florida)

John Elway
I admire Bill Phillips because he believes so much in what he's doing, and he's helped so many people, including me. The time I've spent with Bill over the last couple years has been tremendous for me. I feel better mentally and physically. I believe the more his message gets out, the better off everybody's going to be.
— (John Elway, Two-Time NFL World Champion)

Fred and Renee Scurti
When we discovered Bill Phillips, we realized we had been confronted with a simple decision, 'Change our lives or dig our own grave with a fork and knife.' After a few weeks on the program, our bodies were changing, but more than that, our relationship, our lives were changing.
— (Fred and Renee Scurti, ages 38 and 35, Sales Manager and Homemaker; Parker, Colorado)

Russell Simpson
After completing the 12-week program, I not only achieved my physical goals, I rediscovered passion in my life. This became the primary driving force behind my success. I've become the person I've always wanted to be.
— (Russell Simpson, M.D., age 47 Physician; Huntsville, Alabama)

Christy Hammons
When I first read about Bill's program, I felt a sense of hope I hadn't felt before. I was inspired to take the first crucial step--I decided to change. Within weeks, I felt better, I looked better, and people started to notice. After 12 weeks, I lost 30 pounds, 3 inches off my waist, 4 inches off my hips, and dropped 3 sizes. My life couldn't be better. I'm not settling for mediocrity ever again.
— (Christy Hammons, Age 24 Accountant; Lexington, Kentucky)

Ergonomics for Children or Echinacea

2009-02-08T22:52:00.000-08:00

Ergonomics for Children: Designing Products and Places for Toddlers to Teens

Author: Rani Lueder

Providing guidance on a broad range of issues for young children and adolescents, Ergonomics for Children: Designing Products and Places for Toddlers to Teens give you a deep understanding of how children develop and how these developmental changes can influence the design of products and places for children. Copiously illustrated with photos and other images, the book helps you quickly find answers to your questions, grasp concepts, and apply them. Its subsections are organized to help you locate and understand the content you need. Edited by experts with contributions from an international panel, the book is both broad in coverage and international in perspective. The contributors review the ways in which children develop physically, perceptually, cognitively, and socially and then use this information to provide practical guidelines for the design of places and products for children.

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Echinacea: The Genus Echinacea

Author: He CI Yu

Echinacea has emerged from the realm of folklore medicine and into the territory of valued and potentially fundamental therapy. While an understanding of the promising medicinal applications of Echinacea is important, knowledge of the herb's chemistry, cultivation, and analytical profiles is equally as significant. Echinacea: The genus Echinacea examines every element of the popular herb. Several chapters in this volume deal with the taxonomy, genetics, international culture methods, and chemistry of Echinacea, while other sections focus on the analytical evaluation of the various plant parts, such as the roots, stems, leaves, and flowers. The text explains how the plant is cultivated and describes the locations where it is most abundant. It presents different species of Echinacea that are medically important, and then identifies the chemically active ingredients that give Echinacea its strong pharmaceutical and therapeutic value. The book also includes a discussion of proper medicinal and veterinary uses, as well as guidance on when this remedy should not be used. With comprehensive analysis of this popular herb, this timely book bridges the gap between the abundant molecular cataloguings of the phytochemicals present in genus Echinacea, and the functional potential of this plant. It will be a valuable resource for anyone involved in the fields of plant science, natural products chemistry, medicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and naturopathy.

American Medicinal Plants or Aerobic Walking The Weight Loss Exercise

2009-02-07T18:41:00.000-08:00

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.)

	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

Lisas Story or Can Homosexuality Be Healed

2009-02-06T08:23:00.000-08:00

Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe

Author: Tom Batiuk

Tom Batiuk spent several years as a middle school art techer before creating the comic strip Funky Winkerbean in 1972. Originally a "gag-a-day" comic that portrayed life in high school, Funky has evolved into a mature series of real-life stories examining such social issues as teen dating abuse, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, violence in schools, the war in the Middle East, alcoholism, divorce, and cancer.

Batiuk, unsure about dealing with the serious subject of cancer on the funny pages, decided to go ahead with the story line. He approached the topic with the idea that mixing humor with serious and real themes heightens the reader's interest. Lisa and husband Les faced the same physical, psychological, and social issues as anyone else dealing with the disease.

Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe is part of the Literature & Medicine Series published by Kent State University Press. Additionally, it contains resource material on breast cancer, including early detection, informtion sources, support systems, and health care.

Publishers Weekly

Batiuk, creator of the long-lasting Funky Winkerbean comic strip, subjects one of his supporting characters to cancer in this collection of "very special" strips. Lisa and her husband, Les, have a pretty good life in their hometown, until Lisa discovers a lump in her breast. She beats back the cancer once, but when it recurs after remission, she has to prepare for the worst. In the meantime, the son she gave up for adoption eighteen years before finally decides it's time to locate his birth mother. While Batiuk's attempt to take on a difficult, life-changing event should be applauded, trying it in the context of a gag-a-day newspaper strip may not have been the best choice. Batiuk works hard to tell a realistic, engaging story of a woman facing one of life's trials, but the relentless demands of a daily strip-and occasional mugging by the characters-cramps his pacing, forcing him to prolong some vignettes, cut short moments that could have used more room to breathe, and pause every few panels for, if not a joke, then something with a jokelike appearance. Artwise, Batiuk's simplified realism has a good sense of detail in the later strips. (Oct.)

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Can Homosexuality Be Healed?

Author: Francis Macnutt

Too often, especially in the church, the subject of homosexuality causes deep misunderstanding and painful rifts. Is it really possible to believe that homosexuals did not choose that lifestyle, and yet maintain biblically that the behavior is sinful? Yes, says author Francis MacNutt, and the prayerful result leads to a new possibility: Jesus Christ can transform the homosexual's orient-ation so that he or she can actually become heterosexual.

The striking clarity and practicality of this book will guide the compassionate reader who feels intuitively (and biblically) that homosexuality is wrong but fears being labeled ignorant or "homophobic." And homosexuals who want to change will find that specific prayer brings extraordinary results.

Spinal Cord Injury and the Family or Mama Sutra

2009-02-05T04:11:00.000-08:00

Spinal Cord Injury and the Family: A New Guide

Author: Michelle Alpert

Spinal cord injury, or SCI, is frequently sudden and unexpected—through accident, disease, or violence, patients temporarily lose control of their bodies and, it seems, their lives. With rehabilitation, they can learn to navigate their world once more, retraining muscles and mind to compensate for paralyzed limbs and diminished strength. But as Dr. Michelle Alpert shows here, there is far more to recapturing full, independent lives than regaining movement. Central to long-term success is mending the family unit.

Combining Dr. Alpert’s clinical experience with patients’ own stories, Spinal Cord Injury and the Family is for individuals and their families who must climb back from injury: for the young quad couple, both quadriplegic, who wish to conceive and raise a child; for the paraplegic dad who wants to teach his daughter to drive; for the couple wondering how they can regain the sexual spark in their relationship.

The authors cover the causes of and prognosis for SCI through case studies, review common courses of rehabilitation, and answer the “what now?” questions—from daily routines to larger issues concerning sex, education and employment, childbearing, and parenting with SCI. Rich in clinical information and practical advice, the book shows how real patients and their families are living full lives after spinal cord injury.

Janet M. Schneider - Library Journal

In 2006, it was estimated that approximately 11,000 Americans sustained traumatic spinal-cord injuries (SCI) each year; that number is much higher now with injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Physiatrist Alpert (associate medical director, Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hosp.) has compiled a timely and basic guide for SCI patients and their families, covering a multitude of important issues from basic spine anatomy, how injuries occur, and the impact of the injury's location to the first days after an injury, the emotional turmoil of the patient and family, and adjusting to work or school. Relationship issues, including dating, sex, fertility and pregnancy, and parenting, are painted in reassuring terms. Children with spinal cord injuries garner a separate chapter, as do the medical complications and challenges of SCI. This excellent overview with an emphasis on the physical effects of SCI will be invaluable to a growing, currently underserved audience. Highly recommended.

Book about: Essentials of Terrorism or Unholy Trinity

Mama Sutra

Author: Karen Salmansohn

Here's just the thing for women who want to remain stylish and sexy when they're pregnant. This witty, informative Mega Mini Kit™ includes a belly chain with two colored chakra stones to help pregnant women feel sensual and centered-along with a 32 page book full of information on how a good diet, exercise, and a healthy dose of pampering and sex will ensure a sexy, passionate pregnancy.

Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby or America Exhausted

2009-02-04T00:00:00.000-08:00

Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby: Everything You Need to Know about Conception, Pregnancy, and Parenthood

Author: Judy Graham

An essential resource for anyone with MS who is considering having a child.

• Firsthand advice from a woman with multiple sclerosis who has successfully borne and raised a child.

• Contains information that can change the lives of many of the 250,000 women in the United States suffering from MS.

• Highly readable format puts the facts at your fingertips.

Diagnosed with MS at twenty-eight, author Judy Graham gave birth for the first time at the age of thirty-eight. Her new book Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby provides other women who are considering starting a family with the kind of genuine and useful insight that comes only from firsthand experience. Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby makes available not only the medical answers prospective parents need, but also the practical suggestions and sound advice that will help them meet the many unique and sometimes difficult challenges that face couples living with MS.

In this highly informative and readable book, Graham asks and provides answers for nearly every question a woman with multiple sclerosis might want to consider before having a baby. With the latest medical facts and valuable data culled from hundreds of interviews with women who have multiple sclerosis and are currently raising a child, Graham straightforwardly addresses such issues as the possibility of relapse, genetic predisposition to MS, sexuality and fertility, pregnancy, postnatal care, and breastfeeding as they relate to women with MS.

America Exhausted: Breakthrough Treatments of Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

Author: Edward J Conley

Dr. Conley explains how stress, diet, vitamins, antibiotics, and chemicals are contributing to the epidemic of fatigue and Fibromyalgia in the United States. More important, he shares in an easy-to-understand language, cutting edge therapies he has used to energize Olympic athletes. This dynamic treatment program will enable millions of Americans to regain their energy, vitality, and zest for life.

100 Questions and Answers about Plastic Surgery or Conquering Childhood Obesity For Dummies

2009-02-02T19:48:00.000-08:00

100 Questions and Answers about Plastic Surgery

Author: Diane Gerber

Within this one-of-a-kind guide for consumers, the authors address many of the key issues concerning plastic surgery. From patient concerns, to provider's responsibilities, to the often-overlooked topic of reconstructive surgery. This innovative guide is certain to educate and aid people in making key decisions.

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Conquering Childhood Obesity For Dummies

Author: Kimberly A Tessmer RD LD

Features fun, kid-friendly activities to get them moving

A positive and safe plan for lifetime weight management

Concerned about your child's weight? This practical guide provides effective strategies for improving nutrition, increasing physical activity, and dealing with weight issues at home and in the classroom. You'll see how to change your family's lifestyle, help your child make healthier choices (and stick to them!), and foster a lifetime commitment to health and fitness.

Discover how to
* Introduce good eating habits
* Keep your family fit and active
* Prepare healthier meals
* Maintain your child's weight loss
* Find outside professional support
* Fix over 30 tasty recipes

Health 20 or Miladys Standard Cosmetology

2009-02-01T15:36:00.000-08:00

Health 20: Tap Into the Healing Powers of Water to Fight Disease, Look Younger, and Feel Your Best

Author: Alexa Fleckenstein

Doctor-tested, Mother Nature–approved: The complete healthy user’s guide to H2O

Stop spending a fortune on spas and beautyproducts! Ordinary tap water can improveyour skin, tone your body, and safely treat a widerange of medical problems. Dr. Alexa Fleckenstein’s all-in-one system features hundreds of patient-provenways to reduce your stress, lower blood pressure, relieveinflammation, fight disease, and treat everything fromacne to insomnia. This innovative book even shows you how to turn a bathroom into a hydrotherapy spa.

Alexa Fleckenstein, M.D., is an integrative physician with a successful private practice in Boston, Massachusetts.

Roanne Weisman is the author of Own Your Health: Choosing the Best from Alternative and Conventional Medicine. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Milady's Standard Cosmetology

Author: Milady

For decades the primary reference for cosmetology licensure, Milady's Standard Textbook of Cosmetology has undergone the most thorough transformation in its history with this new edition. Milady has totally revamped the organization and contents to bring the Standard into the new century. In its contents and art, both of which are new to this edition, the book reflects the changes in salon and spa treatments, procedures, and products. New chapters such as "Life Skills" by Arlene Alpert and "Communicating for Success" by Catherine Frangie start students on the right path, stressing the soft skills that professionals know is the key to success. NAHA award-winner Mary Brunetti also wrote the chapters "Shampooing, Rinsing, and Conditioning" and "Hair Styling." Ruth Roche, another NAHA-award winner, has created a totally new "Haircutting" chapter, complete with step-by-step technicals on the core cuts. The look of the text mirrors the changes in content, with its open feel, contemporary design, and high-quality photography. Having been developed after extensive analysis by educational design experts, the textbook exhibits the most sophisticated methods for relaying information, stimulating thought, aiding comprehension, and enhancing retention. Central to the book's development was the knowledge that learners need to keep engaged through a visual, inviting display when they turn each page, and that steered the direction of the text design and art program.

Part 1	Orientation
1	Cosmetology: The History and Opportunities	3
2	Life Skills	21
3	Your Professional Image	45
4	Communicating for Success	67
Part 2	Cosmetology Sciences
5	Infection Control: Principles and Practice	93
6	Anatomy and Physiology	129
7	Basics of Chemistry and Electricity	167
Part 3	Hair Care
8	Properties of the Hair and Scalp	201
9	Principles of Hair Design	227
10	Shampooing, Rinsing, and Conditioning	255
11	Haircutting	281
12	Hairstyling	347
13	Braiding and Braid Extensions	423
14	Wigs and Hair Enhancements	457
15	Chemical Texture Services	485
16	Haircoloring	545
Part 4	Skin Care
17	Histology of the Skin	605
18	Hair Removal	631
19	Facials	653
20	Facial Makeup	695
Part 5	Nail Care
21	Nail Structure and Growth	737
22	Manicuring and Pedicuring	757
23	Advanced Nail Techniques	795
Part 6	The Business of Cosmetology
24	The Salon Business	827
25	Seeking Employment	855
26	On the Job	889
	Closing	911
Appendix A	Resources	915
Appendix B	Professional Organizations	919
	Glossary/Index	921
	Preface
	The Industry Standard	xii
	Features of This Edition	xiii
	New Organization and Chapters	xiv
	Elements New to this Edition	xvi
	Other Elements	xviii
	Fresh New Design	xix
	Fresh New Art	xx
	Extensive Learning/Teaching Package	xxi
	Contributing Authors	xxvi
	Acknowledgments	xxxiii
	Photo Credits	xxxv
Part 1	Orientation
1	Cosmetology: The History and Opportunities
	Reaching Your Goals	6
	Early History	7
	The Twentieth Century	9
	Career Opportunities	12
	A Bright Future Ahead	17
2	Life Skills
	The Psychology of Success	24
	Motivation and Self-Management	26
	Managing Your Career	29
	Goal Setting	30
	Time Management	31
	Study Skills	33
	Ethics	35
	Personality Development and Attitude	37
	Human Relations	40
3	Your Professional Image
	Beauty and Wellness	48
	Healthy Mind and Body	53
	Your Physical Presentation	58
	Imagine This	63
4	Communicating for Success
	Communication Basics	69
	The Client Consultation	72
	Special Issues in Communication	81
	In-Salon Communication	84
Part 2	Cosmetology Sciences
5	Infection Control: Principles and Practice
	Bacteria	95
	Viruses	100
	How Pathogens Enter The Body	103
	Parasites	103
	Immunity	104
	Principles of Prevention	104
	Universal Precautions	118
	The Professional Image	120
6	Anatomy and Physiology
	Why Study Anatomy?	132
	Cells	133
	Tissues	134
	Organs	135
	Body Systems	135
	The Skeletal System	135
	The Muscular System	141
	The Nervous System	146
	The Circulatory System	150
	The Endocrine System	155
	The Digestive System	155
	The Excretory System	155
	The Respiratory System	156
	The Integumentary System	156
7	Basics of Chemistry and Electricity
	Chemistry	170
	Electricity	182
	Electrotherapy	186
	Light Therapy	189
	You Have The Power	193
Part 3	Hair Care
8	Properties of the Hair and Scalp
	Structure of The Hair	203
	The Chemical Composition of Hair	205
	Hair Analysis	209
	Hair Growth	212
	Hair Loss	216
	Disorders of The Hair	219
	Disorders of The Scalp	220
9	Principles of Hair Design
	Philosophy of Design	229
	Elements of Hair Design	230
	Principles of Hair Design	236
	Creating Harmony Between Hairstyle and Facial Structure	239
	Designing For Men	249
10	Shampooing, Rinsing, and Conditioning
	Understanding Shampoo	258
	Conditioners	263
	Brushing The Hair	265
	Scalp Massage	266
	The Shampoo Procedure	269
	General Hair and Scalp Treatments	276
11	Haircutting
	Basic Principles of Haircutting	283
	Client Consultation	290
	Tools, Body Position, and Safety	294
	Basic Haircuts	300
	Cutting Curly Hair	325
	Other Cutting Techniques	325
	Clippers, Edgers, and Trimmers	336
12	Hairstyling
	Client Consultation	350
	Wet Hairstyling Basics	351
	Finger Waving	351
	Pin Curls	358
	Roller Curls	365
	Comb-Out Techniques	369
	Hair Wrapping	373
	Blow-Dry Styling	373
	Styling Long Hair	379
	Thermal Hairstyling	387
	Thermal Hair Straightening (Hair Pressing)	409
13	Braiding and Braid Extensions
	Client Consultation	426
	Understanding The Basics	427
	Braiding The Hair	431
14	Wigs and Hair Enhancements
	The Consultation	460
	Wigs	462
	Hairpieces	473
	Hair Extensions	478
	Practice, Practice, Practice	481
15	Chemical Texture Services
	The Structure Of Hair	487
	The Client Consultation	490
	Permanent Waving	494
	Permanent Waving Procedures	507
	Chemical Hair Relaxers	525
	Chemical Hair Relaxing Procedures	529
	Soft Curl Permanents (Curl Re-Forming)	536
16	Haircoloring
	Why People Color Their Hair	547
	Color Theory	548
	Hair Facts	550
	The Level System	551
	Types Of Haircolor	553
	Consultation	559
	Haircolor Application Procedures	564
	Lightening Techniques	575
	Special Effects Haircoloring	580
	Special Problems In Haircolor/Corrective Coloring	589
	Salon Menu of Services	596
	Haircoloring Safety Precautions	596
Part 4	Skin Care
17	Histology of the Skin
	Anatomy of The Skin	607
	Disorders of The Skin	617
	Maintaining The Health of The Skin	623
18	Hair Removal
	Client Consultation	634
	Permanent Hair Removal	636
	Temporary Methods Of Hair Removal	636
19	Facials
	Basic Classification and Chemistry Of Skin Care Products	655
	Client Consultation	662
	Facial Massage	665
	Electrotherapy and Light Therapy	673
	Facial Treatments	676
	Aromatherapy	689
	Face Value	690
20	Facial Makeup
	Cosmetics For Facial Makeup	697
	Makeup Color Theory	706
	Client Consultation	711
	Corrective Makeup	719
	Artificial Eyelashes	728
	Safety Precautions	732
Part 5	Nail Care
21	Nail Structure and Growth
	The Nail	739
	Nail Growth	741
	Nail Fungus	747
	Nail Diseases	748
	Know Your Nails	752
22	Manicuring and Pedicuring
	Nail Care Tools	760
	The Manicure Table	766
	Client Consultation	766
	The Plain Manicure	772
	Other Types of Manicures	778
	Pedicures	781
	Safety Rules In Manicuring and Pedicuring	785
	A Valuable Service	790
23	Advanced Nail Techniques
	Preservice and Postservice Procedures	797
	Nail Tips	799
	Nail Wraps	803
	Acrylic Nails	808
	Gels	816
	Dipped Nails	820
	Safety Precautions	821
	Nail Art	821
	New Horizons	822
Part 6	The Business of Cosmetology
24	The Salon Business
	Going Into Business For Yourself	829
	Operating A Successful Salon	840
	Selling In The Salon	851
25	Seeking Employment
	Preparing for Licensure	858
	Preparing For Employment	862
	You Are On Your Way	882
	Doing It Right	885
26	On the Job
	Moving From School To Work	891
	Out In The Real World	892
	Managing Your Money	900
	Discover The Selling You	903
	On Your Way	909
	Closing	911
Appendix A	Resources	915
Appendix B	Professional Organizations	919
	Glossary/Index	921

Learning Disabilities or Active Start for Healthy Kids

2009-01-31T11:24:00.000-08:00

Learning Disabilities: A To Z: A Parent's Complete Guide To Learning Disabilities From Preschool To Adulthood

Author: Lisa Strick

Not an alphabetical list, but an all encompassing guide, this book offers answers for parents of children who harbor neurological impairments affecting visual preception, language processing, fine motor skills, and the ability to focus attention. Such conditions are estimated to affect 5 percent of the U.S. population. In addition to surveying types and causes of disabilities, readers can learn how to identify these problems and specifically address them in and out of the classroom. The last section is devoted to social and emotional growth and success.

Go to: Very Special Agents or Child of War Woman of Peace

Active Start for Healthy Kids: Activities, Exercises, and Nutritional Tips

Author: Stephen J Virgilio

When it comes to physical activity and proper nutrition, young children need more encouragement and structure than ever before-especially in a culture inundated by video games, television, and fast food. Active Start for Healthy Kids: Activities, Exercises, and Nutritional Tips contains a wealth of fun, easy-to-implement activities that are specifically designed to teach 2- to 6-year-old children important health concepts. With this book as your guide, you can reach children in their formative years and help them develop positive behaviors that will last a lifetime.

Dr. Stephen Virgilio has been a children's health expert for more than 25 years. In this book he provides a wealth of safe, inexpensive, and developmentally appropriate activities that parents, teachers, and caregivers can implement:
* More than 50 developmental exercises and activities for flexibility, muscular fitness, and cardiorespiratory endurance
* 20 fun family physical activities
* 16 motor skill activities
* 21 yoga poses and games
* 18 dance and rhythm activities
* The top 10 nutritional guidelines for parents and teachers
* Heart-healthy kids' recipes

Help children engage in exercise that will benefit them for years to come. Active Start for Healthy Kids: Activities, Exercises, and Nutritional Tips is the first step toward a fuller, longer, and better life for the next generation.

Noni Natures Amazing Healer or Mastering Your Diabetes

2009-01-30T07:12:00.000-08:00

Noni: Nature's Amazing Healer

Author: Neil Solomon

High blood pressure, cancer, arthritis, chronic pain—these are among the most widespread and debilitating diseases known to man. .

Mastering Your Diabetes: A Simple Plan for Taking Control of Your Health...and Your Life

Author: Janette Kirkham

Diabetes is a way of life, one that no one chooses but that some people are obligated to live nonetheless. Newly diagnosed people are required to follow all kinds of rules, change the way they've always lived, and struggle to retain their identity despite the new things that dictate the way they live. Mastering Your Diabetes is a "you can do it: here's how" book that helps people with diabetes adopt their new way of life with a sense of humor.

In this book, written by a diabetes health care professional who has also lived with diabetes for more than 25 years, readers gain valuable insight (and inspiration) from someone who understands.

	Preface	v
1	Congratulations, you have diabetes!	1
2	What's supposed to be happening that isn't?	4
3	What type of diabetes do I have or does that even matter?	9
4	If there's so much sugar in me, why don't I have any energy? (Short-term complications of high glucose levels)	17
5	Why should I check my blood sugar? I thought only people on insulin had to do that	24
6	What medications are used to treat diabetes?	36
7	If food is so essential, why am I on a diet?	48
8	I thought diabetes meant high blood sugar. Why should I worry about blood sugars going too low?	60
9	Exercise: your "rite" to good health	67
10	And what else is there ...? (General health care recommendations)	76
11	Am I sick because I'm high, or high because I'm sick?	87
12	I have to. I want to. I will! (The emotional side of diabetes)	99
13	If I don't feel sick, how can high blood sugars hurt me? (Long-term complications of diabetes)	105
14	Does this disease come with a guarantee?	113
15	What to do when you're tired of doing all you're doing	117
	Index	123

bOObs or Healing Foods For Dummies

2009-01-29T03:00:00.000-08:00

bOObs: A Guide to Your Girls

Author: Elisabeth Squires

Entertaining, informative, and the ultimate guide to all things breast, boobs takes the mystery out of breast health and awareness and tackles every topic imaginable, including...: Bra Buying: Do you know the best tips for the right fit? Breast Size: Wish your girls were bigger - or smaller? Health Care: Are you taking good care of your boobs? Breasts and Sex: What can your boobs do for you in the bedroom?

Blanche Angelo - Library Journal

If a protagonist from a Sophie Kinsella novel wanted to learn about mammograms, she'd consult this book while getting her lowlights done. Squires, author of the Books on Boobs web site discusses the health, sexuality, life stages, and cultural significance of the female breast with a breezy, best-girlfriend approach that might inspire readers to stand tall and throw their shoulders back. Sidebars provide breastcentric slang and factoids, with juicier tidbits dispensed in "Boob Flash!" text boxes. Squires also presents an annotated "boobography" and truly useful guidance on choosing a bra. The inclusion of women's compelling stories almost earns this guide the alternate title of The Breast Monologues. While Dr. Susan Love's Breast Bookand Miriam Stoppard's The Breast Bookmay offer more coverage and the underwire support of white-coat science, Boobsis the sassy push-up that will get the attention of a younger audience who really needs this information. Recommended for all public library health and young adult collections. [For more on breasts, see LJ's annual roundup in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, p. 160.-Ed.]

New interesting textbook: Design Mix or The Baby Cookbook

Healing Foods For Dummies

Author: Molly Siple MS RD

You must know by now—since you’ve heard it at least a million times since kindergarten—that eating too much junk food and other poor quality, empty-calorie foods, will make you look and feel lousy and ruin your health. And you also know that eating a balanced diet will help keep you healthy and looking good. But did you know that there are foods that actually heal? Harassed by hay fever? Try garlic or onions, or if you prefer something sweet, try papaya or pineapple. Bugged by dermatitis? Broccoli and kale can stop the itch, so can salmon and tuna. For earaches you might try ginger, walnuts, onions, or papaya. And chili peppers are great for relieving the symptoms of bronchitis.

The delicious way to better health, Healing Foods For Dummies puts the “treat” back in treatment. Packed with shopping tips, cooking tricks, and more than 60 scrumptious recipes, this bountiful guide shows you how to:

Harness the healing power of ordinary foods
Know which foods to avoid for specific problems
Help reduce the risk of cancer, stroke and heart attack
Relieve the symptoms of common ailments
Fight off fatigue and improve your mood
Get your family eating right

Guided by crack nutritionist and bestselling author of nutritional guides and award-winning cookbooks, Molly Siple, you’ll discover hundreds of healing foods and the vitamins, minerals and therapeutic phytochemicals they contain.

From alfalfa to zucchini, she describes an array of best nutritional remedies, and she supplies:

Easy-to-follow instructions on how to shop for healthy, good tasting foods
A SymptomGuide—simple and easy nutritional remedies for more than 80 common conditions, listed alphabetically by symptom
An A-to-Z guide to 100 healing foods available at your neighborhood supermarket
More than 60 recipes for easy-to-prepare healing appetizers, beverages, breads, breakfasts, condiments and seasonings, dairy foods, desserts, and more

This friendly, caring, and accessible introduction to the world of healing foods medicine is a fun, fact-filled resource for anyone looking for a safe, easy-to-use alternative, or supplement, to conventional medicine, and who looks forward to a long, healthy life.

Get Healthy Get Happy or Muybridges Human Figure in Motion

2009-01-27T22:48:00.000-08:00

Get Healthy, Get Happy

Author: Julie Isphording

The key is making small changes that add up to big results. Open to any page of Get Healthy, Get Happy and in a minute you'll be a step closer to a healthier, happier you.

Former Olympic marathoner Julie Isphording has compiled scores of tips that fit easily into your life, are simple to do, and lead to lasting, life-changing rewards. Start right now: Replace a soft drink with water during one meal per day, and you will drink thirty more gallons of water per year while cutting fifty thousand calories of carbonated sugar from your diet. Little change = big result. Julie offers quick-tip advice on diet, exercise, motivation, lifestyle, and many other subjects that add up to health and happiness. You'll also find pages you can write on to keep track of the changes you're making.

Other programs demand hours from your busy schedule. Julie asks for minutes per day. Resolutions to make huge, sweeping changes all at once are destined to fail in the long run because they're simply too tough to incorporate into the life you lead. Julie's system is simple, fast, and effective-an invaluable guide for busy people who need an approach tailored to their own personal needs, goals, and lifestyle. It's time for you to Get Healthy, Get Happy, and you now have the time to do it.

Muybridge's Human Figure in Motion (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series)

Author: Eadweard Muybridg

This remarkable collection features 166 black-and-white, stopped-action photographic sequences by the forefather of motion pictures. Men and women, mostly nude, perform a variety of motions — running, jumping, lifting, and more. Essential for artists, illustrators, and animators, these strips can be put to numerous imaginative uses. Includes 10 bonus Flash animations plus 15 photographic sequences that are ready to be animated.

The Thyroid SourceBook or Taoist Meditation

2009-01-26T18:37:00.000-08:00

The Thyroid SourceBook

Author: M Sara Rosenthal

The classic reference guide for living with thyroid disorder--now completely revised and updated

The New York Times called this book "an excellent source of information." The Thyroid Sourcebook features patient narratives; information on the complications of hypo- and hyperthyroidism, such as depression, weight gain, thyroid, eye disease, and sleep disorders; the latest on complimentary medicine; and much more.

M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D., is a thyroid cancer survivor, bioethicist, medical sociologist, and pioneer in consumer health writing. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, and is currently the director of the Program for Bioethics and patients’ rights at the University of Kentucky.

	Foreword
	Introduction to the Fourth Edition
Ch. 1	Meet Your Thyroid Gland	1
Ch. 2	Over and Under: Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism	21
Ch. 3	Autoimmune Disorders	45
Ch. 4	Thyroiditis: Inflammation of the Thyroid Gland	69
Ch. 5	Please Explain Thyroid Nodules	77
Ch. 6	When They Tell You It's Cancer	89
Ch. 7	Women and Thyroid Disorders	117
Ch. 8	Thyroid Disorders and Men	139
Ch. 9	When It's Your Child	149
Ch. 10	A Layperson's Guide to Doctors	165
Ch. 11	A Layperson's Guide to Radioactive Iodine	195
Ch. 12	Thyroid Medication	215
Ch. 13	I'm Cured - Now What?	243
	App: Where to Go for More Information	259
	Glossary	267
	Bibliography	275
	Index	283

Interesting book: Low Carb Barbecue Book or Drinkology Eats

Taoist Meditation

Author: Thomas F Cleary

The ancient meditation techniques of Taoism encompass a wide range of practices—with an aim toward cultivating a healthy body as well as an enlightened mind. These selections from classic texts of Taoist meditation represent the entire range of techniques—from sitting meditation practices to internal alchemy. Most of the texts appear here in English for the first time. Selections are taken from the following classics: Anthology on Cultivation of Realization: A document from 1739 (Ming Dynasty) that emphasizes development of the natural, social, and spiritual elements in human life. Treatise on Sitting Forgetting: A Tang Dynasty text that sets meditation practice in terms familiar to Confucians and Buddhists. Sayings of Taoist Master Danyang: Wisdom of the Taoist wizard and representative of the Complete Reality School. Secret Writings on the Mechanism of Nature: An anthology taken from one hundred sixty-three Taoist sources, including ancient classics and works on meditation and spiritual alchemy, along with admonitions and teachings of the great Taoist luminaries. Zhang Sanfeng's Taiji Alchemy Secrets: A treatise on the inner mediation practices that are the proper foundation of the martial art Taiji. Secret Records of Understanding the Way: A rare and remarkable collection of talks by an anonymous Taoist master of the later Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Traditional teachings with a sometimes strikingly modern bent.

Publishers Weekly

These five Taoist treatises, written from the 7th to the 19th century, offer Chinese sages' thoughts on meditation, "alternative" medicine, body energy, human nature, the martial arts and life and death ("Everyone likes life but not the path of long life. Everyone dislikes death but not the things conducive to death"). The first selection, "Anthology on the Cultivation of Realization," is a vivid assortment of reflections taking up nearly half the book's text; it is long but fascinating. The esoteric "Treatise on Sitting Forgetting" is also a jewel, closing with some fundamental principles of Taoist meditation ("Arrest thoughts as they arise, in order to make your mind peaceful and quiet"). (June) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

Helping Your Depressed Teenager or Foundations of Exercise Science

2009-01-25T14:25:00.000-08:00

Helping Your Depressed Teenager: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers

Author: Gerald D Oster

"The authors have produced a very readable, extremely well informed and comprehensive book that will add greatly to the knowledge base of interested parents. This book is strongly recommended." —Stewart Gable, MD Chairman, Department of Psychiatry The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado You supported and encouraged them as they grew from toddlers to teens. Now you are confronted with one of the toughest challenges you and they will ever face … teenage depression. Adolescence is a period of peaks and valleys. Most teens negotiate these years with relative ease; yet for some these times are treacherous with countless pitfalls. When depression ensues, it can interfere with much of your child’s potential. Clinical depression is now epidemic among American teens, and teen suicide can be a deadly consequence. Helping Your Depressed Teenager is a practical guide offering family solutions to a family problem. This book will sensitize you to the hidden struggles of adolescents and assist you in understanding their multifaceted problems. The authors are experts in this field and have helped countless youngsters confront and overcome their depressed mood. In a highly readable and gentle manner, they help you see behind the "masks" of troubled teens who attempt to hide their true feelings. They help you distinguish the subtle and sometimes not so subtle signs that something is seriously wrong. And they help you provide the loving support and assistance teenagers need to make it through this difficult life passage. Some of the useful information provided:

• What families can do to prevent teen depression
• How to tell thedifference between moodiness and depression
• How to read the warning signs of a troubled teenager
• How to know when professional help is needed and where to find it
• How to choose the right treatment options for your teen

1	On Becoming a Teenager	3
2	Today's Teenagers: Is There Something Wrong?	11
3	The Early Teen Years: Are They Truly a Wonder?	19
4	Graduation and Beyond	29
5	Understanding Clinical Depression	41
6	Is Your Teenager Depressed?	59
7	Teenage Suicide: A Not-So-Secret Killer	77
8	Suicide: Intervention and Prevention	87
9	The Family's Influence on Depression and Suicide	93
10	Evaluating the Depressed Teenager	111
11	Bringing Teenagers to Counseling	121
12	Seeking Counseling as a Family	129
13	The Use of Medication in Treating Teenage Depression	141
14	When Considering Hospitalization for Your Teenager	153
	Concluding Remarks	171
	Appendix: Organizations and Support Groups	173
	Selected Bibliography and Resources	177
	Index	181

Books about: In Search of Another Country or What Happened

Foundations of Exercise Science

Author: Gary Kamen

This entry-level text provides an overview of the human movement sciences, combining basic science principles with applications in exercise science. Features include complete references to other biological science fields such as biochemistry, biomedical engineering and exercise immunology. Chapter objectives and summaries ensure understanding of the information covered, and application boxes illustrate practical applications related to the material. Topics covered include physiology of exercise, sports medicine prevention and rehabilitation of injuries, biomechanics of human motion, the mind and brain in exercise, and more. Connection Website: connection.LWW.com/go/kamen.

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Reviewer:
Description: This is an introduction to the basic subdisciplines of exercise science. The book provides introductory information about exercise physiology, sports medicine, biomechanics, and motor behavior along with chapters on special topics such as nutrition, equipment design, and sport psychology.
Purpose: The authors seek to provide an overview of the scientific discipline of exercise science for undergraduate students from a variety of majors with the ultimate goal of stimulating interest in advanced study. Although the editors succeed in providing a useful compilation, which is very appropriate for an introductory course in exercise science, adoptability of the text outside the discipline seems improbable.
Audience: According to the editor, the book is written for all undergraduate students. The editor and authors are respected authorities in the various subdisciplines. The chapters are written for a broad audience and can be understood at the freshman level with no exercise science background.
Features: The authors do an excellent job of explaining the basics of exercise science to the nonscientist. In addition to summarizing some of the traditional topics, such training effects, Newton's laws, and visual tracking, the book also addresses several hot topics including the effects of the environment, exercise addiction, and clothing design. One unique feature is the use of a series of application boxes, short highlighted paragraphs about interesting topics such as delayed onset muscle soreness, guidelines for quick replenishment of fluid after exercise, and the psychology of warm-up. Topics that come up in daily conversation will likely increase the interest of the target audience. Each chapter is referenced and an impressive subject index allows the reader to find information regarding specific topics.
Assessment: This book is perfect for an introductory course in exercise science. However, exercise science programs that also serve students preparing for teaching careers will be better served by a book that introduces physical education in addition to exercise science (Wuest and Bucher, Foundations of Physical Education and Sport, 13th edition (Wm C. Brown Co

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Diccionario Naturista De La Salud de Consulta Rapida or Handbook of Vitamins

2009-01-24T10:11:00.000-08:00

A Guide to MySQL

Author: Victor Cruz Hernandez

The MySQL® database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability, and ease of use. That's why best-selling authors Phil Pratt and Mary Last are pleased to introduce their latest database textbook - A Guide to MySQL. This straightforward text utilizes three case databases - Premiere Products, Henry Books, and Alexamara Marina Group - to teach the concepts and techniques of using MySQL. Your students will gain the skills to build professional quality MySQL databases, thanks to this real-world approach. Additional hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter offer students the opportunity to problem-solve based on what they've previously learned.

GarageBand2: The Missing Manual

Author: Janos Zempleni

Whether you're a professional musician or a mere novice,Apple's GarageBand software has everything you need toproduce commercial-quality recordings entirely on your own. Just imagine how many thousands of singers andinstrumentalists remain undiscovered because they lack thecapability to produce viable demos. Well, no more.

Now there's no need to assemble a backup band or book timeat a professional studio—GarageBand has it covered. AndGarageBand 2: The Missing Manual gives you the know-how youneed to make it all happen. It's an authoritative, wittyguide to constructing digital recordings with GarageBand.

Written by the master of the Missing Manual series, and amusician himself, David Pogue, this top-selling book showsyou how to maximize the program's entire set of tools. Pre-recorded loops, sampled sounds, live recordings—they'reall explained in easy-to-understand language. It also showsyou how to apply professional-sounding effects like reverbor chorusing, and then export the finished product toiTunes, where you can download your work to an iPod, exportit as an MP3, or burn it onto CDs.

Now revised to reflect GarageBand's latest features, thisbook's second edition also addresses how to:use GarageBand's eight-track capabilitiesdisplay music notation in real timeenhance timing and pitch for better quality recordingschange the tempo and key of recorded instrumentstune guitars with GarageBand before recording

So if you're chasing a dream or just having fun, GarageBand2: The Missing Manual is the only resource you need to makethe finest musical recordings possible.

Ch. 1	Setting up the Garage	11
Ch. 2	Loops	29
Ch. 3	Regions	49
Ch. 4	Software instruments (MIDI)	69
Ch. 5	Editing software instrument parts	89
Ch. 6	Recording and editing live audio	109
Ch. 7	Effects, guitar amps, and instrument modules	125
Ch. 8	Mixing and publishing	145
Ch. 9	Adding on, moving up	171
Ch. 10	The speed chapter	197
Ch. 11	Troubleshooting	209
App. A	The GarageBand music crash course	221
App. B	GarageBand, menu by menu	229
App. C	GarageBand 2 keyboard shortcuts	241

My Name Is Chellis and Im in Recovery from Western Civilization or Voices from Fatherhood

2009-01-23T05:59:00.000-08:00

My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization

Author: Chellis Glendinning

What is the relationship between addiction and the ecological crisis? How can we use the lessons of individual recovery to address our collective need to heal society and the Earth? Chellis Glendinning goes beyond the personal to the very heart of Western civilization to answer these questions, and she shows how we can use trauma recovery and deep ecology, along with the wisdom of native cultures, to reclaim our innate wholeness.

New interesting textbook: Führung für das Einundzwanzigste Jahrhundert

Voices from Fatherhood: Fathers Sons and ADHD

Author: Patrick J Kilcarr

This is a book written especially for fathers who have sons with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and don't know how to interact with them. Voices from Fatherhood is unique in focusing on fathers' concerns in parenting their ADHD sons. It offers fathers support and encouragement and specific management techniques. In summary, this is a book that everyone-fathers, mothers, educators, and mental health professionals-will find useful in helping to understand the dynamics of modern day father-son relationships.

Maximize Your Body Potential or Chinese Massage for Infants and Children

2009-01-22T01:47:00.000-08:00

Maximize Your Body Potential: Lifetime Skills for Successful Weight Management

Author: Joyce D Nash

Maximize Your Body Potential helps readers create a personalized approach to lifetime weight management. Providing illustrations, charts, tables, self-tests and checklists, this book shows how to make a commitment, set realistic goals, and design an individualized exercise and eating program. This book is the winner of the American Medical Writers Association Award.

Go to: Keep It Seasonal or Rosalind Creasys Recipes from the Garden

Chinese Massage for Infants and Children: Traditional Techniques for Alleviating Colic, Teething Pain, Earache, and Other Common Childhood Con

Author: Kyle Clin

A leading practitioner of Chinese medicine provides a parents' handbook of simple massage plans that can alleviate most common childhood ailments.

• Effective for colic, bedwetting, asthma, colds, coughs, chicken pox, teething, earache, and other conditions.

• Easy-to-use workbook format with 22 illustrated massage plans and step-by-step instruction allows parents to become active caregivers for their children.

For over one thousand years the Chinese have brought comfort, relief, and well-being to their children through a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, system of massage. Now Kyle Cline, a Licensed Massage Therapist trained at Shanghai's prestigious College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, teaches Western parents how to become active caregivers for their children by using Chinese massage techniques to alleviate childhood ailments from the simple (colds, coughs, chicken pox) to the chronic (colic, bedwetting, asthma).

Chinese Massage for Infants and Children grounds parents in the basics of Chinese medicine, then illustrates 9 massage techniques, 63 massage points, and 22 complete massage plans. With additional information on a general health plan for all children and on using Chinese herbal remedies, Chinese Massage for Infants and Children can substantially reduce visits to the pediatrician and use of prescription medicines, while improving the bond between parent and child that is at the heart of good health.

Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy or Your Pregnancy Quick Guide to Tests and Procedures

2009-01-20T21:35:00.000-08:00

Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy

Author: Clark Heinrich

An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine.

• Draws parallels between Vedic beliefs and Judeo-Christian sects, showing the existence of a mushroom cult that crossed cultural boundaries.

• Contends that the famed philosophers' stone of the alchemist was a metaphor for the mushroom.

• Confirms and extends Robert Gordon Wasson's hypothesis of the role of the fly agaric mushroom in generating religious visions.

Rejecting arguments that the elusive philosophers' stone of alchemy and the Hindu elixir of life were mere legend, Clark Heinrich provides a strong case that Amanita muscaria, the fly agaric mushroom, played this role in world religious history. Working under the assumption that this "magic mushroom" was the mysterious food and drink of the gods, Heinrich traces its use in Vedic and Puranic religion, illustrating how ancient cultures used the powerful psychedelic in esoteric rituals meant to bring them into direct contact with the divine. He then shows how the same mushroom symbols found in Hindu scriptures correspond perfectly to the symbols of ancient Judaism, Christianity, the Grail myths, and alchemy, arguing that miraculous stories as disparate as the burning bush of Moses and the raising of Lazarus from the dead can be easily explained by the use of this strange and powerful mushroom. While acknowledging the speculative nature of his work, Heinrich concludes that in many religious cultures and traditions the fly agaric mushroom--and in some cases ergot or psilocybin mushrooms--had a fundamental influence in teaching humans about the nature of God. His insightfulbook truly brings new light to the religious history of humanity.

New interesting textbook: As Seis Disciplinas de Ruptura das linhas inimigas que Aprende:Como Converter Aprendizagem e Desenvolvimento em Resultados de Negócios

Your Pregnancy Quick Guide to Tests and Procedures: Everything You Need to Know about Both Routine and Special Tests and Procedures During Your Pregnancy

Author: Glade B Curtis

* Guidance on what to expect at routine appointments and what each test means* When and why your doctor might order a special procedure* What you need to know about tests in each trimester: ultrasound, amniocentesis, CVS testing, blood work, stress tests, glucose tolerance, and more

Part I	Medical Tests during Pregnancy	1
	Tests before Pregnancy	2
	Tests for Pregnancy-Related Problems and Situations	3
	Tests during the 1st Trimester	5
	The Pregnancy Test	5
	Routine Tests Done at Every Visit	6
	Tests at Your 1st or 2nd Prenatal Visit	9
	Physical and Pelvic Exams	11
	Pap Smear	11
	Specific Tests during the 1st Trimester	14
	HIV and/or AIDS Test	14
	Antibody Rh-Negative Test	16
	Cystic Fibrosis Screening	17
	Alfa-Fetoprotein Test (AFP)	19
	Triple-Screen Test	22
	Quad-Screen Test	23
	Hypothyroidism	24
	Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)	25
	Genetic Tests	26
	The Quantitative HCG Test	27
	Tests to Avoid during Your Pregnancy	28
	Imaging Tests	28
	2nd Trimester Tests You May Have	31
	Measuring the Growth of Your Uterus	31
	Glucose-Tolerance Test	34
	Ultra-Fast MRI	34
	Ultrasound	35
	Where Ultrasound Is Done	37
	How Ultrasound Is Done	38
	Some Special Uses of Ultrasound	41
	Transvaginal Sonography	41
	3-Dimensional Ultrasound	42
	The Cost of Ultrasound	43
	Nuchal Translucency Screening	44
	Amniocentesis	44
	How Amniocentesis Is Done	45
	The Risks of Amniocentesis	47
	Blood Tests You May Have for Specific Problems	47
	Other Tests You May Have	48
	Fetoscopy	48
	Percutaneous Umbilical Blood Sampling (PUBS) or Cordocentesis	49
	Fetal Fibronectin (fFN) Test	50
	Tests for the Woman Expecting More than One Baby	51
	3rd Trimester Tests You May Have	54
	Group-B Streptococcus Infection Test	54
	Ultrasound in the 3rd Trimester	58
	Home Uterine Monitoring	59
	Kick Count	59
	Bishop Score	61
	Nonstress Test (NST)	63
	Contraction-Stress Test (CST)	65
	The Biophysical Profile	69
	Tests You May Have during Labor	72
	Labor Check	72
	Fetal Blood Sampling during Labor	73
	Fetal Monitoring (Electronic Fetal Monitoring)	74
	Evaluating Fetal Lung Maturity	77
	Test to Determine Baby's Oxygen Levels	78
	Inducing Labor	78
	Tests for Your Newborn	79
	Apgar Score	80
	Blood Tests	81
	Coombs Test	81
	Reflex Assessment	82
	Neonatal Maturity Assessment	82
	Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale	82
	Other Newborn Tests	83
	Your After-Pregnancy Checkup	84
	Hematocrit	87
Part II	Medical Procedures during Pregnancy	89
	Maternal Procedures during Pregnancy	89
	McDonald's Cerclage for an Incompetent Cervix	89
	Rh-Sensitivity and RhoGAM	91
	Fetal Procedures and Surgeries	95
	Open Surgery	96
	Closed-Uterus Surgery	97
	Inducing Labor	97
	Ripening the Cervix for Induction	99
	Rupturing Membranes	100
	Stripping Membranes	101
	Anesthesia	101
	Epidural Block	102
	Spinal Block	102
	General Anesthesia	103
	Local Block	103
	Episiotomy	103
	Repair of an Episiotomy	105
	Forceps Delivery and Vacuum Extraction	106
	Removal of the Placenta	106
	Manual Removal	106
	D&C for a Retained Placenta	107
	Tubal Ligation after Delivery?	107
	Glossary	111
	Index	127

Miladys Comprehensive Guide to Hair Removal or Counseling the Alzheimers Caregiver

2009-01-18T11:30:00.000-08:00

Milady's Comprehensive Guide to Hair Removal

Author: Helen Bickmor

This helpful guide provides the most complete source for those seeking to expand their knowledge on a variety of hair removal techniques. You'll receive basic information and instruction on both temporary and permanent methods of hair removal, including waxing, electrolysis and lasers. The author fully explains each technique, including the evolution of the method, histology of the skin, and the safe and sound methods of sanitation, sterilization and hygiene as prescribed by OSHA. Each procedure is supported by helpful step-by-step photographs and/or illustrations to reinforce proper protocol. Information on how the method works to remove hair is provided, including the length of time before regrowth occurs and any potential side effects.

Chapter 1: Anatomy and Physiology of the Hair and Skin.

Chapter 2: Skin Disorders and Diseases.

Chapter 3: The Endocrine System.

Chapter 4: Hirsutism and Hypertrichosis.

Chapter 5: Bacteriology, Sanitation, and Sterilization.

Chapter 6: Home Hair-Removal Methods.

Chapter 7: Threading.

Chapter 8: Sugaring.

Chapter 9: Introduction to Waxing.

Chapter 10: Hard Depilatory Wax, The Nonstrip Method.

Chapter 11: Hot Wax Strip Method.

Chapter 12: History and Evolution of Electrolysis.

Chapter 13: Selecting the Right Modality and Treatment Application.

Chapter 14: Thermolysis.

Chapter 15: Galvanic Electrolysis.

Chapter 16: The Blend Method.

Chapter 17: Laser Physics, Equipment, and Safety.

Chapter 18: Laser Hair-Removal Treatment.

Chapter 19: Licensure and Starting a Practice.

Chapter 20: Professional Ethics, Professional Organizations, and Continuing Education. Glossary. Index.

Look this: Fundamentals de Sistemas de Información, 4ta Edición

Counseling the Alzheimer's Caregiver: A Resource for Healthcare Professionals

Author: American Medical Association

Provides proven strategies to help caregivers deal with Alzheimer's Disease and draws on lessons learned during 15 years of empirical clinical treatment intervention. This manual is an invaluable resource for health care providers who work with families caring for an Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patient. Providing proven strategies to help caregivers deal with the enormous physical and emotional stress of caring for a loved one with AD, it can help significantly improve the level of patient care.

This resource outlines, in detail, the symptoms of AD at each stage and the roles of caregiver and counselor from the initial diagnosis to after the patient's death. It teaches health care providers how to create for caregivers individualized intervention plans that cover everything from managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of AD to maintaining their own well-being. The resource also provides information on formal support services for patients living at home, as well as guidance on making the decision to place the patient in a residential facility.

More than 80 percent of AD patients receive care from family or other non-formal help. With AD expected to affect an estimated 14 million people by the mid-21st century, this book is an increasingly important addition to your library.

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Reviewer: David O. Staats, MD (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)
Description: This book describes a counseling program developed by NYU for caregivers of a loved one who has Alzheimer's disease.
Purpose: Its purpose is to provide a summary of the evidence-based counseling strategies that work best with persons caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease. The book gives a description of the counselilng process.
Audience: Social workers will find this most of use. Others who counsel family members caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease will find this bok useful. Healthcare professionals caring for the demented also will find this book of use.
Features: Woven throughout the discussion are vignettes that clearly get across the message of what is at issue with the counseling. At the end of each of the 13 chapters there is a summary of the points covered.
Assessment: More healthcare professionals should know the best ways of counseling family members caring dor a demented person. It would have been helpful to have the citation of the original research and to publish some of the caregiver assessment measures. Not all dementing illnesses are Alzheimer's disease, and some word about any special approaches or features in other dementing illnesses would be of use. This book does not discuss how one arranges for the counseling described:access is a pertinent issue here. With the burgeoning population of the demented, and the desire of caregivers to manage them at home, this book is a good contribution to the field.

What People Are Saying

Peter Rabins
Counseling the Alzheimer's Caregiveris certainly of interest to many physicians and non-physicians who have contact with AD patients and their families. The strength of what is presented here is that it has been tested in an efficacy trial. I would highly recommend it.
— Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Lisa P. Gwyther
At long last -- a research evidence-based practice guide for counseling Alzheimer's families. Full of vivid vignettes and practical "how-to's", this book pulls together what we know about Alzheimer's care and families in a cohesive whole for any health or human service professional. I bet it will become a desk reference for the full range of disciplines and professionals working with Alzheimer's families.
— Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Duke University Medical Center

James O'Brien
Very useful resource for many workers involved in the provision of care to Alzheimer's victims and their families.I would recommend it to others.
— The Margaret Dorward Smock Professor in Geriatrics University of Louisville, Kentucky

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Discovering the Bodys Wisdom or Complete Guide to Wheat Free Cooking

2009-01-18T00:19:00.000-08:00

Discovering the Body's Wisdom

Author: Mirka Knaster

In an attractive, oversized format, enlivened with illustrations, sidebar quotes, personal accounts, techniques to try, and profiles of leaders in the field, Discovering the Body's Wisdom is a basic resource for well-being and natural health.

Body disciplines and therapies have enjoyed phenomenal growth in the past decade, becoming a major alternative to mainstream medicine and traditional psychotherapy. But with more than 100,000 practitioners and dozens of methods available in the United States alone, how can consumers choose the right one for themselves?

Mirka Knaster's richly informative guide provides an overview of the principles and theories underlying the major Eastern and Western body therapies, or "bodyways." It shows readers how to befriend their own bodies, getting back in touch with their internal sources of health and wisdom. It also describes more than 75 individual approaches, answering such questions as: How does each therapy work? What can we expect from one session or a series? What are the reasons for selecting this method? How do we find a qualified practitioner? What, if any, are the "consumer-bewares"?

Publishers Weekly

If ever a book could have used a subtitle, this is one. An explanatory phrase like "Bodywork Therapies Old and New" would go far to alerting readers to the scope and purpose of this comprehensive consumer guide to the myriad bodywork disciplines currently available. After explaining the purpose of bodywork and the psychological and physical benefits ascribed to it, Knaster, a licensed massage therapist and former Ford Foundation Fellow, suggests how best to choose a therapeutic approach and what to expect from it, and how to find and evaluate bodywork practitioners. Knaster considers Western systems, with their emphasis on structure, function and movement, and Eastern approaches, which emphasize energy, or the life force. Each section concludes with information on training. The margins of the pages are distractingly busy with quotations, which, while relevant, make the necessarily complex explanations more difficult to follow. Long paragraphs set off by shading offer valuable first-person accounts or do-it-yourself exercises by which a reader can sample the practice of a therapy, but these too are interruptive. Despite its design flaws, Knaster's comprehensive study will be of considerable help to those who want to know the differences between the Alexander Technique and the Rosen Method or between Shiatsu and Aikido. (July)

Library Journal

This is one of the most complete books available on bodywork. The author, a licensed massage therapist, uses the term bodyways to describe any technique that involves movement to improve the structure, function, and feeling of the human body. More than 75 different types of therapies are discussed, ranging from the different kinds of massage therapy to those with a more philosophical bent, like postural integration or t'ai chi chuan. Readers are also told how to "befriend" their own body and how to choose and work with a bodyworks practitioner, and they can dip into the book to study just one particular therapy. A useful appendix tells "How To Deal with Sexual Misconduct." The book's extensive bibliography should be useful to those doing further research. This book will appeal to both the practitioner and the consumer and is recommended for medical and public libraries.Natalie Kupferberg, Ferris State Univ. Lib., Big Rapids, Mich.

Complete Guide to Wheat-Free Cooking

Author: Phyllis Potts

More than a collection of delicious recipes, The Complete Guide to Wheat-Free Cooking celebrates the joys of eating well.

Author Phyllis Potts chose treasured family recipes, good old-fashioned comfort food, and modified them for people like herself who can't eat wheat. As an insider, she has valuable insights into what it takes to succeed at making a dramatic diet change. She shows readers how to reproduce the textures and flavors of breads and pastries using non-wheat flours made from rice, garbanzo beans, and corn. She also teaches creativity in working with substitutions for those with multiple food allergies and speaks to general concerns, such as using bread machines and storing leftovers.

Let's awaken our individual and collective spiritual obligation to our planet and its creatures.

The Lost Language of Plants or Finding Balance

2009-01-17T15:07:00.000-08:00

The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth

Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner

"Enraged, Energized, Exultant. You won't know how to feel after reading Stephen Harrod Buhner's The Lost Language of Plants. This is a devastating expose about how we are polluting our environment with the pharmaceuticals that Western medicine has developed to heal us. We are ingesting Prozac, Premarin, and antibiotics whether we want to or not." Yet, as we foul air and water with toxic residues, we overlook the power of the planet's natural healers, stabilizers, and chemists - plants. Buhner sees plants as fully sentient beings, adjusting and fine-tuning to the environment just as they have done for the past 500 million years. Until recently, humans shared the language of plants, but increasingly we have lost our ability to communicate with the natural world. Buhner shows us a path back to our shamanic roots.

Booknews

The author of blends poetry, his and others' reflections on nature, alerts about the impact of the medicine of "fundamentalist Scientists," information on the chemistry of plants and their bond with humans, and exercises for raising environmental consciousness. Resources listed include Buhner's Foundation for Gaian Studies in Coeur d'Alene, ID. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	A Note to the Reader
	Acknowledgments
1	The Taste of Wild Water	1
2	The Two Wounds	11
3	Epistemological Conflict	25
4	The Loss of Biophilia and Biognosis	55
5	The Environmental Impacts of Technological Medicine	83
6	The End of Antibiotics	115
7	"Plants Are All Chemists"	141
8	Plants as Medicines for All Life on Earth	171
9	Herbelegy	213
10	The Lost Language of Plants	219
11	Living Biognosis: The Work of Carol McGrath, Sparrow, Rosemary Gladstar, John Seed	247
	Epilogue	289
	Notes	290
	Bibliography	308
	Resources	318
	Index	319

Go to: The Populist Vision or Global Shift

Finding Balance: Fitness and Training for a Lifetime of Dance

Author: M Berardi

Finding Balance: Fitness, Health, and Training for a Lifetime in Dance gives an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury and treatment; technique and training; fitness; nutrition and diet; and career management. The text includes both easy-to-read overviews of each topic and "profiles" of well known dancers and how they have coped with these issues.
The new edition includes:
· Updated and new profiles
· Expanded injury and injury treatment information
· Updated dance science and physiology findings, and new references
· Updated diet guidelines
· Expanded and updated "Taking Control" section
It concludes with a list of selected dance/arts medicine clinics, a bibliography, glossary, and text notes.

Against Depression or The Diabetes Lifestyle Book

2009-01-17T02:56:00.000-08:00

Against Depression

Author: Peter D Kramer

Against Depression is an assessment of the science of mood disorder - a field that has taken leaps forward in the past decade. Walking the reader through the full range of new research, Kramer shows how depression endangers nerve cells, disrupts brain functioning, damages the heart and the blood vessels, alters personal perspective and judgment, and interferes with parenting and family life. As the evidence mounts, there is no denying the obvious - that depression now qualifies fully as a disease, one of the most devastating known to humankind. And yet, says Kramer, "we do not approach depression as a disease, not in our daily thinking." Depression, linked in our culture to a long tradition of "heroic melancholy," is often understood as ennobling - a source of creativity, integrity, insight, and even sensuality. Tracing these beliefs from Aristotle to the Romantics to Picasso, and to present-day memoirs of mood disorder, Kramer suggests that the pervasiveness of the illness has distorted our impression of what it is to be human. He shows how a head-on look at depression as we now know it will change our sense of self, our tastes in art and in love, and our account of what it is to live a good life.

Natalie Angier

Kramer presents a sustained case that depression, far from enhancing cognitive or emotional powers, essentially pokes holes in the brain, killing neurons and causing key regions of the prefrontal cortex -- the advanced part of the brain, located just behind the forehead -- to shrink measurably in size. He lucidly explains a wealth of recent research on the disease, citing work in genetics, biochemistry, brain imaging, the biology of stress, studies of identical twins. He compares the brain damage from depression with that caused by strokes. As a result of diminished blood flow to the brain, he says, many elderly stroke patients suffer crippling depressions.

The Washingon Post - David Brown

In his new book, Peter D. Kramer examines depression with a cool, intelligent and sympathetic eye. The author of the wildly popular Listening to Prozac , he is a practicing psychiatrist who sees depression and its human cost nearly every working day. He asks two interesting questions: If we could eradicate depression, would we? And if we did, would we lose anything of value?

Publishers Weekly

What is depression really, and how does society define it? Kramer, a famed psychiatrist and author of the 1993 bestseller Listening to Prozac, says he has written "an insistent argument that depression is a disease, one we would do well to oppose wholeheartedly." In making his argument, Kramer examines the cultural roots of notions about depression and underscores the gap between what we know scientifically and what we feel about the illness. Kramer traces depression from Hippocrates through the Renaissance and Romantic "cult of melancholy" to advances in medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy, and at last to the disease we now know it to be. Kramer's curiosity drives the book forward as he ponders why we value artwork and literature built on despair: "certain of our aesthetic and intellectual preferences have been set by those who suffer... deeply." The book maintains the perfect balance between science and human interest, as the author details both psychiatric studies and personal experience. A comparison of the biochemical workings of depression with the physical and observable symptoms serves as an intellectual trip for readers and provides a thorough exploration of what Kramer dubs "the most devastating disease known to humankind." The book is rich with questions that engage the reader in an active dialogue: Why is society captive to depression's charm? And will this infatuation change with the emergence of more evidence regarding depression's severely disabling effects? Kramer leaves off with these questions to ponder. Resolute but not preachy, this book is an important addition to the growing public health campaign against depression. As for how we should definedepression-perhaps it's best understood by its opposite: "A resilient mind, sustained by a resilient brain and body."
Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

In his best-selling Listening to Prozac, psychiatrist Kramer (Brown Univ.) explored the social implications of psychotropic personality change; he did not address the actual effects of these drugs on the severely depressed, yet he was constantly asked, "What if van Gogh (or, in Denmark, Kierkegaard) had been given antidepressants?"-the suggestion being that depression, or the depressive personality, is important to the production of works of genius. This led to the present book, which examines the question, "If we could eradicate depression so that no human being ever suffered it again, would we?" His answer is a resounding yes; depression is a major cause of distress with no redeeming value. In the process, he argues that the idea of "heroic melancholy" is simply a way our culture has developed to cope with a disorder that we can't cure-analogous to the way that tuberculars were once thought to be especially sensitive and creative. Along the way, Kramer offers an excellent summary of current biochemical theories of depression. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries. —Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA
Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A heartfelt argument that depression is not, as many would have it, a source of heroic melancholy and artistic genius, but, rather, a pathological condition that should, if possible, be eradicated. When Kramer (Clinical Psychiatry/Brown Univ.) made public appearances after publication of his best-selling Listening to Prozac (1993), audiences persistently challenged him with questions like, "What if Prozac had been available in van Gogh's time?" The assumption that suffering from mental illness is a prerequisite to genius and that humanity would be the poorer if depression were conquered is anathema to Kramer. Instead, he asserts, it is "the most devastating disease known to humankind," and to back up his claim he cites some astonishing statistics: $40 billion in lost productivity in the United States, for example, or 3 percent of GDP. In a wide-ranging essay that draws on his own life and on his years of treating patients, he explores the gap between common perceptions of depression and the scientific understanding of it. In the first of three parts here, "What It Is to Us," he looks at the charm of depression and its erotic power, at the way people are drawn to such precursors of depression as moodiness, passivity and vulnerability. In "What It Is," he reviews research in biological psychiatry and neuroscience that links depression to frank abnormalities in the nervous system, including problems in stress responses, repair of cells in critical brain regions, and small or malfunctioning hippocampus glands. Finally, in "What It Will Be," Kramer envisions a world without depression and lists benefits of its eradication. Without depression to fear, he says, we would be free to be quirky andneurotic, to take risks more openly and to love more generously-and we'd still have art and artists. While not predicting that depression will be eliminated anytime soon, Kramer brings hope to those afflicted by it. A clear, valuable exposition of the progress researchers are making in understanding an all-too-common disease. Author tour

New interesting textbook: Understanding Privacy or The Kennedy Tapes

The Diabetes Lifestyle Book: Facing Your Fears and Making Changes for a Long and Healthy Life

Author: Jennifer A Gregg

This revolutionary book focuses on a two-pronged approach to diabetes management. First, it provides in-depth education about diabetes, focusing on the difficulties inherent in the self-management of the disease. This includes information about diet, exercise, medication compliance, blood glucose testing, insulin administration, as well as potential complications and how to avoid them. The book also addresses the enormous emotional and psychological component of diabetes.

Vertical Reflexology or Mineral Miracle

2009-01-16T17:45:00.000-08:00

Vertical Reflexology: A Revolutionary Five-Minute Technique to Transform Your Health

Author: Lynne Booth

This work explains Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT)—a form of reflexology that works on top of the feet with the patient standing, providing deeper access to reflex points. Illustrations and diagrams showing the exact points to target and instructions for giving a VRT massage are included.

Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss and Inflammation Naturally

Author: Shari Lieberman

With the recent recall of Vioxx and the current controversies swirling around the use of other COX-2 inhibitor drugs, millions of people are looking for a safer way to relieve their arthritic pain. Now, a new discovery may provide much-needed relief. Written by two cutting-edge researchers and best-selling authors--Drs. Shari Lieberman and Alan Xenakis--Mineral Miracle sheds light on the SierraSil mineral deposit and explains how it can relieve joint pain and inflammation naturally.

For years, scientists have understood that inflammation causes pain. Laymen know it too as soon as they experience a painfully swollen bruise or inflamed joint. Only recently, however, has the process of inflammation been linked to the deterioration of tissue, bone, and cartilage--and recognized as an underlying cause of heart attack. And while the importance of minerals has been documented for years, it is only now that a naturally occurring blend of minerals has been found to act as a powerful anti-inflammatory that can actually stop or slow down the loss of cartilage. This blend, derived from the SierraSil mineral deposit, is the focus of this important book, which looks at the blend's unique composition, its healing action, and its ability to stop pain.

While many drugs may appear helpful in the war against pain, all of them have formidable side effects, some of which have proven deadly. For those looking for a simpler solution to a real problem, the Mineral Miracle may hold the answer.

Publishers Weekly

The ancient practice of eating clay to promote good health lies at the heart of Lieberman and Xenakis's look at the new "mineral miracle" supplement SierraSil. The product's name comes from the Sierra Nevadas, where it is found, and silicates, the primary minerals that form it. The authors (Lieberman is a clinical nutritionist; Xenakis founded a company that sells nonprescription pharmaceuticals) explain how, in the 1970s, a gold prospector discovered that the soil in the Sierras contained a significant amount of natural clay. This clay healed a dog's injured paw and went on to work wonders on arthritic human hands. Lieberman and Xenakis are passionate about SierraSil's ability to help those suffering from arthritis and many other inflammatory conditions, as well as digestive problems like irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's disease. They review the science behind SierraSil and its health benefits, then proceed to school readers on living a healthy lifestyle, covering the basics of a healthy diet and exercise. However, despite their enthusiasm-or maybe because of it-much of the book feels like the print equivalent of a television infomercial. (Mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

One in five Americans was diagnosed with some form of arthritis in 2004, and these two arthritis management books address that problem. A newly discovered treatment is the mineral clay complex SierraSil, and in Mineral Miracle, nutrition specialist Lieberman (Univ. of Bridgeport, CT; The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book) and researcher Xenakis (founder, XenaCare) promote its efficacy and safety while cautioning against "magic bullet" treatments. They also summarize the science of mineral use in the body and the physiology of arthritis, as well as including an action plan for achieving good health. The effusive personal promotion of SierraSil is impressive, but the research conclusions, presented as definitive, seem fairly tepid. Arthritis Rx by physician and researcher Vad (rehabilitation medicine, Cornell Univ.; Back Rx) recommends a three-pronged regimen consisting of diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise. Vad recognizes that there is currently no cure for arthritis, only management strategies. He promotes dietary changes involving foods shown to have anti-inflammatory properties (a sample day-by-day menu and recipes are included), yoga- and Pilates-based exercises, and a nutritional supplement mix. He also provides a primer on the science of arthritis, techniques for learning "deep breathing," and photos of each exercise/yoga position. In the spirit of "let the buyer beware," Lieberman's book is guardedly recommended for public libraries. As for Arthritis Rx, many other arthritis management books also suggest diet, supplements, and exercise, but Vad's plan incorporates a specific combination of the three and so is recommended for public libraries.-Andy Wickens, King Cty. Lib. Syst., WA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Relieving Pain Naturally or Eat More Weigh Less

2009-01-16T06:33:00.000-08:00

Relieving Pain Naturally: Safe and Effective Alternative Approaches to Treating and Overcoming Chronic Pain

Author: Sylvia Goldfarb

For millions of Americans, severe pain is a fact of everyday life. Standard medicine commonly offers relief through drug therapies. While often effective, these medications come with a host of side effects, from drowsiness to addiction. While many sufferers would prefer nondrug options, much of the available information on alternative pain treatment is scattered, incomplete, and in many instances, out of date—or it was, until now. Professional health writers Dr. Sylvia Goldfarb and Roberta Waddell have designed Relieving Pain Naturally to be a comprehensive guide to drug-free pain management.

Part One examines over forty of the most common chronic pain-related conditions, from abdominal pain to tendonitis. Each disorder is explained, and its alternative pain treatments detailed. Part Two offers twenty-seven drug-free therapies, including both conventional treatments and alternative modalities, such as acupuncture, biofeedback, heat and cold therapy, hypnosis, nutrition, and oxygen therapy. A comprehensive resource section guides you to professional organizations that can help you find an appropriate therapist in your area.

For years, millions of pain sufferers have longed for a safe, side effect-free treatment for chronic pain. Now, Relieving Pain Naturally provides a reliable starting point.

About the Author:
Sylvia Goldfarb, PhD, a writer specializing in medical topics, has written articles for numerous magazines, including Focus, Natural Body and Fitness, and Today's O.R. Nurse. She is also the author of two books, including Allergy Relief.

Roberta W. Waddell has been both a writer and editor in the field of alternative health for over sixteen years. Because of her own chronic pain, she has experienced conventional and alternative therapies firsthand.

New interesting textbook: Analisi finanziaria con Microsoft? Excel

Eat More, Weigh Less

Author: Dean Ornish

Here, in the bestselling tradition of Reversing Heart Disease, Dr. Dean Ornish presents a scientifically validated lifestyle and eating plan that takes off unwanted weight, reduces the risk of heart disease, and—best of all—leaves you feeling full and satisfied, simply by cutting back dietry fat to 10% of the total calories you eat. A New York Times hardcover bestseller and a Publishers Weekly audio bestseller.

The Hormone Decision or Body Control

2009-01-15T20:18:00.000-08:00

The Hormone Decision

Author: Tara Parker Pop

Do you have questions about menopause and the use of hormones?
The generation of women approaching or entering menopause today has heard more on the subject than any previous generation. First hormones were good. Then suddenly they were bad. Now they don't seem to be in the news much at all. But for the woman realizing that her body is starting to change, all these conflicting reports can be frightening. The truth is that every woman is different, and no one answer is correct for everybody.
Tara Parker-Pope, who has written about health for both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, details all the latest research on menopause in a clear, easy-to-read style that makes it possible for you to:

understand the research
ask intelligent questions
choose whether or not hormone therapy is right for you.

Book review: Asia in Crisis or GAIA Connections

Body Control: Using Techniques Developed by Joseph H. Pilates

Author: Lynne Robinson

Once only used by athletes, dancers, actors, and musicians, this method is now recommended for everyone — men and women of all ages. It also helps pregnant women learn proper breathing and body concentration; and recover body shape and tone after pregnancy. Many exercises are so gentle that they may be used by senior citizens to regain muscle tone, correct posture, and prevent bones from becoming brittle.

Acknowledgements	5
Foreword by Pat Cash	8
Foreword by Piers Chandler	9
Introduction	10
The Benefits of the Body Control Method	14
The Eight Principles	16
Know Thyself	23
Ready to Start	26
The Warm-up	28
1 Standing at Ease	28
2 Roll-downs Against the Wall	30
3 Sliding Down the Wall	32
4 Relaxation Position	34
5 Breathing Correctly	36
6 Navel to Spine	38
7 Knee Circles & Leg Circles	40
8 Hamstring Stretch	42
9 Hip Flexors	44
10 Shoulder Drops	46
11 Neck Rolls & Nose Spirals	48
12Spine Curls	50
13 Hip Rolls	52
Lengthening & Strengthening	54
14 The Corkscrew	54
15 The Samson	56
16 Side Reaches	58
17 Waist Twist	60
18 Pole Raises	62
19 Wrists, Hands & Fingers	64
20 Curl-ups	66
21 Oblique Curl-ups	68
22 Turning Out the Leg	70
23 Single Leg Stretch	72
24 The Hundred	74
25 Curl-downs	76
A Sound Foundation -- Foot Control	78
26A Foot Circling	80
26B Lifting the Arches	81
26C Pointing & Flexing	82
26D Waking Up the Toes -- The Mexican Wave!	84
Flexibility & Strength	86
27 The Star -- stage 1	86
27 The Star -- stages 2 & 3	88
28 Single Heel-kicks	90
29 The Cat	92
30 Rest Position Back-breathing	94
Working with Weights	96
31 Leg weights -- Abductor Lifts	98
32 Leg weights -- Lift & Lower	100
33 Leg weights -- Twenty Lifts	100
34 Leg weights -- Inner-thigh Toner	102
35 Arm weights -- Flys	104
36 Arm weights -- Backstroke Swimming	106
37 Arm weights -- Triceps	108
38 Arm weights -- Biceps	110
The Wind-down	112
39 Arm Openings	113
40 Pillow Squeeze	114
Working Out with Body Control	116
The Correction of Common Postural Faults	124
Further Reading	126
FINAL WORD	127

Los Cinco Tibetanos or Tai Chi

2009-01-15T11:05:00.000-08:00

Los Cinco Tibetanos: Cinco Ejericios Dinamicos Para Lograr Buena Salud, Energia y Poder Personal

Author: Christopher S Kilham

Salud / Yoga

Los Cinco Tibetanos son un sistema de yoga con ejercicios altamente energizantes y a la vez muy sencillos, cuyo origen se remonta a la cultura del Himalaya. También se les conoce como los Cinco Ritos de Rejuvenecimiento; llegaron a Occidente a principios de nuestro siglo por medio de un oficial retirado de la armada británica, quien los aprendío en una lamasería tibetana. Desde 1978 Christopher S. Kilham ha enseñado estos ejercicios a miles de personas que buscan un modo de vida más sano.

Los Cinco Tibetanos requieren un mínimo de tiempo y esfuerzo al día, pero no pueden aumentar drásticamente la fuerza y flexibilidad física, al igual que la agudeza mental. Aun los principiantes del yoga experimentarán el efecto de liberación sobre el poder energético innato del cuerpo y la mente humana que ejercen los Cinco Tibetanos. La práctica regular de estos ejercicios libera la tensión muscular y nerviosa, mejora la respiración y la digestión, beneficia el sistema cardiovasuclar y llevan a una relajación profunda y bienestar. Los Cinco Tibetanos pueden ser un vehículo poderoso, no solamente a fin de avivar los sentidos sino para generar una eregía vital en orden a la autotransformación.

Christopher S. Kilham ha enseñado el yoga, la meditación y la salud natural durante más de viente años, siendo ponente y apareciendo en programas de radio y televisión en todo Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Es autor de muchos artículos en revistas y de varios libros, entre los cuales seencuentran: In Search of the New Age, Take Charge of Your Health, Inner Power y The Bread and Circus Whole Food Bible.

Chris Kilham has been involved in the field of holistic health as a writer, lecturer, and entrepreneur since 1970. He is the author of The Five Tibetans and The Whole Food Bible, as well as the founder of Medicine Hunter Inc., which specializes in the research and development of plant medicines. He lives in Massachusetts.

Hinduism Today

Kilham brings to The Five Tibetans nicely written chapters about kundalini, the chakras and an especially insightful instruction on the role of breathing while doing each rite. Excellent and recommended...

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Tai Chi: The Supreme Ultimate

Author: Lawrence Galant

A comprehensive text that includes a study of the origins and history of Tai Chi, a detailed analysis of its philosophy and relationship to Western philosophy, the I Ching and the Tao te Ching, and to Yoga and Zen. Includes information about breathing, health and Chinese medicine, as well as several hundred detailed photographs showing application of the positions.

Surviving Americas Depression Epidemic or Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder

2009-01-14T22:53:00.000-08:00

Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy

Author: Bruce E Levin

Millions of us have experienced periods of low morale, struggled to find cheer in the day-to-day world, and then found ourselves pacified into believing the smooth-talking spokesperson in yet another medication ad. We've all heard them, there's no denying the fact that these ads have made each of us wonder: Do I suffer from depression? Would I be happier and healthier if I simply consulted my physician and requested (insert drug name here)?

The rate of clinical depression in the U.S. has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years. Is this epidemic properly being addressed by the insurance, pharmaceutical, and governmental powers-that-be or exacerbated by a failing system focused on instant results and high profit margins? Dr. Bruce E. Levine, a highly respected clinical psychologist, argues the later and provides a compelling alternative approach to treating depression that makes lasting change more likely than with symptom-based treatment through medication.

Surviving America's Depression Epidemic delves into the roots of depression and links our increasingly consumer-based culture and standard-practice psychiatric treatments to worsening depression, instead of solving it. In an easy-to-understand narrative style, Dr. Levine prescribes antidotes to depression including the keys to building morale and self-healing. Unlike short-term, drug-based solutions, these antidotes foster a long-term cycle where people re-discover passion and purpose, and find meaning in acting on their societal concerns.

A groundbreaking work, atypical of the shelf-loads of "pep-talk" based self help books on the market, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic provides the knowledge and counsel of a practicing psychologist in a digestible format that will improve your future. A must read for guidance and pastoral counselors; non-dogmatic psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers; and those tired of the TV ads shilling for better living through chemistry.

Introduction     vii
We're Lost, but We're Making Good Time: Marketing, Myths, Science, and Society     1
Morale and Energy     38
Understanding Self-Destructive Ways     64
Healing, Wholeness, and Choice     89
Self-Absorption, Self-Acceptance, Self-Release, and Life beyond Self     114
Public Passion and Reclaiming Community     147
Epilogue     177
Acknowledgments     183
Notes     185
Index     209

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Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder

Author: Stephanie Marohn

It used to be called manic depression. Wide swings in mood, from elation to the doldrums. Days or months of expansiveness, irritability, increased activity, grandiosity, inflated self-esteem, followed by troughs of sadness, flatness, pessimism, guilt, concentration problems, and weight gain.

An estimated 2.3 million U.S. adults suffer this, as well as another million children and adolescents under age 18. Conventional medicine offers prescription drugs but no lasting improvement or cure. Natural medicine can do much better than that.

The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder, an innovative and inspiring book on natural medicine treatments for a healthy mind, is about healing bipolar, not merely enduring it. Within these pages, medical journalist Stephanie Marohn explores the key contributing factors and triggers for mood disorder and profiles a range of effective, nondrug-based approaches that can truly restore health.

Among the successful healing techniques used by eight natural medicine experts are biological medicine, applied psychoneurobiology, biochemical therapy, nutritional therapy, cranial osteopathy, allergy elimination, homeopathy, and shamanic healing.

Treating the underlying imbalances, rather than suppressing the outer symptoms (as most drugs do), leads to lasting recovery. And only by considering the well-being of the mind and spirit as well as the body can comprehensive healing take place.

The Mens Health Guide to Peak Conditioning or The New Harvard Guide to Womens Health

2009-01-14T12:41:00.000-08:00

The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning

Author: Richard Lalibert

* Hundreds of exercises for head-to-toe strength and energy
* Conditioning programs for more than 40 lifestyles and interests
* Buyers' guides for home equipment, health clubs, workout gear
* Easy ways to integrate workouts into your busy day
* Sleep, nutrition and time-management tips for peak power

Achieve your perfect body!

Finally-- a workout book for your body, your lifestyle, your goals. The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning is the first exercise book to let you put together a customized workout for exactly your needs. Play golf? Want a flatter belly? Got arthritis? Live in the country? Just turn 40? Rebounding from the flu? Have a job that leaves you without time or energy for exercise? No problem-- The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning has workouts for each of these cases and dozens of others.

We start you with seven weight lifts, seven stretches and an aerobic program that cover the essential needs of most any man today. From there we show you how to customize a workout for:

* Shaping your body (page 126)
* Bicycling stronger, longer (page 176)
* Living in the city (page 257) or country (page 261)
* Ridding fat (page 134)
* Improving your golf game (page 210)
* Bolstering your immune system (page 304)
* Exercising while traveling (page 151)
* Squeezing in exercise at lunch (page 143)
* Improving your sexual performance (page 169)
And dozens more goals, lifestyles and preferences!

But The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning doesn't just detail perfect workout routines. You'll also discover the definitive guide to integrating exercise into your busy life. Insideyou'll find:

* How to carve out all the time you need for exercise (page 16)
* Surprising eating (page 9), sleeping (page 13) and attitude tips (page 19) for maximum
qlfitness
* Buyers' guides to gear (page 312), gyms (page 317), shoes (page 320)
* Proper-technique tips for stair-climbers, treadmills, stationary bicycles and all the most popular indoor aerobic equipment (page 40)
* How to give and get a perfect massage (page 299)

Written in the funny, conversational tine that has made Men's Health magazine the definitive voice of men today, and featuring more than 400 photos, The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning is the ultimate tool for achieving health, strength and vitality.

The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health

Author: Karen J Carlson

With the publication in 1996 of The Harvard Guide to Women's Health, women seeking answers to questions about their health had access to the combined expertise of physicians from three of the world's most prestigious medical institutions: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. With complete information on women's health concerns, physical and behavioral, this A to Z reference quickly became a definitive resource, praised especially for its coverage of topics not previously considered under the umbrella of women's health. The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health reunites the authors to bring a valued health reference up to date for a new generation—and for those women who have come to rely on the Harvard Guide and are now wondering what to do about their health as they enter a new stage of life, asking questions like the following:

I've been on hormone replacement therapy. Should I stop? How?

Could this rash be lupus?

I've been on the Pill. What is my risk for stroke?

Fat is bad, fat is good: What should I believe? And what's left to eat?

When does ordinary worry become chronic anxiety?

What screening tests do I need now?

In addition to revised recommendations reflecting the current medical thinking on menopause and hormone replacement therapy, the New Harvard Guide includes

updated recommendations about cardiac health and heart disease—the #1 killer of women in the United States

entries reflecting recent advances in theunderstanding and treatment of autoimmune diseases

better coverage of health concerns throughout a woman's life span, from her first period to menopause and beyond, with a new entry on perimenopause

expanded nutritional recommendations, including a unique chart of the U.S. government's Daily Reference Intakes for micronutrients, broken down for teens and women whose needs may differ because they are pregnant, breastfeeding, or postmenopausal

updated information on over-the-counter medications, prescription drugs, procedures, screenings, and diagnostic tests

Library Journal

First published in 1996, this guide has been a valuable resource for female consumers seeking reliable health information. A new edition is most welcome because there have been major changes in the medical treatment of women, particularly in the areas of heart disease and menopause. The authors, two physicians on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and a medical journalist, feel that well-informed women who collaborate with their physicians get the best medical care. In addition to the expected articles on contraception, pregnancy, sexuality, and sexually transmitted diseases, the 300 alphabetically arranged entries cover such general medical topics as colon and rectal cancer, asthma, cosmetic safety, and pesticides and organic food. There are also discussions of domestic violence, cosmetic surgery, obesity, and nutrition. Information on hormone replacement therapy, cardiac disease in women, autoimmune diseases, drugs, screening procedures, and diagnostic tests has been updated to reflect the most current medical thinking. Addressing the health concerns facing women throughout their lives, the volume includes a new entry about perimenopause as well as nutritional charts for women of different ages. An excellent medical companion to Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century, which provides the political and psychosocial foundation for women's health advocacy; highly recommended for all health collections.-Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Abdominal Pain

Abortion

Acne

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Adenomyosis

Adhesions

Airbags

Alcohol

Alpha-Fetoprotein Screening

Alternative Therapies

Alzheimer's Disease

Amenorrhea

Amniocentesis

Anemia

Anesthesia

Angina Pectoris

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

Antianxiety Drugs

Antibiotics

Antidepressants

Antiinflammatory Drugs

Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome

Anxiety Disorders

Aortic Stenosis

Arrhythmia

Arthritis

Arthroplasty

Artificial Sweeteners

Asthma

Autoimmune Disorders

Back Pain

Bacterial Vaginosis

Biopsy

Birth Control

Blood Tests

Body Image

Body Odors

Bowel Disorders

Breast Cancer

Breast Implants and Enlargement

Breast Lumps (Benign)

Breast Pain

Breast Reconstruction

Breast Reduction

Breast Self-Examination

Breastfeeding

Breathing Disorders

Calcium

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Cataracts

Cervical Cancer and Dysplasia

Cesarean Section

Chancroid

Chemotherapy

Chest Pain

Childbirth

Chlamydia

Cholesterol

Chorionic Villi Sampling

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

CirculatoryDisorders

Coffee

Colds

Colon and Rectal Cancer

Colostomy

Colposcopy

Computerized Axial Tomography CT Scans

Condoms

Congestive Heart Failure

Constipation

Contact Lenses

Coronary Artery Disease

Cosmetic Dentistry

Cosmetic Safety

Cosmetic Surgery

Cryosurgery

Cushing Syndrome

Cystocele, Urethrocele, and Rectocele

Dentures, Bridges, and Implants

Depression

Dermabrasion and Chemical Peels

Diabetes

Diaphragms, Cervical Caps, and Sponges

Diethylstilbestrol (DES)

Dieting

Dilatation and Curettage

Disabilities

Dissociative Identify Disorder

Diuretics

Diverticular Disease

Domestic Abuse

Douching

Dry Eye

Eclampsia

Ectopic Pregnancy

Edema

Electrocautery

Electrosurgical Loop Excision

Endometrial Cancer

Endometrial Hyperplasia

Endometriosis

Epilepsy

Estrogen

Estrogen Replacement Therapy

Exercise

Eye Care

Eyelid Surgery

Face Lifts

Fallopian Tube Cancer

Fatigue

Fibromyalgia

Foot Care

Galactorrhea

Gallstones

Genetic Counseling

Genital Warts

Glaucoma

Goiters and Thyroid Nodules

Gonorrhea

Gum Disease

Hair Care

Hair Dyes

Hair Loss

Hair Removal

Hay Fever and Perennial Allergic Rhinitis

Headaches

Heart Disease

Heartburn

Hemorrhoids

Hepatitis

Herpes

High Blood Pressure

Hirsutism

Hormonal Contraception

Hyperandrogenism

Hyperprolactinemia

Hyperthyroidism

Hypoglycemia

Hypothyroidism

Hysterectomy

Hysteroscopy

Immunizations

Incontinence

Infertility

Infrequent Periods

Insomnia

Interstitial Cystitis

Intrauterine Devices

Iron

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Kegel Exercises

Keloid Scarring

Kidney Disorders

Knee Pain

Laparoscopy

Laparotomy

Laser Surgery

Laxatives

Lipectomy and Liposuction

Liver Spots

Lubricants

Lumpectomy

Lung Cancer

Lupus

Lyme Disaese

Lymphedema

Macular Degeneration

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Mammography

Manic-Depressive Disorder

Mastectomy

Mastitis

Melanoma

Menarche

Menopause

Menorrhagia

Menstrual Cramps

Menstrual Cycle

Menstrual Cycle Disorders

Midwifery

Miscarriage

Mitral Valve Prolapse

Molar Pregnancy

Moles

Mononucleosis

Morning Sickness

Multiple Sclerosis

Musculoskeletal Disorders

Myasthenia Gravis

Myomectomy

Nail Care

Natural Birth Control Methods

Nearsightedness and Farsightedness

Nonsurgical Abortion

Nutrition

Obesity

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Occupational Hazards

Oral Contraceptives

Orthodontia

Osteoarthritis

Osteoporosis

Otoplasty

Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian Cysts

Ovary Removal

Pain Management

Pain during Sexual Intercourse

Panic Disorder

Pap Test

Patients' Rights

Pelvic Examinations

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Pelvic Pain

Peptic Ulcer Disease

Perimenopause

Personality Disorders

Pesticides and Organic Foods

Phobias

Physical Examinations

Platelet Disorders

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

Polymyalgia Rheumatica

Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis

Polyps

Postpartum Issues

Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Preconception Counseling

Preeclampsia

Pregnancy

Pregnancy over Age 35

Pregnancy Testing

Premenstrual Syndrome

Prenatal Care

Prenatal Genetic Counseling

Prolapsed Uterus

Psychosomatic Disorders

Psychotherapy

Pubic Lice

Radiation Therapy

Raynaud's Phenomenon

Retinal Detachment

Retroverted Uterus

Rh Disease

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rhinoplasty

Rosacea

Rubella

Safer Sex

Salpingectomy

Scabies

Schizophrenia

Scleroderma

Sclerotherapy

Scoliosis

Screening

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Sexual Abuse and Incest

Sexual Assault

Sexual Dysfunction

Sexual Harassment

Sexual Orientation

Sexual Response

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Shingles

Sjoegren Syndrome

Skin Care and Cosmetics

Skin Disorders

Sleep Disorders

Smoking

Social Anxiety Disorder

Spermicides

Sports Injuries

Stress

Stretchmarks

Stroke

Substance Abuse

Syphilis

Temporal Arteritis

Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome

Tendinitis and Tenosynovitis

Testicular Feminization Syndrome

Thyroid Cancer

Thyroid Disorders

Toxic Shock Syndrome

Toxoplasmosis

Trichomonas

Tubal Ligation

Turner Syndrome

Ultrasound

Umbilical Hernia

Urethral Syndrome

Urinary Tract Infections

Urine Tests

Uterine Fibroids

Vacuum Aspiration

Vaginal Atrophy

Vaginal Bleeding (Abnormal)

Vaginal Bleeding during Pregnancy

Vaginitis

Varicose Veins

Vitamins and Minerals

Vulvar Cancer

Vulvar Cysts

Vulvar Disorders

Vulvar Pain

Vulvitis

Weight Tables

Wrinkles

Yeast Infections

Zinc

For Further Information

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Index

Easy Homeopathy or End of Life Care

2009-01-14T01:30:00.000-08:00

Easy Homeopathy: The Only 7 Remedies You Need for Common Illnesses and First Aid

Author: Edward Shalts

Simple and inexpensive natural remedies every medicine cabinet should have

Dr. Edward Shalts's easy-to-use reference book is designed for those just getting started in homeopathy as well as for those confused by the thousands of elixirs, herbs, and other healing methods on the market. Now, in one user-friendly guide, Shalts identifies the seven most useful and effective homeopathic remedies, explaining to you exactly what they are, how they work, and how to use them for hundreds of common conditions.

Edward Shalts, M.D., D.Ht., is the vice president of the National Center for Homeopathy (NCH), a trustee of the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), and a faculty member at the Continuum Center for Health and Healing at Beth Israel Medical Center. He has a private practice in New York City. Visit him at www.HomeopathyNewYork.com.

Interesting book: Les principes de Finance avec Excellent

End-of-Life Care: A Nurse's Guide to Compassionate Care

Author: Springhouse Publishing Company

This sensitively written book offers a wealth of insight and practical advice for nurses in every specialty and setting providing end-of-life care. Nurses will learn how to address patients' spiritual concerns, ensure that physical needs are met, help patients maintain their dignity, and provide emotional support to grieving families. Nurses will also learn how to cope with their own feelings about dying and end-of-life care. Coverage includes stages of dying, nursing interventions for palliative care, pain control, alternative therapies, physical and psychological signs of grieving, and more. Vignette insights from the well-known end-of-life specialist Joy Ufema offer advice on giving compassionate care.

1	Concepts of palliative care	2
2	Essential communication skills	14
3	Ethical considerations	23
4	Legal considerations	34
5	Evidence-based care	48
6	Palliative drug therapy	60
7	Psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural care	78
8	Patients with cancer	98
9	Patients with heart failure	129
10	Patients with neurologic disease	141
11	Patients with pulmonary disease	156
12	Patients with renal disease	170
13	Care of a dying child	183
14	Family and caregiver care	196
15	Support systems	211
16	When death nears	222
17	Bereavement care	233
18	Issues in acute care setting	253
19	Documenting care	268
20	Living with dying	280

Restoring Your Eyesight or Built to Survive

2009-01-13T16:18:00.000-08:00

Restoring Your Eyesight: A Taoist Approach

Author: Doug Marsh

HEALTH / EYESIGHT

“Doug Marsh gives a truly fresh approach to the holistic components that lead to successful improvement of vision. The vital connection between life’s rhythm, the conscious flow of spirit, and the efficient functioning of the visual system is correctly portrayed.”
--Roberto Kaplan, O.D., author of Seeing Without Glasses and Conscious Seeing

Fewer than three percent of children in North America are born with visual defects, yet as they become adults nearly two thirds will become reliant on prescription lenses to see clearly. Virtually nonexistent in pre-industrialized cultures, this epidemic of blurred vision can be traced to mental, physical, and spiritual imbalances in modern society. The traditional “quick fixes” of eyeglasses and contact lenses only serve to cover the true cause of blurred vision while increasing eyestrain, and these fixes often progressively worsen eyesight as the eyes become trained to work within the confines of the corrective lenses. Refractive surgery carries even more serious risks.

In Restoring Your Eyesight, Doug Marsh offers a natural alternative that shows readers how to improve their eyesight by taking conscious control of their vision health. He combines proven methods pioneered a century ago by eye doctor William Bates with the ancient Chinese wisdom of Taoism. Marsh describes how vision goes deeper than the eyes and optic nerves, extending well into the layers of the mind, emotions, and spirit. Eyesight difficulties are often connected to behavioral and stress-related syndromes, such as dyslexia, ADHD, stuttering, TMJ, and anxiety disorders. He drawsupon the core values of the Bates Method and Taoism--rhythm, softness, return, balance, and wholeness--to provide guidelines for a holistic healing of outer and inner vision.

Doug Marsh, a professional engineer and vision educator, has extensively studied natural vision improvement and the mind/body interface as it relates to eyesight. The natural Taoist approach has greatly reduced his nearsightedness while also relieving the symptoms of a TMJ/inner-ear disorder. Most days he experiences brief, spontaneous “flashes” of near 20/20 eyesight, an encouraging sign that his vision continues to heal. He lives in Canada.

New interesting book: Dirty Politics or Tower Stories

Built to Survive

Author: Michael Mooney

Built to Survive is an easy to use resource for the most effective, least toxic, health program possible for HIV(+) men, women and children. Thoroughly referenced, it is invaluable for doctors and nutritionists as well. This unique book addresses significant problems faced by people living with HIV(+), including: Wasting: body-composition problems, like the loss of lean body mass/muscle; and lipodystrophy - fat loss in the face, arms and legs; fat accumulation in the stomach, behind the neck and in women's breasts. Drug side effects: diarrhea, depression, low energy, neuropathy, elevated blood sugar, increased cholesterol and triglycerides, gastrointestinal problems, and decreased sexual function.

Leading HIV treatment advocates Michael Mooney and Nelson Vergel wrote Built to Survive to provide guidelines that anyone can follow through nutrition, hormonal therapies and exercise. Use this information to increase energy and immune function and improve your long-term health.

	Foreword
	Foreword
	Foreword
1	Nelson's story	1
2	Jump start your life with anabolic PoWeR	6
3	What is AIDS-related wasting?	11
4	Wasting syndrome treatment issues	13
5	Megace - the wrong drug	16
6	Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and AIDS survival	18
7	Appetite stimulation : megace, medicinal marijuana, and marinol	20
8	How do anabolic steroids work?	22
9	First placebo-controlled steroid study suggests improved immune function	30
10	Steroid legality and the physician	32
11	An initiative : new directions for wasting research from program for wellness restoration (PoWeR)	35
12	Complementary approaches to treating lipodystrophy	42
13	Mitochondrial damage	52
14	HIV-related facial wasting : potential reconstructive procedures	58
15	Testosterone and anabolic steroids : adverse effects, rumors and reality	65
16	Anabolic hormones - adverse effects and remedies	68
17	Anabolic steroids and Kaposi's sarcoma	73
18	Anabolic steroids for AIDS therapy : a comparison table	75
19	Program for wellness restoration (PoWeR) anabolic hormone guidelines	79
20	Orthomolecular nutrition	104
21	Pediatric AIDS : approaches to managing wasting	139
22	AIDS and food safety	141
23	Stop and runs before they run you down	144
24	Getting started : what to do before you start the PoWeR program	148
25	Weight lifting for maximum muscle gains - a simple but effective method	150

Generation Rx or Herbs Demystified

2009-01-13T04:06:00.000-08:00

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies

Author: Greg Critser

Greg Critser's brilliantly incisive Generation Rx shows how shockingly little we know about the prescription drugs we take and the hazards they may pose to our health. Americans are prescribed more drugs today than ever before, and the pharmaceutical industry has gained tremendous financial power and political clout. Drawing on exclusive access to the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, and other drug giants, Critser chronicles the transformation of big pharma from onetime lumbering medical conglomerate to media-savvy consumer enterprise. He also reveals the direct and indirect consequences for our health, among them increased incidence of damage to major organs, unprecedented medication use by the very young and very old, and the emergence of polypharmacy, in which various drugs taken together can unleash unanticipated, and often deadly, effects.

Generation Rx urges all of us to think about the price we pay, as a society and with our own bodies, for our chronic use of prescription drugs.

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
Unbound: The Strange and Very American Liberation of Big Pharma     10
We Love It!: How the New Pharma Used Its New Muscle to Create a New...You     111
The Full Price: What Living in Pharma's World Means for Our Bodies     170
The End of the Great Buffer?: Why We Are More Vulnerable     220
Independence for Generation Rx: What Can Be Done     239
A Brief Guide to the Art of Taking Prescription Drugs     257
Notes     261
Index     292

Go to: Art of Persian Cooking or Party

Herbs Demystified: A Scientist Explains How the Most Common Herbal Remedies Really Work

Author: Holly Phaneuf

The scores of books on herbs already available generally restate old, often outdated lore about herbs. Now, Herbs Demystified does something entirely different: It is the first book to explain exactly what herbs actually do inside our bodies and how they achieve their effects. Biochemist Holly Phaneuf covers 100 of the most popular herbs-astragalus, black cohosh, chamomile, echinacea, garlic, gingko, ginseng, milk thistle, pine bark extract, saw palmetto, valerian, and many others. Phaneuf's introductory overview lays out the basic chemical principles that underlie the journey herbal molecules make in our bodies. Then, for each of the herbs, she covers its history and folklore; explains what the herb really does-its evidence of action; its good uses and not so good uses, including the forms in which it is typically available and commonly reported dosages; interesting facts and the bottom line. Like no other herb book before, Herbs Demystified allows readers to custom-fit an herb to one's own particular concern, therefore minimizing trial and error.

Pilates For Core Strength or Fix It and Enjoy It Diabetic Cookbook

2009-01-12T18:54:00.000-08:00

Pilates For Core Strength: A Step-by-Step Guide

Author: Sandie Kean

Pilates For Core Strength offers a gentle but powerful approach to achieving optimal strength, flexibility, and stamina. The Pilates method is a body conditioning exercise therapy targeting the deep postural muscles. Pilates teacher Sandie Keane helps readers analyze their own posture type and then give posture-specific exercises designed to improve core strength and stability. Step-by-step photography guides readers through each exercise posture, with basic exercises for the beginner plus progressions for advanced practitioners, including specially-devised thirty-minute programs to make maximum use of limited training time.

Interesting textbook: If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder or Womans Yoga Book

Fix It and Enjoy It Diabetic Cookbook

Author: Phyllis Pellman Good

These cookbooks include: Recipes for appetizers, main courses, soups, vegetables, breakfast dishes, and snacks. Complete nutritional analysis and exchange values for each recipe. Timely healthy tips from the experts at the American Diabetes Association scattered among the recipes. A week of sample menus. Answers to the Ten Most Asked Questions About Diabetes. A recommended reading list from the American Diabetes Association.

Nothing to Fear or The 40 30 30 Phenomenon

2009-01-12T07:41:00.000-08:00

Nothing to Fear: The Key to Cancer Survival

Author: Larry Burkett

A Crash Course on Cancer Survival

In 1995 Larry Burkett was diagnosed with kidney cancer, which had spread to his scapula, and his hope of survival was not favorable. Based on
his own personal cancer survival journey, Nothing to Fear was written to help shorten the learning curve for others. What had Burkett learned?
Well, among other things, he found that:

• the single most important factor in cancer survival is faith
• the opposite of faith is fear and it must be conquered
• not all cancer treatments work for everyone
• technology improves daily and offers more varied treatment options
• some alternative therapies offer much promise

It is these time-proven, common sense lessons that Burkett shares with readers in this candidly personal book. Whether you or someone you know has received a cancer diagnosis, this book offers a healthy dose of wisdom. Or, as Burkett would define it, “useable knowledge” offered by someone
who has been where you are.

Burkett’s theme, which rings throughout this handy volume like a chorus: “No medical doctor is really responsible for your health; you are responsible for your health. Doctors may help guide, give alternatives, advise, and administer whatever therapy you choose, but it’s your body, and you must make the final decisions. ”

Publishers Weekly

Christian financial guru Larry Burkett forsakes his usual pattern of dispensing personal finance advice to offer hope to cancer patients in Nothing to Fear: The Key to Cancer Survival. In March of 1995, Burkett received a shocking diagnosis of kidney cancer, and learned that it had spread to his left shoulder blade. He faced a low expectation of survival. Here, he explains the strategies that helped him better his chances: arming himself with information, seeking several opinions, exploring alternative treatments (even going as far as Prague for immune therapy), changing his diet and allowing faith to win out over fear. The book is quite practical and reassuring, though much of the personal information has already appeared in Burkett's memoir Hope When It Hurts.

New interesting textbook: To Lead the World or 9 11

The 40/30/30 Phenomenon

Author: Ann Louise Gittleman

The "Zone"-based diet plan tailored for individual needs.

Water Aerobics for Fitness and Wellness or The Joffrey Ballet Schools Ballet Fit

2009-01-11T21:30:00.000-08:00

Water Aerobics for Fitness and Wellness

Author: Terry Ann Spitzer Gibson

WATER AEROBICS FOR FITNESS AND WELLNESS, Third Edition offers the latest information for obtaining and maintaining wellness through water aerobics. Full of illustrations and over 100 photos, the text is appropriate for water aerobic classes or activity programs in colleges and universities, health/fitness clubs, and health promotion programs in general. It provides students with guidelines, exercises, and examples to develop a water aerobic program. The text also includes unique chapters on fitness assessment, nutrition, and weight management to encourage a lifetime of fitness and wellness program. Since most theoretical information is often overlooked, the use of this text will provide an excellent resource guide to all participants.

Interesting book: Professional Communication or Case Studies in Finance

The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit

Author: Dena Simone Moss

The world-renowned Joffrey Ballet School makes the art and joy of ballet available to everyone.

Let Dena Simone Moss and Allison Kyle Leopold teach you everything you need to know to get in shape, beautifully sculpt your body, and truly appreciate the art of ballet. They'll let you in on all their secrets, including:

-A demystifying explanation of ballet terms and positions
-Tips on finding the right instructor and studio-and feeling comfortable once you're there
-Hints on ballet attire-including finding, choosing, and tying pointe shoes
-An exhaustive directory of where to find ballet publications, audio and videotapes, books, dance wear, schools, and studios.

Perfect for the beginner and the veteran balletomane, The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit offers an inside glimpse into the mysterious and beautiful world of ballet.

Library Journal

Ballet dancers are different from you and me. They start taking class in childhood and continue throughout their professional careers and often into retirement. They devote years to study, rehearsal, and practice. This book is for the rest of us. The authors, a Joffrey Ballet School instructor and a magazine editor who is a ballet student, have designed it for those "not heading for a performing career but...pursuing ballet with the...goals of fitness, relaxation, and pleasure in mind." Aimed at the adult beginner, it provides sensible advice and clear explanations of what to expect in and from a ballet class. The language of ballet is translated into lay terms and the movements are described in words and photographs. There is a step-by-step outline of a home ballet workout, a discussion of pointe work, and a chapter of frequently asked adult ballet questions. A "Ballet Fitness Source Directory" highlights publications, audiovisual materials, dancewear and footwear suppliers, schools receptive to adult students, and more. Highly recommended for all public libraries.--Carolyn M. Mulac, Chicago P.L.

An Herbalists Guide to Growing and Using Echinacea or Nutrition for Sport and Exercise

2009-01-11T12:18:00.000-08:00

An Herbalist's Guide to Growing and Using Echinacea: A Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin

Author: Storey Books Staff

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Nutrition for Sport and Exercise

Author: Jacqueline R Berning

"Nutrition for Sport and Exercise is a credible resource and reference book for not only sports nutritionists, but also athletic trainers and other health professionals interested in sports nutrition theory and application."——Journal of Athletic Training (Vol. 34:3)

"...A versatile reference that makes a great addition to any dietitian's library."——Today's Dietitian (Vol. 2:6)

Newly updated to include the latest research findings, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise, Second Edition gives you a wealth of information and guidance to design effective nutrition programs for athletic clients and promote lifelong health through proper nutrition. This one—volume resource covers a broad range of topics in diet and exercise——and ends the confusion about proper nutrition for active people of every age. This powerful guide, using new research, gives you the facts and strategies to assess athletes' nutritional requirements and to use diet to improve performance and enhance overall health.

Julie A. Patten

This book is a comprehensive resource on sports nutrition and exercise for healthcare professionals. It is especially applicable for professionals practicing in the sports and fitness areas who need valid nutrition information to help physically active people make healthful decisions. It provides a factual basis for designing and implementing optimal diets for athletes, a much needed entity for all involved in maximizing health and physical performance. This book is the second edition of the text originally published as Sports Nutrition for the 90s. It skillfully integrates current, scientifically-based nutrition information with exercise science for use by health professionals involved in the care of physically active people. The authors and contributors, credible professionals in the fields nutrition and exercise science, have produced a much needed resource on sports nutrition. This publication is written primarily for health professionals involved in the care of athletes. The content is appropriate for those who are involved in designing and implementing dietary intakes for optimal health and physical performance. The content includes current, research-based, and historical information on optimal nutrition for health and physical performance. In addition, practical applications of research findings plus case studies provide the health professional with the basics for effective dietary planning for optimal physical performance and health. This book provides an excellent resource on sports nutrition for health professionals involved in the care of athletes and other physically active individuals. The information presented offers valid answers to those withquestions about sports nutrition and exercise science. This edition is much more extensive in content and quality in comparison to its predecessor.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Julie A. Patten, PhD, CHES (University of Texas El Paso College of Health Sciences)
Description: This book is a comprehensive resource on sports nutrition and exercise for healthcare professionals. It is especially applicable for professionals practicing in the sports and fitness areas who need valid nutrition information to help physically active people make healthful decisions. It provides a factual basis for designing and implementing optimal diets for athletes, a much needed entity for all involved in maximizing health and physical performance. This book is the second edition of the text originally published as Sports Nutrition for the 90s.
Purpose: It skillfully integrates current, scientifically-based nutrition information with exercise science for use by health professionals involved in the care of physically active people. The authors and contributors, credible professionals in the fields nutrition and exercise science, have produced a much needed resource on sports nutrition.
Audience: This publication is written primarily for health professionals involved in the care of athletes. The content is appropriate for those who are involved in designing and implementing dietary intakes for optimal health and physical performance.
Features: The content includes current, research-based, and historical information on optimal nutrition for health and physical performance. In addition, practical applications of research findings plus case studies provide the health professional with the basics for effective dietary planning for optimal physical performance and health.
Assessment: This book provides an excellent resource on sports nutrition for health professionals involved in the care of athletes and other physically active individuals. The information presented offers valid answers to those with questions about sports nutrition and exercise science. This edition is much more extensive in content and quality in comparison to its predecessor.

Rating

5 Stars! from Doody

From the Kitchen to the Parlor or Positive Options for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

2009-01-11T00:06:00.000-08:00

From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care

Author: Lanita Jacobs Huey

When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences.

Interesting book: Formation Influente :un Guide pour les Infirmiers

Positive Options for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): Self-Help and Treatment

Author: Christine Craggs Hinton

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, a condition set up by hormonal imbalances, affects ovulation, metabolism, and the cardiovascular system and can contribute to such problems as multiple miscarriages, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, and endometrial cancer. While serious, it is often difficult to diagnose because symptoms can seem unrelated. Written for the layperson, this book puts it all together in an accessible format: individual health issues, getting a diagnosis, plus traditional and alternative treatments that have worked for others.

Authors' Note....................ix
Introduction....................1
Chapter 1: What Is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome?....................2
Irregular or Absent Periods....................4
Hirsutism....................5
Infertility....................5
Weight Gain/Being Overweight....................6
Acne....................7
Dealing with Embarrassing Symptoms....................8
A Condition to Be Taken Seriously....................10
What Does It Feel Like to Suffer from PCOS?....................10
Can the Cysts Linked to PCOS Be Removed?....................11
Is PCOS Curable?....................12
Chapter 2: What Causes Polycystic Ovary Syndrome?....................13
A Familial Link....................13
Normal Ovarian Function....................15
Abnormal Ovarian Function in PCOS....................18
High Levels of LH....................19
Increased Levels of Testosterone....................20
Insulin Problems....................21
PCOS and Being Overweight....................22
The Long-Term Health Risks of PCOS....................23
Chapter 3: Getting Help from Your Doctor....................25
Preparing to See Your Doctor....................25
At the Doctor's Office....................27
What Tests Am I Likely to Undergo?....................27
What Happens after the Diagnosis?....................30
Medications That Regulate Your Periods....................31
Medications That Treat Hirsutism and Acne....................32
Medications That Treat Obesity....................33
Medications That Treat Insulin Resistance....................34
Chapter 4: GettingPregnant....................37
Preparing to Get Pregnant....................37
At the Fertility Clinic....................40
IVF....................44
Chapter 5: Helping Yourself....................47
Improving Your Diet....................47
Eliminating Food Additives from Your Diet....................49
What Should Women with PCOS Eat?....................49
A Whole-Food Diet....................54
Phytoestrogens....................57
A Sample Meal Plan....................58
Making Changes....................61
Using a Diary to Set Goals....................62
Dietary Supplements for Women with PCOS....................62
Water....................64
Estrogens in the Environment....................64
Exercise....................65
Managing Stubborn Symptoms....................77
Chapter 6: Complementary Treatments....................83
What Is Complementary Medicine?....................83
Acupuncture....................84
Aromatherapy....................85
Bach Flower Remedies....................87
Herbal Remedies....................90
Homeopathy....................94
Reflexology....................95
Chapter 7: Emotional Support....................97
Your Appearance....................97
Boosting Confidence and Self-Esteem....................99
Helping Those Close to You Understand....................101
Overcoming a Negative Emotional State....................107
Understanding Chronic Stress....................109
Managing Stress....................112
Learning How to Relax....................113
In Closing....................117
Endnotes....................118
Resources....................120
Further Reading....................126
Index....................127

When Misery Is Company or Twinkie Deconstructed

2009-01-10T13:55:00.000-08:00

When Misery Is Company: Ending Self-Sabotage and Misery Addiction

Author: Anne Katherin

Surprising as it may sound, many people take comfort in their own misery. Feeling too good for too long (or even feeling good at all) can be scary for people, explains Anne Katherine.

"Achievement creates anxiety. Intimacy leads to fear. Happiness produces uneasiness. Pleasure causes pain. The solution to this dilemma: what feels good has to be stopped. I call this an addiction to misery. " Katherine's fascination and perspective book provides immediate assistance to those people who think they might be making choices that keep them at a "carefully calibrated level of existence--beneath bliss and above despair. "

*Available for delivery late February 2004. Reserve yours today!

	Acknowledgments	ix
Part 1	Understanding the Problem
Chapter 1	Can This Book Really Help?	3
Chapter 2	The Paradox	11
Chapter 3	What's the Use?	19
Chapter 4	Tilt	25
Chapter 5	The Horns of the Dilemma	29
Chapter 6	Yes or No?	31
Chapter 7	Don't Push Me	39
Chapter 8	Isolation and Pseudo-Intimacy	45
Chapter 9	Sacrifice and the System	53
Chapter 10	Mom, Dad, and Anger	63
Chapter 11	Protecting Mom (or Dad)	69
Chapter 12	Body Hate	73
Chapter 13	Double Trouble	77
Chapter 14	Stopped	81
Chapter 15	The Tie That Unravels	87
Chapter 16	Evicting a Source of Good	105
Chapter 17	Self-Sabotage	109
Chapter 18	Symptoms	117
Part 2	Finding and Living the Solution
Chapter 19	A Look in the Mirror	135
Chapter 20	Recovery	139
Chapter 21	Allergic to Progress--The Misery Addict's Dilemma	149
Chapter 22	Step One	163
Chapter 23	The Next Steps	167
Chapter 24	Recovery Meetings	173
Chapter 25	Abstinence	179
Chapter 26	Now That I'm Recovering I'm Feeling Stuff	199
Chapter 27	Toolshed	215
Chapter 28	Brain Healing	231
Chapter 29	Therapy	239
Chapter 30	Making It Last or Avoiding Relapse	243
Chapter 31	Is It Really an Addiction?	249
Chapter 32	Make a Commitment to Yourself	253
	Appendixes
Appendix A	MAA Meeting Information	259
Appendix B	Author Letter to Therapists	269
Appendix C	Resources	271
Appendix D	Notes	273
Appendix E	References	277
	Index	279
	About the Author	287

New interesting book: Cocktails or Made from Scratch

Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats

Author: Steve Ettlinger

A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in dozens of common packagedfoods, using the Twinkie label as a guide

Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he often reads the ingredients label—without a clue as to what most of it means. So when his young daughter asked, "Daddy, what's polysorbate 60?" he was at a loss—and determined to find out.

From the phosphate mines in Idaho to the corn fields in Iowa, from gypsum mines in Oklahoma to the vanilla harvest in Madagascar, Twinkie, Deconstructed is a fascinating, thoroughly researched romp of a narrative that demystifies some of the most common processed food ingredients—where they come from, how they are made, how they are used—and why. Beginning at the source (hint: they're often more closely linked to rock and petroleum than any of the four food groups), we follow each Twinkie ingredient through the process of being crushed, baked, fermented, refined, and/or reacted into a totally unrecognizable goo or powder with a strange name—all for the sake of creating a simple snack cake.

An insightful exploration into the food industry, if you've ever wondered what you're eating when you consume foods containing mono- and diglycerides or calcium sulfate (the latter, a food-grade equivalent) this book is for you.

About the Author:
Steve Ettlinger, author of six books, has long been fascinated with everyday consumer products, from hardware to beer.

Library Journal

Hostess-brand TwinkiesR are an iconic American snack food. Who hasn't heard of these cream-filled snack cakes or seen them on grocery shelves? Perhaps it's because of their fame that so many rumors have grown around them. (Do TwinkiesR really have an infinite shelf life? Are they really a concoction of chemicals and not actually food?) Ettlinger (The Hardware Cyclopedia) tackles these rumors, also explaining the tongue-twisting list of ingredients on a package of TwinkiesR. Although he is not a food chemist, nutritionist, or any one of a number of people who may be interested in deconstructing TwinkiesR, Ettlinger is a concerned father embarrassed at having been unable to answer his children when they asked, "What's Polysorbate 60?" and "Where does Polysorbate 60 come from?" Here he answers their questions while providing an insightful look into the processed food industry. Ettlinger didn't intend this book to discuss the issues surrounding the nutritional value of these constructed foodstuffs, however, so readers looking for support of their particular lifestyle should turn elsewhere. Recommended for all public libraries.-Rachel M. Minkin, Graduate Theological Union Lib., Berkeley, CA Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Yoga for Pregnancy or Healing Power of Psalms

2009-01-10T02:42:00.000-08:00

Yoga for Pregnancy

Author: Rosalind Widdowson

Written in consultation with top instructors, midwives, and doctors, this step-by-step handbook shows expectant mothers how to harness the power of yoga to enhance both their own well-being and that of their child. Each yoga posture depicted in this illustrated guide is safe and comfortable for each stage of pregnancy—from the first trimester through delivery. The positions and relaxation techniques suggested can help improve circulation, increase energy, and ease the symptoms of hormonal imbalances, and also included are tips to help speed post-natal recovery. Perfect for yoga novices as well as experienced students, this book can help harmonize body, heart, and mind during this transformative time for mom and baby.

Interesting book: Le fait de communiquer au Travail :les Principes et les Pratiques pour les Affaires et les Professions

Healing Power of Psalms: Renewal, Hope and Acceptance from the World's Most Beloved Ancient Verses

Author: Samuel Chiel

For generations, the Book of Psalms has been a source of comfort for those ill or grieving. Now in paperback for the first time, The Healing Power of Psalms identifies how fifteen Psalms provide strength and encouragement for when you are faced with times of loneliness, fear, death, guilt, and more. The Healing Power of Psalms captures the Psalms’ themes of compassion and mercy and how they can have a dramatic healing effect on the mind, spirit, and sometimes even the body.

French Women for All Seasons or Drugs

2009-01-09T17:30:00.000-08:00

French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes and Pleasure

Author: Mireille Guiliano

For the legions of fans who asked for seconds after devouring French Women Don’t Get Fat, a charming and practical guide to adding some joie to your vie and to your table, every day of the year.

By letter, by email and in person, readers of Mireille Guiliano’s phenomenal bestseller French Women Don’t Get Fat have inundated her with requests for more advice. Her answer: this buoyant new book, brimming with tips and tricks for living with the utmost pleasure and style, without gaining weight.

More than a theory or ideal, the French woman’s way is an all-encompassing program that can be practised anytime, anywhere. Here are four full seasons of strategies for shopping, cooking and moving throughout the year. Whether your aim is finding two scoopfuls of pleasure in one of crème brûlée, or entertaining beautifully when time is short and expectations are high, the answers are here. And here too are 100 new simple and appetizing recipes that feature French staples such as leeks and chocolate and many more unexpected treats besides, guaranteeing that boredom will never be a guest at your table.

Woven through this year of living comme les françaises are more of Mireille’s delectable stories about living in Paris and New York and travelling just about everywhere else – in the voice that has already beguiled a million honorary French women. Lest anyone still wonder: here is a new compendium of reasons – both traditional and modern – why French women don’t get fat.

Publishers Weekly

Guiliano serves up second helpings of her popular approach to healthy living in this gracious outing (following 2005's French Women Don't Get Fat), framed with an emphasis on the pleasures of seasonality, local produce and personal style. Everything in moderation is this New York City-based Frenchwoman's secret to staying slim and bien dans sa peau (comfortable in one's skin). Always with a mind to portion control, she presents weekly menus and over a hundred recipes organized by season and sauced with casual, idyllic culinary reminiscences. Some of her simple, appealing recipes tap her French origins (Potato Gratin la Normande calls for apples and soft, ripe Pont l' v que cheese), others nod to Americanized calorie-conscious taste (Turkey Scaloppine with Pesto) and some recipes reflect her proximity to New York City's Union Square Greenmarket (saut ed fiddleheads). A holistic fitness strategy (e.g., cycling as a mode of transportation) remains a theme and Guilano expands l'art de vivre to aging gracefully, entertaining and tying one's scarf with flair. The CEO of Champagne Veuve Clicquot, she also offers an excellent primer on wine. Guiliano's debut, which laid out a program, is more instructive, but the legions of readers fond of her encouraging, urbane voice will be happy to hear from her, though they won't learn any new secrets. 750,000 announced first printing; 12-city author tour. (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

French Women Don't Get Fat, but they do respond gracefully to reader requests for more ideas about living well without chubbing up. Big expectations: there's a 750,000-copy first printing. With a 12-city tour. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Drugs: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Leslie L Iversen

The twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and mental illnesses. These, along with the introduction of the oral contraceptive, have altered all of our lives. There has also been an increase in the recreational use and abuse of drugs in the Western world. This Very Short Introduction gives a non-technical account of how drugs act on the body and how therapeutic drugs are developed and tested, then goes on to review both legal (prescription, alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine) and illegal drugs, and discuss current ideas about why some drugs are addictive, and whether drug laws need reform.

Sleep Thieves or Primal Healing

2009-01-09T05:18:00.000-08:00

Sleep Thieves

Author: Stanley Coren

In this engrossing, expansive look at the facts and folklore of sleep, best-selling author Stanley Coren provides astounding new evidence that we are becoming an increasingly sleep-deprived society, and that this condition is seriously affecting our work, posing a danger to ourselves and others. He shows, for example, that the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the disaster involving the space shuttle Challenger, and the nuclear accidents at both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were all associated with people suffering from sleep deprivation. Drawing on dramatic interviews with a range of professionals including doctors, airline pilots, stockbrokers, and truck drivers, Coren shows the risks that everyone now faces as more and more people in the workforce operate with insufficient sleep. He also looks at some of the more subtle and insidious effects of sleep loss on our physical and mental health and explains how to tell whether you are getting enough sleep. In addition Coren asks intriguing questions like: Do fish sleep? Are there really "morning" people and "night" people? Why is it virtually impossible to fall asleep during midmorning hours no matter how tired you are? And how is it that you can sleep for hours on a plane and never feel rested? Some provocative stories about sleep oddities are presented along with a description of some strange sleep disorders that affect a surprisingly large number of people. Finally, the book describes specific techniques to help children sleep through the night and to improve the quality and efficiency of your own sleep.

Library Journal

While Coren's (psychology, Univ. of British Columbia) main thesis is that we Americans are becoming an ever-more-exhausted and accident-prone society due to "sleep debt," his fascinating book is also an in-depth look at this mysterious activity in which we all must, by nature, engage. Coren, author of the best-selling The Intelligence of Dogs (LJ 3/15/94), sees much peril in the fact that we are sleeping less, sleeping oddly, and think we can get away with it. He takes the reader on a journey into the world of sleep, keeping the scientific jargon to a manageable minimum without sacrificing the integrity of his work. One is impressed with the facts he lays out, though he makes clear that sleep remains a necessary but still very mysterious realm of human experience. After taking us through chapters detailing what scientists have come to know about sleep and the sleep experience, he tackles sleep problems, including insomnia, and details with alarming anecdotal and statistical evidence what progressively less sleep is buying us, both as individuals and as a society. Many chapters also offer tips, hints, and questionnaires dealing with different aspects of sleep. This is a well-written, easy-to-understand book on a complex scientific subject to which everyone can relate. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries.-David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib., Boston

Kirkus Reviews

Forget that early-to-rise myth; getting too little sleep is unhealthful, costly, and downright unproductive, according to this lively, anecdote-laden report on the perils of sleep deprivation.

Coren, a Canadian neuropsychologist whose previous work had wide appeal among dog lovers (The Intelligence of Dogs, 1994), will win the kudos of sleep lovers with this one. After a brief look at sleep in the rest of the animal kingdom, he focuses on what happens to the human mind and body when deprived of sleep. Citing research and using notes from a diary he kept while systematically cutting back on his own sleep, he demonstrates that reducing sleep decreases the quality and quantity of one's work. Furthermore, to ignore our biological clocks is to court disaster, for Coren notes that sleep deprivation weakens the immune system, leaving the body more vulnerable to infection and illness, even death. He looks specifically at the effects of sleep deprivation on truck drivers, airline pilots, air traffic controllers, hospital interns and residents, and shift workers such as police and firefighters. The statistics and anecdotes he provides are certainly eye-opening. A 1988 figure he cites gives the cost of sleep-related accidents in the US that year as billion, and he presents persuasive evidence that the major disasters of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the Exxon Valdez were all caused by human beings with too little sleep. Tucked in among the sobering data are several charts and tables, quizzes to help one analyze one's own sleep habits and needs, and some tips on overcoming jet lag and getting a good night's sleep.

All the justification one needs for turning off the alarm and catching another 40 winks.

	Preface
	Edison's Curse	1
	Sleep and Consciousness	12
	What Is Sleep?	23
	Evolution's Mistake?	36
	No Sleep at All	48
	Cutting Down on Sleep	60
	A Little Bit of Sleep	70
	The Clocks Within Us	80
	Riding the Daily Seesaw of Sleepiness	94
	Sleepy Children and Sleepy Parents	105
	Sleepy Teenagers	119
	Sleep Thieves in the Kitchen	126
	Ondine's Curse	141
	Sleepless Nights	154
	Sleep and Health	168
	Asleep at the Wheel	176
	Asleep at the Operating Table	187
	Asleep on the Night Shift	206
	Asleep in the Sky	225
	The Cost of Sleep Debt	236
	Are We Chronically Sleep Deprived?	247
	What Is Your Personal Sleep Debt?	260
	Death on Daylight Savings Time	268
	A Wake-Up Call	278
	Notes	289
	General Bibliography	293
	Index	295

New interesting book: Guardas de Fazem - Acredite:Idealistas, Empresários, e a Formação de Literatura de Crianças americana

Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health

Author: Arthur Janov

Primal Healing reveals how our mental and physical health are inextricably linked and determined by the brain. For true and lasting change, deep levels of the brain must change physiologically, enabling key structures within the brain to recalibrate to optimal, healthy levels.

For those who have ever sought help for any kind of mental health problem, Primal Healing shows how conventional, word-based psychotherapies such as cognitive, behavioral, and insight, cannot render lasting change, and at best offer only temporary relief from emotional pain. Utilizing compelling case studies, Dr. Janov shows how the brain and nervous system can be imprinted by trauma during birth and early childhood, and how these imprinted memories give rise to all manner of physical and mental dysfunction. When you are able to access these subconscious memories, you can liberate yourself and improve your health.

Dr. Arthur Janov has done more than 30 years of scientific research in neurology and psychotherapy, including studies in neurochemistry, brainwave patterns, vital signs, infrared visions, and immunology.

His 11 books, including the worldwide best-seller The Primal Scream and his recent best-seller The Biology of Love, have been translated into 24 different languages. Janov has served on staff at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital Psychiatric Department, and is currently director of the Primal Center in Venice, California. His work has also been the subject of a PBS special in the United States and documentaries in Germany, England, France, and Sweden. Janov was recently elected to Claremont Graduate University's academic hall of fame.

Library Journal

Primal therapy enjoyed a vogue in the United States in the 1970s, when Janov's (director, Primal Ctr., Venice, CA) Primal Scream was a best seller and Beatle John Lennon credited his therapy sessions with the author as the crucial catalyst in unleashing his creativity. However, it was never subjected to clinical studies of its effectiveness (no such studies are listed in Medline for the years 1965-2006), and the current volume is published by a press that specializes in New Age books. Therefore, the first question librarians must ask themselves is whether any current, noncritical book on primal therapy is worthy of purchase. If so, Primal Healing will serve as well as any: written in a popular style, it presents Janov's basic ideas and is illustrated by case histories. Among the questions Janov poses and answers are, "How do feelings evolve?" "What are the three different levels of consciousness?" and "How are memories formed?" Recommended at librarians' discretion. Sarah Boslaugh, BJC HealthCare, St. Louis Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Before You Take that Pill or Asperger Syndrome the Universe and Everything

2009-01-08T20:06:00.000-08:00

Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health

Author: J Douglas Bremner

A medical expert reveals risks of the most commonly prescribed drugs-and why the drug industry doesn't want consumers to know about them.

Recent scandals involving diabetes drugs, Vioxx, and many other medications reveal the serious and undisclosed risks of some of the most commonly used prescription drugs in this country. In Before You Take That Pill, Dr. J. Douglas Bremner, a researcher and clinician at Emory University whose study on Accutane and depression made headlines, offers an inside look at the pharmaceutical industry, as well as a scientifically backed assessment of the risks of more than three hundred prescribed medications, vitamins, and supplements.

While many drugs are essential to the health of consumers, as Dr. Bremner explains, for many people, the benefits may not outweigh the potential side effects. This book contains warnings that are not on the drug labels. It also exposes tricks of the trade that demonstrate how the profit-making interests of "big pharma" may not always be in line with the safety of the public - from the corruption that exists in the drug approval process to the tactics drug companies use to encourage doctors to prescribe their products. Most important, Before You Take That Pill empowers readers by giving them sound information on specific medications so they can understand and weigh the potential risk themselves. Backed by the latest studies, as well as insight from a doctor who is in the trenches, this book should be on the shelf of every drug consumer.

Introduction     1
The Drug Problem     7
Arthritis Medications     23
Acne Treatments     43
LDL Cholesterol-Lowering Medications (Statins)     55
Antihypertensives     90
Diet Pills     116
Asthma and Allergy Medications     130
Enlarged Prostate     148
Treatments for Ulcers and Gastric Reflux     157
Antibiotics and Vaccines     172
Osteoporosis Drugs     216
Oral Contraceptive Pills and Hormone Replacement Therapy     234
Diabetes Drugs     258
Drugs for Dementia     274
Antidepressants     288
Insomnia Treatments     315
Drugs for Sexual Dysfunction     334
Vitamins and Supplements     343
Medications for Children     381
Conclusion: How Do You Keep Yourself and Your Family Safe?     393
Acknowledgments     397
Notes     398
Books for Further Reading     427
Index     429

Interesting textbook: Problem Solving with C with CDROM or Shadows of the Mind

Asperger Syndrome, the Universe and Everything

Author: Kenneth Hall

"Kenneth Hall was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at the age of eight. He is in a unique position to describe some of the inner experiences and perceptions of autism in childhood. He has a warm and positive attitude to Asperger Syndrome which other children will find inspiring. Insights, struggles and joys are recounted vividly in a frank and humorous way. His book is for anyone interested in understanding more about autism, including parents, siblings, teachers and professionals."--BOOK JACKET.

Handbook of Ayurveda or Taming of the CANDY Monster

2009-01-08T08:53:00.000-08:00

Handbook of Ayurveda

Author: Shantha Godagama

This practical and inspirational handbook touches on every aspect of Ayurveda, a traditional healing system of India, for beginners, and serves as a refresher course for more seasoned students. Written by one of the world's leading Ayurveda practitioners and teachers, this guide offers a complete overview and lays out the principal areas of the system—involving eight branches that include medicine, toxicology, and geriatrics—in ways that are easy to follow yet not oversimplified. The author outlines the history, terminology, and practice, and includes a glossary of terms and a well-researched treatment section. The book also contextualizes Ayurveda within Buddhism, and recommends therapies and the herbs and plants that best accompany them.

Taming of the C.A.N.D.Y Monster: Continuously Advertised Nutritionally Deficient Yummies

Author: Vicki Lansky

It's been 20 years since Vicki Lansky's cookbook first hit the New York Times bestseller list. In this new edition, Lansky provides less sugary desserts, tasty alternatives to junk food snacks, and easy meals to please even the pickiest eaters.

When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder or Help for Hair Pullers

2009-01-07T22:42:00.000-08:00

When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers

Author: Abigail H Natenshon

When Your Child has an Eating Disorder is the first hands-on workbook to help parents successfully intervene when they suspect their child has an eating disorder. This step-by-step guide is filled with self-tests, questions and answers, journaling and role playing exercises, and practical resources that give parents the insight they need to understand eating disorders and their treatment, recognize symptoms in their child, and work with their child toward recovery. This excellent and effective resource is one therapists can feel confident about recommending to patients.

Hollie Sobel

In this description of anorexia nervosa and bulimia, the author provides treatment options and the steps to take to enter into treatment, and she discusses the recovery process. According to the rather lengthy preface, the purpose is to serve as inspiration to find the best possible treatment. This book is an interactive teaching device that helps parents gain insight into their child and themselves, as well as professionals involved with the treatment process. The author offers education and ideas to assist parents in helping their child during recovery. These do appear to be worthy objectives, but helping the parent to gain insight into themselves in the context of their child's eating disorder may be too lofty a goal. In fact, the author states, ""as you consider problems posed by this book and the personal issues it raises, you may find that you could benefit from sorting through some of these issues with the help of a psychotherapist."" According to the author, with whom I agree, the book is intended for parents. It might have been helpful to include the author's credentials on the book cover. Without that information, I wondered about her credibility. Her educational level is discussed only in the final ""about the author"" page. The quotations from credible sources on the back cover and the discussion of her significant experiences in the field do make her an authority. The author offers education about eating disorders, describes treatment options in detail, how to become involved in such treatment, and the recovery process. A strength of this book is the format of the exercises. The author provides space for the parent to complete the activities directly in the book,making it easy for the family to follow through. I also found the case illustrations and graphs to be helpful in solidifying the information provided. It was helpful that the author listed case examples to cover both bulimia and anorexia. It was also beneficial that the author provided practical information regarding insurance coverage for the treatments. A shortcoming might be providing a bit too much information regarding the treatment options, and contraindications for particular treatment (i.e., family therapy). A lay person may misinterpret this information, and refuse treatments that are appropriate or essential to the child and family's improvement. This book is of high quality, and appears to be useful for parents of children with eating disorders. I have not read other books on this topic geared toward parents, and cannot compare it to books I am familiar with which are written for the professional.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Hollie Sobel, PhD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: In this description of anorexia nervosa and bulimia, the author provides treatment options and the steps to take to enter into treatment, and she discusses the recovery process.
Purpose: According to the rather lengthy preface, the purpose is to serve as inspiration to find the best possible treatment. This book is an interactive teaching device that helps parents gain insight into their child and themselves, as well as professionals involved with the treatment process. The author offers education and ideas to assist parents in helping their child during recovery. These do appear to be worthy objectives, but helping the parent to gain insight into themselves in the context of their child's eating disorder may be too lofty a goal. In fact, the author states, "as you consider problems posed by this book and the personal issues it raises, you may find that you could benefit from sorting through some of these issues with the help of a psychotherapist."
Audience: According to the author, with whom I agree, the book is intended for parents. It might have been helpful to include the author's credentials on the book cover. Without that information, I wondered about her credibility. Her educational level is discussed only in the final "about the author" page. The quotations from credible sources on the back cover and the discussion of her significant experiences in the field do make her an authority.
Features: The author offers education about eating disorders, describes treatment options in detail, how to become involved in such treatment, and the recovery process. A strength of this book is the format of the exercises. The author provides space for the parent to complete the activities directly in the book, making it easy for the family to follow through. I also found the case illustrations and graphs to be helpful in solidifying the information provided. It was helpful that the author listed case examples to cover both bulimia and anorexia. It was also beneficial that the author provided practical information regarding insurance coverage for the treatments. A shortcoming might be providing a bit too much information regarding the treatment options, and contraindications for particular treatment (i.e., family therapy). A lay person may misinterpret this information, and refuse treatments that are appropriate or essential to the child and family's improvement.
Assessment: This book is of high quality, and appears to be useful for parents of children with eating disorders. I have not read other books on this topic geared toward parents, and cannot compare it to books I am familiar with which are written for the professional.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionHow to Use This Book
Part One: The Truth About Eating Disorders
1. Learning All You Can
2. Recognizing Signs of Disease
Part Two: Taking Action
3. Beginning the Dialogue with Your Child
4. Understanding Treatment Options
5. Reaching for Professional Help
Part Three: Recovery
6. Understanding the Recovery Process
7. Recognizing and Overcoming Recovery Setbacks
AppAndix A: Answers to ExercisesAppAndix B: Taking An Eating Disorder to College AppAndix C: ResourcesNotesAbout the AuthorIndex

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Help for Hair Pullers

Author: Nancy Keuthen

Trichotillomania, the irresistible urge to pull out one's hair, often starts early - the average onset age is 12 to 13 - and is surprisingly widespread. Help for Hair Pullers reviews the latest treatment options and offers effective cognitive-behavioral techniques for controlling this disorder. Web resources are also included.

Raynauds Syndrome a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or Hair Raising

2009-01-07T13:30:00.000-08:00

Raynaud's Syndrome - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: Icon Health Publications

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to Raynaud's syndrome. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to Raynaud's syndrome.If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.

Forward
Chapter 1. Studies on Raynaud's Syndrome
Overview
Federally Funded Research on Raynaud's Syndrome
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Alternative Medicine and Raynaud's Syndrome
Overview
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Additional Web Resources
General References
Appendix A. Physician Resources
Overview
NIH Guidelines
NIH Databases
Other Commercial Databases
Appendix B. Patient Resources
Overview
Patient Guideline Sources
Finding Associations
Appendix C. Finding Medical Libraries
Overview
Preparation
Finding a Local Medical Library
Medical Libraries in the U.S. and Canada
ONLINE GLOSSARIES
Online Dictionary Directories
RAYNAUD'S SYNDROME DICTIONARY
INDEX

New interesting book: Border Cookbook or Making Sushi

Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women

Author: Noliwe M Rooks

In this book, the author explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s.

On Being Ill or Understanding Anemia

2009-01-07T01:18:00.000-08:00

On Being Ill

Author: Virginia Woolf

In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being's experience, it has never been the subject of literature-like the more acceptable subjects of war and love. We cannot quote Shakespeare to describe a headache. We must, Woolf says, invent language to describe pain. And though illness enhances our perceptions, she observes that it reduces self-consciousness; it is "the great confessional." Woolf discusses the cultural taboos associated with illness and explores how illness changes the way we read. Poems clarify and astonish, Shakespeare exudes new brilliance, and so does melodramatic fiction!

On Being Ill was published as an individual volume by Hogarth Press in 1930. While other Woolf essays, such as A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, were first published by Hogarth as individual volumes and have since been widely available, On Being Ill has been overlooked. The Paris Press edition will feature original cover art by Woolf's sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. Hermione Lee's Introduction will discuss this "extraordinary" work, and explore Woolf's revelations about poetry, language, and illness.

Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) is one of the great literary geniuses of the 20th century. Her innovative fiction and essays are revered by readers around the globe. She was a central member of the Bloomsbury group and a groundbreaking feminist, publishing book-length essays that continue to change the lives of women today. Her most popular novels include To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, and Orlando. When she was not writing, Virginia Woolf operated Hogarth Press with herhusband Leonard Woolf.

Hermione Lee is the acclaimed Virginia Woolf scholar and the author of Virginia Woolf (Knopf, 1997). Other books include Willa Cather and the forthcoming biography of Edith Wharton. She is Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford, England.

The New Yorker

The first sentence of this essay, which was originally published in T. S. Eliot's New Criterion, in 1926, includes references to both the consolations of angels and the indignities of the dentist's chair, and this almost gleeful waywardness is characteristic of what's to come. By turns lyrical, self-mocking, and outlandish, Woolf's meditation on the perils and privileges of the sickbed lampoons the loneliness that makes one "glad of a kick from a housemaid" and extolls the merits of bad literature for the unwell. As Hermione Lee points out in her excellent introduction, the author only hints here at the mental and physical illnesses that plagued her throughout her life, but one's knowledge of them gives the references to "waters of annihilation" and "deserts of the soul" an added resonance. And yet the consolations of creation are also considered. When Woolf imagines beauty in a frozen-over garden, even after the death of the sun -- "There, thrusting its head up undaunted in the starlight, the rose will flower, the crocus will burn" -- it seems less a triumph of nature than of art.

Book review: The Doctors Complete College Girls Health Guide or Coyote Healing

Understanding Anemia

Author: Ed Uthman

Understanding Anemia gently builds upon elementary knowledge of biology to provide the general reader with a fairly sophisticated understanding of the various causes of anemia, the methods used to make diagnoses, and the principles of treatment. The book begins with a definition of anemia and a brief history of the scientific study of blood. It explains how the doctor makes the diagnosis and details the main types of anemia. Since the different conditions result from the failure of various organs, the reader will come away with a surprisingly broad understanding of human anatomy and physiology, encompassing the digestive, circulatory, and immune systems, nutrition, biochemistry, and heredity.

	Acknowledgments and Dedication
	Introduction
1	What Is Anemia?	3
2	How Is Anemia Diagnosed?	20
3	Iron Deficiency Anemia	29
4	Vitamin Deficiency Anemias	45
5	Hemolytic Anemias	67
6	Inherited Anemias	91
7	Miscellaneous Anemias	117
Appendix A	A Mercifully Brief Note on the Metric System	131
Appendix B	A Whirlwind Review of Basic Cell Biology	132
Appendix C	Typical Normal Values for Common Hematologic Lab Tests	134
Appendix D	Bone Marrow Biopsy	134
Appendix E	Mistakes Doctors Make Concerning Anemia	135
Appendix F	Resources for Additional Information	137
	Glossary	141
	Index	149

Good Cholesterol Bad Cholesterol or The Doctors Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals

2009-01-06T15:07:00.000-08:00

Good Cholesterol, Bad Cholesterol: An Indispensable Guide to The Facts About Cholesterol

Author: Anita Hirsch

High cholesterol is an important risk factor for heart disease, heart attack, and strokes. And although cholesterol screening is one of the most widely administered and evaluated blood tests, many people don't realize that our bodies require some cholesterol to function normally and remain confused about which cholesterol is the "good" one and which is the "bad." Now, in Good Cholesterol, Bad Cholesterol, Hirsch presents a clear, concise primer to all the varieties of this blood lipid, including HDL (high-density lipoprotein), LDL (low-density lipoprotein), VDL (very low density lipoprotein), and others, as well as the connection between the ways various types of fat affect cholesterol levels. Providing essential information about how cholesterol relates to heart disease, stroke, and other life-threatening medical conditions, this essential primer also provides guidance about how to manage your cholesterol levels—through diet, exercise, and stress management—for optimum, lifelong health.

	Introduction	ix
Part I	What's Cholesterol, Anyway?
1	Fats and Your Health	3
2	The Good and the Bad: HDL, LDL, and VLDL	20
3	Triglycerides and Cholesterol	27
4	Diagnosis: High Cholesterol	34
5	Are You At Risk?	44
Part II	High Cholesterol and You
6	How to Lower Cholesterol or Keep It Low	57
7	Exercise and Stress Reduction	69
8	Diet and Weight Loss	77
9	Foods That Make the Difference: How to Modify Recipes to Make Them Healthier	96
10	Menus That Help to Lower Total Cholesterol and LDL	111
11	Drugs and Supplements	125
Appendix	Where the Cholesterol and Fats Are Found	136
	References	141
	Acknowledgments	143
	Index	144
	About the Author	150

Books about: International Accounting or High Performance Employess

The Doctor's Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals

Author: Mary Dan Eades

Few people know that niacin decreases the pain of arthritis; vitamin E protects against skin cancer; vitamin C lowers cholesterol; and magnesium relieves PMS. Dr. Mary Eades provides groundbreaking discoveries on fighting disease and optimizing health through vitamin therapy -- from A to Zinc. Here are the most comprehensive and up-to-the-minute medical facts available.

100 Questions and Answers about Schizophrenia or The Balance

2009-01-06T03:54:00.000-08:00

100 Questions and Answers about Schizophrenia: Painful Minds

Author: Lynn E Delisi

Approximately one percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime. This chronic, severe mental illness can be devastating for patients and their family and friends. Whether you're a newly diagnosed schizophrenia patient, or a friend or relative of someone suffering from this mental illness, this book offers help. The only text to provide the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, sources of support, and much more. Written by an expert on the subject, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of schizophrenia.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Michael J. Schrift, DO(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This is a clearly written and informative new book for patients who have schizophrenia, as well as their parents and family members, that provides up-to-date and thoughtful answers to the common questions they have about this troublesome problem. Written and edited by an internationally recognized clinician-scientist, this is an extremely useful guide for patients and families to help make informative decisions regarding the illness and its treatment.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide to the public "true facts about schizophrenia," according to the author. "This book is designed to refute the basis for stigma that exists in all aspects of life and to provide the public with a glimpse of what it is like to have schizophrenia, what causes it, how it can be treated, and how to live a productive life when you or a family member has schizophrenia." Indeed, Dr. DeLisi has written a truly information packed yet readable guide and has produced a book that is a giant step toward her noble goal.
Audience: The intended audience includes patients and their family and friends. All mental healthcare providers should be knowledgeable about the information contained in this guide.
Features: Covered topics include characteristics of the illness, treatment, risk factors, neurobiology, substance abuse and schizophrenia, violence and aggression, suicide, women's issues, homelessness, living with schizophrenia, and ethical issues. In addition, important resources (books, websites, and support groups) are listed and an excellent glossaryof terms is provided.
Assessment: This new book on schizophrenia for patients and families is an outstanding guide to the illness and its treatment as well as negotiating the system. It should be mandatory reading for all legislators who continue not to understand that this is as much of an illness as cancer.

New interesting book: Sometimes I Act Crazy or Just Two More Bites

The Balance: Your Personal Prescription for Super Metabolism, Renewed Vitality, Maximum Health, Instant Rejuvenation

Author: Oz Garcia

WELCOME TO THE WONDRFUL WIZARDRY OF OZWHAT IS THE BALANCE?

The Balance is a personalized plan to correct metabolic imbalances and boost your body's efficiency by combining nutritional planning and exercise with cutting-edge supplementation and stress management.

Based on your answers to a 45-question health and lifestyle quiz, you will gain:

Enhanced energy and endurance
Improved concentration
Better ability to cope with stress
A reduction in premature aging

TO FIND OUT MORE, TAKE THE TEST TODAY!

Veronica Webb

If you are looking to be your most beautiful, this is the book for you.

New York

The best nutritionist in New York.

Rachel Hayes

My level of energy was outrageous, my complexion was clear—and no more menstrual cramps. I was amazed... at the end of three months I had dropped the pounds I set out to lose. —Cosmopolitan

How to Make Almost Any Diet Work or The Hot Zone

2009-01-05T18:41:00.000-08:00

How to Make Almost Any Diet Work: Repair Your Disordered Appetite and Finally Lose Weight

Author: Anne Katherin

In How to Make Almost any Diet Work, Anne Katherine offers news to millions of Americans struggling to lose weight: Your willpower doesn't stand a chance against your body's biochemistry. Dieting sets you up for repeated failure until you address the underlying biochemistry triggering disordered appetite. Using How to Make Almost Any Diet Work as your guide, you will discover the degree to which your eating is chemically driven, and you will develop a personal plan for consuming normal amounts of food at appropriate intervals--a plan for life. Here is real hope backed by the latest research in brain and body chemistry.

New interesting book: Women of the Vine or Chocolate and Vanilla

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

Author: Richard Preston

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.

Publishers Weekly

Far more infectious than AIDS, filoviruses (thread viruses) are relentless killer machines that consume a human body in days, causing a gruesome death. Symptoms include liquefying flesh, spurts of blood, black vomit and brain sludge. Outbreaks of the Ebola filovirus devasted Sudan and Zaire in 1976. And in 1989 Philippine monkeys in a Reston, Va., research lab, found to be infected with Ebola, were the target of a U.S. Army-led biohazard task force that decontaminated the lab, exterminating hundreds of monkeys to prevent the possible airborne spread of the disease to humans. In a horrifying and riveting report, portions of which appeared in the New Yorker , Preston ( American Steel ) exposes a real-life nightmare potentially as lethal as the fictive runaway germs in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. Preston plausibly argues that the emergence of AIDS, Ebola and other highly adaptable rain-forest viruses is a consequence of ecological ruin of the tropics. A movie based on this book, directed by Ridley Scott ( Alien ), will star Robert Redford. Author tour. (Sept.)

Library Journal

Expanded from Preston's 1992 New Yorker article, this account of a lethal virus run amok is Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain come true. In the fall of 1989, imported monkeys at a Reston, Virginia, facility began dying of a mysterious illness. Was it simian hemorrhagic fever (fatal to monkeys but harmless to humans) or was it Ebola, an extremely deadly tropical virus that had devasted villages in Zaire and the Sudan in 1976? Writing in a breathless novelistic style, Preston (American Steel, LJ 4/15/91) follows a military SWAT team as they don biohazard space suits to enter the "hot zone" and contain the alien virus. While this is thrilling reading (there are plenty of gruesome descriptions of Ebola's effects on human victims), one does wonder how much Preston sensationalized events for the sake of a good story. He also only sketchily discusses the possiblity that the destruction of the rainforests are releasing unknown viruses into the human population. Still, with a forthcoming movie starring Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, there will be demand. Buy multiple copies. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/94]-Wilda Williams, "Library Journal"

School Library Journal

YA-Warning-not for faint hearts or weak stomachs! In 1989, an obscure filovirus travels from the African rain forest to a lab near Washington, D.C., where the monkeys quickly sicken and die. Preston traces the history of the Warburg and Ebola filoviruses in minute, horrific detail that is as fascinating to read as it is alarming to contemplate-these filoviruses have the capability to mutate and possibly cross species. There are extraneous descriptions of scenery and of the characters' lives, but these passages serve to relieve the mounting tension and terror as the virus spreads and the CDC, the Army, and a private firm work out a containment plan to prevent a mass epidemic. YAs interested in science or fans of Stephen King or Michael Crichton will find this a fast-paced medical chiller right to the last disturbing page.-Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

Booknews

Look for a pot-boilin', splatter flick from this fictionalized medical horror story. On the filovirus out of Africa & the Philippines and its ghastly symptoms in man & monkey. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Real Food or Single Womans Guide to a Happy Pregnancy

2009-01-05T06:29:00.000-08:00

Real Food: What to Eat and Why

Author: Nina Planck

Hailed as the “patron saint of farmers’ markets” by the Guardian and called one of the “great food activists” by Vanity Fair’s David Kamp, Nina Planck is single-handedly changing the way we view “real food.” A vital and original contribution to the hot debate about what to eat and why, Real Food is a thoroughly researched rebuttal to dietary fads and a clarion call for the return to old-fashioned foods.

In lively, personal chapters on produce, dairy, meat, fish, chocolate, and other real foods, Nina explains how ancient foods like beef and butter have been falsely accused, while industrial foods like corn syrup and soybean oil have created a triple epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The New York Times said that Real Food “poses a convincing alternative to the prevailing dietary guidelines, even those treated as gospel,” and that “radical” as Nina’s ideas may be, the case she makes for them is “eminently sensible.”

Publishers Weekly

Nina Planck is a good, stylish writer and a dogged researcher who writes directly, forthrightly and with an edge. She isn't afraid to make the occasional wisecrack ("No doubt, for some people, cracking open an egg is one chore too many") while taking unpopular positions. Her chosen field-she is a champion of "real" (as opposed to industrialized) food-is one in which unpopular positions are easy to find. As Planck reveals, in her compellingly smart Real Food: What to Eat and Why, much of what we have learned about nutrition in the past generation or so is either misinformed or dead wrong, and almost all of the food invented in the last century, and especially since the Second World War, is worse than almost all of the food that we've been eating since we developed agriculture. This means, she says, that butter is better than margarine (so, for that matter, is lard); that whole eggs (especially those laid by hens who scratch around in the dirt) are better than egg whites, and that eggs in general are an integral part of a sound diet; that full-fat milk is preferable to skim, raw preferable to pasteurized, au naturel preferable to homogenized. She goes so far as to maintain-horror of horrors-that chopped liver mixed with real schmaltz and hard-boiled eggs is, in a very real way, a form of health food. Like those who've paved the way before her, she urges us to eat in a natural, old-fashioned way. But unlike many of them, and unlike her sometimes overbearing compatriots in the Slow Food movement, she is far from dogmatic, making her case casually, gently, persuasively. And personally, Planck's philosophy grows directly out of her life history, which included a pair of well-educated parents who decided, when the author was two, to pull up stakes in Buffalo, N.Y., and take up farming in northern Virginia. Planck, therefore, grew up among that odd combination of rural farming intellectuals who not only wanted to raise food for a living but could explain why it made sense. Planck, who is now an author and a creator and manager of farmers' markets, has a message that can be-and is-summed up in straightforward and simple fashion in her first couple of chapters. She then goes on to build her case elaborately, citing both recent and venerable studies, concluding in the end that the only sensible path for eating, the one that maintains and even improves health, the one that maintains stable weight and avoids obesity, happens to be the one that we all crave: not modern food, but traditional food, and not industrial food, but real food. (June) Mark Bittman's latest book is The Best Recipes in the World (Broadway); he is also the author of How to Cook Everything (Wiley). Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Single Woman's Guide to a Happy Pregnancy

Author: Mari Gallion

Single mom outlines with cheer and determination how to bring an unexpected pregnancy to a good and happy end. Loaded with practical tips.

Fitness for Life or The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism

2009-01-04T21:18:00.000-08:00

Fitness for Life: Middle School

Author: Charles B Corbin

Fitness for Life: Middle School is a comprehensive program designed specifically to help middle school students to become active, fit, healthy, and well. Fitness for Life: Middle School fulfills a need for specific programs for middle school youth and prepares students for advanced level study at the high school level. NASPE standards for the middle school were used as a basis for developing the program. In addition to the central focus on healthy lifestyles, special features are included to help students learn about social interactions, diversity in physical activity settings, and the application of biomechanical principles.

Book about: Home Winemakers Companion or Casa Moro

The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism: The Complete Guide to Herbs & Herbal Therapy

Author: Simon Y Mills

•An indispensible guide to the herbal remedies most used in the Anglo-American and European traditions.
• Defines each remedy in terms of its main pharmacological actions and usual therapeutic applications.
•A useful reference to the application of traditional medicines for modern health problems, for both professional and lay use.
• SIMON MILLS is President and Director of Research of The National Institute of Medical Herbalists, and he runs a private medical herbal practice in Devonshire, England.

Champions Body for LIFE or Helping Your Socially Vulnerable Child

2009-01-04T10:06:00.000-08:00

Champions Body for Life (Body for Life Series)

Author: Art Carey

The all-new official guide to the Body-for-LIFE Challenge, with success secrets and tips to help you win your own personal Body-for-LIFE Challenge, by Body-for-LIFE Challengers and Champions from the past 10 years.

Champions Body-for-LIFE is not just another diet or fitness book—it's a book of personal transformation. The Body-for-LIFE 12-week journey has changed the lives of millions. What makes it so successful?

It's Simple. It Works.
All it takes:

12 weeks

4 hours of exercise per week

6 small, balanced, and nutritious meals per day—never be hungry again

Now, Body-for-LIFE Champions and Challengers share how they created new and better lives for themselves, simply by following these three rules:

1. Know your reasons for changing (Chapter 2)
2. Write them down (Chapter 3)
3. Get started (Chapter 4)

You do have the power to change your body, your mind, your life.

Read how men and women become Champions as you follow the 12-week story of two Body-for-LIFE Challengers. Mark Unger, a major in the U.S. Marine Corps, and Alexa Adair, a college student, share their personal Journeys of Transformation—from their Decisive Moments, to Starting the Challenge, Week 12, and a year later. Week by week, they chronicle the excitement, the tough moments, and the life-transforming experience of finishing their own personal Challenges.

Science Shows Body-for-LIFE Works

For more than 10 years, millionsof people have proven with their real-life transformations that Body-for-LIFE works. Now science shows it works, too! In a clinical study of overweight men and women, the people who followed Body-for-LIFE:

Lost approximately twice as much body and belly fat as the control group and moderate exercise higher-carb group

Decreased body fat by 21 percent on average

Decreased body weight by 11 pounds on average

Decreased belly fat by 26 percent on average

Champions Body-for-LIFE is for everyone—whether you're starting your first Body-for-LIFE Challenge or your fourth.

Interesting book: The Digital Photography Companion or Lotus Notes 6 For Dummies

Helping Your Socially Vulnerable Child: What to Do When Your Child is Shy, Socially Anxious, Withdrawn, or Bullied

Author: Andrew R Eisen

From renowned child anxiety experts Andew Eisen and Linda Engler comes this first-ever parenting book to offer solution-focused help to the parents of children whom the authors classify as socially vulnerable: children who are subject to anxiety, shyness and depression, and bullying by other, more aggressive children.

In social situations, certain children are more likely than others to be subject to emotional and physical harm by other, more aggressive children. These socially vulnerable children tend to be socially anxious, shy, and withdrawn, and they are the natural targets of bullies. Unless parents take an active role in helping these kids cope with these problems at an early age, the chances of them carrying a legacy of social anxiety and other problems into adulthood increases dramatically. This is the first book to offer resources to parents specifically for dealing with issues of social vulnerability.

The book provides parents with a set of cognitive behavioral tools they can use to promote confidence, independence, and social ease in their children, whether in the classroom, on the playground, in the cafeteria, or at play in their peer groups. The book shows parents how to work effectively within the school system and help their children build strong support groups.

Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Childs Eye or The Senior Organizer

2009-01-03T23:55:00.000-08:00

Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child's Eye: Hope, Help, and Healing for Families

Author: Jerry Mo

Hope and Healing for Children
Hurt by Addiction in the Family

'I have spent my adult life in the company of children who have been my teachers. We got to know each other because someone in each child's life was addicted to alcohol or other drugs.
For thirty years I have had a front-row seat in group watching, learning, and helping these youngest victims of addicted families, children who live with a legacy that can break hearts and destroy souls--one they certainly did not choose. They arrive carrying secrets, confusion, and pain. But almost all find their voice. These children can and do heal. '
Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child's Eyes shares the poignant and profound healing journeys of children who have found their voice and reclaimed their sense of self-worth. Each story reminds us that children have a unique way of viewing the world and shows how, with help, they can build upon strengths and deepen their resilience in spite of living in the shadow of addiction. In addition to the life-affirming stories, esteemed children's counselor Jerry Moe reveals how the healing process transcends the children and has a dramatic impact on the entire family system--especially their parents, giving them a new, deeper commitment to break the multigenerational legacy of addiction.

Books about: Food or Cooking for Two

The Senior Organizer: Organizing for a Better Quality of Life

Author: Debby S Bitticks

No more digging through files! The Senior Organizer is an all-in-one workbook for a senior's vital information: personal, medical, legal and financial.

Do You Want To:

Save thousands of dollars in legal and accounting fees?
Be equipped with all the information you might need in a financial crisis?
Have all your questions prepared for your next doctor’s appointment?
Know how to save time and energy replacing vital documents?
Be prepared for a medical emergency?

The Senior Organizer is designed to help seniors or their loved ones assemble all their vital documentation and information in one simple, easy-to-access format. The book will provide peace of mind and supply categorized knowledge that will enable seniors to answer important questions and handle crucial responsibilities with efficiency and certainty at times when every minutes counts.

The Omega RX Zone or The Official United States Air Force Elite Workout

2009-01-03T14:43:00.000-08:00

The Omega RX Zone

Author: Barry Sears

The Next Generation of the Zone!

Dr. Barry Sears is one of the world's most trusted voices on health, diet, and nutrition. Over the past decade, millions of people worldwide have followed his prescriptions for healthy living through his bestselling books. He introduced the world to the Zone, a state of improved hormonal control that has helped a generation of people lose excess body fat, reverse the aging process, and fight heart disease and diabetes.

In The Omega Rx Zone, Dr. Sears reveals a revolutionary new technological advance that helps treat chronic disease, improves athletic performance, and more. Never before available to the public, pharmaceutical-grade fish oil has the potential to make you a more emotionally stable, healthier person by allowing your brain to work at peak efficiency and controlling the hormonal responses that ultimately govern your body and mind. Drawing upon his own research as well as recently published studies, Dr. Sears shares new understanding of heart disease, cancer, depression, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, chronic pain, Type 2 diabetes, infertility, and multiple sclerosis. Used in conjunction with the Zone program, these findings can help you to:

Increase brain vitality and longevity
Maximize physical performance
Lose weight—and keep it off
Reverse chronic disease

Interesting textbook: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning or Internet World Wide Web

The Official United States Air Force Elite Workout

Author: Andrew Flach

You've heard of the SEALs. . . . now meet their blood brothers!

The Official United States Air Force Elite Workout: An Official Five Star Fitness Guide

Featuring: Running • Swimming • Weight Training • O'Course • Calisthenics • and much more!

Known as the PJ's and the CCT's, the pararescuemen and combat control technicians are the elite forces of the United States Air Force.

PJ's, whose motto is "that others may live", routinely go in harm's way to bring back downed pilots and crewmembers. CCT's, "first to fight", are responsible to enter hostile territory ahead of the rest and establish safe landing sites for arriving forces.

Their self-sacrificing efforts are heroic. Their training is intense, exciting, and before this book, little known. Now for the very first time, their powerful training techniques are brought to light in this profusely illustrated and documented presentation.

Includes sections on: stretching, weight training, calisthenics, running, swimming, rope climbing, entrance requirements, plus special dramatic coverage of water survival training, from both above and below the water line!

Over 200 pages. Loaded with photos.

1	I grow up on real food, lose my way, and come home again	1
2	Real milk, butter, and cheese	39
3	Real meat	87
4	Real fish	122
5	Real fruit and vegetables	139
6	Real fats	163
7	Industrial fats	196
8	Other real foods	210
9	Beyond cholesterol	245
10	The omnivore's dilemma	269
	Where to find real food	276

	Preface	9
	Introduction	11
	Fundamental Elements	23
	The Unique Individual	45
	Food & Diet	57
	Lifestyle	71
	Treatment	91
	Medicinal Plants	107
	A Complete Science	119
	Common Preparations	122
	Glossary	124
	Index	126

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Cat Herbal or Reiki for Life

Cat Herbal: Simple Green Remedies for Your Cat

Reiki for Life: The Complete Guide to Reiki Practice for Levels 1, 2 and 3

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture or Overcoming Repetitve Motion Injuries

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture

Overcoming Repetitve Motion Injuries

Divine Healing or Chinese Fitness

Divine Healing

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Chinese Fitness

The Total Temple Makeover or Planning Your Cosmetology Career

The Total Temple Makeover: How to Turn Your Body into a Temple You Can Rejoice In

Planning Your Cosmetology Career

Everyday Sport or Awareness of Dying

Everyday Sport: 365 Ways to Get Fit

Awareness of Dying

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Five Minute Yoga or Making Changes

Five Minute Yoga

Making Changes: Family Voices on Living with Disabilities

Last Breath or Your Guide to the Alexander Technique

Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance

Jan Chapman - VOYA

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Your Guide to the Alexander Technique

Library Journal

Longevity Strategy or Overcoming the Legacy of Overeating

Longevity Strategy: How to Live to 100 Using the Brain-Body Connection

Booknews

Overcoming the Legacy of Overeating: How to Change Your Negative Eating Patterns

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The Amino Revolution or The Homocysteine Revolution

The Amino Revolution: The Breakthrough Program That Will Change the Way You Feel

The Homocysteine Revolution

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Diabetes Demystified or Heal Your Heart

Diabetes Demystified

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Heal Your Heart: How You Can Prevent or Reverse Heart Disease

Library Journal

What People Are Saying

Cool Hip and Sober or Perimenopause 2d

Cool, Hip, and Sober: 88 Ways to Beat Booze and Drugs

Library Journal

Perimenopause 2d

Diets in a Nutshell or Just Love Me

Diets in a Nutshell: A Definitive Guide on Diets from A to Z

Just Love Me: My Life Turned Upside-Down by Alzheimer's

NOPINESE TRADITIONAL HENOPAL MEDICINE or Faith Healers

NOPINESE TRADITIONAL HENOPAL MEDICINE: DIAGNOSIS AND, Vol. 1

Faith Healers

Toronto Sun

School Library Journal

Older Audults Health Information and the World Wide Web or Diet Step 20 20 Grams Minutes

Older Audults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web

Diet-Step 20/20 Grams Minutes: For Women Only!: The Doctor's Easy 2-Step Quick Weight Loss and Fitness Plan

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The Gabriel Method or Bald

The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary DIET-FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body

Bald!: From Hairless Heroes to Comic Combovers

The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley

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Living Longer Depression Free or The Mitzvah of Healing

Living Longer Depression Free: A Family Guide to Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Depression in Later Life

Library Journal

Booknews

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The Mitzvah of Healing: An Anthology of Jewish Texts, Meditations, Essays, Personal Stories, and Rituals

Okay so I Dont Have a Headache or Body for Life

Okay, So I Don't Have a Headache: What I Learned (and What All Women Need to Know) about PMS, Hormones, Stress, Diet, Menopause--And Sex

What People Are Saying

Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength

What People Are Saying

Ergonomics for Children or Echinacea

Ergonomics for Children: Designing Products and Places for Toddlers to Teens

Echinacea: The Genus Echinacea

American Medicinal Plants or Aerobic Walking The Weight Loss Exercise

American Medicinal Plants

Aerobic Walking: The Weight-Loss Exercise