Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Fiber35 Diet or Behavioral Interventions for Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

The Fiber35 Diet: Nature's Weight Loss Secret

Author: Brenda Watson

Today, Americans eat processed foods from the supermarket, or foods from fast food restaurants we drive by on the way home. We used to eat a fiber-rich diet fresh from the fields (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes), we now eat food from a box; that is, processed food that has processed the fiber right out of our diets. The result: an epidemic of obesity that causes most of the common diseases of our time.

The Fiber35 Diet focuses on the magic of 35 grams of fiber per day as the key nutritional measure for losing weight. This is unlike low-carb, high protein, and low-fat diet books. This diet is based on the only scientifically irrefutable way that is clinically proven to reduce weight—Caloric Restriction. Most important, this book corrects one of the dangerous nutritional falsehoods that most Americans now believe—that carbs are bad. Carbs are an important source of nutrition for us—coming from fruit, vegetables, and other sources.

The Fiber35 Diet provides a weight loss solution that helps you shed pounds and is clinically proven to reduce the risk for all of the contemporary diseases that end life prematurely. Even though much is known about the healthy benefits of fiber, only recently have large food manufacturers, nutrition experts, and the media started paying more attention to it.

Fiber packs a four-part weight loss formula:

1. Fiber curbs your appetite, helping you reduce calories
2. Fiber actually eliminates calories from the food you eat
3. Fiber-rich foods are low-energy density foods.
4. Fiber slows down your body's carbohydrate conversion to sugar, which supports blood glucose stability that helps you lost weight



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Behavioral Interventions for Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Author: Sevgi O Aral

Before AIDS, the role of behavioral interventions in preventing transmission of sexually transmitted diseases was acknowledged in text books and journals but rarely promoted effectively in public health practice. Informed by a comprehensive knowledge of behavioral theory, intervention methods, and affected populations, the authors of this important book examine the central role of behavioral interventions in combating STDs. The book addresses the complexities and social contexts of human behaviors which spread STDs, the cultural barriers to STD education (ranging from conservative mores to "stay out of my bedroom" libertarianism), and the sociopolitical nuances surrounding treatment. Over forty contributors offer a practical appraisal of what is being done now and what can be improved, such as: an overview of current behavioral and biomedical interventions for STD prevention and control, a discussion of what works for individuals, groups, and communities, up to date thinking about such traditional prevention approaches as partner notification and health care seeking, STD prevention strategies with high-risk populations, including drug users, gay men, teenagers, incarcerated persons, and persons with repeat infections, the state of prevention technology: condoms, vaccines, the Internet, ethical, economic, and policy issues in STD prevention, applying intervention models to real-world situations, guidelines for program evaluation and improvement.

As STDs and AIDS remain top priorities for public health and private sector practitioners, researchers, and educators, "Behavioral Interventions for Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases' gives along-neglected field the attention it deserves. This authoritative resource is sure to influence public health practice and policy in an ever-evolving social climate.

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Reviewer:Ameeta E. Singh, BMBS, MSc(University of Alberta)
Description:This is a comprehensive review of behavioral theory and intervention methods pertaining to STDs.
Purpose:The chapters provide an overview of behavioral and biomedical interventions necessary for STDs, providing important insights into this long neglected aspect of STD prevention and control.
Audience:The book targets public health students and practitioners in addition to clinicians involved in STD/HIV management. The coeditors and chapter authors are established experts in their respective fields.
Features:It presents an overview of behavioral and biomedical interventions for STD prevention and control, traditional and novel approaches to partner notification, and strategies in at-risk populations. Ethical, economic, and policy issues are also addressed and finally, practical models are suggested with the use of specific examples to aid program development, implementation and evaluation. Extensive referencing is used throughout.
Assessment:This book will provide invaluable insights into traditional and new ways to implement and evaluate STD prevention and control measures at the individual, community, and population levels.



Table of Contents:
Foreword     v
Introduction     ix
About the Editors     xxi
Contributors     xxvii
Overview Chapters: Behavioral Interventions
History of Behavioral Interventions in STD Control   Laura J. McGough   H. Hunter Handsfield     3
Behavioral Interventions for STDs: Theoretical Models and Intervention Methods   Janet S. St. Lawrence   J. Dennis Fortenberry     23
Biomedical Interventions   Stuart Berman   Mary L. Kamb     60
Intervention Approaches
Dyadic, Small Group, and Community-Level Behavioral Interventions for STD/HIV Prevention   Donna Hubbard McCree   Agatha Eke   Samantha P. Williams     105
Structural Interventions   Frederick R. Bloom   Deborah A. Cohen     125
STD Prevention Communication: Using Social Marketing Techniques with an Eye on Behavioral Change   Miriam Y. Vega   Khalil G. Ghanem     142
Partner Notification and Management Interventions   Matthew Hogben   Devon D. Brewer   Matthew R. Golden     170
Interventions in Sexual Health Care-Seeking and Provision at Multiple Levels of the U.S. Health Care System   Matthew Hogben   Lydia A. Shrier     190
Use of the Internet inSTD/HIV Prevention   Mary McFarlane   Sheana S. Bull     214
Male Condoms   Lee Warner   Katherine M. Stone     232
STI Vaccines: Status of Development, Potential Impact, and Important Factors for Implementation   Nicole Liddon   Gregory D. Zimet   Lawrence R. Stanberry     248
Interventions by Population
Behavioral Interventions for Prevention and Control of STDs Among Adolescents   Kathleen A. Ethier   Donald P. Orr     277
Biological and Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with STDs/HIV in Women: Implications for Behavioral Interventions   Donna Hubbard McCree   Anne M. Rompalo     310
STD Prevention with Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States   Kevin A. Fenton   Frederick R. Bloom     325
STD Repeaters: Implications for the Individual and STD Transmission in a Population   Jami S. Leichliter   Jonathan M. Ellen   Robert A. Gunn     354
Looking Inside and Affecting the Outside: Corrections-Based Interventions for STD Prevention   Samantha P. Williams   Richard H. Kahn     374
STDs Among Illicit Drug Users in the United States: The Need for Interventions   Salaam Semaan   Don C. Des Jarlais   Robert M. Malow     397
Understanding Methods
Quantitative Measurement   Mary McFarlane   Janet S. St. Lawrence     433
Qualitative Methods   Pamina M. Gorbach   Jerome Galea     447
From Data to Action: Integrating Program Evaluation and Program Improvement   Thomas J. Chapel   Kim Seechuk     466
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis   Thomas L. Gift   Jeanne Marrazzo     482
From Best Practices to Better Practice: Adopting Model Behavioral Interventions in the Real World of STD/HIV Prevention   Cornelis A. Rietmeijer   Alice A. Gandelman     500
Ethical and Policy Issues
The Ethics of Public Health Practice for the Prevention and Control of STDs   Salaam Semaan   Mary Leinhos     517
Policy and Behavioral Interventions for STDs   Jonathan M. Zenilman     549
Index     569

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