Body Care Books

Toxic Congregation or Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations

2009-12-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

Toxic Congregation: How to Heal the Soul of Your Church

Author: G Lloyd Rediger

About the Author:
G. Lloyd Rediger, ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA)

Book about: Instant Bean or Cooking with Crazy Charley IV

Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory

Author: Philip J Flores

Be more effective in group therapy with addicted clients

Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition is the newly revised edition of the classic text, that provides you with proven strategies for defeating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy. Philip J. Flores, a highly regarded expert in the treatment of alcoholism and in group psychotherapy brings together practical applications of 12-step programs and psychodynamic groups. This updated book explores the latest in constructive benefits of group therapy to chemically dependent individuals, providing opportunities to share and identify with others who are going through similar problems, to understand their own attitudes about addiction by confronting similar attitudes in others, and to learn to communicate their needs and feelings more directly.

Topics in Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition include:

• Alcoholism, addiction, and psychodynamic theories of addiction
• Alcoholics anonymous and group psychotherapy
• Use of confrontational techniques in the group
• Inpatient group psychotherapy
• Characteristics of the leader
• Transference in the group
• Resistance in groups
• Preparing the chemically dependent person for group
• The curative process in group therapy
• Integrating a modern analytic approach
• A discussion of object relations theory
• Group psychotherapy, AA, and twelve-step programs
• Diagnosis and addiction treatment
• Treatment issues at early, middle, and late stages of treatment
• A discussion of guidelines and priorities for group leaders
• Countertransference
• Special considerations of resistance to addiction
• Termination of treatment

Professionals working in group therapy and addictions will find Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition an invaluable resource emphasizing the positive and constructive opportunities group psychotherapy brings to the chemically dependent individual.

What People Are Saying

Edward J. Khantzian
SCHOLARLY YET IMMENSELY HELPFUL AND PRACTICAL BOOK . . . covers all the bases, integrating how group therapy and twelve step programs help to access and transform the core vulnerabilities of addicted individuals. . . . BRILLIANTLY FOCUSES on how the relational and self regulatory problems of addicted individuals can be addressed and modified by informed clinical approaches and twelve step programs. . . . ASTUTELY INSTRUCTS us how group and twelve step programs can serve as correctives by replacing addictive behaviors with meaningful and transforming relationships. (Edward J. Khantzian, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical School at Tewksbury Hospital and the Cambridge Health Alliance)

Henry I. Spitz
Every so often a rare text comes along that possesses the qualities of being theoretically sound, clinically wise and easily readable. Philip Flores has written such a book. . . . A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION toward enriching our understanding of the interplay between psychological theory, neuroscience research and clinical group work with people struggling with problems of addiction. With his unique blend of scholarship and pragmatism, Dr. Flores provides the reader with A THOUGHTFUL AND WELL DOCUMENTED ROAD MAP for negotiating the notoriously challenging terrain of treating addicted individuals. This book is A 'MUST READ' for anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the use of group therapy for substance abuse treatment. (Henry I. Spitz MD, DFAGPA, Director Group Psychotherapy Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, & Distinguished Fellow, Americana Group Psychotherapy Association)

Molyn Leszcz
In this VERY CLEAR AND WELL-WRITTEN text book, DR. FLORES HAS SET THE STANDARD in his articulation of the way group therapy plays a pivotal role in the treatment of persons suffering from addictions. . . . Advances our understanding of the integration of addictions into mental health; psychology of the mind and biology of the brain; models of group therapy; 12-step approaches and leader led groups; scientific knowledge and clinical wisdom; and, the pivotal role that an understanding of attachment plays in effective group psychotherapy. . . . NEW CHAPTERS WRITTEN FOR THIS EDITION ARE OF GREAT VALUE: the first chapter on interpersonal neurobiology and addictions, is A MUST READ, not only for those who work in the area of addictions, but for psychotherapists in general, who are interested in understanding how the work that they do with their clients modifies their clients' brain as well as their clients' thinking. (Molyn Leszcz, MD, FRCPC, Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital, Professor and Head, Group Psychotherapy, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto)

Marilyn Freimuth
THIS BOOK KEEPS GETTING BETTER! Flores has interwoven his in depth explorations into attachment theory and addiction to create a text that is rare to find: a practical guide to treatment that is theoretically grounded. After reading this book, practitioners will be able to PROVIDE MORE EFFECTIVE TREATMENT TO ADDICTED POPULATIONS because they will know what to do and why to do it. This is really five books in one. . . . Provides comprehensive readable overviews of the nature of addictions, group therapy, 12-step work and psychodynamic theory. At the same time he interweaves these topics to create a theoretically grounded practical guide to more effective addiction treatment. (Marilyn Freimuth, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University and author of Hidden Addictions)

Foreword (Jeffrey D. Roth)
PART I: THEORETICAL MODELS
Chapter 1. Interpersonal Neurobiology and Addiction: An Attachment Theory Perspective
Interpersonal Neurobiology
The Neurophysiology of Attachment
Interdisciplinary Research and Attachment Theory: A Source for Informing Addiction Treatment
Contributions from Child Development Studies
Contributions from the Neurosciences
Reward Deficiency Syndrome
Attachment and Animal Research
Contributions of the Relational Perspective to Group Psychotherapy
Chapter 2. Attachment Theory As a Theoretical Basis for Understanding Addiction
Attachment Theory and Self-Psychology
Attachment Styles and Secure Attachment
Ainsworth and the Strange Situations
Implications for Treatment
Implications for Addiction Treatment
Summary of Treating Addiction As an Attachment Disorder
Chapter 3. The Disease Concept and Group Psychotherapy
Abstinence: Is It Necessary?
Paradigm Shift
Specific Implications of Group Therapy and the Disease Concept
Addiction, Abstinence, and the Disease Concept
Chapter 4. Psychodynamic Theory and the Relational Models
Character Pathology and Addiction
Contributions of Object-Relations Theory and Self-Psychology
Margaret Mahler's Theory of Normal Development
Ego Psychology and Object-Relations Theory
Mahler's Stages of Normal Development
Beyond the Ego: Kohut's Self-Psychology
Definition of Terms
The Self-Medication Hypothesis and Affect Regulation
Application for Therapy: Corrective Emotional Expression
Addiction As an Attempt at Self-Repair
Self-Esteem Vulnerabilities
The Reparative Approach
Chapter 5. Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve-Step Programs
Misconceptions About Alcoholics Anonymous
Values, Science, and AA
Philosophy of Science and the Limits of Rationality
The Self-Help Movement
Alcoholics Anonymous: Its Historical Roots
AA—Why and How It Works: An Interpretation of AA
Pragmatism: Its Influence on AA
Existential View of AA
AA—How It Works: A Phenomenological Perspective
The Self-Attribution of Alcoholism
Honesty, Denial, and the Need for Others
AA: A Self-Psychology Perspective
AA: A Treatment for Shame and Narcissism
Higher Power As an Attachment Object
PART II: ADDICTION TREATMENT IN GROUP
Chapter 6. Different Models of Group Psychotherapy
Some Models of Group Psychotherapy
Psychological Levels of Intervention
Specific Applications for Addictions Treatment
Chapter 7. Preparing the Chemically Dependent Person for Group Therapy
Selection and Composition
Implications of Research Findings
Therapeutic Alliance and Cohesion in Group
Pre-Group Preparation: Increasing Treatment Retention and Reducing Dropouts
Recommendations for Entry into a Therapy Group
Present and Gain Acceptance of a Contract
Chapter 8. Interactional Group Psychotherapy
Yalom's Basic Tasks
The Model Setting Participant
Interpersonal Honesty and Spontaneity
Establishment of the Group Norms
The Norm of Self-Disclosure
Procedural Norms and Antitherapeutic Norms
Importance of Group
The Here-and-Now Activation and Process Illumination
Interpersonal Theory of Behavior
Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
Examples of Yalom's Here-and-Now Focus
Integration of Modern Analytic Approach
Conclusion
Chapter 9. Modifications of Yalom's Interactional Model
Treatment Considerations and Group Therapy
Recommendations for Group Therapy
Protocol
Early and Later Stage Treatment
Therapist Attributes and Special Considerations for Affect Attunement
Careseeking, Affect Attunement, and Psychotherapy
Group Therapy and ACOA
Addiction and the Family
Common Identified Characteristics of ACOA
ACOA and Shame
Alcoholics Anonymous and Group Psychotherapy
Chapter 10. Co-Occurring Disorders and Group Psychotherapy: An Attachment Theory Perspective
Addiction—The Cart or Horse of Mental Illness?
Cross-Addiction
The Relationship Between Mental Health and Addiction
Axis I Disorders
Axis II: Character Pathology and Addiction
Borderline Personality Organization and Pathological Narcissism
Kernberg's Borderline Pathology
Kernberg's Description of Supportive Psychotherapy
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Dynamics of Multiple Addictions
Integration of Divergent Treatment Philosophies
The Relational Models: An Integration
Chapter 11. The Leader in Group Therapy
Values of the Group Leader
The Therapist As a Person
Qualities of the Group Leader
Guidelines and Priorities for the Group Leader
Roles of the Group Leader
Focus of the Group Leader
Characteristics of the Group Leader
The Therapeutic Process: Therapists' and Patients' Contributions
The Alliance and Addiction: Special Considerations
Group Leadership Functions
The Implications for Conducting a Successful Therapy Group
Alcoholism Treatment Outcome Studies
Patient Characteristics Related to Type of Therapy
Special Group Strategies and Requirements
Recommendations
Convergence of Therapist and Patient Characteristics
PART III: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Chapter 12. Diagnosis and Addiction Treatment
Avoidant Society: Cultural Roots of Impaired Attachment
Criterion Definitions of Addiction
Drug Groups
Drug Dependence and the Drug Groups
Neuropsychological Impairment
Stages of Change Model
Relapse Prevention
Interpersonal Neurobiology, Motivation, and Stages of Change Model and Brain Impairment
Chapter 13. Early Stage Group Treatment: Confrontation, Intervention, and Relapse
Special Problems of the Addicted Patient
The Use of Therapeutic Leverage
Confrontation
Intervention
Relapse and Recovery
Early Stage versus Later Stage Relapse
Therapist versus Patient's Contribution to Relapse
Later Stage Relapses
Relapse Prevention
Chapter 14. Inpatient Groups and Middle Stage Treatment
Yalom's Recommendations for Inpatient Groups
Composition of Inpatient Groups
Yalom's Strategies and Techniques of Leadership
Agenda Rounds
Difficulties with Agenda Rounds
The Special Circumstances of Inpatient Therapy Groups Within the Hospital
Leader's Transparency About Alcohol and Drug Use
The Group Contract
Simultaneous Membership in Other Groups
The Special Problems of Confidentiality on an Inpatient Unit
Active Outreach
Group Members Who Relapse and Come to Group
Attending Group Under the Influence
Summary Recommendations for Inpatient Group Therapy
Chapter 15. Late Stage Group Treatment: Conflict, Repair, and Reunion
Paradigm Shift
The Concurrent Treatment of Addiction and Character Pathology
Later Stage Treatment Strategies
Yalom's Model and Self-Psychology
Treatment of Internal Structure Deficits
Treatment of Introjections
Later Stage Treatment: Conflict, Repair, and Reunion
Attachment, Addiction, and the Working Alliance
Research and the Therapeutic Alliance
The Alliance: What Is it and Why Is it Important?
Attachment, the Alliance, and Negative Process
Chapter 16. Transference in Groups
Definition of Transference
Transference Possibilities in Group
Modifications of Transference Distortions in Groups
Types of Transference in Groups
Common Types of Acting Out Transference
Abuse of Transference
Countertransference
Projective Identification
Pathways for Psychological Change
Addiction and Countertransference
Chapter 17. Resistance in Group
Resistance: A Definition
Group Resistance and the Work of Wilfred Bion
The Leader's Influence on Basic Assumptions
Resistance to Intimacy in Groups
Resistance to Immediacy
Resistance to Feelings in Group
Special Considerations of Resistance to Addiction
The Group Leader's Effect on Group Resistance
Chapter 18. The Curative Process in Group Therapy
Yalom's Curative Factors
Curative Factors in Group
Existential Factors
Curative Factors in AA
Curative Factors Operating in Different Types of Therapy Groups
Mechanisms of Change and Cure in Group Therapy
The Curative Process
Working Through with the Addicted Patient
Stages of Cure in a Therapy Group
Addiction and Goals of Termination
Conclusion
References
Index

Echinacea or Yoga

2009-12-04T14:23:00.000-08:00

Echinacea: Nature's Immune Enhancer

Author: Steven Foster

The plant group Echinacea (common name, purple coneflower) is known as a non-specific stimulant to the immune system. A native of this continent, it was highly valued in Native American medicine, where it had more applications than any other plant. Today, research shows clear scientific reasons for its effectiveness. Foster, a widely respected herbalist, provides both a contemporary and historical look at this important herb and its healing properties, and makes a plea for conserving and protecting it in the wild.

A portion of the author's proceeds will go to support Echinacea conservation efforts at the Ozark Beneficial Plant Project in Brixey, Missouri.

Nature's Immune Enhancer

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Universal Remedy of the Plains Indians
2. From Nostrum to Specific Medicine
3. Medicinal Uses of Echinacea by Eclectic Physicians
4. Modern Research and Future Potential
5. Preparations: Past and Present
6. Safety: Risks vs. Benefits
7. On the Farm and in the Garden: Cultivating Echinacea
8. Is It Echinacea? Substitutions and Adulteration
9. A Natural Insecticide for the Future?
10. Chemical Constituents
11. The Evolution of a Name: Wanderings in Taxonomic History
12. Characteristics of the Genus Echinacea: The Botanist's View
13. The Species : Identification and Distribution
14. The Need for Conservation: Is Time Running Short?
Plant and Seed Sources
Bibliography
Index

Book review: Over the Influence or I Die but My Memory Lives on

Yoga: Mastering the Secrets of Matter and the Universe

Author: Alain Dani lou

Based on original Sanskrit sources, this book gives an authentic account of the methods of yoga in its different forms, including the challenging "left-hand" paths, as well as practices best suited to Western students.

Live Now Age Later or Boost Your Heart Health

2009-12-03T10:22:00.000-08:00

Live Now, Age Later: Proven Ways to Slow Down the Clock

Author: Isadore Rosenfeld

This #1 national bestseller gives you the lowdown on aging, uplifting news on medical breakthroughs, and practical ways to shoot your quality of life to the moon. Dr. Rosenfeld-trusted physician, medical columnist for Parade, and seven-time bestselling author-provides the information you need to slow down Father Time and stay as youthful as you possibly can. Learn how to help:

Prevent cataracts and macular degeneration with proper diet-and a little wine
Maintain a healthy sex drive and the ability to satisfy it-the latest on hormone replacement therapy and Viagra
Preempt Alzheimer's disease and senility with the appropriate vitamins, herbs, and prescription drugs, including-believe it or not-painkillers
Avoid hardening and blocking of the arteries with the proper lifestyle and proven medication
Keep your skin young and, if you're a man, your prostate small with conventional and not-so-conventional approaches

...and much more!

Book about: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs or Three Cups of Tea

Boost Your Heart Health: Vital Ways to Nurture Your Most Vital Organ (52 Brilliant Ideas Series)

Author: Ruth Chambers

52 ways to strengthen your heart-for life.

Heart disease and stroke are some of the leading causes of death in this country-and they can affect anyone. Dr. Ruth Chambers reveals 52 practical strategies for keeping hearts strong, healthy, and happy.

Drink to Your Health or Asthma Survival

2009-12-02T06:20:00.000-08:00

Drink to Your Health: Delicious, Easy-to-Prepare Juices, Smoothies, Teas, Soups and Other Beverages

Author: Anita Hirsch

As juice bars open across the U.S., the concept of healthy beverages is reaching more people than ever. Drink to Your Health offers over 125 vitamin- and mineral-packed recipes for both hot and cold beverages, including juices, smoothies, shakes, teas, infusions, soups, and more. Specifically formulated to help address - and possibly prevent - 40 ailments, from colds, headaches, and stress to cancer, HIV, and heart disease, the recipes include Tomato Veggie Powerhouse, Frosty Apricot Mint Cooler, and, of course, Classic Chicken Soup. Many recipes can be prepared with nothing more complicated than a hand whisk or long-handled spoon.

Book about: Inside the Apple or The Sex Lives of Cannibals

Asthma Survival: The Holistic Medical Treatment Program for Asthma

Author: Robert S Ivker

Modeled directly on the bestselling Sinus Survival, here is the most integrative, complete asthma-relief guide available today.

Here's why asthma sufferers can't afford to be without Asthma Survival:

It features a Quick Fix, fast-start program. The Quick Fix allows the reader to begin the most important aspects of the program immediately without having to read the whole book.
It is one of the only books to address the huge overlap of allergies (90 percent of asthmatics have them) and sinusitis (nearly 70 percent of asthmatics have them).
It provides specific, integrated instructions for a dietary supplement plan.
It lays out its New Life Eating Plan as one of the most profound ways to slow the disease.
It gives a balanced, comprehensive approach to herbal choices that are most accepted within the holistic medical community.
It offers a simple, powerful introduction to the most important breathing exercises.
It offers the only book to propose a unified theory of emotional causes of this disease based on worldwide trends and statistics of familial patterns

Author Biography: Robert S. Ivker, D.O., is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine and a clinical instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and past-president of the American Holistic Medical Association.

Todd H. Nelson, N.D., is a widely recognized naturopathic physician and the director of the Tree of Life Wellness Center in Colorado

	Introduction	1
1.	The Asthma Quick Fix	10
2.	What Is Asthma? What Causes It? How Does Conventional Medicine Treat It?	25
	Risk Factors and Causes	29
	Conventional Medical Treatment	38
	NHLBI Classification of Asthma Severity and Pharmacological Treatment	43
3.	Holistic Health: The Thriving Self-Test	48
4.	Healing Your Body	57
	Holistic Medical Treatment and Prevention	59
	Symptom Treatment	61
	Physical and Environmental Health Recommendations for Asthma	64
	Air and Breathing	64
	Water, Moisture, and Nasal Hygiene	91
	Candida and Fungus	102
	Diet for Optimal Health: New Life Eating Plan (NLEP)	140
	Nutritional Supplements--Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs	158
	Professional Care Therapies	188
	Exercise and Rest	189
	Summary	202
5.	Healing Your Mind	204
	The Body--Mind Connection	207
	Play/Passion, Meaning/Purpose	209
	Psychotherapy	210
	Beliefs, Attitudes, Goals, and Affirmations	211
	Emotional Causes of Asthma	224
	Guided Imagery and Visualization	229
	Optimism and Humor	234
	Emotional Health	236
	Breathwork and Meditation	241
	Dealing with Anger	244
	Dreamwork and Journaling	246
	Work and Play	250
	Summary	252
6.	Healing Your Spirit	254
	Accessing Spirit	255
	Are We Spiritual Beings? The Near-Death Experience	256
	Prayer	258
	Gratitude	260
	Meditation	263
	Intuition	265
	Spiritual Counselors	266
	Spiritual Practices	267
	Social Health	271
	Intimacy--Communication, Recreation, Touch	272
	Committed Relationships and Marriage	272
	Touch	276
	Sex	279
	Parenting	280
	Forgiveness	282
	Friendship	284
	Selfless Acts and Altruism	285
	Support Groups	287
	Summary	288
7.	Asthma Survival Success Story	289
	Appendix	297
	References	311
	Resource Guide	321
	Product Index	331

Within the Wall of Denial or The Psychobiology of Mind Body Healing

2009-12-01T02:19:00.000-08:00

Within the Wall of Denial: Conquering Addictive Behaviors

Author: Robert J Kearney

Denial is a natural process, a form of self-protection. It is a wall built layer by layer to shelter us from pain and frightful truths. It is a psychological defense that is as normal as flinching. Within the Wall of Denial shows how this valuable, instinctive reaction can become rigid and maladaptive. Retreat behind its protection can isolate people in their pain, alienate those around them, and facilitate the development of diseases, from addiction to heart disease. It precludes seeking professional help and thus blocks early diagnosis and treatment. It contributes to treatment failure and sets up the newly recovering addict to relapse. Those who suffer from such disorders retreat behind their wall of denial, and thus often seem unaware of the chaos around them. They behave as if there is no problem; they minimize it, make excuses, or just seem unwilling or unable to take effective action. The people who love and depend on them begin to need protection; they build walls of their own. Their "enabling" or "co-dependent" behavior is also addressed in this book. Kearney presents a fresh perspective on the nature and function of denial. He describes each layer in the wall of denial, including denial of fact, implications, change, and finally denial of feelings, in language so remarkably clear that the reader can quickly realize what it is like to be on either side. He then offers an innovative approach for working with people caught in denial that bridges the contrasting techniques of confrontation and support. Empathic and tough, Kearney demonstrates how to gain clients' trust so that the wall of denial can be dismantled layer by layer.

Booknews

Describes denial as a valuable instinctive reaction that can become maladaptive, details different types and layers of denial, such as denial of facts, implications, and feelings, and offers an innovative approach for reaching people in denial that combines the contrasting techniques of confrontation and support. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	What is Denial?	1
2	The Layers of Denial	12
3	Anxiety: Pressure Against the Wall of Denial	27
4	Successful Treatment of Denial	59
5	Joining the Client Within the Wall of Denial	114
6	Rapport and the Helping Relationship: Intravention Behind the Wall of Denial	144
7	Addiction and Loss: Grieving and Recovery	179
	References	209
	Index	211

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The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing

Author: Ernest Lawrence Rossi

'In this new edition Ernest Rossi continues to explore, synthesize, and integrate findings in the area of mind-body healing, not only across disciplines, but across time.

Booknews

Rossi brings together new evidence from psychoneuroimmunology, neuroendocrinology, molecular genetics, and neurobiology to show that there is no gap between mind and body, and outlines in a series of teaching tutorials a dozen new approaches to mind-body healing. Many of these utilize the ultradian healing response, based on the body's natural 90-minute psychobiological rhythms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants or Complete Guide to Alzheimers Proofing Your Home

2009-11-29T22:18:00.000-08:00

Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants

Author: Bradford Angier

From amaranth to yucca, complete information for identifying over a hundred native plants and their traditional medicinal uses.

Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home

Author: Mark L Warner

Written by a practicing architect and gerontologist, The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home shows you how to create a home environment that will help you cope with the many difficulties associated with Alzheimer's. This unique book is divided into two sections to provide the most thorough coverage available. Section One deals with interior and exterior spaces individually, providing key information on how to ensure that the Alzheimer's patient will be safe and secure. Section Two gives a detailed list of potential problems related to Alzheimer's and practical information on how to cope with those problems in the home setting.

Booknews

Warner, an architect and gerontologist, illustrates how to create a home environment that helps caretakers cope with the problems evolving around space associated with Alzheimer's and related dementia. Chapters focus on issues such as safety in the kitchen, outdoor environments, wandering, incontinence, and access limitation. Specific products are described and manufacturers are listed to make locating a particular product simple. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: About Alzheimer's Disease	1
Ch. 1	Preparing Your Home	9
Ch. 2	Thinking-Related Issues	83
Ch. 3	Behavioral Problems	129
Ch. 4	Activities of Daily Living	159
Ch. 5	Wandering	199
Ch. 6	Access Denial	251
Ch. 7	Incontinence	279
Ch. 8	Mobility	301
Ch. 9	Safety	355
	Products and Manufacturers	401
	Appendix: Stages of Decline with Alzheimer's Disease	441
	Glossary	444
	Suggested Reading	455
	Index	461

Making It Better or Stepping Stones to Recovery

2009-11-28T18:17:00.000-08:00

Making It Better

Author: Barbara Oehlberg

Today's children deal with stress, trauma, and violence. Oehlberg offers information about how these difficult times affect children physically and emotionally. More than 70 activities engage children in self-healing, empathy, and empowerment.

New interesting textbook: The One Minute Manager or Dark Ages America

Stepping Stones to Recovery

Author: Bill Pittman

An important resource that highlights the rewards recovery offers. This bestseller comes from the "group conscience" of members of the A. A. fellowship and is recommended reading for patients in many substance abuse treatment centers as well as alcoholism counselor training courses.

Multiple Sclerosis or Aromatherapy Solutions

2009-11-27T14:16:00.000-08:00

Multiple Sclerosis: The Facts You Need

Author: Paul OConnor

Praise for the first edition:

"Well-conceived and written volume.... Great sensitivity to the realities of dealing with MS and gives straightforward information about outcomes and expectations."

-- Science Books and Films

Multiple sclerosis strikes one in a thousand North Americans, usually in early adulthood, just as they are building careers and starting families. Because the disease involves the central nervous system, the effects are wide-ranging and difficult to predict.

Multiple Sclerosis is a fact-filled comprehensive guide to living with MS, supported by diagrams, case histories, a drug table and an extensive list of helpful books and organizations.

This updated edition features new drugs and therapies. Topics include:

What MS is, and who suffers from it

How MS is diagnosed as possible, probable or definite

Why the disease affects different people in different ways

Differences between relapsing-remitting MS and progressive MS

Adapting homes, careers and lifestyles to cope with the disease

Treatments currently available.

Combining current and authoritative medical advice and practical hands-on tips, Multiple Sclerosis is an invaluable guide for anyone affected by this complex disease.

Science Books and Films - Jeffrey S. Fedan

I attempted to read this medically authoritative book as if I was afflicted with MS, and I think I can project that every question I might ask is answered in the well-conceived and -written volume ... The book is written with great sensitivity to the realities of dealing with MS and gives straightforward information about outcomes and expectations. Of particular usefulness are sections on how to make changes to one's lifestyle that will minimize the disease's effects, on how to deal with the social impact of MS on families and friends, and on strategies for reconciling the consequences of the ailment in the workplace. In addition, the book features lists of useful drugs (useless therapies are debunked), an excellent glossary, and a listing of MS support organizations in the United States and Canada to which a patient can turn for additional resources.

Vijaya K. Patil

This book provides a comprehensive source of information for patients with multiple sclerosis, their families, and people involved in their care. It provides medical advice and practical hands-on tips, and helps them to learn more about the disease. It helps to strike a balance between the interests and needs of the patients and their caregivers. The purpose is to help families experiencing multiple sclerosis learn more about the disease and its attendant problems such as diagnosis, available treatments, and future trends. It offers advice to strengthen coping skills and deal with the various issues in a positive, rewarding manner. These are worthy objectives and the book meets them. This book, according to the author, is intended mainly for anyone affected, directly or indirectly, by multiple sclerosis. I, however, feel that this book is helpful not only for the families experiencing multiple sclerosis, but also for the healthcare professionals who come in contact with these patients. The table of contents is adequate, dealing with almost all important issues of multiple sclerosis. This book, with its good print, easy to understand language, diagrams, case histories, drug table, resource information, and additional reading lists, is bound to make a favorable impression on its readers. This is an invaluable guide for anyone affected by multiple sclerosis. It provides good insight into the disease process and discusses available treatment in a lucid manner. The case histories, well illustrated simple diagrams, and the drug table are the highlights of this book. The emphasis on the clinical presentation and medical management of multiple sclerosis distinguishes this book from Kalb'sMultiple Sclerosis: A Guide for Families (Demos Medical Publishing, Inc, 1998).

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Reviewer: Vijaya Patil, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This book provides a comprehensive source of information for patients with multiple sclerosis, their families, and people involved in their care. It provides medical advice and practical hands-on tips, and helps them to learn more about the disease. It helps to strike a balance between the interests and needs of the patients and their caregivers.
Purpose: The purpose is to help families experiencing multiple sclerosis learn more about the disease and its attendant problems such as diagnosis, available treatments, and future trends. It offers advice to strengthen coping skills and deal with the various issues in a positive, rewarding manner. These are worthy objectives and the book meets them.
Audience: This book, according to the author, is intended mainly for anyone affected, directly or indirectly, by multiple sclerosis. I, however, feel that this book is helpful not only for the families experiencing multiple sclerosis, but also for the healthcare professionals who come in contact with these patients.
Features: The table of contents is adequate, dealing with almost all important issues of multiple sclerosis. This book, with its good print, easy to understand language, diagrams, case histories, drug table, resource information, and additional reading lists, is bound to make a favorable impression on its readers.
Assessment: This is an invaluable guide for anyone affected by multiple sclerosis. It provides good insight into the disease process and discusses available treatment in a lucid manner. The case histories, well illustrated simple diagrams, and the drug table are the highlights of this book. The emphasis on the clinical presentation and medical management of multiple sclerosis distinguishes this book from Kalb's Multiple Sclerosis: A Guide for Families (Demos Medical Publishing, Inc, 1998).

Library Journal

OConnor, who has treated multiple sclerosis (MS) patients for over 15 years, presents an authoritative, reliable, up-to-date overview of this disease and its treatment. He discusses technical information in an understandable style; for instance, when describing the nervous system, he writes, Think of billions of interconnected electrical wires creating a system of linkages of unimaginable complexity. The human nervous system is exactly that. Besides being very readable, the book is up-to-date regarding the newest therapies (including alternative treatments) used to treat MS. OConnor explains how to cope with its symptoms (fatigue, numbness, shaking, tremors) and includes a drug chart, a glossary of terms, and a list of support organizations. Other titles on the topic, such as David Carroll and Jon Dudley Dormans Living Well with MS (LJ 5/15/93), are helpful but somewhat dated. OConnors is the ideal book for the newly diagnosed MS patient, family members, and other interested readers. Highly recommended for all general collections.Mary J. Nickum, Bozeman, MT

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3 Stars from Doody

New interesting book: Organisationstheorie: Moderne, Symbolische und Postmoderne Perspektiven

Aromatherapy Solutions: Essential Oils to Lift the Mind, Body and Spirit

Author: Veronica Sibley

The natural power of aromatherapy can revitalize body and spirit--which is why it has become one of the most popular complementary therapies. Take advantage of its unique healing potential with this beautifully photographed guide, now available in this smaller, handier format. Here is complete guidance on blending the oils and choosing the right ones to relieve a wide range of physical and emotional symptoms, from colds to digestive disorders, from skin breakouts to anxiety. An illustrated full-body massage sequence practically guides your hand, stroke by stroke, through a sensual massage. There are also massages meant for babies and children, and to aid relaxation. For quick reference, a directory sets out the properties of all the recommended essential and carrier oils.

Active Female or Inciensos Aceites E Infusiones

2009-11-26T10:15:00.000-08:00

Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan

Author: Jacalyn J McComb

The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan investigates the growing and ever–changing health issues for girls and women who lead an active lifestyle and participate in sports and exercise. Easy to read, the volume provides an educational foundation for understanding how disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis can be interrelated while also looking at image disorders and reproductive health. Written by world leaders in the field, chapters detail effective nutrition and safe exercise techniques while also discussing female psychological and physiological characteristics.

Informative and comprehensive, The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan is an essential, practical reference for the educated professional who seeks a basic understanding of some of the more common issues active females confront.

New interesting book: Great Legs or Positive Options for Children with Asthma

Inciensos, Aceites, e Infusiones: Recetario m?gico

Author: Scott Cunningham

For millennia our ancestors sipped or sprinkled brews to ward off negativity ... rubbed precious ointments onto their bodies to effect magical transformations ... and threw fragrant barks and woods onto hot coals to release their powers. This book gives you the recipes for these little-known methods of magical cookery. Whether you want to create a fragrant incense to drive off evil spirits, a delicious brew to arouse your lover's passions, or a scented oil to attract fast money, The Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews has the instructions you need to stir up some powerful magic on your own.

Constructive Awareness or The Art of Midlife

2009-11-25T06:13:00.000-08:00

Constructive Awareness: Alexander Technique and the Spiritual Quest

Author: Daniel McGowan

Here is water in the desert of theory for many seekers - how to use the body's "here-and-now" to enhance spiritual awareness. McGowan shows how a proper head-neck-back relationship heightens our moment-to-moment awareness of the unity of mind-body-world, developing a pain-free body as a springboard for attaining high spiritual aspirations. The result is a solid, vitalizing basis for combining inner freedom and effective altruistic action in the everyday world.

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The Art of Midlife: Courage and Creative Living for Women

Author: Linda N Edelstein

The subject of midlife has been dominated by the woes of aging--menopause, divorce, hormone replacement therapies, aging parents, and fleeing children. Now a broad-ranging new work by clinical psychologist Linda N. Edelstein, Ph.D., The Art of Midlife, describes the freedom and authenticity that can be made a cornerstone of the middle years. She describes three healthy and predictable phases. First, women relinquish old ways, untying themselves from the past and mourning the losses of youth and its illusions. By placing less emphasis on the needs of others, women can live more creatively and enjoy the present. The women Dr. Edelstein studied have been able to move to the next step, in which they reconnect to themselves. They regain their authentic voices, simplify life, and allow long buried aspects of themselves to emerge. Finally, women refocus their futures. With courage, they embrace new people, ideas, activities, and work--and pursue adult dreams regardless of external rewards.

Library Journal

Although much has been written about midlife and the psychological changes that happen with it, most of what is published has focused on studies of men. Edelstein, a clinical psychologist, here focuses exclusively on women. Although somewhat aimed at the self-help crowd, this book is a more serious look at the psychology of midlife and how women have successfully dealt with it. The book is divided into three parts--"Relinquish the Old," "Reconnect to the Self," and "Refocus the Future"--and uses interviews with women who have creatively and happily moved into the second half of their lives by relinquishing, reconnecting, and refocusing. This book will be disappointing to readers looking for a quick fix but will enlighten those interested in learning more about this stage of a woman's life.--Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

A clinical psychologist shifts the focus of women's midlife from such horrors as menopause and empty nests to the freedom and authority that is possible. She identifies three healthy and predictable phases: relinquishing and mourning old ways, regaining authentic voices and simplified lives, and refocusing the future to embrace long-buried aspects and new people and goals. Distributed in the US by Greenwood Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Relinquish the Old	5
1	"Freedom Is Daily, Prose-Bound, Routine Remembering": An Overview of Midlife Creativity	7
2	"The Terrible Weight of All This Unused Life": Relinquish the Old	17
3	"Glowing Coals under Grey Ashes": Midlife	31
4	"First It Was in Black and White, and Then It Was in Color": Creativity and Insight	49
Pt. II	Reconnect to the Self	71
5	"She Must Braid Us All Together": The Psychology of Women	73
6	"I Am Her Only Novel": Relationships with Parents and Their Dreams for Us	91
7	"There's Still So Much I'd Like to See": How We Are Formed by Social Forces	99
8	"Once You Are Real You Can't Be Ugly": Authenticity	111
9	"Finding a Fortune in the Lining of an Old Coat": Aggression and Creativity	125
10	"The Long Meandering Fingers of Ice Will Thicken": Problems in Creative Living	143
Pt. III	Refocus the Future	159
11	"Life Shrinks or Expands in Proportion to One's Courage": Finding Courage	163
12	"Don't Dream It, Be It": Turning Points	171
13	"I Have a Brain and a Uterus and I Use Both": Women and Work	181
14	"Let the Beauty You Love Be What You Do": Achievements and Dreams	191
	Epilogue	201
	Bibliography	203
	Index	211

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

2009-02-21T08:25:00.000-08:00

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

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.

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

The Irritable Bowel Syndrome SourceBook or Drink Up

2009-02-20T04:24:00.000-08:00

The Irritable Bowel Syndrome SourceBook

Author: Laura OHar

The Irritable Bowel Syndrome Sourcebook is a guide to taking control of this debilitating condition--from creating a journal, to tracking IBS triggers (food, drink, and stress), to finding the right diet and exercise to counteract the condition. You will also learn how alternative therapies may be helpful and how simple stress relievers can improve your daily life.

Laura O'Hare has cowritten several books. She also writes for the stage, screen, and television.

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Drink Up!: A Recovery Road Less Traveled

Author: Kathleen S

By the age of 56, Kathleen S had tried just about everything to quit drinking. Nothing worked. A binge drinker who felt she was already living on borrowed time (two of her brothers died of addiction-related causes in their 40s), her life and health were rapidly breaking down. Then one day she heard a radio advertisement for a treatment program that promised to take away her cravings forever. Much of the addiction treatment in the United States is based on AA attendance and working a twelve-step program. AA is often looked at by physicians, insurance companies, and especially members themselves as the only legitimate form of recovery from substance abuse. This book describes another program, one that advertises a 72% cure rate. THE LITTLE HOSPITAL THAT COULD "This book says it all. Staying sober has been a piece of cake for me since Schick Shadel." -- Chet "Kathy's description of the treatment is right on, and I should know, being a former patient and 20-year graduate of the program. I laughed and cried along with her, and share her joy in her new, alcohol-free life." -- Pat O'Day, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Broadcaster, concert promoter, businessman "I am glad that one of our patients, Kathleen S, wrote a book about the treatment from the patient's perspective. This book is written factually, with warmth and humor. I hope it will encourage others to give up their addiction and regain their lives again." --James W. Smith, M.D., Chief of Staff, Schick Shadel Hospital

Veg Out Vegetarian Guide to Washington DC or Renew Your Life

2009-02-19T00:22:00.000-08:00

Veg Out Vegetarian Guide to Washington D.C.

Author: Andrew Evans

VegOut Vegetarian Guide to Washington D.C.

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Regional/Travel

"Finally a dining guide to meet the needs of vegetarians, vegans, and veg-friendly people! This excellent guide leaves us hungry for editions targeting other regions of the country." -Susan Tauster, Group Publisher Vegetarian Times

"This guide is just what the health-conscious person needs when dining out." -John McDougall, M.D., founder of The McDougall Wellness Center

". . . the definitive resource for finding restaurants, salad bars, farmers markets, grocers and cafes that specialize in vegetarian or even the more strict vegan cuisine." -USA Today

"I am a big believer in the value of nutrition and a good, healthy diet. This guide is a great service." -Bill Walton, Named One of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History

About the Author

Andrew Evans is a freelance travel writer who wrote the first full-length guide to the Ukraine and is doing a forthcoming guide to Kiev, both published by Bradt Travel Guides. When not on the road, he lives and works in downtown Washington, D.C. and is an amateur cook and photographer. Andrew has been a vegetarian for the past five years.

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Renew Your Life: Improved Digestion and Detoxification

Author: Brenda Watson

Renew Your Life directly addresses digestive health and disease by offering easy-to-understand solutions and life modifications to achieve more energy, better mental clarity, fewer toxins, an improved diet and ideal weight.

Taiji Chin Na or Panic Attacks

2009-02-17T20:18:00.000-08:00

Taiji Chin Na

Author: Jwing Ming Yang

The exploration of these hidden Chin Na techniques return to Taiji its lost martial essence.

Interesting book: Exercise Balls for Dummies or The Doctors Guide to Gastrointestinal Health

Panic Attacks: A Natural Approach

Author: Shirley Trickett

Millions of people regularly experience the breathlessness, chest pains, sweating, and irrational fears that characterize panic attacks. Shirley Trickett has updated her authoritative book to include the most recent theories about this problem. She offers a complete mind/body treatment not provided by traditional therapies.

Organ Transplants or Fitness and Wellness

2009-02-16T16:17:00.000-08:00

Organ Transplants: A Survival Guide for the Entire Family: The Ultimate Teen Guide

Author: Tina P Schwartz

Unlike any other book, this one talks to teens and offers practical advice and suggestions for coping with and surviving the situation when their parent has an organ transplant, or when they are personally facing an organ transplant. It covers how to deal with events that happen before, during, and after the surgery.

School Library Journal

Gr 7 Up-This honest and compassionate resource will help teens cope with the emotional, physical, financial, and planning aspects of the transplant process if it happens to them or to someone in their family. The 13 chapters, written in a question-and-answer format, detail the steps involved from diagnosis and being placed on a waiting list to pre- and post-surgery. Schwartz acknowledges the feelings and emotions that adolescents might be experiencing throughout this process. The author does not sugarcoat the problems of qualifying for transplantations, the seriousness of these surgeries, or possible aftermaths. She weaves the harsh realities with a multitude of heartwarming survivors' stories, including an account of her father's transplant. The well-written text is complemented by a comprehensive section of suggestions for additional information. Average-quality, black-and-white drawings and photos of smiling recipients and donors are scattered throughout. Texts with this breadth of coverage are rare; this book will give young adults hope and courage and let them know that they are not alone.-Carolina Geck, Kean University, Union, NJ Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Go to: Beyond Sputnik or A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

Fitness and Wellness

Author: Werner WK Hoeger

This concise and inclusive text discusses the health-related physical fitness components you need to cover while also providing beneficial information about wellness. Inside, you'll find discussion of motivation and behavior modification, an outstanding nutrition chapter and a chapter on healthy lifestyles.

Escape or Absolute Beginners Guide to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle

2009-02-15T00:01:00.000-08:00

Escape: In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada

Author: Roy Macgregor

We think of the cottage or cabin as a place where we can be our truest, most authentic selves. For those lucky enough to own one, just knowing it awaits can sustain the soul through the workday grind.
In Escape, Roy MacGregor explores the powerful hold the wilderness, and the thought of our place in it, has on our imaginations. He weaves together chapters of personal history, telling of his family’s deep connection to the lakes and forests of central Ontario, and chapters that detail the evolution of the idea of wilderness in Canada and the history of “Cottage Country.” He shows that the Canadian wilderness meant freedom for many early settlers escaping privation and oppression in Europe. It meant a chance to create a paradise on earth to some early Utopians, and it meant a chance to profit from the desperate or gullible, such as at Cannington Manor in Saskatchewan and Brother Twelve’s City of Refuge on Vancouver Island.
In more recent times, the wilderness and the cottage have represented an escape from a technologically driven and hectic civilization – although too often we take the trappings of our urban lives with us to the detriment of our intended refuge. In cottage country, MacGregor suggests, we may be loving our wilderness to death.
This is a thoughtful, evocative, and often moving book about an essential part of the Canadian psyche by one of our best-loved writers.
From the Hardcover edition.

Author Biography: Roy MacGregor’s books of adult non-fiction include the Canadian bestsellers Home Game (with Ken Dryden), The Home Team, shortlisted for the 1996 Governor General’s Award, and A Life in the Bush, which won the prestigious Rutstrum Award as the best book on the wilderness published in North America in 1995-2000. He lives in Kanata, Ontario.
From the Hardcover edition.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle

Author: Nicole Haywood

Get off the scale and get to the bookstore! Absolute Beginner's Guide to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle is your how-to-guide for a way-of-life makeover. Written by registered dietician Nicole Haywood and endorsed by the National Institute for Fitness and Sport, ABG to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle ignores fad diets and focuses on helping you make the lifestyle changes necessary for successful weight management. The author won't suggest radical changes, either. Instead, she concentrates on showing you how to make daily modifications to your diet and activities to build the foundation for a greater lifestyle change. Get back to the basics and improve your overall health and fitness and achieve long-lasting results!

Add 10 Years to Your Life or Hablando de Sexo

2009-02-13T20:00:00.000-08:00

Add 10 Years to Your Life

Author: William Campbell Douglass

To add ten years to your life, you need more than just a good doctor. You need to have the right attitude about health and an understanding of the health industry and what it's feeding you. Following the established line on many health issues could make you very sick or worse!Take for instance the cardiologist for the Boston Celtics, Dr. W. Thomas Nessa. At 48, he was the picture of health. He followed the line on nutrition, exercise (he ran the Boston Marathon several times), and medical care. That is, until he dropped dead of a heart attack - the very thing he was trained to prevent.Basically, you've got to take responsibility for your health. In the pages that follow, you'll begin to take the steps necessary to avoid the same fate as Dr. Nessa. And rest assured that, because of the vast amount of misinformation in the health field, we're working hard to provide you with all the "right stuff" to help you live a long, healthy life.Through the years, my newsletters has helped thousands of people achieve dynamic health and what follows is sort of a "best of" my past newsletters. I'm sure you'll find many valuable - and many helpful - items in the pages that follow.We want you to add at least ten years to your life.William Campbell Douglass, MD

Go to: Cheats Cuisine or Nutrition and Cancer Prevention

Hablando de Sexo: Para Superar la Impotencia

Author: Mariano Gonzalez

With advice and anecdotes for those who want to overcome fears, settle doubts, and improve self-esteem, this self-help series presents authoritative information about each topic from different points of view.

Con abundantes consejos y anécdotas para aquellos que quieren superar temores, aclarar dudas, y mejorar la autoestima, esta serie de auto-ayuda demuestra que las soluciones no son las mismas para todos. Se presenta información sobre cada tema y diferentes puntos de vista de modo que los lectores pueden—con información—tomar decisiones y sacar conclusiones basados en sus propias necesidades individuales.

Promoting Family Involvement in Long Term Care Settings or Soyfoods Cooking for a Positive Menopause

2009-02-12T15:50:00.000-08:00

Promoting Family Involvement in Long-Term Care Settings: A Guide to Programs That Work

Author: Joseph E Gaugler

Put an end to tension-filled interactions between long-term care staff and residents' families with Promoting Family Involvement in Long-Term Care Settings. This innovative new book offers strategies and programs designed to get families involved in formal care settings in constructive, cooperative ways that complement staff and support residents.

Nine intervention strategies are described in detail from inception to evaluation. Designed and implemented in nursing facilities across the United States, these model programs are replicable and will help facilities
* improve residents' quality of life
* increase effective communication with families
* personalize care
* maintain connections between residents and families
* reduce staff stress levels
* boost overall facility morale

Written by the programs' creators and facilitators, each chapter functions as a guide to implementation and includes relevant forms, guidelines, and protocols. Challenges of program implementation are discussed and practical recommendations for overcoming obstacles are provided.

Widely versatile, these nine programs can be successfully implemented in adult day services, assisted living facilities, and long-term residential care settings. Useful for direct care staff, supervisors, and administrators, Promoting Family Involvement in Long-Term Care Settings is an invaluable resource for strengthening current relationships between staff, residents, and family members. The book is also equally beneficial in facilitating residents' transitions to long-term care.

Soyfoods Cooking for a Positive Menopause

Author: Bryanna Clark Grogan

There is a growing body of evidence that eating soy protein can help reduce the discomfort some women experience during menopause and protect them against heart disease later in life. Read the latest information on why soyfoods work so effectively to help women through menopause, and learn the secrets for making delicious meals with soyfoods that your whole family will look forward to sharing with you.

La receta del Gran Medico para el sindrome de irritabilidad intestinal or Chiva

2009-02-10T12:25:00.000-08:00

La receta del Gran Medico para el sindrome de irritabilidad intestinal

Author: Jordan Rubin

Jordan Rubin, junto con el D.M. Joseph Brasco, muestran a los lectores como aplicar las 7 claves para la salud y el bienestar y combatir en forma natural el sindrome de irritabilidad intestinal, una enfermedad dolorosa y debilitante.

Introduccion: Un embarazoso problema de salud     v
Coma para vivir     1
Complemente su dieta con alimentos integrales, nutrientes vivos y superalimentos     28
Practique una higiene avanzada     40
Acondicione su cuerpo con ejercicios y terapias corporales     45
Reduzca las toxinas en su ambiente     54
Evite las emociones mortales     62
Viva una vida de oracion y con proposito     67
Plan de batalla de La receta del Gran Medico para el sindrome de irritabilidad intestinal     72
Notas     99
Acerca de los autores     101

Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade

Author: Chellis Glendinning

Its use as a narcotic is on a precipitous rise. Worldwide heroin production has doubled in the last decade, and the United Nations estimates more than 15 million users are addicted-up to 3 million in the United States. It's big business, too, with yearly global sales of $500 billion-up to $22 billion in the U.S. Enmeshed with terrorism, crime, government collaboration, corporate globalization, and the spread of HIV, the opiate trade is inextricably entangled with the functioning of global society. Finally, heroin is controversial because of the on-going debates about solutions to the health, social and economic havoc it creates.

Chiva uses creative nonfiction to merge the global epic of heroin trafficking with the human-scale story of its presence in the small desert town that boasts the most per-capita overdose deaths in the U.S. The book interweaves three themes:

The true tale of Chimayo, New Mexico, terrorized by its heroin dealers since the 1970s until, in the late '90s, its citizens rose up to challenge the epidemic in their midst.
The story of the author's relationship with a local dealer, and his involvement with addiction, crime, love, recovery and the judicial system.
The political context behind these stories: the global workings of the heroin production business.

Compelling, disturbing, yet hopeful, Chiva is both personal and political, revealing the relationship between colonization and drug abuse, and the importance of reclaiming sustainable culture as a key to recovery.

Chellis Glendinning, Ph.D, is a psychologist. An award-winning activist and writer, she is the author of four previous books,including Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy (New Society, 2002) which won the National Federation of Press Women 2000 book award for general nonfiction. She lives in Chimayo, New Mexico.

Beyond Anorexia or Essentials of Health and Wellness

2009-02-09T08:23:00.000-08:00

Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

Author: Catherine Garrett

Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as "eating disorders," and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own personal story, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates the fundamental importance of narrative to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a "spiritual" experience (not necessarily a religious one), reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. As such it is the key to fully understanding anorexia.

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Glossary
Pt. I	Personal sociology
1	Descent and return	3
2	Researching recovery	17
3	Autobiography, narrative and healing	31
Pt. II	Anorexia and recovery
4	Reinterpreting 'anorexia'	47
5	Reinterpreting 'recovery'	63
6	Recovery stories	80
Pt. III	Spirituality
7	Society and spirit	95
8	Rituals of self-transformation	110
9	Spiritual stories	132
Pt. IV	The body
10	Recreating the body	147
11	The sexual body	162
12	The knowing body	173
	Epilogue	184
App. A	Participants' profiles	194
App. B	Questions to participants	198
App. C	Codes used for analysis	200
	Notes	201
	References	218
	Index	234

New interesting textbook: Union Free America or Information Operations Doctrine and Practice

Essentials of Health and Wellness

Author: James Robinson

Each of the 13 million high school students in public high schools are required to take one semester of health education. For health instruction to be successful, the instructional program should be grounded in good science, include a behavioral component, and be packaged in a way that can be easily implemented. Essentials of Health and Wellness provides the teacher with everything needed to engage the learner and to create a successful health course. It is designed to be student friendly and is centered on the important, but often overlooked, notion of building personal wellness. All health concepts are brought back to the student, who is encouraged to develop positive wellness behaviors through the creation of a personal wellness plan. Based on the framework of the National Standards for School Health Education, this product is the total package for high school health education. With a small but rich ancillary offering, including a separate Sexuality Supplement (ISBN 1-4018-1525-1)that goes into greater detail about sensitive issues that may not be desirable to all school districts and a free Online Companion with additional lesson plans, teaching activities, and student worksheets, this text provides teachers with a well-rounded, effective system for health education instruction.

Tai Chi Secrets of the Wu Style or Listening with Your Heart

2009-02-08T04:21:00.000-08:00

Tai Chi Secrets of the Wu Style: Chinese, Classics, Translations, Commentary

Author: Yang Jwing Ming

Fo rht first time in history, you can reap the benefits of closely guarded wisdom! Explore Dr. Yang's translations and their meanings of these long-held secrets of Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan.

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Listening With Your Heart: Lessons from Native America

Author: W F Peat

Rx: Take small miracles daily."The spirit runs through the body," says Dr. Peate, a practicing physician who draws on his Iroquois heritage as well as his Western medical training. Listening with Your Heart is a rich gathering of time-honored sayings, sacred words, and practical suggestions to improve your health. Listen—with your heart—to the words of these wise men and women. "Close your eyes and you see better and hear better."—Navajo healer "The White man talks about the mind and body and spirit as if they are separate. For us they are one. Our whole life is spiritual from the time we get up until we go to bed."—Yakima healer "May the story give you strength. May the belief relieve your pain."—Mohawk-Onondaga healer

Complete Guide to Family Health Nutrition Fitness or Faith and Health

2009-02-07T00:20:00.000-08:00

Complete Guide to Family Health, Nutrition & Fitness

Author: Paul Reisser

The Complete Guide to Family Health, Nutrition, and Fitness will help you take an active role in improving the health and well-being of you and your family by offering authoritative and current medical information in a convenient, easyto-understand format. Taking a balanced, commonsense approach to the issue of health and wellness, this indispensable guide delivers an encouraging perspective with helpful reference sections.

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Faith and Health

Author: Thomas G Plant

This volume reviews and integrates the growing body of contemporary psychological research on the links between religious faith and health outcomes. It presents up-to-date findings from empirical studies of populations ranging from healthy individuals to those with specific clinical problems, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, and psychological disorders. Drawing on multiple perspectives in psychology, the book examines such critical questions as the impact of religious practices on health behaviors and health risks; the role played by faith in adaptation to illness or disability; and possible influences on physiological functioning and mortality. Chapters reflect the close collaboration of the editors and contributing authors, who discuss commonalities and differences in their work, debate key methodological concerns, and outline a cohesive agenda for future research.

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Reviewer: Patricia E. Murphy, PhD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This is an edited book by authors who have been in the forefront of research in religion and health. The chapters provide both a report of the research by topic as well as a chapter on the problems about design and data analysis in religious and health research in general. It also includes a chapter on the ramifications for clinical practice.
Purpose: The book aims to provide an updated assessment of what we know about the relationship of faith and health with a focus on both research and clinical agenda.
Audience: Those interested in the ongoing debate about the research in religion and health will enjoy this work. Clinicians might find some of the suggestions for assessment quite helpful. The researcher will benefit from the explication of some of the pitfalls in research in this field.
Features: In addition to reporting current research, the book also includes some of the public criticism of this area. The chapter pointing to design flaws and issues about statistical analyses has much to offer. The chapter describing instruments used to measure aspects of religion and spirituality will be very useful for the researcher.
Assessment: The book is worthwhile for the interested researcher. The research reviewed comes from a variety of sources, some respected journals and some with less rigorous review processes. The book would have more to offer if it had included the careful kind of analysis of the quality of each study that Koenig provides in Handbook of Religion and Mental Health (Academic Press, 1998).

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Nutraceuticals Glycemic Health and Type 2 Diabetes or Crossroads at Midlife

2009-02-05T20:19:00.000-08:00

Nutraceuticals, Glycemic Health and Type 2 Diabetes

Author: Vijai K Pasupuleti

Type 2 diabetes is a growing problem for the developed and developing countries and it is a burden on healthcare systems as well as individuals. Nutraceuticals, Glycemic Health and Type 2 Diabetes primarily focuses on the nutraceuticals that assist in preventing and managing prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. The book gives an overview of glycemic health and highlights the use of novel and upcoming nutraceutical ingredients such as bioactive peptides, traditional herbs from India and Mexico, resistant starches, cinnamon, chromium III and others. After the successful commercial application of bioactive peptides as nutraceutical ingredients in the management of blood pressure, companies are now focusing on peptides for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes. Resistant starches in the clinical studies have demonstrated to reduce the glycemic and insulin response and increasing insulin sensitivity. These and other nutraceuticals that are supported by scientific and clinical studies are highlighted. The editors and contributors are experts in their respective fields and are largely from the university, industry and government. Nutraceuticals, Glycemic Health and Type 2 Diabetes will be useful as a standard reference book for all those concerned with the role of nutraceuticals and glycemia in the prevention and control of type 2 diabetes.

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Crossroads at Midlife: Your Aging Parents, Your Emotions, and Your Self

Author: Frances Cohen Praver

With medical science, health care, and healthy lifestyles extending our lifespans as never before, more and more "midlife" adults are finding themselves caring for their aging parents. This role can trigger not only logistical and financial challenges, but also great emotional upheaval. There is a reversal of roles as the "child"--often in the midst of raising his or her own adolescent or young adult offspring--becomes the caretaker of the parent. A parent's aging and mortality elicits strong feelings of loss, and a stark realization of one's own aging and mortality. Past, present, and future paths converge, and the caretaker is at the center of that crossroads. Psychologist Praver--a specialist working with such caretakers--shows us their inner worlds and how they used a difficult point in their lives to embark on a journey of self-understanding and self-transformation--a journey toward a more meaningful life for themselves.

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Unlike most other books on caring for an aging parent, this one emphasizes the opportunities for middle-aged caregivers to grow and change as they negotiate the demands of aging parents and, often at the same time, those of their increasingly independent adolescent and young adult children. Praver, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who works primarily with the middle aged, enlivens the text with anecdotes and examples drawn from her therapy practice. The dominant theme is the need for the middle-aged person to put "his own house in order" and care for and understand himself so that he can better care for his family members. Issues such as guilt, relationships with siblings, unfinished family business, and role reversal are all topics of discussion. Though lacking an effective structure, this book is still insightful. Public libraries will want to purchase it for the many baby boomers now facing these problems and seeking guidance.-Kay Brodie, Chesapeake Coll., Wye Mills, MD Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

	Foreword
1	My story	1
2	Getting your house in order	3
3	Role reversal	29
4	Diverse role demands	47
5	Emotions evoked	65
6	Dark feelings in the spotlight	77
7	Guilt, guilt, and more guilt	85
8	Caring for your self	95
9	Problems from the past	101
10	Unfinished family business	109
11	The burden is on you	117
12	Long-distance caring	123
13	Handle with care	127
14	The setting sun	139

The Thyroid Guide or Empathy in Mental Illness

2009-02-04T16:17:00.000-08:00

The Thyroid Guide

Author: Beth Ann Ditkoff

The definitive guide for the more than twenty million Americans suffering from chronic thyroid problems or thyroid cancer

Beth Ann Ditkoff, M.D., and Paul Lo Gerfo, M.D., two leading thyroid surgeons, identify the common symptoms of thyroid disease--weight gain or loss, fatigue, nervousness, and sleeplessness--and provide advice on diagnostic tests, treatments, medications, and self-help strategies.

Every person with thyroid disease can be helped with proper diagnosis and treatment. Most thyroid problems are chronic, so patients need information to cope with a disease that will likely be with them for life. This authoritative, easy-to-use book helps them understand their conditions and gives them the knowledge they need to manage their medications and symptoms. Drs. Ditkoff and Lo Gerfo are clinicians and researchers who have successfully treated thousands of patients.

Thyroid Facts

More than twenty million people currently receive treatment for thyroid problems
An estimated two million people have an undiagnosed thyroid condition
At least 10 percent of women over the age of sixty will show evidence of underactive thyroid
In women of childbearing age, thyroid dysfunction can cause menstrual problems, infertility, and miscarriage
An underactive thyroid can cause sexual dysfunction
Eight percent of pregnant women develop thyroid disease, which is often misdiagnosed as postpartum depression
The majority of thyroid disease affects women

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Empathy in Mental Illness

Author: Tom F D Farrow

The lack of ability to emphathise is central to many psychiatric conditions. Empathy is affected by neurodevelopment, brain pathology and psychiatric illness. Empathy is both a state and a trait characteristic. Empathy is measurable by neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging techniques. This book specifically focuses on the role of empathy in mental illness. It starts with the clinical psychiatric perspective and covers empathy in the context of mental illness, adult health, developmental course, and explanatory models. Psychiatrists, psychotherapists and mental heath professionals will find this a very useful encapsulation of what is currently known about the role of empathy as it relates to mental illness.

1. Empathic dysfunction in psychopathic individuals James Blair;
2. Empathy deficits in schizophrenia Kwang H. Lee;
3. Empathy, antisocial behaviour and personality pathology Mairead Dolan and Rachael Fullam;
4. Empathy and depression Lynn O'Connor, Jack Berry, Thomas Lewis, Katherine Mulherin and Eunice Yi;
5. Empathy, social intelligence, and aggression in adolescent boys and girls Kaj Björkqvist;
6. Impaired empathy following ventromedial prefrontal brain damage Simone Shamay-Tsoory;
7. Non-autism childhood empathy disorders Christopher Gillberg;
8. Empathy and autism Peter Hobson;

Part II. Empathy and Related Concepts in Health:
9. Neonatal antecedents for empathy Miguel Diego and Nancy Aaron Jones;
10. The evolutionary neurobiology, emergence and facilitation of empathy James Harris;
11. Naturally occurring variability in state empathy John Nezlek, Astrid Schütz, Paulo Lopes and C. Veronica Smith;
12. Neuroimaging of empathy Tom Farrow;
13. The neurophysiology of empathy Nancy Aaron Jones and Chantal Gagnon;
14. The cognitive neuropsychology of empathy Jean Decety, Philip Jackson and Eric Brunet;
15. The genetics of empathy and its disorders Henrik Anckarsäter and Robert Cloninger;
16. Empathogenic agents: their use, abuse, mechanism of action and addiction potential Dan Velea and Michel Hautefeuille;
17. Existential empathy: the intimacy of self and other Marco Iacoboni;
18. Empathizing and systemizing in males, females, and autism: a test of the neural competitiontheory Nigel Goldenfeld, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Chris Ashwin and Bhismadev Chakrabarti;
19. Motivational-affective processing and the neural foundations of empathy India Morrison
20. Face processing and empathy Tony Atkinson;

Part III. Empathic Models, Regulation and Measurement of Empathy:
21. Balancing the empathy expense account: Strategies for regulating empathic response Sara Hodges and Robert Biswas-Diener;
22. Empathic accuracy: measurement and potential clinical applications Marianne Schmid Mast and William Ickes;
23. A Perception-Action model for empathy Stephanie Preston;
24. The Shared Manifold Hypothesis: embodied simulation and its role in empathy and social cognition Vittorio Gallese;
25. Using literature and the arts to develop empathy in medical students Johanna Shapiro.

Victim of Love or Lose Weight the Smart Low Carb Way

2009-02-03T12:16:00.000-08:00

Victim of Love?: How you can Break the Cycle of Bad Relationships

Author: Tom Whiteman

ARE YOU A VICTIM OF LOVE?

"I'll just die if I can't be with him."

"If she leaves me, I'll do something drastic."

"You're my everything. I'd be nothing without you."

If you found yourself saying or thinking things like these, you may be a victim of love-someone caught in the cycle of addictive relationships. While these words make nice poetry or hit love songs, in reality they're warning signs of a relationship that's way out of balance.

Being caught in this cycle doesn't mean you have to stay there. Victim of Love? examines these kinds of unhealthy relationships and shows you how to identify their danger signs so you can avoid repeating past choices. If you're looking for balance in your life, Victim of Love? will help you break the cycle of bad relationships and find love that lasts.

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Lose Weight the Smart Low-Carb Way: 200 High-Flavor Recipes and a 7-Step Plan to Stay Slim Forever

Author: Bettina Newman

Indulge in your fantasy foods…and drop 10, 20, 50 pounds! Introducing the first low-carb cookbook to successfully combine a long-term weight-loss plan and cookbook into one, providing lasting weight loss, sound nutrition, and eating satisfaction.

This gorgeous, four-color cookbook includes sample menus and low-carb shopping, cooking, and eating tips. It also includes inspiring before-and-after stories, tips and recipes from people who have already lost weight the Smart Low-Carb way!

Eat rich, be thin and peel off pounds forever - feasting on the foods you love!

Publishers Weekly

Newman and Joachim explain the science behind a low-carb success and why low-carb does not mean no-carb, but rather the right sort of carbohydrates those with a low glycemic index. Unlike many other low-carb diets, this one promotes not high-fat and refined sugars but unsaturated fat instead of saturated fat, moderate amounts of lean protein, adequate fiber and the key elements of calorie control. The authors provide a low-carb pyramid of suggested eating proportions and begin with a seven-step weight loss program that promotes eating whole grains, controlling portion size and getting exercise. Each recipe (supported by a seven-day eating plan) includes a chart indicating the number of calories, diet values and diet exchanges. These are easy, basic dishes from the Hearty Country Vegetable Soup to the Lamb Chops with Olives. While many recipes are nicely spiced (such as the Turkey Drumstick Curry and Curried Chicken with Coconut), some, such as the Baked Cod with Lemon and Olive Oil, can be bland. These simple recipes are interspersed with time-saving and flavor tip sidebars and include more than 90 full-color photographs. (Apr.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Healthy Lunchbox or Yoga For Beginners

2009-02-02T08:13:00.000-08:00

Healthy Lunchbox: The Working Mom's Guide to Keeping You and Your Kids Trim

Author: Rallie McAllister

You want your kids to eat healthy and stay fit, but as a working woman, you don't have the time to eat right yourself, let alone monitor every morsel your child consumes. In Healthy Lunchbox, Dr. Rallie McAllister offers you a realistic solution to your working-mom dilemma: Get fit together! With the expertise of a renowned physician and the sharpened sensibilities of a mother of three, Dr. McAllister imparts wisdom and advice that any mom can manage. Of all the people in your children's world, you have the most powerful influence on their eating behaviors. That's why it's so important to make fitness a family affair. Healthy Lunchbox shows you how to take advantage of your nutritional clout and transition your family into a healthier lifestyle. As a busy mom, you have a lot to juggle, but you can't drop the ball when it comes to your child's health. With Healthy Lunchbox as a guide, you and your kids will find your way to a slimmer, healthier tomorrow.

Publishers Weekly

More than just a cookbook, this volume addresses the growing epidemic of obesity in American children (and adults) with detailed explanations of the risk factors, causes and dangers. It also provides practical solutions-occasionally oversimplified-to help with a variety of issues that may hinder a working mom's ability to keep her kids fit and healthy. For example, McAllister explains, "nutritionally speaking, afternoons represent a four-hour danger zone for children, especially when they're home alone, without the benefit of maternal supervision." The tips she offers for setting TV limits, scheduling structured activities and making homes fitness-friendly might not be feasible for all families, but they're worthwhile suggestions. The back of the book focuses on healthy lunchbox meals; recipes for breakfast, snacks and lunch are generally simple and appealing, and they employ some wholesome packaged products for convenience. Nutritional information (including "G-factors: grams of fat, carbohydrates, and protein") is included for each recipe, and advice on what's best to get at the grocery store or the fast food chains mean even the busiest moms could benefit from the information contained here. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Yoga For Beginners

Author: Harry Waess

Find inner peace and relaxation, physical and emotional refreshment, by releasing your body's natural healing powers through yoga. Getting started has never been easier, with this don't-need-to-know-anything-about-it introduction. Just follow the basic 88 exercises, pictured in over 100 photos, that show how to breathe (pranayamas), and sit (asanas) in positions that relieve stress and revive your physical and spiritual energy. Once the exercises come naturally, go on to programs that combine them to work on specific problem areas. And don't miss the section of brief mini-exercises to reduce eyestrain, as well as neck and back strain any time during the day. Before long, the relaxed rhythms of your body will begin to extend to your entire life!

Life after Stroke or Jubbs Cell Rejuvenation

2009-02-01T04:11:00.000-08:00

Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke

Author: Joel Stein

In this compassionate guide, three expert physicians who treat people with stroke describe how to navigate the path to recovery. Their practical advice on treatment, rehabilitation, and lifestyle changes is also designed to help prevent another stroke.

Drs. Stein, Silver, and Frates begin by explaining how stroke occurs and what happens when different parts of the brain are injured. They describe diagnostic tools such as CT scans and MRIs as well as medications used to prevent and treat stroke, and they explain in detail how stroke survivors can heal optimally. They also set out plans to help survivors reduce the risk of another stroke, including the Stroke Savvy Exercise Plan and Stroke Savvy Diet Plan.

Relating patients' experiences and bringing readers up to date on promising new treatments, Life After Stroke offers hope to stroke survivors and their families.

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Reviewer:Florence A Denby, MS(Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago)
Description:This book provides a comprehensive tool for stroke survivors and their families for understanding stroke etiology, reasons for post-stroke testing, and how to get the most from recovery. Throughout the book, the authors chronicle fascinating accounts of historical figures as well as everyday people who have experienced stroke as they relate to the medical consequences and recovery.
Purpose:This is an attempt to supply people with stroke and their loved ones with the information about what to expect during the rehabilitation process and how to maximize it. More accurate than stroke is the term brain attack, defined as a sudden event causing damage to the brain that with early treatment can be reversed or the progression stopped. The book's substance is captured in the description of a complicated disease with numerous etiologies/comorbidities and the well written explanation of stroke rehabilitation as a multidiscipline process. The book meets its noble objectives for use as a consumer resource in conjunction with the physician and members of the rehabilitation team.
Audience:Although the authors intend this book for people with stroke and their loved ones, in my experience, many stroke survivors would have a difficult time comprehending this material because of the medical terminology and jargon. However, the vignettes, practical examples, drawings, and tables scattered throughout the book provide in-depth information that can be easily understood. The authors are experienced practitioners who have collaborated with stroke and rehabilitation specialistsin the thoughtful development of a fine book.
Features:This is a comprehensive overview of what a stroke is, what happens during the initial recovery, and how stroke survivors can make the most of their rehabilitation process and continue to recover throughout their lifetime. Giving consumers knowledge of what possibly caused their stroke empowers them to take necessary precautions for secondary prevention and also allows greater control of modifiable risk factors and outcomes. The chapter on heart and blood vessels and stroke is an excellent teaching tool, especially the party analogy describing what causes hardening of the arteries. The chapter on exercise and stroke addresses the needs of stroke survivors at different levels of functioning whether severe, moderate, mild, and/or without residual functioning problems.
Assessment:It is difficult to write a book for all stroke survivors and their families because of the diversity of the population. This book is an excellent resource for people with stroke, their loved ones, and any one interested in stroke recovery and prevention. Healthcare providers, allied health professionals, and nurses would benefit from this comprehensive tutorial study of stroke prevention and recovery. This offers an excellent source to reference when explaining to patients the nature of their injury and their own role in recovery.

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Jubb's Cell Rejuvenation: Colloidal Biology: A Symbiosis

Author: David Jubb

According to David Jubb, who has done the breakthrough work in this realm, life extension and health optimization require protein and antioxidant synthesis. Colloids of life and lifecolloids (spores), he says, are the real primordial building blocks of life, not the body cells. These colloids comprise the body's flora, whose vitality is crucial in creating sustained good health and long life. Jubbs Cell Rejuvenation focuses on how to optimize this bio-terrain, giving readers solid information about the science and techniques for reclaiming that inner terrain in relationship to protein and antioxidant synthesis. In a world of health practitioners who talk only in terms of disease, Dr. Jubb's focus is on the forces that allow health to flourish. This work represents a nontoxic, natural approach that gently creates a symbiotic relationship among body functions that contributes to overall health. Chronic fatigue, digestive insufficiency, cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune challenge are all demystified in this important work.

Jesus Prescription for a Healthy Life or Absolute Beauty

2009-01-31T00:09:00.000-08:00

Jesus Prescription for a Healthy Life

Author: Leonard Sweet

Leonard Sweet, with his profound insight and humor examines how Jesus laughed, hung out with friends, played with children, walked, enjoyed the good times at social gatherings, moodled, and poked fun at pious pretensions. By examining the life of Jesus, this prescription for health and well-being details the ways and habits through which Jesus lived a disciplined life and healthy existence during his ministry among us. The self-help advice is linked directly to stories about or by Jesus in the Gospels. You are sure to sharpen spiritually and hone your life physically while learning things about Jesus that you have never heard before.

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Absolute Beauty: A Renowned Plastic Surgeon's Guide to Looking Young Forever

Author: Gerald Imber

Renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Gerald Imber changed the way men and women deal with aging in his books The Youth Corridor, which offered the first integrated strategy to control the signs of aging, and For Men Only, designed for the man who wants to stay trim and youthful but doesn't know where to turn for advice. Now, after vast improvements in science and surgery, Dr. Imber once again paves the way for people to find the path toward keeping their youthful appearance.

In Absolute Beauty, Dr. Imber explores the new horizons for staying young-looking and the cutting-edge breakthroughs in area such as:

Absolute Beauty provides the crucial information needed to help you look your absolute best throughout your adult life. Dr. Imber's regimen will show you how to slow down the damage of time and help you turn back the clock. It will tell how to protect your youthful good looks- your absolute beauty- by avoiding accelerating the changes already present.

This indispensable book covers all aspects of the modern cosmetic surgical experience and is a must-have guide for anyone considering plastic surgery or just wanting to stay young-looking.

Dementia or Dr Pascarellis Complete Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury

2009-01-29T20:08:00.000-08:00

Dementia: Your Questions Answered

Author: Jeremy M Brown

This book, written in the popular Q and A format of the YQA series will provide sufficient information for a primary care doctor to be able to understand and treat patients who have dementia.
• Uses a question-and-answer format to facilitate reference.
• Covers both common and uncommon clinical issues.
• Lists useful web sites, associations, and patient resource.
• Answers questions frequently asked by patients and their families.

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Dr. Pascarelli's Complete Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury: What You Need to Know About RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Author: Emil Pascarelli MD

One of the world’s leading authorities on repetitive strain injury tells you how to prevent, treat, and recover from RSI

Living with repetitive strain injury (RSI) can be painful, exasperating, and devastating. If you’ve given up hope that there is any help for your symptoms, if you’ve tried medications, wrist splints, neck braces, and exercises–and have had only temporary relief–this book is for you. Dr. Emil Pascarelli, one of the world’s leading authorities on RSI, offers a comprehensive, prescriptive, practical, and long-awaited sequel to his bestselling Repetitive Strain Injury. You’ll read all about the advances in RSI diagnosis, treatment,and prevention that have occurred since the publication of the previous book. Inside is welcome advice on:

• Recognizing the early signs and risk factors of RSI before they lead to a serious or debilitating condition

• Finding the right doctor, the right diagnosis, and the right treatment

• Preventing RSI using commonsense solutions such as keyboard techniques, posture, and workstation setup

• Employing practical methods to regain the use of muscles, nerves, and tendons that have been damaged by RSI

• Relieving not only the pain but also the emotional stress that so often accompanies RSI

• Following specific warnings for musicians and other at-risk professionals

Because symptoms of RSI are rarely visible, health professionals, employers, and fellow employees often cannot understand what a sufferer of RSI is going through. This book is the best way to understand RSI and learn what you can do about it.

	Foreword	xi
	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction	1
1.	Understanding RSI	9
2.	Getting the Diagnosis	27
3.	RSI and Your Emotions	69
4.	RSI and Your Eyes	77
5.	Managing Pain	87
6.	Your Lower Back	105
7.	Physical and Occupational Therapy for RSI	111
8.	Ergonomics: Making Your Equipment Fit	131
9.	Biomechanics: Using Your Body	149
10.	At Home with RSI	163
11.	Getting Back to Work	171
12.	RSI and Musicians	183
13.	Other Causes of RSI	201
14.	Beating RSI: A Five-Step Protection Plan	209
	Glossary	215
	Further Reading	225
	Internet Resources	231
	General Scientific References on RSI	233
	Index	239

Overdosed America or Que Comeria Jesus

2009-01-28T16:06:00.000-08:00

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine

Author: John Abramson

Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdo$ed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.

Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., an award-winning family doctor on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, reveals the ways in which the drug companies have misrepresented statistical evidence, misled doctors, and compromised our health. The good news is that the best scientific evidence shows that reclaiming responsibility for your own health is often far more effective than taking the latest blockbuster drug.

You -- and your doctor -- will be stunned by this unflinching exposé of American medicine.

Publishers Weekly

According to Abramson, Americans are overmedicated and overmedicalized as a result of the commercialization of health care. Falling prey to marketing campaigns, we demand unnecessary and expensive drugs and procedures, believing they constitute the best possible medical care. Wrong, says Abramson: though more post-heart attack procedures are performed in the U.S. than in Canada, one-year survival rates are the same. Similarly, notes Abramson, a former family practitioner who teaches at Harvard Medical School, we spend more on high-tech neonatology than other Western countries but have a higher infant-mortality rate because of inattention to low-tech prenatal care. Abramson deconstructs the scientific sleight of hand in presenting clinical trial results that leads to the routine prescription of pricey cholesterol-lowering drugs even when their effectiveness has not been proven; he examines what he calls "supply-sensitive medical services"-the near-automatic use of medical technologies, such as cardiac catheterization, less because they are needed than because they are available. Abramson's bottom line: "More care doesn't necessarily mean better care." Arguing firmly that doctors should focus more on lifestyle changes to improve health, Abramson seems less credible when he writes off depression as "exercise-deficiency disease" and disposes of cancer in little more than a page. Still, he makes a powerful and coherent case that American medicine has gone badly astray and needs a new paradigm-one untainted by profits. Agent, Kris Dahl. (Oct.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

With healthcare based on research sponsored mainly by self-interested drug companies, we're all in trouble, argues family practitioner Abramson. With a three-city author tour. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Book about: Live Direct and Biased or Corporate Governance

Que Comeria Jesus

Author: Don Colbert

El mercado cristiano esta inundado de programas de dieta y ejercicios que dicen ser la forma de vivir y comer "como Dios manda" para tener salud. Si bien algunos estan basados en principios biblicos, y algunos han demostrado ser efectivos para perder peso, ni uno solo nos dice lo que haria Jesus, y mucho menos lo que comeria Jesus. En cambio, este amplio plan de comida examina la Biblia y revela lo que sabemos que Jesus comia y lo que por logica podemos comenzar con confianza. Valiendose de las investigaciones medicas, ?Que comeria Jesus? nos ensena y demuestra porque la dieta de Jesus es ideal tambien para el siglo 21.

	Introduccion: Que comeria Jesus?	vii
1	Cuestione seriamente lo que come	1
2	Alimentos que comia Jesus mas a menudo	17
3	Un ingrediente basico en la dieta de Jesus	33
4	Las carnes que Jesus comia	45
5	Otras formas de proteina que Jesus comia	69
6	Las verduras que comia Jesus	79
7	Las grasas que Jesus comia	105
8	Bebidas que Jesus tomaba	117
9	Que comeria Jesus como postre?	139
10	Hacia ejercicio Jesus?	159
11	Como utilizar los alimentos que Jesus comia para perder peso	173
12	El estilo de salud mediterraneo	187
13	Plan diario de alimentacion y menus para una semana	199
	Bibliografia	213
	Acerca del autor	217
	Notas	219

Psychological Symptoms or Cut Your Cholesterol

2009-01-27T12:05:00.000-08:00

Psychological Symptoms

Author: Frank J Bruno

If you or someone you love is suffering from any of the following, you can now find out why—and what you can do about it …

Anxiety
Loss of pleasure
Irrational fears
Obsessional thoughts
Erratic mood swings
Procrastination
Compulsive overeating
Extreme shyness
Depression
Self-destructive behavior
Phobias
Excessive anger
Perfectionism
Drug abuse

Psychological Symptoms Now, in this indispensable reference, Dr. Frank J. Bruno helps you understand the origins of and treatment available for several common psychological symptoms, which can impinge on your daily life and even signal deeper emotional trouble. A comprehensive sourcebook, Psychological Symptoms provides a detailed description of 27 symptom groups, each complete with an analysis of possible biological and psychological causes, as well as concrete everyday examples of characteristic self-defeating, self-destructive thinking and acting. Containing over 150 specific, self-directed strategies for dealing with an array of troubling, debilitating behaviors, as well as a guide to the various forms of psychological and psychiatric therapies available, Psychological Symptoms lets you finally gain perspective and control over problems that can impair your emotional health and well-being.

Library Journal

While not a conventional self-help book, this informative guide discusses 27 common behavioral difficulties that can threaten mental and emotional well-being. These include obvious syndromes like food abuse and irrational fear, as well as common problems such as anger, boredom, and procrastination, which can be serious if exhibited in chronic or excessive patterns. Each chapter focuses on a single psychological syndrome, providing its characteristics, probable causes, practical coping strategies, and possible need for professional intervention. This book provides assistance in understanding maladaptive habits and offers guidance in overcoming them. Recommended as a sound introduction for general psychology and self-help collections.-- Ilse Heidmann Ali, Kyle Community Lib., Tex.

Ch. 1	Suffering and Psychological Symptoms	1
Ch. 2	Alcohol Abuse: Mistreatment of the Self	7
Ch. 3	Alienation: "I Call No Place Home."	14
Ch. 4	Anger: Seeing Red When the Light Is Green	22
Ch. 5	Anxiety: Worrying About Worry	30
Ch. 6	Boredom: When Life Grows Dull	37
Ch. 7	Delusions: When Fantasies Become Real	44
Ch. 8	Depression: The Anatomy of Melancholy	52
Ch. 9	Drug Abuse: Recreational Self-Destruction	61
Ch. 10	Food Abuse: Living to Eat	69
Ch. 11	Helplessness: Is It Real or Learned?	77
Ch. 12	Indecisiveness: Going In Mental Circles	85
Ch. 13	Interpersonal Difficulties: "You Are My Problem!"	94
Ch. 14	Irrational Fears: A Plague of Phobias	102
Ch. 15	Loss of Pleasure: When Enjoyment Isn't Enjoyable	110
Ch. 16	Meaninglessness: Looking for the Purpose of Life	118
Ch. 17	Memory Problems: More Than Ordinary Forgetfulness	126
Ch. 18	Mood Fluctuations: The Storms of Temperament	135
Ch. 19	Obsessions and Compulsions: Of Persistent Ideas and Magic Rituals	143
Ch. 20	Perfectionism: The Flaw of Flawlessness	153
Ch. 21	Physical Complaints: Aches, Pains, and Fatigue	162
Ch. 22	Procrastination: The Tomorrow Syndrome	171
Ch. 23	Risk-Taking: Getting High on Danger	180
Ch. 24	Self-Destructiveness: When the Personality Attacks Itself	188
Ch. 25	Sexual Difficulties: "Now That You've Opened This Medusa's Box . . ."	197
Ch. 26	Shyness: Painful Self-Consciousness	209
Ch. 27	Sleep Difficulties: The Long and Restless Night	219
Ch. 28	Workaholism: Prisoners of Success	230
Ch. 29	Concluding Remarks: Symptom-Free Living	240
	Glossary	246
	Index	268

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Cut Your Cholesterol: Featuring the Exclusive Live It Down Plan

Author: David L Katz

This unique weekbyweek, stepbystep plan is based on the latest research and blends nutrition, physical activity, supplements, and mindbody medicine. Its uptotheminute information gives readers the power to reshape their healthfeel younger and live longer. Illustrations, charts, daily logs, journals, and over 30 recipes make it easy to achieve success.

Body Psychotherapy or Walkers Pocket Companion

2009-01-26T08:03:00.000-08:00

Body Psychotherapy

Author: Tree Staunton

In the past the practice of body psychotherapy has been taken less seriously in professional circles than more traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. Body Psychotherapy evens out the balance, offering insights into a spectrum of approaches within body-oriented psychotherapy. A range of experienced contributors introduce new areas of development and emerging theory and clinical material, covering: the history of body psychotherapy; theoretical perspectives on body psychotherapy, including post-Reichian and development of integrative methodologies; body psychotherapy in practice, including applications for trauma and regression; the future for body psychotherapy.

This book shows how body psychotherapy can be healing, reparative and rewarding. It will make for essential reading for postgraduates and professionals, whether they are already involved in this field, or wish to learn more about incorporating it into their own practice.

	Series preface
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
	Introduction	1
1	Foreign bodies: recovering the history of body psychotherapy	7
2	Application of post-Reichian body psychotherapy: a Chiron perspective	27
3	Sexuality and body psychotherapy	56
4	Biodynamic massage in psychotherapy: re-integrating, re-owning and re-associating through the body	78
5	Body psychotherapy without touch: applications for trauma therapy	101
6	The use of imagery in body-oriented psychotherapy	116
7	Psycho-spiritual body psychotherapy	133
8	Subtle bodywork	148
9	Body psychotherapy and regression: the body remembers past lives	172
10	The future for body psychotherapy	202
	Afterword	225
App	Training in body psychotherapy	227
	Index	235

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Walker's Pocket Companion

Author: Malcolm Tait

This attractive, handy pocket book is bursting with great ideas for anyone who’s ever laced a sturdy boot, packed a cheese sandwich, and put one foot in front of the other in search of stimulation, observation, and contemplation. What would you do if you were charged by an elephant? How do you pack a rucksack? Which soap characters should never have gone out for a walk? And, importantly, how do you ramble for sex? This book answers all these questions and hundreds more.

Defeat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Complete Weight Loss Workbook

2009-01-25T04:01:00.000-08:00

Defeat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Eight Step Protocol

Author: Martha E Kilcoyn

When I was three months pregnant with my second child, I caught a flu virus that changed my life. For the next four years I lived in the clutches of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. When I realized that most of the medical profession considered my illness to be "in my head", I felt so isolated, struggling to understand what was wrong with me knowing that it was a real physical illness.

CFS shut down my life as I knew it and forced me to become a recluse spending most of my time in bed between short lived efforts to have a "normal" life. But slowly, through much trial and error, I began to understand the patterns and the cruelty of CFS. In the end, I defeated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and now live a full and healthy life - totally free of CFS.

This book shares in detail the eight step protocol that I developed and followed as I slowly and steadily regained my health. It's written in a clear, concise format, understanding the struggle that CFS sufferers have with memory and concentration.

By consistently following these steps, I hope that you too can defeat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. You don't have to live with it!

The formerly bedridden author, now fully recovered, provides a pragmatic and inspiring guide for CFS, fibromyalgia, CFIDS, and ME patients. This proactive, self-management protocol demonstrates how to get control over those aspects of the disease that can be controlled. Physicians will appreciate the emphasis on a strong working relationship and the foundation on which to build a successful treatment plan. Caregivers will better understand their loved ones and get specific suggestions about how to help.

Cort Johnson - phoenix-cfs.org

'Defeat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' is aimed at the ME/CFS patient, it's short, it's readable and it focuses on the essentials of managing this disease. This book is not the one to tell you to take X supplement for Y problem - indeed the short chapter on supplements is weakest in the book - or which treatments to try. In some ways that's the easy stuff; managing ones disease successfully while being encased in brain fog and being torn by guilt and remorse and frustration - that's the really hard part of ME/CFS and that's precisely what this book is about.
In 'Defeat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' Martha grapples with the fundamental issues chronic fatigue syndrome patients have to deal with; how do I balance health and responsibility? When should I say stop? What should my priorities be? How should I manage this disease?

Interesting textbook: Grilling or New Great American Writers Cookbook

Complete Weight Loss Workbook

Author: Judith Wylie Rosett

Weight loss tips for people with diabetes

Lose weight and keep it off! This is the same lifelong weight-controlplan used by a National Institutes of Health research study to helpmore than 1,500 people lose weight. This book can help readerstailor a personalized plan to meet their goals.

Judith Wylie-Rosett, Ed.D., R.D. is the lead author andassociate director of the Diabetes Research and Training Center at theAlbert Einstein School of Medicine at Yeshiva University.She is also a coauthor of 101 Weight Loss Tips for People with Diabetes.

Get with the Program or Social Support and Physical Health

2009-01-23T23:59:00.000-08:00

Get with the Program!: Getting Real About Your Weight, Health, and Emotional Well-Being

Author: Bob Green

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Social Support and Physical Health (Current Perspectives in Psychology Series)

Author: Bert N Uchino

This state-of-the-art book examines the effect of social relationships on physical health. It surveys and assesses the research that shows not only that supportive relationships protect us from a multitude of mental health problems but also that the absence of supportive relationships increases the risk of dying from various diseases. Bert N. Uchino discusses the links between social support and mortality from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. He investigates whether social support is more effective for some individuals and within certain cultures. After evaluating existing conceptual models linking social support to health outcomes, he offers his own broader perspective on the issue. And he suggests the implications for intervention and for future research in this area.

Author Biography: Bert Uchino is associate professor of psychology at the University of Utah.

Current Perspectives in Psychology Series

Maximum Energy for Life or Expectant Parents Companion

2009-01-22T19:58:00.000-08:00

Maximum Energy for Life: A 21-Day Strategic Plan to Feel Great, Reverse the Aging Process, and Optimize Your Health

Author: Mackie Shilston

FEEL BETTER. LOOK BETTER. LIVE BETTER.

Maximum Energy for Life is a revolutionary game plan for achieving optimum health and fitness that will make you look and feel better than ever before. In just twenty-one days, you’ll have more energy, reduce your body fat, and manage stress and fatigue better than ever before. Mackie Shilstone’s Maximum Energy for Life program has worked wonders for top athletes and busy professionals alike–and it will work wonders for you, too!

"The ultimate book for helping you identify where you want to go and how best to achieve your performance goals."
—Steve Wynn

"Mackie’s program . . . significantly prolonged my baseball career and enhanced the quality of my life. In fact, it helped me reach the Baseball Hall of Fame."
–Ozzie Smith
Retired all-star shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, 2002 Hall of Fame inductee

"Mackie Shilstone’s concepts in Maximum Energy for Life are truly exceptional. As a busy network executive, I know how important it is to assume ownership of one’s health in being successful in business and in one’s personal life. Mackie’s program is the best. It has consistently worked with world-class athletes and everyday executives like me."
–Rick Bernstein
Senior Vice President and Executive Producer, HBO Sports

"Mackie is the man! [His] program helped give me the strength and motivation that I needed to succeed at the highest level. After my bout with cancer, his personal touch helped me to regain my ability to play–and the health to live a quality life."
–Brett Butler
Former centerfielder, Los Angeles Dodgers

	Foreword	vii
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Secrets and Strategies to Manage Your Energy and Reduce Your Stress
1	Discover the Art of Maximum Performance	11
2	Seven Secrets to Put You at the Top of Your Form	15
3	Nine Strategies to Achieve Your Goals	26
4	Discover and Balance Your Energy Style	39
5	Minimize Your Fear and Maximize Your Focus	45
6	The Stress Connection	52
7	Master Stress Management for Maximum Performance	65
Part 2	The Strategic Plan for Optimum Health
8	Learn the Basics about Heart Disease	81
9	Two Essential Strategies to Cut Your Risk of Heart Disease	100
10	The Nutritional Program for the Twenty-first Century	106
11	Eleven Life-Transforming Benefits of Exercise	151
12	Attain the Maximum Rewards from Exercise	160
13	The Pro Circuit Exercise Program	167
Part 3	Cultivate Your Passion for Your Life and Work
14	Recharge Your Passion for Your Career	193
15	Renew Your Motivation	206
Part 4	The Optimum Performance Program
16	Your Twenty-one-Day Optimum Performance Program	221
Appendix	A Ten-Year Risk Evaluation for Men and Women	247
	Resources to Help You	252
	Index	255

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Expectant Parents' Companion: Simplifying What to Do, Buy or Borrow for an Easy Life with Baby

Author: Kathleen Huggins

This is the ultimate, all-around baby guide. Not only does it help you navigate the dizzying array of baby products or gear, it also helps you get ready for baby in numerous ways, from preparing for birth, to feeding your newborn, to sleeping arrangements, and to making your home safe for baby. Most other baby-gear guides make you think you need to build on an extra room in your house to accommodate all the necessary items. However, Kathleen Huggins' years of experience with moms and newborns have taught her what you'll need, what you'll want, and what you can definitely do without.

The Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy or The New Harvard Guide to Womens Health

2009-01-21T15:56:00.000-08:00

The Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy

Author: Christine Wildwood

Among the profusion of books on aromatherapy available today The Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy is the first to explore the many aspects of this healing art in a single, up-to-date, illustrated volume. The author discusses all things aromatic, from essential oils to garden plants, with recipes for blending essential oils and practical tips for creating perfumes and beauty products. The numerous therapeutic uses of aromatherapy are applied to 10 major systems of the body with specific remedies given for more than 70 ailments.

Color photographs illustrate step-by-step a full-body aromatherapy massage, accompanied by specific advice on massaging pregnant women, babies, children, and elderly people. There is also a helpful section concerning sports injuries. Useful for the beginner, this comprehensive reference is an invaluable addition to the library of the serious student and professional practitioner of aromatherapy.

The Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy offers the most elegantly comprehensive package on the whole art and science of aromatherapy written to date. It deservedly takes its place among the small handful of indispensable reference books on this fascinating therapy

Seza Eccles

The Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy offers the most elegantly comprehensive package on the whole art and science of aromatherapy written to date. It deservedly takes its place among the small handful of indispensable reference books on this fascinating therapy. -Editor of Aromatherapy Quarterly

Acknowledgments
Forward
Introduction
Part 1 Basic Principles
1 A Brief History of Aromatics
2 The Essence of Aromatherapy
3 Capturing Essential Oils
4 Essential Oil Safety
5 Apprenticed to Aromatherapy
6 Creative Therapeutic Blending
Part 2 Aromatherapeutics
7 Before You Begin Home Treatments
8 The Skin
9 The Respiratory System
10 The Hearth and Circulatory System
11 The Digestive System
12 The Urinary System
13 The Muscular and Skeletal System
14 The Endocrine System
15 The Nervous System
16 The Immune System
17 The Female Reproductive System
18 Aromatherapy for Babies and Children
Part 3 Body, Mind and Soul
19 Nurturing Your Whole Being
20 Developing Your Healing Potential
21 Scents of Mystery and Imagination
Part 4 Massage
22 The Healing Art of Massage
23 Sport Massage
24 Maternity, Babies and Children
25 Aromatherapy Massage for Lovers
Part 5 Aesthetic Aromatherapy
26 Aromatic Beauty Care
27 Create Your Own Perfumes
Part 6 Home and Garden
28 Home Sweet Home
29 The Aromatic Pet
30 The Aromatherapeutic Garden
Part 7 Aromatic Profiles
31 Guide to Aromatic Profiles
Glossary of Medical Terms
Suggested Reading
Useful Addresses
General
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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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.

Pure Simple Natural Weight Control or The Dish

2009-01-20T11:54:00.000-08:00

Pure & Simple Natural Weight Control

Author: Norman Wardhaugh Walker

Here is a diet like no other. It is based on the body's need for vital, life-giving enzymes found only in nature's pure foods. Information presented covers facts and myths about your body, artificial foods, food combining, protein, milk and dairy products, how to get started, juice and juicing, and practical advice and support. Includes 50 fruit and salad recipes along with menus.

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The Dish: On Eating Healthy and Being Fabulous!

Author: Carolyn ONeil

Welcome to The Dish, where new nutrition aptitude meets stylish lifestyle attitude! Serving up heaping helpings of nutrition know-how designed to fit a busy schedule and a sense of taste, The Dish is here to proclaim that you can have your chocolate torte and eat it, too!

Forget starve-yourself regimens and diet gimmicks that just don't work; instead join Carolyn O'Neil and Densie Webb as they invite you to wine and dine, entertain and travel, and feel fabulous. As registered dietitians, they know their stuff, but call them the Dish Divas as they put the fun into eating right and feeling great.

In these pages they dish out smart tips on how to fit nutrition into hectic days, how to make healthy eating stylish, and how to be trim by eating more, not less (yes, it can be done!). There are no food police on patrol here, just some real-life advice from two nutrition experts, who talk you through food challenges with wit and wisdom.

Eating out? The dish is here, from four-star tables to the fast-food lane. What about a bit of the bubbly? The Dish Divas offer the lowdown on the liquid portion of portion control. Need to get your rear in gear? From power walking to karate kicks, they'll help you find the moves that appeal to you. They've even dished up plenty of fresh advice on beauty and fashion.

To show you how to maximize flavor with flare, there are loads of easy-to-cook recipes from top chefs, dubbed Gourmet Gurus. And to answer that oft asked question, how do stylish women stay fit and still live the high life, Carolyn and Densie gather the secrets that work for their Hip & Healthy Heroines.

A marvelous mix of nutrition advice, culinary wisdom, and chic insight,The Dish is here to help you create your own hip and healthy lifestyle.

Publishers Weekly

In an age of frenetic debates over low-carb vs. low-fat diets, O'Neil and Webb advocate for an indisputable method for weight loss: calories out must exceed calories in, while simultaneously acknowledging that dieting doesn't have to focus on deprivation. They draw on their experiences (O'Neil was a CNN producer and Webb is a nutrition writer with a Ph.D.) to create "a girlfriend's guide to eating out, eating in, entertaining, and traveling." Though they claim it's "the very first diet book for glamour girls of all ages and sizes," it's actually more of a lifestyle book, likely to appeal to the demographic of women who read fitness magazines and have 15 or fewer pounds to lose, or want to maintain a healthy weight while living a busy, changing life. The authors give "the dish" on nutrition, eating in, dining out, drinking, exercising, dressing to maximize your assets and even cheating (in moderation), with each author occasionally sharing a personal experience or preference. Throughout, O'Neil and Webb present sidebars (and occasional recipes) from experts, chefs, restaurateurs and magazine editors including Wolfgang Puck, Felidia Bastianach and Bon App tit editor Barbara Fairchild. Perky writing sometimes belies the deep knowledge and research underlying the nutritional information presented here, yet the authors do a tremendous service by digesting the latest studies on such controversial subjects such as soy ("How much is too much?"), raw food diets and supplements. Their clear analyses will help readers wade through the maze of conflicting nutrition information. Agent, Jenny Bent. (June 18) Forecast: A seven-city author tour and 18-city radio satellite tour will allow O'Neil and Webb to interact with women readers; their energetic air should help sell books. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Hope in the Face of Cancer or If Only I Could Quit

2009-01-18T04:50:00.000-08:00

Hope in the Face of Cancer: A Survival Guide for the Journey You Did Not Choose

Author: Amy Givler

Amy Givler, M.D. a cancer survivor, shares her experience and the stories of others with the voice of encouragement, faith, and strength she so desperately needed at the point of her diagnosis. With medical knowledge and insight into the path to come, Dr. Givler is able to offer answers and hope as she discusses:

looking at cancer through the lens of hope
seeking, evaluating, and making decisions for treatment
drawing closer to God along the journey
facing family and friends

Dr. Givler shares more than professional wisdom; she extends her friendship. And as a fellow survivor she provides a comforting presence during an experience that too often is mired in uncertainty, fear, and loneliness.

Publishers Weekly

Amy Givler is a physician and professor of family medicine at Louisiana State University. She is also a cancer survivor who writes from both a personal and professional standpoint in Hope in the Face of Cancer, her first book. In it, she offers medical advice and encouraging statistics about the improving rates of cancer survival; draws upon her own story to hearten anxious readers; and guides them through the bewildering array of treatment choices. The volume closes with an appendix about cancer organizations, Web sites and relevant medical literature. This helpful book will comfort many Christians who have been diagnosed with the dreaded disease. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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If Only I Could Quit: Recovering from Nicotine Addition

Author: Karen Casey

This complete resource brings together personal stories of recovery, Twelve Step guidance, and 90 daily meditations to help us become nicotine-free. If Only I Could Quit is written by one of Hazelden's most popular meditation authors and a recovering nicotine addict.

Wrinkle Free Forever or Complete Kickboxing

2009-01-17T17:48:00.000-08:00

Wrinkle-Free Forever

Author: Howard Murad

Howard Murad, M.D., the renowned Los Angeles dermatologist, has studied the effects of the environment on skin and aging for thirty years. The methods he's developed to counteract those effects are packed into this book's simple 5-Minute twice-a-day regimen. Murad's revolutionary discoveries include:--why water is the most powerful anti-aging ingredient of the 21st century--how to turn back the clock naturally, without surgery--reversing the sun's damaging effects--how to keep cells plumped for fresh, smooth skinLet Dr. Murad's internal and external skin care techniques repair, renew and rejuvenate your skin-starting today.Featuring a complete shopping guide to skin care products in every price range.

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Complete Kickboxing: The Fighter's Ultimate Guide to Techniques, Concepts and Strategy for Sparring and Competition

Author: Martina Spragu

In the most comprehensive book on kickboxing ever written, Martina Sprague and Keith Livingston teach you exactly what it takes to survive and win in the kickboxing ring. Whether you want to become a professional kickboxer or just train like one, Complete Kickboxing is an invaluable reference. Begin with the basics of movement, stance, punching, kicking and defensive fundamentals. Each skill is taught scientifically: learn good mechanics, drill with specific goals in mind and then apply your skills in sparring. Once you've established solid fundamentals, the authors introduce advanced skills like knee and elbow strikes, unorthodox punches, jump kicks and sweeps. As you build your arsenal, Keith and Martina share the kind of information that only two veterans of the ring can. Learn strategies for short and long range fighting, controlling the fight, outsmarting your opponent, working the angles and gaining superiority. If your goal is competition, Complete Kickboxing can ensure you don't miss a step along the way. Learn how to mentally and physically prepare for a fight, which equipment to train on, what goes on in the locker room before a match and how the business end of the fight game works. With nearly 500 pages of instruction and over 1000 photos, Complete Kickboxing is the most comprehensive reference available on the exciting sport of kickboxing.

Healing with the Chakra Energy System or Golds Gym Workout Journal

2009-01-17T08:47:00.000-08:00

Healing with the Chakra Energy System: Acupressure, Bodywork, and Reflexology for Total Health

Author: John R Cross

Written in accessible language for bodyworkers and hands-on therapists, Healing with the Chakra Energy System describes the use of very simple nonsuppressive and nonsymptomatic techniques in which the cause of the disease process may be halted and disharmony within the body may be changed into harmony. Each chapter contains case histories and descriptions of how to treat many conditions, including muscular, joint, spinal, organic, and emotional. Based on the author's decades of clinical and teaching experience, this book represents a fresh approach to healing by tapping chakra energy.

Interesting textbook: Preservation of Food or Ace Bakery Cookbook

Gold's Gym Workout Journal

Author: Cathy Sassin

Gold's Gym, the world's leading bodybuilding authority, has put together the perfect take-it-to-the-gym training journal. Targeted at the average person interested in weightlifting and working out for health, this handy, spiral-bound book provides convenient daily work sheets for tracking sets and reps as they are completed. Also included are concise sections on general diet and exercise, an introduction to gym equipment and etiquette, and sample workouts at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Cathy Sassin is currently the director of the Intrafitt Performance Nutrition and Exercise Center for Gold's Gym in Venice, California.

Guia Medica de Remedios Caseros or All New Cookbook for Diabetics and Their Families

2009-01-16T20:45:00.000-08:00

Guia Medica de Remedios Caseros: Miles de Sugerencias y Tecnicas Que Usted Puede Utilizar Para Resolver Cualquier Problema Cotidiano de Salud

Author: Prevention Magazine Editors

In Guía médica de remedios caseros, the Spanish-language edition of The Doctor's Book Of Home Remedies, over 500 health-care professionals offer their best doctor-tested advice for 138 common conditions and ailments. Remedios caseros is organized alphabetically by ailments, from acne to jidney stones, osteoporosis to warts. Under the heading of each ailment, dozens of explanations and home remedies are offered to help you help yourself right in your own home.

All New Cookbook for Diabetics and Their Families

Author: Joan Erskine Denman

ALL NEW COOKBOOK FOR DIABETICS AND THEIR FAMILIES

More than 180 easy-to-fix recipes calculated for the diabetic and taste-tested to please the whole family
Low-fat, low-cholesterol, low-sugar and low-sodium standards applied in recipe development
All recipes include exchange values plus calorie, cholesterol, carbohydrate, protein, fat, fiber, and sodium counts
Nutrition basics explained within Dietary Guidelines of the American Heart Association

Ticks or Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment

2009-01-16T11:43:00.000-08:00

Ticks: And What You Can Do about Them

Author: Roger Drummond

Have you ever found a tick on your body or your pet? Ticks covers everything you need to know about ticks and the diseases they carry, and provides the best, up-to-date information on how to protect yourself and your family.

Library Journal

This concise, clearly written guide describes the seven species of hard ticks and five species of soft ticks that one is likely to encounter in the United States. Included are the American and brown dog ticks, the deer tick (carrier of Lyme disease), and the lone star, relapsing fever, and Rocky Mountain ticks. Each tick is illustrated by a color photo. Chapters 1-6 present the ticks, animal hosts, habitats, and life cycles, as well as the symptoms of and treatments for the diseases they transmit. Chapters 7-10 discuss tick repellents, tick control methods, and tick removal. There's not much in print on this topic for general readers, so this will be a good, inexpensive resource for public libraries.-- Annette Aiello, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., Panama

	Acknowledgments, Third Edition	4
	Introduction	5
Chapter 1.	Ticks and How They Live	6
Chapter 2.	Where Ticks Live	11
Chapter 3.	Important Ticks	15
A.	Lone star tick	15
B.	Rocky Mountain wood tick	19
C.	Pacific Coast tick	20
D.	American dog tick	22
E.	Blacklegged tick	22
F.	Western blacklegged tick	24
G.	Brown dog tick	24
H.	Relapsing fever ticks	26
I.	Pajahuello tick	26
Chapter 4.	Lyme Disease	28
Chapter 5.	Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever	34
Chapter 6.	Other Diseases	38
A.	Human ehrlichiosis	38
B.	Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness	40
C.	Tularemia	40
D.	Colorado tick fever	42
E.	Human babesiosis	42
F.	Tick-borne relapsing fever	43
G.	Q fever	44
H.	Tick paralysis	45
Chapter 7.	How to Protect Yourself	48
A.	Proper Clothing	49
B.	Repellents Applied to Skin and Clothing	51
C.	Toxicants Applied to Clothing	53
Chapter 8.	How to Remove Ticks	55
Chapter 9.	How to Control Ticks	59
A.	Area Control with Insecticides	60
B.	Vegetation Management	63
C.	Insecticide-Treated Nest Material	64
D.	Bait and Insecticide Treatment of Mice	65
E.	Deer Treatment	66
F.	Deer Management	67
G.	Integrated Pest Management	68
Appendix	Useful Web Sites	70
	List of Illustrations	73
	Index	74

Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment: Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need to Know

Author: Kenneth D Miller

A diagnosis of breast cancer can be overwhelming. The disease is frightening and the medical landscape confusing. In the wake of fear and confusion comes the need to make decisions about treatment. This book provides women with medically reliable and up-to-date information to help them with these decisions.

Within these pages the reader will find a team of private consultants -- including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, plastic surgeons, and women who have faced breast cancer -- each of whom offers sound advice and valuable insight. In addition to describing surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and breast reconstruction, the medical experts clarify choices and offer support, while breast cancer survivors tell their own stories of pain, perseverance, and triumph.

Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment is a rare blend of medical expertise and compelling personal accounts that empowers those with breast cancer to meet the disease with confidence, knowledge, and hope.

Publishers Weekly

Miller, an oncologist and director of the Yale Cancer Center Survivorship Program, presents a unique and indispensable book for women facing breast cancer, which features individual chapters written by medical experts and breast cancer survivors. Asserting that "knowledgeable people make different choices, for different reasons," Miller's overarching message is that each woman is unique, as is her experience with this life-threatening disease. Because there are so many potential scenarios-based upon the tumor's size, the stage of cancer, etc.-treatment options vary, and women must decide which route to take in a timely fashion while simultaneously confronting their fears. Miller's approach provides the reader with the sense that she's had a private and unhurried consultation with each specialist: medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and surgeons. In addition the book includes personal accounts of survivors who have faced an array of experiences, from the woman whose mammogram reveals a lump just weeks before her wedding to the breast cancer statistician who is diagnosed with the very disease she is studying. This collection will help to fortify women making tough choices, offering invaluable information along with hope. (Jan.)

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Reviewer:Heidi H Richardson, MD(University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)
Description:This book provides newly diagnosed breast cancer patients with medical facts, descriptions of treatment options, and tips from breast cancer survivors.
Purpose:It assists patients in understanding their treatment options in order to better prepare them to make important decisions regarding their care. The author does an excellent job of describing breast cancer in layman's terms and incorporating accounts from breast cancer survivors.
Audience:The editor is a medical oncologist at the Yale Cancer Center and is the husband of a cancer survivor. The other contributors include medical oncologists, breast surgeons, radiation oncologists, and reconstructive surgeons, as well as breast cancer survivors. Although intended for breast cancer patients, it is also an excellent resource for family members of breast cancer patients as well as women at high risk for the development of breast cancer.
Features:Organized into five sections, this book begins with an overview of breast cancer. This is followed by a discussion of treatment options, the experience of having breast cancer, and narratives from breast cancer survivors, concluding with narratives from healthcare professionals who also had breast cancer. These personal accounts provide important information about the emotional aspects associated with a diagnosis of breast cancer and may help women better anticipate the difficulties of their journey.
Assessment:This is a useful book for patients and their families as it provides a good description of treatment options as well astips from breast cancer survivors.

Rebecca Raszewski - Library Journal

In 2007, there were over 170,000 new breast cancer cases, so the need for up-to-date resources continues. Drawing on the expertise of private consultants, this five-part book edited by Miller (medicine & oncology, Yale Cancer Ctr.) succeeds at being an authoritative resource for a wide audience: women who are at high risk for developing breast cancer and even those with metastatic cancer. The first two parts introduce breast cancer and its treatments; the last three parts deal with the personal experience of breast cancer. Various chapters profile doctors in specialties related to breast cancer such as radiation oncologists and plastic surgeons-there is even a chapter about doctors who are breast cancer survivors. This book effectively illustrates the disease's complexity. Readers will see how women made choices based on what was best for themselves, not on statistics. The illustrations are helpful in demonstrating how breast cancer forms and the surgical procedures. Although medical terms are defined in different sections, a glossary would have been helpful. Highly recommended for consumer health and public libraries.

The Magical Ritual Use of Herbs or Yoga for Fitness and Wellness

2009-01-16T00:41:00.000-08:00

The Magical & Ritual Use of Herbs

Author: Richard Alan Miller

Richard Alan Miller has thoroughly researched the historical use, chemical structure, preparation for consumption, and magical rituals related to narcotic, hallucinogenic, stimulant, and depressant herbs. He explains how these natural substances can be used for the enhancement of sexuality, muscle relaxation and massage, initiation, spiritual growth, and astral projection.

Provides a fascinating study of nineteen herbs that not only stimulate our energies, but also combat fatigue, assist healing, and relieve tension.

The Herb Companion

A fascinating selection, Miller's range of practical and arcane knowledge is impressive. This integration of the scientific with the mystical is one of the most interesting facets of the book.

Go to: Tejidos

Yoga for Fitness and Wellness

Author: Ravi Dykema

About to embark on a yoga class and seeking information and guidance for this effective form of exercise? In YOGA FOR FITNESS AND WELLNESS you will explore topics ranging from the theories to the history of yoga. With this knowledge, combined with a manual on the exercises themselves, you will soon be on the path to health, strength and relaxation!

Survival Retreat or Natural Woman Natural Menopause

2009-01-15T14:38:00.000-08:00

Survival Retreat: A Total Plan For Retreat Defense

Author: Ragnar Benson

Win the battles of defending your retreat by avoiding them! Learn how to harden your city or rural refuge by locating it well and disguising it. "The best defense is obscurity, unobtrusiveness and silence," Benson writes. Chapters are Who Is the Enemy?, What If It Comes to a Fight?, Beyond Firepower and more.

Natural Woman, Natural Menopause

Author: Marcus Laux

For years, women thought they had only two choices for menopause: avoid taking synthetic hormones altogether and suffer the occasionally debilitating effects of menopause, ranging from bone loss to sleeplessness, or accept a prescription for Premarin and Provera and with it an increased risk of some cancers. But, at this groundbreaking book proves, there is a better, safer, more effective way.

In Natural Woman, Natural Menopause, Marcus Laux, N.D., a leading expert on natural medicine, and Christine Conrad, a patient herself who experienced the unpleasant side effects of synthetic hormones, cut through the confusion and misinformation and show women that:

They can take natural, plant-derived hormones, which match their own hormones exactly, without any known side effects or cancer risks
Bio-identical plant-derived hormones are widely available in this country, are prescribed by doctors, and can be taken in pill form or as a cream
More and more pharmaceutical companies are manufacturing bio-identical plant-derived hormones
They can look and feel better than ever before

Accessible as well as authoritative, Natural Woman, Natural Menopause features the stories of other women who, like Christine Conrad, found that they didn't have to accept less than a completely safe alternative. More important, in Natural Woman, Natural Menopause Marcus Laux and Christine Conrad offer readers their complete plan for long-lasting health and renewed vitality. Following their "Natural Woman Plan," which features the right combination of plant-derived hormones, nutritional supplements, a plant-rich diet, and an exercise program toeliminate and even reverse the effects of bone loss, women will find that not only will they be more energetic and radiant than they thought possible but they will be adding years of good health to their lives.

Whether you are currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy and can't imagine giving it up or you are in the process of considering your alternatives, Natural Woman, Natural Menopause is a book that no woman nearing or experiencing menopause should be without.

	Acknowledgments
	Who Is This Book For?
	A Personal Note from Christine Conrad
	A Personal Note from Dr. Laux
1	Another Way	3
2	"Estrogen": The Misunderstood Hormone	19
3	The Power of Plant Hormones	31
4	HRT: The Road to the Present Dilemma	41
5	The Risk/Benefit Factor	50
6	More Than an Alternative	61
7	"The Naturals": What Are My Choices?	72
8	Talking to Your Doctor About "The Naturals"	82
9	Following the Natural Woman Plan	93
10	How to Use "The Naturals"	104
11	Hormone Balancing Through Food	124
12	The Natural Woman Eating Plan	135
13	Supplements: For Hormonal and Overall Health	153
14	Taking Care of Your Bones	163
15	An Ideal Way to Exercise	174
16	A Way of Life	205
App. A	Doctor Referral Listings and Support Organizations	209
App. B	Compounding Pharmacies	212
App. C	Testing and Hormone Product Resources	217
App. D	Traditional Herbal Remedies	220
App. E	Recommended Organic Products and Resources	223
App. F	Recommended Cookbooks	225
App. G	List of Menopausal Symptoms	226
	Glossary	227
	Notes	233
	Index	241

The Healing Energy of Your Hands or Handbook for Healing

2009-01-15T05:37:00.000-08:00

The Healing Energy of Your Hands

Author: Michael Bradford

Now in its fifth printing and with a new cover design, The Healing Energy of Your Hands continues to be one of Crossing's top ten bestsellers. Designed as an easy-to-read training manual it demystifies the art of healing. The techniques described are so simple that anyone, even a child, can begin to sense and work with healing energy. Bradford's intention is that anyone using this book can, regardless of their educational or religious background or prior understanding of energy, awaken their own natural healing talents quickly and easily.

Book review: Le Pouvoir de Six Sigma :une Histoire Inspirante de Comment Six Sigma Transforment la Façon que Nous Travaillons

Handbook for Healing: Revised Edition

Author: Charles Hunter

Amazement! That is the reaction of many who have experienced the power of God while praying healing for the sick. Charles and Frances Hunter have discovered the keys to healing found in the Bible and through the innovations of medical science. You will find that God can use you to bring healing and help to family, friends, and literally everyone you come in contact with. No longer will you have to stand by, helpless, when people are hurting.

The Miracle Heart or Getting the Best for Your Child with Autism

2009-01-14T17:35:00.000-08:00

The Miracle Heart: The Ultimate Guide to Preventing and Curing Heart Disease with Diet and Supplements

Author: Jean Carper

You Can Stop Heart Disease--

While heredity plays a great role in a person's disposition to heart disease, biology can be overcome with the right foods and dietary supplements. USA WeekendNew York Times bestselling author Jean Carper--America's most trusted source of cutting edge nutritional advice--now provides all the information you ned to lower the risk of heart disease and its debilitating consequences. The Miracle Heartreveals the most current findings available on the remarkable powers of food, vitamins, minerals, and natural remedies that have been shown to prevent, treat, and even reverse heart disease. here is everything you need to know about:

vitamins E, B, and C
beta carotene, calcium, coenzyme Q-10
the benefit of superfoods such as fish, garlic, avacados, and strawberries
eggs and cholesterol
the benefits of tea
the secret of olive oil
and much more.

Go to: Capital aventurado y las Finanzas de Innovación

Getting the Best for Your Child with Autism: An Expert's Guide to Treatment

Author: Bryna Siegel

Each child on the autism spectrum has a unique set of special needs. That's why their parents deserve a smart, caring advocate to help zero in on proven interventions that are right for their child. Bestselling author Bryna Siegel, one of the world's leading authorities on autism, deftly guides parents through the complex maze of treatment options. She shows how to obtain an accurate assessment of a child's strengths and weaknesses, and then provides step-by-step guidance to help parents develop a plan of action tailored to their child's individual learning style, verbal abilities, and social skills. Like no other book on the market, Getting the Best for Your Child with Autism will help parents maximize all of the resources available to help their kids reach their full potential.

The Better Birth Book or Hungry for More

2009-01-14T07:33:00.000-08:00

The Better Birth Book: Taking the Mystery (and fear) Out of Childbirth

Author: Tracy Donegan

This highly useful guide takes expectant parents through the maze of information and choices available as they plan for the big event.

Hungry for More: A Keeping-It-Real Guide for Black Women on Weight and Body Image

Author: Robyn McGe

Blending kitchen table wisdom and her own experience in losing her sister to gastric bypass surgery, author Robyn McGee explores the historical and cultural roots of obesity among black women, offering practical guidelines to weight loss and living a more healthy and balanced life.
Though she advocates a slow and steady approach to weight loss under a doctor's supervision and a commitment to exercise, healthy eating, support groups, and therapy, she also understands that many black women, like her sister, will still choose the option of gastric bypass surgery despite the fact that 1 in 200 patients die from the surgeries.
McGee argues that a range of factors often lead to obesity in black women, including the problem of fat acceptance in the black community, historically negative images of black women, compulsive bingeing and purging, childhood sexual abuse, and a lack of attention to black women in the medical community.
With the memory of her sister's lifelong struggle with weight firmly in mind, McGee conveys to readers the importance of honoring themselves by making healthy choices, starting slow and being patient, seeking help when they need it, and finally, remembering that they are much more than a number on a scale.

GI Meals Made Easy or Essential Concepts for Healthy Living

2009-01-13T20:31:00.000-08:00

GI Meals Made Easy: Delicious Low-GI Meals in an Instant

Author: Barbara Wilson

The Glycemic Index is hot—and for good reason; the system for ranking carbohydrate foods based on their impact upon blood glucose and insulin levels is helping people to feel full longer, enjoy greater energy, and lose weight. Choose from well over 100 recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as appetizers, soups, sides, and desserts, even snacks and treats. Enjoy Cajun Salmon, Sweet Potato Curry, Sausage and Bean Soup with Spiced Pita Chips, and a tantalizing selection of scrumptious wholegrain pizzas. A special feature is the recipe key, which tells at a glance whether the dish is suitable for vegetarians, gluten- or dairy-free, heart healthy, low-fat, and more. Plus, there are multi-course menu suggestions, including party and special occasion menus.

Essential Concepts for Healthy Living

Author: Sandra Alters

In a lively writing style, the authors capture the essence of healthy living. They provide practical applications and personal strategies along with concepts grounded in scientific research to achieve a balance between science and the real world. Timely topics backed by current research—including an entire chapter devoted to violence—provide students with a comprehensive overview of today's health issues.

The 3 Apple a Day Plan or Getting to Dry

2009-01-13T11:30:00.000-08:00

The 3-Apple-a-Day Plan: Your Foundation for Permanent Fat Loss

Author: Tammi Flynn

Learn the small-town diet secret that is sweeping the nation: add three apples a day to your diet and the weight will drop off!

In the little town of Wenatchee, Washington, Tammi Flynn, nutrition director at the local Gold's Gym, discovered a secret: when one of her clients, who had been stuck on a diet plateau, ate an apple before every meal and didn't change anything else, she lost one and a half pounds of fat in just one week. Flynn tried it out with her other clients and saw wild results. Three hundred forty-six people lost more than 6,000 pounds in twelve weeks. That's seventeen pounds per person!

The 3-Apple-a-Day Plan is a breakthrough weight loss program based on eating well from now on, and not feeling deprived. By combining balanced meals with exercise—and adding the fat-loss accelerator of three apples a day—the plan allows your body to maintain valuable muscle tissue (the key to metabolism) while shedding unwanted layers of fat. It is your foundation for permanent fat loss.

The 3-Apple-a-Day Plan is easy to read, easy to understand, and most important, easy to customize and incorporate into your lifestyle. Today, more than 150,000 people have lost weight with Tammi's plan—and so can you!

You will discover:
-How to plan and prepare quick meals from over 100 delicious recipes
-How to increase your metabolism to achieve permanent fat loss
-The different between overfat and overweight
-How and why apples are used as a fat loss supplement
-Why men lose weight faster than women
-Why the scale may sabotage your efforts to lose weight
-Personal success stories and photos of people who have struggled withweight loss and won

New interesting book: Hands Off Cooking or Behind Bars

Getting to Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting

Author: Max Maizels

More than four million children over the age of five wet the bed. For most of them, time will solve the problem. This book, written by the experts at the country's leading center for treating children's enuresis, shows parents ways to speed up the clock and help their children wake up dry. Illustrations.

Sharon Flesher

...this book provides a welcome service to parents beleaguered by a problem that is often misunderstood and inadequately addressed. While the authors make no claims that they can 'cure' every case of bedwetting, they do provide a sensible and coherent course of action they assure will help the majority of affected families. -- ForeWord Magazine

Stopping Inflammation or The Long Life Equation

2009-01-12T23:28:00.000-08:00

Stopping Inflammation: Relieving the Cause of Degenerative Diseases

Author: Nancy Appleton

Inflammation is a word we hear all the time— "Your throat is inflamed," "You have some inflammation around the knee," "You have an inflamed ear." Most of us think of it as a symptom associated with an infection, irritation, or injury. Dr. Nancy Appleton, however, has discovered that it might be more than just a simple reaction to a health disorder. When the body's tissues are disturbed in some manner, a series of complex reactions takes place: the affected area draws fluid to itself, swells, heats up, and generates liquid by-products. In other words, it becomes inflamed. In most cases, when the disorder stops, the tissue returns to its normal healthy state. Sometimes, though, the tissue remains chronically inflamed. Dr. Appleton's early research demonstrated that this chronic condition might be more harmful than ever suspected. Soon, she began to ask questions: What if inflammation was at the heart of various degenerative diseases? What health benefits could be gained if we could stop inflammation? Stopping Inflammation is the result of Dr. Appleton's ten-year quest to answer these important questions.

Drawing on the latest medical research, the book begins with a full explanation of inflammation. It then looks at its many causes, from food allergies to environmental factors to psychological stress. Next, it focuses on the various health disorders that afflict modern society— obesity, addiction, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, bowel disorders, and so many more—and explains the role that inflammation plays in each of these diseases. The book then provides a number of fresh non-drug treatments aimed not at controlling the problem, but at removing its cause.

Twenty years ago, Dr. Nancy Appleton's groundbreaking bestseller Lick the Sugar Habit exposed the dangers of ingesting excessive amounts of sugar. In her newest work, Stopping Inflammation, Dr. Appleton examines the larger picture of twenty-first-century disease, and finds the underlying cause. Just as important, she offers safe and credible solutions.

About the Author:
Nancy Appleton, PhD, earned her BS in clinical nutrition from UCLA and her PhD in health services from Walden University. She maintains a private practice in Santa Monica, California. An avid researcher, Dr. Appleton lecturers extensively throughout the world, and has appeared on numerous television and radio talk shows. She is the best-selling author of Lick the Sugar Habit and Healthy Bones.

Interesting book: When Enough is Enough or Kundalini the Chakras

The Long Life Equation: 100 Factors That Can Add or Subtract Years from Your Life

Author: Trisha Macnair

How long will you live? It's no secret that Americans are living longer than they used to. But a long and healthy life is not something that you should take for granted. In this extensively researched interactive book, you'll learn that the choices you make now will have consequences later on, such as:

Laugh a lot: +7 years
Get fat: -7 years
Do yoga: +5 years
Go to church: +2 years
Get divorced: -7 years
Own a pet: +1 year

Part health advice, part self-help, part survival guide, the information is necessary and addictive. After reading it, you'll be inspired to make the necessary changes to ensure that the pluses far outweigh the minuses in your life equation.

Trisha McNair, M.B. (bachelor of medicine), Ch.B. (bachelor of surgery), is a freelance medical journalist and has worked for BBC radio and podcasted for the British Medical Journal. She is currently working at the Royal Surrey County Hospital. She also has a master's degree in medical ethics and medical law.

Introduction     6
Health questionnaire: Could you live forever?     8
Mental Well-being     10
Thinking old     12
Happiness     13
Optimism     14
Low self-esteem     15
Conscientiousness     16
Having faith     17
Marriage     18
Divorce     19
Young mothers     20
Community     21
Stress     22
Good work-life balance     24
Social status     25
Exercise     26
Clutter     27
Laughter     28
Pets     29
Depression     30
Meditation     32
Active mind     33
Physical Well-being     34
Long living parents     36
Only child     37
Bad genes     38
Girls rule!     40
Stay short     41
Obesity     42
Being underweight     43
Eating less     44
Food obsessions     45
Vitamins     46
Fiber     47
Too much sugar     48
Antioxidants     49
Fast food     50
Mediterranean diet     51
Good fats     52
Minerals     54
Omega-3s     55
Bad posture     56
Stretching     57
Getting active     58
Over-exercising     59
Good balance     60
Couch potato     61
Not getting enough sleep     62
Napping during the day     63
Yoga     64
Good dental hygiene     65
Good sex     66
Risky sex     67
Intelligence     68
Being informed     69
Bad doctor     70
Frequent pregnancies     71
Hormone replacement     72
Environment     74
Place of birth     76
City life     78
Room with a view     79
War zone     80
Heavily industrialized zones     81
Free-radicals damage     82
Sunshine     84
Sunburn     85
Radiation awareness     86
Radon exposure     88
Electromagnetic radiation      89
Reduce chemical use     90
Noise pollution     91
Dangerous parasites     92
Home safety     93
Comfortable climate     94
Washing your hands     95
Workplace hazards     96
Fire protection     97
Coping with Disease     98
Vaccination     100
Take your pills     102
Side effects     103
Regular screening     104
Risk of infection     106
Healthy partners     107
Heart disease     108
Bowel awareness     110
Skin cancer awareness     111
Cancer     112
Breast awareness     114
Testicle check     115
Diabetes     116
High blood pressure     118
Arthritis     119
Osteoporosis     120
Looking young     121
Dementia     122
Choices and Risks     124
Smoking     126
Recreational drugs     128
Red wine     129
Binge drinking     130
Adventure travel     132
Crazy careers     133
Extreme sports     134
Road safety     135
Conclusion     136
Sources     138
Index     144

Strength Training Anatomy Package Online Course or Body Bears the Burden

2009-01-12T14:25:00.000-08:00

Strength Training Anatomy Package- Online Course

Author: Frederic Delavier

Discover for yourself the magic of Strength Training Anatomy, one of the best-selling strength training books ever published!

Get an intricate look at strength training from the inside out. Strength Training Anatomy, with nearly half a million copies already sold, brings anatomy to life with more than 400 full-color illustrations. This detailed artwork showcases the muscles used during each exercise and delineates how these muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the information gives you a multilateral view of strength training not seen in any other resource.

This updated bestseller also contains new information on common strength training injuries and preventive measures to help you exercise safely. Chapters are devoted to each major muscle group, with 115 total exercises for arms, shoulders, chest, back, legs, buttocks, and abdomen.

Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease

Author: Robert Scaer

The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease, is the update of the classic book that explains the reasons behind some of the most common symptoms and conditions that previously defied a medical explanation. Respected author, Robert C. Scaer, MD, has diligently simplified the complex medical language that was used in the first edition to make it easier for lay readers and patients to understand—all without sacrificing accuracy. This valuable text presents a new theory of the neurophysiology of traumatic stress and dissociation and includes several updated chapters and new concepts that have been developed since the previous edition.

Human response is quite different than other animals' response to trauma. This response is discussed in detail in The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease, including the fight/flight/freeze cycle and how the human response causes abnormal regulation of many body systems which then may lead to many illnesses or conditions. The emotional and physical experiences of patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and other syndromes such as whiplash are comprehensively examined. Patients and lay readers alike who have been told it is "all in your head" may well feel like this book was specifically written about them and the unexplained complex symptoms they experience.

Topics in The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease, include:

• The role of the fight/flight/freeze response in traumatic stress
• The neurophysiology of traumatic stress and dissociation
• The Whiplash Syndrome as a model for procedural memory in trauma
• Analysis of traumatic repetition
• The theoretical concept of somatic dissociation
• The varied syndromes and medical diseases of trauma and dissociation
• A theoretical analysis or therapy for trauma
• Illustrative case histories of trauma and the body
• And more!

The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease, is valuable information for physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, physical, occupational, and speech therapists, nurses, and those lay people looking to better understand the physiologic rationale for a large number of perplexing chronic medical diseases and syndromes.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Philip Khoury, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This historically and biologically oriented presentation of trauma is written by a neurologist who is an expert on whiplash injury.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide evidence for a biological root for somatic and emotional consequences of traumatic stress. It is a timely subject, given recent events. The author largely achieves the goal.
Audience: The target audience includes professionals in the fields of rehabilitation and psychotherapy, patient care, and general medical practice. The book is not intended for lay people.
Features: Using the example of the whiplash victim, the author delineates the biological changes caused by trauma as the root of somatic sensations and alterations in mental status. What is best about the book is that it presents this evidence in a well organized and compelling style. There are few figures, which are of little pedagogic value. The index, concluding remarks at the end of each chapter, and a large endnote section are very useful.
Assessment: This is a well written presentation of the available evidence linking mental status to biological changes caused by trauma. However, this information is adequately covered in other sources, such as in the chapter on Stress and Psychiatry in Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th edition (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000). The book's usefulness would be much greater if the section on treatment was expanded.

What People Are Saying

REMARKABLE . . . provides clinically relevant descriptions of the mind/body dysfunctions of both the central and autonomic nervous systems of traumatized patients. Even more than a comprehensive overview, the author presents an integrated neuropsychobiological model of the underlying mechanisms of trauma pathology, which he demonstrates in numerous case histories and applies to various trauma therapies. A CREATIVE, CUTTING-EDGE WORK. (Allan N. Schore, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Big Fat Lies or Dowsing for Health

2009-01-12T03:23:00.000-08:00

Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health

Author: Glenn A Gaesser

Your doctor won't tell you. The media and fashion gurus certainly won't. And those in the weight-loss industry would be out of business if they told the truth: You can be overweight and still be fit and healthy. In Big Fat Lies, Dr. Glenn A. Gaesser reveals the truth about the relationship between body weight and health, exposing the myth that being fat is a life-threatening condition, using the latest medical research. Among the many amazing facts you will learn when you read this book are: there is no connection between fat-clogged arteries and obesity; overweight men and women who exercise regularly have a lower risk for premature death than thin men and women who do not exercise; body fat is beneficial, depending on its location, and can protect against heart disease, diabetes, and certain types of cancer; for millions of people, weights above those recommended by the height-weight tables are actually better for health and longevity; weight fluctuation or yo-yo dieting may ultimately be fatal because of the damage it does to the vascular system; and dieting may be the reason for your weight gain. Dr. Gaesser gives you a whole new way of thinking about your body that helps you achieve your own natural weight for optimal health and fitness: the Twenty/Twenty Program for Metabolic Fitness. It's so easy, you need just two minutes a day to start it. And once you put the program completely into effect, it requires just an average of twenty minutes per day of light to moderate activity and a delicious, satisfying complex-carbohydrate eating plan that aims for an average of 20 percent fat.

Interesting book: More Bear Cookin or Heartsmart Flavours of India

Dowsing for Health: Tuning in to the Earth's Energy for Personal Development and Well-Being

Author: Patrick MacManaway

This innovative new book explains the many different aspects of dowsing, from healing ourselves and others, to finding an re-patterning blocked energy paths.

Fibromyalgia or Loaded

2009-01-11T17:22:00.000-08:00

Fibromyalgia: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

Author: Claudia Craig Marek

Fibromyalgia affects between three and six million Americans—80 percent of whom are women—yet remains one of the most difficult conditions to identify and diagnose. In the tradition of the other titles in the First Year series, The First Year—Fibromyalgia uses a unique approach—guiding readers through their first seven days following diagnosis, then the next three weeks of their first month, and finally the next eleven months of their first year—to provide answers and advice that will help everyone newly diagnosed with fibromyalgia come to terms with their condition and the lifestyle changes that accompany it. Starting with the day of diagnosis, patient-experts Florence and Marek provide vital information about the nature of fibromyalgia, choosing the right doctors, treatment options, psychological issues, holistic alternatives, self-management strategies, illustrative charts and tables, and much more. The First Year—Fibromyalgia will be a supportive and educational resource for everyone who wants to take an active role in the management of their condition.

Library Journal

Coauthor of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia, Marek is also a medical assistant and patient who has counseled others suffering from the condition. Along with journalist Florence, she aims to help newly diagnosed patients learn about fibromyalgia and develop coping skills over a one-year time frame. Typical questions a new patient might have (e.g., how to prepare for travel, how to communicate with health professionals and employers) are addressed in a highly readable and understandable style and presented in manageable learning bites. The authors also plainly but sensitively address the genitourinary symptoms that may accompany fibromyalgia. What is especially good about this guide is that the authors' tone is not alarmist but calm and evenhanded in articulating important precautions. Individuals who have pain-related disorders with no standardized treatment and no foreseeable cure are especially vulnerable to drastic or unproven therapies, which the authors address by emphasizing that patients seek out second opinions and do credible research for themselves. This is information a patient would hope to get from a good support group but provided in a format that can be revisited as symptoms and time progress. Recommended for all popular health collections.-Lisa McCormick, Jewish Hosp. Lib., Cincinnati Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Books about: Facebook or Programming Interviews Exposed

Loaded: Women and Addiction

Author: Jill Talbot

Part autobiography, part expose, Loaded weaves Jill Talbot's own battles with addiction with the addiction stories of other women. Her razor-sharp honesty, heartbreaking self-awareness, and resolve to reveal the difficult truth of her relationship with past and present addictions is as humbling as it is gut-wrenching. A stunningly recounted memoir that's both gritty and lyrical, Loaded gets right inside the allure of addiction, and with raw and unflinching honesty, exposes its ultimate betrayal.

Introduction     ix
Secrets
My Grandmother's Flowers     2
A Part of Me     14
What Little I Know Is Enough     23
The Ones Who     35
Li(f)e     62
Seductions
On Longing     72
My Two Countries     79
New Mexico Road     89
Driving Through Kansas     100
Blue-Collar Men     108
Sexagenarian     117
The Space in Between     128
Substance
Wild Girl     138
What I Remember     143
Disappearing     149
Home     158
Wild Bill's Words     171
Park City Queen     184
Point of View     194
Significance
Driving 1-15     210
Viva Terlingua!     212
Missing Mexico     222
The Streets of Former Desire     243
The Last Time     250
Conclusion. The Weight of It All     257

Understanding Aspergers Syndrome or Back Pain Relief

2009-01-11T08:20:00.000-08:00

Understanding Asperger's Syndrome: Fast Facts

Author: Emily L Burrows

When there is a child with Asperger's Syndrome in your life, questions about the disorder seem to abound. This booklet's easy-to-read layout makes it a quick reference for teachers or parents. It provides tips on how to recognize Asperger's Syndrome, and offers suggestions on how to create a successful learning environment. It addresses bullying, behavior modification, teaching strategies, and much more. This is an essential resource for parents and professionals!

Back Pain Relief: Chinese Qigong for Healing and Prevention

Author: Yang Jwing Ming

This expanded second edition includes many more gentle Qigong exercises and soothing Qigong massage techniques to ease your back pain, strengthen your torso, and expedite your body's natural healing abilities.

Healthy Aging or Mindfulness Based Treatment Approaches

2009-01-10T20:19:00.000-08:00

Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being

Author: Andrew Weil

Hugely informative, practical, and uplifting. Healthy Aging is infused with the engaging candor and common sense that have made Dr. Andrew Weil our most trusted source on healthy living.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT:

– The Anti-inflammatory Diet: following Dr. Weil's guide to eating right for a healthy lifestyle

– Separating myth from fact about vitamins, herbs, hormones, anti-aging "medicines," and other would-be elixirs of life extension

– Mastering exercise, breathing, and stress-management techniques to benefit your mind and body

– Understanding the science behind the aging process

– Sharing life lessons with your loved ones

Publishers Weekly

America's best-known complementary care physician offers a convincing portrait of aging as a natural part of life that can be active, productive and satisfying. Using the examples of his mother, who died at age 93; centenarians from Okinawa and Sardinia; and myths and legends, Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) explores common Western beliefs and attitudes about aging and urges readers to develop healthier perspectives. The 60-year-old author assesses the growing and lucrative field of anti-aging medicine, takes the position that aging is not reversible, and offers many ways for readers to prevent conditions and illnesses that limit mortality and ensure well-being into the later years. He provides scientifically based information on why and how the body ages and advice on key components of good health at every age: exercise, nutrition, vitamins and herbs, and stress-relieving activities. Much of this advice is available in Weil's previous works as well as on his Web site. The real value is Weil's courageous stand, one likely to meet resistance in a culture devoted to external indicators of eternal youth. Refreshingly, Weil embraces the notion, popular in Eastern cultures, that age brings wisdom, peace and prosperity of a different kind. Agent, Richard Pine. (Oct. 18) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

In his latest book, Weil (director, Program in Integrative Medicine, Univ. of Arizona; 8 Weeks to Optimum Health) explains the aging process and offers practical guidelines for maintaining good health while growing older. He begins with a discussion of the physiological processes involved before segueing into various antiaging therapies and explaining why they don't work. Using reputable scientific studies as a basis, he provides tools that will help us age well: good nutrition to minimize inflammation, the cause of cardiovascular disease; physical activity; a few well-chosen nutritional supplements; adequate rest and sleep; stress reduction; and a satisfying social and spiritual life. Although this is not groundbreaking information, Weil's inclusion of scientific sources sets his book apart from the glut of antiaging titles, e.g., Michael F. Roizen's The RealAge Makeover: Take Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life. Highly recommended for public and consumer health libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/05.]-Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Book about: Endless Propaganda or Creating the Commonwealth

Mindfulness-Based Treatment Approaches: Clinician's Guide to Evidence Base and Applications

Author: Ruth A Baer

Eastern spiritual traditions have long maintained that mindfulness meditation can improve well-being. More recently, mindfulness-based treatment approaches have been successfully utilized to treat anxiety, depressive relapse, eating disorders, psychosis, and borderline personality disorder. This book discusses the conceptual foundation, implementation, and evidence base for the four best-researched mindfulness treatments: mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
All chapters were written by researchers with extensive clinical experience. Each chapter includes the conceptual rationale for using a mindfulness-based treatment and a review of the relevant evidence base. A detailed case study illustrates how the intervention is implemented in "real life," exploring the clinical and practical issues that may arise and how they can be managed. This book will be of use to clinicians and researchers interested in understanding and implementing mindfulness based treatments.

1	Overview of mindfulness- and acceptance-based treatment approaches
2	Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for prevention of depressive relapse
3	Incorporation mindfulness- and acceptance-based strategies in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder
4	Mindfulness-based approaches to eating disorders
5	Acceptance, mindfulness, values, and psychosis : applying acceptance and commitment therapy (act) to the chronically mentally ill
6	Mindfulness in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder
7	Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for children
8	Mindfulness in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for adolescents
9	"Like waking up from a dream" : mindfulness training for older people with anxiety and depression
10	Mindfulness and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) : application with depressed older adults with personality disorders
11	Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as an intervention for cancer patients
12	Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) with Spanish- and English-speaking inner-city medical patients
13	Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in the treatment of chronic pain
14	Mindfulness-based relationship enhancement (MBRE) in couples
15	Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) : a mindfulness-based treatment for intimate partner violence
16	Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in a worksite wellness program
17	Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in the workplace

Living with Stroke or El Nuevo Sugar Busters

2009-01-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

Living with Stroke: A Guide for Families: Help and New Hope for All Those Touched by Stroke

Author: Richard C Senelick

This updated edition offers caregivers of stroke patients extensive information on understanding, treating, and recovering from this debilitating condition. Expert advice covers topics from physical rehabilitation to emotional issues, providing help and hope for the millions whose lives are touched by stroke.

New interesting book: Victory Beer or Shellfish

El Nuevo Sugar Busters! (The New Sugar Busters!)

Author: H Leighton Steward

La nueva edición 18 capítulos nuevos imprescindibles

El nuevo ¡Sugar Busters!®

Reduzca el azucar para reducir la grasa

• Baje de peso y reduzca su colesterol
• Los estudios médicos y las pruebas clínicas
• Consejos para prevenir la obesidad infantil
• La dieta para los diabéticos (¡y todo el mundo!)
• Nuevas recetas de los mejores restaurantes

H. Leighton StewardMorrison C. Bethea, M.D.
Sam S. Andrews, M.D. Luis A. Balart, M.D.
Cuando ¡SUGAR BUSTERS! fue publicado hace cinco años llegó rápidamente al número uno de la lista de bestsellers del New York Times y fue adoptado por millones de personas a través de los Estados Unidos. Los que siguen el plan ¡SUGAR BUSTERS! descubren que con solo elegir los carbohidratos adecuados y reducir su consumo de azúcar, pueden bajar las libras que no podían perder con otras dietas. Ahora el libro ha sido revisado y actualizado–incorporando los últimos descubrimientos nutritivos, estadísticas sobre la salud, y estudios científicos, incluyendo lo ultimo sobre los índices glicémicos.

Basado en principios dietéticos sensatos, ¡SUGAR BUSTERS! es un programa muy efectivo que enseña cómo reducir el azúcar (sin sentirse privado) a través de recetas y planes de alimentación fáciles de seguir. En este libro usted descubrirá:
·Asombrosos testimonios de hombres y mujeres que están bajando de peso y sintiéndose bien con el plan ¡SUGAR BUSTERS!
·Una sección sobre laobesidad infantil–cómo se mide y qué hacer al respecto.
·Lo ultimo sobre la diabetes–y cómo ¡SUGAR BUSTERS! puede ayudar a prevenirla.
·Un índice de masa corporal (IMC) y una formula para calcular si usted está obeso o tiene sobrepeso.
·Datos esenciales sobre las mujeres, el bajar de peso y la nutrición.
Nuevos consejos, figuras y recetas, y sugerencias prácticas para los ejercicios..

Leighton Steward tiene una maestría en ciencia de la universidad Southern Methodist y fue director general de una compañía de energía que se encuentra en la lista Fortune 500. Es el autor de un folleto sobre el deslizamiento de tierra en las ciénagas de la desembocadura del río Mississippi. Cien mil de estos folletos están en circulación por todo el mundo, y se usan como referencia por muchas instituciones educacionales y gubernamentales. El señor Steward está en la junta de la Universidad Tulane en Nueva Orleáns y es presidente de la junta de directores del Instituto para el Estudio del Hombre y la Tierra (de antropología, geología y estadísticas). Su propio éxito con este modo de alimentarse y un historial familiar de diabetes, le motivaron a escribir ¡Sugar Busters!®

Morrison C. Bethea, M.D. es graduado del Colegio Universitario Davidson y de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Tulane. El doctor Bethea terminó sus estudios posgraduados en cirugía cardíaca, torácica y vascular en el centro médico Columbia-Presbyterian de Nueva Orleáns. Es asesor médico de Freeport-McMoRan, Inc., y está en la junta de la compañía de exploraciones McMoRan Explorations Co. y del centro médico Tenet's Memorial de Nueva Orleáns. El doctor Bethea es diplomático de la Junta Americana de Cirugía Torácica y profesor de cirugía del centro médico Tulane. También es autor de muchas publicaciones en el campo de la medicina cardiovascular.

Samuel S. Andrews, M.D. es graduado de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad Estatal de Luisiana. Es reconocido como una autoridad en el tratamiento de la obesidad y ejerce la carrera de endocrinólogo con el Grupo de Medicina Interna Audubon. El doctor Andrews es autor de varias publicaciones científicas y está conduciendo investigaciones en el campo de la nutrición sobre los efectos de los carbohidratos bajos en glicémicos tanto en los adultos como en los niños. Es socio del Colegio Americano de Médicos y del Colegio Americano de Endocrinólogos. El doctor Andrews es profesor clínico asociado de medicina en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Estatal de Luisiana, y es miembro del Equipo de Transplante Pancreático del Centro Médico de la Universidad Estatal de Luisiana.
Luis A. Balart, M.D. es graduado de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Estatal de Luisiana. Terminó su adiestramiento en gastroenterología en la Clínica Ochsner y su especialización en el campo de hepatología en la Universidad del Sur de California. El doctor Balart es el jefe del departamento de gastroenterología en la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad Estatal de Luisiana y también es director clínico de trasplantación hepática en el Centro Médico Memorial. El doctor Balart está muy involucrado con experimentos clínicos sobre el tratamiento de la hepatitis crónica viral y los desórdenes crónicos hepáticos. Es el autor de muchas publicaciones en estos campos.

Home Spa or Overcoming Male Infertility

2009-01-09T23:16:00.000-08:00

Home Spa: Recipes and Techniques to Revitalize

Author: Manine Rosa Golden

Whether you have five minutes or several days, this book has just the right recipe or technique for pampering yourself from head to toe.

Healthy, balanced living begins with the right attention to your body and mind. Although most of us know this is true, we ignore the need to treat ourselves well in the face of hectic schedules and daily responsiblitlies. Home Spa is a secret weapon against the drudgery of home and office routine, offering a variety of ways to relax and to look and feel better—from softening skin and removing toxins to improving circulation and lowering blood pressure. By using simple, natural ingredients that are readily available it's possible to recreate easily and inexpensively the formulas and techniques found in luxurious spas. Seasame yogurt face masks, almond-and -honey moisturizers, and simple self-massages are only a few of the many reciepes provided that you can use to revitalize yourself in your own home. By taking the time to take care of yourself, you can ease life's pressures, clear your minds, and create a new sense of calm.

Other Details: 74 full-color illustrations 84 pages 7 1/8 x 7 1/8" Published 1997

Book review: Introduction to Forest Science 3rd Edition or Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico

Overcoming Male Infertility

Author: Leslie R Schover

Hope and strategies for couples dealing with male infertility If you or your partner is suffering from male infertility, you’re not alone. Millions of couples are struggling with this problem. About 400f these couples have exclusively male infertility problems, while another 20% have both male and female infertility problems. Now, two leading experts, a urologist specializing in male infertility and a psychologist, team up to write the most complete guide available on male infertility. From the latest, state-of-the-art treatments to advice on how to handle the emotional aspects of male infertility, you’ll find out where to get the help you need. Overcoming Male Infertility also covers the psychological issues that are unique to men, and gives advice to women on helping their man through the trauma of infertility treatment—including how to get him to see a doctor in the first place.

Library Journal

Although it is not a commonly recognized fact, the male is the problem in about half of the 2.5 million couples struggling with infertility. Clinical psychologist Schover and Thomas, a urologist in the Cleveland Clinic's infertility program, draw on their expertise to provide information that lay readers need to understand the causes of male fertility problems. They discuss how to find competent doctors and demystify the available treatment options for infertile couples. They also clearly explain reproductive anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures, causative factors, and therapeutic options, as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of male infertility. Recommended for all healthcare collections.--James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

CONFRONTING MALE INFERTILITY.
Male Infertility: Bumping Into the Iceberg.
Getting Started with a Male Infertility Workup.
They Want Me to Go Into a Little Room and Do What?
Your Baby-Making Machinery: An Owner's Manual.
The Semen Analysis and Other Diagnostic Tests for Male Infertility.
Starting the Production Line: Sex and Fertility.
UNDERSTANDING MALE INFERTILITY: CAUSES AND TREATMENTS.
Holes in Our Genes: Inherited Causes of Infertility.
Developmental Problems That Cause Infertility.
Germs and Germ Cells: Infections and Infertility.
The Boulder on the Path: Obstructive Infertility.
Is It My Hormones?
Varicoceles: How Important Are They?
The Dry Ejaculation: Not a New Sexual Technique.
Adding Insult to Injury: Infertility after Cancer Treatment.
Does Lifestyle Contribute to Male Infertility?
Using Assisted Reproductive Technology to Treat Male Infertility.
Having a Child through Donor Insemination.
COPING WITH MALE INFERTILITY.
The Pursuit of Paternity.
The Female Side of Male Infertility.
Coping with Infertility as a Team.
Healing Your Sex Life after Male Infertility.
The Spiritual and Ethical Side of Infertility.
Robbing Paul to Pay Peter: The Economics of Male Infertility.
Choosing to Adopt a Child.
Living without Children.
Concluding Thoughts.
Glossary.
Resources.
Chapter Sources.
Index.

Raising a Vaccine Free Child or Outcome Based Massage

2009-01-09T14:14:00.000-08:00

Raising a Vaccine Free Child

Author: Wendy Lydall

This book provides parents with a comprehensive, scientifically based guide to the facts, myths, problems and solutions associated with raising a vaccine free child. It helps them protect their children both from the wiles of the vaccine industry and from harmful germs. There are no trendy anti-vaccination myths in this book. The information is fully referenced and factually based. Readers will learn that immunization is not the reason for the absence of some infectious diseases, that insidious, long-term side effects of vaccination are very common, and that there is a media blackout on the topics of vaccine damage and vaccine failures.
Understanding the difference between childhood diseases and the other infectious diseases is the key to understanding immunisation. Modern medicine fails to recognise that childhood illnesses are self-resolving, and prescribes interventions that increase the risk of complications. Raising a Vaccine Free Child explains why the self-resolving diseases, like measles and mumps, do not need intervention, but do need proper care to prevent complications from developing. It also advises parents on how to bring children safely through childhood diseases, and discusses the prevention and treatment of the malevolent infectious diseases that are not self-resolving, such as polio and tetanus.
The author provides an insight into the workings of the vaccine industry, and into the role of the media in perpetuating myths about vaccination and about infectious diseases. Parents of vaccine free children will be empowered to withstand the accusation that they are spoiling herd immunity, as this book demonstrates that the concept of herd immunity is amyth. Raising a Vaccine Free Child also helps parents cope with aggression from individuals and with intimidation from the medical authorities.
This book discusses the toxic ingredients and biological contaminants in vaccines, and the relationship between vaccination and the global epidemic of chronic diseases. It shows that the long-term side effects of vaccination have not been assessed at any time in any country. A look at the history of vaccination reveals that it is an unscientific procedure that is based on falsehood, cruelty and supposition.

Look this: 50 Things Youre Not Supposed to Know or The Lincolns in the White House

Outcome-Based Massage: From Evidence to Practice

Author: Carla Krystin Andrad

Comprehensive text provides a wealth of basic and advanced information on the theory and manual technique of massage. Written for physical therapists, massage therapists and occupational therapists, this text introduces an evidence-based clinical reasoning process for incorporating massage into therapeutic practice. Based on outcome measurement, techniques, and current models of disablement, this "Guide to Physical Therapist Practice." Readers are instructed how to identify impairments, select and apply appropriate massage techniques, and integrate massage with other treatments. The book integrates a wide variety of techniques into a single problem-solving format consistent with the APTA's "Guide to Physical Therapist Practice," and features superb photographic illustrations, boxes, charts, figures, and clinical examples.

Part I: Client Examination and Treatment Planning
Chapter 1 Massage for Wellness and Impairments
Chapter 2 Evidence for Massage
Chapter 3 Clinical Decision-Making for Massage
Chapter 4 Ethical and Interpersonal Issues in Massage
Chapter 5 Client Examination for Massage
Part II:Treatment and Discharge
Chapter 6 Preparation and Positioning for Massage
Chapter 7 Superficial Reflex Techniques
Chapter 8 Superficial Fluid Techniques
Chapter 9 Neuromuscular Techniques
Chapter 10 Connective Tissue Techniques
Chapter 11 Passive Movement Techniques
Chapter 12 Percussive Techniques
Chapter 13 Sequencing Massage Techniques
Chapter 14 Using Massage to Achieve Clinical Outcomes
Glossary
Index

Whole Foods Companion or Gluten Free French Breads and Baked Goods

2009-01-09T02:13:00.000-08:00

Whole Foods Companion: A Guide for Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and Lovers of Natural Foods

Author: Dianne Onstad

What if you could have information about more than 400 foods at your fingertips? You can find it all in the new edition of Whole Foods Companion.

Originally published in 1996, Whole Foods Companion has become the definitive resource guide to the rapidly expanding world of whole foods. This revised and expanded edition updates key nutritional information in six categories:

* Fruits
* Vegetables
* Grains
* Legumes
* Nuts, seeds, and oils
* Herb, spices, and other foods.

Each entry includes nutritional value, general information, buying tips, culinary uses, and, when appropriate, health benefits, lore and legend, by-products, and descriptions of the more popular varieties.

In the face of staggering confusion and conflicting claims about the nutritional value of different foods and herbs, this book is a detailed and invaluable guide to natural foods. It is a perfect companion to cookbooks and should be required reading for chefs everywhere. No mere collection of dry nutritional information, Whole Foods Companion also explains the origins and naming of different foods and relays some of the legends and traditions with which they have been associated.

About the Author: Dianne Onstad is actively involved in nutrition education and the promotion of organic whole foods, with a special interest in living and raw foods. She is the author of five books, including The Vitamin Companion, The Mineral Companion, and A Cup of Sunshine.

Publishers Weekly

Dianne Onstad's The Whole Foods Companion: A Guide for Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers & Lovers of Natural Food provides an encyclopedic guide to hundreds of natural foods. The book is arranged alphabetically within subject categories (fruits from "akee" to "wood apple"; vegetables from "arracacha" to "yautia"). There are also chapters on Grains; Legumes; Herbs and Spices; and Nuts, Seeds and Oils. Onstad explains how to find, fix store and preserve whole foods and describes health benefits, lore and legends. With 100 illustrations and 360 tables, this is a boon for health-directed foodies.

Library Journal

Did you know that cucumbers were once thought to ward off snakes? This is one interesting tidbit of information offered by Onstad, a member and librarian of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to nutritional and environmental education. The book's mandate to educate and entertain is achieved with an interesting blend of botanical, culinary, and folk information. Organized into broad subject categories like Fruits, Vegetables, and Grains, the text then explores individual food items in detail. Entries open with botanical names and a description of the plant's properties followed by buying tips, culinary uses, and a nutritional/calorie chart for the food in its raw, cooked, or preserved state. The entries are visually interesting, with sidebar information highlighted in boxes reminiscent of Windows screens and botanical line drawings sprinkled throughout that give the feel of an herbal. Informative without being too technical, the text appears to be well researched. Geared to the general reader, this work is nonetheless encyclopedic in its design and content and would make a good addition to any reference collectionor kitchen. (Index and bibliography not seen.)Elizabeth Braaksma, Thunder Bay P.L., Ontario

Gluten-Free French Breads and Baked Goods

Author: Valerie Cupillard

A spectacular book filled with amazing recipes for traditional French delicacies all prepared without gluten-containing grains and accompanied by full-color photos throughout the book.

The Jewish Pregnancy Book or Pediatric Exercise Medicine

2009-01-08T17:12:00.000-08:00

The Jewish Pregnancy Book: A Resource for the Soul, Body & Mind during Pregnancy, Birth & the First Three Months

Author: Daniel Judson

Women are increasingly looking to make their pregnancy and birth as a spiritually meaningful experience, but those looking for Jewish resources to help them have found little available.

The Jewish Pregnancy Book meets this need by creating and renewing Jewish prayers and rituals for this miraculous and challenging time in a woman's life. From reviving prayers our foremothers wrote and passed from one generation to the next, to investigating medical and ethical issues from a Jewish perspective, to exercising the body with pre-natal aleph-bet yoga, this groundbreaking handbook addresses the whole being: the mind, body, and soul of the pregnant Jewish woman:

For the mind-Medical information on topics such as fetal development, pre-natal testing, and potential pregnancy problems, as well as discussions from a liberal Jewish perspective on ethical issues such as selective reduction and home birth.

For the body-Pre-natal aleph-bet yoga, a unique blend of yoga and Hebrew letters.

For the soul-Ancient and modern prayers and rituals for each stage of pregnancy, as well as traditional Jewish wisdom on pregnancy.

Publishers Weekly

Anyone who's experienced childbirth understands that it may indeed seem a "world... about to be remade... heralded by a great flood." Now imagine embarking on the journey around a holiday table replete with family, friends, piles of food and stories long into the night. Warm and inviting, this Jewish guide to pregnancy and the first three months of life is a beautiful balance not only of soul, mind and body, but of ancient texts and contemporary prayer, folklore and modern medicine. Balanced also are the wide-ranging positions held by the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements on topics such as ensoulment, prenatal testing, selective reduction and mourning rituals in the event of miscarriage or fetal death. (While the authors celebrate this time in a couple's life, they are compassionately mindful and honest about the possibility of a less joyful outcome.) For each stage of pregnancy and beyond, they offer meditations, prayers and resources for any number of things that could transpire. Despite an abrupt transition, the book's yoga portion is enticing. Rapp makes yoga seem accessible to anyone, from seasoned marathoners to couch potatoes. Clear instructions, accompanied by photos for both early- and late-stage pregnancy, come with equally clear warnings about who should attempt which positions when. Though nurturing throughout, the book lacks any sort of conclusion, leaving the reader suddenly feeling like a favorite uncle has sneaked out the back door without saying goodbye. Although disappointing, ultimately this omission detracts very little from a delightful and spiritual celebration of life's beginnings. (Jan.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Look this: Cystic Fibrosis or A Comprehensive Guide for Parenting the ADHD Child

Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Health Care Application

Author: Oded Bar Or

Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Health Care Application draws from the most current research activity in the area to examine physical activity as a prerequisite to the good health and physical performance of children. The book also considers the effects of lack of exercise on children and the relevance of exercise to clinical pediatrics for children with chronic diseases.

While Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Health Care Application emphasizes clinically related issues, it provides comprehensive coverage of the child-exercise-health triad of importance to all professionals serving young people. The text identifies current research in the area of pediatric exercise. It also helps the reader to compare the exercise responses of healthy children to the responses of children with clinical impairments. In turn, readers will recognize the factors that can influence children's activity behavior, trainability, and performance.

The book contains three chapters related to the normal physiological and perceptual exercise responses of the healthy child. The next nine chapters consider the effects of exercise on children with clinical impairments, including asthma, diabetes, cerebral palsy, and obesity.

A special feature is the coverage of children's trainability and the factors that can influence performance. The information, including environmental stressors on children, will be of interest to scholars and students as well as to coaches working in this area.

The book also has these features:

• Extensive graphic interpretation of the data—more than 250 illustrations

• Helpful reference tables

• Six appendixes on normative data, methods, energy-equivalent tables for different activities, scaling for body size, and a glossary of terms.

In Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Health Care Application, you'll find content you can apply in your daily work as a therapist, exercise scientist, physician, or other professional. You'll also find evidence-based rationale for the need for physical activity as a preventive measure and treatment of disease in children.

About the Authors

Oded Bar-Or, MD, is a professor of pediatrics and founder and director of the Children's Exercise and Nutrition Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. For more than 35 years he has conducted research focused on the effects of physical activity and inactivity on the health, well-being, and physical performance of healthy children and those with chronic diseases. He received his MD degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Bar-Or served as president of the Canadian Association of Sports Sciences, president of the International Council for Physical Fitness Research, and vice president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He chairs the Foundation for Active Healthy Kids.

A widely published author, he earned the ACSM's Citation Award in 1997 and the North American Society for Pediatric Medicine's Honor Award in 1998. In 2000, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Blaise Pascal in France.

Thomas Rowland, MD, is director of pediatric cardiology at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he established an exercise-testing laboratory. He is a pediatric cardiologist with extensive research experience in the exercise physiology of children.

Dr. Rowland is author of Developmental Exercise Physiology (1996) and Pediatric Laboratory Exercise Testing: Clinical Guidelines (1993) and editor of Pediatric Exercise Science. He is a former president of the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM) and a former member of the board of trustees of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He is a former president of the New England Chapter of the ACSM and received the Honor Award in 1993.

Dr. Rowland received BS and MD degrees from the University of Michigan in 1965 and 1969.

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Reviewer: Michael White, M.D., Ph.D. (Ochsner Clinic Foundation)
Description: This is a follow-up of Pediatric Sports Medicine for the Practitioner published in 1983. It is a very timely, if somewhat overdue, update reviewing and presenting the implications of the huge body of literature generated since the first publication. This book takes a broad approach to exercise physiology in both healthy normal children and those with specific, disease related concerns.
Purpose: "The main objective of this second edition is, therefore, to further bridge the gap between the exercise scientist and the health practitioner." This is a very worthy goal since very little information regarding this subject is included in the standard pediatric medical literature and most pediatric residency programs devote very little attention to this very important aspect of child development. This book is a comprehensive and readable resource to address this deficiency of most pediatric education.
Audience: The book is clearly directed at those with healthcare training including physicians, physical therapists, exercise physiologists, and other allied healthcare providers interested in advising parents regarding appropriate expectations for training or rehabilitating children. The review on the cover suggests that coaches might also benefit from this book, although most would probably find the reading tedious and overly technical with little straightforward practical advice.
Features: This book takes a broad approach to exercise in children starting with the basic evaluation and testing techniques as applied to specific age groups. This information is then applied to an evaluation of age-appropriate expectations. The implications of these expectations are then reviewed in light of specific disease processes. Finally, an extensive appendix of age-related norms is provided for reference.
Assessment: This is an excellent and worthy successor to the original published over 20 years ago. It should have broad appeal for many different professionals in an area with few other comprehensive resources available.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Healthy Pleasures or The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook

2009-01-08T06:10:00.000-08:00

Healthy Pleasures

Author: Robert Ornstein

Imagine a medical treatment that can decrease heart disease, boost immune function, relieve depression, and block pain—whose only side effect is that it makes you feel good. It’s safe, inexpensive, and readily available, No, it’s not a miracle drug; rather, these benefits come from the experience of pleasure itself. And this pleasure prescription is filled in the internal pharmacy of the brain.Psychologist Robert Ornstein and physician David Sobel deliver the latest scientific evidence that pleasures—from saunas to siestas, chocolate to charity—and positive attitudes—from happiness to optimism—are not only enjoyable but also good for you.

Publishers Weekly

``At nearly every turn, pleasure has gotten a bad name,'' write the authors, who tell us that in pursuit of longevity Americans have become overly abstemious. Psychologist Ornstein and Sobel, director of preventive medicine at the Kaiser-Permanente HMO, believe that eradicating all of life's pleasures--whether chocolate, alcohol or even an occasional puff of tobacco--represents a far more serious threat to our well-being than whatever damage may be wreaked by occasionally indulging. Deploring what they call ``medical terrorism,'' they point out that some once-dire findings on health hazards have been reversed, disputed or exaggerated. The authors' secret for happiness: forget asceticism in the name of health. We should touch each other more often, learn to take life a little more lightly, partake in some form of gentle physical exercise, nap when necessary and learn to be less self-centered generally. If this advice seems a touch obvious, it may bear repeating nonetheless. 75,000 printing; Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club alternate; first serial to American Health Magazine; major ad/promo. (June)

Go to: Running QuickBooks 2008 Premier Editions or Beginning Java 6 Game Programming

The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook

Author: Laura J Pensiero

A comprehensive guide to cancer prevention

The oldest cancer-prevention institute in the country, New York City's famed Strang Cancer Prevention Center advocates promoting cure through early detection. It has been instrumental in developing early screening and prevention programs as well as nutrition counseling.

Now readers can benefit from the same topnotch advice the center provides for its clients. A remarkable collaboration of leading cancer prevention experts and America's top gourmet chefs, The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook presents cuttingedge nutritional and scientific data on cancer, as well as a tantalizing collection of health-inducing recipes.

Complete with the latest information about the crucial link between diet and health, this book introduces nature's own powerful cancer-fighting agents such as the chemicals found in many fruits and vegetables. More than 150 recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, sides, entrees, and desserts are featured. Research has shown that up to 80 percent of all cancers can be prevented by the type of changes in diet and lifestyle outlined in this book.

Laura Pensiero, R.D., a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York, is a dietitian, nutrition educator, and restaurant owner.

Michael Osborne, M.D., is president of the Strang Cancer Prevention Center and a professor at Cornell University Medical College.

Susan Oliveria, Sc.D., M.P.H., is on the faculty at Strang, Cornell University Medical College, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

Eating Wisely for Hormonal Balance or Perimenopause Preparing for the Change

2009-01-07T20:09:00.000-08:00

Eating Wisely for Hormonal Balance

Author: Sonia Gaemi

From the first signs of puberty until well after the onset of menopause, women are acutely aware of the role hormones play in their lives. Most women suffer, at sometime in their lives, from some debilitating physical or psychological symptoms directly related to hormone imbalance. The most effective courses of treatment for these problems, further research indicates, start with changes in diet and lifestyle. The typical Western diet-high in processed foods, rich with animal fats, and lacking important plant-derived chemicals called phytohormones-might fail to provide women with the support they need for healthy hormonal function.

This book, written by an educator and nutritionist with considerable experience studying the food habits of many cultures, provides readers with a complete, easy-to-follow program for making eating choices that can lead to better health through hormonal balance. Based on an insightful new approach to eating called the Food Wisdom Pyramid, this program describes how the flavors and colors of foods indicate the presence of certain phytohormones that may help balance and regulate one of the body's most complicated systems. Drawing on memories from her world travels, cases from her private practice, and her own life experience, the author gives women practical advice on how to use their own senses to know what foods their bodies need. The program includes a section of delicious recipes, along with tips for shopping, meal planning, and eating well while traveling.

Solutions for PMS, menopause, weight problems, mood swings, stress, insomnia, low sex drive, and other hormone-related symptoms

Nutritionist and international educator Sonia Gaemi offers women this step-by-step program of food solutions to support their hormonal systems. Readers will learn how food choices can increase metabolism, balance blood sugar and insulin, and cleanse the body of toxins. The program stresses food choices rich in antioxidants and phytohormones that can boost the immune system, reduce stress, and slow the effects of aging.

· This is a complete, step-by-step program of sensible and healthy eating advice designed especially for women

Books about: Talespin or Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life

Perimenopause--Preparing for the Change: A Guide to the Early Stages of Menopause and Beyond

Author: Nancy Lee Teaff

During the five to fifteen years leading up to the actual onset of menopause, it is common for women to begin to experience bewildering symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, irregular menstrual cycles, sleep disorders, and what some describe as "PMS all month." Perimenopause--Preparing for the Change was the first authoritative book to help women understand this important stage of their lives. In this fully revised second edition, Nancy Lee Teaff, M.D., offers updated information on what perimenopause means, and how to diagnose it; perimenopause and sexuality, fertility, and pregnancy; medical treatments and natural alternatives; pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy (HRT); and wellness--stress relief, weight control, exercise, diet, and nutrition.

Foreword
Preface
1. Perimenopause: Preparing for the Change
What Is Perimenopause?
When Will Perimenopause Occur?
The Life Cycle of the Ovary
The Egg Count
Medically Induced Menopause
How Do You Know If You're in Perimenopause?
Reverse Puberty
Diagnostic Tests for Perimenopause
An Overall Health Evaluation
Your Medical History
Why Should You Care?
2. Fertility and Infertility
How to Tell If You're Ovulating
How to Get Pregnant
An Infertility Consultation: What to Expect
Infertility Treatments
High-Tech Pregnancies
How to Stay Pregnant
How Not to Get Pregnant
3. Symptoms and Solutions
How Bad Will the Symptoms Be?
HRT: The Umbrella Treatment
Symptoms of Perimenopause
Hot Flashes
Night Sweats and Insomnia
Poor Memory and Loss of Concentration
Menstrual Irregularity
Mood Swings
Declining Libido
Vaginal Dryness
Urinary Incontinence
Headaches
Joint Aches and Back Pain
Dry Skin, Wrinkling, and Itching
4. Hormone Replacement Therapy
Natural vs. Medicated Menopause
What Does HRT Do?
HRT: A Process of Trial and Error
How Much Is Enough?
What Are the Risks?
How Many Hormones Will I Have to Take?
Will I Still Have Periods?
Dosing Regimens
Continuous Estrogen
Cyclic Estrogen Plus Cyclic Progestin
Continuous Estrogen Plus Cyclic Progestin
Continuous Estrogen Plus Continuous Progestin
Continuous Progestin Alone
Types of Estrogen
Premarin
17b-Estradiol
Estrone Conjugate
Tamoxifen and Other SERMs
Methods of Administration
Pills
Patches
Vaginal Creams
Vaginal Rings
Injections
On the Horizon:New Methods of Estrogen Administration
Types of Progestin
Testosterone Replacement
On the Horizon: Tibolone, the Combination Pill
The Pill
Is HRT Forever?
5. Natural Remedies for Menopausal Symptoms
Nutritional Supplements
Soy
Flaxseed
Vitamin E
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Herbal Supplements
Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga Racemosa)
Dong Quai
St. John's Wort (Hypericum)
Ginkgo Biloba
Mexican Yam
Valerian
Garlic
Kava
Ginseng
Hormonal Supplements
Melatonin
DHEA
A Symptom-by-Symptom Guide to Natural Remedies
Hot Flashes
Vaginal Dryness
Insomnia or Night Sweats
Osteoporosis
Heart Disease
6. Risky Business: Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Alzheimer's, and Breast Cancer
Heart Disease
Osteoporosis
Building Better Bones Now
Alzheimer's Disease
Breast Cancer
Advice for Women with Family Histories of Breast Cancer
Advice for Women with Personal Histories of Breast Cancer
Cancer Screening
The Bottom Line
7. Wellness: Weight Control, Diet, and Exercise
Weight Control
Do Hormones Affect Weight Gain?
How Fat Is Fat?
Muscle Mass: The Missing Component in Weight Loss
Exercise
Types of Exercise
Exercising for Weight Loss
How Does Exercise Counteract Calorie Intake?
Walking
How Am I Supposed to Work This All In?
Some Commonsense Precautions
Diet
How Many Calories Should You Eat?
High Protein vs. High Carbohydrates: What to Believe?
Understanding the Dietary Pyramid
Portion Size
Restaurant Eating
Make Changes Gradually . . . and Permanently
8. Nutrition, Detoxification, and Stress Relief
Step 1: Increase Your Antioxidants
Vitamin A/Beta-Carotene
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Phytochemicals
Calcium
Vitamin B6
Iron
Step 2: Cut Fat
Step 3: Eat More Fiber
Detoxifying the Body
Eliminating Alcohol
Eliminating Caffeine
Eliminating Nicotine
Stress Relief
Techniques for Managing Stress
Attitude
9. Finding the Right Doctor
Schedule a Consultation
Is This the Right Doctor for You?
Top 10 List of Insensitive Physician Comments
What to Expect During an Office Visit
If You Opt for HRT
When Is It Necessary to See a Specialist?
10. Psychology, Sexuality, and Perimenopause
Does Perimenopause Cause Depression?
Are Mood Swings Worse When Menopause Is Abrupt?
Is It All Hormonal?
Plastic Surgery
Talking to Your Partner
Frequency of Sexual Activity
Physical Changes in the Genitals
How to Combat These Changes
Will Your Sex Life Be the Same?
11. Talking with Other Women
Benefits of a Support Group
The Women's Stories
Claudia
Annie
Amanda
Lynn
Debbie
Peggy
Rituals of Perimenopause
12. Perimenopause: Have It Your Way
Patient A
Patient B
Patient C
Patient D
Patient E
Sources
Glossary
Index

Joint Motion and Function Assessment or The MSM Miracle

2009-01-07T11:06:00.000-08:00

Joint Motion and Function Assessment: A Research-Based Practical Guide

Author: Hazel Clarkson

This new resource is a comprehensive view of the clinical evaluation and functional application of joint range of motion. Coverage includes discussions of different types of goniometers, alternate methods of assessment, the reliability and validity of other joint ROM tools, and contraindications and precautions. This book also provides a complete review of surface anatomy and instruction on palpation technique and therapist posture and positioning when evaluating ROM. Numerous illustrations depict the therapist's hand and goniometer positions in relation to deep anatomical structures. Case studies and practical examination forms are also included.

Principles and Methods
Head, Neck, and Trunk
Shoulder Complex
Elbow and Forearm
Wrist and Hand
Hip
Knee
Ankle and Foot
Relating Treatment to Assessment

Appendix A: Evaluation of AROM: Prime Movers and Accessory Muscles

Appendix B: OB "Myrin" Goniometry

Appendix C: Sample Numerical Recording Form: ROM Measurement

Appendix D: Sample Pictorial Recording Form: ROM Measurement

Appendix E: ROM Assessment Sequence: Standard Test Positions

Appendix F: Gait

Appendix G: Suggested Answers to Exercises and Questions
Index

Look this: An Introduction to the Policy Process or Theodore Rex

The MSM Miracle (Good Health Guide): Enhance Your Health with Organic Sulfur

Author: Earl Mindell

Organic sulfur--a powerful nutrient often overlooked.

Shopping or Ultimate Weight Solution

2009-01-06T22:51:00.000-08:00

Shopping: Why We Love It and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer Experience

Author: Pamela Danziger

The recent history of shopping has been defined by decade-long periods of dynamic change. The ’80s were the decade of the mall, with the explosion of malls being built, resulting in shoppers flocking to these new centers of retail. The ’90s were the decade of the discounters, as Wal-Mart rolled out their discount shopping experience from their base in the heartland to both coasts and many other discounters, Target and Kohl’s among them, following suit. The first decade of the new millennium is the decade of luxury, with retailers offering an expanded range of traditional heritage brand luxury to the “classes,” and retailers serving the mass market offering up new, more affordable versions of luxury for the “masses.” We are now into the second half of that decade and the logical question is “What’s next?”

Shopping will answer this question using the three tools that give marketers and retailers “future vision” – as discovered by Pam Danziger, president of marketing consulting and research firm Unity Marketing.

Interesting textbook: Perspectives on Public Relations Research or Modern Real Estate

Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom

Author: Phillip C McGraw

DR. PHIL McGRAW'S #1 BESTSELLING PHENOMENON IS CHANGING MILLIONS OF LIVES -- FREE YOURSELF FROM DIETS THAT DON'T WORK AND DISCOVER THE ULTIMATE WEIGHT SOLUTION

You have made the decision to take control of your weight. Dr. Phil McGraw's powerful bestseller gives you the tools for life-changing weight loss. If you're ready to get real about your weight, if you want to end the frustration of the diet cycle, you have found the ultimate solution -- The Ultimate Weight Solution.

This groundbreaking, scientifically sound plan is a step-by-step, personalized approach that transforms you from the inside out, as you gain control over your:

food habits and emotional eating traps portion control exercise and lifestyle choices restaurant and social dining strategies for right thinking daily food plan with sample menus

...and more!

It's your health, it's your life, it's your decision.

A Survival Guide for Cosmetologists or Core Performance

2009-01-06T12:50:00.000-08:00

A Survival Guide for Cosmetologists: Tips from the Trenches

Author: Karen Levin

At last, the most important guide a cosmetologist could own! Produced in cooperation with the National Cosmetology Association, this guide is chock full of simple tips, reflections and quotes: for those just starting out or seasoned professionals. For cosmetology students and recent graduates, advice has been gathered from experienced leaders in the field to ensure they stay in the industry and succeed. For professionals suffering from burn-out or who simply want to rediscover the joy that lead them to their work in the first place, this guide will help keep them on track and passionate about their work.

Book about: Health from Gods Garden or Nutrition for Health Fitness and Sport

Core Performance: The Revolutionary Workout Program to Transform Your Body and Your Life

Author: Mark Verstegen

Core Performance, the breakthrough fitness program that has already shipped more than 50,000 copies in hardcover, is the first program that delivers strength and muscle mass, endurance and a lean body, balance and flexibility, athletic quickness and power--all in less than an hour a day. How? By giving you a personal coach who has worked with some of the most famous and successful athletes in the world today.

The intense focus on the muscles of your core--abs, lower back, hips, and thighs--will help you stand taller and prevent the back pain from which most people eventually suffer. The detailed nutrition section guarantees that you'll feed your muscles, starve your fat, and get boundless energy when you need it most. This program is like nothing you've ever seen before--it enables you to totally transform your body in just 12 weeks. The potential is within you, and the power to unleash that potential is within Core Performance.

What People Are Saying

Mia Hamm
Mia Hamm, Olympic and world-champion soccer player
This is the best decision I have ever made with regard to improving and educating myself as an athlete. I just wish I had made it sooner.

Nomar Garciaparra
Nomar Garciaparra, professional baseball player
This program has transformed me from a skinny college baseball player with little power into one of the best-conditioned players in Major League Baseball.

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Foreword	xi
Part 1	Welcome to the Core
Chapter 1.	Core Inspiration	3
	The Core Covenant	11
Chapter 2.	Core Beginnings	13
	Core Self-Evaluation	17
Chapter 3.	The Core Challenge	19
Part 2	The Core Workout
Chapter 4.	The Foundation: Building Your Pillar of Strength	27
Chapter 5.	Movement Prep	33
	Brandon Wood on Core Performance for Young Athletes	53
Chapter 6.	Prehab	55
Chapter 7.	Physioball Routine	73
	Mia Hamm on Core Performance for Women	88
Chapter 8.	Elasticity	91
Chapter 9.	Strength	113
Chapter 10.	Energy System Development	139
Chapter 11.	Regeneration	147
Chapter 12.	The Core Workout Worksheets	169
Part 3	The Core Nutrition Plan
Chapter 13.	How to Eat Better, Starting Now	203
Chapter 14.	Core Performance Foods	227
Part 4	The Core Life Plan
Chapter 15.	The Core Challenge (Revisited)	241
Chapter 16.	Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)	247
	Glossary of Terms	255
	Additional Training Logs	259
	About the Authors	273
	Further Reading	275
	Photo Credits	276
	Index	277

My Book Full of Feelings or Toxic Childhood

2009-01-06T01:48:00.000-08:00

My Book Full of Feelings: How to Control and React to the Size of Your Emotions

Author: Amy V Jaff

My Book Full of Emotions: How to Control and React to the SIZE of Your Emotions This book will help teach children to identify, access the intensity of and respond appropriately to their emotions. This book is fully interactive and uses a dry-erase marker so that unique situations and solutions can be added and changed with a wipe of a paper towel, as the child masters a skill and grows. Also included is a Communication Pad for tracking and sharing information between home and school.

Book about: Mercadotecnia de Dirección

Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It

Author: Sue Palmer

Every concerned parent MUST have this book! Children throughout the developed world are suffering, with obesity, dyslexia, ADHD, and other serious ailments on the rise. And it’s not simply that our diagnostic ability has improved—there are very real and growing problems. Top literacy expert Sue Palmer examines the danger zones, from poor diet, lack of exercise, and sleep deprivation to symptoms emerging from our modern lifestyle of TV, computer games, and cell phones. This combination of factors, along with parents’ increasingly stressful lives, means that we are developing a toxic new generation, with its health and brains at risk. Here is the latest research from around the world, with advice for worried parents on protecting their families and ensuring their children emerge as healthy, intelligent, and happy adults.

Strength Training for Beginners or An Aztec Herbal

2009-01-05T16:47:00.000-08:00

Strength Training for Beginners

Author: Joan Bassey

Strength Training for Beginners gives women of 35 and up a chance to look and feel younger, tone up, reverse symptoms of osteoporosis, and increase energy, all through a simple, scientifically sound, strength-training program that can be easily incorporated into even the busiest lifestyle. Whether you're a bona-fide couch potato or a more active fitness buff, you'll find it easy to follow these exercises, which are cleverly laid out in large print and in full color, step-by-step photographs, in a unique spiral-bound, stand-up package that can be conveniently placed on the exercise mat or a table top.

Starting with simple warm-up stretches, the program includes a series of shaping, toning, and flattening exercises, with and without simple weights, all of which can be performed at home and easily modified for beginners and older women. Each exercise is accompanied by important information on the exercise's purpose, the correct technique, and how to customize the movement if you suffer from weak or swollen joints. With just two sessions per week, research has proven that you'll be on your way to looking and feeling as much as 20 years younger!

Look this: Thurgood Marshall or The New Asian Hemisphere

An Aztec Herbal: The Classic Codex of 1552

Author: William Gates

Originally written in the Aztec language, this 16th-century codex was the first herbal and medical text compiled in the New World. It contains ancient remedies for myriad ailments—boils, hair loss, cataracts, insomnia hiccoughs, and gout, to name a few. An extraordinarily rare and valuable document; amazing in its scope, detail, careful observation, and accurate description.

Quick Facts on Advanced Cancer or 15 Minute Better Back Workout

2009-01-05T04:45:00.000-08:00

Quick Facts on Advanced Cancer

Author: American Cancer Society

Educate yourself about advanced cancer

Advanced cancer is not likely to be cured, but it can frequently be controlled. The physical symptoms can almost always be well managed. QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer emphasizes that every person’s cancer is unique, and you have the right to be well-informed and to be the decision-maker in planning treatment to offer the best possible quality of life. QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer is both comprehensive and a quick read, with highlighted cover tabs for quick reference of specific topics.

QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer:

Covers everything from risk factors to living well after cancer treatment
Provides critical questions to ask your healthcare team
Educates and empowers you right from the start
Completely updated with the latest patient treatment guidelines
Includes an advanced cancer dictionary

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These 4 x 7 inch books from the American Cancer Society (ACS)-released to coincide with National Lung Cancer Awareness Month (November) and the ACS Great American Smokeout (the third Thursday in November)-address in lay terms the issues confronting patients with advanced cancer and lung cancer. What cancer is, risk factors, metastases, diagnosis and staging, prevention, treatments (e.g., surgery, chemotherapy, complementary/alternative therapies), what to ask the doctor, sources of support, palliative at-home and hospice care-these are the major issues covered here authoritatively and comprehensively for both patients and their loved ones. The ACS has achieved its goal of providing overviews that tackle need-to-know issues and supply references for additional follow-up information as desired. Recommended. [Other 2006 and 2007 entries in this series will address prostate, colon, skin, breast, bladder, and pancreatic cancer as well as leukemia, lymphedema, and bone metastasis.-Ed.]-James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Interesting textbook: El Salto Radical: una Lección Personal en Mando Extremo

15 Minute Better Back Workout

Author: Suzanne Martin

Offering authoritative, constructive advice and information on this worldwide health problem, Better Back assesses a wide variety of available treatments and gives a detailed overview of the solutions to back pain. Explaining how the back works and outlining the many causes of pain, this is the ideal guide for anyone with a bad back pain who wants to take an active role in their own health care.

Author Biography: Dr. John Tanner is a private practitioner of orthopedics and sports medicine, with special interests in back injuries and their treatment. He is on the council of the Society of Orthopedic Medicine and the Institute of Orthopedic Medicine.

Eating Disorders or Having Your Baby

2009-01-04T19:44:00.000-08:00

Eating Disorders: Journey to Recovery Workbook

Author: Mona Villapiano

Two seasoned clinicians with years of experience in the treatment of eating disorders offer this practical tool and adjunct to one-on-one and group therapy. In a readable style, the authors take the reader on a journey toward better mental and physical health, as well as provide an important understanding of eating disorders.

This workbook encourages self-paced learning and practice. The authors guide the reader through a greater consideration of body image, compulsive exercising, and personal and societal relationships. The workbook also explores complicated issues having a direct effect on the eating disorder, including trauma, depression, abuse, and the media.

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Reviewer: Jennifer J Halvorson, MS, RD (Chicago Center for Clinical Research)
Description: This is a self-paced workbook targeted for those with eating disorders to help them take an active role in their treatment process. The workbook can be used alone or in conjunction with counseling.
Purpose: The purpose is to offer a person with an eating disorder a way to further explore his or her relationship with food. The educational material and the thought-provoking exercises provide a means for analyzing current eating behaviors and offers guidance on making behavior changes. This is an important contribution to this field, and the authors clearly meet their objectives.
Audience: This well designed workbook is geared for eating disorder sufferers who desire additional self-help therapy; however, mental health professionals will find the exercises helpful to compliment therapy discussions. The authors, who have extensive experience in this field, provide a credible knowledge base for this book.
Features: The workbook offers easy to understand educational material on major issues affecting those with eating disorders. Following the educational topics are insightful exercises that help explore these issues on a personal level. In addition, the book is filled with personal stories from recovered eating disorder clients who share their painful struggles in the uphill battle to recovery. The resources and references at the end of the workbook, which include useful Internet sites, offer the reader other avenues to seek information.
Assessment: This is a very useful workbook for those with eating disorders and for mental health professionals to use in conjunction with counseling. It is a valuable resource that provides an opportunity for a client to explore personal issues and offers useful tools to be used in a self-paced fashion.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Interesting book: Straight Up or On the Rocks or Choice Cuts

Having Your Baby: A Guide for African American Women

Author: Hilda Hutcherson

In this reassuring book, Dr. Hilda Hutcherson, an esteemed Ob-Gyn and Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University, shares all the medical information and emotional support you'll need during this exhilarating and sometimes anxious time. As an African American woman, you face unique challenges during pregnancy. From planning your pregnancy to caring for your newborn, Dr. Hutcherson provides comforting wisdom from her experience as a doctor and a mother of four, addressing all the issues, concerns, and questions you'll have about pregnancy and childbirth.

Library Journal

After practicing obstetrics for many years and giving birth to four children, Harvard Medical graduate Hutcherson recognized the need for a childbirth resource that articulated the social concerns of African American women. Although this clearly written self-help guide contains advice on conception, pregnancy, and delivery that can be found in other resources, its unique features make it a stand-out in birthing literature. Hutcherson offers expectant mothers everything from essential information about diseases like sickle cell anemia and lupus to historical highlights that provide a positive birth image and outlook for black women. Aiming "to combat the high incidence of small, sick, and premature black babies," Hucherson has produced a first-of-its-kind childbirth reference tool that meets the needs of a population traditionally denied equal access to prenatal care. An excellent companion to The Black Women's Health Book (LJ 4/15/90); highly recommended. [This July, Dutton will publish Mama's Little Baby: The Black Woman's Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby's First Year.Ed.]Rebecca Cress-Ingebo, Fordham Health Sciences Lib., Wright State Univ., Dayton, Ohio

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Before You Conceive: Preparing for Pregnancy Emotionally, Financially, Physically, and Medically	1
Ch. 2	Now That You've Conceived: Taking Care Through Your Pregnancy	21
Ch. 3	The First Trimester: Your Growing Baby, Your Changing Body, Your Emotions	63
Ch. 4	The Second Trimester: Your Growing Baby, Your Changing Body, Your Emotions	84
Ch. 5	The Third Trimester: Your Growing Baby, Your Changing Body, Your Emotions	100
Ch. 6	Eating Right During Pregnancy	123
Ch. 7	The Benefits of Exercise	146
Ch. 8	Talking About Sex	161
Ch. 9	How Pregnancy Affects Your Daily Routine	175
Ch. 10	Special Care Pregnancy: Medical Conditions, Age-Related Difficulties, and Multiple Births	200
Ch. 11	When Something Goes Wrong: How to Recognize Complications	241
Ch. 12	Having Your Baby: What to Expect During Labor and Delivery	275
Ch. 13	All About Breast Feeding	322
Ch. 14	The Basics of Newborn Care	345
Ch. 15	Your Body, Your Emotions After the Baby	372
App. A	Your Pregnancy Diary	389
App. B	Recommended Weight Gain Time Table	397
	Recommended Reading	399
	Index	401

Breaking Out or Dieticians Guide to Vegetarian Diets

2009-01-04T08:42:00.000-08:00

Breaking Out: A Woman's Guide to Coping with Acne at Any Age

Author: Lydia Preston

An essential and comprehensive guide to acne for women of all ages

Acne is no longer just a teenage affliction. In fact, dermatologists often refer to it as a woman's disease, and drugstore shelves are filled with acne products specifically geared toward adult women. But how do you choose from the overwhelming selection of treatments? Which products are appropriate to use as you grow older, become pregnant, or enter menopause? How can you work with a dermatologist to get the most out of prescription acne medications?

Lydia Preston answers all of these questions and more, with up-to-date information drawn from her years of reporting on dermatology, as well as her own long personal experience with acne. In Breaking Out, she shares the wisdom of dozens of doctors and scientists who have devoted their careers to studying and treating acne, including:

Guidelines for buying and using over-the-counter products
Treatment for acne scars
Emergency acne remedies and camouflage tips
Alternative treatments, including herbal remedies, acupuncture, dietary approaches, and ways to unlock the mind-skin connection

No one has to live with acne or its consequences. Breaking Out is an invaluable guide to understanding and combating acne that women of all ages can turn to with confidence.

Library Journal

In this look at the complexity of acne, former acne patient Preston (Skin Savvy: The Essential Guide to Cosmetic Laser Surgery) provides information on the etiology and course of acne, confronts myths about what causes acne, and discusses appropriate skin care. She deals with over-the-counter and prescription treatments including chapters on Accutane (and its controversy) and alternative medicine so that women will gain an understanding of why certain medications are prescribed together. There is also a lengthy chapter on coping with physical and mental scarring (many women think that acne is their fault). While the chapters summarizing over-the-counter, prescription, and hormonal treatments would have benefited from a different presentation, this book succeeds on the whole; it can be used as both a quick reference guide to acne medications and an informative read about acne in general. Recommended for all public libraries, especially those with consumer health collections. Rebecca Raszewski, Drexel Univ. Health Sciences Libs., Philadelphia Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Dietician's Guide to Vegetarian Diets: Issues and Applications

Author: Reed Mangels

The Dietitian's Guide to Vegetarian Diets: Issues and Applications, Second Edition highlights the current trends and research on vegetarian diets and translates the information into practical ideas to assist dietitians and other health care providers in aiding their clients. The text presents vital information on vegetarian nutritional needs, healthier and more satisfying diets, as well as guidelines for treating clients of all ages and clients with special considerations, such as pregnant women, athletes, and diabetics. This edition takes into account new research, epidemiological studies, debates, and changes in the food market as well as the different types of vegetarian diets.

High Powered Plyometrics or Antioxidant Miracle

2009-01-03T22:41:00.000-08:00

High-Powered Plyometrics

Author: James C Radcliff

The depth and breadth of this book make it a must for both sports andconditioning coaches, as well as for anyone involved in reconditioning or rehabilitation. Its scientific basis and background are nicely complemented by its practical application.

Interesting book: Branding Only Works on Cattle or Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Prep 2

Antioxidant Miracle: Put Lipoic Acid, Pycnogenol, and Vitamins E and C to Work for You

Author: Carol Colman

Imagine there was an easy way you could keep your heart strong, your mind sharp, and your body youthful. Imagine this program could keep you young, improve your sex life, prevent cancer and heart disease, and keep your skin supple and wrinkle-free. And perhaps best of all, imagine this was something readily available at your local drugstore or natural food store. These and other benefits are the miraculous results of antioxidants. Lester Packer is the world's foremost authority on these natural healers. In The Antioxidant Miracle, he explains for the first time exactly how you can design a practical, personalized antioxidant program for disease prevention and optimal wellness.

The Antioxidant Miracle is the first popular book to reveal the full range of healing benefits of lipoic acid, the most versatile and powerful antioxidant and nature's secret weapon in treating heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and liver disease. This breakthrough book also unveils the astonishing strength of the antioxidant network, the combination of vitamin E, vitamin C, lipoic acid, Co Q10, and glutathione that-when taken together in the proper amounts-battles disease and aging far more aggressively than supplements taken individually.

After an accessible explanation of the science behind antioxidants, Packer and bestselling health writer Carol Colman show you how to develop your own state-of-the-art supplement regimen designed to keep your body strong, your brain at full speed, and your antioxidant network working at its peak. They include specialized supplement programs for smokers, diabetics, people with a family history of cancer or heart disease, menopausal women, athletes, and pickyeaters. You'll find out how to incorporate antioxidant-rich foods easily into your diet and develop your own plan for smooth, healthy, young looking skin. And you'll discover the benefits of "booster" antioxidants-bioflavonoids like ginkgo biloba and Pycnogenol-and others like beta carotene and selenium.

The Antioxidant Miracle can enhance and extend your life. Make the antioxidant miracle work for you!

Advance acclaim for The Antioxidant Miracle
* "Finally, a book by a renowned and active researcher that proves the value of nutritional supplements. The Antioxidant Miracle provides a shield protecting us from disease and ensuring health. The information in this book could save your life!"Julian Whitaker, M.D., Founder, Whitaker Wellness Institute and
* Editor of Health and Healing.

"Life is like a candle flame, and antioxidants make it burn brighter and longer. Lester Packer is the keeper of the flame. For those of us seeking to combat the debility and diseases of aging, The Antioxidant Miracle is an essential tool.-William Regelson, M.D., Coauthor of the New York Times bestseller, The Melatonin Miracle

"Any health-conscious person will want to read The Antioxidant Miracle. It makes the understanding of these miracle nutrients easy to comprehend and utilize in his or her everyday life.-Earl Mindell. Author of The Herb Bible, The Vitamin Bible, and The Supplement Bible.

What People Are Saying

William Regelson, M.D.
For those of us seeking to combat the debility and diseases of aging, The Antioxidant Miracle is an essential tool.
— Co-author of The New York Times bestseller, The Melatonin Miracle

Julian Whitaker, M.D.
Finally, a book by a renowned and active researcher that proves the value of nutritional supplements. The Antioxidant Miracle provides a shield protecting us from disease and ensuring health. The information in this book could save your life!
— Founder, Whitaker Wellness Institute; Editor, Health and Healing

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	The Antioxidant Advantage	5
1	The Antioxidant Miracle	7
2	The Antioxidant Network in Action: Vitamins C and E, Co Q10, Lipoic Acid, Glutathione	14
3	Free Radicals: Both Enemy and Friend	23
Pt. 2	The Miracle Within - Nature's Super Antioxidant Defense Network	29
4	Lipoic Acid: The Universal Antioxidant	31
5	Vitamin E: An Extraordinary Antioxidant	54
6	Vitamin C: The Hub of the Network	77
7	Coenzyme Q10: The Heart-Healthy Antioxidant	92
8	Glutathione: Nature's Master Antioxidant	105
Pt. 3	Network Boosters	115
9	The Flavonoids: The Healing Power of Plants - Ginkgo Biloba and Pycnogenol	117
10	The Controversial Carotenoids: Alpha Carotene, Beta Carotene, Cryptoxanthin, Lutein, Lycopene, and Zeaxanthin	133
11	The Selenium Surprise	142
12	Fulfilling the Antioxidant Miracle: Achieving Optimal Health	148
Pt. 4	The Packer Plan - Making the Antioxidant Miracle Work for You	163
13	An Antioxidant Feast: Food Is Powerful Medicine - From Apples to Winter Squash	165
14	The Packer Plan: Your Supplement Regimen	185
15	The Packer Plan: Antioxidants for Healthy, Beautiful Skin	197
	Afterword: Toward a New Understanding of Health	206
	App. A: Resources	208
App. B	Saas Fee Declaration	209
App. C	Sample Profiles	211
App. D	Vitamin E Is Nature's Master Antioxidant	215
	Primary Sources	230
	Supplementary References	235
	Index	249

My Diabetes Organizer or Ritalin Is Not the Answer Action Guide

2009-01-03T13:39:00.000-08:00

My Diabetes Organizer: The Essential Planner and Record-Keeper for People with Type 2 Diabetes

Author: Gina Barbetta

The Essential Planner and Record-Keeper for People with Type 2 Diabetes

A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes means a lifetime of monitoring both diet and blood sugar. Packed with charts, guides, and advice, this complete health management system helps organize and simplify the lives of people with diabetes. With the planning tools in this handbook, patients can keep track of test results, contact information, and medication records. Favorably reviewed by the American Association of Diabetes Educators, the organizer features:

·12-month check-up charts

·envelopes and pockets for bills, lab test results, doctors’ business cards, and more

·a 30-day journal to get readers into the routine of daily care

By looking beyond bare facts and providing real goals for living with type 2 diabetes, this book serves as a constant companion for vital self-care.

diabetestalkfest

All you have to do is open this all-in-one book and you will be in diabetic organizing heaven.

USABookNews

Winner of Best Books 2006 National Book Awards in the Health: Organizers & Planners category

Diabetes Mine

It might be worth the investment just for the pocket-sized 'Daily Tracker' that comes in the package . . . this is one of the best little carry-around diabetes log books I've seen.

Ritalin Is Not the Answer Action Guide: An Interactive Companion to the Bestselling Drug-Free ADD/ADHD Parenting Program

Author: David B Stein PhD

Since 1999, parents and teachers have relied on Dr. David Stein's groundbreaking book Ritalin Is Not the Answer as a resource to help them work with hyperactive children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Now the same principles and tools of the acclaimed Caregivers' Skill Program that Dr. Stein outlined in Ritalin Is Not the Answer are present in this easy-to-use companion workbook. Filled with self-tests, specific step-by-step guidelines, checklists, and exercises, Ritalin Is Not the Answer Action Guide offers a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that has been proven to work!

	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction: Is This Book for You?	xxi
Part 1	Preparation for the Caregivers' Skills Program
1.	Questions to Ask the Docto	3
2.	The True Facts Parents Are Not Being Told	19
3.	The Real Causes of IA-HM (ADD-ADHD)	35
4.	Why the CSP Works	49
Part 2	The Caregivers' Skills Program
5.	CSP Step One: Targeting Behaviors	59
6.	CSP Step Two: Improving Desired Behaviors by Reinforcement	75
7.	CSP Step Three: Understanding the Difference Between Punishment and Discipline	83
8.	CSP Step Four: Using a New Time Out	97
9.	CSP Step Five: Eliminating Lying and Aggression by Removing Reinforcement	111
10.	CSP Step Six: Using the Daily Report Card Program	115
Part 3	Beyond the Caregivers' Skills Program
11.	Teaching Important Values	133
12.	Preventing the Creation of an IA-HM (ADD-ADHD) Child	153
	Resources for Parents	163
	References	167
	The Author	171
	Index	173

	Introduction	9
Phase 1	Truth, Commitment, and Self-Control	15
Phase 2	Revving Up Your Metabolism	91
Phase 3	Getting Real About "Emotional Eating"	127
Phase 4	Securing a Life of Health and Emotional Well-Being	151
	Index	213

1	The Working Mom's Dilemma	1
2	The Mom Connection	15
3	Early Eating	37
4	The Four Critical Hours	53
5	The G-Factor Program	63
6	Beyond Pop-Tarts	101
7	Fast but Good	133
8	Smart Snacks	147
9	What to Buy	167
10	Packing the Healthy Lunchbox	187
11	Meals That Work	195
12	Energy Out	219
	Index	241

	Introduction	6
Chapter 1	Doorway to Wholeness	8
Chapter 2	Pathway to Health	22
Chapter 3	Vital Healing	40
Chapter 4	Earth Energies	54
Chapter 5	Landscape Synergy	70
Chapter 6	Dowsing Deeper	84
	Index, Useful Addresses and Acknowledgements	96

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Echinacea: Nature's Immune Enhancer

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Live Now Age Later or Boost Your Heart Health

Live Now, Age Later: Proven Ways to Slow Down the Clock

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Drink to Your Health or Asthma Survival

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Making It Better or Stepping Stones to Recovery

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Multiple Sclerosis or Aromatherapy Solutions

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Active Female or Inciensos Aceites E Infusiones

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Constructive Awareness or The Art of Midlife

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The Irritable Bowel Syndrome SourceBook or Drink Up

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Veg Out Vegetarian Guide to Washington DC or Renew Your Life

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Renew Your Life: Improved Digestion and Detoxification

Taiji Chin Na or Panic Attacks

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Organ Transplants: A Survival Guide for the Entire Family: The Ultimate Teen Guide

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Add 10 Years to Your Life or Hablando de Sexo

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