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Inclusive Physical Activity or Action Plan for Menopause

2009-12-05T20:57:00.000-08:00

Inclusive Physical Activity: A Lifetime of Opportunities

Author: Susan l Kasser

Inclusive Physical Activity: A Lifetime of Opportunitiesprogresses from understanding the profession and professional responsibilities to using practical strategies for programming. The book's most outstanding feature is its unique approach to instructional and activity modification for differing abilities.

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Action Plan for Menopause

Author: Barbara Ann Bushman

Reduce menopausal symptoms, promote bone health, and decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease with Action Plan for Menopause. Based on the latest research, this exercise-based plan will help you take control of your fitness.

Learn the best and safest exercises for perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause and how diet, medication, and exercise interact to affect symptoms. Use one of the provided programs or tailor one to your own needs with workouts to gain strength, flexibility, and stamina.

Developed in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine, Action Plan for Menopause is the healthy way to manage menopause. Take action now to feel and function better, and add quality years to your life.

No More Amoxicillin or Art of Energy Healing

2009-12-04T16:46:00.000-08:00

No More Amoxicillin

Author: Mary Ann Block

This revolutionary book shows why Amoxicillin--one of the most overprescribed drugs of our time--can jeopardize a child's health, and why common ear and respiratory infections can and should be treated through safer and more effective means.

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Art of Energy Healing, Vol. 1

Author: Susan D Matz

The Art of Energy Healing is a series of nine books that takes the reader through many of the processes involved in Energetic Dynamics. Energetic Dynamics encompass both the individual Human Energy System, like the chakras and Energy Field, along with an explanation of how energy connects and creates both the planet we live on and the Universe we live in.

The series begins with fundamental explanations about the Energy System and the levels of consciousness. Each book adds on information going from technical foundations, to more advanced and in-depth teachings about energy flow patterns, personal growth processes, group dynamics, working with children, working as a healer, Universal principles and individual evolution.

These books will openly talk about God, along with personal responsibility and facing your darker nature. I make a point of saying this, because I have noticed a distinct lack of direct connection between energetic healing practices and God. Much of what is written today is divided between spiritual books and healing books, but the concepts are often kept separated. Spiritual teachings can seem like far-fetched ideologies that do not seem realistic for the average day-to-day problems found in relationships, work, parenting or managing life. And healing literature seems to focus on techniques without defining or explaining the deeper purposes behind healing. Healing is not about curing anything, but rather a journey into understanding the why of everything, and ultimately the why of you. This series connects the spiritual with the practical along with explanations of what healing is really about, and how it affects you on a daily basis.

Everything in life has meaning - everything. It is in learning to understand yourself at a deeper level that helps you to understand life at a deeper level. Your life is your teacher, and this series of books is just one of the many tools that exist in the world to help bring a little more clarity into understanding the lessons and teachings that life has to offer you.

Understanding Dental Health or Healthy Bones and Joints

2009-12-03T12:35:00.000-08:00

Understanding Dental Health

Author: Francis G Serio

A User-friendly Manual on the Basics of Dental Health

Looking into your mouth is like looking under the hood of your car. Both are dark and mysterious places. Unfortunately, unlike your car, your mouth did not come with a guide to operation and repair. This book can serve as an "owner's manual", for it was written for those who hope to understand the mouth and how to keep it healthy. It will introduce what is in the mouth and how to take proper care of it.

From its outline of the anatomy of the mouth to its discussions of contemporary dental research and technology, this book offers insight into the processes that determine dental health. It details daily oral hygiene and maintenance aimed at reducing the occurrence of common oral maladies. Also explained is the dentist's role in prevention and treatment, as well as the costs of dental care.

Virtually all persons are affected by dental diseases of some sort. Many dental problems, especially bad breath, gum disease, and cavities, are almost entirely preventable. Whether it is for bleeding gums, cavities, crooked teeth, impacted wisdom teeth, stains, a host of other problems, or just a periodic checkup, nearly everyone will spend time and money at the dentist's office. For those who are concerned about appropriate care of the mouth and the teeth this clearly written book will be useful.

The principles of dental implants, cosmetic dentistry, and select discal innovations in dentistry are cussed and clearly explained. Also, a helpful list of dental schools that provide low-cost care and a list of resources for further information are included.

Although this book is not meant to be comprehensive, it offers the firm foundation forhaving informed discussion with your dentist and for maintaining oral health for a lifetime.

Booknews

A nontechnical guide to the basics of dental health. Covers basic anatomy, cavity prevention, periodontal disease, orthodontics, research trends, and suggestions of where to go for more information. Appends a list of all 54 dental schools in the United States. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Acknowledgments and Dedication
	Introduction
1	The Mouth	3
2	An Ounce of Prevention: What You and Your Dentist Can Do	13
3	Dental Caries	31
4	Periodontal Disease	52
5	Crooked Teeth and Orthodontics	63
6	What Else Can Go Wrong?	66
7	Your High-Tech Dentist	79
8	Research Trends: Toward the Twenty-First Century	82
9	Where to Go for Further Information	87
	App. A: Suggestions for Further Reading	89
App. B	Dental Schools	92
	Index	99

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Healthy Bones and Joints: A Natural Approach to Treating Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Tendinitis, Myalgia and Bursitis

Author: David Hoffmann

From a clinician with 22 years experience and a fellow of Britain?National Institute of Medical Herbalists, come four new guides to total herbal health. Each volume is a thorough exploration and study of the uses of herbs as preventatives and treatment.

Feminine Healing or Apple Cider Vinegar

2009-12-02T08:24:00.000-08:00

Feminine Healing: A Woman's Guide to a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit

Author: Jason Elias

A unique handbook that combines practical recommendations for specific health problems with parables, folklore, and ancient wisdom about the potency of the feminine spirit. Organized by the stages of a woman's life, it offers both the Western and Chinese interpretations and therapies for common health concern as well as details on proven complementary treatments. Here is the information on supplements, exercise, diet, herbal remedies, Chinese patent remedies, acupuncture points, and mental exercises to stimulate the mind/body/spirit/connection---everything you need to know to embrace a truly comprehensive course of healing.

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Apple Cider Vinegar: History and Folklore-Composition-Medical Research-Medicinal, Cosmetic, and Household Uses-Commercial and Home Production

Author: Victoria Ros

Welcome to the world of Apple Cider Vinegar! As you have picked up this book, I might imagine that you are interested in taking responsibility for your health and well-being; perhaps folklore remedies enchant you; you're looking for a new hobby; you liked the design of my book cover; or, like myself, the word "why" has been a part of your vocabulary since you began to talk. Whatever your reasons, welcome!

With so many books on the market, why another one and about apple cider vinegar? Because . . . this book will answer questions that have not been asked. It will provide you with medical evidence to support why apple cider vinegar works for so many common ailments and will answer questions about quality and products on the market today. The book will provide you with step-by-step directions for making your own and inform you about the dynamic versatility of apple cider vinegar.

American Indian Food or The Sneeze Free Cat Owner

2009-12-01T04:13:00.000-08:00

American Indian Food (Food in American History Series)

Author: Linda Murray Berzok

This, the first, in-depth survey of Native American Indian foodways is an amazing chronicle of both human development over thousands of years and American history after the European invasion. It sheds light not only on this group and their history but on American food culture and history as well. For thousands of years an intimate relationship existed between Native Americans and their food sources. Dependence on nature for subsistence gave rise to a rich spiritual tradition with rituals and feasts marking planting and harvesting seasons. The European invasion forced a radical transformation of the indigenous food habits. Foodways were one of the first layers of culture attacked. Indians were removed from their homelands, forced to cultivate European crops such as wheat and grapes, new animals were introduced, and the bison, a major staple in the Great Plains and West, was wiped out. Today, American Indians are trying to reclaim many of their food traditions. A number of their foodways have become part of the broader American cookbook, as many dishes eaten today were derived from Native American cooking, including cornbread, clam chowder, succotash, grits, and western barbeque.

Library Journal

This first volume in Greenwood's "Food in American History" series explores Native American foodways from prehistory to the arrival of Europeans to modern times, encompassing various regions and tribes. Berzok, a food writer and historian, organizes the chapters thematically rather than chronologically. For instance, Chapter 5 examines the role of food in various religious beliefs and practices, while Chapter 3 explores food preparation, preservation, and storage. Complementing the narrative are a few recipes that describe how the dish was traditionally prepared, as well as a chronology, a glossary, and a selected bibliography. Overall, this highly readable and thorough chronicle will be a welcome addition to public, academic, and high school libraries as it fills a gap in Native American and food history.-Lisa A. Ennis, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham Lib., Lister Hill Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

The Sneeze-Free Cat Owner: Allergy Management and Breed Selection for the Allergic Cat Lover

Author: Diane Morgan

Are you or someone you love among the over ten million Americans who suffer from some sort of pet-related allergy? Is the dream of bringing a cat into your home met with the fear of allergy symptoms?

The Sneeze-Free Cat Owner is entirely devoted to helping cat lovers who suffer from pet-related allergies find an appropriate breed for their family. This unique guide features in-depth breed profiles that include grooming needs, personality traits, activity levels, and health issues for cats compatible with allergic owners. It also discusses the controversy over the allergy-free properties of so-called "designer cats" and provides information on the best places to purchase or adopt your hypoallergenic cat. Because even homes without pets can have high levels of allergens, this book reveals how to minimize exposure in any home and contains dozens of tips for controlling and managing the home environment, including natural, at-home, and homeopathic treatments for allergy sufferers along with recent medical breakthroughs.

If concern over pet-related allergies has prevented you or someone you love from owning a cat, The Sneeze-Free Cat Owner can help in the management of your allergy symptoms and enable you to find the perfect feline friend.

Cancer Is a Word Not a Sentence or The Roots of Desire

2009-11-30T00:02:00.000-08:00

Cancer Is a Word, Not a Sentence: A Practical Guide to Help You through the First Few Weeks

Author: Robert Buckman

A trusted and essential companion for everyone dealing with a diagnosis of cancer.

"If you're reading this book, you're probably reeling... This book is going to do one specific thing for you: it's going to help you get your balance back."

-from the introduction

Cancer is a Word, Not a Sentence is a practical guide written for people who have just been diagnosed with cancer. It aims to help them -- and their loved ones -- make sense of what happens next and to plan a course of action. Dr. Robert Buckman describes everything that comes after the diagnosis, including tests, the stages of the disease, treatment options and follow-up.

Having treated patients and interacted with their families for years, Dr. Buckman presents a six-step plan that provides information needed to make important choices in seeking the best treatment:

Communicating with the medical team

Treatment options and their pros and cons

The right questions to ask and where to get information

The decisions the patient has to make

The possible outcomes.

Dr. Buckman also focuses on daily life: how to talk to your spouse or children, how to break the news to friends, and how to obtain the information you need. There's also a section addressed to family and friends who "just don't know what to say."

In simple and straightforward language, this practical book provides a guide for use in the real world.

Introduction: A Word, Not a Sentence

Part One: "What's Going to Happen to Me Next?"

A Step-by-Step Guide

Part Two: "What's Treatment Like?"

How Cancer Is Treated

Part Three: "Isn't There an Easier Way?"

Complementary Medicine and Remedies

Part Four: "How Do I Get Back on Track?"

Living Your Life

Part Five: "Do I Always Have to Have a Positive Attitude?"

Cancer and the Mind

Part Six: "What Can I Do to Help Myself?"

Gaining More Control

Appendix A: Tables

Appendix B: "Where Can I Get More Help?"

A Directory of Organizations, Sources and Web sites

Acknowledgements
Index

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The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning, and Sexual Power of Red Hair

Author: Marion Roach

Part history, part cultural commentary, part memoir, The Roots of Desire is a witty and entertaining investigation into what it means to be a redhead.

A redhead rarely goes unnoticed in a crowded room. From Judas Iscariot to Botticelli's Venus to Julianne Moore, redheads have been worshipped, idealized, fetishized, feared, and condemned, leaving their mark on us and our culture. Such is the power of what is actually a genetic mutation, and in The Roots of Desire, Marion Roach takes a fascinating look at the science behind hair color and the roles redheads have played over time. She discovers that in Greek mythology, redheads become vampires after they die; Hitler banned intermarriage with redheads for fear of producing "deviant offspring"; women with red hair were burned as witches during the Inquisition; in Hollywood, female redheads are considered sexy while male redheads are considered a hard sell; and in the nineteenth century, it was popular belief that redheads were the strongest scented of all women, smelling of amber and violets. Redheads have been stereotyped, marginalized, sought after, and made to function as everything from a political statement to a symbol of human carnality. A redhead herself, Roach brings candor and brilliant insight to the complicated and revealing history of redheads, making this a stand-out narrative and an essential tool in understanding the mechanics and phenomenon of red hair.

Publishers Weekly

A redhead herself, NPR commentator Roach has an odd chip on her shoulder about it, relating all sorts of travails and opinions connected to red hair that the average non-redhead may never have guessed existed. To get to the bottom of our perceptions and experience of red hair, she explores the ancient legends of Lilith and Set, the traditions that depict both Judas and Mary Magdalene as redheads, and an Eve in London's St. Paul's Cathedral that has blond hair before the Fall and red hair after it. She visits "witch camp" in Vermont, a high-end hair salon in Manhattan, and Emily Dickinson's house, where a carefully preserved lock of the poet's red hair transforms Roach's image of her. Along the way, Roach (Another Name for Madness) makes some poignant points about what it means to belong to the redheaded minority in Western society, making gently suggestive comparisons to more overt patterns of prejudice. Yet the author seems to accept preconceptions about the sexuality and vivacity associated with red hair, and her jumping between examples often reads more like breathless conjecture than fact and leaches energy from extended vignettes, such as her visit with the witches. Whether readers enjoy this book will have a lot to do with whether they like the narrator's self-conscious red-headed persona. And, of course, whether they are as fascinated as she is by red hair. Agent, Kris Dahl. (July) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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"Roach approaches her subject from several angles, providing much that's entertaining."

Library Journal

NPR commentator Roach (Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers) sets out to affirm the uniqueness of a small elite: redheads. She visits a witch camp, a genetics laboratory, the Victorian graveyard of her ancestors, and Amherst, MA, where she sees the only existing lock of Emily Dickinson's hair. By book's end, she has left blondes and brunettes sputtering in the dust of the world's most powerful, sexy, and satanic women-natural redheads like Roach herself. Along the way, she pulls together history, myth, symbolism, etymology, personal memoir, science writing, and some piquant facts to explore and, some may argue, bolster the significance of red hair. The section "Sinners" associates red hair with Satan (a.k.a. Set) through such figures as Judas, Henry VIII, Boudicca, and Shakespeare's Shylock. (This is the only section that really encompasses male redheads.) In "Science," Roach travels to Edinburgh, redhead capital of the world, to have her own genetic test done. She discovers that she indeed carries the genetic sequencing that creates a typical redhead. The final section, "Sex," looks into the Garden of Eden as depicted in mosaics in London's St. Paul's Cathedral and chronicles Eve's transformation from blond (pre- Original Sin) to redhead (post-Original Sin). Redhead stereotypes of women-powerful, sin-stained, pleasure-seeking, prone to "bad girl" behavior-abound in this section. Lest other hair colors feel left out, there is always Clairol: according to Roach, red is the number-one choice for hair color. A strong recommendation for redheads; a toned-down recommendation for academic and general collections.-Janet Sassi, New York Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Suffer the Child or The Changing Brain

2009-11-28T19:51:00.000-08:00

Suffer the Child: How the Health Care System Is Failing Our Future

Author: Lidia Wasowicz Pringl

Antidepressants causing adolescents to commit suicide? Vaccines triggering autism in healthy babies? Stimulants creating a nation of cookie-cutter children? Old cures leading to epidemics of chronic disease? Suffer the Child digs beneath the headlines to expose a health care system burdened with uncertainties and sagging with shortfalls that are shortchanging our children's health.

Based on a 15-part UPI series and written by an award-winning investigative reporter who interviewed more than 200 physicians, policymakers, parents, children's advocates, educators, drug developers, public health, and medical specialists, "Suffer the Child" looks at all the challenges affecting our childrenâЂ™s health, from a failing health care system to an epidemic of new problems like autism and obesity. More importantly, it examines ways we can overcome them, as most of the experts agree that a massive multi-faceted campaign is called for.

More than in any previous generation, today's parents must be proactive in protecting and promoting their child's health. This book is their comprehensive reference to the issues we face in caring for our childrenâЂ™s health and the system we once trusted to protect and cure them.

Topics include: emergency care standards, ADHD, alternative remedies, antidepressants, boys, causes of mental problems, causes of physical problems, diagnosis of mental problems, drug monitoring, drug safety and effectiveness, drug side effects, ethical questions, girls, infectious disease, medical errors, mental health screening and statistics, mixing medicines, off-label drug use, OTC drugs, pharmaceutical company conduct,policies and protocols, prevention of mental ailments, prevention of physical ailments, psychotropic drugs, research, safety issues in hospitals, stimulants, treatment of mental ailments, treatment of physical ailments, vaccines.

Introduction The Picture of Imperfect Health     ix
Examining the Range of the Symptoms
Child Health USA: The Good, the Bad, and the Undetermined     3
Tallying Up the Chronic Illness Tab     13
Young Minds Under Attack     19
Attention on Deficits     31
A Real Downer     71
Extracting the Roots of the Sickness
Getting to the Cause of Illness     115
Eye on Autism: A Backward Glance     123
Eye on Autism: Facing Facts     169
Eye on Autism: Looking Forward     197
Evaluating the Remedies for the Suffering
What's in a Label?     221
Words from the Wise     283
Epilogue Three Cs for Success     299
Appendices
Milestones to Remember     311
Triumphs and Challenges     313
Childhood Ills by the Numbers     317
Childhood Deaths by the Numbers     321
Diagnostic Criteria for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder     323
International Consensus Statement on ADHD     327
Diagnostic Criteria for Major Depressive Episode     337
Diagnostic Criteria for Pervasive Developmental Disorders     339
Vaccine-Specific Information     343
Questions and Response     349
Notes     355
Index     424
About the Author     434

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The Changing Brain: Alzheimer's Disease and Advances in Neuroscience

Author: IRA B Black

In The Changing Brain, Ira Black tells the fascinating story of modern neuroscience. A rich, multifaceted tale spanning a century and taking place on multiple continents, it moves from Fascist Italy, with the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) by a young scientist working secretly in a makeshift laboratory in her bedroom, to current experiments in which transplanted, laboratory-grown cells lead to recovery and function in damaged brain regions. In the mid 1990s, a revolutionary new conception of the brain emerged--instead of the traditional view that the brain's role in perception, memory, learning, and emotions was based on a static, non-renewable network of brain cells and connections, research revealed that the human brain is an ever-changing, fantastically complex system that is continually being shaped and reshaped by a subtle interplay of genetic clues and life experiences.

To bridge the gap between abstract concepts and real-world experience, Dr. Black draws upon his expertise as a clinical neurologist to provide a dramatic account--the fictionalized story of a successful investment banker named Enoch Wallace and his battle with Alzheimer's disease--that vividly illuminates the narrative. From his first fleeting memory lapses to his final descent into dementia, each step in Wallace's decline becomes a window into another aspect of brain function and the latest groundbreaking research in neuroscience.

"An intriguing scientific thriller that, like all good thrillers, weaves multiple plots....The parallel telling of clinical and scientific tales at its best breathes life, personality and clinical relevance into the neuroscience."--NatureNeuroscience

"Black probes the horror of brain disease, scrutinizing the cellular dynamics that trigger it and surveying the therapies used to combat it. But the scientific analysis of synaptic failure does not obscure the human pathos: a poignant account of one man's descent into the Alzheimer's abyss serves as the narrative thread for the whole book and lends emotional resonance to Black's biochemistry."--Booklist

"Dr. Black is the ideal guide to lead us through the bewildering story behind the recent revolution in neuroscience. We are at the dawn of a new age of the brain and the central nervous system that is nothing short of miraculous. Dr. Black is an inspired physician, an inspired writer, and his book is an inspiration to us all." --Christopher Reeve

Thin for Good or Pr cticas hol sticas para la salud

2009-02-20T17:14:00.000-08:00

Thin for Good: The One Low-Carb Diet That Will Finally Work for You

Author: Fred Pescatore MD

Taking low-carb diets to a new level . . . a revolutionary new program for lifelong thinness from a rising star in the diet and nutrition world

The low-carb diet concept has taken America by storm with such runaway bestsellers as Sugar Busters, Protein Power, and Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. Now in this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized weight-loss expert and media celebrity Dr. Fred Pescatore takes a quantum leap beyond Dr. Atkins and the other low-carb diets to provide readers with the first easy-to-follow, medically proven diet plan that includes a revolutionary mind-body prescription for lifelong thinness. Dr. Pescatore's amazing and satisfying program combines a much more balanced, appetizing, and responsible diet program that includes more complex carbs and healthier fats than the other diets with an ingenious mind-body plan that eliminates dieters' cravings by permanently altering their attitudes and emotional attachments to food.

The first low-carb diet to include a revolutionary mind-body plan including affirmations, self-evaluations, exercises, and an inspirational discussion of dieters' emotions and cravings
A healthier, tastier, more medically responsible weight-loss program than those found in competing bestsellers
Features weight-loss plans tailored to different stages of life and both sexes

Fred Pescatore, MD (New York, NY), was Associate Medical Director of the world-renowned Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine for five years before founding the prestigious Centers for Integrative and Complementary Medicine, based in New York and Dallas. He hosted the popular nationally syndicated weekly radio program Your Health Choices: The Friday Edition and now makes regular guest appearances on national television and radio programs, including ABC's The View, NBC's Weekend Today, and Canada's #1 TV talk show Canada AM and other programs on NBC-TV, Fox, and CBS-TV.

What People Are Saying

Carol Colman
Thin For Good offers an innovative approach to losing weight and keeping it off safely and effectively. Dr. Pescatore not only provides excellent information on what to eat -- he also sheds insight on the emotional aspects of eating which, if not understood, can sabotage even the best weight-loss efforts. The recipes are terrific, even if you're not dieting!
—( Carol Colman, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Antioxidant Miracle, Shed 10 Years in 10 Weeksand Stop Depression Now)

Burt Berkson
Thin For Good combines sound nutritional advice with a resourceful mind-body approach to losing weight. Dr. Pescatore has tailored this book to those who want to stay lean and healthy for life. A must read!
—( Burt Berkson, M.D., Ph.D., coauthor of Syndrome X and author of The Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough)

Pr?cticas hol?sticas para la salud: Medicina alternativa

Author: Kay Henrion

Una guía básica sobre la curación alternativa

Escrita por una enfermera certificada, esta obra le ofrece un punto de partida en la toma de responsabilidades sobre su salud. Aquí encontrará respuestas a sus preguntas sobre las aplicaciones de la meditación y la visualización, las dietas y las vitaminas, las hierbas, la homeopatía, los masajes terapéuticos, el proceso de envejecimiento, el SIDA e inclusive sobre la curación natural para sus mascotas. Contiene anécdotas y ejemplos de la misma autora y de sus pacientes.

Un acercamiento holísitico a la salud y el bienestarEscrito por una enfermera cerificada con años de experienciaIncluye instrucciones simples y prácticas sobre curación, métodos efectivos para perder peso, formas naturales para retrasar la vejez y mucho más.

Author Biography: Kay Hnrion (Florida) is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner with more than 20 years experience in the nursing field. She currently works in a private practice and utilizes a holistic approach to healing.

Healing Digestive Disorders or The Savvy Senior

2009-02-19T13:03:00.000-08:00

Healing Digestive Disorders: Natural Treatments for Gastrointestinal Conditions

Author: Andrew Gaeddert

Drawing on his own experiences with Crohn's disease, a leading herbal medicine proponent presents a carefully researched alternative treatment program -- based on digestive herbs, dietary supplements, and diet and lifestyle changes -- for people suffering from illnesses such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, colitis, heartburn, gastritis, bulimia, and cancer- or HIV-related digestive disorders.

	Introduction to the second edition
Ch. 1	My personal story	1
Ch. 2	Tips and affirming changes	15
Ch. 3	Natural therapies	59
Ch. 4	Symptoms and treatments	105
Ch. 5	Digestive clearing diet	211
Ch. 6	Workbook	223
	App. A : Recipes	247
	App. B : Commonly asked questions and answers	251
App. C	Common acupuncture points used in the treatment of digestive conditions	263
	App. D : Additional formulas	267
	App. E : Resource guide	279
	References	283
	Index	287

The Savvy Senior: The Ultimate Guide to Health, Family, and Finances for Senior Citizens

Author: Jim Miller

A concise, helpful resource for seniors that covers topics from aging to investing and travel -- from the popular syndicated newspaper column of the same name.

"The Savvy Senior" is a nationally syndicated newspaper column that serves the growing needs of the senior population and the families who support them by providing useful information and valuable resources. The column and its companion website (www.savvysenior.org) invite readers to submit their questions and then provide the readers with answers to anything and everything senior. While many of the questions focus on Medicare and Social Security, they also cover a wide range of topics, including hearing aids, telemarketing fraud, volunteerism, reverse mortgages, travel, education, wills, nutrition, and even employment.

Now for the first time, all the columns appear together, so that every senior can become "The Savvy Senior."

Jim Miller is the creator and writer of "The Savvy Senior" syndicated column. After his parents died, he started writing the column to help himself through the grieving process. Miller lives in Norman, Oklahoma, where he is well known as the stadium announcer for the University of Oklahoma's football and basketball games.

Publishers Weekly

Those interested in making plans for their own retirement years or concerned about a parent's retirement will find many of their questions answered here. The author writes the syndicated column "The Savvy Senior," which is published in 400 newspapers, and he bases his book on the thousands of questions he receives on social security issues, Medicare, estate and retirement planning, health issues, caregiving, grandparenting and more. Miller's writing style is a mixture of "just the facts, please" and light humor, allowing him to establish himself as a credible and knowledgeable expert. Numerous checklists, resources and charts make it easy to learn about such mundane topics as Medicare and living trusts, while "savvy notes" interspersed between paragraphs enlighten with odd factoids. Baby boomers caring for elderly parents will want to pay special attention to the section on avoiding telemarketing scams to seniors, who are the number one target for this type of criminal activity. And seniors on a fixed income will find the section on "Cost-Cutting Tips on Prescription Drugs" helpful as they learn how to apply for free prescription drugs from the pharmaceutical companies. (June 9) Forecast: The book's title will attract those familiar with Miller's column (it claims to have 18 million readers), and an appearance on The Today Show will tip off new readers. According to Miller, America's senior population will double over the next 25 years. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

"A good, important column that is full of information and resources." (Patricia St. Louis, The Fountain Valley News, Fountain, Colorado)

Water Pure and Simple or Natural Choices for Attention Deficit Disorder

2009-02-18T08:50:00.000-08:00

Water, Pure and Simple: The Infinite Wisdom of an Extraordinary Molecule

Author: Paolo Consigli

Water, Pure and Simple The Infinite Wisdom of an Extraordinary Molecule Paolo Consigli, MD There is no more important substance on earth than water, which makes up over 70% of both our bodies and our planet. This remarkable new resource for inner enlightenment allows us to discover and understand more about this most common of molecules by reconciling modern science with ancient wisdom. What makes water such an integral part of life? By going beyond simply describing its attributes and celebrating its physical properties, this study reveals water’s spiritual dimension. We learn about our own hypnotic attraction to the element’s purity and transparency, its bizarre physical behavior, and how water’s capacity to transfer data is at the root of its therapeutic properties. This innovative, intelligent and far-reaching exploration of our most fundamental natural resource will inspire everyone.

Includes information on:
• The role of water in the formation of the Universe
• How life is created out of water
• The relationship of water to the moon and the tides
• How water affects the meridians of acupuncture, the Shu points, and bodily energy
• Water and divination
• Aquatic Intelligences: intelligent behavior in dolphins
• Water as Medicine: hydroptherapy, mineral waters, and thalassotherapy

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Natural Choices for Attention Deficit Disorder: For Adults and Children Who Want to Achieve Mental Clarity

Author: Jane Oelk

Offering alternative solutions for symptoms associated with attention deficit disorder, this self-treatment manual identifies a variety of homeopathic, nutritional, and psychological techniques for improving focus and thinking ability. Designed for all ages, this reference provides tips for identifying the best remedy for any given situation, simple tests for learning how to improve right- and left-brain function, and nutritional information on diet and supplements that can help reduce a stressful lifestyle. Complete explanations of these common remedies and directions on how to use them are included in an accompanying homeopathic symptom profile chart.

Mientras Espera or The Complete Idiots Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol

2009-02-17T04:38:00.000-08:00

Mientras Espera (While Waiting)

Author: George E Verrilli

Guía para el embarazo y el parto

Totalmente revisado y actualizado-- El libro del que dependen millones de mujeres y el personal de salud para estar al tanto del embarazo y el parto.

¡Más de 3 millones de ejemplares vendidos!

Escrita por un obstetra y una madre: La información que usted necesita acerca del embarazo y el nacimiento de su bebé.

Esta edición totalmente revisada ofrece la información más reciente que usted debe saber acerca del embarazo y la atención prenatal, incluye:

* cómo cooperar con el personal de salud en cada etapa del embarazo y el parto
* signos de advertencia-- qué debe observar
* ejercicios útiles para mantenerse en forma, preparada para el parto
* sugerencias práticas para mantenerse cómoda a medida que su cuerpo cambia durante el embarazo
* recomendaciones fáciles de seguir para alimentarse debidamente
* preguntas que usted puede formular, para ayudarle a lograr un embarazo y parto satisfactorio
* explicación de términos y procedimientos médicos
* su cuidado personal después del nacimiento del bebé
* las investigaciones y datos más recientes acerca de muchos temas relacionados con el embarazo, entre ellos: la nutrición; el monitor fetal; riesgos en el trabajo y en el hogar; el alcohol, las drogas y el tabaco; la cesárea y el parto vaginal después de cesárea; el aborto; el alivio del dolor; su enlace con el bebé; las mujeres de edad media, el exceso de peso y las adolescentes.

El contenido del libroestá ordenado de una manera fácil de usar, con espacio en blanco para llevar cuenta de sus visitas médicas, anotaciones, preguntas y cualquier instrucción especial para su atención personal.

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A revised and updated edition of the widely distributed Spanish-language pregnancy guide. (Aug.)

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol

Author: Joseph Lee Klapper

An easy-to-follow, medically proven plan to lower cholesterol.

Cardiologist Joseph Lee Klapper, M.D., gives an in-depth yet accessible explanation of cholesterol levels-and explores ways to lower them. Weighing the pros and cons of a variety of approaches, including a holistic approach, Western medications, natural remedies, and new methods on the horizon, he then takes you step-by-step through a medically proven plan for shedding cholesterol points.
* Explores many contemporary heart-smart diets and provides sample menus
* Important information about exercise, risk factors, statins and other Western cholesterol lowering medications; herbs, supplements, and natural remedies; and antioxidants, gene therapy, and new drugs

Secrets of Self Healing or Menopause SourceBook

2009-02-16T00:26:00.000-08:00

Secrets of Self-Healing: Harness Nature's Power to Heal Common Ailments, Boost Your Vitality, and Achieve Optimum Wellness

Author: Dr Maoshing Ni

A guide to natural healing that combines the wisdom of Eastern tradition with Western medicine and nutritional science.

Secrets of Self-Healing ranges from treating common ailments with healing foods and herbs to the all-round balancing of mind and body that is essential for vitality, wellness, and longevity.

In Part One, Dr. Mao explains that diet, exercise, self-awareness, a positive emotional life, living in harmony with the environment, and spiritual growth are crucial for vibrant, lasting health. He shows, for example, how simple self-assessments can help prevent disease, how negative emotions can make us ill, how clutter in our homes can create imbalances in our bodies, and how Eastern and Western medicine can work together to fight cancer.

Then, in Part Two, he reveals his favorite natural remedies for more than sixty-five common ailments, such as sore throat, dandruff, headaches, high blood pressure, sunburn, insect bites, indigestion, and jet lag.

Inspirational and practical, Secrets of Self-Healing will put readers on the path to a balanced and healthy life.

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Menopause SourceBook

Author: Gretchen Henkel

Don't be overwhelmed by the bombardment of information about menopause. Whether you're premenopausal or actually in menopause, it's possible to have all the pertinent facts and be aware of all the issues that surround this controversial topic. How do you accomplish this? By using The Menopause Sourcebook as your survival guide to this important part of your life. Within these pages you will find the information that you need to actively and successfully participate in your health care during menopause. Hot flashes, vaginal dryness, mood swings, and weight gain are all signs that your body is going through menopause. The Menopause Sourcebook demystifies this time of change by explaining what is happening with your body and what your options are for dealing with and treating these symptoms. From the conventional treatments of estrogen and progesterone supplementation to the alternative approaches of acupuncture, Chinese medicine, homeopathy and herbal remedies, this book helps you to make sense out of all your choices. Gretchen Henkel, the author of Making the Estrogen Decision, emphasizes that women who take charge, and actively participate in their health care during their menopausal years tend to do the best. Your first task is to find a health partner during this transitional time, someone with whom you can consult and use as a source of current medical information. This book provides guidelines to help find the right professional for you and your comfort level. Preparing your body for menopause will help to make the transition less traumatic. Proper exercise, diet, and state of mind can help offset the symptoms of menopause. Ms. Henkel offers guidelines and resources to make sure you approach this stage of your life from a position of strength. Whether it's information about sex, osteoporosis, heart disease, or just dealing with the stress of going through menopause, you'll find up-to-date information and advice in The Menopause Sourcebook. Each chapter has

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Information Gathering	1
	Menopause at This Point in History	2
	Must I Deal with Menopause?	6
Ch. 2	The Before-Menopause Checkup	15
	Bones, Calcium, and Exercise: Do You Have the Right Prescription?	18
	Heart, Blood Vessels, and Estrogen	21
	Don't Forget Breast Health	27
	Let's Talk About Weight	30
	Adjusting Image to Reality	33
	Good Health and Your Comfort Level	35
Ch. 3	Is This It? The Signs and Symptoms of Menopause	38
	How to View Your Symptoms	39
	Menopausal and Perimenopausal Symptoms	43
	Keeping Track	48
	A Plan of Action	50
Ch. 4	The Physicality of Menopause: Managing Your Symptoms	53
	Where Women Obtain Information	56
	Take the Commonsense Approach	57
	The Estrogen Question	63
	Alternative Approaches	70
	Making Sense of It All	76
Ch. 5	Sex During and After Menopause	81
	Does Menopause Spell the End of Desire?	83
	The Physiology of Sexual Changes	87
	The Totality of Sexuality	89
	Getting Help for You and Your Partner	94
Ch. 6	Menopause and Beyond: Should You Be Worried?	97
	Concern vs. Worry	98
	Heart Disease: Be on the Alert	100
	Your Bones: Constantly Changing	108
	Urogenital Health	116
Ch. 7	The Body/Mind Connection: Menopause and Emotional Stress	120
	How Women Feel About Menopause	122
	Emotions and Stress During Menopause	123
	Steps You Can Take	130
Ch. 8	Integrating Change and Exploring Opportunity	136
	Menopause as Passage	137
	Tackling the Tasks of Growing Older	138
	Finding Your Path	139
	Appendix A Calcium-Rich Foods	142
	Appendix B Comparison of Calcium Supplements	145
	Appendix C Dietary Recommendations for Health	147
	Appendix C-1: American Heart Association Diet	147
	Appendix C-2: Eating to Reduce Cancer Risk	150
	Appendix D Height and Weight Tables	152
	Glossary	153
	Notes	162
	Bibliography	166
	Index	169

Divination and Healing or New Diabetic Cookbook

2009-02-14T20:14:00.000-08:00

Divination and Healing: Potent Vision

Author: Michael Winkelman

Divination is an important feature of cultures all over the world. While some may still question the efficacy of divination systems, they continue to serve their communities by diagnosing ailments, prescribing healing treatments, and solving problems. Yet despite their universality, there are relatively few comprehensive studies of divination systems. This volume seeks to fill this gap regarding the use of divination in healing. Here some of the world's leading authorities draw on their own fieldwork and participation in ritual to present detailed case studies, demonstrating that divination rituals can have therapeutic effects. As the contributors examine the systems of knowledge that divination articulates and survey the varieties of divinatory experience, they seek to analyze divination as an epistemological system, as a social process, and as a therapeutic endeavor. While some of their findings reinforce traditional assumptions about the importance of social control, spirit relations, and community support in the divination process, the authors place these considerations within new epistemological frameworks that emphasize the use of alternative modes of knowing. In this wide-ranging volume, readers will find coverage of classic Ifa systems; Buddhist-influenced shamanic practices in the former Soviet Union; the reconciliation of Muslim beliefs and divinatory practices in Thailand; Native American divination used in diagnosis; Maya calendrical divination in Guatemala; mediumistic and chicken oracle divination among the Sukuma of Tanzania; Ndembu divination, focusing on the process of collective healing; and divination among the Samburu (Maasai) of Kenya, featuring dialoguesfrom actual healing sessions. Together, these contributions argue for new perspectives on the study of divination that emphasize not only the epistemological roots of these systems but also their multifaceted therapeutic functions. Divination and Healing is a rich source of both data and insight for scholars of ritual, religion, medical anthropology, and the psychology of altered states of consciousness.

New Diabetic Cookbook

Author: Mabel Cavaiani

Having diabetes doesn't mean having to say good-bye to tasty meals and hello to a lifetime of eating bland food. The New Diabetic Cookbook is full of delicious recipes that are tailored to your special nutritional needs. These recipes are full of fiber and low in cholesterol, salt, sugar, and saturated fat, yet not short on taste. This fifth edition has been updated with the most recent food exchange lists from the American Diabetes Association, greatly expanded nutrition tables, and concise information on saturated fat, fiber, and cholesterol. The New Diabetic Cookbook also provides tips on meal planning, canning, and freezing. Bestselling author Mabel Cavaiani has added a new chapter explaining how you can prepare your own mixes for a quick, healthy batch of cupcakes, cookies, cakes, or bread, all safe for a diabetic diet. With all of its tasty recipes and invaluable information, The New Diabetic Cookbook is a must-have for your kitchen library.

Healing Power of Essential Oils or Top 100 Recipes for Diabetics

2009-02-13T16:01:00.000-08:00

Healing Power of Essential Oils: Fragrance Secrets of Everyday Use This Handbookis a Compact Reference Work on the Effects and Application of 248 Essemntial Oils for Health, Fitness, and Well Being.

Author: Rodolphe Balz

Essential oils - fragrant essences for health and well-being, are among the most popular natural remedies today. The heart of this book contains an index of essential oils and their many properties. More than 200 essential oils are described in precise detail here, followed by a particularly comprehensive therapeutic index which makes it easier to put them to practical use.

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Top 100 Recipes for Diabetics

Author: Dorothy J Kaplan

Features easy-to-prepare, nutritionally-sound recipes for diabetics.

Addiction and Recovery in Gay and Lesbian Persons or Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior

2009-02-12T11:49:00.000-08:00

Addiction and Recovery in Gay and Lesbian Persons

Author: Robert J Kus

This book provides chemical dependency clinicians a sampling of the work being done in the fields of gay and lesbian chemical dependency to enable clinicians to provide better care for their gay and lesbian clients.

After an overview of 7 research studies which examine the incidence of alcoholism and/or chemical dependency in gay and lesbian persons, the contributing authors explore the special concerns of recovering gay and lesbian addicts.

Chapters focus not only on issues in the fields of gay and lesbian chemical dependency but how clinicians can use this knowledge to better care for their gay and lesbian clients.

Readers will find new information on:

working with HIV positive persons
homophobia as a critical root in chemically dependent gays and lesbians
positive changes for dysfunctional relationships common with gays and lesbians
spirituality in gay and lesbian communities
the special needs of the rural gay/lesbian client
gay men’s groups in AA
a retrospective of NALGAP
resources and referrals for chemically dependent gay and lesbian persons

Addiction and Recovery in Gay and Lesbian Persons assists social workers and other helping professionals working with chemically dependent clients learn more about how to adequately treat them. Gay and lesbian persons recovering from a chemical addiction will also find this book enlightening.

Booknews

Also published as Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, v.2, no.1, 1995. Contains eight papers examining the special concerns of recovering gay and lesbian addicts. Topics include working with HIV positive persons; homophobia as a critical root in chemically dependent gays and lesbians; and the special needs of the rural gay/lesbian client. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword
	Introduction	1
	Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in Gay and Lesbian Persons: A Review of Incidence Studies	5
	Chemical Dependency and HIV Infection	15
	Homophobia: The Heart of the Darkness	29
	Dysfunctional Relationship Patterns: Positive Changes for Gay and Lesbian People	41
	Spirituality and the Gay Community	57
	Special Interest Groups in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Focus on Gay Men's Groups	67
	The National Association of Lesbian and Gay Alcoholism Professionals (NALGAP): A Retrospective	83
	Referrals and Resources for Chemically Dependent Gay and Lesbian Clients	91
	Index	109

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Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior

Author: Norman B Anderson

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"This work fills a niche and does so very well. Academic and large public libraries that are growing reference collections in the fields of psychology, epidemiology and public health, sociology, nursing, medicine, and anthropology will want to add this to their shelves."
--BOOKLIST

"A comprehensive treatment of the subject. Recommended for medium to large academic and medical libraries and large public libraries."
--LIBRARY JOURNAL

"The encyclopedic title of Anderson's fine work signals its comprehensiveness and usefulness as a handbook for the discipline. . . . This encyclopedia's expert authors cover the key theories, ideas, and factors, that link psychology and health. An excellent organization facilitates multiple entry points. Highly recommended."
--CHOICE

The current level of popular interest in health and behavior reinforces the urgent need for better information so practitioners, academics, and the public can perform research and make lifestyle choices based on sound science. From adherence to a doctor's advice, to emotions and health, to obesity treatment and prevention, to women's health and all topics in between, the Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior comprehensively covers all aspects of what has become the dynamic domain of behavioral medicine.

This encyclopedia was designed with the overarching goal to collect together in a single resource the knowledge generated by this interdisciplinary field, highlighting the links between science and practice. In it, scholars, health care practitioners and the general public will find awealth of information on topics such as physical activity, stress and health, smoking, pain management, social support and health, cardiovascular health, health promotion, and HIV/AIDS.

This two-volume set includes more than 200 entries on topics covering all aspects of health and behavior. In addition, the Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior includes a comprehensive set of additional resources with entries on selected organizations and an appendix with a detailed annotated listing of such organizations as well as Web sites of interest.

Key Features

- More than 200 entries organized A to Z

- Reader's Guide groups entries by broad topic areas for easy browsing

- Comprehensive index

- Cross-references between and among entries

- Six Associate Editors, six Senior Advisors, and more than 300 contributors provide expertise in all aspects of health psychology and behavioral medicine

- Appendices providing a comprehensive reference list and annotated listings of organizations and online resources on health and behavior

Senior Advisors

Joel E. Dimsdale, University of California, San Diego

C. Tracey Orleans, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Sherman James, University of Michigan

Dr. Neil Schneiderman, University of Miami

Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health

William Gerin, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Associate Editors

Dr. Robert M. Kaplan, University of California, San Diego

Dr. Shiriki K. Kumanyika, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Dr. Peter Salovey, Yale University

Dr. Ichiro Kawachi, Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Margaret E. Kemeny, University of California, Los Angeles

Library Journal

Since the 1980s, health and behavior research has focused on the interaction of "behavioral, psychological, emotional, social, cultural, and biological factors with physical outcomes." Current reference and consumer health books (e.g., Encyclopedia of Public Health, Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine) focus on only some of the above. Anderson (Emotional Longevity) has compiled about 200 articles that introduce American biobehavioral medicine, policies, and practice largely through individual scientific reviews. The result is a collection of "snapshots" of current biomedical thought in behavioral medicine. Arranged alphabetically by topic, the articles are also categorized by broad subjects, listed in a reader's guide. A third of them focus on specific risk and protection factors (e.g., asthma, cancer, happiness). Others cover basic process, theory and methods (e.g., health beliefs and self-efficacy), assessment and treatment (e.g., behavior analysis, health care costs), biopsychosocial interactions (e.g., anger measurement and exhaustion), and health promotion/disease prevention (e.g., complementary medicine and violence prevention). Most essays include research summaries, hypotheses (often conflicting), suggestions for further study, and reading lists. The 280 authors are listed with affiliations but not credentials. Bottom Line Although entries on risk behavior, individual development, environmentally induced gene expression, and general research methodologies are lacking, this is otherwise a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Recommended for medium to large academic and medical libraries and large public libraries.-Janice Flahiff, Medical Coll. Lib. of Ohio, Toledo Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Omega 3 Fatty Acids a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or How to Shop with Mary Queen of Shops

2009-02-11T07:37:00.000-08:00

Omega-3 Fatty Acids - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: Icon Health Publications

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

Forward
Chapter 1. Studies on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Overview
The Combined Health Information Database
Federally Funded Research on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
E-Journals: PubMed Central
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Nutrition and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Overview
Finding Nutrition Studies on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Federal Resources on Nutrition
Additional Web Resources
Chapter 3. Alternative Medicine and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Overview
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Additional Web Resources
General References
Chapter 4. Dissertations on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Overview
Dissertations on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Keeping Current
Chapter 5. Patents on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Overview
Patents on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Patent Applications on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Keeping Current
Chapter 6. Books on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Overview
Book Summaries: Federal Agencies
Chapters on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Chapter 7. Multimedia on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Overview
Video Recordings
Chapter 8. Periodicals and News on Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Overview
News Services and Press Releases
Newsletter Articles
Academic Periodicals covering Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Appendix A. Physician Resources
Overview
NIH Guidelines
NIH Databases
Other Commercial Databases
Appendix B. Patient Resources
Overview
Patient Guideline Sources
Finding Associations
Appendix C. Finding Medical Libraries
Overview
Preparation
Finding a Local Medical Library
Medical Libraries in the U.S. and Canada
ONLINE GLOSSARIES
Online Dictionary Directories
OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS DICTIONARY
INDEX

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How to Shop with Mary, Queen of Shops

Author: Mary Portas

Mary Portas turned Harvey Nichols from a place you went to get your tiara polished into a modern powerhouse of fashion and style. Here she looks at shopping from the consumer’s point of view, providing the ultimate insider’s guide to getting the most out of shops.

Natural Alternatives to Vioxx Celebrex and Other Anti Inflammatory Prescription Drugs or Reproductive Health

2009-02-10T03:25:00.000-08:00

Natural Alternatives to Vioxx, Celebrex and Other Anti-Inflammatory Prescription Drugs: What to Use to Help Relieve Arthritis Pain and Inflammation

Author: Carol N Simontacchi

Beyond today's headlines and pharmaceutical spin is an underlying truth--COX-2 inhibitor drugs can be extremely dangerous to your health. While this class of drugs does relieve pain and inflammation, the potential for heart attack and stroke has proven too great a risk for many. For those who are now looking for other options, health expert Carol Simontacchi has put together a simple guide to using safer natural alternatives. Written in easy-to-understand language, here is a book that provides solid information about nature's most effective treatments.

The book begins by examining the causes of arthritis pain and inflammation. It looks first at the pharmaceutical approach to dealing with this condition, and then at the holistic approach. This is followed by a concise discussion of the most effective natural supplements available, including curcumin, cat's claw, fish oil, ginger root, glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM, and SierraSil. Each supplement is examined for its method of action, scientific documentation, and proper dosage. Important information is included on identifying the best natural products.

Clearly, there is a place for drugs, but becoming a human guinea pig should not be part of the equation. Although natural product companies may not have the advertising dollars enjoyed by the pharmaceutical industry, the beneficial effects of natural remedies should not be overlooked. Natural Alternatives to Vioxx, Celebrex & Other Anti-Inflammatory Prescription Drugs provides a vital resource for those looking for a safer solution.

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Reproductive Health: Women and Men's Shared Responsibility

Author: Barbara Anderson

This text approaches women's and men's health in a balanced, interactive approach by presenting case studies that link program and policy issues to practical experiences. This text also addresses: global action and advocacy, sexuality, family decisions, factors undermining reproductive health, and controversial contemporary issues.

Child Magazines Guide to Eating or Understanding Menopause

2009-02-08T23:12:00.000-08:00

Child Magazines Guide to Eating

Author: Ann E Laforg

All parents want to give their child the best to grow on. But good intentions can go awry when food becomes part of the parent-child struggle for control. While most eating problems are a normal part of development, there are solutions fo revery phase of your child's changing relationship with food. Child Magazine's Guide to Eating offers easy, realistic strategies and optimistic approaches to help you: * Know your child's nutritional needs -- and maintain age-appropriate expectations * Teach the basics of healthful eating * Cope with a picky eater * Deal with the temptation of junk food * Recognize symptoms of food allergies and other medical problems Filled with reassuring anecdotes and helpful dialogues, this is an essential guide to feeding kids wisely and well -- and establishing healthy patterns they will carry with them for life.

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Understanding Menopause (Understanding Illness & Health Series)

Author: Karen Ballard

"A clear, balanced, and up-to-date guide to dealing with issues arising from the menopause - it couldn't have come at a better time."
Dr Mark Porter, Practising GP, well known Writer and Broadcaster
As the variety of treatments to alleviate the physical and psychological symptoms of menopause continues to expand, doctors are encouraging women to take an active role in choosing treatment options for themselves.
Understanding Menopause will help you to make these decisions by providing clear, unbiased information about all aspects of menopause, as well as first-person accounts by women of their psychological and sociological menopausal experiences.
Written by an expert in women's health, this reader-friendly guide bridges the gap between medical knowledge and everyday life to help you cope with the menopause both physically and mentally.

• Features women's accounts of what the menopause actually feels like
• Includes the most up-to-date information on the results of the recent high-profile study into the risks of heart disease and stroke amongst women who have taken HRT
• Written in an easy-to-understand style by an expert on women's health

Karen Ballard is a medical sociologist with a particular interest in women's health issues. She has carried out extensive research into women's experiences of the menopause and their use of hormone replacement therapy. She is an academic at King's College London, where she works in the department of General Practice and Primary Care.

About the Author.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Chapter One. Biological Changes During the Menopause.

Chapter Two. Experiencing Symptoms During the Menopause.

Chapter Three. Treatments for Heavy Bleeding.

Chapter Four. The 'Change of Life'.

Chapter Five. Keeping Healthy After the Menopause.

Chapter Six. Changes in the Menopause Over Time.

Chapter Seven. Non-Hormonal Therapies for the Menopause.

Chapter Eight. Hormonal Treatments for the Menopause.

Chapter Nine. Contraception After the Age of 40.

Chapter Ten. The Future.

Useful Addresses.

Index.

Enlightened Eaters Whole Foods Guide or Pelvic Dysfunction in Men

2009-02-07T19:01:00.000-08:00

Enlightened Eater's Whole Foods Guide: Harvest the Power of Phyto Foods

Author: Rosie Schwartz

We all know how important it is to eat a healthy diet that includes plenty of vitamins and minerals. But most of us know very little about an important group of substances known as phytochemicals-the compounds in plants that give them their colour, flavour and even aroma-and the latest research indicates they are capable of much, much more when integrated into our everyday diets. When consumed correctly, phytochemicals may reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis and many other common yet serious ailments. Rosie Schwartz, one of Canada's best-known nutritionists and a registered dietitian, first explains the nutritional science behind phytochemicals, then goes on to discuss how we can best incorporate "phyto foods" into our daily diet.

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Pelvic Dysfunction in Men: Diagnosis and Treatment of Male Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction

Author: Grace Dorey

Following on from the first book entitled ‘Conservative treatment of Male Urinary Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction’ this book has been expanded to include seven new chapters and existing chapters have been extensively updated. It is written primarily for those specialist continence physiotherapists who are unsure of the treatment for male patients with lower urinary tract symptoms.

The classification of male urinary incontinence has been restructured in line with the International Continence Society standardisation of terminology. The subjective and objective physiotherapy assessment is covered chronologically, to enable the clinician to conduct a meaningful investigation and arrive at a logical diagnosis.

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Reviewer: Martin I Resnick, M.D.(University Hospitals of Cleveland)
Description: This book addresses a common problem that has only recently been recognized as a clinical entity. Previously many men with incontinence and erectile dysfunction were considered to have prostatic enlargement or infection and the entity of pelvic floor dysfunction has been recognized as being contributory to their complaints. A previous book by the author entitled Conservative Treatment of Urinary Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction was published in 2001 (Whurr Publishers).
Purpose: The purpose is to provide information to healthcare providers who are treating men with lower urinary tract symptoms. This information is important for it addresses a common problem that has only recently become recognized as contributory to a symptom complex that typically was attributed to prostatic enlargement or infection. The book has met the author's objectives.
Audience: Although it is written for specialist continence physiotherapists caring for these patients, the book should be of value to other healthcare providers including urologists, nurses, residents, and nurses in training and medical students.
Features: The book reviews the anatomy and physiology of the male pelvic floor and addresses the symptom complex of those men with pelvic floor dysfunction. Patient assessment and appropriate treatment options are also reviewed which include conservative therapy, surgical intervention, and the use of appropriate medication. Fecal incontinence and sexual dysfunction are also discussed and the management of these problems addressed as well.This book reviews an important topic. Better illustrations would have been welcome.
Assessment: This is a welcome addition to the field and should be of interest to a wide variety of healthcare providers who care for these patients. It is becoming increasingly recognized that the topic is an important one and the symptom complex affects many men. A better understanding of the problem allows for a better patient evaluation which naturally leads to more appropriate therapy.

1	History of the male pelvic floor	1
2	Lower urinary tract symptoms	9
3	Anatomy and physiology of the lower urinary tract	15
4	Nervous control of lower urinary tract function	29
5	Prostate conditions and their treatment	37
6	Urinary incontinence	43
7	Pelvic pain in men	53
8	Patient assessment	63
9	Conservative treatment	75
10	Literature review of treatment before and after prostatectomy	101
11	Treatment of post-prostatectomy patients	113
12	Medication	123
13	Faecal incontinence	133
14	Male sexual dysfunction	145
15	Treatment of male sexual dysfunction	161
16	Setting up a continence service	177
App	Male continence assessment form	189

Truth Body Solutions or The Action Hero Body

2009-02-06T08:43:00.000-08:00

Truth Body Solutions: Truthful Nutritional Strategies for a Better Body and a Better Life

Author: Frank Sep

In his new book TRUTH Body Solutions, Frank Sepe provides easy, nutritionally sound, common-sense eating strategies that not only are easy to follow, but will help you lose the excess weight forever without pills or gimmicks. Frank doesn’t believe in the latest fad diet, but would rather provide you with the nutritional information his clients pay thousands of dollars to learn. There are also separate chapters for those of you who need to actually gain a few pounds in a safe way. Frank also focuses on muscle building, with a concrete plan for both women and men to melt off fat and replace it with calorie-burning muscle. There will be a system for those who want the type of sculptured physique that you see on top Hollywood stars and in magazines. This book includes an exercise CD to meet all of your workout needs. It will be like inviting Frank into your personal workout area every single day. The CD is for all fitness levels, and you’ll be able to tailor a plan to your needs with the combination of it and the book.

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The Action Hero Body: The Complete Workout Secrets from Hollywood's Top Trainer

Author: Jorgen de Mey

Trainer to the stars Jørgen de Mey reveals the unique program he has used to transform the bodies of action-hero film stars Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck, and many other superstars

When movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer needs an actor to get physically prepared for a role in one of his adventure films (Black Hawk Down, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) the first thing he does is call Jørgen de Mey. The results de Mey produces in a short amount of time are astonishing. Now this legendary trainer--convinced that his "action-reaction" method of nutrition and physical training can help any healthy person reach his or her personal best--details a three-stage workout that in just 3 weeks will start to show positive changes: more endurance, increased strength, weight loss, signs of a more muscular body, and better cardiovascular output. De Mey's unique sequencing of workouts combined with his focus on "clean" foods and a special, protein-rich diet will have readers action hero fit with a blockbuster body in no time.

Reclaiming the Body or Tibetan Healing

2009-02-05T04:31:00.000-08:00

Reclaiming the Body: Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine

Author: Joel Shuman

We live in an age of incredible medical technology, and with it, a great emphasis on health and well-being. We fully entrust the care of our bodies to the medical profession, often taking its solutions and judgments as gospel. But what role, if any, should our Christian faith play in all this?

In Reclaiming the Body, a physician and a theologian take a critical look at some of the assumptions we draw from the medical profession and explore what theology has to say about medicine, our bodies, our health, and the Body of Christ. The authors deal with such issues as suffering, caring for the sick, children and reproductive technologies, medicine and the poor, our obsession with physical perfection, and death and dying.

Publishers Weekly

Shuman, an ethicist, and Volck, a pediatrician, are on a mission to persuade Christians to stop worshiping the medical establishment and to start "using medicine as if God mattered." It is easy to put medicine in the place that only God should occupy: "The medical project of controlling life and defeating death is attractive... because a denial of our own mortalities and a desire to be in control is very near the center of our own disordered desires." Christian theology, however, teaches that "because we come from God, belong to God, and are destined finally to return to God, we need not fight without restraint to control all the circumstances of our existence, or to preserve our lives as they near their end." As they develop this theme through literature, contemporary stories and theological reflection, the authors affirm the goodness of the human body, the importance of the church as the gathered body of Christ and the necessity of hospitality toward the world's helpless and suffering. Brilliantly reasoned and artfully written, this quotable book should reach well beyond its obvious market of medical and spiritual caregivers to engage anyone concerned about human values in a technological age. (Feb.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Tibetan Healing: The Modern Legacy of Medicine Buddha

Author: Fenton

Lavishly illustrated, this first-hand account details Tibetan medicine making and holistic healing methods perfected over centuries to achieve complete well-being.

Hierbas de la madre naturaleza or The Food Mood Body Connection

2009-02-04T00:20:00.000-08:00

Hierbas de la madre naturaleza

Author: Judith Griffin

Hierbas de la Madre Naturaleza es una verdadera mezcla entre la mitología, el conocimiento popular, las recetas medicinales y culinarias plasmadas en un mosaico de culturas pasadas y presentes. Usted es el invitado en la cocina de la Madre Naturaleza, ya sea en China, en el Mediterráneo, en América del Sur o del Norte o en Africa. Saboree el delicado bouquet de un copa de vino de diente de león, mientras prueba un delicioso pastel cassava tradicional Maya. O simplemente siéntese y relájese mientras el tenaceto que plantó ahuyenta los mosquitos dentro de su hogar.

Author Biography: Judy Griffin, Ph.D., is a renowned teacher, counselor, author, and lecturer. She has traveled and researched indigenous cultures for 20 years to study their foods, herbs, and medicine. Judy has authored several books on nutrition, herbs, diet, organic gardening, aromatherapy, and flower essences.

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The Food-Mood-Body Connection: Nutrition-Based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing

Author: Gary Null

Many conditions that are generally believed to be purely mental disorders are actually caused by vitamin deficiencies, food allergies, hormonal imbalances, and environmental factors. In this book, the best-selling health and fitness expert who has been called "Mr. Natural" by Time magazine presents nutrition-based treatments for the underlying biochemical imbalances that cause many of today's mental problems.

Publishers Weekly

The host of the syndicated daily health radio program Natural Living with Gary Null here takes on the current epidemic of mental-health problems in the U.S. and shows that many of these disorders can be remedied more effectively, faster and much less expensively with natural means than with traditional approaches. Null (Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program), a longtime champion of alternative health care, makes a good case for looking at the nutritional and environmental factors that may be causing such chronic conditions as depression, alcoholism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and eating disorders. Tapping more than 50 physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and holistic doctors, Null presents research, case studies and opinions that support his claim that most mental and emotional conditions can be helped, and often cured, by treating biochemical imbalances. For those who have had lifelong battles with depression, eating disorders and schizophrenia and been given little hope for recovery, the news that, for example, administration of liquid zinc has cured people of anorexia within a few months will be most welcome. Null reports that more than 500,000 children are on antidepressants and that rates of schizophrenia are rising; his book is sure to find a big audience among those (including families) affected by these conditions. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

	Author's Preface	7
	Introduction	9
	Nutritional and Environmental Influences on Mental States	15
	Food Allerigies	19
	Heavy Metal Toxicity	22
	Chemicals and Other Environmental Factors Contributing to Mental Conditions	32
	What We're Up Against: The Political and Social Dimensions of Nutrition and Mental Health	40
	The Promise of Vitamin Therapy (Orthomolecular) Psychiatry	52
I.	Disorders of Mood or Behavior
1.	Addictions	61
	Drug and Alcohol Addiction	63
	Food Addiction	74
2.	Alzheimer's Disease	77
3.	Anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks	89
	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders	96
4.	Eating Disorders	101
5.	Depression (Unipolar Disorder)	115
	Depression and Tobacco	134
	Effect of Exercise, Nutrition, and Lifestyle on Depression	135
6.	Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder)	141
7.	Schizophrenia	145
	Schizophrenia and Alcoholism	155
8.	Insomnia	157
9.	Thinking Disorders	171
10.	Tardive Dyskinesia	175
11.	Building Better Brains	179
II.	Disorders In Children
12.	Aggression	199
13.	Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity	205
14.	Autism	227
15.	Behavioral Disorders	235
16.	Chronic Depression	243
17.	Food Allergies	247
III.	Organic Conditions Commonly Misdiagnosed As Mental Disease
18.	Blood Sugar Instability (Hypoglycemia)	263
19.	Candidiasis	269
20.	Chronic Fatigue	285
21.	Hormone Imbalance	303
22.	Nutrient Imbalances in the Body and Brain	309
23.	Premenstrual Syndrome	315
24.	Thyroid Disorders	319
Appendix A	Resources	333
	Biographies & Addresses of Practitioners	333
	Clinical Studies	345
	Environmental Causes of Mental Disease--A Bibliography	412
	Useful Books	414
	Websites	418
Appendix B	The Dangers of Prozac	419
Appendix C	Autism: Is There a Vaccine Connection?	437
	Index	473

Aging with Attitude or When the Man You Love is Ill

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

Aging with Attitude: Growing Older with Dignity and Vitality

Author: Robert Levin

The Rolling Stones (now in their 60s) have sung to us for years about "what a drag it is getting old," but it doesn't have to be that way. Despite living in a youth-oriented society, many of the aged patients seen by Dr. Levine have kept their emotional zest, intellectual zeal, and empowering dignity. Levine points to well-known public figures clearly aging with dignity and vitality. And this neurologist author shows steps we can take to age while retaining these qualities in defiance of a society that challenges this quest. Living longer is not enough for most of us; we don't want to just survive. The quality of our life as we age is most important, and much of that depends on our attitudes and approach. This text includes strategies to optimize self-esteem as well as health, including attention to nutrition, exercise, health care, education, mind stimulation, sexuality, social activities, and cosmetics and cosmetic surgery.

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When the Man You Love is Ill: Doing Your Best for Your Partner without Losing Yourself

Author: Dorree Lynn

When the Man You Love is Ill is a woman's guide to living with a partner facing a medical crisis or chronic illness. How do you understand the male psyche? How do you manage your own feelings of fear and guilt? How do you deal with the loss and keep the family stable? This book helps to heal the relationship with their partners or spouses.

Spinning Straw into Gold or Stop Smoking

2009-02-01T15:56:00.000-08:00

Spinning Straw into Gold: Your Emotional Recovery from Breast Cancer

Author: Ronnie Kay

In this compassionate guide, Ronnie Kaye answers many questions. Sharing her own expertise and the encouraging stories of her hundreds of clients, she provides women in need with an uplifting program for transforming a devastating crisis into an opportunity for growth and victory.

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Stop Smoking!

Author: HarperCollins

Giving up smoking is one of the hardest things to do.

This handy-sized book contains all the information you need to find a method that works for you.

This guide explains the many different techniques for giving up—from simple willpower (and ways to strengthen it) through Allen Carr's Easy Way to Tibetan breathing exercises and the Quit Smoking Diet. Each method is explained simply and clearly, allowing you to see whether it might work for you. It also allows you to combine methods.

There are also tips for staying on track and advice for creating an all-round healthy lifestyle where cigarettes are just a distant memory.

Male Herbal or The Pleiadian Tantric Workbook

2009-01-31T11:44:00.000-08:00

Male Herbal: The Definitive Health Care Book for Men and Boys

Author: James Green

In this long-awaited second edition of The Male Herbal, James Green gives men and boys the tools they need to create or maintain physical and emotional health through a customized herbal program. By following Green's newly developed constitutional model and referencing the comprehensive alphabetical herbal listings, men can create an herbal program attuned to their unique body type, lifestyle, and health needs. Featuring life-changing information about common plants, herbal alternatives to Viagra, medicinal uses of herbs for male-specific issues, and nearly thirty recipes for teas, tinctures, salves, and tonics, this updated guide emphasizes prevention and health with sensitivity and wisdom.

About the Author:
James Green is the founder of Simplers Botanical Company and is a professional founding member of the American Herbalists Guild and United Plant Savers

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The Pleiadian Tantric Workbook: Awakening Your Divine BA

Author: Amorah Quan Yin

The Pleiadian Tantric Workbook assists you with healing relationships. This sequel to The Pleiadian Workbook teaches advanced cellular clearing to heal the male/female split, and, with specific exercises and techniques practical for everyday life, shows you how to activate and clear kundalini and sexual channels through tantra.

Robert Crayhons Nutrition Made Simple or OncoLink Patient Guide

2009-01-30T07:32:00.000-08:00

Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple: A Comprehensive Guide to the Latest Findings in Optimal Nutrition

Author: Robert Crayhon

Are you looking for one book to explain all of the basics of nutrition and the latest findings? Let Robert Crayhon guide you with his fun, direct, and scientifically documented approach.

Publishers Weekly

Crayhon, host of the nationally syndicated radio show ``The Voice of Wellness,'' and a New York-area nutritionist who heads Designs for Health, an organization devoted to devising customized nutrition plans for clients, has surveyed his audience's most commonly asked questions with bearing on health and addressed them in this useful book. In a chapter titled``Is Sugar Bad for You?,'' for example, he explains the effect of sugar on the immune system: ``When we are healthy and avoid sugar, our protective white blood cells circle the body like energetic prizefighters knocking out viruses and bacteria...yet these same protective pugilists can be knocked unconscious by sugar.'' Crayhon reconsiders the health benefits and drawbacks of alcohol (and lauds red wine for its antioxidants). He explains how to spur energy by natural means, such as aerobic exercise, quitting caffeine, and taking in ``energizing nutrients'' like magnesium and potassium. His writing, direct and concise, covers much ground in a well-organized and friendly manner that will bring current knowledge of nutrition to a broad audience. (Jan.)

Library Journal

The author of this well-organized and easily understood book is a certified nutritionist who operates six clinics and hosts two syndicated radio programs about nutrition. Although many of his recommendations echo those in other recent titles advocating good health through nutrition (e.g., Gene Spiller's The Super Pyramid Eating Program, LJ 3/15/93; Dean Ornish's Eat More, Weigh Less, LJ 6/1/93; and Neal Barnard's Food for Life, LJ 6/15/93), he also recommends supplementation as essential to obtaining optimum health. Crayhon believes that a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet is not healthful for some population groups and suggests that individuals look to their own ancestry and personal situation in choosing an appropriate diet. He cites hydrogenated fat, rather than cholesterol, as the culprit in our epidemic of heart disease and other diet-related illnesses. His book offers a thorough explanation of all nutrients, with explicit guides for selecting a beneficial combination. Crayhon also discusses specific health problems and nutrition, including high blood pressure, PMS, and osteoporosis. An excellent addition to nutrition collections.-Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

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OncoLink Patient Guide: Prostate Cancer

Author: James M Metz

This book provides the essential information that you need throughout all stages of this disease. Avoiding jargon, it answers all the questions that you have concerning risk and prevention, screening and diagnosis, through to all the various treatment options available: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, complementary and alternative therapies and provides you with day-to-day lifestyle advice too. Attractively designed and clearly presented, the book allows you to be able to find quickly all the answers that you are looking for, safe in the knowledge that the information comes from one of the world's leading cancer internet resources - OncoLink. Compiled by international experts, and arranged in a question and answer style, this book is an essential purchase for all prostate cancer patients, their doctors and their carers.
• Comprehensive coverage from risk and prevention, and screening and diagnosis, through to treatment options (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, complementary and alternative medicine), nutrition and living with prostate cancer.
• Attractively designed to aid instant access to the information.
• Published in collaboration with one of the world's leading internet cancer resources: OncoLink.
• Expert authors and contributors
• Arranged in an FAQ style

Running Colorados Front Range or Mantra

2009-01-29T03:20:00.000-08:00

Running Colorado's Front Range

Author: Brian Metzler

Running Colorado's Front Range Written for trail runners and road runners of all abilities, Running Colorado's Front Range offers insights on the best places to run in and around Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Golden, Fort Collins, Loveland and the nearby foothills. It provides a wealth of information on more than 50 Front Range running routes (dirt and paved) ideal for long, slow runs that will restore your soul. The book also includes coverage of the region's best trail, road and track races, profiles of some of Colorado's best runners and resources for group runs, running clubs and coaching services.

	Acknowledgements	vi
	Foreword	vii
	Introduction	1
	How to Use this Book	3
	Front Range Run Location Map	4
	Key To The Maps	5
	Colorado's Front Range: A Runner's Paradise	7
	Leave No Trace	7
	Trail Running vs. Road Running	7
	Safety	8
	Hydration	8
	Running at High Altitude	9
	Equipment and Apparel	9
	Dogs	11
	Other Trail Users	12
	Wildlife	12
	Denver Metro Area	15
1	Barr Lake State Park (Brighton)	16
2	Big Dry Creek Trail (Westminster)	19
3	Cherry Creek Bikeway (Denver/Aurora)	23
4	City Park (Denver)	26
5	Coal Creek Trail (Louisville/Lafayette)	28
6	Highline Canal Trail (Northeast) (Denver/Aurora)	31
7	Highline Canal Trail (Southwest) (Cherry Hills Village/Greenwood Village/Littleton)	34
8	Platte River Trail (Denver/Littleton)	36
9	Sand Creek Regional Greenway (Aurora/Denver/Commerce City)	40
10	Washington Park (Denver)	44
	Other Denver Metro Routes	47
	Creigh Kelley: Denver's Running Man	48
	Denver Metro Running Resources	50
	Boulder	55
11	Boulder Creek Path	56
12	East Boulder Trail Teller Farms/White Rocks	60
13	Flagstaff Mountain	63
14	Heil Valley Ranch Wapiti-Ponderosa Loop	66
15	Marshall Mesa Loop	69
16	Mesa Trail	71
17	Mount Sanitas/Dakota Ridge	74
18	South Boulder Creek Trail	78
19	Boulder Valley Ranch Eagle Trail System	80
20	Walker Ranch Loop	84
	Other Boulder-Area Trails	86
	Boulder's Boldest	88
	Boulder Road Runners Keep on Running	90
	Boulder Running Resources	92
	Front Range West	97
21	Apex Park (Golden)	98
22	Bear Creek Lake Park (Lakewood)	101
23	Evergreen Lake Loop (Evergreen)	104
24	Elk Meadow Park (Evergreen)	107
25	Green Mountain Park (Lakewood)	110
26	Matthews/Winters Park (Morrison)	112
27	Maxwell Falls Trail (Evergreen)	115
28	Mount Falcon Park (Morrison)	117
29	Roxborough State Park (Littleton)	121
30	Waterton Canyon/Colorado Trail (Littleton)	123
31	White Ranch Park (Golden)	126
	Other Front Range West Trails	130
	Front Range West Running Resources	132
	Front Range North	135
32	Carter Lake (Loveland)	136
33	Hall Ranch (Lyons)	138
34	Horsetooth Mountain Park (Fort Collins)	140
35	Longs Peak Trail (Rocky Mountain National Park)	144
36	Lory State Park (Fort Collins)	146
37	Old Flowers Road (West of Fort Collins)	150
38	Pawnee Buttes (Keota)	152
39	Poudre River Trail (East) (Windsor/Greeley)	154
40	Poudre River Trail (West) (Fort Collins)	156
41	Round Mountain National Recreation Trail (West of Loveland)	160
	Other Front Range North Trails	162
	Jon Sinclair: Over 40 and Still Going Strong	164
	Front Range North Running Resources	165
	Front Range South	169
42	Barr Trail (Manitou Springs)	170
43	Castlewood Canyon (Franktown)	173
44	Columbine Trail (Colorado Springs)	176
45	Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs)	178
46	Monument Trail/Mount Herman Trail (Monument)	180
47	Palmer Park (Colorado Springs)	182
48	Pikes Peak Greenway/Fountain Creek Trail (Colorado Springs)	185
49	Rampart Reservoir Trail (Woodland Park)	189
50	Section 16 and Palmer Loop Trail (Colorado Springs)	192
51	Waldo Canyon Loop (Manitou Springs)	194
	Other Front Range South Trails	197
	Matt Carpenter: King of the Mountain	199
	Lisa Rainsberger: Giving Back through Coaching	200
	Front Range South Running Resources	202
	Races & Resources	205
	The Best Races on Colorado's Front Range	206
	Other Front Range Races	211
	Other Colorado Races	218
	Largest Races on the Front Range	220
	Colorado Coaching Services	222
	Colorado Running Camps	223
	Running Resources	223
	Front Range Triathlons/Multi-Sport Races	224
	Front Range Triathlon Clubs	226
	About the Author	228

Mantra: The Rules of Indulgence

Author: Jehangir Mehta

Enter a world of adventure and indulgence in this exotic cookbook by the chef Bon Appétit has called "an anarchic artist of the last course."

Renowned chef Jehangir Mehta has relentlessly immersed himself in creating inventive desserts and other dishes at his new Manhattan food and wine bar, Graffiti, and as the creator of the sumptuous confections for his online store and event-management company, Partistry. He draws endless inspiration from his Indian heritage and from ayurveda, the ancient science of health and medicine. Now, in this gorgeous book , Mehta shares his holistic approach to refreshing the body, mind, and spirit through delicious recipes using only the purest and most beneficial ingredients.

Wake up to the enticing aroma of fresh-baked Jasmine-Glazed Doughnuts or delectable Hazelnut Crêpes with Caramel-Pine Nut Sauce.

Delight in one of Mehta's celebrated flavor fusions: Salty Caramel Tapioca Tarts, Green Papaya and Persimmon Salad with Pepper-Coconut Sorbet, and Lime-Brushed Melon Mille-feuille with Beet Sorbet.

Enjoy Mehta's Persian Caraway Seed Cookies and Falooda with Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream, and experience the best of Mexico and India with a superlative Tres Leches Cake with Coconut-Curry Emulsion, Pears, and Almond.

Whether you are preparing a spectacular feast for a dinner party or a simple dessert on a whim, you'll be inspired by the amazing range of ingredients in the book—from the most common to the rather unusual. This captivating book is perfect for anyone interested in the intersection of the culinary artsand the restorative properties of nature.

American Dietetic Association Guide to Better Digestion or Womens Herbs Womens Health

2009-01-27T23:09:00.000-08:00

American Dietetic Association Guide to Better Digestion

Author: Leslie Bonci

Self-manage digestive disorders through dietary choices

Suffering from a gastrointestinal disorder–whether it’s irritable bowel syndrome, gas, constipation, heartburn, or another condition–can be embarrassing and debilitating. While medical treatments and prescriptions can offer relief, one of the most important ways you can help yourself is to choose the right foods to eat.

Backed by the American Dietetic Association, this user-friendly guide shows you how to analyze your eating habits so that you can map out a dietary plan to manage and reduce the uncomfortable symptoms of digestive disorders. You’ll find practical recommendations for implementing changes in your lifestyle and advice on steering clear of common dietary mistakes. Your meals will be pleasurable and nourishing experiences–not painful ones–when you discover how to make the best and most comfortable food choices so you can embark on the road to digestive health.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Willem J.S. de Villiers, MD, PhD (University of Kentucky College of Medicine)
Description: This book serves as a dietary resource for persons suffering from a variety of gastrointestinal disorders.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide sound, nutritional information to persons with gastrointestinal disorders. The book discusses dietary modifications, lifestyle habits and eating survival tips from which patients can develop a specific dietary plan to manage uncomfortable symptoms. These are worthwhile objectives. As a practicing gastroenterologist, I see patients who often have questions regarding diet as it pertains to their specific symptoms or GI disorder. This will be a handy resource to refer them to.
Audience: The book is written for patients with specific GI disorders. It emphasizes a self-management approach, providing the reader with an understanding of the causes and triggers of various GI disorders and how dietary strategies may help to minimize symptoms. The author, a registered dietitian, is a credible authority. She has extensive experience in working with patients with digestive disorders and has the endorsement of several well respected gastroenterologists and the American Dietetic Association.
Features: The book begins with an overview of gastrointestinal physiology and nutrition principles that provides the reader with a basic framework of concepts. Following is a discussion of a number of GI disorders. Each chapter discusses causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and the role of diet for each disorder. Included are sample food diaries as well as personal diaries to aid patients in managing their disease. I found the sections on supplement use and medication and herb interactions to be very informative, especially as patients are turning to alternative therapies to manage or cure disease.
Assessment: This is a well-written, comprehensive, yet user-friendly book that focuses on the role of diet in the management of common gastrointestinal disorders. Unfortunately, "nutrition quackery" is all too commonplace in magazine and television ads. This book provides strategies and recommendations based on sound nutrition principles.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gut-Works
Survival Skills for Self-Managing Your Digestive Condition
Getting Started
Food Borne Illnesses and Prevention
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Ulcers
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Diverticular Diseases
Celiac Disease
Lactose Intolerance
Gas and Bloating
Nausea and Vomiting
Diarrhea
Constipation
The Supporting Cast: Disorders of the Liver, Pancreas and Gallbladder
Appendix A: Personal Food, Supplement(s) and Symptoms Diary
Appendix B: Personal Food/Supplement Diary to Record Fiber
Appendix C: Personal Foos Diary to Record Gluten-Free Foods Regularly Eaten
Appendix D: Personal Foos Diary to Record Dietary Fat Intake and Symptoms
Appendix E: Personal Foos Diary to Record Fluid, Sodium, and Protein Intake

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Women's Herbs, Women's Health

Author: Christopher Hobbs

Written by two acclaimed practicing herbalists, this books provides scientific information on how herbs work and which herbs are best for treating a variety of female conditions using both Western and Chinese herbs. Recipes for specific herbal preparations are included.

Diabetes Comfort Food or What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Parkinsons Disease

2009-01-26T18:57:00.000-08:00

Diabetes Comfort Food

Author: Johanna Burkhard

Managing diabetes can include soul-satisfying comfort foods.

Many who are committed to managing diabetes feel deprived of the comfort foods others enjoy regularly. Everyone needs a soul-satisfying dish once in a while.

Diabetes Comfort Food offers 250 recipes that bring to mind the warmth of home and family. Each recipe has been reviewed by a Certified Diabetes Educator and features a data-box of complete nutritional analysis per serving as well as an "Exchanges per Serving box."

Anyone with diabetes can enjoy such comforting dishes as:

Creamy mushroom soup, honey-garlic chicken wings

Sunday roast beef with wine gravy, zesty barbecued spareribs

Best-ever macaroni and cheese, baked penne with Italian sausage and sweet peppers

Classic scalloped potatoes, creamed spinach and mushroom bake

Butter tarts, oven French toast, classic chocolate chip cookies.

Also included are recipe tips, meal suggestions and make-ahead ideas that will appeal to both novice and experienced home cooks.

Managing diabetes can include interesting as well as healthful dishes. This book includes a wonderful variety of comfort foods that follow a sensible meal plan.

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Parkinson's Disease: A Holistic Program for Optimal Wellness

Author: Jill Marjama Lyons

More than one million people in the U.S. are living with Parkinson's disease -- and 50,000 more are diagnosed each year. Now an experienced neurologist and medical director of the Parkinson Center at the University of Florida provides an empowering guide to a range of effective new treatments -- including drugs, innovative surgical techniques, and groundbreaking alternative therapy -- for optimal physical and spiritual health.

Publishers Weekly

The latest in the What Your Doctor May Not Tell You series which currently includes guides on Fibromyalgia, Knee Pain and Surgery, and Migraines this book works as a resource for those who suspect they may have Parkinson s, for those seeking treatment, and for those choosing among conventional and alternative treatments. Marjama-Lyons is a neurologist and former director of the Parkinson Center at the University of Florida; Shomon has no medical degree, but is the author of Living Well with Hyperthyroidism and Living Well with Autoimmune Disease. Together, they begin with Signs, Symptoms, and Diagnosis, where they define the disease (called the shaking palsy in the early 19th century by James Parkinson), and run through what is known about its causes, mechanisms, risk factors and early indicators. The authors then carefully walk readers through diagnosis, treatments, care and Future Directions for combating the disease. There are first-person patient testimony and sidebar notes from Dr. Jill throughout, and appendices of references and state-by-state resources. The tone is calm, capable and reassuring. (Feb. 1) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Grounded Theory in Practice or Surgery SourceBook

2009-01-25T14:45:00.000-08:00

Grounded Theory in Practice

Author: Juliet M Corbin

Grounded theory methodology and procedure has become one of the most influential modes of carrying out qualitative research when generating theory is a principle aim of the researcher. While there is no shortage of monographs or papers on grounded theory, much of the literature is not accessible for relatively novice researchers.

Grounded Theory in Practice, edited by the late Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin, presents a series of readings that emphasize different aspects of grounded theory methodology and methods. The selections are written by former students of Strauss and have been chosen for their accessibility and range. Strauss and Corbin provide commentaries for each paper that shed additional light and help make the book even more essential for researchers interested in the application of grounded theory.

Booknews

Presents a series of published articles written by former students of the late Anselm Strauss. The commentaries provided for each paper are meant to be particularly useful for readers of or . Topics include deciphering chronic pain; identity dilemmas of chronically ill men; the molecular biological bandwagon in cancer research; and temporality and identity loss due to Alzheimer's Disease. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Surgery Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information about Common Inpatient and Outpatient Surgeries

Author: Amy L Sutton

According to the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics, more than 75 million inpatient and outpatient surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Surgical procedures are often necessary to prevent or relieve pain, reduce problematic symptoms, improve body functioning, or search for signs of disease. Although making informed health care decisions about surgical procedures can be frustrating and confusing, research shows that patients who take time to learn about treatments prior to surgery often feel more satisfied with the outcome.

Surgery Sourcebook, Second Edition provides updated information about common types of surgical procedures-including oral, eye, gastrointestinal, gynecologic and obstetric, head and neck, heart and vascular, orthopedic, cosmetic and reconstructive, and urological surgeries-associated risks, and potential complications. Postsurgical healing and recovery concerns, such as caring for wounds, managing pain, and maintaining adequate nutrition, are discussed, and tips for choosing a surgeon, getting a second opinion, and paying for procedures, are included. A discussion of surgical innovations and current controversies is also provided, and the book concludes with a glossary of related terms and a directory of resources.

Ending the Tobacco Holocaust or Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome

2009-01-24T10:31:00.000-08:00

Ending the Tobacco Holocaust: How Big Tobacco is Wrecking Our Health and Finances -- And What We Can Do to Stop Them

Author: Michael Rabinoff

"Every day, at least 1,191 Americans die before their time. They die painful, lingering deaths that could have been prevented. Every three days, as many citizens die from their own smoking habit, or from exposure to second-hand smoke, as died in the Sept. 11 tragedy. Each and every pack of cigarettes costs American taxpayers $40 in higher medical premiums, unavailability of health services, and other hidden financial drains. And every year, 925 out of every 1,000 smokers who try to quit on their own fail to stay smoke-free for a year-while hundreds of thousands of children become addicted to nicotine.

Dr. Michael Rabinoff, a respected psychiatrist who holds two patents and has published repeatedly in the New England Journal of Medicine and other top-flight journals, shows the health and financial suicide we commit by allowing tobacco companies to continue doing business as usual-and, like any good doctor, provides a detailed prescription for what to do about it: simple actions you can take to save the lives of millions around the world."

Publishers Weekly

Almost everyone knows that smoking is bad. But thanks to political lobbies, misinformation campaigns and billions of advertising dollars spent by tobacco companies each year, it is hard to know just how bad. Psychiatrist Rabinoff goes a long way toward clarifying the questions surrounding the number one leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., responsible for about 450,000 deaths here each year. Nonsmokers will likely fume over Big Tobacco's cunning strategies for keeping people addicted—particularly children, who are tomorrow's smokers, after all. Smokers may feel browbeaten by Rabinoff's sometimes hyperbolic writing style. For aspiring nonsmokers, there are reasons to quit on nearly every page, whether political (e.g., collusion between the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries; how cigarettes are pushed to children overseas) or scientific (how cigarettes are chemically altered to heighten addiction, and the causality between smoking and mental illness). The evidence Rabinoff amasses is overwhelming, making this recommended reading for anyone who wants to quit. B&w photos. $25,000 marketing budget.(Mar.)

Kathy Arsenault Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information - Library Journal

California psychiatrist Rabinoff provides a torrent of data and statistics in a passionate attempt to educate the public about the health and economic consequences of tobacco, to inform smokers about successful strategies for quitting, and to expose the devious and deadly machinations of the tobacco industry. Good intentions, however, do not necessarily make for good books. This work reads like a tobacco activist's clipping file, offering little that is original or new. Readers interested in the sins of the tobacco industry would be better served by Richard Kluger's authoritative, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, while libraries hoping to help patrons kick the habit should provide more focused titles, such as those produced by the American Lung Association. Recommended only for comprehensive collections.

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Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome

Author: John Smith

Reward plans encourage positive behaviour using the incentive of earning rewards. This book provides a thorough nuts-and-bolts guide to creating a reward plan for your child with Asperger Syndrome (AS) to help him or her develop positive behaviours, such as social and communication skills.

John Smith, Jane Donlan and their son Bob, who was diagnosed with AS at age eight, explain the importance of keeping a reward plan positive, specific and challenging enough to be stimulating. Helping your child to learn about positive behaviour while gaining a sense of achievement, a reward plan increases self-esteem, confidence and independence.

Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome is full of advice and practical suggestions for how to tailor a reward plan to meet your child's specific needs.

About the Author:
John Smith is a mental health social worker and father of Bob

About the Author:
Jane Donlan is Bob's mum and is responsible for Bob's home education

About the Author:
Bob Smith is twelve years old and was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at age eight

Introduction     7
What is Asperger Syndrome?     11
The Triad of Impairments     12
Other characteristics     17
Positive aspects     18
A final word     19
Bob's comments on Asperger Syndrome     19
Making a Reward Plan     25
Positivity     26
Specificity     28
Giving points     29
Should you involve your child's school in the reward plan?     30
Reviewing the reward plan     31
Number of points     33
What to give points for     34
Rewards     38
Personalizing your child's reward plan record sheets     42
Going over your child's points together     45
Age     45
So, to sum up...     46
The original reward plan     47
The first revision to the reward plan     49
Subsequent revisions to the reward plan     49
Bob's comments on the reward plan     50
Other Techniques to Supplement the Reward Plan     51
Scripts     52
Signs     54
Sketches     60
Bob's comments on the supplementary techniques     67
Combining Techniques     69
Specific Reward Plans     75
The Bedtime Plan     75
Bob's comments on the Bedtime Plan     86
The 'Caring for myself tasks' Plan     86
Bob's comments on the 'Caring for myself tasks' Plan     97
What else might you create a specific reward plan for?     98
Conclusion     99
Looking after yourselves as parents     100
Useful Resources     103
Resources relating to Asperger Syndrome and autism     103
Resources relating to home education     106
Advice on and resources for financial help     108

101 Questions about Your Skin That Got under Your Skin until Now or Community

2009-01-23T06:19:00.000-08:00

101 Questions about Your Skin That Got under Your Skin . . . until Now

Author: Faith Hickman Bryni

In the second book in this award-winning series, young readers find all the information they want about skin, hair, and nails in a question-and-answer format. The questions have been culled from thousands of suggestions made by young adults. The answers are succinct, interesting, and always include the most cutting edge information available.

Library Journal

Gr 7 Up-A superbly comprehensive and appealing treatment of the physical structure, functions, diseases, and care of skin. Hair, nails, aging, effect of sun exposure, cancer, and even tattooing and face-lifts are included in a question-and-answer format that is useful for reports or general information. Black-and-white illustrations, charts, graphs, photographs, and drawings enhance the text, and the question headings add further visual appeal. The writing is clear and concise yet thorough. Going far beyond teen skin care in coverage, this is a great update of and expansion on books like Alvin and Robert Silverstein's Overcoming Acne: The How and Why of Healthy Skin Care (Morrow, 1990) and more teen-oriented than Joseph Bark's Your Skin: An Owner's Guide (Prentice Hall, 1995).-Joyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KS Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Interesting book: Hobbes or Scouting for Boys

Community: A Human Becoming Perspective

Author: Rosemarie Rizzo Pars

Dr. Parse sets forth definitions and examples of orginal community change concepts and processes arising from the human becoming school of thought, and expands the meaning of community beyond location and interest-related group.

Stranger on a Train or Our Overweight Children

2009-01-22T02:07:00.000-08:00

Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions

Author: Jenny Diski

Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.

Book Magazine

This memoir/travelogue by the British author of Skating to Antarctica chronicles her journey from Europe to America by cargo ship, followed by two cross-country Amtrak trips. Diski's smoking habit serves as the storytelling vehicle as she desperately seeks out smoking sections throughout her travels in the increasingly health-conscious United States. Often assuming the role of listener, she records the tales shared by the diverse occupants of Amtrak's passenger cars, ultimately finding a piece of herself reflected in their lives. Diski's trek is an eloquent meditation on identity and individuality. —Ann B. Stephenson

Book Magazine

This memoir/travelogue by the British author of Skating to Antarctica chronicles her journey from Europe to America by cargo ship, followed by two cross-country Amtrak trips. Diski's smoking habit serves as the storytelling vehicle as she desperately seeks out smoking sections throughout her travels in the increasingly health-conscious United States. Often assuming the role of listener, she records the tales shared by the diverse occupants of Amtrak's passenger cars, ultimately finding a piece of herself reflected in their lives. Diski's trek is an eloquent meditation on identity and individuality.

Publishers Weekly

"I am not a travel writer in any reasonable sense of the word," Diski confesses. "I do not feel compelled to bring the world to people, or meet interesting characters, or enlarge my circle of acquaintance. I just want to drift in the actual landscape of my destination." Despite the disclaimer, the British novelist (Only Human) does all of the above in this eloquent exploration of the psyche America's and her own. The work is divided into two parts. Journey One begins aboard a transatlantic cargo ship where Diski is among a handful of passengers en route to Savannah, Ga. From there, she takes Amtrak to Arizona. Journey Two takes place a year later as Diski circumnavigates the U.S. from New York's Penn Station to Portland, Ore., and back, stopping in the suburbs of Albuquerque to stay in the backyard trailer of a friend from the first sojourn. As in the Hitchcock thriller of (almost) the same title, strangers whom Diski befriends in the smoking sections, or "sin bins," of the trains divulge the details of their lives; Diski, however, plays it close to the vest, sharing intimacies with readers only about her difficult childhood, struggles with substance abuse and more. "I became remarkably unhappy at having been chosen to survive," she recollects after her first trip, comparing the experience of saying goodbye to her travel mates to leaving the psych ward of England's Lady Chichester Hospital at age 14. As she did in Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World (1998), Diski again blurs the borders between traditional travelogue and memoir to create a transcendent work. (Oct.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

English novelist Diski (Only Human) mixes memoir and travelog in a sharp, vivid, but ultimately disappointing narrative written around two train journeys, one across the southern United States and the other around its perimeter. She begins each journey with seeming enthusiasm, but before long, she starts feeling that she has opened herself up too much to strangers. She then panics and withdraws, needing to hide away in her tiny cabin on the train. A short visit to the home of a woman she meets on the first journey ends in paranoid terror when Diski becomes convinced that the family won't let her leave. Intermittently, she flashes back to other times in her life, including an unhappy childhood and several episodes of severe depression. The places she visits (Phoenix, Chicago, Jacksonville) are entirely incidental to the story, the scenery is best seen through a train window, if at all, and the people she meets are unremarkable. In the end, Diski seems happiest when exiled to a dingy smoking car puffing desperately on a cigarette, heading home. Not a priority purchase. Linda M. Kaufmann, Massachusetts Coll. of Liberal Arts Lib., North Adams Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Our Overweight Children: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic

Author: Sharron Dalton

The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of becoming the most obese generation of adults in history, they are already turning up with an alarming assortment of "grown-up" maladies, from type 2 diabetes to high blood pressure. This book takes a clear-eyed look at what's behind the statistics and diagnoses, and what can be done about the major health crisis among American children.
Sharron Dalton begins with the basics: what obesity is, what causes it, and why it matters. Integrating information from scientific and popular sources, she reviews past remedies and their results and compares specific strategies and programs for children. When a third of our children are overweight or likely to become so, it's everyone's problem--and this book argues for a united approach, promoting the role of parents, health professionals, and school and community leaders. For each group, Dalton outlines actions to combat the epidemic. She suggests ways for parents to respond to their children in interactions centered on food and physical activities. And she illuminates a number of issues raised by childhood obesity, from the pain of fat discrimination to the economic, social, and political ramifications of an epidemic of obesity among the young.
At once authoritative and nontechnical, no-nonsense and compassionate, Our Overweight Children is a clear call to action--a prescription for treating the most dire problem threatening our children's health and our nation's future.

Twenty Four Hours a Day for Teens or Zero Balancing

2009-01-20T21:56:00.000-08:00

Twenty-Four Hours a Day for Teens

Author: Anonymous

Twenty-Four Hours a Day for Teens, Hazelden's newest daily meditation book, was created to help young people navigate the peaks and valleys of developing an active spiritual life in recovery. As an abridged and revised version of the classic Twenty-Four Hours a Day, this volume reflects the time-honored wisdom that has helped millions of recovering people around the world in their program of living one day at a time.

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Zero Balancing: Touching the Energy of Bone

Author: John Hamwe

This is the first book to describe the well-established and powerful therapy called Zero Balancing, and to explain how and why it works. Uniquely, this therapy touches simultaneously the bones and joints of the body and the flow of energy through them. Areas of the body where there is a loss of function or potential, through stress, accident or habit, may be restored to full vitality. More generally, this is a book about the anatomy and physiology of energy: where it flows, how it behaves, and its relationship to the structure of the body. Whether you are a health-care practitioner or a client of one of the many complementary therapies, this book will explain the very foundations of the use of energy in healing and show how to enhance the effects of any therapy that involves touch.

Victims of Cruelty or Schizophrenia

2009-01-18T11:50:00.000-08:00

Victims of Cruelty: Somatic Psychotherapy in the Healing of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Author: Marianna Eckberg

In Victims of Cruelty, Maryanna Eckberg incorporates work with Vietnam veterans (the first to be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder) and the Chowchilla kidnapping victims. This personal testimony of how people can heal after trauma is also a professional book describing the effects of personal and political repression and how we can liberate our bodies and minds from terror.

Schizophrenia

Author: Christopher Donald Frith

The schizophrenic patient presented to the public in sensational press reports and lurid films bears little resemblance to reality of the illness. This book describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments that have been applied. It also summarizes the most up-to-date knowledge available about the biological bases of this disorder. Finally it attempts to give some idea of what it is like to have schizophrenia and what this disorder tells us about the relationship between mind and brain.

	List of Illustrations
1	The experience of schizophrenia	1
2	The concept of schizophrenia	24
3	Intellectual functioning in schizophrenia	47
4	Schizophrenia and drugs	72
5	Biological factors	92
6	Environmental factors	108
7	Understanding the symptoms of schizophrenia	123
8	The importance of schizophrenia	145
	References	171
	Further reading	185
	Index	189

Ayurvedic Massage or Essential Aromatherapy

2009-01-18T00:39:00.000-08:00

Ayurvedic Massage: Traditional Indian Techniques for Balancing Body and Mind

Author: Harish Johari

Ayurvedic Massage is the first book on the subject, and the first new massage therapy introduced to the West since shiatsu. One of the oldest systems of medicine in the world, Ayurveda views the human being as intimately connected with the environment and all other life forms. Ayurvedic massage works on both the physical and mental levels, transmitting a life-giving energy that assists all systems of the body to repair and renew themselves. Practitioners concentrate on the marmas, subtle energy points that respond to gentle physical manipulation, and work with the needs of the different body types. The author guides both the novice and experienced practitioner through each step in the full body massage and explains which oils work best for particular body types.

•   Includes massage techniques for expectant mothers and their babies.

•   Outlines techniques and natural remedies for treating specific disorders, including arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica, and insomnia.

•   Offers a complete guide to the traditional forty-day beauty treatment as practiced in India, and includes recipes for massage oils, facial creams, and beautifying clay baths.

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction to Massage

Chapter 2 Ayurvedic Principles of Massage

Chapter 3 Massage Oils

Chapter 4 Preparation for the Massage

Chapter 5 Full-Body Massage

Chapter 6 Therapeutic Massage

Chapter 7 Massage During Pregnancy

Chapter 8 Massage of Infants

Chapter 9 Beauty Massage

Appendix: Marmas and Their Positions

Glossary

Sources of Supply

Index

Harish Johari (1934-1999) was a distinguished North Indian author, Tantric scholar, poet,musician, composer, artist, and gemologist who held degrees in philosophy and literature and made it his life's work to introduce the culture of his homeland to the West.

Here is a hot link to a web site dedicated to Harish Johari's work that was set up by his students. sanatansociety.com/artists_authors/aa_harish_johari.htm

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Essential Aromatherapy: A Pocket Guide to Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

Author: Susan Worwood

Here is a complete guide to aromatherapy, a modern healing technique with ancient origins. Essential Aromatherapy organizes essential oils into handy alphabetical listings, providing their profiles, applications, and the physical and emotional conditions that warrant their use. Also included are detailed treatments for a variety of ailments, plus oil blends for many home and health uses. Dozens of helpful illustrations are included.

Mi beb y yo or Stroke and the Family

2009-01-17T15:27:00.000-08:00

Mi bebй y yo

Author: Deborah Stewart

Offering solid guidance for mothers and mothers-to-be whose reading skills are limited and who may have limited access to adequate health care, this guide focuses on basics like prenatal care, lifestyle choices, nutritional advice, and a baby’s first few months. This updated edition includes new chapters on parent–newborn interaction; baby’s health, feeding, and safety; a more positive approach to breastfeeding; and current recommendations on immunizations, SIDS, and antibiotics. Checklists, a glossary, and a list of additional resources round out this invaluable book.

Ofreciendo ayuda para madres y futuras madres con poca habilidad de lectura y con acceso limitado a cuidado médico adecuado, esta guía se concentra en temas básicos como el cuidado prenatal, estilos de vida, consejos de nutrición y los primeros meses de vida. Esta edición incluye capítulos sobre la interacción entre el bebe y sus padres; la salud, el cuidado y la alimentación del bebe; una nueva perspectiva del amamantamiento y recomendaciones corrientes para las inmunizaciones, SMIS y los antibióticos. Un glosario y una lista de recursos adicionales también están incluidos.

Stroke and the Family: A New Guide (Family Health Guides Series)

Author: Joel Stein

A young woman suffers a stroke; she rebuilds her career and personal life, but not before her marriage falls apart. An eighty-year-old man dies unexpectedly of stroke, leaving his grown sons to wonder whether they are genetically predisposed to stroke. A recently retired woman confronts her future with a husband suddenly disabled by stroke. How can she help her husband? Will he ever recover? How will she cope with her own emotional stress?

In Stroke and the Family: A New Guide, Joel Stein shows the many faces of stroke and the people it strikes. To the family just beginning to cope with the aftermath of a stroke, the diagnostic tests, drug regimens, rehabilitation strategies, and varied prognoses can be completely bewildering. Because stroke can affect memory, speech, and movement, the impact on everyday routines and close relationships can be especially intense. Stein has produced a book that allows general readers and nonphysicians working with stroke survivors to make sense of the confusing variety of diagnoses and treatment options, and goes on to explore challenges the recovering stroke patient and the recovering family will face during a long recuperation with an uncertain outcome. Stroke and the Family offers up-to-date information and places the current research findings in context.

The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness or Yoga

2009-01-17T03:16:00.000-08:00

The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness: What You Need to Know About Symptoms, Therapy, Medication, and Recovery

Author: Bodie Morey

A Caring, Comprehensive Guide for Families.
Over 50 million Americans have a mental illness, but as many as 20 million don't have their illness detected. And many others get substandard treatment. Family members play a crucial role in recognizing mental illness, and helping a loved one get the treatment they need. The early signs of mental illness are clear if you know what to look for, and getting rapid and effective treatment will help your relative get better faster. If you think a family member or friend may be struggling with a mental illness, or isn't getting effective treatment, this guide will help you recognize symptoms, get the right treatment, and work together as a family to help your loved one get better.

Inside you'll find step-by-step support and information for determining whether someone you care about is suffering from a mental disorder, and what you can do to help. The book outlines the nine fundamental steps to recognizing, managing, and recovering from mental illness. It provides both diagnostic information and details about therapy options and useful medications. With the right advice, determined effort, and a lot of love, you can make a difference.

Dale Farris - Library Journal

According to data from the U.S. surgeon general, more than 54 million Americans have a mental disorder in any given year, while only eight million seek treatment. To educate the public, Morey (former president, Concord, NH, chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness) and Mueser (clinical psychiatry & community & family medicine, Dartmouth Medical Sch.) have assembled this solid, pragmatic lay guide to understanding and identifying common mental illnesses and assisting loved ones who suffer from them. Readers will learn how to recognize the signs of mental illness in a timely fashion and get effective treatment, as well as come to understand the role of family members in helping their loved ones manage and recover from mental illness. This highly useful material is organized into sections on finding out about and discussing various mental illnesses, how mental illnesses are diagnosed and treated, and long-term strategies for maintaining wellness. The superb appendixes provide further information on psychiatric medications, mental health resource organizations, and a handy nine-step guide to recognizing and managing mental illness. While targeted to lay readers, this book will also be of value to professionals. Highly recommended for public libraries.

What People Are Saying

Michael J. Fitzpatrick
"Above all, this is a book about love. Families will rely on it to help loved ones. They will share it with friends when their families in turn are confronted by mental illness. The book covers a broad spectrum of concerns from recognizing symptoms to maintaining wellness-and offers practical information and strategies. First-hand knowledge and down-to-earth perspective provide concise discussions of good steps, bad steps, wish lists, pitfalls, and recipes for success."--(Michael J. Fitzpatrick, MSW, Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI))

David Shern
"Morey and Mueser have written an invaluable resource for families on mental illnesses. Scientifically current yet easily read, this volume demystifies psychiatric jargon to help families correctly identify mental health problems and successfully respond to them. The volume is filled with practical advice about real-world situations, including helpful case vignettes. It will do much to build knowledge and improve access to and participation in care."--(David Shern, Ph.D., president and CEO of Mental Health America, formerly the National Mental Health Association.)

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Yoga: The Poetry of the Body

Author: Rodney Ye

Yoga is one of the hottest fitness trends today, and millions of people are looking to renowned yogi Rodney Yee for instruction. Fresh from a guest spot on Oprah where he taught yoga to the masses, Rodney Yee is well-known around the world and travels extensively both nationally and worldwide to teach weekend workshops, week-long teacher training workshops, and yoga retreats.

For the first time ever, Rodney Yee explains in writing his highly popular and successful approach to yoga. Yoga: The Poetry of the Body is an introduction to the practice of yoga in both its physical and spiritual aspects. Using more than 400 beautiful black-and-white photos, this book takes beginners, as well as more advanced students, step-by-step through 8 full yoga practices based on 45 of the most basic yoga poses. Using thought-provoking student-teacher dialogs, Rodney makes abstract concepts come alive, thereby allowing readers to better understand and appreciate the essence of yoga. All in all, this book presents a wonderful and stimulating journey into the world of yoga that reflects both the way Rodney teaches and his personal philosophy. It is sure to please yoga enthusiasts everywhere.

Dorothy Parkers Elbow or Optimizing Womens Health through Nutrition

2009-01-16T18:05:00.000-08:00

Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos

Author: Kim Addonizio

One the province of sailors and bikers, tattoos have emerged from backdoor parlors to suburban shopping malls. Today they adorn starlets' ankles, housewives' shoulders, and bankers' biceps. Fashionable? Most definitely, Respectable? Not always. Evocative, transformative, still dangerous? Just ask many of our most gifted writers across several colorful decades, who have found the images of the tattoo needle a vivid subject for the language of the pen. Brought to you by two editors who are themselves widely praised (and proudly tattooed) authors, these stories, poems, and memoirs span the range of human experience, from the awesome to the absurd. From Flannery O'Connor's likeness of God to Sylvia Plath's fifteen-dollar eagle, from Herman Melville's power of the primitive to Mark Doty's embrace of the ineradicable to Franz Kafka's lasting mark of the penal colony, this bold exploration of the illuminated body is guaranteed to get under your skin.

	Introduction
	From The Illustrated Man	1
	A Toda Maquina	7
	Grapefruit Flesh	24
	Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt	37
	My Tattoo	38
	To the Engraver of My Skin	41
	Dyeing a Three-Dollar Bill	42
	From "The White Knights"	48
	Skin	52
	"When I was a kid ..."	53
	For Lysa, Who Tattoos Me in Her Miami Living Room	54
	Lace	56
	Triangle Tattoo	58
	It's Bad Luck to Die	59
	From The Tattoo Hunter	78
	Incision	80
	"After the surgery ..."	81
	First Poem for You	82
	Snakes	83
	Parker's Back	84
	"In 1992, I had the tattoo on my arm redone ..."	109
	Zowie	111
	"I got my tattoo at a time of great upheaval ..."	126
	"I'd wanted to get one for years ..."	127
	Tattoo Pantoum	129
	It Only Hurts a Little	133
	Tattoos	141
	From Typee	153
	From 7 Tattoos	160
	Embellishments	168
	Tattoo Thoughts	171
	The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle	173
	Herstory	190
	"I bring my book - prepared to wait ..."	193
	From Tree	194
	Becoming Bird	196
	Designing a Bird from Memory in Jack's Skin Kitchen	198
	Second Skin	200
	Portrait	202
	"When I muse about tattoos ..."	205
	In the Penal Colony	206
	Convict Koo457	239
	Mando	241
	The News	248
	The Y	250
	From "The Life and Death of Philippe"	251
	True Tattoo	252
	"I do not have a tattoo ..."	253
	Wings, Fish, Star	254
	Benediction	256
	Contributors	258
	Permissions	263

New interesting book: Direction de Ressource Humaine

Optimizing Women's Health Through Nutrition: Sex-Based Nutrition

Author: Lilian U Thompson

It is no surprise that women and men experience biological and physiological differences fundamentally and throughout the lifecycle. What is surprising is that faced with such a self-evident truth, there should be so little consideration to date of how these differences affect susceptibility to disease and metabolic response to dietary treatment. Understanding these differences and developing a gender-based approach focusing on the specific needs and conditions of women is crucial to achieve effective nutritional strategies for women's health.

Expanding the knowledge-base regarding sex, nutrition, and medicine, Optimizing Women's Health through Nutrition presents the biology, physiology, and metabology unique to women. The book demonstrates in a practical, accessible manner the scientific application of this data addressing lifecycle changes, disease prevention, and treatment. Based on sound research and supported by extensive references, it begins by describing recent research on biological and physiological differences and how these differences translate into varying disease trends between the sexes. Contributions describe the nutritional needs of women during the lifecycle, particularly during adolescence, pregnancy and lactation, premenopause, and menopause and midlife stages. The bulk of the book addresses each of the common major diseases or conditions that specifically affect the health of women. It emphasizes the role of nutrition in disease risk reduction as well as management and treatment of disease. Specific disease selection was dictated by those in which women are more vulnerable or have a higher incidence than men. The concluding section identifies areas forfuture research and strategic areas of investigation for researchers and health professionals, government regulators, and food industry professionals involved in creating novel foods that enhance women's health.

Could It Be Perimenopause or Herbal Remedies for Childrens Health

2009-01-16T06:53:00.000-08:00

Could It Be... Perimenopause?

Author: Steven R Goldstein

Could It Be.Perimenopause? provides the facts you need to make smart decisions about your physical and psychological well-being. Armed with a clear understanding of medical therapies, natural remedies, and lifestyle choices, you will be able to understand and feel in control of the changes taking place in your body.

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Herbal Remedies for Children's Health

Author: Rosemary Gladstar

One of America's foremost herbalists provides concise, simple-to-understand, and practical information for using herbs for health and well-being. Each book contains profiles of specific herbs, cautions, contraindications, and easy-to-make recipes to relieve common ailments.

Esoteric Anatomy The Body As Consciousness or The Fashionista Files

2009-01-15T20:38:00.000-08:00

Esoteric Anatomy: The Body As Consciousness

Author: Bruce Burger

Esoteric Anatomy offers a spiritual approach to massage, bodywork, and somatic psychology, demystifying an ancient transpersonal model for understanding energy in nature and working with consciousness in the healing arts.

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The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four Inch Heels and Faux Pas

Author: Melissa de la Cruz

A fashionista is a girl who always looks current and cutting edge, even when her clothes are vintage 1975. A fashionista can tell her Pucci from her Gucci and her Blahniks from her Choos, but she's as comfortable in Kmart as she is in Chanel. She wears what she likes and always looks fantastic. She's a clothing chameleon: a sharp tweed suit and ladylike driving gloves one moment, a punk rock T-shirt and studded belt the next. She's a gypsy, a princess, and a diva. She's fashion-forward, shopping-addicted, and full of fun. And you can be her, no matter your size, style, or budget.

Authors Melissa de la Cruz and Karen Robinovitz are fashionistas who share a love for impractical shoes, small dogs that fit in designer handbags, and wearing white after Labor Day. They eat, sleep, and breathe fashion. And they'll teach you how to

• Make a whole new wardrobe out of the awful duds that lurk in the back of your closet

• Use the words "postmodern" and "ironic" to fake your way through pseudo-intellectual cocktail conversation (really-it's easy, and so postmodern and ironic!)

• Score big with chic and cheap finds at thrift stores, consignment shops, and discount designer outlets

• Live like a socialite on a shoestring budget

In two weeks or less, you'll be living the lush life, from the brim of your Eugenia Kim fedora to the tip of your pointy Christian Louboutin pumps!

Aroma or Perfect Health for Kids

2009-01-15T11:25:00.000-08:00

Aroma: The Magic of Essential Oils in Foods and Fragrance

Author: Daniel Patterson

A New Way of Thinking About Food and Fragrance

Turn a brilliant natural perfumer loose in a chef's kitchen and you get vanilla perfume, saffron, ginger, and blood orange bath salts, and a cucumber mist. Turn a brilliant chef loose in a perfumer's pantry and you get rose-infused steamed bass, peach-jasmine sorbet, and scores of other startlingly original recipes using floral and herbal aromas.

Aroma permeates every cuisine, from ancient to modern, in every culture and at every level, but what this pioneering cookbook, by chef Daniel Patterson and perfumer Mandy Aftel, makes evident is that aroma, not taste, is our primary experience of food. Without aroma there is no flavor. By focusing on aroma, we intensify all aspects of food, and immeasurably enhance the experience of cooking and eating.

While many cookbooks include some discussion of the use of aromatics in cooking, none concentrates on this essential link, where a few drops of a fragrant essence can make commonplace dishes memorable and good dishes great. Both the food recipes and the fragrance recipes in Aroma are powerfully alluring, whether it's a coffee cologne or an orange flower custard. Cumin vinaigrettes and lemon verbena mists waft off the page. Lavender makes a grilled steak sizzle while white ruffle makes for a haunting perfume.

Explicit information on ingredients, equipment, and terms and techniques complements one fragrance recipe and three food recipes for nearly thirty ingredients—lime, mint, green tea, black pepper, vanilla, and ginger, among others. This seminal work will open your senses to the aromatic, even sensual, dimension of food andfragrance.

Publishers Weekly

This rather precious cookbook contains two kinds of recipes: those for food, and those for making fragrances, with the latter occasionally used in the former as well as to perfume the body. With a few exceptions, such as White Truffle and Blood Orange Solid Perfume, these sound lovely. However, preparation of both types is complex. The use of essential oils in place of the actual materials in food seems unnecessarily complicated (e.g., the suggestion that readers "add a few drops of cinnamon essential oil to melted butter, then use that butter to make cinnamon toast"). Fragrances are equally elaborate: Coffee Cologne Spray requires four absolutes and six essential oils. The food itself is creative American, like Lavender Roasted Chicken and Mint-Infused Asparagus Soup. Patterson, of San Francisco's Frisson, opening in May 2004, writes competent recipes, although some call for expensive ingredients. Aftel, who creates custom scents, easily guides readers through production of such items as Ginger and Juniper Body Oil, although her list of equipment is daunting. The real question is whether consumers want to see recipes for Coriander and Grapefruit Body Oil and Crab Salad with Coriander Vinaigrette on the same page. Photos. (Sept.) Forecast: It remains to be seen whether book buyers will warm to the combination of perfume and food. An 11-city tour should help the authors introduce their admittedly unique concept and make it more user-friendly. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Perfect Health for Kids: Ten Ayurvedic Health Secrets Every Parent Must Know

Author: John Douillard

According to Ayurveda, an ancient Hindu science, health is a state of balance among the body, mind, senses and soul. This book shows specific ways to promote children's health and well-being using Ayurvedic principles. Douillard explains how to identify the signs of imminent illness, how to make the home chemical and allergen free, and how to stock a "Lazy Susan" of useful natural medicines. Appendices provide shopping lists and a directory of national health providers. Perfect Health for Kids is an accessible, illustrated guide that provides highly effective health maintenance for children.

Complete Conditioning for Baseball or The Zen of Eating

2009-01-14T23:13:00.000-08:00

Complete Conditioning for Baseball

Author: Pat Murphy

In Complete Conditioning for Baseball, one of the premier college coaches and a major league strength and conditioning coach explain how to develop strength, power, speed, agility, and flexibility--the components of conditioning. Highlights of the book include drills and exercises players can do on the field and in the weight room, photos showing correct exercise techniques, and conditioning workouts. 111 illustrations.

What People Are Saying

Bob Welch
Pat Murphy and Jeff Forney present a tough program that requires extreme discipline. I love challenges and this program does that. The combination of strength, speed, quickness and the program specifies the importance of consistency. Pat Murphy does it again; this time in a book.
— Bob Welch, 1990 Cy Young Award Winner

Rod Delmonico
This book is a must read for coaches a well as players who want complete conditioning.
— Rod Delmonico, Head Baseball Coach, University of Tennessee 1995 National Coach of the Year

Steve Traylor
Speed and power are difference-makers when players of equal skill compete on the ball diamond. Coaches Murphy and Forney provide a baseball-specific training program that will give you the edge at the plate, on the base paths and in the field.
— Steve Traylor, Head Baseball Coach, Duke University 1992 ACC Coach of the Year

The Zen of Eating: Ancient Answers to Modern Weight Problems

Author: Ronna Kabatznick

When it comes to weight loss, the emphasis today is shifting away from fad diets and compulsive workouts toward sane, sensible techniques that incorporate both the mind and the body. This is the first book to apply the 2,500-year-old principles of Zen Buddhism to the modern struggle with the vicious cycle of dieting, losing, and regaining weight. From a Buddhist perspective, overeating is a disorder of desire. This book will teach readers how to find freedom from eating problems and the tyranny of desire that triggers them. Filled with concrete, practical exercises and the wisdom of the ages, The Zen of Eating provides, at last, an alternative to ineffective diet programs, products, and pills.

Everyday BLISS for Busy Women or Eat to Beat Cancer

2009-01-14T13:01:00.000-08:00

Everyday Bliss for Busy Women: Energy Balancing Secrets for Complete Health & Vitality

Author: Maryam Webster

After rushing through your morning routine, dropping the kids off at school, completing your responsibilities at the office, and handling other daily duties, it's really no wonder that you feel drained at the end of the day. It is possible, though, to find room in even the most hectic schedule to enjoy life moment-by-moment and refocus on the goals that matter most to you.

This book shows you how to stop living at warp speed and reclaim your life for yourself.
You'll learn how to use cutting-edge energy psychology techniques and the power of intention to:
• Create a beautiful private space to escape stress and invite bliss
• Recharge throughout the day using the same quick, simple routines used by elite energy coaches
• Reduce mental clutter through deliberate acts of focused intention

Don't settle for just keeping your head above water and getting everything done. You deserve to find focus, balance, and everyday bliss. With what you'll learn in this book, you can.

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Eat to Beat Cancer: A Research Scientist Explains How You and Your Family Can Avoid Up to 90% of All Cancers

Author: J Robert Hatherill

If changing what you eat could keep you from getting cancer, wouldn't you do it?Dr. Hatherill's Super Eight Food Groups are the foundation of a strategy that will help you create a cancer-busting regimen for yourself and your family. In this courageous book, Hatherill takes on the pharmaceutical and food industries to disclose dangers inherent in common foods like dairy and meat products, as well as over-the-counter supplements."In...humbler times people rarely got cancer...Heart disease was so rare that medical textbooks from the mid-to late 1800s failed to include it. Something has gone fundamentally wrong in present times, as heart disease and cancer have emerged as the two most vexing killers in affluent countries...This book can help you convert your diet into a defensive anticancer solution. Throughout these pages you will be given practical techniques for solving the health problems that arise from eating a Western diet. Eat to Beat Cancer has identified the most protective, beneficial foods from around the globe and placed them in one simple, straight-forward diet." --from the introduction

The Science of Sexy or Ending the Tobacco Problem

2009-01-14T01:50:00.000-08:00

The Science of Sexy: Dress to Fit Your Unique Figure with the Style System that Works for Every Shape and Size

Author: Bradley Bayou

A celebrity fashion designer gives every woman the red-carpet treatment in this foolproof guide to choosing clothes that make you look fabulous-with tailor-made tips for forty-eight body types.

The average American woman is 5"4' tall, weighs 160 pounds, wears a size 14, and bears no resemblance to the typical runway model. Yet the runway model sets the standard for "ideal" wardrobes. Top L.A. designer Bradley Bayou has dressed women of all shapes and sizes and knows that every woman has her own natural combination of silhouette shape, height, and weight. Style is not about fitting into the size you think is sexy, it is about picking clothes that fit your body correctly and that create balance. Perfect balance is perfect style.

In The Science of Sexy, Bayou helps readers identify their silhouette shape (triangle, inverted triangle, rectangle, or hourglass) and combines that information with a height/weight chart to determine which of forty-eight "fitting rooms" to go to in the book. Each fitting room has Bradley's specific advice for that woman on the clothes and accessories to wear and avoid, and how to create balance using color, scale, proportions, and fabric.

With a fabulous design and instructive and fun four-color illustrations throughout, The Science of Sexy takes the fear out of shopping and gives all women the gift of confidence that they deserve.

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Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation

Author: Institute of Medicin

This book reviews effective prevention & treatment interventions, considers a set of new tobacco control policies for adoption by federal & state governments, & provides background information on the history & nature of tobacco use, thus developing the context for the blueprint policy proposed.

Oral Health Bible or Ended Beginnings

2009-01-13T16:39:00.000-08:00

Oral Health Bible

Author: Michael P Bonner

Another health revolution has arrived, says Dr. Michael Bonner in his well-researched new book The Oral Health Bible, and there is no longer any separation between mouth medicine and body medicine. The mouth is completely connected to the body, he says, and is a doorway to achieving peak health and wellness in all the body's systems. This informative book contains an action plan for taking charge of our oral health and it educates us and our physicians and dentists by detailing how many debilitating health problems -- conditions such as arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, rheumatoid arthritis, and premature and low-birth-weight babies -- are intimately linked to oral health and hygiene.

Dr. Bonner emphasizes the importance of finding and treating periodontal (gum) disease, because, untreated, it can lead to heart attacks and strokes. He sees more gum disease now than he did twenty-five years ago, he says, largely because of the increasing availability of harmful oral hygiene products on the market. Mouthwashes, for example, are generally considered trustworthy, but in reality, they are the cause of 36,000 cases of oral cancer a year. Moreover, 500 people are killed annually from alcohol ingestion related to mouthwashes.

Dr. Bonner discusses safe, effective oral health techniques and products that help to reverse gum disease with its far-reaching negative consequences. Best-selling coauthor, Dr. Earl Mindell also outlines how nutritional supplements can help deliver potentially enormous benefits to oral, as well as overall, health. In 1910, the Mayo (clinic) brothers said, "A person with a healthy mouth will live ten years longer."

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Ended Beginnings: Healing Childbearing Losses

Author: Claudia Panuthos

"Because of its wide scope (infertility, miscarriage, sudden infant death, abortion, release to adoption; emotional disappointments including handicapped babies, cesareans, premature or traumatic birth; and help for grieving children), this book will help parents and care-givers understand the great burden of all loss experience." American Baby's Childbirth Educator

Foreword by Peggy O'Mara McMahon
Preface
Personal Inspiration: Journey Through Loss
The Millions in Mourning
Others Who Grieve
The Voice of Grief
The Physical Impact of Childbearing Loss
Restoring Physical Health
Nutritional Needs
Our Mental Attitudes: The Key to Recovery
The Emotional Aspects of Mourning: The Grieving Heart
Letting Go: Releasing Emotion, Suffering, and Pain
Suffer the Little Children
Spiritual Resolution
Transformed!
Bibliography
Index

Cancer or Hysterectomy

2009-01-13T04:26:00.000-08:00

Cancer: Fight It with Your Blood Type Diet

Author: Peter J DAdamo

America's most feared health problem just got dealt a major blow. Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, the creator of the Blood Type Diet, which has forever changed the way people approach health, now brings readers a targeted plan for fighting cancer. This volume of Dr. D'Adamo's Health Library has specific tools, not available in any other book, for preventing, treating, and reversing some of the many complications of cancer.

	Introduction: New Tools to Fight Cancer	1
	Quiz: What's Your Blood Type Cancer Risk?	5
Part I	Blood Type and Cancer: A Basic Primer
1	The Dynamics of Cancer and Blood Type	15
2	Blood Type's Role in Common Cancers	25
3	Fighting Cancer with Conventional and Blood Type Therapies	35
Part II	Individualized Blood Type Plans
4	Blood Type O	49
5	Blood Type A	87
6	Blood Type B	125
7	Blood Type AB	161
	Appendices
Appendix A	A Simple Definition of Terms	197
Appendix B	Resources and Products	201
	Index	207

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Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options

Author: Edward E Wallach

Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. Because of new nonsurgical treatments and the rising opposition to the procedure from women's and patients' groups, hysterectomies are performed less frequently than in the past, but many disorders of the uterus -- fibroid tumors, uterine and cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine prolapse -- still may require surgical treatment. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity.

In Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options, experienced gynecologists Edward Wallach and Esther Eisenberg provide complete and up-to-date information about every aspect of the procedure. Written with compassion for all women, this indispensable guide explains the anatomy of the uterus, describes the symptoms of gynecological disorders that may require hysterectomy, discusses the full range of diagnostic tests and treatments, provides details of the surgery itself and postoperative recovery, includes details about other approaches to treatment, and examines long-term consequences involving sexual and reproductive issues as well as hormone replacement therapy. Also included is useful advice about how to talk with your doctor and case studies illustrating the real-life experiences of a variety of women.

In Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options, women will find the information they need to work with their physicians to make informed decisions about their health care.

Library Journal

Twenty percent of American women have undergone a hysterectomy, the second most common major surgery performed on females in the United States. Although these numbers are actually declining, owing largely to the availability of less invasive surgical techniques and drug treatments, the procedure is still "here to stay." For this reason, Wallach (gynecology, Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Medicine) and Eisenberg (obstetrics and gynecology, Vanderbilt Univ. Sch. of Medicine) decided to pen this helpful guide to provide the information women need to determine whether a hysterectomy is the best alternative in their specific medical situation. Part 1 reviews the anatomy and physiology of the uterus and related structures, Part 2 discusses the specific conditions that may indicate the need for a hysterectomy, Part 3 addresses the surgery itself, and Part 4 details post-hysterectomy issues. The authors stress two important points: hysterectomy is often performed unnecessarily, and the surgery is almost always done as an elective. This important decision-making tool for women should be included in most consumer health and public library collections.-Linda M.G. Katz, Drexel Univ. Health Sciences Libs., Philadelphia Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

When Enough is Enough or Kundalini the Chakras

2009-01-12T19:14:00.000-08:00

When Enough is Enough: A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Intervention

Author: Candy Finnigan

From a nationally recognized addiction specialist featured on the A&E series Intervention, a comprehensive and compassionate guide to confronting a loved one with an addiction.

What do you do when someone you care about is caught in the downward spiral of addiction? The goal of an intervention is to get the person who is addicted to alcohol, to drugs, to gambling, to sex, to what have you to seek treatment-to seek treatment today. And it is remarkably effective: over 80 percent of people faced with an intervention agree to get help. In When Enough Is Enough, Candy Finnigan offers support, advice, and hope to people who care about someone with an addiction. She acknowledges that although intervention is a powerful tool, it is a complicated process-one that absolutely must be done right.

This kind of confrontation must be highly structured, and Finnigan-a veteran of hundreds of interventions-provides a frank but sympathetic guide to preparing for and staging an intervention. By talking readers through the personal, medical, psychiatric, financial, and legal issues involved, she turns what seems like a chaotic and overwhelming task into a manageable and empowering experience.

Introduction     1
Feelings are Not Facts: An Objective Look at the Problem     11
What's Really Going On?: The Essential Facts of Your Lost One's Addiction     19
Now That You Know: Choosing a Treatment Option     71
Ready, Set, Go!: The Pre-Intervention Meeting     89
Surprise!: Intervention Day     107
The Young and the Restless: Young People in Crisis     123
The Golden Fears: Seniors in Crisis     143
It's Your Turn: Your Recovery     153
Lost and Found: Post-Treatment Recovery     163
A Home Contract for Adolescents     173
Resources     179
Acknowledgments     185
Index     189

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Kundalini & the Chakras: Evolution in this Lifetime

Author: Genevieve L Paulson

How many chakras do you have? You may be surprised to know that there are hundreds located all over the body. Each one has a purpose and they all work with the kundalini energy which can move through them. You'll learn about all of this and more in Kundalini and the Chakras by Genevieve Lewis Paulson.

The chakras are areas where energy flows in and out of the body. Through the use of techniques involving visualization, breathing, sound, massage, and more, you'll learn how to cleanse and safely open the chakras to the kundalini energy.

You will also discover that many of the problems you have - be they physical, mental, spiritual or emotional - may be caused by one of three problems with the chakras: Either they are blocked and do not allow the energy to flow, they are unbalanced in relation to the other chakras, or they are so open that energy is lost. Simple, safe, and effective methods for dealing with all of these problems can be found in Kundalini and the Chakras.

The book provides a clear program for developing the chakras. It also explains their function so you can know which chakras to work with in order to overcome problems. For example there is a chakra at the navel which is the strongest of the emotional chakras. If it is too open you can become overly emotional and not think clearly. If it is blocked you may have less refined or developed feelings. Another pair of chakras, on each side of the neck, reflect self-respect and feelings of worth. If they're too open you may end up prideful while if they're blocked you may have neck tension. The book reveals how to deal with all of these situations and more.

This book is provides information about the chakras that, until now, has been virtually unknown and unappreciated. For a full understanding of the chakras and the kundalini energy, get this book today.

Author Biography: Genevieve Lewis Paulson is the director and president of Dimensions of Involvement, Inc., a non-profit growth center located on 165 acres of the Ozark mountains in Arkansas, a center of psychic, personal, and spiritual learning, accrediting students in the study of Kundalini energy development. In the early 1970s, she founded Sunergos, Inc., a spiritual growth center in Chicago. Where her new experiences might have led her to abandon Western religious beliefs, she instead found a method to meld two varieties of truth, creating a synthesis of two great traditions of belief.

Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation or Living Lean

2009-01-12T08:01:00.000-08:00

Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Sports Specific Approach

Author: Ralph Buschbacher

Geared to physiatrists and sports medicine physicians, this book is a practical guide to the rehabilitation of sport injuries. It focuses on specific sports and describes a variety of popular sports in sufficient depth so that physicians can confidently diagnose and treat patients injured during each sport. The authors focus on conservative management of injuries, so that physicians can maximize nonsurgical options before resorting to surgery. The book explains the mechanism of each injury and offers strategies for evaluating patients and preparing them to return to play. Numerous illustrations complement the text.

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Living Lean: The Larry North Program

Author: Larry North

In Living Lean, fitness expert Larry North breaks through all the confusion of fad diets, exercise programs, deceptive fitness frauds, and "low fat" products and starts you on a program to lose fat, get lean, and look fabulous. Whether you'd like to lose five, ten, or a hundred pounds or reshape your whole body, what you want to know is HOW DO I DO IT? North's motivational yet realistic grogram, featuring a six-week plan for eating the Larry North way, easy-to-make recipes, and fuel-burning, muscle-toning exercises, brings immediate results. You'll gain more energy and feel better about yourself, and you'll soon want to see how far you can go. So take the first step toward the body you've always dreamed of.

In Living Lean, Larry North cuts through the jargon and tells you

* how to examine your relationship with food and why you've failed in the past

* how to eat more to lose weight

* how to go from a size 16 to a size 10 (and beyond!) and never look back again Empathetic and inspirational, in Living Lean Larry North shows you how to get results without starving or overexercising and keeps you focused on achieving your fitness goals.

Pilates Plus or Every Womans Guide to Diabetes

2009-01-11T21:50:00.000-08:00

Pilates Plus: Grown-Up Pilates for 50+

Author: Alan Herdman

No one over 50 escapes without one or more physical problems: joint pain, osteoporosis, arthritic hands, pelvic floor weakness, circulation problems, hip replacement surgery... Fortunately, Pilates is the perfect exercise system for relieving the pain, discomfort, and limited mobility that come with all of the above. Now, with Pilates Plus--an approach specifically adapted for later life by a world-renowned expert--older men and women can achieve a degree of flexibility they haven't enjoyed since their 20s. Exercises targeted to specific areas, as well as a gentle top-to-toe daily workout, make it the ideal plan for seniors--even those who haven't exercised in decades. And the surprisingly early results it achieves will make every user a convert to Pilates for life.

Library Journal

In his latest pilates book, teacher Herdman (The Gaia Busy Person's Guide to Pilates) presents gentle and easy-to-follow exercises designed for mature readers who might be suffering from ailments commonly associated with aging, e.g., arthritis, circulation problems, or osteoporosis. Pilates may alleviate the attendant pain and discomfort, as well as improve strength and flexibility. Herdman approaches Pilates as a lifestyle choice, not merely a fitness routine to be relegated to the gym. Included are a basic "top-to-toe" workout that engages all the main muscle groups, a postural assessment to help readers get off to a good start, a discussion of how to deal with common problem areas of the body, and a series of several workouts that increase in difficulty. Numerous color photographs demonstrate each of the movements, and a section of case histories adds a personal touch to this sensible and comprehensive book. Public libraries serving communities with aging populations will find it a worthwhile acquisition.-Deborah Anne Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Dunwoody Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes: What You Need to Know to Lower Your Risk and Beat the Odds

Author: Stephanie Eisenstat

Women have long needed a book devoted to their unique issues with diabetes. This up-to-date and practical guide advocates simple lifestyle changes that can help women reduce their risk of getting diabetes or, if already diagnosed, prevent the disease’s most serious complications. Every Woman’s Guide to Diabetes translates the latest findings from diabetes research into proven strategies busy women can use to stay healthy and gain control over an often overwhelming disease. The authors discuss the nature of diabetes, helping readers through the complex medical decisions involved in diabetes treatment. They highlight strategies to decrease the emotional stress and social isolation that often accompany diagnosis, and offer everyday techniques for managing blood sugar.

Key features include:

unique aspects of diabetes for women throughout the life cycle

timetable of recommended tests and check-ups

guide to medications with common dosages

charts to help organize diabetes-care tasks and supplies

time-management tips for better disease regulation

guide to contraceptives available to women with diabetes

review of issues critical to women before, during, and following pregnancy

advice for overcoming barriers to weight loss and exercise

plan for intelligent diet trade-offs while still enjoying meals

practical tips for planning exercise

strategies to avoid diabetes “burn-out”

Written by two physicians, one of whom is a woman living with diabetes,and an experienced medical writer, Every Woman’s Guide to Diabetes recognizes the power that women have in their households to effect lifestyle changes that will benefit themselves and loved ones, including their mothers, daughters, sisters, and partners. This power can reduce the toll of the diabetes epidemic.

What People Are Saying

Sandra T. Foo
It's refreshing to see a book that focuses on motivating, educating, and helping women to take charge of their health and diabetes. The authors offer a wonderfully personal approach for any woman with diabetes, and Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes is an empowering tool to help her gain control, become diabetes-savvy, and form a plan of action. As an endocrinologist sensitive to issues of women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, I strongly recommend this book-- it's a must-read. --(Sandra T. Foo, M.D. Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center)

Donna Zimmer
Women have unique issues with diabetes. If you're a woman, are you at risk? Do you know how to find out or what to do about it? Here is thorough, concise information on who's at risk, how to avoid or prolong avoidance of diabetes and, if diagnosed, how to manage it. Easy to read and informative, Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes is a must-read for women seeking to avoid or deal with diabetes-- and isn't that all of us? --(Donna Zimmer, Consumer Connection)

Preface   Stephanie A. Eisenstat     ix
Preface   David M. Nathan     xii
The New Epidemic     1
Diagnosis     18
Prevention     37
Medical Complications     74
Reproductive Health and Sexuality     112
Psychosocial Impact     150
Management of the Disease     178
Common Questions and Resources     225
Appendixes
Body Mass Index (BMI) Table     259
Carbohydrate Counts for Common Fruits, Vegetables, Starches, and Dairy     262
Sample Grocery List for Healthful Eating     264
Choosing a Blood Glucose Meter     266
Mixing Different Kinds of Insulin     269
Disposing of Syringes     270
Insulin Pumps and Other Insulin Delivery Systems     271
Over-the-Counter Medications and Diabetes     273
Complementary (Alternative Medicine) Treatments     274
Your Diabetic Targets     276
Glossary of Terms     277
References     289
Acknowledgments     298
Index     299

Shared Care or The Anti Aging Fitness Prescription

2009-01-11T12:38:00.000-08:00

Shared Care: A Model for Clinical Management

Author: Peter Edwards

Using practical examples, this book demonstrates how a theoretical model for shared care operates in practice to deliver improved health outcomes within limited resources. It shows how clinically-led initiatives can influence health care commissioning strategies, and how the implementation of the model meets the needs of clinicians, purchasers and providers. The model and evaluation protocols advocated here provide a firm foundation for the development of shared care in the future.

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The Anti-Aging Fitness Prescription

Author: Z Altug

All anti-aging programs talk about importance of exercise. Exercise builds muscle mass, improves balance, prevents bone loss, and boosts energy. In addition, it can help relieve stress and promote a regular sleep schedule, which in turn have a rejuvenating effect. But exactly how much and what kind of exercise do you need to stay young inside and out? Based on proven, scientific research, The Anti-Aging Fitness Prescription gives you an easy-to-follow step-by-step program to keep your mind and body sharp.

The Anti-Aging Fitness Prescription includes:
• an easy and effective total-body workout plan designed to keep your body as strong and flexible as a teenager
• recipes and meal plans to supplement your workouts for maximum results
• simple techniques to manage your stress and get enough sleep to boost your mental agility and keep your brain young
• quick tips to rejuvenate your skin, hair, and overall image to show off your new younger-looking self
• an eight-week activity map and nutrition diary to help you stay on track, and more!

The Anti-Aging Fitness Prescription is your key to getting fit, boosting your energy level, improving your mental acuity, and staying young in mind, body, and spirit.

GL Diet Recipe Book and Health Plan or Intuitive Reiki for Our Times

2009-01-11T00:26:00.000-08:00

GL Diet Recipe Book and Health Plan

Author: Maggie Pannell

An accesssible, authoritative guide to the low-GL diet plan for natural weight loss the healthy way.

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Intuitive Reiki for Our Times: Essential Techniques for Enhancing Your Practice

Author: Amy Zaffarano Rowland

HEALTH /BODYWORK

Most Western Reiki practitioners are taught Reiki without acknowledgment of the integral role intuition can play in helping heal a client completely and permanently. Yet in Japan, practitioners must master the skill of using Reiki in an intuitive way at Shoden (entry) level before they are permitted to advance to the next level. In Intuitive Reiki for Our Times, Amy Rowland addresses the need for instruction in how to use intuition as a healing tool by presenting traditional techniques, both Western and Japanese, as well as new techniques that unite Reiki and intuition.

Rowland begins by focusing on the varieties of intuitive experience and the healing purposes such experiences serve. She then helps practitioners inventory their own intuitive abilities in order to establish a personal starting point for further development. Emphasizing self-guided study and continued learning through Reili practice, rather than the customary transmission of techniques from master to student, Rowland offers fully illustrated instruction in techniques that certified Reiki practitioners and teachers can readily apply. She concludes with a series of interviews with well-known Reiki masters--including William Lee Rand, Mari Hall, and Jane Anne Narrin--in which these masters share stories of spiritual turning points in their lives and their experiences using Reiki in client and self-treatment.

AMY Z. ROWLAND, M.A., is a certified Usui Reiki Master with twenty years of experience. She teaches Reiki in both Western (Usui Shiki Ryoho) and Japanese (Usui Reiki Ryoho) traditions and also teaches Reiki and Intuition workshops. The author of Traditional Reikifor Our Times, she lives in Pennsylvania. Her Web site is traditionalreiki.com.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bridge of Light

1.    Intuition in Reiki History
2.    Intuition at a Reiki Class
3.   Reclaiming the Gifts of the Past
4.   Claiming the Gifts of the Present
5. The Healing Purposes of Intuitive Reiki
6. Traditional Intuitive Reiki Techniques
7. Trusting the Energy
8. The Reiki Paradigm of Healing
9. Allow the Client to Interpret
10. Understand All Time Is Now
11. Empower the Client to Heal
12. Expanding Practice: Asking for Guidance
13. Expanding Practice: Traditional Japanese Techniques
14. Expanding Practice: At a Reiki and Intuition Workshop
15. Living a Spirit-Guided Life
16. Intuitive Reiki in Service to Spirit: Conversations with Reiki Masters

Appendix 1: Reiki Organizations

Appendix 2: Intuition Development Workshop Providers

Suggested Reading

Amy Z. Rowland is a certified Usui Reiki Master with 20 years of experience. She has taught Usui Shiki Ryoho (traditional Western Reiki) since 1994 and also teaches workshops on Reiki and intuition and the Reiki principles. The author of Traditional Reiki for Our Times and Intuitive Reiki for Our Times, she lives inPennsylvania.

Conquering Yeast Infections or Yoga of Herbs

2009-01-10T14:15:00.000-08:00

Conquering Yeast Infections: The Non-Drug Solution for Men and Women

Author: S Colet Lahoz

An alternative treatment for men and women who suffer from Candida Related Complex, an overgrowth of yeast in the body. Lahoz explores causes and symptoms and offers a three-pronged treatment through natural therapies, a strict diet and acupuncture.

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Yoga of Herbs: (an AyurVedic Guide to Herbal Medicine)

Author: Vasant D Lad

Guide to the use of herbs from Ayurvedic perspective. How to balance your constitution and practice self-healing.

101 Tips On Nutrition for People With Diabetes or Plant Spirit Shamanism

2009-01-10T03:02:00.000-08:00

101 Tips On Nutrition for People With Diabetes

Author: Patti Bazel Geil

Healthy tips for people with Diabetes

A bestseller in the American Diabetes Association’s 101 Tipsseries, 101 Tips on Nutrition for People with Diabetes, Second Edition,gives you handy tips on meal planning, managing medicationand meals,weight loss, sugar substitutes, and much more.

New interesting textbook: L'esperienza di direzione (con InfoTrac?)

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul

Author: Ross Heaven

INDIGENOUS CULTURES / HERBAL HEALING

"Plant Spirit Shamanism takes readers into realms that defy rational logic and scientific theory, showing graphically that we humans are not the only intelligent life on this planet. From their extensive travels to indigenous cultures that understand life very differently from those in the ‘developed’ world, the authors reveal a wealth of plant knowledge that has been lost to Western civilization. This book is both a fascinating read and a considerable challenge to the orthodox mind.”
--Leo Rutherford, author of The Way of Shamanism and Your Shamanic Path

In Plant Spirit Shamanism, Ross Heaven and Howard G. Charing explore the use of one of the major allies of shamans for healing, seeing, dreaming, and empowerment--plant spirits. After observing great similarities in the use of plants among shamans throughout the world, they discovered the reason behind these similarities: Rather than dealing with the “medical properties” of the plants or specific healing techniques, shamans are communing with the spirits of the plants themselves.

From their years of in-depth shamanic work in the Amazon, Haiti, and Europe, including extensive field interviews with master shamans, Heaven and Charing present the core methods of plant shamanism used in healing rituals the world over: soul retrieval, spirit extraction, sin eating, and the Amazonian tradition of pusanga (love medicine). They explain the techniques shamans use to establish connections to plant spirits and provide practical exercises as well as a directory of traditional Amazonian andCaribbean healing plants and their common North American equivalents so readers can explore the world of plant spirits and make them allies of their own.

ROSS HEAVEN is a therapist and workshop leader specializing in personal development, healing, and shamanism. He offers indigenous medicine retreats and workshops worldwide. His books include The Spiritual Practices of the Ninja, Darkness Visible, and Vodou Shaman. Howard G. Charing is a director of the Eagle Wing’s Centre for Contemporary Shamanism, has taught at Dr. Michael Harner’s Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and leads workshops and medicine retreats in the United Kingdom, the Peruvian Amazon basin, and the Andes. Both authors live in England.

Foreword by Pablo Amaringo

Preface Sins, Souls, and Sun Flowers: Discovering the Power of the Plants by Ross Heaven

Preface The Call of the Plants by Howard G. Charing

Introduction   The Way of the Plant Shaman

1    Nothing is Hidden: How Plants Heal
       Exercise: A Journey to the Plants
         Divining with Coca: An Interview with
           an Andean Curandera
       Exercise: Making an Offering
       Exercise: Making Mojo
       Exercise: The Effects of Loving Intent

2    The Shaman’s Diet: Listening to the Plants
       Exercise: How to Diet

3    Plants of Vision: Sacred Hallucinogens
       An Interview with a San Pedro Maestro
       Exercise: Dreaming the Great Spirit
       Exercise: Discovering Your Ally’s Song
       Exercise: Creating a Seguro
       Exercise: Maintaining the Sacred Communion:
         Eating for a Healthy Neural Base
      Exercise: Art and Action

4    Healing the Soul
       Exercise: Removing Intrusions in the Body
       Exercise: Returning Soul Energy
       Exercise: Releasing the Soul Parts of Others
       Exercise: The Quest for Vision

5    Pusangas and Perfumes: Aromas for
       Love and Wholeness
         Pusanga, the Fragrance of Love: An Interview
           with Two Perfumeros
       Exercise: Why Can’t I Have What I Want?
       Exercise: Making Pusanga

6    Floral Baths: Bathing in Nature’s Riches
       Baths in the Amazon: An Interview with a Shaman
       Baths in Haiti: An Interview with a Leaf Doctor
       Exercise: Love Bath (Haitian)
       Exercise: Power Bath (Haitian)
       Exercise: Soothing Bath (Peruvian)
       Exercise: The Language of Flowers (American)

7    The Scream of the Mandrake
       Exercise: Prescribing Plant Cures

Appendix 1    A Caribbean Herbal

Appendix 2    A Peruvian Herbal

Appendix 3    Hoodoo Oils

Notes

Glossary

Index

Ross Heaven is a therapist and workshop leader in personal development and healing whose books include Vodou Shaman, Darkness Visible, Spirit in the City, and The Journey to You. He teaches Darkness Visible workshops internationally and lives in England.

Howard G. Charing is a director of the Eagle Wing’s Centre for Contemporary Shamanism and has taught at Dr. Michael Harner’s Foundation for Shamanic Studies. He holds workshops internationally and in addition runs Plant Medicine Retreats in the Peruvian Amazon. He lives in England and Peru.

Advanced Techniques in Oriental Medicine or Somersize Appetizers

2009-01-09T17:50:00.000-08:00

Advanced Techniques in Oriental Medicine

Author: Skya Abbat

Taming the Tiger

"When you grasp the needle, do so with great care, firm strength and caution for the peril, as if holding a tiger's tail: one wrong move and great harm could befall."—Huangdi Neijing

This uncommonly useful guidebook presents an overview of all aspects of needling, from the parameters of the needle itself to the importance of treating and anchoring the patient's spirit. Skya Abbate's clear language and detailed descriptions guide you step-by-step through thirteen categories of disease, ranging from anxiety, geriatric and chronic degenerative diseases to those illnesses thought to be untreatable.

Specialized chapters offer insight and guidance for practitioners seeking to enhance their treatment strategies with additional therapeutic techniques, including moxibustion, bleeding techniques, herbal liniments, infrared light, threading, and others. Rounding out the text is a practical appendix with a glossary of Chinese medical terminology, sample instructions for patients, as well as an index with more than 2,000 disorders.

Skillfully weaving the time-honored principles of Oriental medicine into the cutting-edge reality of the clinic, Advanced Techniques in Oriental Medicine offers a wealth of simple, yet effective, treatment strategies.

Interesting textbook: Carbohydrate Addicts Cookbook or La soluci n definitiva al sobrepeso

Somersize Appetizers: 30 Easy-to-Make Recipes for Great Snacks That Are Unique, Delicious, and Low in Carbs

Author: Suzanne Somers

Dazzling hors d'oeuvres to heat up any cocktail hour!

The all-important appetizer . . . It's the first impression, a tantalizing and fanciful finger food to whet the appetite for what's to come. Gone are the days of Swedish meatballs, cheese and crackers, or chips with dip--Suzanne Somers' sexy collection of recipes will kick off any event with style. Whether you are entertaining for the holidays, casually hosting family and friends, or throwing a swank soiree, these appetizers will brighten any occasion.

In keeping with her reputation as a stellar chef, Suzanne presents fabulous, brand-new recipes for scrumptious nibbles you can pass around on trays or serve as delicious starters at the table. The bonus, for those watching their waistlines, is that Suzanne seamlessly eliminates refined sugar and carbohydrates--but your guests will never notice. What they will notice are innovative creations, spectacular flavor combinations, and exotic presentations to spice up any cocktail hour. Whether you are living a healthy Somersize lifestyle or are simply a lover of great food, Suzanne takes you step by step through easy instructions to help you succeed every time with winning recipes such as:

• Mini Burgers with Gorgonzola and Caramelized Onions

• Curried Lamb Skewers with Mint-Cilantro Chili Paste

• Wild Mushroom Risotto in Mushroom Caps

• Grilled Scallops Wrapped in Prosciutto with Basil-Parsley Pistou

• Lobster Bisque Cappuccino

• Saffron Mussels with Red Pepper Rouille

Filled with gorgeous photos, Somersize Appetizers includes stunning recipes sure to make your next party, family get-together, or evening at home totallyunforgettable.

Hawaiian Heritage Plants or The Healing Power of Flax

2009-01-09T05:38:00.000-08:00

Hawaiian Heritage Plants

Author: Angela Kay Kepler

Almost ninety percent of Hawai'i's native plants are found nowhere else in the world. Here is a revised and enlarged edition of a favorite reference for these and other plants (indigenous and pre-contact) that comprise some of the world's most unique ecosystems. In a series of essays, the author weaves cultural and biological, historical and geographic, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of Hawaiian ecology into non-technical accounts of 32 plants important to early Hawaiians.

	Preface
	Approaching Hawai'i: The Carpeting of an Archipelago	1
	Heritage Plant Accounts
	'Awa, A Polynesian Tranquilizer	7
	Bamboo ('ohe)	16
	Banana (mai'a)	25
	Ferns: 'Ama'u (Sadleria)	35
	Ferns: Hapu'u (tree ferns)	41
	Ferns: Maidenhair ('iwa'iwa)	47
	Ferns: Uluhe (false staghorn)	52
	Ginger, Wild ('awapuhi)	60
	Hala (pandanus)	66
	Hau, A Pacific-Wide Coastal Tree	73
	Hibiscus: Red (koki'o 'ula)	80
	Hibiscus: White (koki'o ke'oke'o)	86
	'Ilima, A Notable Lei Flower	92
	Koa, A Majestic Native Hardwood	98
	Kukui (candlenut tree)	107
	Lobelias (haha, 'oha wai), Hawaiian Botanical Treasures	117
	Maile, A Fragrant Forest Vine	125
	Mamane, A Native Flowering Tree	130
	Morning Glory, Beach (pohuehue)	135
	Naupaka, Beach	139
	Noni (Indian mulberry)	145
	'Ohelo, An Edible Alpine Berry	151
	'Ohi'a lehua, A Sacred Forest Tree	156
	Olona, A Native Fiber Shrub	165
	Pua Kala (prickly poppy)	170
	Pukiawe, A Colorful Alpine Bush	175
	Sandalwood ('iliahi)	182
	Silversword ('ahinahina)	193
	Taro (kalo)	203
	Ti (ki)	211
	Wauke (paper mulberry)	219
	Wiliwili (Hawaiian coral tree)	225
	Further Reading	231
	Index	233

Book about: Bill of Wrongs or Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century

The Healing Power of Flax: How to Protect Your Body Against Heart Disease, Arthritis, Chronic Pain and Inflammation With This Remarkable Food

Author: Herb Joiner Bey

Includes 101 Flaxseed Oil Recipes for a Healthier Life.
Flax and flaxseed oil are nature's richest source of omega-3s and contain twice as much omega-3 fatty acids as fish oil products - without the aftertaste and at a more affordable price.

Jump Rope Training or Running Made Easy

2009-01-08T20:26:00.000-08:00

Jump Rope Training

Author: Buddy Le

Develop greater quickness, agility, balance, strength, power, and endurance-all from one portable training source! In Jump Rope Training, former Marine and six-time U.S. national wrestling champion Buddy Lee shows you rope-handling skills, jumping techniques, and much more to supplement your training for fitness and performance.

Workouts and progressions are included for warm-ups, cool-downs, fitness components, and sport-specific training, with sample programs used by elite athletes. Lee's system has been used by 25 U.S. Olympic teams in 1996 and 2000 and by several national teams, including the U.S. figure skating and U.S. wrestling teams.

If you want to get in better shape and seek greater variety and results from your workouts, Jump Rope Training is a proven way to improve both your fitness and performance.

About the Author:
Buddy Lee, president and founder of Jump Rope Technology, Inc., has fashioned a worldwide reputation with his incredible jump rope skills. He has performed in exhibitions for sports events, presidents, and world leaders in 24 countries.

Lee used rope jumping as a key part of his wrestling training to develop into a world-class and Olympic athlete. He was a 1992 Olympian in Greco-Roman wrestling and a 20-time U.S. national and Armed Forces champion in three different styles of wrestling. After earning a degree in secondary education from Old Dominion University, where he was a two-time All-American wrestler, he served 11 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he became a three-time national champion, a three-time World Military champion, and a three-time World Cup and Pan Am medalist. He also was voted outstanding wrestler in the 1992national wresting championships and was Marine Athlete of the Year twice.

He served as the jump rope conditioning consultant to the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1996 to 2000, training 25 Olympic teams and many gold medalists. Today he consults with the U.S. Professional Tennis Association, the U.S. Figure Skating Association, and several other organizations. Buddy is the co-inventor of the Hyperformance swivel bearing ropes, designed to produce speeds of up to six revolutions per second and eliminate drag and friction present in other ropes. Buddy is also an international motivational speaker and author of rope jumping for several national sport magazines. He travels the country, training athletes and fitness enthusiasts with his jump rope system. Buddy resides in Woodbridge, Virginia.

New interesting book: Le Prix de Tout :une Parabole de Possibilité et de Prospérité

Running Made Easy

Author: Susie Whalley

Running Made Easy is quite simply the easiest, friendliest, most encouraging book on the subject ever written! Fully revised for 2008, this must-have illustrated guide will motivate beginners to jog their way to a better body, increased confidence, and soaring energy levels. It features a “60-Second Secret Plan” for starting off, tips on running shoes and other equipment, and sample structured programs for improving health and endurance. In addition, there are quizzes to help newcomers assess their current fitness levels, a runner’s diary to track progress, and inspirational stories about sport’s life-changing effects. Colorful sidebars cover everything from how running produces chemical changes in the brain that improve one’s mood to strategies for adding distance to a weekly program.

Introduction: get to know us     6
Get ready     10
Get inspired     18
Get happy!     30
Get set for success     40
Get to know yourself     50
Get going     66
Get the top tips     88
Get even better     140
Get over it     168
Get amazed     174
Get celebrating     202
Get scribbling     206
Useful info     222
A big thank you to...     223
Index     224

Your Performing Edge Guided Visualization Exercises Audio CD or Raw Food Life Force Energy

2009-01-08T09:14:00.000-08:00

Your Performing Edge Guided Visualization Exercises Audio CD: Music and Meditations for a Healthy Mind, Body and Spirit

Author: Jo Ann Dahlkoetter

Companion to the bestselling Your Performing Edge book, the exercises on this CD help you practice and master what you are learning in the book. This is the first audio CD of its kind with mental training exercises for performance.The four 15-minute exercises are Energizing Your Mind and Body,? ?Creating Confidence and Motivation,? ?Focusing and Performing Your Best,? and ?Healing and Recovering Quickly.? Total running time 64 minutes.

Raw Food Life Force Energy: Enter a Totally New Stratosphere of Weight Loss, Beauty, and Health

Author: Natalia Ros

Looking for a whole new approach to weight loss, health, and beauty without necessarily going all raw or strictly vegetarian? Welcome to Raw Food Life Force Energy.

According to top nutritionist Natalia Rose, everyone is entitled to a beautiful lean body, youthful radiant skin, abundant energy, and a state of natural bliss. The secret is tapping into the ultimate source of well-being-Life Force Energy. If we can properly harness and increase our Life Force Energy through simple dietary and environmental principles, and therefore cleanse and bring our bodies back to their natural, harmonious frequency, we can experience radically improved levels of health, beauty, and happiness.

Raw Food Life Force Energy is entirely compatible with the principles laid out in Rose's previous book, The Raw Food Detox Diet, but presents her diet-lifestyle in an excitingly progressive framework that reminds us that we are not just physical bodies, but dynamic beings who thrive on harmonious high vibrations and Life Force Energy. Rose presents four fundamental energy principles and practical applications, leading us to the best sources of natural energy-such as raw fruits and vegetables, sunlight, and fresh air, to name a few. These principles lay the groundwork for Rose's comprehensive 21-day program, followed by more than seventy original, mouthwatering recipes that range from healthful cooked fish dishes to raw vegetarian soups, entrees, and desserts to accommodate all levels of raw food energy dieters.

Rose offers a new vision of how to honor and revitalize our bodies and become powerfully attractive inside and out. Raw Food Life Force Energy shows us how to break out of our destructive, energy-draining patterns of poor eating, unsuccessful dieting, and stressful living to lift ourselves to a whole new stratosphere of well-being.

Foreword   Viktoras Kulvinskas     xi
Introduction: A Matter of Light and Energy     1
What to Expect from Raw Food Life Force Energy     9
How to Use This Book     11
The Principles
Tapping the Secret Laws of Life Force Energy     15
The Vibration Principle     19
The Free-Flow Principle     33
The Quick-Exit Principle     59
The Natural Bliss Principle     71
Embracing a Lifetime of High-Vibration Raw Living     79
Rebuilding Your Body in 21 Days
A Supercharged Action Plan     97
The Life Force Energy Body Test     109
21 Days of the Raw Food Life Force Energy Program     115
Raw Food Life Force Energy Recipes
Raw Food Life Force Energy Recipe List     153
Elixirs     157
Soups     165
Dressings     173
Salads     178
Raw Entrees     187
Sandwiches     196
Cooked Vegetarian Entrees     201
Seafood Entrees     210
Breakfast     214
Sides and Snacks     220
Desserts     222
Frequently Asked Questions     229
Hierarchy of Vibrational Nutrition     253
Recommended Reading     255
Index     257

Glaucoma or Magnesium Solution for High Blood Pressure

2009-01-07T23:02:00.000-08:00

Glaucoma: The Essential Treatments and Advances that Could Save Your Sight (What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About... Series)

Author: Gregory K Harmon

Sixty-seven million people suffer from glaucoma, yet many don't learn the facts about the "sneak thief of sight" until it's too late to stop vision loss. Now glaucoma specialist, expert ophthalmologist, and Glaucoma Foundation chairman Dr. Gregory Harmon explodes the myths surrounding glaucoma and tells you about its different forms, risk factors, and the latest diagnosis and treatment options.

Go to: Comparative Statistical Inference or Unmaking Goliath

Magnesium Solution for High Blood Pressure: How to Use Magnesium to Help Prevent and Relieve Hypertension Naturally

Author: Jay S Cohen

More than 50 million Americans have high blood pressure -- a devastating disease that can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Doctors routinely prescribe drugs for this condition, but these medications often cause side effects. As a nationally recognized expert on medications and side effects, Dr. Jay S. Cohen wants to make you aware of a safe, natural solution to high blood pressure -- the mineral magnesium.

Magnesium is essential for the normal functioning of nerves, muscles, blood vessels, bones, and the heart, yet more than 75% of the population is deficient in it. Dr. Cohen has written The Magnesium Solution for High Blood Pressure to provide you and your doctor with all of the information needed to understand why magnesium is essential for helping to prevent and treat high blood pressure. Dr. Cohen explains why magnesium is necessary for normal vascular functioning, how to use magnesium along with hypertension drugs, and the best types of magnesium to use. Most importantly, Dr. Cohen has made the evidence-based research on magnesium's safety and effectiveness highly readable and usable by anyone.

This book offers the facts on this natural alternative for the prevention and treatment of hypertension. Here is valuable information for anyone seeking a natural, safe, non-drug option for high blood pressure.

	Acknowledgments	v
	Preface	vii
	Introduction	1
1.	Normal Vascular Functioning and Magnesium	9
	What Is Hypertension and Why Is It So Harmful?	9
	Blood Vessels, Hypertension, and Magnesium	11
	The Problem With the Standard Medical Treatment of Hypertension	15
	Magnesium--The Essential Element for Normal Body Functioning	18
2.	Magnesium Deficiency and High Blood Pressure	20
	The Most Common Mineral Deficiency	20
	The Evidence Linking Magnesium and Hypertension	23
	The Importance of Magnesium for People Taking Antihypertensive Drugs	28
	The Failure to Identify Magnesium Deficiencies	29
3.	Magnesium Deficiencies in High-Risk Populations	36
	Older Adults, Hypertension, and Magnesium Deficiencies	36
	Women, Hypertension, and Magnesium Deficiencies	38
	African-Americans, Hypertension, and Magnesium Deficiencies	40
	Diabetes, Hypertension, and Magnesium Deficiencies	42
	Alcohol Use, Hypertension, and Magnesium Deficiencies	45
4.	How to Use Magnesium to Help Prevent and Treat Hypertension	47
	Magnesium: A Nutrient and a Medication	47
	Preventing Hypertension	49
	Treating Hypertension	50
	Types of Magnesium Supplements	55
	How Much Magnesium to Take	57
	Diets for Hypertension and the Role of Magnesium	59
	Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, and Other Non-drug Methods for Reducing High Blood Pressure	62
	Conclusion	64
	References	67
	About the Author	77
	Index	80

Concise Guide to Womens Mental Health or The Way of Qigong

2009-01-07T13:50:00.000-08:00

Concise Guide to Women's Mental Health

Author: Vivien K Burt

Women outnumber men as consumers of health care in the United States: they visit doctors more often, fill more prescriptions, undergo more surgeries, occupy more hospital beds, and spend more money on health care than men. Yet it wasn't until the past decade that active trials in gender-specific aspects of mental health began leading us to a better understanding of the psychiatric disorders to which women are vulnerable.

Distilling the findings of this research into practical information about the assessment and management of psychiatric conditions specific to women, this Second Edition (updated from 1997) expands upon the biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that influence women's mental health, with particular emphasis on reproductive points in the female life cycle& mdash;and the ways in which these factors are integral to gender-sensitive case formulations, diagnoses, and treatment planning.

• Biological factors& mdash;Research increasingly shows that gender differences exist in brain anatomy and that male and female reproductive hormones produce psychoactive effects, e.g., estrogen has antidopaminergic and serotonin-enhancing effects and progesterone's metabolites may play a role in modulating gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors.

• Psychosocial factors& mdash;Seventy percent of all working women must deal with the multiple roles and conflicting demands of having children under 18 years old, compounded by traditionally disadvantaged social status and wages, and increased vulnerability to sexual and domestic violence.

• Psychopharmacological factors& mdash;Different stages of the menstrual cycle and the use of exogenous hormones(e.g., oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy) may influence blood levels and efficacy of medications (e.g., progesterone may influence drug absorption by delaying gastric emptying time).

Updates to this second edition include the latest findings about premenstrual dysphoric disorder and the use of psychiatric medications in pregnant and breast-feeding women, with new sections on perinatal loss, surgical menopause, eating disorders, sexual trauma, seasonal affective disorder, sleep disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Within just 10 chapters, the authors also cover hormonal contraception and its effects on mood; psychiatric disorders in pregnancy; postpartum psychiatric disorders; induced abortion and pregnancy loss; psychological implications of infertility, perimenopause, and menopause; gender issues in the treatment of mental illness; and female-specific cancers.

Complementing lengthier psychiatric references, this latest Concise Guide from the series by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., offers enduring value in a convenient pocket-size format with extensive tables and illustrations. Its wealth of practical information, highlighted by material from the authors' clinical experiences, makes it a must-read for psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, and medical students working in various treatment settings, from inpatient psychiatry units and outpatient clinics to consultation-liaison services and private offices.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Nicholas Greco IV, M.S., BCETS, CATSM, CCRA (Abbott Laboratories)
Description: This guide to the assessment and management of psychiatric conditions specifically focuses on women's mental health needs. Most clinicians and residents will find the content extremely practical.
Purpose: The purpose is to address the biological, psychosocial, and sociocultural factors that affect the mental health of women. The information is organized around the all-important reproductive milestones during a woman's life. The authors' objectives are unquestionably met and exceeded.
Audience: Intended for students and practitioners of mental health, this book will undeniably serve the needs of all practicing clinicians and mental health trainees. The authors are credible, knowledgeable, insightful, and this book incorporates a terrific blend of both the authors' insight and clinical experiences.
Features: This book expertly discusses PMDD, psychiatric disorders during pregnancy, abortion and infertility issues, menopause, and cancer within an appropriate and applicable psychiatric context. The section on psychiatric disorders in pregnancy is an invaluable chapter with tables and figures of common psychotropic medications and gives a superb summary of in utero exposure to these medications. The index, tables, and figures illustrate key points, provide quick reference, and add to the ease of use. The authors provide a book that is welcoming to all clinicians.
Assessment: This is a much needed update to the previous edition. The inclusion of new data regarding pregnancy, breast feeding, hormone replacement therapy, and new additions such as PTSD and sleep disorders make this an excellent clinical and teaching tool in an area that deserves greater clinical and research attention.

Booknews

New edition of a guide that provides practical information in a concise format for practitioners in a variety of treatment settings, such as inpatient psychiatry units, outpatient clinics, consultation- liason services, and private offices. Burt and Hendrick (clinical psychiatry, U. of California) discuss topics including premenstrual dysphoric disorder, hormonal contraception and effects on mood, psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and postpartum, induced abortion and pregnancy loss, infertility, perimenopause and menopause, gender issues in the treatment of mental illness, and female-specific cancers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

5 Stars! from Doody

Book about: Homes and Libraries of the Presidents Third Edition or Chosen Soldier

The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing

Author: Kenneth S Cohen

A Comprehensive, Easy-To-Understand Guide To The Ancient Chinese Art Of Healing Body And MindQigong [pronounced chee-gung], which literally means "working with the energy of life", is an integrated mind-body healing method that has been practiced with remarkable results in China for thousands of years. The Chinese have long treasured qigong for its effectiveness both in healing and preventing disease. More recently, they have used it in conjunction with modern medicine to cure cancer, immune-system disorders, and other life-threatening conditions. Now, renowned qigong master and China scholar Kenneth S. Cohen brings the ancient healing power of qigong to Western listeners. The Way of Qigong is filled with solid, practical exercises and guidance, providing an easy-to-follow program for working with our life energy through breathing and relaxation, meditation, visualization, and other natural methods. The benefits of qigong are obvious in those who practice it: increased strength, heightened sexuality, sounder sleep, clearer intuition, a more efficient and active metabolism, and minds and bodies that celebrate the harmony of true health. Qigong's benefits have been analyzed and verified by contemporary medical researchers, who confirm resoundingly that qigong really does work. Now, with The Way of Qigong, the power and clarity of this ancient scientific art is finally available to us all. this landmark program will instruct, enlighten, enliven, and delight all who use it.

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	The Pronunciation of Chinese Words
1	What Is Qigong?	3
2	Roots and Branches: The History of Qigong	12
3	The Three Treasures: A Chinese Model of Body Energy	30
4	Qigong Science: Correlates of Healing Energy	42
5	Does It Really Work? The Experimental Evidence	57
6	The Time and Place of Practice	79
7	The Posture of Power	86
8	Fang Song Gong: The Art of Relaxation	97
9	Healthy Breathing	111
10	Standing Like a Tree	133
11	Qigong Meditation	148
12	Active Qigong	184
13	An-Mo Gong: Self-Healing Massage	219
14	The Energy of the Emotions	223
15	External Qi Healing: Chinese Therapeutic Touch	242
16	The Complete Qigong Workout	265
17	Benefits and Dangers of Qigong	270
18	The Dao of Diet	281
19	Have a Cup of Tea!	308
20	The Art of Clouds and Rain	317
21	Closing the Circle: Signs of Mastery, Signs of Stupidity	333
App. A	Dates of Chinese Dynasties	341
App. B	A Technical Note on the Concept "Dan Tian"	342
App. C	Double-Blind or Double Standard?	345
App. D	Benefits of Internal Qigong: Experimental Evidence	352
App. E	Glossary of Common Qigong Terms	354
	Notes	362
	Qigong Resources	397
	Index	412

Probiotic and Prebiotic Recipes for Health or Skywalker

2009-01-07T01:38:00.000-08:00

Probiotic and Prebiotic Recipes for Health: 100 Recipes That Battle Colitis, Candidiasis, Food Allergies, and Other Digestive Disorders

Author: Tracy Olgeaty Gensler

Trillions of bacteria naturally occur in the intestines, and most help protect the body from disease. These protective bacteria are called probiotics. Foods that nourish these "good" bacteria are called prebiotics.

A number of factors can upset the balance between the levels of "good" and "bad" bacteria. There is evidence that consuming foods that are rich in "good" bacteria as well as foods that nourish these bacteria may help maintain a healthy balance of bacteria in the intestines and help improve health and fight certain diseases, like heart disease and cancer. This cookbook is organized by prebiotic and probiotic food recipes. Each of the 100 tasty recipes include instructions for properly cooking and storing food to preserve optimal levels of good bacteria.

New interesting textbook: Heroes among Us or God Has a Dream

Skywalker: The Remarkable and Inspiring Story of Legendary Basketball Player David Thompson

Author: David Thompson

Basketball legend Thompson tells his inspiring life story, chronicling his rise, fall, and incredible recovery from the drug and alcohol abuse that ended his NBA Hall of Fame playing career.

Acupressure for Lovers or Arthritis and Common Sense

2009-01-06T15:27:00.000-08:00

Acupressure for Lovers: Secrets of Touch for Increasing Intimacy

Author: Michael Reed Gach

In Chinese medicine, acupressure points are considered gateways for the human electrical energy that runs throughout the body. This energy is essential for optimal sexual pleasure and Gach explains with line drawings, photographs, and step-by-step instructions how to release this energy and naturally increase sexuality and sexual enjoyment. With easy stretching, tips, and exercises for eliminating stress and tension in the body, Acupressure for Lovers also helps couples promote relaxation while enhancing eroticism and intimacy.

Interesting textbook: Crescent and Star or The Agitators Daughter

Arthritis and Common Sense

Author: Dale Alexander

Medical Self-Help/Health

Arthritis and Common Sense, the best-selling one-million-copy classic on arthritis, is now available in paperback for the first time!

In these pages, the arthritis sufferer will find a simple dietary plan that may help to alleviate the pains and symptoms of this disease, without the use of drugs of any kind. The overwhelming success of Arthritis and Common Sense and the thousands of grateful letters that pour in to its author prove the effectiveness of his safe and sensible approach. Dale Alexander offers a list of menus, a day-by-day breakdown of meals, and a plan of good eating for an entire week. His simple, nontechnical explanations, large type for easy reading, plus helpful illustrations ensure that every reader will quickly and easily understand what Mr. Alexander believes to be the causes and effects of arthritis and learn how he proposes to obtain relief.

In the thirty years since it was first published, Arthritis and Common Sense has become the best-selling book on arthritis ever written. And it will continue to be read by arthritis sufferers everywhere, because readers tell us this commonsense method works.

Preface ForewordI Why and How This Book Was Written II A Preview of What's to Come III Understand All Arthritis -- Recognize Your Own Type IV Combat Dryness in the Joint Linings and Cartilage V Faulty Diet Can Cause Arthritis VI The Right Foods -- To Help Gain Relief VII Fruits and Their Effect on Bodily Oils VIII Modern Beverages -- A Help or Hindrance?

IX About Our Habits...Eating, Drinking, Smoking X Do Charts on Health Have Any Value?

XI Shift the Liquids in Your Diet XII Drinking Water -- a Curse or a Blessing?

XIII Acids in Food Lead to Sensitivity XIV Avoid Foods with the Wrong Oils XV Menus...Day by Day List of Correct Meals XVI Can Vitamins Speed Relief?

XVII Cod Liver Oil Is a Key Weapon XVIII Your Liver Can Cheat You XIX How Constipation Affects Arthritics XX Cortisone Can Help, But Not Cure XXI Superstitions and False Remedies XXII The Rate of Recovery XXIII The Answer to Your Key Questions XXIV What the Future Holds for Arthritics

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi or Accepting Your Power to Heal

2009-01-06T04:14:00.000-08:00

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi: Mastering the Classic Forms of Tai Chi Chi Kung

Author: Mantak Chia

TAI CHI / MARTIAL ARTS

Taoist adepts developed tai chi as both a martial art and a way to cultivate the physical body, energy body, and spirit body. Like all Taoist exercises, its main purpose is to form a connection to the basic energy that is the foundation of all life: chi. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, tai chi was considered a secret practice that was passed down only within a closely knit structure of family and loyal disciples. Despite its widespread growth in popularity as a martial art and health exercise, many of its underlying internal practices remain unknown.

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of tai chi. Designed for practitioners at every level, the book contains step-by-step illustrated instructions for mastering the 13 forms of early Yang-style tai chi, also known as Tai Chi Chi Kung. The authors demonstrate the relationship of the inner structure of tai chi to the absorption, transformation, and circulation of the three forces that animate all life--the Universal force, the Cosmic force, and the Earth force--revealing the principles and practices necessary to receive the full spectrum of physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits that tai chi can bring.

A student of several Taoist masters, MANTAK CHIA founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979 and has taught tens of thousands of students from all over the world. He tours the United States annually, giving workshops and lectures. He is the director of the Tai Garden Integrative Medicine Health Spa and Resort training center and the Universal Healing Tao training center in northernThailand and is the author of twenty-five books, including the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

JUAN LI is a senior Universal Tao instructor who began his studies with Mantak Chia in 1982 and now presents these teachings throughout Western Europr. He lives in Spain.

A student of several Taoist masters, Mantak Chia founded the Healing Tao System in North America in 1979 and developed it worldwide as European Tao Yoga and Universal Healing Tao. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world and tours the United States annually, giving workshops and lectures. He is the director of the Tao Garden Health Spa and the Universal Healing Tao training center in northern Thailand and is the author of thirty-one books, including Inner Smile, Cosmic Fusion, Sexual Reflexology, and the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

Juan Li is a senior Universal Tao instructor who began his studies with Mantak Chia in 1982 and now presents these teachings throughout Western Europe. He lives in Spain.

Acknowledgments

Putting Tai Chi Chi Kung into Practice

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1 The Origins of Tai Chi Chi Kung

2 Why Practice Tai Chi Chi Kung?

3 Basic Principles of Tai Chi Chi Kung

4 Warm-Up Exercises and Preparation

5 Tai Chi Chi Kung Thirteen Movement Form

6 Sequence for Home Practice

7 Yin/Yang and Inner Smile Form

8 Rooting and Grounding: Connecting with the Earth

9 Transferring Chi Through the Body

10 Activating the Tendons

11 Tan Tien Form

12 Healing Form: Connecting the Organs with the Five Directions

13 Skin- and Bone-Breathing Form

14 Integrated Structure Form

15 Steel Wrapped in Cotton: Martial Arts Applications

16 Dance of the Tao

Appendix 1 Energetic Preparations for Tai Chi Chi Kung

Appendix 2 Tai Chi Physiology

Bibliography

About the Authors

The Universal Tao System and Training Center

Go to: Contabilidad Directiva

Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch

Author: Dolores K Krieger

Since 1972, Dolores Krieger has taught Therapeutic Touch to thousands of health professionals around the world. In Accepting Your Power to Heal, she now shows all of us how to master this powerful energetic healing practice. Krieger points out that while this is not a "miracle cure," Therapeutic Touch has proven to be safe and helpful in the treatment of a variety of conditions from PMS, headaches, burns, and bone fractures to asthma, reproductive problems, cancer, and AIDS. She encourages us to acknowledge our own innate healing abilities and provides experiential exercises to teach us the basic Therapeutic Touch techniques. The miracle, if there is one, is that we can all participate in the healing process and help our friends, partners, families, and even pets to feel better.

Food Mood Solution or Pilates for Fragile Backs

2009-01-05T19:01:00.000-08:00

Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again

Author: Jack Challem

Renowned nutrition expert Jack Challem isolates the nutritional triggers of bad moods, providing solutions that will help you stabilize your moods, gain energy, sleep better, handle stress, and be more focused. He lays out a clear-cut, four-step plan for feeding the brain the right nutrition, presenting advice on choosing the right foods and supplements as well as improving lifestyle habits to help regulate mood swings.

Publishers Weekly

Best known as the "Nutrition Reporter" for consumer health publications (Alternative Medicine; Body & Soul; etc.), Challem (The Inflammation Syndrome) describes a familiar scenario: rising levels of anger, impatience, frustration, fatigue and anxiety due to minor daily irritations. Citing studies of increased violence traced to mood disorders, Challem contends that basic but highly specific diet and lifestyle modifications can lower stress levels and radically improve behavior and health. While the effects of poor nutrition on health take years to manifest, he says, such effects on mood are readily apparent, and he urges readers to notice how certain foods and beverages lead to headaches, fatigue, poor sleep, depression, compulsive behavior, panic attacks, bipolar disorder and other increasingly common conditions. His plan targets neuronutrients (vitamins and minerals needed to make critical brain chemicals) and nutrisocial factors (family, workload, environment, advertising, etc.) to boost mood. After taking a few quizzes, readers will be guided through a four-part program: supplements, diet, exercise and lifestyle. While the information is not entirely new, Challem does solidly address the hardest part of his equation-and that's the lifestyle change itself. (Mar.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Sarah Boslaugh - Library Journal

It is obvious that what we eat may affect our moods and mental functioning—anyone who gets cranky when hungry or sleepy after a big meal has experienced this connection firsthand. However, specific recommendations, such as using B vitamins to treat depression or omega-3 fish oils to treat adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, are more questionable. This book, for which health reporter Challem has drawn on 30 years of nutrition research, is an uncomfortable combination of truisms and general advice (e.g., modern life is stressful, physical activity can improve your mood) that often recommends using nutritional supplements to treat specific disorders. Although the general advice may be useful, it is available elsewhere; the specific advice may be dangerous if it replaces consultation with a medical or psychiatric professional. Nonetheless, some people want this kind of information, so the volume may be relevant to public libraries collecting popular health books of uncertain scientific credibility.

Foreword   Melvyn R. Werbach, M.D.     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     1
The Food-Mood Connection
How Food Affects Your Mood     11
How Life's Stresses Do a Number on Your Moods     27
Neuronutrients, Moods, and Your Mind     39
How to Improve Your Moods
The First Step: Take Your Supplements     59
The Second Step: Eat Mood-Enhancing Foods     87
The Third Step: Be More Active     133
The Fourth Step: Begin Changing Your Life Habits     139
Improving Your Specific Mood and Behavior Concerns
Dealing with Irritability, Anger, Aggressiveness, and Violent Behavior     167
Reducing Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior     183
Reducing Distractible and Impulsive ADHD-like Behavior     203
The Overweight-Prediabetes Connection to Mood Swings     213
Dealing with Down Days, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder     221
Dealing with Alcohol and Drug Abuse     237
Afterword     247
Appendix     250
Selected References     257
Index     265

Pilates for Fragile Backs: Recovering Strength and Flexibility After Surgery, Injury or Other Back Problems

Author: Andra Fischgrund Stanton

Studies suggest that proactive strengthening and flexibility-recovery exercises can speed recovery after spine surgery. Whether you're preparing for or recovering from spinal surgery, recuperating from a back injury, or just dealing with a fragile back, this book offers you a regimen that will help manage pain and regain strength and mobility.

The exercises in this book modify Pilates exercises to accommodate partially immobilized spines, making this routine safe and effective for anyone with a fragile back. These exercises are designed not to compromise a spinal fusion. Instead they will do what Pilates exercises do best-stretch, strengthen and tone the trunk with precise positioning and movement, rather than repetition.

Ostomy Book or Coconut Oil

2009-01-05T06:50:00.000-08:00

Ostomy Book: Living Comfortably with Colostomies, Ileostomies, and Urostomies

Author: Barbara Dorr Mullen

This book provides complete information on everything from the details of surgery to rehabilitation, and the eventual management of the appliances that are needed by patients.

List of Illustrations     viii
Dear Reader     ix
I'm Going to Have a What?     1
What Is an Ostomy?     15
It's Your Body     31
Before Surgery     41
Surgery, and Just After     51
On the Mend     59
But How Do You Really Feel?     71
That Strange Big World Out There     79
Permanent Colostomies: Changes and Choices     87
Ileostomies and Alternatives     105
Life Without a Built-in Bladder     123
Pouches and the Skin They Touch     139
Pouch Skills     161
Temporary Ostomies     177
Eating Well     197
Catnaps, Strolls, and Good Belly Laughs     209
You're Looking Great!     219
What About Sex?     225
Work? Of Course!     241
Swimming, Skiing, and Other Diversions     253
The Other Side of the World     265
Pregnancy? Yes!     279
Children with Ostomies     287
A Word to the Teenagers     297
Checkups and Follow-ups     305
Helping Hands: Ostomy Organizations and ET Nurses     319
In the Family     339
Resources to Know     345
Glossary     353
Index     371

Interesting book: Homeopathy Bible or Tai Chi for Dummies

Coconut Oil: For Health and Beauty

Author: Cynthia Holzapfel

Discover what makes coconut oil so different from other vegetable oils and why it is one of the most healthful fats that people can eat and how its powerful antibacterial and antiviral properties boost your ability to fight disease. Populations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands who use coconut oils as their primary source of fat often have less heart disease than people of other regions. Learn the secrets that make women of the Pacific islands some of the most beautiful in the world thanks to the rejuvenating qualities of coconut oil.

Included are over 30 recipes for using coconut oil, grated coconut and coconut milk in delicious dishes as well as health care products, along with instructions for opening coconuts.

Winning Jumps and Pole Vault or Special Diet Celebrations

2009-01-04T21:38:00.000-08:00

Winning Jumps and Pole Vault

Author: Ed Jacoby

The world's top track and field coaches. The world's top track and field resource.

Long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault. From techniques and training to strategy and mental preparation, Winning Jumps and Pole Vault is the only book that covers it all.

Renowned coach Ed Jacoby and the all-star line-up of Cliff Rovelto, Tom and Kyle Tellez, Irving "Boo" Schexnayder, Greg Hull, Will Freeman, and Keith Henschen share the secrets and strategies that have produced 62 NCAA champions, 15 Olympic gold medalists, and numerous other U.S. and world medalists and champions.

Every phase of every event—from approach to takeoff to landing—is described to convey proper technique. Learn how to recognize and correct common technical flaws and rely on over 25 event-specific drills to perfect technique.

With preevent preparation, conditioning programs, and jump and vault strategies, Winning Jumps and Pole Vault is the one resource track and field coaches and athletes can't afford to be without.

New interesting textbook: The End of History and the Last Man or Underground

Special Diet Celebrations: No Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, or Sugar

Author: Carol Lee Fenster

Living on a wheat-free, gluten-free diet doesn't have to be dull, bland, and boring. Carol Fenster, Ph.D., nationally-known author of three leading cookbooks for wheat-free, gluten-free diets makes sure of that. She makes special occasions…and everyday meals memorable with food that everyone will enjoy despite food allergies or medical conditions that require a special diet. Serve your favorite dishes at birthday parties, graduation, picnics, weddings, or other special occasions such as children's school events . . . just change the ingredients for common food allergens such as wheat, milk, or eggs with creative substitutions readily available at supermarkets or natural food stores.

Each recipe also contains suggestions for other sweeteners besides sugar. Nutritional data helps in monitoring protein, fat, and carbohydrate intake. Over 50 menus for special occasions….or everyday dining… and over 200 recipes for dishes so good your family and friends won't know what's missing!

Detroit News

Carol Fenster makes eating a special diet tastier.

Midwest Book Review

A superb collection of wonderful recipes.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

There's help in this trio of cookbooks . . . for people with medical conditions that restrict their diets.

San Diego Union-Tribune

This cookbook can help those with restricted diets.

Parkinsons Disease Art of Moving or The Guide to Living with HIV Infection

2009-01-04T10:26:00.000-08:00

Parkinson's Disease & Art of Moving

Author: John Argu

Faced with an incurable and often debilitating illness, Parkinson's patients must relearn how to sit up in a chair, speak clearly, keep their balance while walking, and stand from a sitting position. Over 100 photographs illustrate exercises derived from yoga and t'ai chi techniques; and theater movement skills show readers how to cope as gracefully as possible with the loss of coordination that Parkinson's patients experience.

Book review: Essentials of Health Services or Fourth Generation Evaluation

The Guide to Living with HIV Infection: Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic

Author: John G Bartlett

The Guide to Living with HIV Infection is the most complete source of medical, emotional, social, and practical advice available for those infected with HIV and their loved ones. Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic, the guide provides essential information for making decisions about treatment and testing in a world transformed by new research and pharmacotherapy.

In this thoroughly updated sixth edition, Dr. John Bartlett and Ann K. Finkbeiner address the latest information about risks of transmission, viral mutations that confer drug resistance, and new, rapid, HIV testing. They offer guidelines for Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), a therapy protocol that has dramatically increased life expectancy for HIV-positive people. They describe how to follow HAART and when to change drug regimens, the symptoms of and treatments for HAART side effects, and the costs of and insurance coverage for HAART. They also outline the possibilities for a diagnosis of "no detectable virus."

Accompanied by updated references and resources, the sixth edition of The Guide to Living with HIV Infection offers new hope for people living with a virus that once left no hope at all.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Mark D. Goodman, MD (Creighton University Medical Center)
Description: This is un updated edition of a self-care and caregivers manual for those living with or affected by HIV. Previous editions were published in 1991,1993, 1996, and 1998. Thirteen chapters address topics such as understanding and communicating about HIV, HIV infection and its treatment, options for medical care, traditional and alternative medicine, with separate chapters on dying, and on living.
Purpose: The book is meant to be a "companion and a guide" for those living with HIV, as stated by the authors in the introduction. The objective is worthy, and very well met.
Audience: Written by two very credible authors, the book is intended primarily for patients and their loved ones, but I found it to be a very comprehensive brush-up as an HIV physician. There is a tremendous wealth of material in this book, and it is presented so well that it is a pleasure to read. As an insider in the medical profession, I believe we often lose sight of how monolithic and frightening the medical system must seem to some of our patients. This book serves to tease apart the terms, define the roles in the relationship between doctor and patient, and cast light upon the process.
Features: The book is intended to be comprehensive, but the authors state in the introduction that two facets of HIV care were deliberately omitted:HIV home care and HIV in children:presumably because of the specific nature of the subjects. What I like best about the book is the "cast of characters" that a patient might come up against while an inpatient. The book employs the use of eight "voices," real quotes from fictional characters, that help to convey the spirit of what is being discussed.
Assessment: The book is excellent. I look forward to recommending it to my patients (in fact, it would make my job a lot easier if we ALL read it), and I have seen no other books written for patients with HIV that are as complete, thoughtful, resourceful and respectful as this book. Frequent changes in the medical standards of care necessitate this new edition, and no doubt future editions will also be necessary.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Medicine Wheel Garden or Barbara Por Atras

2009-01-04T00:15:00.000-08:00

Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquillity

Author: E Barrie Kavasch

The American Indian medicine wheel was an ancient way of creating sacred space and calling forth the healing energies of nature. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study with native healers, herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch offers a step-by-step guide to bringing this beautiful tradition into your own life--from vibrantly colorful outdoor circle designs to miniature dish, windowsill, or home altar adaptations. Inside you’ll find:

• Planting guides for medicine wheel gardens in every zone, from desert Southwest to northern woodlands

• A beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of 50 key healing herbs, including propagation needs, traditional and modern uses, and cautions

• Easy-to-follow herbal recipes, from teas and tonics to skin creams and soaps--plus delicious healing foods

• Ideas for herbal crafts and ceremonial objects, including smudge sticks, wind horses, prayer ties, and spirit shields

• Seasonal rituals, offerings, and meditations to bless and empower your garden and your friends, and much more

Practical, beautiful, and inspiring, The Medicine Wheel Garden leads us on a powerful journey to rediscovering the sacred in everyday life as we cultivate our gardens . . . and our souls.

Library Journal

The transcendental nature of gardening is the focus of this pair of books. Both discuss humans' innate need to cultivate and nurture the earth. Ethnobotanist and herbalist Kavasch (American Indian Healing Arts) delves into Native American mystical symbolism to describe how to put together a garden that heals body and soul. He clearly explains the basic layout of a "medicine wheel" garden a circular arrangement built along axes running north/south, east/west, and even into the air and into the ground and how to adapt it to every zone. Also covered are traditional plants and why certain colored plants belong in the different quadrants of the circle. He also offers an illustrated encyclopedia of 50 healing herbs, as well as recipes that incorporate those herbs. Norfolk, a retired English osteopath, uses a much less structured approach in his lovely meditation on the importance of gardening in today's hustle-and-bustle society. During his 40 years of practice, he observed that his happiest and healthiest patients were green thumbs. Here, he introduces his concept of the "soul garden." He draws from literature and scientific studies, among other sources, to back up his claim that, like Voltaire's Candide, people would be happier and less stressed out if they would just sit back and watch their gardens grow. Kavasch's book is recommended for public libraries whose patrons appreciate Native American mysticism and gardening; Norfolk's is recommended for all public libraries. Pam Matthews, M.L.S., Olmsted Falls, OH Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Book about: His Excellency or Billions of Entrepreneurs

Barbara Por Atras: A Latin Woman's Guide to Fitness

Author: Barbara Trujillo

LATINAS-ENHANCE YOUR GOD GIVEN CURVES AND CADERAS

...Barbara Por Atras is not only a guide to fitness and a healthier lifestyle but also a book of acceptance of who you are as a Latin woman. Over the past year there has been an increase in media attention aimed on healthy and fit versus the "need" to be skinny.

You will embark on a soul searching journey of physical acceptance letting go of the stigma and daily challenges trying to look like "Hollywood" or "supermodels" and finally accept the beauty within while never compromising one's culture and beautiful physical assets.

In addition, you will learn how you can still eat classic Latin foods while staying healthy and fit. Delicious healthy Latin recipes are provided for your pleasure in addition to workouts for all from the beginner who has never worked out to the advanced seeking a new challenge. This is truly the only guide to a hotter, healthier Latina you will ever need!

What People Are Saying

Colin Dopson
"Motivational and informative . . . this book provides nourishment for both the body and the soul."--(Colin Dopson, Author of Overweight Planet)

Rick Gebhart
"Barbara clearly has walked the walk and they share their insights on how personal acceptance is possible through a fit and healthy lifestyle."--(Dr. Rick Gebhart, Author of Fatigue Factor)

Isabelle R. Shaw
"The authors do a great job conveying their point that fitness is not one size fits all . . . a smooth read with easy to follow workouts."--(Dr. Isabelle R. Shaw, Author of The Shoe Diet)

Waterfall Diet or Consumers Guide to Health Savings Accounts

2009-01-03T15:03:00.000-08:00

Waterfall Diet: Lose up to 14 Pounds in 7 Days by Controlling Fluid Retention

Author: Linda Lazarides

This work explains the benefits of the The Waterfall Diet—a quick weight loss system for people who have failed to lose weight on normal diets. Tips for readers to identify whether they have a fluid retention problem, recipes, and diet charts are included.

Look this: Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook or Cocina Baja en Calorias

Consumer's Guide to Health Savings Accounts: What Everyone Should Know About HSAs

Author: JoAnn Mills Laing

A breakthrough in health care for employees and employers alike, HSAs stand for Health Savings Accounts. As of Januar y 1, 2004, HSAs are a new option, similar to an IRA, offering individuals a tax-sheltered way to accumulate savings. Tax-free dollars in HSAs may be withdrawn for qualified medical expenses, rolled over without penalty for spending in future years, or invested, to accumulate savings to pay for health needs after retirement. As 73% of all Americans spend $500 or less on medical costs each year, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) make sense for many of us. The consumer wins with a tax-advantaged account for medical expenses, which is portable, and grows tax-free, just like an IRA; and wins again with using the lower-cost, must have, high-deductible health policy. The 'Consumer's Guide to HSAs' answers the question What's in it for Me?

Herbs and Herb Lore of Colonial America or Yoga Adventure for Children

2009-01-03T02:52:00.000-08:00

Herbs and Herb Lore of Colonial America

Author: Colonial Dames of America

Invaluable reference and guide, carefully researched and charmingly written, illustrates and describes over 50 herbs and plants that were extremely useful to colonial settlers, among them: bee balm, bloodroot, candytuft, daffodil, hyssop, lovage, rosemary, tansy, wormwood, and yarrow. Includes anecdotes, popular and scientific names, and use for each plant.

Read also 201 Brownies and Bars or Tofu

Yoga Adventure for Children: Playing, Dancing, Moving, Breathing, Relaxing

Author: Helen Purperhart

The Yoga Adventure for Children is an illustrated manual for teachers at primary schools and yoga teachers who wish to create children's classes. Featuring 80 drawings of poses, the book playfully acquaints children with yoga stretches and postures and the philosophy behind the practice. Blending yoga, play, dance, music, drama, and drawing, the book requires very little preparation before use. Parents too can share The Yoga Adventure for Children with their child at home. Practicing yoga together offers an opportunity to both parents and the child to laugh, play, and have fun together.

Many yoga positions are inspired by animals and stimulate suppleness and strength, and all aspects of yoga are included in the games: relaxation, breathing, concentration, meditation, self-awareness, and visualization. Concepts like karma, chakra, and the elements are explained and developed without too much confusing detail. The games in this book can also be used to increase children's concentration and self-esteem, and to stimulate them to express more creativity, imagination, and better social skills.

Good to Great Hair or Do I Look like a Daddy to You

2009-01-02T16:40:00.000-08:00

Good to Great Hair: Celebrity Hairstyling Techniques Made Simple

Author: Robert Vetica

All you need to create your own great hair style at home!

Vetica preaches that professional techniques are not difficult; readers just need to know what to do and follow directions. In this ultimate hair styling book, he delivers to the reader all they need to know to create great hair at home or direct a professional stylist. He reveals insider secrets and techniques for recreating magazine and celebrity hairstyles, and how to adapt the look for the average reader’s tools and time constraints.

The book is divided into three parts; 1. hair treatment and care, 2. hair cutting and styling techniques and 3. how to find a look for your faces structure and personal style. Even beginners will be able to style their hair like a pro while professional stylists can fine tune their skills with Vetica’s secrets and shortcuts. Step-by-step diagrams and photos illustrate different styles and how to work with tools of the trade such as curling irons, hair clips, and blow dryers. Before-and-after photos show readers the best hairstyles based on face shape, bone structure, type of hair, age, and personal style. Vetica peppers all of the techniques with his experience and insights gained from working with Hollywood’s top celebrities.

Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?: A Survival Guide for First-Time Fathers

Author: Quinton Skinner

It takes a baby to turn a guy into a man.

Hard-won lessons of a first-time father — the good, the bad, and the big-time changes.

"When I used to see a father holding a baby, I thought he was either a poor sap or else an übermensch possessed with talents and levels of forbearance that I would never attain. Now I live on the other side. I'm someone's daddy, and it's the best thing that ever happened to me."

From pregnancy and childbirth through the whirlwind first year of fatherhood, Quinton Skinner shares the adventure of a lifetime: becoming a daddy — and loving it. Nobody said it would be easy. But if imminent fatherhood made Quinton sit up and take notice, baby Natasha's arrival was the making of the man.

Here, with the infinite wisdom of hindsight, is his survival guide for first-time fathers everywhere, filled with hilarious anecdotes and practical advice on how to negotiate that critical first year of your baby's wonderful life.

After a year of on-the-job training, Skinner explores:

• Dealing with the pride — and panic — of your wife's pregnancy (see page 7)
• To be or not to be (in birthing class) (see page 57)
• The moment of truth in the delivery room (see page 77)
• Finding romance after parenthood (see page 102)
• Being the perfect dad while spacing out in front of the TV (see page 112)
• The joys of sleep deprivation (see page 192)
• Becoming a baby chef (see page 177)
• Avoiding the poorhouse (see page 39)

Herbs for Natural Beauty or Qigong Meditation

2009-01-01T08:13:00.000-08:00

Herbs for Natural Beauty

Author: Rosemary Gladstar

Books about: Revolution in Eating or Why Do Donuts Have Holes

Qigong Meditation: Small Circulation

Author: Jwing Ming Yang

Sitting Meditation is becoming more and more popular as people realize that finding their inner self brings health, happiness and clear meaning to one's own life. Chinese Qigong has a rich theoretical foundation for meditation training known as Small Circulation where the body's energy is consciously circulated on energetic pathways. This book describes the theory and presents a detailed practice routine for Small Circulation and Internal Elixir Qigong.

Surprised by the Power of the Spirit or Reflexology

2008-12-31T22:02:00.000-08:00

Surprised by the Power of the Spirit: Discovering How God Speaks and Heals Today

Author: Jack S Deer

What caused a former Dallas Seminary professor to believe that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit are being given today? What convinced someone skeptical about miracles that God still speaks and heals? A dramatic change took place in Jack Deere's life when he took a fresh look at the Scriptures. He discovered that his arguments against miraculous gifts were based more on prejudice and lack of personal experience than on the Bible. As soon as Deere became a seeker instead of a skeptic, the Holy Spirit revealed himself in new and surprising ways. In Surprised by the Power of the Spirit, Deere provides a strong biblical defense for the Spirit's speaking and healing ministries today. He also describes several reliable cases of people who were miraculously healed or who heard God speak in an unmistakable way. Finally, he gives sound advice for using spiritual gifts in the church. Written in a popular style, with the care of a scholar but the passion of personal experience, this book explores: the real reason Christians do not believe in miraculous gifts, responding to charismatic abuses, whether miracles were meant to be temporary, and why God still heals.

Book about: In the Flesh or Bipolar Kids

Reflexology

Author: Rosalind Oxenford

By applying finger pressure as illustrated in this book everyone can learn to reduce stress, relieve pain and enhance both their own bodies and their partner's. There is an introduction to the history and theory behind reflexology as well as clear foot and hand charts which indicate the reflex zones and points for the reader to follow.

Introduction     6
How Reflexology Works     8
The Benefits and Effects of Reflexology     12
Preparation     16
Warm-up Foot Massage     18
Reflexology Techniques     22
The Full Reflexology Routine     26
The Sequences     32
Relaxation Sequences     34
Enhancing Sequences     44
Relieving Sequences     50
Charts     60
Index     64

12 Steps to Self Parenting for Adult Children or The Gold Coast Cures Fitter Firmer Faster Program

2008-12-31T12:50:00.000-08:00

12 Steps to Self-Parenting for Adult Children

Author: Philip Oliver Diaz

If you are the child of an alcoholic or an adult child who has experienced a traumatic childhood, you can give yourself a second chance for intimacy, fulfillment and joy by Self-Parenting.

12 Steps To Self-Parenting, based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, will guide you to nurture your Inner Child so that it may grow into healthy self-acceptance.

New interesting textbook: Decisions with Multiple Objectives or Initial Public Offerings

The Gold Coast Cure's Fitter, Firmer, Faster Program: Get a Killer Body Without Killing Yourself

Author: Andrew Larson

Written by a medical doctor whose breakthrough approach has helped thousands takes off the pounds and fight disease, The Gold Coast Cure's Fitter, Firmer, Faster Program--designed with real life in mind--will help you slim down without deprivation, starvation, and complete frustration.

Based on sound science, this three-pronged plan--a whole-foods diet, six supplements, and just thirty minutes of exercise three days a week--really works. You'll learn how to trade harmful fats for healthy fats, swap refined carbs for whole carbs, and choose real foods with real nutrients that help burn fat. Best of all, you'll have the freedom to enjoy pasta, potatoes, bread, chocolate, and even a glass of wine or beer a day-every day--and still lose weight!

What to Expect When You Have Diabetes or The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer

2008-12-31T00:39:00.000-08:00

What to Expect When You Have Diabetes: 150 Tips for Living Well with Diabetes

Author: American Diabetes Association

Managing a chronic disease like diabetes can be overwhelming—this book, written by the experts, offers sound, steadying advice as to how to live well with diabetes, not just manage it. A worthy companion, it poses & answers many questions; a go-to guide with a can-do approach makes understanding diabetes easier.

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The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer: The Art, Science, and Philosophy of a Bodybuilding Legend

Author: John R Littl

The last word on how to build a better body--from the late, great Mike Mentzer

With his revolutionary "Heavy Duty" system, Mike Mentzer changed the way bodybuilders train, showing them that "less is more" when it comes to making great gains. In The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer, you will discover Mike's most advanced training techniques and philosophies--previously known only to his inner circle and personal clients.

Drawing upon never-before-released materials, his longtime colleague John Little reveals Mentzer's most powerful lessons and workout plans, including:

The importance of working to failure
Techniques for pushing past mental and physical plateaus
How overtraining impedes progress
A complete advanced "Heavy Duty" training system

The workout that worked "like magic" for Mr. Universe himself More than an instruction manual, this thorough compendium brings together a lifetime of insights, training truths, and personal philosophies from one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time.

John Little, longtime friend of Mike Mentzer, is the author of more than twenty-five books on bodybuilding, martial arts, history, and philosophy. His books have sold in excess of 600,000 copies and are now published in several languages.

Joanne Sharkey was Mike's closest friend and business manager. As the CEO of Mentzer-Sharkey Enterprises, Inc., she continues at the helm of the Mentzer legacy and operates Mentzer's official Website at www.mikementzer.com

Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors or Omega Rx Zone

2008-12-30T14:27:00.000-08:00

Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors

Author: Colleen Sell

If stories are medicine, then this collection will help keep hopes up and spirits alive on the road to recovery. Readers will applaud the bravery of 50 exceptional survivors as they tell their unique experiences with breast cancer. Every breast cancer survivor has a different story, but they all have one thing in common: courage. From dealing with diagnosis to undergoing chemotherapy, facing hair loss and possibly the loss of a breast, these fearless women undergo more than anyone ever should. These stories pay tribute to these women and their battles, and celebrate their victories. In this stunning new collection, readers will find compelling, inspiring, and uplifting personal essays about the experiences and emotions of living with—and after—breast cancer. $.50 of every copy will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

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This affordable paperback features 46 tales of how to confront, deal with, be angry about, face the financial burdens of, and go beyond a breast cancer diagnosis, written by the women themselves or their family members. Recommended for those who know what it's like and the thousands yet to join this less-than-exclusive club. You will be inspired.

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Omega Rx Zone: The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil

Author: Barry Sears

The Next Generation of the Zone!

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

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

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

	Introduction	1
Part I	The Omega Rx Zone	7
1	The Continuing Evolution of the Zone	9
2	The Beginnings of Modern Man	14
3	The Fats That Made Us Human	20
4	Eicosanoids: Hormones That Harm, Hormones That Heal	25
5	What Is Wellness?	32
6	Brain Wellness	37
Part II	Getting to the Omega Rx Zone	45
7	The Basic Plan	47
8	Fish Oil Supplements: Knowledge Is Power	71
9	Your Blood Will Tell Your Future	92
Part III	Treatment of Chronic Disease in the Omega Rx Zone	105
10	When the Brain Goes Wrong	107
11	Who Wants to Die of a Heart Attack?	131
12	Cancer: Your Greatest Fear	146
13	Obesity and Diabetes: The Twin Epidemics	153
14	Why It Hurts: Pain and Inflammation	166
15	Women's Health Concerns: Infertility, Menopause, and Beyond	178
Part IV	Reaching Your Full Potential in the Omega Rx Zone	189
16	Building a Better Brain	191
17	Emotions: The Mind-Body-Diet Connection	202
18	How to Build a Better Athlete	208
19	At the Crossroads of the Future	217
	Appendixes
A	Continuing Support	223
B	Omega Rx Zone Meals and Snacks	225
C	Your Biological Internet	226
D	Eicosanoids	231
E	Understanding Carbohydrates	254
F	Food Blocks	264
G	Resources	271
H	Calculation of Percent Body Fat	273
	References	287
	Index	375

Woman Thou Art Loosed or Claiming Your Self Esteem

2008-12-30T03:15:00.000-08:00

Woman, Thou Art Loosed!: Healing the Wounds of the Past

Author: T D Jakes

With words that stand the test of time, T.D. Jakes' three books cross denominational lines, racial barriers, and gender biases to reach into the heart of the reader. With the compassion of Jesus Christ, he touches the hidden places of every woman's heart to bring healing to past wounds with the phenomenal best-selling Woman, Thou Art Loosed! With the same intensity he calls all men, women, and children to stop being afraid to reveal what God longs to heal in Naked and Not Ashamed. Only when we drop our masks and facades can we be real before our Lord and others. And with Can You Stand to Be Blessed? T.D. Jakes, a man of many accomplishments and life goals, shares personal insights that will help all people survive the peaks and valleys of daily living out God's call upon their lives. This classics gift set is sure to become a special part of every reader's personal library!

1	Infirm Woman	11
2	Broken Arrows	25
3	That Was Then	41
4	The Victim Survives	51
5	Walk Into the Newness	61
6	Origins of Feminity	71
7	A Womb-Man	81
8	Anoint Me...I'm Single!	93
9	A Table for Two	101
10	Daughter of Abraham	115
11	A Woman Without Excuse	131
12	The True Beauty of a Woman	139
13	Every Woman Needs a Sabbath	147
14	Winter Woman	155
15	Breaking the Chain	171

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Claiming Your Self Esteem: A Guide out of Codependency Addiction and Other Useless Habits

Author: Carolyn M Ball

Discover the crucial missing links between self-esteem, codependency, and addiction. In this book you will,

Learn how to love and respect the most important person in your life -- YOU!
Learn how to become your own best friend
See how to replace failure with success
Find out how to use negative feelings and experiences to create the positive changes you want in your life
Discover how to create relationships that are supportive and fulfilling, and
Experience being at home inside yourself.

Hands on Feet or The Parents Concise Guide to Vaccinations

2008-12-29T18:04:00.000-08:00

Hands on Feet: The New System That Makes Reflexology a Snap!, Vol. 2

Author: Michelle R Kluck Ebbin

Have you ever wondered how foot massage could help lower high blood pressure? Or reduce anxiety attacks? Look no further! Michelle R. Kluck, a massage therapist to the stars from Beverly Hills, knows just how to fix your ailments using reflexology. In this book, she explains her tried-and-true techniques with helpful diagrams and illustrations. And in case you're not sure where to rub, the book comes with her patented Reflexology Sox™ that illustrate, in colorful detail, which part of the foot you should manipulate in order to relive symptoms of PMS, fatigue, and even depression. Hands on Feet provides an insider's look at the revolutionary new technique that is natural and -- best of all -- feels great!

	Introduction	9
Chapter 1	The Sole Story	13
I	The His-toe-ry of Reflexology	15
II	Western Vs. Eastern Healing Philosophy	19
III	Energy in the Body	22
Chapter 2	Baring Your Sole	27
I	What is Reflexology?	29
II	What to Expect from a Reflexology Treatment	36
III	Preparing for a Reflexology Treatment	39
Chapter 3	Treat Your Feet Sweet	47
I	Helpful Hints	49
II	Reflexology Techniques	51
III	Full Foot/Full Body Reflexology Routine	54
IV	Reflexology for the Body Systems	55
Chapter 4	Knock Your Sox Off	61
I	What's Going On Under Your Feet	63
II	Reflex Areas Found on the Reflexology Sox	65
III	Reflex Areas Not Found on Reflexology Sox	84
Chapter 5	Sole-utions	93
Chapter 6	Sole Food	131
I	The Seven Chakras	133
II	The Chakras, Your Sole, and Your Soul	138
Appendix	Foot Facts and Suggested Further Reading	151

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The Parents' Concise Guide to Vaccinations

Author: Lauren Feder

As a physician trained in both standard and holistic medicine–and as a parent herself–Lauren Feder, M.D., presents the facts about vaccinations.

If you have chosen to vaccinate your children, she offers both practical medical and natural remedies to avoid possible side effects.

If you have chosen not to vaccinate your children, she offers natural medicines to strengthen your child’s immune system, along with tips on how to deal with legal exemptions, school requirements, and medical insurances.

If you’re just not sure what to do, she offers a balanced and easy-to-understand discussion of the issues, explaining the truth about the effectiveness of vaccinations, side effects, and much more.

With information on the latest available vaccinations for teens (including the meningococcal and HPV vaccinations), as well as new schedules for childhood vaccinations, The Parents’ Concise Guide to Childhood Vaccinations is a comprehensive and reassuring guide to help you make the right decision for your child.

GI in Your Pocket or Health Insurance Resources

2008-12-29T05:52:00.000-08:00

GI in Your Pocket

Author: Barbara Wilson

Increasing public attention is being paid to the Glycemic Index, which rates how quickly carbohydrates affect blood sugar levels: low GI foods keep us feeling full longer, and may provide additional health benefits. This practical pocket guide features color photographs and plenty of charts, and packs comprehensive information on every aspect of smart low-carb eating, from recognizing beneficial foods to simple preparation methods that can lower the GI-scores of popular dishes, strategies for eating at restaurants, and suggestions for making smart food substitutions.

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Health Insurance Resources: A Guide for People with Chronic Disease and Disability

Author: Dorothy E Northrop

This important resource contains a variety of options for people living with disability and chronic health conditions maximize their rights and entitlements within the health care system. It is an indispensable resource for anyone who is uninsured, underinsured, or who has questions about insurance and doesn't know where to begin. Updated to reflect changes since the first edition, the book contains information on Medicaid, Social Security disability insurance, SSI, COBRA, state high risk pools, pharmacy assistance programs, and much more.

Science and Practice of Strength Training or The Starch Blocker Diet

2008-12-28T20:40:00.000-08:00

Science and Practice of Strength Training: Second Edition

Author: Vladimir M Zatsiorsky

This new second edition of Science and Practice of Strength Training comes with many additions and changes. A new coauthor, Dr. William Kraemer, joins Dr. Vladimir Zatsiorsky in expanding on the principles and concepts needed for training athletes. Among Dr. Kraemer's contributions are three new chapters targeting specific populations—women, young athletes, and seniors—plus the integration of new concepts into the other chapters.

Together the authors have trained more than 1,000 elite athletes, including Olympic, world, continental, and national champions and record holders. The concepts they divulge are influenced by both Eastern European and North American perspectives. The authors integrate those concepts in solid principles, practical insights, coaching experiences, and directions based on scientific findings. This edition is much more practical than its predecessor; to this end, the book provides the practitioner with the understanding to craft strength training programs based on individuals' needs.

Science and Practice of Strength Training, Second Edition, shows that there is no one program that works for any one person at all times or for all conditions. This book addresses the complexity of strength training programs while providing straightforward approaches to take under specific circumstances. Those approaches are applied to new physiological concepts and training practices, which provide readers with the most current information in the science and practice of strength training. The approaches are also applied to the three new chapters, which will help readers design safe and effective strength training programs for women, young athletes, and seniors. In addition, the authors provide examples of strength training programs to demonstrate the principles and concepts they explain in the book.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the basis of strength training, detailing concepts, task-specific strength, and athlete-specific strength. Part II covers methods of strength conditioning, delving into training intensity, timing, strength exercises, injury prevention, and goals. Part III explores training for specific populations. The book also includes suggested readings that can further aid readers in developing strength training programs.

This expanded and updated coverage of strength training concepts will ground readers in the understanding they need in order to develop appropriate strength training programs for each person that they work with.

Pietro Tonino

This is a monograph on the concepts of strength training based on Eastern European experience. This book is designed to address strength training concepts and injury prevention. The book meets these objectives. The intended audience is coaches and scientists who deal with strength training and it is written at an appropriate level. The author is very well respected. This monograph is well illustrated and presents the subject matter in a clear, concise manner. The references are up-to-date and the index is easy to use. This book details the personal experience and preferences of the author, who is a well-known authority in the field of strength training. This is an excellent addition to this field that, in general, lacks books that deal with the concepts of strength training in a scientific manner.

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Reviewer: Pietro Tonino, MD (Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine)
Description: This is a monograph on the concepts of strength training based on Eastern European experience.
Purpose: This book is designed to address strength training concepts and injury prevention. The book meets these objectives.
Audience: The intended audience is coaches and scientists who deal with strength training and it is written at an appropriate level. The author is very well respected.
Features: This monograph is well illustrated and presents the subject matter in a clear, concise manner. The references are up-to-date and the index is easy to use.
Assessment: This book details the personal experience and preferences of the author, who is a well-known authority in the field of strength training. This is an excellent addition to this field that, in general, lacks books that deal with the concepts of strength training in a scientific manner.

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Zatsiorsky, a former strength and conditioning consultant for the Soviet Union Olympic teams, examines strength from a biomechanical and physiological perspective, and shows strength and conditioning professionals and coaches how to use basic scientific principles to improve muscular strength in athletes. He covers exercise selection, injury prevention, goal setting, and alternative exercises for strength enhancement. Contains a glossary and b&w photos and diagrams. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Starch Blocker Diet

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How You Can Survive when Theyre Depressed or Tai Chi

2008-12-28T09:29:00.000-08:00

How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping With Depression Fallout

Author: Anne Sheffield

Each year more than 17 million Americans suffer from a depressive illness, yet few suffer in solitude. How You Can Survive When They're Depressed explores depression from the perspective of those who are closest to the sufferers of this prevalent disorder--spouses, parents, children, and lovers--and gives the successful coping strategies of many people who live with a clinical depressive or manic-depressive and often suffer in silence, believing their own problems have no claim to attention.

Depression fallout is the emotional toll on the depressive's family and close friends who are unaware of their own stressful reactions and needs. Sheffield outlines the five stages of depression fallout: confusion, self-doubt, demoralization, anger, and finally, the desire to escape. Many people will find relief in the knowledge that their self-blame, guilt, sadness, and resentment are a natural result of living with a depressed person.

Sheffield brings together many real-life examples from the pioneering support group she attends at Beth Israel Medical Center of how people with depression fallout have learned to cope. From setting boundaries to maintaining an outside social life, she gives practical tactics for handling the challenges and emotional stresses on a day-to-day basis.

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T'ai Chi: The "Supreme Ultimate" Exercise for Health, Sport, and Self-Defense

Author: Cheng Man Ching

The Chinese secret for youthfulness, health and long life lies at least partly in T'ai Chi, the ballet-like calisthenics they've practiced for centuries. This rhythmical art stresses slow breathing, balanced and relaxed postures and absolute calmness of mind. The practice itself need take no more than ten minutes a day. This book is a complete step-by-step manual for the beginner that will enable anyone to master the sequence of thirty-seven postures that make up the T'ai Chi solo exercise.

1	Introduction : food, history and culture	1
2	Foodstuffs	49
3	Food preparation, preservation and storage	97
4	Food customs	127
5	Food and religion	143
6	Concepts of diet and nutrition	171

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Inclusive Physical Activity or Action Plan for Menopause

Inclusive Physical Activity: A Lifetime of Opportunities

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No More Amoxicillin or Art of Energy Healing

No More Amoxicillin

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Understanding Dental Health or Healthy Bones and Joints

Understanding Dental Health

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Healthy Bones and Joints: A Natural Approach to Treating Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Tendinitis, Myalgia and Bursitis

Feminine Healing or Apple Cider Vinegar

Feminine Healing: A Woman's Guide to a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit

Apple Cider Vinegar: History and Folklore-Composition-Medical Research-Medicinal, Cosmetic, and Household Uses-Commercial and Home Production

American Indian Food or The Sneeze Free Cat Owner

American Indian Food (Food in American History Series)

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The Sneeze-Free Cat Owner: Allergy Management and Breed Selection for the Allergic Cat Lover

Cancer Is a Word Not a Sentence or The Roots of Desire

Cancer Is a Word, Not a Sentence: A Practical Guide to Help You through the First Few Weeks

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The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning, and Sexual Power of Red Hair

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Suffer the Child or The Changing Brain

Suffer the Child: How the Health Care System Is Failing Our Future

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The Changing Brain: Alzheimer's Disease and Advances in Neuroscience

Thin for Good or Pr cticas hol sticas para la salud

Thin for Good: The One Low-Carb Diet That Will Finally Work for You

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Healing Digestive Disorders or The Savvy Senior

Healing Digestive Disorders: Natural Treatments for Gastrointestinal Conditions

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The Savvy Senior: The Ultimate Guide to Health, Family, and Finances for Senior Citizens

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Water Pure and Simple or Natural Choices for Attention Deficit Disorder

Water, Pure and Simple: The Infinite Wisdom of an Extraordinary Molecule

Natural Choices for Attention Deficit Disorder: For Adults and Children Who Want to Achieve Mental Clarity

Mientras Espera or The Complete Idiots Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol

Mientras Espera (While Waiting)

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol

Secrets of Self Healing or Menopause SourceBook

Secrets of Self-Healing: Harness Nature's Power to Heal Common Ailments, Boost Your Vitality, and Achieve Optimum Wellness

Menopause SourceBook

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Divination and Healing or New Diabetic Cookbook

Divination and Healing: Potent Vision

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Healing Power of Essential Oils or Top 100 Recipes for Diabetics

Healing Power of Essential Oils: Fragrance Secrets of Everyday Use This Handbookis a Compact Reference Work on the Effects and Application of 248 Essemntial Oils for Health, Fitness, and Well Being.

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Addiction and Recovery in Gay and Lesbian Persons or Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior

Addiction and Recovery in Gay and Lesbian Persons

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Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior

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Omega 3 Fatty Acids a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or How to Shop with Mary Queen of Shops

Omega-3 Fatty Acids - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

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How to Shop with Mary, Queen of Shops

Natural Alternatives to Vioxx Celebrex and Other Anti Inflammatory Prescription Drugs or Reproductive Health

Natural Alternatives to Vioxx, Celebrex and Other Anti-Inflammatory Prescription Drugs: What to Use to Help Relieve Arthritis Pain and Inflammation

Reproductive Health: Women and Men's Shared Responsibility

Child Magazines Guide to Eating or Understanding Menopause

Child Magazines Guide to Eating

Understanding Menopause (Understanding Illness & Health Series)

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Enlightened Eaters Whole Foods Guide or Pelvic Dysfunction in Men

Enlightened Eater's Whole Foods Guide: Harvest the Power of Phyto Foods

Pelvic Dysfunction in Men: Diagnosis and Treatment of Male Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction

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