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Gluten Free Diet or Radiculopathy a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

2009-12-05T19:47:00.000-08:00

Gluten-Free Diet: 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 gluten-free diet. 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 gluten-free diet.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.

Radiculopathy - 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 radiculopathy. 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 radiculopathy.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 Radiculopathy
Overview
The Combined Health Information Database
Federally Funded Research on Radiculopathy
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Nutrition and Radiculopathy
Overview
Finding Nutrition Studies on Radiculopathy
Federal Resources on Nutrition
Additional Web Resources
Chapter 3. Alternative Medicine and Radiculopathy
Overview
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Additional Web Resources
General References
Chapter 4. Patents on Radiculopathy
Overview
Patent Applications on Radiculopathy
Keeping Current
Chapter 5. Books on Radiculopathy
Overview
The National Library of Medicine Book Index
Chapters on Radiculopathy
Chapter 6. Multimedia on Radiculopathy
Overview
Audio Recordings
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
RADICULOPATHY DICTIONARY
INDEX

Free Yourself from Headaches or La Revolucion de la Nutrimedicina

2009-12-04T15:36:00.000-08:00

Free Yourself from Headaches: The Natural Drug-Free Program for Prevention and Relief

Author: Jan Stromfeld

Advancing a drug-free, natural approach, Stromfeld, a chiropractor and holistic health practitioner, and Weil, a freelance writer, counter the current medical practice of treating persistent headaches with beta blockers and other potent chemicals. Like conventional physicians, the authors emphasize prevention as much as relief. Those already acquainted with alternative healing will note that the book indicts many of holistic medicine's usual suspects: candida albicans, food allergies, deep muscle tension. Stromfeld and Weil's valuable contribution, however, is an emphasis on pragmatic solutions, with numerous tips and methods that are readily incorporated into a busy lifestyle. Simple self-help techniques, such as creative imagery, are explained clearly. They also suggest becoming a "massage buddy" with a friend or relative when finances prohibit seeking professional masseurs to help relieve headache-inducing stress. Many chapters include information on how to locate health practitioners who work in a particular treatment modality.

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La Revolucion de la Nutrimedicina

Author: Kenneth H Cooper

Las mas avanzadas terapias nutricionales para alcanzar una excelente salud y una larga vida. De la A a la Z, todo sobre los alimentos suplementos y nutrientes que curan.

(Advanced Nutritional Therapies by the creator of Aerobics.)

The Natural Approach to Attention Deficit Disorder or Home Remedies

2009-12-03T11:25:00.000-08:00

The Natural Approach to Attention Deficit Disorder (Add) (Good Health Guides)

Author: Ronald L Hoffman

Treating "hyper" children without drugs.

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Home Remedies

Author: Otto Wolff

This book, written by a medical doctor of many years' experience, gives practical advice on how to deal with health problems using natural methods. It describes herbal and homeopathic remedies and provides directions for their use in the home.

Natural methods resolve rather than just suppress symptoms of illness. Treatment of this kind does not simply deal with the symptoms but activates the whole body and its inherent powers of healing.

Nature Spirits and What They Say or How To Get In Football Shape

2009-12-02T07:14:00.000-08:00

Nature Spirits and What They Say: Interviews with Verena Stael Von Holstein

Author: Wolfgang Weirauch

Verena Staël von Holstein has gained the capacity to see and speak with nature spirits. In this remarkable book, Wolfgang Weirauch interviews her, and we hear what fire spirits, air spirits, water spirits, and stone spirits have to say. We also hear from a glass spirit, two house spirits, a salt spirit, a paper spirit, and a silver spirit.

Verena was born in Rendsburg, Germany in 1959. She attended a Waldorf school before studying engineering in Berlin, followed by postgraduate studies in hydrography. She is married with two children, and lives in Northern Germany at the watermill depicted in the book.

The spirits speak about their involvement with nature and their of lack of human contact. They speak of cosmic secrets and about the past and future of humankind. They share views on the environment, on natural disasters, good and evil, and love and redemption. The interviews, some with the spirits themselves, reveal beautiful, sometimes disturbing, descriptions of our world.

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How To Get In Football Shape: Strength Training

Author: Bert Hill

How To Get In Football Shape: Strength Training is for the football player who has mastered the fundamentals of his position and wants to learn the proper techniques to improve strength-with an emphasis on building power and endurance.

The National Football League Coaches Association presents this combination book with DVD to provide the tools to help the players understand the proper techniques to prepare themselves for play.

From inside an NFL weight room, clearly presented techniques are demonstrated--the same techniques and proper exercise programs used in the NFL.

This Bert Hill-designed program builds power and endurance in each part of the body.

How To Get In Football Shape-Strength Training provides tested programs that will give the player a competitive edge that will enhance success on the football field.

Solved or The Energy Edge

2009-12-01T03:03:00.000-08:00

Solved: The Riddle of Weight Loss: Restore Healthy Body Chemistry, Lose Weight, and Overcome Chronic Fatigue

Author: Stephen E Langer

A doctor's nutritional and medical breakthrough reveals common, unsuspected reasons for chronic overweight conditions and shows how these can be corrected.

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The Energy Edge: How to Keep Pace with Your Life

Author: Pamela M Smith

Tired of being tired? Life today is tough and demands a lot from us. We're up earlier and work later. We're so busy getting done what we have to do, there's no energy left for what we want to do. Now Pam Smith, America's foremost sports nutritionist and best-selling author, shows you that life doesn't have to be this way. In The Energy Edge, you will find the tools to outsmart the energy "vandalizers" that drain your energy supply — including lack of sleep, depression, junk food, anxiety, and unhealthy relationships.

Ayurveda Wisdom or Morning Cup of Qigong

2009-11-29T22:52:00.000-08:00

Ayurveda Wisdom

Author: Cybele Tomlinson

Ayurveda Wisdom is an accessible guide to an ancient Indian healing system that promotes using natural means to maintain a balanced life. Cybele Tomlinson, author of Simple Yoga, explains the history of the tradition, describes the body types (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha), and explores Ayurvedic healing practices, meditation practices, and remedies for common ailments. With easy tests to help you discover your own body type, this book will help you change your life in ways that will have lasting benefits for your health and well-being.

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Morning Cup of Qigong: One 15-Minute Routine to Rebuild Your Life

Author: John A Bright Fey

Overclocked members of the rat race looking for a quick and effective way to find a crucial moment of calm in their day will benefit from this series of books that offer a simple, step-by-step framework for balancing the mind and body in the time it takes to drink a morning cup of coffee or tea.

The careful body movements of the ancient Chinese Qigong (pronounced chee-gong) style are combined with innovative meditative techniques in this guide to spiritual calm. Qigong, or Chinese yoga, is a body–mind excercise that creates wellness and health by cultivating the Qi, or life-force energy. This mental exercise is combined with a regimen of simple arm, leg, and body movements in the Qigong style that results in a state of total spiritual calm. The step-by-step exercise routine is provided visually in the book and on the included audio CD.

	What is Qigong?	7
	The Wonders of Qigong	8
	The Simple Secret of Play	8
	Getting Started	10
	How Qigong Works	13
	It's All About the Qi	14
	Ching-Lo: Energy Pathways	15
	New Forest Qigong	18
	Qigong Breath	19
	The New Forest "1 Through 10" Game	22
	The Magic of the Numbers	27
	The Importance of Play	28
	The Secret of the New Forest	29
	The Routine	33
	Leaving the New Forest	57
	An Extra Sip: Intermediate Qigong Breathing	58
	An Extra Sip II: Qigong Energies and Shapes	60
	An Extra Sip III: The Aphorisms of New Forest Qigong	73
	About the Author	78
	The Routine at a Glance	79

Tylers Herbs of Choice or Every Womans Guide to Eating During Pregnancy

2009-11-28T18:41:00.000-08:00

Tyler's Herbs of Choice: The Therapeutic Use of Phytomedicinals

Author: James E Robbers

You won't find folklore and spurious claims in Tyler's Herbs of Choice, only proven direction toward the safe and healthy use of a cornucopia of therapeutic herbs. This reliable follow-up to the original Herbs of Choice is source that will help you keep abreast of one of the most rapidly growing and expanding fields of medicine. You'll get the information and direction you need to make informed, cost-effective decisions toward healing choices - the natural way.

Healthline Magazine - Paul Insel

You won't find folklore and spurious claims in Tyler's Herbs of Choice — only proven direction toward the safe and healthy use of a cornucopia of therapeutic herbs....This book is a reliable follow-up to Herbs of Choice and an excellent source that will help you keep abreast of one of the most rapidly growing fields of medicine.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Douglas McDaniel, MTOM, LAc(Mercy College)
Description:This is a clear, concise, well referenced guide to the use of herbal remedies in the treatment of many common conditions. The selection of the remedies included is based upon well- documented safety and efficacy data.
Purpose:The authors' intent is to educate the practicing physician, student, and lay person about recent clinical studies and advances in the understanding of the mechanisms of action and the important and ever-expanding role that high-quality phytomedicinals can play in the management of chronic conditions and health maintenance. They fulfill this intention by addressing the need for well-documented scientific evidence on the safety and efficacy of herbal remedies to support many years of similar claims based solely on anecdotal evidence.
Audience:This book is written with a wide audience in mind, from the practitioner of Western biomedicine who is thinking of incorporating phytomedicinals into his or her practice, to the student of any herbal tradition, and to the patient who is interested in the safe and effective use of herbal remedies to treat common, everyday ailments. The authors are extremely knowledgeable of phytomedicianls as they are used in the West, but seem to be lacking in understanding of the theories that inform the practice of Chinese and Indian herbal traditions.
Features:This is a brief, well-written overview of the basic principles of medical herbalism as practiced in the West, as well as a history of herbal regulation in the United States, including prudent suggestions as to the development of future regulations. Itis divided into common conditions that have been historically treated with phytomedicinals. The pathogenesis of each condition is clearly presented. Each herb represented has substantial scientific evidence supporting its inclusion. Diagrams illustrating various metabolic processes help the reader to understand what is occurring in the body and how an appropriate herbal intervention may help the body regain healthy function.
Assessment:This is a valuable resource for anyone looking for compelling scientific evidence that phytomedicinals are viable alternatives or complements to many standard forms of treatment.

Library Journal

Originally published as The Honest Herbal in 1982, Tyler's Honest Herbal is still the classic herbal guide for consumers and health practitioners alike, fully referenced with the latest peer-reviewed scientific data. As in previous editions, great emphasis is placed on safety concerns when taking herbs. Tyler's Herbs of Choice, a new edition of the 1994 Herbs of Choice, discusses the therapeutic application of herbal remedies for over 100 health problems. Objective and scientifically sound, it augments Tyler's Honest Herbal, although the titles do not need to be bought together. An added bonus is the useful chapter on "Herbal Regulations," as reliable and understandable information on this topic is hard to find. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

Provides readers with concise, science-based information on hundreds of herbs, organized by the conditions they are generally used for, from the digestive to the immune system. Introductory chapters discuss basic principles, faux herbal medicine, and regulatory concerns. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Internet Book Watch

Tyler's Herbs of Choice provides an important treatise on the therapeutic use of phytomedicinals (herbal remedies) and provide important information on the most effective herbs, what they do, how they work. This is not for the casual reader: technical medical descriptions of common conditions and treatments cover details doctors will need to know and provide explanations of how the herbs interact with the body, and what constitutes acceptable levels of dosage.

Healthline Magazine - Paul Insel, Ph.D.

Haworth Press Incorporated The

This new edition, with additional scientific material, will become one of the most often used references by health practitioners of all types.
---Mark Blumenthal, Founder and Executive Director, American Botanical Council; Editor, HerbalGram

Fluent and free of unnecessary jargon....A splendid update to the original volume...addresses recent developments in the use of herbal medicines in the United States and elsewhere.
---A. Douglas Kinghorn, PhD, DSc. Professor of Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago; Editor, Journal of Natural Products

One of the most useful and most quoted references in the field of herbal medicine.
---Jerry L. McLaughlin, PhD, Professor of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences, Purdue University.

	Preface
Ch. 1	Basic Principles	1
Ch. 2	The Herbal Regulatory Dilemma	23
Ch. 3	Contents and Use of Subsequent Chapters	41
Ch. 4	Digestive System Problems	47
Ch. 5	Kidney, Urinary Tract, and Prostate Problems	89
Ch. 6	Respiratory Tract Problems	111
Ch. 7	Cardiovascular System Problems	127
Ch. 8	Nervous System Disorders	153
Ch. 9	Endocrine and Metabolic Problems	185
Ch. 10	Arthritic and Musculoskeletal Disorders	199
Ch. 11	Problems of the Skin, Mucous Membranes, and Gingiva	211
Ch. 12	Performance and Immune Deficiencies	235
	Index	261

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Every Woman's Guide to Eating During Pregnancy

Author: Martha Rose Shulman

From a best-selling cookbook author and a nationally respected ob-gyn, a book that makes eating well during pregnancy easier than ever

Now that you're pregnant, what you eat is more important than ever before. You may be nauseous or starving or alternately one and the other, and your tastes may change constantly. Whatever your condition, whether you're twenty-seven or forty-seven, and whether you love cooking or hate it, Every Woman's Guide to Eating During Pregnancy gives you all the practical information and tips you need to keep you and your baby healthy. It includes
• suggestions for coping with nausea and heartburn
• ideas on how to make your cravings work for you
• a clear explanation of your changing nutritional needs by trimester
• a week's worth of flexible meal programs, with plenty of ideas for nutritious breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks:

lower-carb, high-protein plans for weight control
higher-carb, high-protein plans
ovo-lacto and vegan plans
plans for women who don't want to cook, including a list of healthful packaged foods from the supermarket
calcium-rich menus for the lactose-intolerant
plans for women who are expecting multiples
plans for women with gestational diabetes
plans for each trimester
• 100 easy, nourishing recipes, including Buttermilk Pancakes, High-Protein Muffins, Mediterranean Chicken Stew, Pasta with Tomato-Mushroom Sauce, and Chocolate Pudding

Publishers Weekly

Shulman (Mediterranean Light) and Davis, director of obstetrics and gynecology at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, team up to offer a slew of recipes plus some basic tips on weight gain, bed rest, fighting nausea, key nutrients and other issues faced by virtually all pregnant women. The recipes include breakfast foods, snacks, salads, soups, sandwiches, main dishes and deserts, and Shulman provides inventive variations on even the most ordinary dishes. She includes a toaster-oven version of the grilled cheese sandwich and a deviled eggs recipe that's easy on the mayonnaise, plus more exotic treats like Grapefruit Avocado Salad, White Bean Puree, and Mediterranean Chicken Stew. Many of the recipes are easy to make and suitable for anyone, pregnant or not. For the pregnant woman, the meal plans which include advice on schedules and portions sizes for the different trimesters will be particularly useful. Shulman and Davis devise special programs for those with conditions such as lactose intolerance and gestational diabetes. They offer low- and high-carb programs, as well as special plans for vegetarians and nursing mothers. Fans of Shulman's other books are especially likely to find this comprehensive new volume appealing. (Aug) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Pilates or The Memory Advantage

2009-02-20T16:04:00.000-08:00

Pilates: Vistoso, intenso y agil

Author: Barbara Marckhgott

Different forms of exercise and bodywork that relieve tension, increase strength, improve balance, and heighten awareness of the physical body and its well-being are presented in each volume of this affordable series.

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The Memory Advantage: Improve Your Memory, Mood and Confidence Throughout Life

Author: Thomas H Crook

"Dr. Thomas Crook is a major contributor in the field of memory research and The Memory Advantage shares his wealth of knowledge in a handy, easy to read guide that provides you with everything you need to know, to repair, and maintain the mechanisms in your brain which help you stay sharp and focused.

The research shows, that once you are past 25 your mental capacity has begun to wane, so it’s not simply the older generation that can benefit from this knowledge. The Memory Advantage is for every adult who wishes to take an active role in improving his or her mental fitness and keeping it that way for life! This is the first publication to incorporate the facts and findings with simple exercises and lifestyle recommendations that will get you back on track!

The Memory Advantage delivers it all, in a single volume, everything you need to know to care for our most powerful and important tool and get the most out of life!"

Age Well or Fat Burner Workout

2009-02-19T11:52:00.000-08:00

Age Well!: A Cleveland Clinic Guide

Author: Robert Palmer

There is no "magic bullet" for optimal aging - which, by the way, has nothing to do with wrinkle-free skin or a good-to-go libido as you sail into your 90s, and everything to do with maintaining your ability to function and remain autonomous, independent, mobile, and cognitively sound until then. At 55 or 75 or 95, your body is at the physical stage your lifestyle habits and the mileage you've put on them have gotten them to. But, you can, at any age revive the process of "Aging Well." This book isn't about the mechanical devices that you can install to make you fell "younger," or about the exterior re-sculpting you can do to look younger. The purpose of this book is to show you that aging, per se, is not the cause of many age-related conditions: For instance, you can get gray hair anytime, it's just more likely that you will at 50 than at 25. The same is true for bone and joint problems, wrinkles, and a host of other conditions that tend to come with advancing years.

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Fat-Burner Workout: Fit and Fabulous in 30 Days

Author: Chrissie Gallagher Mundy

Forget everything you've been told--the secret to keeping pounds off isn't endless dieting, it's regular and specific exercise. Burn more calories then you take in, and you'll lose weight, period! This 30-day fitness plan features carefully selected exercises designed to revitalize your mind, reenergize your body, and speed your metabolism. You'll find special workouts for trouble areas like stomach and thighs, as well as a personal assessment guide to help you track your fitness level. Nearly 200 color photographs and illustrations show proper exercise technique, and you'll also find a food chart and diary, listings of foods and drinks that can help supercharge any workout, and strategies for managing the special challenges of the office and holidays. Even if you haven't exercised in years, you can quickly custom-design a program to ease yourself back into fitness. So eat what you want, and let your workout take care of the rest!

Natural Menopause or Morning Cardio Workouts

2009-02-18T07:40:00.000-08:00

Natural Menopause: Discover the Alternatives to HRT

Author: Jan Clark

For the growing number of women concerned about the risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), this sequel to the popular Natural Menopause Cookbook offers safe, natural alternatives. Prevent and treat hot flashes, night sweats, moodswings, and lack of concentration with complementary therapies, including traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, meditation, herbs, massage, yoga, and aromatherapy. Examine health and lifestyle issues, including stress, sex, diet, exercise, osteoporosis and heart disease, and cultivate ways to nurture, relax, and rebalance the body in its new hormonal state. With 160 photos and how-to exercises, it's everything you need to make menopause the natural event and positive change that it is.

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Morning Cardio Workouts

Author: June K Kahn

A cardio workout to fit every morning schedule! You know that exercising in the morning is the best way to exercise regularly, manage weight, and energize your day. Morning Cardio Workouts explains how to maximize the benefits of your morning exercise routine.

With a variety of workouts, you can customize a program that fits your needs and your schedule. Including outdoor walking and running and indoor activities such as stair stepping, elliptical training, and swimming, the various options allow you to diversify your routine, eliminate boredom, and remain dedicated to your fitness goals.

You'll learn how to combine activities for recovery, injury prevention, and cross-training. And nutrition advice shows you how to optimize morning eating and hydration to maximize energy upon waking. Tips to improve your fitness environment are also included to make workouts even more effective and enjoyable. With Morning Cardio Workouts, you will never tire of your morning routine again.

Morning Cardio Workouts is part of the Morning Workout series, books designed to help you get in tune with both mind and body, stay motivated, and improve your morning exercise experience.

What People Are Saying

Dennis Johnston
"This book has really spiced up my morning cardio workouts. The minute-by-minute breakdowns of each workout keep me challenged and focused."--(Dennis Johnston, Broadway Performer, The Lion King)

Lisa Wheeler
"I have never come across a book that so organically pulls together the triangle of mind, body, and breath as it relates to cardio training. I would recommend Morning Cardio Workouts to anyone looking to get a jump start on their day-and their life."--(Lisa Wheeler, International Master Trainer, Reebok University, Body Bar, and Smart Bells)

Nancy Lee Grahn
"I think you'll be as impressed as I am with the knowledge, experience, and commitment Lawrence Biscontini conveys in Morning Cardio Workouts, particularly when it comes to getting in great shape. Read and enjoy...I did!"--(Nancy Lee Grahn, actress, "General Hospital", Emmy Award winner)

Petra Kolber
"Written by two of the best in the industry, Morning Cardio Workouts is packed with exciting and energizing workouts."--(Petra Kolber, Reebok Master Trainer and IDEA Fitness Spokesperson)

The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Sugar Energy or Lillian Toos 168 Feng Shui Ways to a Calm and Happy Life

2009-02-17T03:28:00.000-08:00

The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Sugar & Energy: The Authoritative Guide to the Sugar-Glycemic Index Connection--and How to Use It to Your Advantage

Author: Jennie Brand Miller

The glycemic index (GI) is an easy-to-understand measure of how different foods affect our blood glucose levels, and it is revolutionizing the way we eat. Medical experts and health authorities throughout the world now advocate using GI values to make daily food decisions, so it's never been more important to understand how to choose and benefit from low-GI foods. In The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Sugar and Energy, the world's leading GI authorities explain the powerful role of sugar and how it affects the body. They dispel common myths about sugar and present scientific findings, including Harvard University studies which challenge many common assumptions about sugar. Also provided is key information about blood sugar control, weight loss, dental health, behavior, mental performance, and exercise, as well as meal plans, a low-GI food finder, and GI values for hundreds of foods and beverages.

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Lillian Too's 168 Feng Shui Ways to a Calm and Happy Life

Author: Lillian Too

The world's bestselling feng shui author leads her many readers down the path to a lifetime of happiness and harmony. In the same format as the popular Lillian Too's 168 Feng Shui Ways to Declutter Your Home, her new tip-based guide examines the flow of energy, or chi, inside the home and afflictions caused by poor design. She gives simple remedies for finding romance and assuring a blissful marriage, and devotes an entire section to Flying Star feng shui, which determines exactly when certain areas are lucky or unlucky, so you can maximize their potential for peace and joy. Both tangible and intangible elements receive Too's careful attention, along with advice on doing regular feng shui updates and adding symbolic enhancements to the house.

Understanding Cancer or Venus Envy

2009-02-15T23:16:00.000-08:00

Understanding Cancer: A Patient's Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment

Author: C Norman Coleman

The greatest need of anyone with cancer is to understand the disease -- its diagnosis, treatment options, and the often devastating experience of having cancer. In Understanding Cancer, Dr. C. Norman Coleman explains how to gather information about treatments and how to interpret that information to make decisions. He helps the person with cancer prepare for visits to doctors and the hospital and to make those visits as productive as possible. He distills the often complex medical terms and concepts underlying the statistics and percentages used to characterize medical conditions. With clear, in-depth discussions of pretreatment staging of disease, the biology of cancer, how successful treatment is defined, and how best to manage one's time, Understanding Cancer helps people with cancer and their families become active participants in the decision-making process.

In the second edition of this highly respected guide, Dr. Coleman describes new treatments that target specific types of cancer as well as treatments that are designed for a particular individual. He discusses the era of molecular medicine, including biomarkers, novel imaging, molecular signatures and profiling, and molecular-targeted therapy. Many of these therapies are currently only available through a clinical trial, so Dr. Coleman includes a detailed discussion of what is involved in participating in research trials.

Compassionate, accessible, and informative, Understanding Cancer will increase the reader's knowledge of medical concepts and terms so the person with cancer, the family, and the health care team can work together efficiently -- and effectively.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Melody L. McKinney, DNS, RN(Indiana State University)
Description:Achieving success in cancer care is best accomplished with the active involvement of the patient and family. This book addresses the challenge of educating patients and families about participating in care and decision-making under the intense conditions often associated with a recent cancer diagnosis. As in the previous edition, an experienced radiation oncologist provides up-to-date basic cancer information. The new edition increases the emphasis on clinical trials and covers new treatments targeting specific types of cancer, individualized treatment, and molecular medicine therapies such as biomarkers, novel imaging, molecular signatures and profiling, and molecular-targeted therapy.
Purpose:This is intended to provide the information needed by patients and families to make informed treatment decisions and to increase their comfort level in managing life after a cancer diagnosis.
Audience:This book would be useful to the cancer patient, as well as to family, friends, and lay and professional caregivers. The author is an expert with over three decades of experience in the field of oncology.
Features:The nine chapters cover basic cancer topics such as what cancer is; diagnostic testing and staging; making treatment decisions; conventional treatments; molecular-targeted therapy; weighing risks and benefits; and clinical research trials. The final chapter includes four case studies that illustrate how decision treatments are made. The book also includes an index, bibliography, and four appendixes with information on cancer molecular biology, costeffectiveness, performance status scoring systems, and a patient checklist for recording diagnosis and treatment information.
Assessment:The author has met his goal to create a useful reference that provides cancer patients and their families with the information necessary to take an active role in treatment and management. This well written, up-to-date book is concise and easy to read and understand. Written in everyday language without being overly simplistic, the book provides clear explanations, examples, and practical advice that can serve as a framework for treatment decisions. Cancer is a life-altering experience and this book supports the author's belief that people with cancer can, with the appropriate tools, often lead fuller and more meaningful lives than they did before the diagnosis.

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Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery

Author: Elizabeth Haiken

"Haiken has written a humane, balanced history of cosmetic surgery, drawing with sensitivity and deftness on impressive archival sources, including surgeons' folders on prospective patients... Her book is a first-class exercise in medical history, raising intriguing questions about normalization, ideological manipulation, gender, ethnicity, and the profit motive in medicine."--Richard Davenport-Hines, Nature

"What makes Venus Envy such an enthralling read is that alongside a host of macabre and 'no--really!' stories... there is a hugely intelligent and perceptive analysis of American culture and history going on."--London Times

Face lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, liposuction, collagen injections -- the body at the end of the twentieth century has become endlessly mutable, and surgical alteration has become an accepted part of American culture. In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken traces the quest for physical perfection through surgery from the turn of the century to the present. Drawing on a wide array of sources -- personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides -- Haiken reveals how our culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and social problems.

"An informative, often engaging account of the history of cosmetic surgery in the United States."--Parade Magazine

"Original, well-researched, and a pleasure to read. It constitutes an astute analysis of the modern commodification of the body and the role of the medical profession in such developments." -- Roy Porter, Times Higher Education Supplement

"This is an important book, raising provocative questions about the ubiquity ofcosmetic surgery in our culture... I'll certainly draw on its insights when counseling patients considering cosmetic surgery."--Janet E. Shepherd, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association

"An entertaining history and serious analysis of the tensions among professional medicine, entrepreneurial practitioners, and the mutable ideal of beauty that reminds us how unchanging is the American search for self-improvement... If Venus Envy is a history of cosmetic surgery, it is equally a political history of beauty."--Sharon Lieberman, Women's Review of Books

Library Journal

Haiken (History,. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) tracks the evolution of plastic surgery in America from early attempts during World War I to the numerous varieties of cosmetic surgery available today. The author uses materials from the National Archives of Plastic Surgery and the Jerome Pierce Webster Library of Plastic Surgery as well as popular and medical literature of the times to illustrate the social, ethnic, psychological, and economic concerns that have contributed to the tremendous expansion of cosmetic surgery. Haiken also discusses why plastic surgeons who originally practiced only reconstructive surgery began to include cosmetic surgery in their practices. This well-written volume portrays an interesting example of the intersection between medicine and culture and is recommended for medical history collections in academic or special libraries.Tina Neville, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib.

Michelle Goldberg

Historian Elizabeth Haiken begins her enlightening new book on plastic surgery, Venus Envy, by comparing the noses of Fanny Brice and Barbra Streisand. "In 1923, Americans clamored for an explanation of why Fanny Brice, beloved vaudeville actress, successful comedienne, and star of Florenz Ziegfeld's new Follies, had bobbed her nose. Forty years later ... When Barbra Streisand emerged on the national scene, Americans wanted to know why she had not."

In Venus Envy, Haiken tells the story of plastic surgery's ascent from the exception to the rule. Her narrative is as much about changing American attitudes toward the body and unspoken conflicts over racial characteristics as it is about the medical technology that has made increasingly radical transformations possible. In tracing the development of cosmetic surgery, Haiken examines the intertwining influences of wartime medical advances, pop psychology, racism and, oddly, a certain strain of feminism that champions surgery as a path to self-determination and self-improvement.

Plastic surgeons returning from World War I, where they had made revolutionary advances in reconstructing the faces of injured soldiers, realized that "beauty, as a business, offered seemingly limitless potential," Haiken writes. At the time, however, cosmetic surgeons were regarded as quacks, and something of the Victorian opposition to vanity still prevailed. "It is the duty of every physician and surgeon to try and argue with [patients], to convince them that correction is unnecessary," one surgeon wrote.

Ironically, it was the seemingly unrelated field of psychology that catapulted cosmetic surgery into the mainstream. In the '20s and '30s, Haiken writes, Americans became obsessed with Viennese psychologist Alfred Adler's theory of the "inferiority complex." The notion that physical deformities led to inferiority complexes, which in turn caused a host of other dysfunctions, was so widely accepted that in 1927 plastic surgery was performed on prisoners at San Quentin as a rehabilitative measure. "In breaking down the barrier restricting them to reconstruction," Haiken writes, "surgeons laid claim to the whole body and mind of healthy individuals by linking physical abnormalities to psychological problems for which cosmetic surgical intervention was the prescribed cure." By the end of the '30s, the idea that surgeons should avoid operating in all but the most desperate cases had been wholly reversed. "The disgrace, if any, is in allowing a manifest deformity to remain," said surgeon Adalbert G. Bettman.

Haiken is obviously troubled by the rampant spread of cosmetic surgery, especially operations that straighten Jewish noses, put folds in Asian eyelids and lighten black skin. But she avoids placing all the blame on doctors, understanding that women were demanding many procedures and getting them illegally if legitimate surgeons turned them away. Venus Envy ends on a resigned, slightly mournful note, because Haiken believes cosmetic surgery is creating a world where beauty standards are brutally conformist and stringent. "Most Americans probably would not go so far as to deem the decision not to have cosmetic surgery antisocial, but they are more ready than ever to concede that it may be impractical," she writes. "And as Americans and their surgeons have come to see cosmetic surgery as the most practical solution for an ever-larger number of problems, not having surgery, like tilting at windmills, can seem hopelessly naive, at the very least outdated." --Salon

Kirkus Reviews

An entertaining and enlightening history of how the practice of cosmetic surgery has been shaped by the priorities and demands of 20th-century American culture as much as by those of the medical profession.

To characterize the shift in American attitudes toward cosmetic surgery, Haiken (History/Univ. of Tennessee) notes that when Fanny Brice had her nose bobbed in the 1920s, Americans asked why, whereas in the 1960s, when Barbra Streisand didn't, they asked why not. Haiken's history is full of anecdotes about surgeons and patients, excerpts from the popular press, especially women's magazines, and quotes from the medical literature. It is also extensively illustrated with movie and television stills, cartoons, before-and-after photos, and advertisements—including an astonishing one for a

"Homely Girl Contest" run by the New York Daily Mirror in 1924. Haiken details how this field of surgery developed after WW I, the attempts of the American Board of Plastic Surgery to control its practice, and the discovery by surgeons that prosperity lay not in reconstructive but in purely cosmetic surgery. She reveals how surgeons who were reluctant to be linked to "beauty" doctors found medical justification for cosmetic procedures in psychology: They were curing inferiority complexes caused by patients' perceived imperfections. While facial surgery receives the greater part of Haiken's attention, she also gives a brief history of breast surgery and touches on liposuction and penile enhancement. Perhaps most interesting is her discussion of the use of plastic surgery to conceal or minimize physical signs of ethnicity. Using Michael Jackson as a case in point, she demonstrates the desire of many members of minority groups to conform to narrow American ideals of beauty.

A warts-and-all portrait of a medical speciality that still evokes ambivalence in individuals and in the culture at large.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Present at the Re-Creation	1
1	Plastic Surgery Before and After	17
2	The Specialty Takes Shape	44
3	Consumer Culture and the Inferiority Complex	91
4	The Lifting of the Middle Class: Aging in Post-World War II America	131
5	The Michael Jackson Factor: Race, Ethnicity, and Cosmetic Surgery	175
6	Beauty and the Breast	228
	Epilogue: The Eye of the Beholder	285
	Notes	303
	Illustration Credits	353
	Index	355

Colour Forecasting or Qigong A Legacy in Chinese Healing

2009-02-14T19:03:00.000-08:00

Colour Forecasting

Author: Tracy Dian

The colour forecasting process is a major driving force in the fashion and textile industries but is complex, highly intuitive and little understood.

This textbook for students of fashion and design discusses the development of the various driving forces of fashion, when colour forecasting began and how it has developed to its present day state. Colour terminology and some of the more subjective tools used by colour forecasters are explained, and their strengths and weaknesses are compared. Also, a model is given of the colour forecasting process and this is discussed in detail. Finally, readers are shown how forecasting methodologies are used to develop ‘colour stories’.

	Introduction : what is colour forecasting?
Ch. 1	Fashion forecasting and the driving forces of fashion : 1700-2000	1
Ch. 2	The views of forecasters and trend information users	25
Ch. 3	Colour knowledge	45
Ch. 4	The colour forecasting process	83
Ch. 5	The colour forecaster's tool kit	105
Ch. 6	Colour story development and presentation	121
Ch. 7	The future of colour forecasting	155

Interesting textbook: Eating Your Words or Real Cheese Companion

Qigong - A Legacy in Chinese Healing: The Eight Treasures and Meditations

Author: Dean Y Deng

Qigong is an ancient Chinese "soft" inner martial art which continues to be the leading internal energy/health/fitness modality practiced by billions of Chinese people for 5,000 years. Fundamental to all other energy practices, Qigong can make the difference where nothing else will. Tried and proven, Qigong practice allows you to take responsibility for your own gift of energy and health. Qi, life force energy, and Gong, to develop and practice it, is free for all who choose to do it. It is the one natural thing in the universe that allows you to "manufacture" universal energy internally. Neither the best night's sleep or food can compare to the radiant, self-empowering energy received from these profound Treasures. It is considered by many to be the best vehicle for health protection.

Transparently clear and presented in a loving, warm, simple style, Qigong, A Legacy in Chinese Healing, is heart connected and transports you along a gentle pathway to a deeper understanding of Qigong, its foundation and unlimited health benefits for all, physically, mentally, spiritually. Whether younger or older, heavier or thinner, shorter or taller, or whatever lifestyle or state of health one has or one wishes for, The Eight Treasures of Qigong Program will provide the inlets and outlets to create immediate and long lasting changes in your life. These gentle 14 movements can be practiced independently….. And in these precious moments, you will find peace, deep relaxation, life balance and stress management to sustain you and return to you one hundred fold.

Qigong, A Legacy in Chinese Healing, now in its second printing, is the universal invitation to self-empowerment and eternal energy experience. Easy, readable and do-able, you can begin to change your life forever at any given moment.

What People Are Saying

Cullen Patrick Landry
I consider this book to be the Tao Te Ching of Qigong. Through The Eight Treasures of Qigong, I have absorbed the incredible force of Qi, allowing health impediments to disappear, simultaneously inviting healing energy of love, inner strength and peace. (Cullen Patrick Landry, B.S.S., J.D., Attorney-at-Law)

John M. Lundquist
John M. Lundquist, M.L.S., Ph.D., The Susan and Douglas Dillon Chief Librarian Of The Oriental Division The New York Public Library:

It is my great pleasure to be able to enthusiastically recommend Qigong, A Legacy in Chinese Healing, by Dr. Dean Y. Deng and Enid Ballin. This is one of those rare books that provide invaluable practical physical and mental health training principles built upon the foundation of the deep wisdom of Chinese philosophy.

Bob Gordon
Bob Gordon, Training Specialist, U. S. Government:Gordon

The book is written with a clarity and precious that render the once mysterious practice of Qigong simple and accessible. The book adds depth and detail to the class and video, yet stands alone as an effective manual for practice.

Shi De Jiang
Shi De Jiang, Director, The Shanghai Qigong Research Institute:

I found the book rich in both content and pictures, which will further develop our Chinese culture for Qigong on a traditional basis. I, on behalf of the Chinese people, would like to thank you and show my respect for your work.

Antoine Ky
Antoine Ky, D.C.:

Dr. Dean Y. Deng has devoted his life to the practice of Qigong and healing. His energy shines through in this incomparable work, opening your heart and soul to Qi, while giving confidence and new perspective to all students and masters of Qigong.

Silvi Beaumont
Silvi Beaumont, D.C.:

This volume can have an enormous positive impact on your health. These pages also offer excellent instructions in The Eight Treasures of Qigong and make important inroads into health care improvement.

Louis Duit
Louis Duit, Antiquarian Bookdealer:

What makes this book so good and successful is that it is simple and, therefore, understandable. That is its biggest power. Plus, it's very joyful!

Delicious Desserts When You Have Diabetes or ABC of Smoking Cessation

2009-02-13T14:51:00.000-08:00

Delicious Desserts When You Have Diabetes: Over 200 Recipes

Author: Sandy Kapoor

How to prepare and enjoy delightful desserts when you have diabetes People with diabetes often believe that they cannot enjoy rich, delicious-tasting cooking--such as desserts. Professor, chef, and dietitian Sandy Kapoor proves them wrong, showing those who suffer from diabetes how they can fit desserts into a healthy plan of eating. Presenting over 200 mouth-watering recipes that anyone will enjoy, Kapoor teaches the reader to use healthy dessert cooking techniques and ingredients to transform high-fat, high-cholesterol, and high-sugar desserts into scrumptious healthy versions.
Sandy Kapoor, PhD, RD, FADA (San Marino, CA), is a trained chef from the Culinary Institute of America, a registered dietitian, and a Fellow of the American Dietetic Association. She is the author of Professional Healthy Cooking (Wiley: 0-471-53839-6) and Healthy and Delicious:400 Professional Recipes (Wiley: 0-471-31877-9).

	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	1
	Computing Nutrients in Recipes	9
	Fresh Fruit Desserts	11
	Fruit Crisps, Crumbles, Tortes, Sauces, and Other Cooked Fruit Desserts and Gelatins	35
	Cakes	59
	Cookies and Bars	89
	Muffins, Biscuits, Pancakes, Coffee Cakes, and Other Breakfast Desserts	111
	Pies, Tarts, and Cheesecakes	139
	Pie Crusts, Tart and Meringue Shells, and Meringue Toppings	167
	Frozen Yogurts, Sherbets, Ice Creams, Sorbets, and Other Frozen Desserts	181
	Smoothies, Shakes, Fruit Drinks, and Teas	203
	Frostings, Sauces, Dips, and Toppings	213
	Index	231

Interesting book: Il mondo di modo

ABC of Smoking Cessation

Author: John Britton

The ABC of Smoking Cessation explains the practical problem of smoking and its contribution to health, and what can and should be done about it.

It explains how much smoking damages health at individual and public level; the central role of nicotine addiction in smoking: how to assess and assist individual smokers to quit smoking; how to set up smoking cessation services; the problems and dealing with smoking in special groups such as the young, or pregnant women; approaches to reducing the harm caused by smoking; the economic impact of smoking; and the public health and policy initiatives that can be used to reduce smoking.

It is a practical guide to dealing with one of the most important public health problems in the world.

Your Critically Ill Child or Sleep Deprivation

2009-02-12T10:39:00.000-08:00

Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face

Author: Christopher M Johnson

Perhaps the most difficult words parents will ever hear are "Your child is critically ill." Now Dr. Christopher Johnson, the former director of Mayo Clinic's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, gives parents a helpful guide to answering the painful questions that come when a child is critically ill. The book's opening chapter lays out the full array of treatments that today's medical science can offer to severely ill children. The author then details what the technological limits are and how parents must sometimes think out of the box to save a child's life. To illustrate each chapter, Johnson draws on cases from his own practice, telling of children who beat the odds — a good reminder to parents that miracles do happen.

Books about: Weight Management or Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior

Sleep Deprivation

Author: Clete A Kushida

Exploring the wide array of structures, substances, and environments that are primary factors in the initiation or inhibition of sleep, this reference highlights key findings from respected professionals around the globe on the social and economic burden of impaired performance, productivity, and safety arising from sleep deprivation-studying pharmacological treatment regimens for sleep disturbance, as well as cognitive and behavioral coping strategies.

Chasing Life or Fitness in American Culture

2009-02-11T06:26:00.000-08:00

Chasing Life: The Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today

Author: Sanjay Gupta

For centuries, adventurers and scientists have pursued the dream of immortality. Today it appears it might actaully be a reality. This is not an anti-aging book. It's a groundbreaking guide to functionl aging--living longer than we ma y have ever thought possible. Practical immortality may now be within our grasps thanks to cutting-edge scientific research and amazing medical breakthroughs that are coming at such astonishing speed we can hardly keep up. In CHASING LIFE, Dr. Gupta blends dramatic accouts if amazing discoveries from around the world with essential advice on how you can apply them for optimal health and longevity. What Dr. Gupta has found is provacative and often counterintuitive. This life-changing book revolutionizes the way you think about aging--and reveals the secrets to helping you live a longer, healthier life for many years to come.

"Sanjay Gupta is at his best in CHASING LIFE, covering everything from illegal stem cells to the scientific edges of memory. To achieve your own version of immortality, you can simply 'page' Dr. Gupta by turning the first page of this groundbreaking new book."--Mehmet C. Oz, MD, coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers You: The Owner's Manual and You: On a Diet

"Is it possible to have the exquisite combination, the wisdom of experience along with biology of youth? In his book, CHASING LIFE, Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows you how." --Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind

"Dr. Sanjay Gupta prescribes sensible,evidence-based advice for living a long and healthy life. He evaluates the latest scientific research on life extension, looks at anti-aging claims, and concludes that informed lifestyle choices are your best hope of maintaining good health as you age. Chasing Life is good medicine." --Andrew Weil, author of Healthy Aging

"My friend Dr. Sanjay Gupta has written a book that makes sense when it comes to staying healthy, making important medical decisions and preserving quality of life. This book is probably the closest we'll get to a map to the fountain of youth."--Lance Armstrong, Cancer survivor, Seven-time Tour de France Champion and founder of the Lance Armstrong Foundation

Publishers Weekly

Readers seeking the key to everlasting life will find some clues in neurosurgeon Gupta's survey of the latest research on longevity. Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, touches on recent breakthroughs as he offers some basic guidelines for adding years to what he and other aging experts call "health span." The goal, Gupta says, is not merely to live longer. To help readers live longer and better, he boils down conflicting health advice and makes some surprising prescriptions. For example, it is not what you eat, but how much you eat that affects longevity; vitamin supplements may be a waste of time and money; and a little upper-body strengthening is far more effective than an hour on a StairMaster. To support this advice, Gupta relates the experiences of a 103-year-old woman from Okinawa; a former executive who began training at age 86 and is a record-breaking sprinter at age 92; and others who are aging well by staying active, eating wisely, being positive and maintaining strong social networks. While stem cell injections, nanotechnology, cryonics and other possible therapies are on the horizon, Gupta tells readers that extending life today is as easy as eating less, moving more and exercising the brain. While Gupta's mix of futuristic science and do-it-yourself advice is far from seamless, many readers will find the lessons in his tales of the long lived worthwhile. (Apr.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Susan B. Hagloch - Library Journal

Just exactly how do we age? Why do some societies have so many more centenarians than others? Is immortality possible? These questions form the basis of this book by CNN's chief medical correspondent, Gupta (neurosurgery, Emory Univ. Hosp. & Grady Memorial Hosp., Atlanta). He explains new scientific discoveries that are being made on the cellular process of aging and possible means of regeneration and shows that some previous assumptions about optimum health practices are being proved wrong. Supplements may be a waste of your money; deep breathing is more important than you ever knew; cell phones do not cause cancer; and long life may be more about your social network than your exercise plan. Gupta covers stem-cell therapy and degenerative diseases as well as practical advice to prevent aging. This is a fascinating look at the research being done and its promise for the future. It will tell you how to live not only longer but also better. Highly recommended.

Acknowledgments     9
Beginning the Chase     11
Living to a Hundred     32
The Supplement Boom     71
Run for Your Life     106
Memories R Us     128
Taming the Beast     161
A Growing Problem     202
Sunny-Side Up     239
The Future Is Coming     269
Chasing Life     311
Resources     315
Reading List     327
Index     331
About the Author     355

Look this: Herbs in the Treatment of Children or Getting Pregnant the Natural Way

Fitness in American Culture: Images of Health, Sport, and the Body, 1830-1940

Author: Kathryn Grover

Focusing on the period from 1830-1940, this collection of essays by six distinguished historians explores American' fascination with health and sport, a preoccupation that continues even today in the current diet and fitness craze.Other topics explored include changing attitudes toward fitness and wellness, how advertising reflected health concerns, iron as a symbol of vitality and strength, the increasing specialization of foods, and the advent of organized and competitive sports.

Booknews

Expands the second edition of 1984 from 32 to 45 chapters. Provides information to assist the fitter in the practical management of a contact lens practice. Covers the new modalities of gas-permeable, extended-wear, disposable, and bifocal lenses. Includes 48 full-color and 18 two-color illustrations. Five entertaining and enlightening essays (first presented at a symposium held at the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in spring 1986) give perspective to current fads by discussing sport in American life; advertising and the body; iron therapy and tonics; popular concepts of diet, strength, and energy in the early 20th century; and educational views of exercise and athletics in 19th c. America. An introduction and numerous illustrations (drawn mostly from the Museum's collection) augment the presentation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Fatigue as a Window to the Brain or Neurogenic Bladder a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

2009-02-10T02:14:00.000-08:00

Fatigue as a Window to the Brain

Author: John DeLuca

Although fatigue has been actively investigated for more than 100 years, we have progressed little in either its theoretical or practical understanding. Fatigue has been considered to be both a symptom and an illness. Fatigue is a primary reason for patient visits to the physician's office, but it is difficult to measure and offers doctors little important information for diagnosis. Fatigue as a Window to the Brain gathers experts on a wide variety of disorders to consider what the presence of fatigue tells us about how the brain works -- more specifically, to identify the neural mechanisms potentially responsible for fatigue. The book looks at many of the major conditions in which fatigue is observed, with the hope that patterns may emerge that will suggest paths for future research. It will be of interest to neuroscientists, clinical researchers, and physicians and other clinicians.

After discussing the nature of fatigue -- its history and epidemiology and its assessment, measurement, and interpretation -- the book turns to specific conditions associated with fatigue. It considers neurological conditions, including multiple sclerosis and stroke; psychiatric conditions as well as the overall treatment of fatigue in psychiatry; and general medical conditions, including HIV, heart disease, lupus, cancer, and others. The book then offers an overview of treatment approaches. It concludes with a definition of fatigue -- both "primary" and "secondary" -- and suggestions for future study.

Neurogenic Bladder - 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 neurogenic bladder. 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 neurogenic bladder.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 Neurogenic Bladder
Overview
The Combined Health Information Database
Federally Funded Research on Neurogenic Bladder
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Nutrition and Neurogenic Bladder
Overview
Finding Nutrition Studies on Neurogenic Bladder
Federal Resources on Nutrition
Additional Web Resources
Chapter 3. Alternative Medicine and Neurogenic Bladder
Overview
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Additional Web Resources
General References
Chapter 4. Patents on Neurogenic Bladder
Overview
Patents on Neurogenic Bladder
Patent Applications on Neurogenic Bladder
Keeping Current
Chapter 5. Books on Neurogenic Bladder
Overview
Book Summaries: Federal Agencies
Chapters on Neurogenic Bladder
Chapter 6. Periodicals and News on Neurogenic Bladder
Overview
News Services and Press Releases
Newsletter Articles
Academic Periodicals covering Neurogenic Bladder
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
NEUROGENIC BLADDER DICTIONARY
INDEX

The One Minute or The Omega Rx Zone

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

The One Minute (or so) Healer: 500 Simple Ways to Heal Yourself Naturally

Author: Dana Ullman

The One-Minute (Or So) Healer, drawing on a wide range of natural healing approaches including nutrition, yoga, homeopathy, massage, relaxation, and even humor, not only gets readers back on their feet, but also provides them with quick and easy ways to do so. Using a relaxed, humorous style, this guide addresses 31 common health problems along with 500 healing techniques.

Book review: Dr Atkins Revised Diet Package or Consumer Handbook on Dizziness and Vertigo

The 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

Return of the Rishi or Eating Disorders in Athletes

2009-02-07T17:50:00.000-08:00

Return of the Rishi

Author: Deepak Chopra

A remarkable first-person account of a young doctor's spiritual journey. Chopra guides us from his beginnings in India, through the conventional training of a Western physician, to his discovery of the ancient traditions of India's Ayurveda and the dimension of the mind in medicine.

New interesting textbook: Yoga and Psychology or Yoga for Living

Eating Disorders in Athletes

Author: Joaquin Dosil

This comprehensive, up-to-date book presents the latest research and applied practice to address all of the key issues relating to sport and eating disorders. The book begins by looking at the underlying factors behind the development of disordered eating. It goes on to consider evaluation, diagnosis and treatment across a wide range of sports and assesses the various types of treatment available and the practicalities of implementing treatment programmes. A whole chapter is devoted to the role of the internet, both as a source of information and possible treatment, for athletes with these disorders. The final chapter provides four practical examples and case studies of disordered eating in high-risk sports.

Yoga and Psychology or Yoga for Living

2009-02-06T07:33:00.000-08:00

Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism

Author: Harold G Coward

Harold Coward explores how the psychological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to intellectual developments both East and West. Foundational for Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist thought and spiritual practice, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the classical statement of Eastern Yoga, are unique in their emphasis on the nature and importance of psychological processes. Yoga's influence is explored in the work of both the seminal Indian thinker Bhartrhari (c. 600 C.E.) and among key figures in Western psychology: founders Freud and Jung, as well as contemporary transpersonalists such as Washburn, Tart, and Ornstein.

Coward shows how the yogic notion of psychological processes makes Bhartrhari's philosophy of language and his theology of revelation possible. He goes on to explore how Western psychology has been influenced by incorporating or rejecting Patanjali's Yoga. The implications of these trends in Western thought for mysticism and memory are examined as well. This analysis results in a notable insight, namely, that there is a crucial difference between Eastern and Western thought with regard to how limited or perfectible human nature is -- the West maintaining that we as humans are psychologically, philosophically, and spiritually limited or flawed in nature and thus not perfectible, while Patanjali's Yoga and Eastern thought generally maintain the opposite. Different Western responses to the Eastern position are noted, from complete rejection by Freud, Jung, and Hick, to varying degrees of acceptance by transpersonal thinkers.

Yoga for Living: Relieve Stress

Author: Ruth Gilmor

An upbeat, modern approach to help bring balance and health to one's life.

In today's hectic, fast-paced world, millions of people are beginning to discover the health benefits of the ancient discipline of yoga . To help focus this new awareness, DK presents Yoga For Living, a new series that targets some of today's most common health problems, shows how to reduce stress, and how to live easier and feel better.

The Yoga Biomedical Trust is a charitable organization established in 1983 to promote and advance the study and practice of, and research into, the therapeutic effects of yoga as a means of improving the mental, physical, and spiritual health of the community.

Generation Rx or Cancer in the Twentieth Century

2009-02-05T03:21:00.000-08:00

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

Author: Greg Critser

Greg Critser's brilliantly incisive Generation Rx moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, he asks, has "big pharma" created a nation of pharmaceutical tribes, each with its own unique beliefs, taboos, and brand loyalties? How have powerful chemical compounds for chronic diseases, once controlled by physicians, become substances we feel entitled to, whether we need them or not? How did we come to hate drug companies but love their pills?

Read on in Generation Rx for:

-- exclusive interviews with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Roche, and more

-- a first-ever, inside look at the rollicking business story behind pharma's rise to power

-- the dramatic effects our drug culture is having on our major organs, from the liver to the heart to the brain

-- why old bodies and young bodies are the biggest, and riskiest, arenas for our great American prescription pill party

-- how the largely uncharted terrain of polypharmacy (various drugs taken together) has unleashed unanticipated, often deadly, consequences on unwitting patients

Generation Rx will make every American who has ever taken a prescription drug look anew at what's in our medicine cabinets, and why.

The New York Times Sunday Book Review - Joe Queenan

Apocalyptic literature naturally gravitates toward the maudlin, lamenting that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, usually courtesy of someone like Eminem or Tom DeLay. This is what makes Greg Critser's Generation Rx"such an unexpected delight. Although his message is unrelievedly depressing - drug companies, with the nation's physicians and the federal government already on the payroll, have transmogrified a self-reliant nation into a herd of functional drug addicts - there is something so congenial and non-self-righteous about the way he tells his story that few of the scoundrels singled out for public obloquy will take personal offense.

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

What Mr. Critser has done in these pages is synthesize a lot of information and reserve it to the reader in an accessible, easily digested form - much as he did with information about obesity in his 2003 book, Fat Land. While his prose sometimes buckles from his efforts to be chatty and conversational - at one point, he describes the liver, which can regenerate itself, as "a kind of Donald Trump of the human body" - he does a lucid job conveying the dramatic ways in which the development and marketing of pharmaceuticals have changed over the last two decades and the equally dramatic and often disturbing consequences of this phenomenon.

Publishers Weekly

According to Critser, almost half of all Americans use a prescription drug daily; one in six take three or more. What are the possible consequences of the staggering recent growth in the use of such drugs? Journalist Critser (Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World) lays out the cautionary facts in exquisite detail. The saga of big pharma gives new meaning to the term "slippery slope": none of it could have happened, he says, absent Reaganite deregulatory fervor, which led to the taking of several bold risks, most of which were perceived in the 1980s, even by drug makers, to be "downright dangerous"-including direct-to-consumer promotion (DTC) and the advent of off-label marketing-drug manufacturers encouraging doctors to prescribe medications for maladies for which the FDA has not approved their use. Some of this territory about our growing dependence on prescription drugs and the impact of DTC advertising was covered last year by Marcia Angell and others, yet it's a story worth heeding again in the wake of the recent furor over Vioxx. Critser's account is solid, thorough and told with vigor. Agent, Richard Abate. (Oct. 7) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

In this informed study of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, journalist Critser (Fat Land) sounds the impassioned alert that your medicine cabinet may be hazardous to your health. Generation Rx, actually a misnomer, explores the overmedication of America, ranging from the extraordinary number of children treated for ADD or psychiatric disorders to the middle aged relying on daily medications for high cholesterol and/or diabetes to senior citizens taking multiple drugs that interact with poorly researched and sometimes fatal effects. Astonishingly, more than 106,000 people die each year in the United States from legally prescribed medications, while others suffer lifelong liver, heart, or kidney damage. Critser convincingly attributes our overmedicated state to a dangerous confluence of out-of-control consumer advertising, methodical manipulation of physicians by drug marketers, and steadily eroding governmental supervision. To the reader's great relief, this sorry saga of unprincipled greed is followed by potential practical solutions, ending with the useful appendix "A Brief Guide to the Art of Taking Prescription Drugs." This builds on the findings of Merrill Goozner's The $800 Million Pill and Marcia Angell's The Truth About the Drug Companies. For all libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/05.]-Kathy Arsenault, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

An incisive analysis of the power of Big Pharma, packed with revealing interviews, statistics and irreverent sketches of political and industrial leaders. Critser (Fat Land, 2002), a journalist whose pieces on the pharmaceutical industry and the politics of medicine have appeared in Harper's and the Wall Street Journal, examines the story behind the soaring use of prescription drugs by Americans-from three prescriptions per person per year in 1993 to 12 in 2004. He charges that the pharmaceutical industry has used political clout to weaken the FDA and speed its approval process, has used direct-to-consumer advertising to promote chronic-disease awareness and thus increase demand for its products and has made physicians a party to their marketing efforts. These, he says, are directed at three principal groups: "The Tribe of High-Performance Youth," with Ritalin especially in demand for boys considered hyperactive; "The Middle-Years Tribe," the major consumers of performance enhancers, sleeping pills and heartburn remedies; and "The Tribe of High-Performance Aging," for whom polypharmacy, or the use of multiple drugs, is now commonplace. Our "spiraling prescription drug culture," with its $180 billion price tag, is impacting not just our wallets but our bodies, Critser asserts, citing potential hazards to the liver, heart, lungs, the gut and even the brain. While the author devotes most of his text to explaining just how we became so deeply pharmaceutical-ized and why we should be concerned about it, he does offer some suggestions for change. These include a more independent and tough-minded FDA and a greater sense of responsibility on the part of the pharmaceutical industry. An appendixprovides a useful guide to finding information about prescription drugs. If a knowledgeable public is the key, this straightforward, highly readable book is a step in the right direction.

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Cancer in the Twentieth Century

Author: David Cantor

This collection of essays explores efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic, control programs emerged in the early twentieth century, and most were focused on early detection and treatment. Yet, those initiatives took very different forms in different countries. Experts disagreed on how to persuade the public to go to their doctors, what should be the role of public education, how cancer services should be delivered, who should provide them, which forms of therapy were most appropriate to particular cancers, and where to draw the line between therapy and prevention. Focusing on the United States and Britain, this volume examines why these differences emerged, how they shaped national programs of control, and how control programs in the early twentieth century presaged and set the conditions for the emergence of prevention-oriented programs in the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring works by leading medical historians on subjects such as the portrayal of cancer in the movies, feminist surgeons, risk factors for breast cancer, and the emergence of clinical trials, Cancer in the Twentieth Century will engage historians of medicine and public health as well as health policy analysts, medical sociologists and anthropologists, and medical researchers and practitioners.

Is God a Vegetarian or A Womans Guide to Urinary Incontinence

2009-02-03T23:09:00.000-08:00

Is God a Vegetarian?: Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights

Author: Richard Alan Alan Young

Close readings of key biblical texts pertaining to dietary customs, vegetarianism, and animal rights comprise the substance of this book. Rather than ignoring or offering a literal, 20th-century interpretation of the passages, Young analyzes the voices of these conflicting dietary motifs within their own social contexts.

Choice Magazine

As a proponent of a narrative ethic of virtues, [Young] portrays the main biblical story as one of moving from the nonviolent peace of creation to the Peaceable Kingdom at the end with, in between, a divine permission of meat eating and sacrifices as a concession to human limitations and existing customs. He invites his readers to enter this story, he provides vegetarian recipes with each chapter and an epilogue on how to achieve a healthful vegetarian diet, and he answers the typical arguments of meat-eating biblical Christians. A valuable addition to any collection that deals with vegetarianism or Biblical studies.

Publishers Weekly

Young, who teaches New Testament at Temple Baptist Seminary, is as concerned with how to read scripture as he is with vegetarianism. As a result, he offers an insightful account of biblical ethics combined with an accessible argument for vegetarianism. Rather than mining scripture for proof texts, he searches for "directional markers" that serve as "flexible guidelines" for Christians looking to make moral decisions about animal rights and vegetarianism. His argument against cruelty to animals is not grounded in an abstract set of rights but in a narrative account that depicts a God intimately related to the whole of creation. Not set simply on proving that Jesus was a vegetarian, Young describes a peaceable kingdom where harmonious relations among creatures is more consistent with the Hebrew understanding of God than is a world marked by violence. Young returns repeatedly to biblical images of a peaceable kingdom and asks how we can evoke similar images in our own places and times. Each of his 13 chapters ends with two vegetarian recipes, and the epilogue offers a simple but well-documented account of "going veggie." As a whole, the book is a practical introduction to ethics made particularly accessible by sustained attention to a single popular issue. It is also an articulate case for vegetarianism that is neither simply a popular treatise on health and diet nor a political treatise on animal rights. Young's book offers a thoughtful reflection on a world of peace and justice in which, though we may not be what we eat, what we eat, and why, is an integral part of who we are. (Oct.)

Library Journal

Religions have been used to justify variations of human behavior ranging from how to wage war to ways of preserving peace. The religious reasons why humans should restrain from eating meat are the concern of these two books. Berry, historical adviser to the North American Vegetarian Society, has compiled essays discussing how the world's religions (Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, Roman Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and Sufism) have dealt with vegetarianism. Accompanying each essay is an interview with a vegetarian practitioner of that particular faith, usually a clergy member, monk, or self-proclaimed follower. The true value of this book is in these interviews, where the scholarly interpretations of religious texts come alive in the daily practices of the believers. Unlike Berry, Young (New Testament studies, Temple Baptist Seminary) restricts his perspective to biblical interpretations of text concerning the dietary laws and customs of Christians and Jews. It is through this careful reading of the Bible that he engages the reader in a discussion of the dilemma, both religious and social, of whether "real" Christians should be vegetarians. He expands his thesis to include animal testing and experimentation, the fur industry, and animal factories. Both books strongly advocate vegetarianism, and the theological arguments are biased toward non-meat eating, but this does not distract from the deep scholarship performed by both authors. For those who are seeking a religious basis for their vegetarianism, these two books are essential reading. Recommended for all libraries.--Glenn Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., Honolulu

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A Woman's Guide to Urinary Incontinence

Author: Rene Genadry

Urinary incontinence causes discomfort and distress for millions of women, particularly those who have borne children, are postmenopausal, or have passed the age of forty. This condition can have a severe negative impact on one's quality of life, and successful treatment, while possible, is complex. Cowritten by a gynecologist and a urologist who have helped thousands of frustrated women, this new guide gives patients the information they need to understand their condition and make the right treatment decisions.

Dr. Rene Genadry and Dr. Jacek L. Mostwin explain how nerves, muscles, and other anatomical factors work in concert to control the bladder and how they can be affected by pregnancy, menopause, and aging. The authors discuss the common and uncommon causes of urinary incontinence, how the condition is evaluated and diagnosed, and how it can be treated. Drs. Genadry and Mostwin walk through the various treatment options -- including biofeedback and behavioral conditioning, pelvic floor exercises, medications, and surgery, as well as new and emerging therapies. They also discuss what to do if a particular treatment fails. The knowledge provided here gives the woman with urinary incontinence the power to choose treatments that meet her specific needs and preferences.

Friendly, accessible, and packed with valuable information, this guide is an essential resource for women who are troubled by urinary incontinence.

Lois K. Merry - Library Journal

Genadry (gynecology & obstetrics) and Mostwin (urology), professors and medical directors at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, have written an excellent resource for women with urinary incontinence and their caretakers. Wide in scope and thorough in coverage, the book describes the stages and types of incontinence, kinds of exams and tests, current drugs and methods of treatment, anticipated outcomes, and possible complications. Nonspecialists will appreciate that terms are defined within the text as well as in an eight-page glossary. The list of web sites is useful; however, in one case the authors miss an opportunity to guide readers to a site's A-to-Z topic list, instead recommending a search for two somewhat minor phrases. Line drawings illustrate the physiology of incontinence, while case examples tell of individual patients' experiences and outcomes. The book advises patients to advocate for their best individual care and emphasizes that every person's situation is unique. Conservative in their approach to treatment, Genadry and Mostwin eschew surgery in favor of less radical (and therefore reversible) cures. One of a few recent works on this topic for women, this is suitable for academic, public, or health-oriented libraries.

Preface     vii
Introduction: What Is Urinary Incontinence and What Can Be Done about It?     1
The Urinary System: Understanding How It Works     7
Stress, Urge, and Mixed: Types of Incontinence and Their Causes     16
Consulting a Doctor: How to Find the Right Physician and What You Can Expect     41
Medical Tests: Why and How Are They Done?     56
Nonsurgical Treatments: What Options Are Available?     68
Surgical Treatments: What Does Incontinence Surgery Involve?     94
Selecting Treatment: Which One Is Right for You?     125
Treatment Complications: What to Do if Something Goes Wrong     145
Summary: Taking Control of Urinary Incontinence     162
Glossary     165
Resources     173
Index     177

Run with the Champions or The Link Between ADD Addiction

2009-02-02T18:58:00.000-08:00

Run with the Champions: Training Programs and Secrets of America's 50 Greatest Runners

Author: Marc Bloom

A must-have for the list lovers and training zealots of the running world.

In Run with the Champions, award-winning journalist and author Marc Bloom feeds the voracious appetite of America's growing running population in two ways: by creating a unique system to objectively rank the nation's top 25 male and top 25 female runners of all time, and by revealing their little-known training secrets and strategies, from what they ate to how they trained for their biggest victories. Runners of all abilities can benefit from the insights and advice offered by running legends like Frank Shorter, Alberto Salazar, Joan Samuelson, and Lynn Jennings. The rankings themselves are expected to create a buzz in the large running community, and the affiliation with Runner's World—the world's leading authority on running—will ensure credibility. This comprehensive book is at once an exciting compendium on elite runners and a terrific training manual.

About the Author:
MARC BLOOM is a senior writer for Runner's World and a running and track-and-field correspondent for The New York Times. He has written six books, including collaborative Steve Scott the Miler. He resides in Marlboro, New Jersey.

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The Link Between A.D.D. & Addiction

Author: Wendy Richardson

This book illuminates the relationship between Attention Deficit Disorder and addiction, offering both hope and help for those with ADD who find themselves involved in addictive behaviors.

Singing with Your Whole Self or The Monster at Our Door

2009-02-01T14:46:00.000-08:00

Singing with Your Whole Self

Author: Samuel H Nelson

This book teaches performers to use the Feldenkrais Method to ameliorate problems of tension, muscle strain, and illness in order to obtain optimal vocal performance. Singing with Your Whole Self contains an important and unique feature: modularized Feldenkrais "Awareness through Movement" lessons. These are specifically designed for liberating function in all musicians, and in singers in particular. Modularized lessons allow the user to choose between functionally useful short segments or entire lessons. The first part of the book presents the theory behind why this approach works in an easily understood and concrete fashion. The remaining chapters explore our anatomy by area and explain usage, problems, and how these relate to singing. These chapters include lessons that revolve around improving performance. Includes an index both by lesson and by problem, referring performers to the lessons most effective for a specific problem.

The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

Author: Mike Davis

A “brilliant” and “fascinating” investigation of the looming avian flu pandemic—and how we arrived at the brink of a global health catastrophe—The New York Times

The virus known as H5N1 is now endemic among poultry and wild bird populations in East Asia. A flu strain of astonishing lethality, it has a talent for transforming itself to foil the human immune system—and kills two out of every three people it infects. The World Health Organization now warns that avian flu is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious form that could travel at pandemic velocity, killing up to 100 million people within two years.

In The Monster at Our Door, the first book to sound this alarm, our foremost urban and environmental critic reconstructs the scientific and political history of this viral apocalypse in the making, exposing the central roles played by burgeoning slums, the agribusiness and fast-food industries, and corrupt governments. Mike Davis tracks the avian flu crisis as the virus moves west and the world remains woefully unprepared to contain it. With drug companies unwilling to invest in essential vaccines, severe shortages persist, a scenario Davis compares to the sinking Titanic: there are virtually no lifesaving resources available to the poor, and precious few for the rich, too.

The New York Times - Matt Steinglass

When Mike Davis wrote the final passages in this brilliant, concise jeremiad in late spring 2005, he was worried that the developed world would sleepwalk into a vast avian flu pandemic, failing to register the danger until it was too late. Davis can rest easy: we are now officially panicking.

Library Journal

The 2003 avian flu outbreak in China killed more than 100 people in just one week. Over one million chickens were slaughtered in an attempt to contain the disease. Yet smaller outbreaks occurred in chickens and pigs in Holland, Thailand, and the United States. A related virus strain triggered a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 26 countries, leaving 916 deaths in its wake. MacArthur fellow Davis (City of Quartz) explains the science behind the outbreaks, characteristics of the various strains, how they spread from animals to humans, and the mistakes and miscalculations of scientists, governments, and food industries that nearly caused worldwide panic. He draws parallels to the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people worldwide. In his view, the world's increasing demand for animal protein, burgeoning human and animal populations, freedom of travel, and globalization of poultry production may lead to another international pandemic. He stresses the need for cooperation among producers, marketers, and governments to impose safeguards and extensive vigilance to prevent such a catastrophe. Citing evidence drawn from over 300 periodicals, newspapers, books, and government reports, this important work reminds us that the politics of food safety is a global issue. Recommended for public health collections.-Irwin Weintraub, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., New York Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

You Are Not Alone or Thin Rich and Happy

2009-01-31T10:34:00.000-08:00

You Are Not Alone: Words of Experience & Hope for the Journey Through Depresion

Author: Julia Thorn

A uniquely compassionate book that provides information, companionship and hope for individuals and families coping with depression.

Thin, Rich and Happy: Take 3 Minutes to Start Your New Life

Author: Wayne E Nanc

67% of Americans are overweight.85% will retire in debt.50% of marriages end in divorce.Are you struggling with one of these challenges'Discover what's holding you back from a fully lived life. Take the 3-Minute Survey and discover how to use your inborn attitudes to alter every aspect of your life.

Three minutes can put you back in control of: your weight, your money, your relationships

When you find the numbers on the scale are too high, you go on the latest fad diet. When your finances are getting out of control, you look for someone or something to bail you out. When you are having difficulty in your relationship, you try to spend more time with your significant other. But all too often, the weight slips back on. Or the credit card bills begin to pile up again. You and your partner retreat from the passionate intimacy you both long for. Why does this happen? Because diets, budgets, and "date nights" are quick fixes and quick fixes do not bring about permanent solutions.

Twenty-seven years ago, Wayne E. Nance's life was out of control. An incessant smoker, he weighed an unhealthy 315 pounds. His marriage was quickly disintegrating and his finances were bottoming out. Wayne was like many Americans -- fat, broke, and headed for divorce court. When he got a handle on one of his challenges, one of the others got worse. That's when he realized this: obesity, debt, and relationship meltdown are surface problems which reveal our core attitude and beliefs. We are all born with a basic outlook on life and it is this orientation that drives our behavior.

Once Wayne was able to recognize how and why he madecertain choices, he was able to bring his life back into balance. Today, Wayne is a trimmed-down success story, having permanently lost over one hundred pounds, paid off over $40,000 of credit card debt, and has been married for over thirty years. He developed the Real Life Management system, which has helped over 50,000 people greatly enhance their lifestyle. In Thin, Rich and Happy, he outlines the system for you.

The cornerstone of the Real Life Management system is the 3-Minute Survey, which will help you identify your core attitude. From there Wayne presents a unique five-step ALTER plan that's customized to your individual needs and attitudes and will help you focus on how your individual blind spots affect the state of your health, finances, and relationships.

There are no bad attitudes. Your attitude is a gift that you've been given to make your unique contribution to the world. You are fine just the way you are -- but you may not be happy with the way you live. Thin, Rich and Happy is an essential blueprint for dramatic improvement in the three areas that matter so much to our health, happiness, and prosperity.

Anita N. Jennings - Library Journal

Nance is the creator and CEO of Real Life Management Inc., a company devoted to providing education to companies and individuals on real-life topics. With the help of his coauthors—Hendricks is president of an educational consulting firm, and Lewis is the managing partner of Lewis Group International—he tackles three main life components in an easy-to-read conversational format: weight, finance, and relationships. Nance writes that "[e]ach of us is born with an attitude that heavily determines what we focus on in life. That attitude affects what we pay attention to, what holds our interest, and what we consider priorities. To really make a difference, we don't need to change ourselves, only alter our attitudes." Accordingly, readers must fill out a three-minute survey that assesses their core attitude. From there, the author offers steps that can be taken over time to change one's attitude—no quick-fix solutions here! Overall, there are many interesting examples given to discuss the different types of attitudes that individuals display. Suitable for public libraries.

Dr Atkins Age Defying Diet or Hands on Baby Massage

2009-01-30T06:22:00.000-08:00

Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet

Author: Robert C Atkins

Millions of people have slimmed down and improved their health with Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. Now Dr. Atkins delivers the next step toward a longer, healthier life.

Discover the powerful anti-aging program utilizing Dr. Robert C. Atkins' innovative nutritional ideas, combined with the latest research on exercise, vitamins, herbs, hormones, and other supplements. This safe, easy-to-follow regimen not only fights age-related illnesses like heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and diabetes, but also dramatically improves the way we look and feel as we age. In this indispensable age-defying guide, Dr. Atkins reveals:

How a low-carb, high-protein diet--rich in both natural and supplementary antioxidants--can significantly boost your immunity

Effective ways to decrease free radicals and increase blood flow to the brain--the key to enhancing mental functioning and memory

How to stabilize blood sugar levels to greatly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes

Why hormones keep us young--and how to prevent the hormone decline that comes with aging

Whatever your age, it's never too early to start living the Atkins way of life!

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Hands on Baby Massage

Author: Michelle R Kluck Ebbin

Research indicates that massage is beneficial for infants in many ways. By the author of the best-selling Hands on Feet, this 160 page guide explains where and how to safely massage a baby to help relieve colic, irritability, and other common afflictions. It comes with an adorable "onesie," a one-piece, snap-on baby garment, preprinted front and back with a colorful design that shows just where to massage for specific results.

Healing Touch or Surviving Prostate Cancer

2009-01-29T02:10:00.000-08:00

Healing Touch: A Guide to Healing Prayer for Yourself and Those You Love

Author: Norma Dearing

Our society is brimming with people suffering the effects of past abuse, rejection, physical illness, bad choices, and unhealthy relationships. Author and radio personality Norma Dearing has spent thousands of hours listening to and praying with those in need of emotional, physical, or spiritual healing. In The Healing Touch, she shares stories from countless people who have been set free from unhealthy relationships, unholy unions, addictions, generational influences, and physical illnesses associated with these.

The Healing Touch is divided into three sections: Healing our Relationship with God, How to Have a Right Relationship with God, and Living within a Right Relationship with God. Packed with wise counsel, the book includes specific prayers for healing in the reader's own life and prayer for others in need. Dearing also covers rarely addressed problems such as healing from occult experience and pre-birth traumas, and explores the issue of why some people are not healed.

This handbook is for counselors, lay leaders, pastors, and individuals who want to see people delivered from the unnatural ravages of hurt and sin. It is a powerful reminder that God longs for his people to be healthy and whole.

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Surviving Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know to Make Informed Decisions

Author: E Fuller Torrey

When Dr. E. Fuller Torrey was diagnosed with prostate cancer, none of the books he could find was current enough or comprehensive enough to satisfy his need for information. This book is for the hundreds of thousands of other men who each year receive the same frightening diagnosis. It is the book Dr. Torrey wished he had when he was facing the countless questions that a man with prostate cancer, and his family and friends, all confront.

Complete, up-to-date, and readable, the book explains how to come to terms with the diagnosis of prostate cancer, evaluate the severity of the disease, and assess the variety of treatment options and their complications. Many chapters provide information other books barely consider, such as a full discussion of the causes of prostate cancer and an evaluation of other books on the subject. Also included is a summary of the most useful Web sites.

The author mixes his personal experience with factual material, and he maintains a reassuring sense of humor. His advice is practical, with dozens of tips and lists including “Ten Steps to Sanity for Men Recently Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer.” With Dr. Torrey’s book in hand, readers can now tackle all the important decisions about prostate cancer, confident in having the most accurate and complete information available.

Library Journal

After Torrey (research psychiatrist & associate director for laboratory research, Stanley Medical Research Inst.; Surviving Schizophrenia) was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2004, his top priority was educating himself about the disease so that he could make informed decisions about treatment options. Much of what he found was outdated, contradictory, or incorrect, so he set out to write a book that would answer the questions he and other men have about this condition. Fuller's comprehensive guide describes his own medical and personal experiences while offering detailed explanations of diagnostic and staging procedures, treatment options, potential complications, recurrence, risk factors, possible causes, and other essential topics backed with numerous references to the professional literature. Matter-of-fact discussions about such sensitive issues as sexuality, impotence, incontinence, and the value of support systems are lightened by cartoon illustrations, "prostate trivia," quotes from other men with the disease, and a comprehensive annotated list of books and web sites that will appeal to both male and female readers. Despite its occasional lapses into medical jargon, this is an essential purchase for consumer health collections, along with Peter T. Scardino and Judith Kelman's Dr. Peter Scardino's Prostate Book and Sheldon Marks's Prostate & Cancer. Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Lib., Cleveland Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Acknowledgments     xi
Abbreviations     xiii
On Being Diagnosed     1
How Serious Is Your Cancer?     11
What Is Your PSA?     12
Is Your Cancer Palpable?     15
What Is Your Gleason Score?     18
Additional Predictors of Severity     24
Surgical Treatment     27
Who Are Good Candidates?     28
The Procedure     29
Complications     39
Outcome     42
Radiation Treatment     46
Who Are Good Candidates?     48
The Procedure     51
Seed Therapy     51
Beam Radiation     54
Complications     55
Outcome     59
Hormone Treatment     67
Who Are Good Candidates?     68
The Procedure     69
Complications     72
Outcome     76
Cryotherapy     78
Who Are Good Candidates?     78
The Procedure     79
Complications     79
Outcome     80
Alternative and Experimental Therapies     81
Herbal Therapies     82
PC-SPES: ACautionary Tale     85
Experimental Treatments     87
Treatment Decisions     89
Watchful Waiting     90
Ten Factors to Consider     95
Advantages and Disadvantages of Treatment Options     110
How I Made My Decisions     115
Your Support System     118
Yourself     118
Family and Friends     124
Coworkers and Business Colleagues     128
Support Groups     130
Major Complications and Their Treatment     132
Urinary Incontinence: The Problem     133
Urinary Incontinence: The Solutions     135
Impotence: The Problem     140
Impotence: The Solutions     144
What Happens if the Cancer Spreads or Comes Back?     152
Will It Kill Me, and if So, When?     153
Treatment Options for Recurrent Cancer     159
Weighing Quantity versus Quality of Life     164
What Is Known About the Causes?     169
Clues     169
Genes     175
Viruses and Other Infectious Agents     177
Sexual Activity     178
Hormones     180
Dietary Factors     181
Other Possibilities     183
Summary of Causes     185
Factors That May Prevent Emergence or Recurrence     187
Dietary Factors     188
Vitamins and Minerals     194
Medications     195
Lifestyle Changes     197
So What Should You Do?     198
Science and Politics     199
The National Cancer Institute     200
The Prostate Cancer Research Program     201
Michael Milken's Prostate Cancer Foundation     202
The National Prostate Cancer Coalition     204
Other Players     205
Advice for Men Who Do Not Have Prostate Cancer     208
Should I Be Tested?     208
Biopsies     212
Ten Recommendations     214
Future Research     216
The Anatomy and Function of the Prostate Gland     219
Evaluation of Books About Prostate Cancer     224
Useful Websites on Prostate Cancer     235
Notes     241
Index     167

The Odd Body or Womans Guide to Natural Hormones

2009-01-27T21:58:00.000-08:00

The Odd Body: Mysteries of Our Weird and Wonderful Bodies Explained

Author: Stephen Juan

Reading The Odd Body is like having your doctor patiently answer all your random questions, one by one. But Dr. Juan goes well beyond the usual and ordinary things people wonder about bodies, like why most individuals are right-handed or why you get chills when chalk screeches across a blackboard. He also tells readers how a dead body is made into a mummy, the success rate of those who bore holes in their own heads to relieve headaches, and much, much more.The Odd Body is a unique combination of fun and fascinating material that's delivered by an expert who happens to be a great storyteller. The book's question-and-answer format makes it easy to pick up, turn to any page, and immediately become drawn into the intricacies of anatomy and physiology while gaining a better understanding of humans' need to know more about themselves.

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Woman's Guide to Natural Hormones

Author: Christine Conrad

More doctors are recommending natural (also called bio-identical) hormones-because they offer all the advantages of synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) without the negative side effects or long-term health risks. Unlike synthetic HRT, natural hormones are bio-identical: they match a woman's own hormones exactly and don't interfere with the body's normal hormone production. They are safer and more effective, providing protective benefits that range from alleviating unpleasant symptoms of menopause, perimenopause, and PMS to protecting against osteoporosis, endometrial cancer, and other diseases.

Topics covered include:

- What are natural hormones and how do they work?
- Why are natural hormones better and safer than synthetic HRT drugs?
- Do natural hormones increase the risk for breast cancer?
- Can natural hormones control midlife weight gain?
- Does natural progesterone help alleviate PMS?
- Will natural hormones improve skin?
- How to find the right doctor
- The latest on the recent NIH study

	Acknowledgments	xii
	Personal Note from Christine Conrad	xiii
	Foreword	xix
	Foreword	xxii
	Foreword	xxiv
Part 1	Understanding Natural Hormones
1	What Are Natural Hormones?	3
2	Using Natural Hormones	19
3	Diet, Supplements, and Exercise-Keys to Hormonal Health	29
4	Finding Your Hormonal Profile	37
	PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome) and Hormone Imbalance	37
	Perimenopause	46
	Surgical Menopause	50
	Menopause	53
	Postmenopause	56
Part 2	Your Questions Answered
5	Hormones and Your Body	61
	What are hormones?	61
	How do hormones work?	62
	What is a natural hormone?	64
	What is a bio-identical hormone?	64
	What's the difference between a synthesized hormone and a synthetic hormone?	64
	What is a precursor hormone?	65
	What is estrogen?	65
	What's the difference between natural plant-derived estrogen and synthetic estrogen?	68
	My doctor says Premarin is natural because it's made from horse urine, which comes from nature. Is he right?	69
	What are the possible side effects of Premarin?	69
	I've heard the phrase estrogen dominance. What does it mean?	70
	What is tri-estrogen?	70
	What is bi-estrogen?	71
	What is a phytoestrogen?	71
	What are isoflavones? Are they hormones?	73
	I've been told that estriol protects against breast cancer. Is this true?	73
	What is progesterone?	74
	What is the difference between natural progesterone and synthetic progestins?	76
	What are the possible side effects of progestins such as Provera?	77
	Does natural progesterone protect against endometrial cancer?	79
	Does natural progesterone carry the same cancer risks as Provera?	79
	Do natural hormones lower "bad" cholesterol (LDL) and raise "good" cholesterol (HDL)?	80
	What is testosterone?	81
	What is DHEA?	81
	What is pregnenolone?	82
	What is cortisol? Is it a hormone?	82
	What is a xenoestrogen?	82
	How does diet affect my hormones?	83
	How does digestion affect hormone levels?	84
	What are the benefits of natural hormones?	87
	Can hormone replenishment prevent Alzheimer's disease?	88
	Will natural hormones improve my skin?	89
	My hair is thinning. Will natural hormones help?	91
	When I look in the mirror, I see the beginnings of middle-age spread. Do hormones have anything to do with this? Can taking natural hormones help?	91
	Can taking hormones give me more energy?	93
6	Using Natural Hormones	95
	How can I get natural hormones?	95
	How do I take natural hormones-or what's a "delivery system"?	95
	What's a compounding pharmacy?	99
	If I want to use an over-the-counter natural hormone, how do I choose among them?	100
	How much do natural hormones cost?	102
	Will my insurance company pay for natural hormones?	103
	What does it mean to individualize hormones?	103
	If I use natural hormones, will my periods continue?	104
	I'm on Premarin/Provera, but I want to quit taking them because of side effects. Before I switch to naturals, I'd like to get my hormone levels tested. Should I stop taking the Premarin/Provera altogether before I get tested? If so, for how long?	105
	Are natural hormones FDA-approved?	106
	I have a friend who is very happy with the Climera patch. How does a hormone patch work, and are there any risks involved?	107
	What about the brand-name oral natural estrogens such as Estrace and Estratest?	107
	Are there any brand-name natural progesterone products?	108
	When I asked my doctor about naturals, she suggested I try Ogen or Ortho-Est, which she said are plant-derived. Are they the same as naturals?	109
	Are there side effects with naturals?	109
	Will natural hormones make me gain weight as Premarin does?	110
	Will taking natural hormones help normalize my sleep patterns?	111
	My doctor says that despite the 2002 NIH study repudiating Prempro, he won't consider prescribing bio-identical hormones, as he says there are no long-term studies to support their use. How do I answer him?	112
	My doctor says that taking hormones transdermally doesn't work. She says that you would have to slather your whole body with them to get any absorption. Is she right?	112
	Since the results of the NIH study of 2002, my doctor has switched me to the patch, Climera-Pro. When I asked him if it was a natural/bio-identical hormone, he said yes. Is he giving me the right information?	113
7	PMS, Hormone Imbalance, and Natural Hormones	115
	Does progesterone help alleviate PMS?	115
	My periods can be very irregular. Can naturals help me?	116
	I have excessive bleeding and my doctor has prescribed Provera. Will this help? Can I take natural progesterone instead?	116
	I have fibrocystic breasts. Can natural hormones help me?	117
	I have fibroids. My doctor has recommended a hysterectomy. A friend said she eliminated her fibroids by taking progesterone. Is this possible?	117
8	Fertility, Birth Control Pills, and Natural Hormones	119
	I'm trying to get pregnant, and I've heard that fertility clinics use natural progesterone as part of their treatment plan. Can I do it myself with progesterone cream?	119
	I'm 35 and still get PMS like a 14-year-old. I use a diaphragm for birth control. If I take natural progesterone to control my PMS, will it make me more fertile?	120
	My sister had horrible postpartum depression. Can I take natural hormones after I deliver my baby to avoid this condition?	120
	Do birth control pills "mask" symptoms of perimenopause?	121
	When I told my gynecologist I was beginning to feel as if I'm in perimenopause, he prescribed the contraceptive pill Loestrin to keep my bones strong and reduce my mood swings. I'm not even in a relationship! Does this make sense?	122
	I'm 42 and have been on birth control pills for five years. I'd like to get off, but my gynecologist told me I should keep taking them because they protect against endometrial and ovarian cancer. Is he right? What are the natural hormone alternatives to the Pill in terms of cancer protection?	122
	I'm 44 and am taking birth control pills, but I'm curious as to whether I'm in perimenopause. Can I get my hormone levels tested even though I'm on the Pill?	123
9	Perimenopause and Natural Hormones	125
	I'm 46. About a year ago I noticed a drastic change in my emotions-I cry at the least provocation. My doctor suggested Prozac, but that seems extreme. Can I treat my blues with natural hormones?	125
	I'm in perimenopause and have started to suffer from severe headaches and anxiety attacks. Can natural hormones help me?	127
	I seem to be losing my sex drive. Help!	128
	I'm in perimenopause and my doctor gave me Estrace. It didn't help at all-in fact, it made me feel worse. Why is that?	129
10	Menopause and Natural Hormones	131
	Since menopause began, I could swear my brain cells are dying off. I'm getting really scattered, and it's beginning to frighten me. What's going on, and can natural hormones help?	131
	I entered menopause about two years ago, and my mood swings are driving me (and my family) crazy. Will natural hormones help stabilize my emotions?	132
	My hot flashes have become a nonstop source of embarrassment to me. Can natural hormones provide some relief?	133
	I'm experiencing a lot of vaginal dryness since I stopped my periods. It's seriously interfering with my sex life. Can hormones help?	134
	I've been on Premarin/Provera for five years and I feel fine. Why should I switch to natural hormones?	134
	How do I switch from Premarin/Provera (also Prempro and Premphase) to the naturals?	135
	I hear that soy contains phytoestrogens. Can I control my menopausal symptoms by just eating lots of tofu?	136
	I've heard about taking black cohosh for menopausal symptoms. Is this a natural hormone?	137
	Can traditional herbal remedies such as dong quai relieve my menopausal symptoms?	138
	I'm 55 and feel fine. My doctor just prescribed Premarin/Provera because he says I have to protect myself against heart disease and osteoporosis. What should I do?	139
	There is heart disease in my family. I have no real menopausal symptoms, but should I take estrogen for prevention?	141
	I'm taking Provera along with Premarin to protect against endometrial cancer. Will it?	142
	I've had breast cancer. What can I do for menopausal symptoms?	143
	Do women in menopause need to supplement testosterone?	143
	A friend in menopause is taking only progesterone to control her symptoms. She says her doctor told her she doesn't need estrogen. Can I do this too?	144
	I see DHEA advertised in magazines for "mature" readers. What is it? Should I take it?	145
	I hate the idea that I'm still bleeding at age 58 while taking Premarin/Provera. Will the same be true on naturals?	146
11	Hysterectomies and Natural Hormones	147
	I've had a complete hysterectomy. My doctor has prescribed estrogen, but do I also need to take progesterone?	147
	I've had a hysterectomy but my ovaries are still intact. How do they affect my hormones? Do I need hormone replacement?	148
	My doctor tells me that after my hysterectomy I will be in "surgical menopause." How is this different from regular menopause?	149
	A year ago I had a hysterectomy and was prescribed Premarin. I've already gained twenty-five pounds and can't exercise it off. Why?	150
	I'm 70 and just had a hysterectomy. Do I need to replace hormones?	151
	Since my hysterectomy I have no interest in sex, Will natural hormones help?	152
12	Healthy Bones and Natural Hormones	155
	I've just had a bone mineral density test and it says I'm at high risk for osteoporosis. What does that mean?	155
	Why do bones lose their mass?	156
	Which naturals should I take for osteoporosis?	156
	My friend, who is 70, is taking Evista for her osteoporosis. She says it's a designer estrogen. What does that mean?	157
	My doctor has prescribed Fosamax for my osteoporosis. What is it?	158
	Can I just take Tums with calcium for my bones?	159
	Can I just exercise and improve my diet to increase bone mass?	160
	Looking Forward	161
	How Do the Recent NIH Study Results Relate to Natural/Bio-identical Hormones?	165
	Resources	176
	Doctor Referrals	176
	Resources for Hormone Testing	177
	Recommended Products	178
	Compounding Pharmacies	179
	Bibliography	181
	Index	183

Quick and Easy Diabetic Menus or The Art of Sensual Massage

2009-01-26T17:47:00.000-08:00

Quick and Easy Diabetic Menus

Author: Betty Wedman St Louis

"Anyone watching his or her weight can profit by using these 150 recipes and 30 menus.... Foodstuffs blend old and new tastes,... each recipe includes nutritional and exchange information." --Booklist

Book about: Éducation de Ronald Reagan :les Années de General Electric et l'Histoire Indicible de Sa Conversion au Conservatisme

The Art of Sensual Massage

Author: Marcus Salnicki

Warm up a luxurious massage oil, arouse the senses with seductive fragrances, and communicate desire with the intimate, erotic act of massage. Full-color photos show how to work each area of the body, from the top of the head to the tips of the toes, and turn any massage into a beautifully sensual experience. See how to set the scene with atmospheric lighting and sound; master the strokes that will leave someone sighing with ecstacy; and use different textures and sensations to enhance the massage, including fabrics, feathers, and ice cubes. Separate sections explain what’s just right for pampering a man or a woman, and a sensual oils aromatherapy chart presents a variety of fragrant options to choose from.

Understanding the Human Genome Project or Whey Processing Functionality and Health Benefits

2009-01-25T13:35:00.000-08:00

Understanding the Human Genome Project

Author: Michael Palladino

Completion of the Human Genome Project is just the tip of the iceberg in our understanding of human genetics. How can information gathered during the Human Genome Project be used? This brief booklet explains in accessible language what readers need to understand about the Human Genome Project, including the background, findings, and social and ethical implications. The author, Michael Palladino, also includes relevant Web resources and exercises for readers.

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

Whey Processing, Functionality and Health Benefits

Author: Charles Onwulata

Whey Processing, Functional Properties, and Health Benefits provides a review of the current state of the science related to novel processes, functionality, and health benefit implications and documents the biological role of whey protein in selected areas that include muscle metabolism after exercise, muscle and body composition in the elderly, weight management, food intake regulation, and maintenance of bone mass. The topics addressed and the subject experts represent the best science knowledge base in these areas. In some of these areas, the state of the art and science are compelling, and emerging data are confirming and solidifying the human knowledge base. Collating the understanding and knowledge of the metabolic roles of whey protein and its associated amino acids and developing the clinical datasets that demonstrate efficacy for improving human health will speed up new product innovations and sustainable opportunities for the food industry as evidenced by the processing and functionality research conducted so far.

Health and wellness, processing and functionality are clearly areas of continuing research and offer growth opportunity for the food industry. The benefits from such concentrated body of knowledge will be new ingredients and innovative products that improve overall wellbeing. Whey Processing, Functional Properties, and Health Benefits provides food scientists and manufacturers insight into the health implications of whey protein science. Ultimately, the consumer will benefit from better formulated, healthier products.

Imagining Robert or Pagan Fleshworks

2009-01-24T09:20:00.000-08:00

Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir

Author: Jay Neugeboren

"Jay Neugeboren and his brother, Robert, grew up in Brooklyn in the years following World War II. Both brothers - smart, talented, and popular - seemed well on the way to successful lives when, for reasons that remain ultimately mysterious, Robert had a mental breakdown at age nineteen. For the past forty years Jay has been not only his brother's friend and confidant, but his advocate, as Robert continues to suffer from the ravages of the illness that has kept him institutionalized for most of his adult life." Imagining Robert tells the story of these two brothers and how their love for one another has enabled both to survive and to thrive in miraculous, surprising ways. It reveals how even the grimmest of lives can be sustained by the power of love.

Pagan Fleshworks: The Alchemy of Body Modification

Author: Maureen Mercury

A groundbreaking work that sees the contemporary cultural trends of tattooing, piercing, implanting, and branding as a quest for a transformative psychic experience.

• Features unforgettable color photographs by Steve Haworth, the foremost body modification artist in the United States.

• Introduces a subculture that has gone far beyond the realm of simple tattooing.

Acts of body modification are deeply rooted in physical impulses that are obscured in our technological society. As we become more removed from the physicality of our existence, we lose touch with an essential part of our humanity. Body modification is a way of reconnecting to our bodies, to the earth, and to the divine.

Pagan Fleshworks reveals that the prevalence of body modification--tattooing, piercings, brandings, and implants--is the postmodern way to heal the body and enliven the soul. These "fleshworks" are the result of people creating their own rituals and symbols of meaning in order to feel a sense of the divine within.

Maureen Mercury relates the various stages of obtaining fleshworks to the stages of alchemy, showing how fleshworks lead to psychic transformation--soul-making. Using mythological imagery and the stories of those who have chosen to modify their bodies, she identifies the signposts of our journey toward self-expression, exploring the connection between our desires and our outward life. More than 30 riveting color photographs by leading body modification artist Steve Haworth provide the perfect visual complement to this examination of the soul as it rises toward freedom.

Medical Futility or Overcoming Depression

2009-01-23T05:09:00.000-08:00

Medical Futility: And the Evaluation of Life-Sustaining Interventions

Author: Marjorie B Zucker

This volume surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic, and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is either to extend costly medical treatment of uncertain effectiveness, or to terminate treatment, thereby ending the patient's life. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer perspectives on issues ranging from the definition of medical futility to the implications for care in various clinical settings, including intensive care, neonatal and pediatric practice and nursing homes.An important contribution toward the more humane and consistent handling of these situations, Medical Futility will be obligatory reading for health care professionals, students, and scholars concerned with ethical standards in medical care.

Nancy S. Jecker

The 16 chapters of this book are prepared by scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives, including psychiatry, pediatrics, family medicine, nursing, philosophy, theology, social work, law, and business. The editors are Marjorie B. Zucker, a retired scientist affiliated with Choice in Dying and Howard Zucker, an Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. The book encompasses four main topics. First, it addresses the application of medical futility to diverse healthcare settings and patient populations. Second, it considers a range of cultural, religious, and psychological aspects of medical futility. Third, contributors explore the proper roles for ethics committees, courts, healthcare professionals, the community, and healthcare institutions in defining standards for medical futility. The final section of the book warns readers about potential abuses of medical futility. The purpose is to provide diverse perspectives on the definition and ethical implications of medical futility in a variety of clinical contexts, including acute care, general medicine, pediatric, and nursing home settings. With its combination of theoretical and clinical topics, bioethicists and healthcare professionals will find this book useful. The book is accessible to students of medicine, law, nursing, and ethics and could serve as a supplementary text for bioethics courses. The book underscores the variety of clinical contexts to which medical futility is applied and stresses the importance of distinguishing between medical futility and decisions about health care rationing. It encourages building safeguards into decision-making processes to ensurecareful and accurate futility assessments. This book provides a balanced, cross-disciplinary approach to the controversial topic of medical futility. It shows the importance of taking into account the influence of clinical context, cultural and religious perspectives, psychosocial dimensions, and economic factors.

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Reviewer: Nancy S. Jecker, PhD (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Description: The 16 chapters of this book are prepared by scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives, including psychiatry, pediatrics, family medicine, nursing, philosophy, theology, social work, law, and business. The editors are Marjorie B. Zucker, a retired scientist affiliated with Choice in Dying and Howard Zucker, an Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. The book encompasses four main topics. First, it addresses the application of medical futility to diverse healthcare settings and patient populations. Second, it considers a range of cultural, religious, and psychological aspects of medical futility. Third, contributors explore the proper roles for ethics committees, courts, healthcare professionals, the community, and healthcare institutions in defining standards for medical futility. The final section of the book warns readers about potential abuses of medical futility.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide diverse perspectives on the definition and ethical implications of medical futility in a variety of clinical contexts, including acute care, general medicine, pediatric, and nursing home settings.
Audience: With its combination of theoretical and clinical topics, bioethicists and healthcare professionals will find this book useful. The book is accessible to students of medicine, law, nursing, and ethics and could serve as a supplementary text for bioethics courses.
Features: The book underscores the variety of clinical contexts to which medical futility is applied and stresses the importance of distinguishing between medical futility and decisions about health care rationing. It encourages building safeguards into decision-making processes to ensure careful and accurate futility assessments.
Assessment: This book provides a balanced, cross-disciplinary approach to the controversial topic of medical futility. It shows the importance of taking into account the influence of clinical context, cultural and religious perspectives, psychosocial dimensions, and economic factors.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

	Preface
	Foreword
	Contributors
1	Medical futility: a useful concept?	1
2	Death with dignity?	15
3	Physicians and medical futility: experience in the critical care setting	24
4	Physicians and medical futility: experience in the setting of general medical care	36
5	Futility issues in pediatrics	48
6	Medical futility: a nursing home perspective	58
7	Alternative medicine and medical futility	65
8	How culture and religion affect attitudes toward medical futility	71
9	When religious beliefs and medical judgments conflict: civic polity and the social good	85
10	Conflict resolution: experience of consultation-liaison psychiatrists	98
11	Ethics committees and end-of-life decision making	110
12	The economics of futile interventions	123
13	Medical futility: a legal perspective	136
14	Professional and public community projects for developing medical futility guidelines	155
15	Community futility policies: the illusion of consensus?	168
16	Not quite the last word: scenarios and solutions	179
	Index of cited authors, cases, and statutes	193
	Subject index	198

New interesting textbook: The Person with Alzheimers Disease or New Cancer Survivors

Overcoming Depression: Making the Best out of the Difficult Situations in Our Lives

Author: Guillermo Maldonado

Depression is a prolonged feeling of sadness and discouragement, accompanied by a profound feeling of impotence, disabling us from changing the things that are out of our control. Approximately, 12 million people in the United States suffer from depression. This is such a serious problem that every 90 seconds a teenager commits suicide because of it. Unfortunately, some Christians also surrendered to this devastating evil. This demonstrates the inability in people to face this adversity without behaving destructively. Psychologists, psychiatrists and other health professionals search for solutions to this "e;epidemic,"e; but few have achieved the desired results. Much literature is written on this subject but rarely do we find someone to touch on the topic in a deep and spiritual way. However, this beautiful book is based on the Holy Scriptures; it is a practical manual that teaches us how to face depression and how to be delivered from it forever, one step at a time.

Power Mudras or Pilates for Beginners

2009-01-22T00:57:00.000-08:00

Power Mudras: Yoga Hand Postures for Women

Author: Sabrina Mesko

THE POWER TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS
Yoga hand movements (called mudras) tap into abundant healing, balancing, and energizing powers. Our bodies contain 72,000 pulsing electric energy currents; keeping that energy flowing powerfully throughout the body is the key to our well-being. The simple three-minute practices introduced in this book will enable you to balance that flow–to redirect, recharge, and stimulate brain centers, nerves, and organs, according to your need; to discover the pleasure of being the natural you.
The acknowledged master of this ancient practice is certified yoga therapist Sabrina Mesko. She created this book especially for women, providing brilliantly clear and beautifully illustrated instruction’s for the performance of seventy-nine powerful exercises, specifically organized to help women feel better, look better, and reclaim their feminine essence. She includes mudras for
•Emotional balance • Antiaging •Sexual empowerment •Computer related health problems • Facing fear • Overcoming anxiety •Higher consciousness • Better communication • Stronger character • Wisdom • Prosperity • Happiness
The author’s expert recommendations for appropriate breathing exercises, visualizations, mantras, and affirmations reinforce the potency of each mudra. In less than ten minutes a day, you can permanently redirect your life and dramatically improve its quality. No previous experience with yoga is needed. If you can move your arms and hands you can use these ancient practices to transform your life.

Author Biography: Sabrina Mesko, Eastern trained but Western-based, completed an intensive four-year study of yoga teachings with world-renowned masters, one of whom entrusted her with bringing the sacred mudra techniques to the West. Sabrina graduated with honors from the internationally known Yoga College of India and became a certified yoga therapist. She holds a bachelors degree in sensory approaches to healing, a masters in holistic science, and a doctorate in ancient and modern approaches to healing from the American Institute of Holistic Theology.

Publishers Weekly

Despite the odd-sounding name, mudras (yoga hand movements) have plenty to offer. Regular practice of them, this volume assures, can help prevent exhaustion, lessen anxiety, control diet and relieve PMS symptoms. Mesko (Healing Mudras), who studied hand postures under the renowned Tantric guru Yogi Bhajan, explains concisely and convincingly the connection between mudras and the seven chakras, or energy centers. A cross between Fran Drescher and Hedy Lamarr, the blissful, flowered tiara-wearing Mesko is photographed while at one with nature or posing in a studio, demonstrating each of the dozens of mudras designed for female well being. Simple directions on how to position one's fingers, align the spine and shoulders and breathe deeply accompany the pictures, along with visualizations and several routine affirmations (e.g., "I am connected to and part of the universal creative energy"). Mesko promises that just three minutes of mudras will be beneficial; for busy women, that alone might be reason enough to put their hands together-and clap. 130 b&w photos. (Nov.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Interesting book: Presidential Doodles or Among the Believers

Pilates for Beginners

Author: Kellina Stewart

Celebrities including Julia Roberts, Sharon Stone, and Amber Valletta swear by it, and professional dancers and athletes have used it for nearly 100 years. Focusing on the "powerhouse" muscles of the abdomen and lower spine, Joseph Pilates' new low-impact conditioning program will help you achieve longer, leaner muscles, without adding any undesired bulk to your physique.

Featuring step-by-step instructional photos and a unique hands-free design, this colorful guide is a complete introduction to Pilates, with core exercises that can be done at home without machines. Each exercise is accompanied by information on its purpose, the correct technique, and how to customize the movement if you suffer from weak or swollen joints.

The Healing Journey Through Addiction or Love Undetectable

2009-01-20T20:45:00.000-08:00

The Healing Journey Through Addiction: Your Journal for Recovery and Self-Renewal

Author: Phil Rich EdD MSW

Make the journey from addiction to recovery From a dependence on narcotics, alcohol, or gambling, to food, tobacco, or sex, addiction is a life-draining condition that can seriously damage physical and mental health and destroy relationships. But whatever the cause, whatever the level, it is possible to free yourself from this debilitating disease and regain control of your life. Through recording, exploring, and expressing your thoughts and feelings about your experiences, as well as discovering invaluable recovery information and resources, this guided journal and workbook will help you reach a uniquely personal, healing understanding of your addiction, your life, and your choices. Above all, The Healing Journey Through Addiction will help you figure out for yourself how to best deal with your dependence. Acclaim for The Healing Journey Through Addiction … "Drs. Rich and Copans have written a comprehensive and creative book on recovery from addictive disorders, addressing the many emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual facets of recovery. This book is full of useful information and provides a sense of hope for change and growth. The journal exercises will increase self-awareness and understanding, which are so necessary for change to occur." — Dennis C. Daley, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Chief, Drug and Alcohol Services, Western Psychiatric Instiituute and Clinic Other books in The Healing Journey series include: The Healing Journey, 208 pp,, Paper (0-471-24712-X) The Healing Journey for Couples, 288 pp., Paper (0-471-25470-3) The Healing Journey Through Divorce, 264 pp., Paper (0-471-29575-2) The Healing Journey Through Grief, 264 pp, Paper(0-471-29565-5)

Linda I Toelke

The book is a description of the recovery process from addictive behaviors and the authors encourage self-expression through practical written exercises. The purpose is to guide the participant on a journey of self-discovery. Combining practical information on addictive behaviors and recovery, with workbook exercises, the authors stimulate thoughtful expression. The book is written for persons with addictions or suspected addictions, and can be a good resource for anyone interested in learning about addiction and recovery. Addiction specialists and mental health clinicians will find many useful workbook exercises to supplement their practice in working with clients who may have an addiction. The chapters can stand on their own and be used independently. The authors are credible and engaging in their presentation of the subject matter. Each narrative page has key information in margin highlights. Each written exercise ends with a shaded ""things to think about"" section which fosters further reflection of the responses and encourages discussion with a supportive person. Depending on the case, or answers to responses, the authors may refer the participant to review an earlier chapter. The book has no references or index. This encourages browsing and coincides with the purpose of providing a personal journal. The book is aesthetically pleasant with inspirational quotations and botanical prints throughout. This is a practical and useful book geared towards someone who has or suspects they have an addiction. The authors develop and examine in detail the participant's motivation and readiness for change. There are numerous written exercises that serve as useful adjuncts foraddiction specialists and mental health professionals in their practice. The authors are engaging, and the written exercises deliver an insightful individualized and personalized experience.

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Reviewer: Linda Toelke, RN, MS, CARN (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: The book is a description of the recovery process from addictive behaviors and the authors encourage self-expression through practical written exercises.
Purpose: The purpose is to guide the participant on a journey of self-discovery. Combining practical information on addictive behaviors and recovery, with workbook exercises, the authors stimulate thoughtful expression.
Audience: The book is written for persons with addictions or suspected addictions, and can be a good resource for anyone interested in learning about addiction and recovery. Addiction specialists and mental health clinicians will find many useful workbook exercises to supplement their practice in working with clients who may have an addiction. The chapters can stand on their own and be used independently. The authors are credible and engaging in their presentation of the subject matter.
Features: Each narrative page has key information in margin highlights. Each written exercise ends with a shaded "things to think about" section which fosters further reflection of the responses and encourages discussion with a supportive person. Depending on the case, or answers to responses, the authors may refer the participant to review an earlier chapter. The book has no references or index. This encourages browsing and coincides with the purpose of providing a personal journal. The book is aesthetically pleasant with inspirational quotations and botanical prints throughout.
Assessment: This is a practical and useful book geared towards someone who has or suspects they have an addiction. The authors develop and examine in detail the participant's motivation and readiness for change. There are numerous written exercises that serve as useful adjuncts for addiction specialists and mental health professionals in their practice. The authors are engaging, and the written exercises deliver an insightful individualized and personalized experience.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Interesting book: Revisar Claro e Simples

Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival

Author: Andrew Sullivan

I intend to be among the first generation that survives this disease.' That was former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan's first public statement about his HIV diagnosis. Speaking to heterosexual and homosexual audiences alike, this book is about the first steps in that journey of survival. In a memoir in the form of three essays, Sullivan asks hard questions about his own life and others'. Can the practice of friendship ever compensate for a life without love? Is sex at war or at peace with spirituality? Can faith endure the randomness of death? Is homosexuality genetic or environmental? In a work destined to be controversial, Sullivan takes on religious authorities and gay activists; talks candidly about his own promiscuity and search for love; revisits Freud in the origins of homosexuality; and makes one of the more memorable modern cases for elevating the virtue of friendship over the satisfactions of love.

Publishers Weekly

The AIDS plague is over, Sullivan declares in the first of three astute, searching essay-memoirs, arguing we should now view it as a manageable disease. An optimistic view, this, and one that holds only for patients of means. But it's also a diagnosis not without merit, given Sullivan's emphasis on AIDS as a cultural watershed in the gay community. The first essay, some of which was first published in the New York Times Magazine, neatly traces the confusion and ambivalence that have begun to set in as the crisis, one that galvanized a movement, seems to abate. In the second essay, "Virtually Abnormal" (whose title plays off Sullivan's previous book, Virtually Normal), the New Republic senior editor engages the question of etiology, for "where homosexuality comes from" remains for Sullivan a "fascinating" question. This essay reflects Sullivan's tortured efforts to reconcile his Catholic faith with his homosexuality, an issue that also troubled the late Yale historian John Boswell. Like Boswell, Sullivan sees human sexuality almost exclusively in terms of the heterosexual/homosexual binary, and draws the familiar conclusion that gayness is a result of both genetic predisposition and environmental factors, predictably taking heterosexuality as a sort of base line from which one deviates. The best essay by far--though all are engagingly written--is the last, "If Love Were All," which discusses a topic not, according to Sullivan, taken seriously enough since the Middle Ages--friendship. Drawing upon Aristotle, Augustine, Montaigne, Emerson and others, Sullivan finds it, fittingly, to be "the deepest legacy of the plague years." (Oct.) FYI: Sullivan served as editor of the New Republic from 1991 to 1996.

Booknews

Three essays comprise a memoir in which Sullivan (Virtually Normal deals with such questions as whether friendship can compensate for a life without love, whether sex is at war or peace with spirituality, whether faith can endure the randomness of death, and whether homosexuality is genetic or environmental. The undetectable of the title alludes to the reduction of HIV in the blood to below measurable levels by new drugs. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Andrew Delbanco

[Sullivan] wants to see same-sex love fully accepted as a dignified form of human relations. . .This book can only help the cause. -- The New York Times Book Review

Liz Galst

On display here are all of the author's many strengths -- a compelling, poetic prose style, some keen observations on faith, an evocative retelling of his friendship with a man felled by AIDS. -- The Boston Globe

Norah Vincent

This is vintage Sullivan -- sound, fair, respectful, and clear. . . .Love Undetectable [is]. . .a careful, measured argument about homesexuality. . . .But it's also an AIDS memoir masquerading as cultural commentary. -- National Review

Kirkus Reviews

In three elegant essays, Sullivan (Virtually Normal) reflects on his quest for love. The essays examine, first, the psychological impact of unexpected prospects for longer life that, thanks to protease inhibitors, many HIV+ gay men can now expect to claim; second, the psychological origins of homosexuality; and third, the philosophy and experience of friendship. A logical thread leads unobtrusively away from the theme of promiscuity discussed by Sullivan in his first essay, to the stable homosexual-personality construct of the second, to the sex-free discipline of responsible gay friendship rounding out the third. The author's style is so disarmingly congenial that one forgets how controversial his positions are. As a self-described 'dogged traditionalist,' he faces the daunting task of normalizing a sexual orientation that has historically bucked tradition. And he largely succeeds. The most persuasive argument is waged in the second essay, a brilliant dusting-off of Freud, who shows himself at Sullivan's hands to be a potential friend of gay male identity, which 'hovers precariously between nature and will.' Sullivan's Freudian take on common features of gay male childhood—close identification with a mother, disdain for sports, and sensitive passivity—is that these, far from causing homosexuality later, result from a previous disposition toward it, encouraged by environmental factors. Sullivan constructs a gay normalcy that, oxymoronically, remains (to the delight, surely, of most gay men) 'resiliently subversive and elusive.' But dogged tradition does enjoy the final word: In the 'Great Books' approach to friendship taken by Sullivan in the third essay, freedomand 'radical choice' shed any overtones of linkage to promiscuity. They emerge as the foundation of a noble, Aristotle-approved gay culture of friendship. An intelligent exploration.

Preparing for Weight Loss Surgery Workbook or Good Night Sweet Dreams I Love You

2009-01-18T10:40:00.000-08:00

Preparing for Weight Loss Surgery Workbook

Author: Robin F Appl

Weight loss surgery is becoming more and more popular as a long-term solution for people to regain control of their bodies and their health. Once you make the decision to undergo surgery, it is up to you to ensure the best possible outcome. This will entail radical changes in both your lifestyle and eating habits.
To reap the maximum benefits of your weight loss surgery, you must learn new methods for dealing with unhealthy attitudes about food. When used in conjunction with therapy, this workbook provides practical tools that have been scientifically tested and shown to help people successfully prepare for, and overcome the post-operative challenges of creating new and healthy eating and lifestyle habits. This treatment program does more than teach you how to guarantee yourself a successful recovery after surgery; it teaches you the skills to manage your health and weight for the rest of your life.
This workbook includes user-friendly devices to help you learn these new skills, including food records and checklists, body image journals, weight graphs, problem-solving exercises, and interactive homework assignments. All forms and worksheets can be photocopied from the book or downloaded from the TreatmentsThatWork website.
Written by professionals in the area of eating disorders and obesity, this book will help you take control of your health as you begin your new life after weight loss surgery.

Interesting textbook: The Revival Slim and Beautiful Diet or Healing Spiritual Abuse

Good Night, Sweet Dreams, I Love You: Now Get into Bed and Go to Sleep!

Author: Patrick C Friman

An infant who wails deep into the night, a toddler who keeps popping out of bed, a young child who procrastinates long past his bedtime - does your child's behavior give you nightmares?

Many kids seem programmed from birth with bedtime behavior that frustrates and frazzles parents who have difficulty ignoring a baby's cry or who feel guilty enforcing an early curfew for a child they haven't seen all day. Yet getting sufficient sleep is critical for children's health and happiness.

With humor and empathy, child psychologist Dr. Patrick Friman outlines the problems related to bedtime for children from infancy through middle school and gives you advice and tips on how to handle them. In many cases, he provides several options so you can choose the approach you feel most comfortable with. His suggestions can help end those bedtime hassles and get you and your child the good night's sleep you both need!

The Spirited Walker or Dying for a Drink

2009-01-17T23:28:00.000-08:00

The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection

Author: Carolyn S Kortg

Walking surpasses jogging as most people's favourite form of exercise by five-to-one. The Spirited Walker introduces the idea of expanding one's walking regimen from simply a physical workout to a spiritual one – a fitness routine for the body and soul. Drawing upon the Buddhist concept of the ‘walking meditation' – spiritual practice on the move – Kortge offers instruction and encouragement for:• Developing a walking routine• Learning and using proper walking techniques• Developing awareness and focus while walking• Practicing techniques for increased attentiveness, peacefulness and tranquility.Using breathing exercises, visualizations, and active affirmations.A unique approach to spiritual development, Kortge's methods are simple, eminently practical, and rewarding for men and women of all ages and physical conditions. Beautifully written and gently inspiring, the Spirited Walker is one of the first books to explore the hidden and profound benefits of this enormously popular sport, offering a spirited new lesson in the pursuit of good health.

Peter Jaret

"If exercise and gentle reflection each calm you down, imagine how great you'll feel when you do both at the same time."
-- Health magazine

What People Are Saying

Jerry Lynch
"If you really want to give your spiritual life a boost, let Kortge show you how the simple act of walking can take you on the trial of self-transformation to destinations inward bound that you never knew existed. Here is a direct way to knowing yourself and a celebration of being fully alive."

Maggie Spilner
"This is the walking book I wanted to write! While so many books focus primarily on physical fitness and health, my readers tell me it's the spiritual connection walking satisfies that keeps them going."

Look this: A Taste Berry Teens Guide to Managing the Stress and Pressures of Life or What to Eat

Dying for a Drink: What You and Your Family Should Know about Alcoholism

Author: Anderson Spickard

In the United States, alcoholism leads to 100,000 unnecessary deaths per year. Nearly 3 in 10 American adults are "risky drinkers." 18 million Americans are abusing alcohol regularly. More than of Americans have a close family member who is an alcoholic.

Despite the scope of this problem, there are currently no books published for the broader Christian community that offer Dying for a Drink's unique combination of strong writing, compelling stories, the best in medical science and practice, and clear explication of the timeless spiritual principles of recovery.

The revision of this classic work incorporates new information on topics such as:

The role of mental illness, childhood trauma, and family origin issues
Human motivation and new methods of intervention and treatment
Understanding the role of the Holy Spirit and the church community in recovery
Prevention and the church's role in an alcohol-saturated society

Acknowledgments....................xi
Introduction....................xiii
1. An Equal Opportunity Epidemic....................1
2. It Could Never Happen to Me....................7
3. Who's at Risk?....................11
4. How Much Is Too Much?....................21
5. Abuse-or Addiction?....................27
6. Early Warning Signs....................35
7. "Don't Call Me an Alcoholic!"....................45
8. The Supporting Cast....................49
9. A Partner's Point of View....................59
10. The Family Trap....................63
11. "Somebody's Going to Get It!"....................73
12. Too Much Too Soon....................77
13. Games Children Play....................85
14. Five Myths of Addiction....................95
15. Motivation for Change: First Steps....................101
16. Letting Go....................109
17. Getting Help: New Tools for Intervention....................115
18. Group Intervention: Love and Honesty....................121
19. Decision Time....................129
20. Some Words of Caution....................137
21. Paths to Sobriety....................141
22. When the Honeymoon Ends....................151
23. Guidelines for Recovering Alcoholics....................155
24. Family Recovery....................165
25. Relapse Prevention....................173
26. What If the Alcoholic Never Stops Drinking?....................181
27. A Call to Action....................185
Epilogue....................195
Appendix A: Letter to Grandchildren....................197
Appendix B: MAST: A DiagnosticTest....................201
Appendix C: Resources....................205
Notes....................209
About the Authors....................217

Eating for Lower Cholesterol or Living with Diabetes

2009-01-17T14:17:00.000-08:00

Eating for Lower Cholesterol: A Balanced Approach to Heart Health with Recipes Everyone Will Love

Author: Catherine Jones

Eating for lower cholesterol has never been easier, or tastier.

High cholesterol is directly associated with heart disease. New national guidelines for healthy cholesterol levels, recently revised to be more stringent, mean millions of Americans need to bring their levels down. While doctors fill out millions of prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering drugs, diet remains a proven, supremely effective way to reduce cholesterol. Now, professional cookbook author and health-conscious chef, Catherine Jones, and one of the nation's leading nutritionists, Elaine B. Trujillo, offer a wealth of cutting-edge information along with a collection of delicious recipes to help lower your cholesterol levels. Key features of this authoritative, information-packed book include:

* An introduction, clearly explaining cholesterol and how it relates to heart disease, what your "numbers" mean, risk factors for developing high cholesterol, high cholesterol in women and children, and other vital information
* More than 100 heart-healthy recipes, easy enough for everyday fare and guaranteed to please everyone-from breakfast to dinner, with snacks in between
* Tips for stocking a heart-healthy pantry
* More than 100 text boxes, highlighting the latest research findings, health claims, shopping, cooking, meal planning, fast food dangers, and other practical, essential information
* A Stay Balanced Scale, to help you take control of your diet without ever feeling deprived
* Nutrition information accompanying each recipe that explains heart-health benefits, including nutritional breakdowns and ADA exchanges for diabetics

What People Are Saying

Mehmet Oz
"This wonderful guide artfully choreographs explanations of cholesterol-reducing tactics with tasty recipes that all will enjoy."
—MD, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide that Will Make You Healthier and Younger

Eric Ripert
"Jones and Trujillo prove that lowering one's cholesterol does not have to require sacrifice. A bit of focus and these great recipes will do the rest. Bon appйtit!"
—Chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin, New York City

Malcolm K. Robinson
"Jones and Trujillo offer a rich blend of recipes and reason; what to eat and why. I highly recommend it as a practical, healthy eating guide for the whole family."
—MD, Director, Metabolic Support Service and the Program for Weight Management, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Caroline M. Apovian
"No new scientific findings have been missed in this book!...A must-have for anyone interested in healthy eating for lower cholesterol and other nutrition-based disorders, such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity."
—MD, FACN, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Director, Nutrition and Weight Management Center, Boston Medical Center

Look this: Julie and Julia or 1 Pan 50 Muffins

Living with Diabetes: Dr. Draznin's Plan for Better Health

Author: Boris Draznin

Being overweight dramatically increases the risk of diabetes. Research shows that only a permanent lifestyle change can take weight off and keep it off--and thus prevent diabetes in those who might otherwise suffer from this debilitating and dreaded disease.
Living with Diabetes: Dr. Draznin's Plan for Better Health offers a practical and scientifically proven approach to lifestyle change that will stay with you long term: a simple way to lose weight and keep it off, and to prevent or manage diabetes. Filled with anecdotes and down-to-earth advice, Living with Diabetes offers a dramatically different method of weight loss and management based on the refreshingly simple concepts of the Draznin Mile and the Draznin Calorie, two unique strategies that can help you lose weight quickly and safely. For this fully revised and updated edition, Dr. Draznin has incorporated mnay recent research findings in nutrition and weight management advances in our understanding of weight regulation, energy expenditure, and how Americans can learn to change the way they eat. An evaluation of "fad diets" has been added, while statistics on obesity and health have been fully updated. Dr. Draznin also weighs the risks and benefits of surgical approaches such as gastric bypass, and discusses the newest methods of treating diabetes and "pre-diabetes."
Drawing on his successful treatment of thousands of overwight and diabetic patients over 30 years of medical practice, Dr. Boris Draznin offers a practical and easy-to-follow plan that will appeal to those who have or or are at risk for diabetes, as well as anyone interested in losing weight in a healthy and sustainable manner.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Amy Hess-Fischl, MS, RD, DN, BC-ADM, CDE(University of Chicago Medical Center)
Description:In this book geared for people with diabetes, the author writes about how to incorporate physical activity and healthy eating into daily life. This updates the first edition of 2003.
Purpose:The purpose is to give practical advice to people with diabetes, using a plan dubbed "The Draznin Plan," after the author. People with diabetes are always looking for methods to cope with their condition and this plan offers another one for people to use, if they choose.
Audience:The book is targeted at people with diabetes as well as those at risk for diabetes.
Features:The book is based on the author's own program that uses a different approach to physical activity and meal planning. He breaks things down into "Draznin Miles" and Draznin Calories," similar to Weight Watchers points. This is a unique way for people to approach behavior change and the author states that over 100 of his own patients have used this method. Although it is an interesting concept, the Draznin Calories do not take into consideration the amount of carbohydrates at meals, the main component that affects blood glucose. Some outdated facts appear in the book, particularly regarding medications, resources, and nutrition research. However, the Draznin Plan may be an interesting option for those at risk for diabetes to help them jumpstart weight loss and reduce their risk.
Assessment:The author infuses the book with humor and it is easy to read. A few new concepts were introduced in the second edition.

Muscles in Minutes or Eat to Beat Diabetes Cookbook

2009-01-17T02:05:00.000-08:00

Muscles in Minutes: The Insiders' Guide to Body Building with Negative Training

Author: Steve Leamont

Cut Your Workout Time in Half!

Select trainers and fitness specialists have known the secret for years. Now it's your turn to gain explosive strength quickly and safely through the technique of "forced negatives," or eccentric training. Get bigger and stronger, with less time in the gym! There are no gimmicks, no special equipment, and no exaggerated results. Muscles in Minutes gives you the system successful bodybuilders use themselves.

Build muscle mass quickly and easily with:
* Rapid-fire weight training exercises
* Quick warm-up exercises to get your blood flowing
* Time-saving meals that build muscle and burn fat
* Mental triggers that speed results

Muscles in Minutes helps you track your progress with easy-to-use tools, such as:
* Tips to avoid mistakes that slow or stop gains
* Three levels of lifting intensity to keep muscles growing
* More than 300 photos of grips, spots, and exercises

The first book to utilize these powerful techniques, Muscles in Minutes will help men and women of all fitness levels get fast lasting results with minimal effort.

Books about: Temporary Tattoos or Shamans of the Foye Tree

Eat to Beat Diabetes Cookbook: Over 300 Scrumptious Recipes to Help You Enjoy Life and Stay Well

Author: Robyn Webb

Over 300 of the most delicious and creative recipes ever offered for people with diabetes. Each recipe lays out the ingredients and how to prepare them, along with a nutritional analysis. Based on the newest findings about diabetes, health, and diet, this revolutionary cookbook is filled with welltested recipes your whole family will love.

Performers Voice or September Songs

2009-01-16T16:54:00.000-08:00

Performer's Voice

Author: Benninger Micheal

This book provides a focused approach to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disorders in professional vocalists and singers. Its content is dense enough to be of value to the otolaryngologist or speech-language pathologist with an interest in expanding their voice practice, but written in a straightforward style that allows singers and vocal coaches to gain valuable insights.

Oriented toward the clinical aspects of what happens when a singer or actor presents for treatment of a voice problem, the contributors address the anatomy, physiology and neurology of the vocal mechanism to orient both practitioners and patients in the correct management style rather than in the exact details of management of voice disorders. Thus, this book teaches the practitioners and clinicians what they must know to provide state of the art treatment for professional singers and actors and educates professional voice users in what to look for when seeking the best treatment.

The text is highlighted with helpful tables, charts, and illustrations and provides a practical approach for successful treatment and management of this group of professional voice users.

Look this: Handbook of Medicinal Herbs or Pocket Pediatrician

September Songs: The Good News about Marriage in the Later Years

Author: Maggie Scarf

An unexpected—and surprisingly positive— exploration of the benefits awaiting married baby boomers in their "bonus" years from the New York Times-bestselling author of Intimate Partners.

In September Songs, journalist and author Maggie Scarf finds that marriage has undergone some fascinating changes since she wrote her bestselling Intimate Partners. Over the course of the twentieth century, thirty years of life have been added to normal human life expectancy—what the author calls "the bonus years." This means that couples will often live together for years after their children have left home, and perhaps well past retirement. This extra time is bringing change to our long-term relationships, especially marriage.

In a series of intimate interviews, Scarf delves into the lives of couples married for more than two decades and discerns encouraging new insights about marriage. Seen through the eyes of these baby boomers as they move into this new phase of life, we hear—in the couples' own words—how they survived the bumps together and learned to balance their needs with those of their partners. Scarf reveals that, in many ways, men and women in long-term marriages are far happier and more fulfilled in their relationships today than when they were younger.

A compelling and human portrait of the long-term emotional, psychological, and physical benefits of a lasting commitment to another, September Songs uncovers the challenges and new opportunities couples find to love, cherish, and live alongside each other in the extra years they have together.

The Washington Post - Judith Viorst

Scarf is good. A journalist and the author of several well-received nonfiction books including Intimate Partners and Unfinished Business, she is a probing but tactful questioner, an active listener and even, on occasion, a quasi-therapist. She enriches her material with research on aging and marriage and seeks insight into the marriages of her own interviewees by provocatively asking, "If you were going to give a title to a movie or a book about this time of your life, what do you think it would be?" The answers—"The New Beginning," "Harvest," "Peace" "Life in Bloom"—could convince the most cynical reader that "Grow old along with me!/The best is yet to be" is not a romantic's foolish dream but, for some fortunate couples, a real possibility.

The New York Times - Hilma Wolitzer

[Scarf's] a gifted and discreet interviewer, knowing what to ask and when to back off. Her gently probing questions—about retirement, health, sexual activity, finances, children, religion, disappointments and regret—lead her subjects to some unexpectedly candid answers. They speak with ease, separately and together (in what often seem like twin soliloquies), about their shared histories and their hopes for and concerns about the future.

Publishers Weekly

In this well-researched and eminently readable study, journalist Scarf (Intimate Partners) plunges into the lives of married people between the ages of 50 and 75, inquiring how their partnerships have changed, been renegotiated, reframed and refreshed as increased longevity has added up to three decades to the span of an average marriage. Conducting in-depth interviews with seven couples, the author poses perceptive and challenging questions to her subjects, asking how they have weathered difficulties, affairs, health problems, how they have "disappointed or surprised each other over time" and what are the "major sexual issues that emerge at this time of life." The results, though hardly surprising (financial worries, lack of sexual desire and compromise are all recurring themes), are nonetheless stimulating, not least because these couples are so open, a testament to Scarf's skills as an interviewer. Her case studies are interspersed with chunks of data and interpretations that lend welcome empirical backup to her claims and add authority to this fascinating overview of an unexplored topic that should appeal to couples of all ages. (Sept.)

The Little ABS Workout Book or The Good Fat Cookbook

2009-01-16T05:42:00.000-08:00

The Little ABS Workout Book

Author: Erika Dillman

Everyone wants killer abs. Now you can learn how to trim your torso and tighten your stomach for that six-pack look and greater overall strength!

The Little Abs Workout Book's progressive training plan will help you gradually restore function, strength, and endurance to abs and back muscles; improve your posture and balance; reduce the risk of lower back pain; and achieve the flat, chiseled abdomen that looks so great. Complete with easy-to-follow instructions and detailed illustrations, it's the perfect training companion.

	Welcome to The Little Abs Workout Book	1
1	From Flabby to Fab	9
2	Anatomy and Physiology	14
3	What Are Great Abs?	28
4	How to Get Great Abs	40
5	Essential Training Guidelines	49
6	Exercises for a Taut Torso	67
7	Workout One: Keeping Your Balance	97
8	Workout Two: Calling All Abs	114
9	Workout Three: The Stability Ball	129
10	Workout Four: Gym Exercises	140
11	Workout Five: Killer Abs	152
12	Conclusion	167
	Abspeak: A Glossary of Terms	169
	Absources: Where to Find Fitness Equipment and Information	173
	References	179
	Notes	185
	Index	187

Book review: Cooking the Indonesian Way or Coffee and Coffee Houses

The Good Fat Cookbook

Author: Fran McCullough

Good news. The good fats — butter, chocolate, eggs, coconut, olive oil, avocado, fish and shellfish, among many other favorites — are not only delicious, they're good for your brain, heart, immune system, hormones, skin, memory, and emotional well-being.

Whatever you think you know about fat, forget it. After two decades of the low-fat diet trend, Americans are fatter — and less healthy — than ever before. For many, those torturous no-fat, low-fat diets are outright health hazards, contributing to everything from premature wrinkling and depression to hormone dysfunction and even cancer.

In The Good Fat Cookbook, best-selling author Fran McCullough delivers the delicious news. Here is powerful evidence that not only have we been sold a bill of low-fat goods, but the foods we love to eat — real butter, chocolate, coconut, whole milk and cream, nuts, avocados, cold-water fish, red meat, olive oil, bacon and eggs — are actually good for us.

Not only does fat not make you fat, the good fats slow the effects of aging, improve mood and memory, boost the immune system, and protect against catastrophic disease such as stroke and cancer. And the most surprising news of all: the right fats are great tools for weight loss — they make you fuller faster and for longer and jump-start your metabolism.

McCullough debunks fat myths and demystifies cutting-edge science, while exploring all aspects of the fat phenomenon, fork in hand. More than a hundred simple recipes — Salmon Chowder, Tuna with Rice, Deep-Fried Coconut Shrimp, Parsley Salad with Avocado, Chicken with Olives and Oranges, Grilled Cheese with Oregano, Crisp CoconutWaffles, Avocado Cheesecake, and Wall-to-Wall Walnut Brownies — put the good fats back on your table, and McCullough offers spirited advice on everything from the best cooking oils and tastiest canned tuna to nutritional supplements and testing for your fatty-acid profile. Her hundreds of thousands of low-carb fans will be overjoyed to see that most of the recipes here are perfect for them as well.

Fran McCullough is the author of the best-selling The Low-Carb Cookbook and Living Low-Carb. She won a James Beard Award for Great Food Without Fuss and, since 1999, has been the editor of the annual Best American Recipes anthology series. A graduate of Stanford University, McCullough began her career as an editor, discovering Sylvia Plath, Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday, and National Book Award winner Robert Bly as well as Richard Ford. She also edited and published a distinguished list of cookbook authors, including Diana Kennedy, Paula Wolfert, and Deborah Madison.

Publishers Weekly

Since the 1970s, dieters have eliminated fat, yet over those years the obesity rate in America has increased 25%, explains McCullough (Low-Carb Cookbook). Demystifying concepts like HDL and LDL cholesterol, fish oil supplements, triglycerides, saturated, unsaturated, and trans fats, McCullough helps readers navigate the labyrinth of food selection. She builds on the work of Atkins, Dr. Melvin Anchell (Steak Lover's Diet), Gary Taubes, Dr. Mary Enig and the eye-opening 2001 Harvard Nurses' study (which showed no relationship between total fat consumption and heart disease). McCullough persuasively argues that highly processed foods are the worst to eat. We are still far from knowing the many mysteries of diet (soy is called into question), and while this book offers no comprehensive diet plan, it does advocate for moderation and traditional whole foods. Each "good" food-seafood, meats, coconut, eggs, butter and dairy products, avocado, walnuts-has a helpful Do's and Don'ts section. Recipes like Thai Seafood Chowder, Greek lemony Fried Potatoes (which uses olive oil), and Massaman Curry with Sweet Potatoes and Peanuts make it easy to incorporate good fats into a healthy diet. This book helps readers distinguish myth from reality in the search for better nutrition and weight loss. (Mar.)

Library Journal

Most of us can recite it by heart: margarine is good, butter is bad; canola oil is good, lard is bad; soy is good, coconut is bad. But lately, studies suggest that these rules are wrong. Recent articles in Science, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Nature, among other sources, propose that coconut oil, which is very similar to the fat found in human mothers' milk, is excellent for us; that butter is much better than margarine or liquid vegetable oils; and that animal fats can actually assist in weight loss. Presenting her facts well, with good documentation, McCullough (The Low-Carb Cookbook; Living Low-Carb) describes in lay terms the reasons why the highly processed oils that we've been taught to substitute for real food are not the panacea they first appeared to be. She provides a section of recipes, including Salmon Chowder and Avocado Cheesecake, as well as sources for the best-quality products. These studies may well be the next big thing in the diet and nutrition field, and public libraries should buy accordingly.-Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Animal Vegetable Miracle or Transforming Depression

2009-01-15T19:28:00.000-08:00

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.

When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle through. Or starting with baby animals, and enough sense to refrain from naming them."

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle follows the family through the first year of their experiment. They find themselves eager to move away from the typical food scenario of American families: a refrigerator packed with processed, factory-farmed foods transported long distances using nonrenewable fuels. In their search for another way to eat and live, they begin to recover what Kingsolver considers our nation's lost appreciation for farms and the natural processes of food production. American citizens spend less of their income on food than has any culture in the history of the world, but pay dearly in other ways -- losing the flavors, diversity and creative food cultures of earlier times. The environmental costs are also high, and the nutritional sacrifice is undeniable: on our modern industrial food supply, Americans are now raising the first generation of children to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Believing that most of us have better options available, Kingsolver and her family set out to prove for themselves that a local diet is not just better for the economy and environment but also better on the table. Their search leads them through a season of planting, pulling weeds, expanding their kitchen skills, harvesting their own animals, joining the effort to save heritage crops from extinction, and learning the time-honored rural art of getting rid of zucchini. Inspired by the flavors and culinary arts of a local food culture, they explore farmers' markets and diversified organic farms at home and across the country, discovering a booming movement with devotees from the Deep South to Alaska. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and complete with original recipes, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life, and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.

The Washington Post - Bunny Crumpacker

This is a serious book about important problems. Its concerns are real and urgent. It is clear, thoughtful, often amusing, passionate and appealing. It may give you a serious case of supermarket guilt, thinking of the energy footprint left by each out-of-season tomato, but you'll also find unexpected knowledge and gain the ability to make informed choices about what -- and how -- you're willing to eat.

The New York Times - Korby Kummer

What is likely to win the most converts, though, is the joy Kingsolver takes in food. She isn't just an ardent preserver, following the summertime canning rituals of her farming forebears. She's also an ardent cook, and there's some lovely food writing here.

Publishers Weekly

In her engaging though sometimes preachy new book, Kingsolver recounts the year her family attempted to eat only what they could grow on their farm in Virginia or buy from local sources. The book's bulk, written and read by Kingsolver in a lightly twangy voice filled with wonder and enthusiasm, proceeds through the seasons via delightful stories about the history of their farmhouse, the exhausting bounty of the zucchini harvest, turkey chicks hatching and so on. In long sections, however, she gets on a soapbox about problems with industrial food production, fast food and Americans' ignorance of food's origins, and despite her obvious passion for the issues, the reading turns didactic and loses its pace, momentum and narrative. Her daughter Camille contributes recipes, meal plans and an enjoyable personal essay in a clear if rather monotonous voice. Hopp, Kingsolver's husband and an environmental studies professor, provides dry readings of the sidebars that have him playing "Dr. Scientist," as Kingsolver notes in an illuminating interview on the last disc. Though they may skip some of the more moralizing tracks, Kingsolver's fans and foodies alike will find this a charming, sometimes inspiring account of reconnecting with the food chain. Simultaneous release with the HarperCollins hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 26). (May)

Risa Getman - Library Journal

Best-selling novelist Kingsolver and her family moved from Tucson, AZ, to the fertile lands of Southern Appalachia, where agriculture is an accepted excuse for absence from school, to undertake an experiment of sorts. The family joined the locavore movement, which promotes eating only what is locally raised, grown, and produced. This account of their ongoing experiment is a family affair: daughter Lily morphs into a poultry entrepreneur; daughter Camille, a college student, sprinkles her own anecdotes and seasonal menus throughout; and essays by Kingsolver's husband, Hopp, an academic, warn of the high cost of chemical pesticides, fossil fuels, and processed foods environmentally, financially, and on our health. Patience is a virtue in this undertaking, which calls for eating only what is in season; however, Kingsolver's passion for food and near sensual delight in what she pulls from her garden make the enterprise seem enticing. The author's narration is homey, folksy, and warm; Camille and Hopp narrate as well. Part memoir, part how-to, and part agricultural education, this book is both timely and entertaining. With Kingsolver's broad readership; a large movement toward organic, healthful eating; and heavy media attention on the subject, expect demand. Recommended for public libraries.

Library Journal

What happens when the beloved novelist and her family decide to settle in southern Appalachia and eat only food that's available locally. With a 12-city tour; one-day -laydown. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

Adult/High School -This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavores-those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing one's own produce but also of harvesting one's own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatise-the oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormous-it ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown; however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers' markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. Give this title to budding Martha Stewarts, green-leaning fans of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (Rodale, 2006), and kids outraged by Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation (Houghton, 2001).-Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA

Kirkus Reviews

With some assistance from her husband, Steven, and 19-year-old daughter, Camille, Kingsolver (Prodigal Summer, 2000, etc.) elegantly chronicles a year of back-to-the-land living with her family in Appalachia. After three years of drought, the author decamped from her longtime home in Arizona and set out with Steven, Camille and younger daughter Lily to inhabit fulltime his family's farm in Virginia. Their aim, she notes, was to "live in a place that could feed us," to grow their own food and join the increasingly potent movement led by organic growers and small exurban food producers. Kingsolver wants to know where her food is coming from: Her diary records her attempts to consume only those items grown locally and in season while eschewing foods that require the use of fossil fuels for transport, fertilizing and processing. (In one of biologist Steven's terrific sidebars, "Oily Food," he notes that 17 percent of the nation's energy is consumed by agriculture.) From her vegetable patch, Kingsolver discovered nifty ways to use plentiful available produce such as asparagus, rhubarb, wild mushrooms, honey, zucchini, pumpkins and tomatoes; she also spent a lot of time canning summer foods for winter. The family learned how to make cheese, visited organic farms and a working family farm in Tuscany, even grew and killed their own meat. "I'm unimpressed by arguments that condemn animal harvest," writes Kingsolver, "while ignoring, wholesale, the animal killing that underwrites vegetal foods." Elsewhere, Steven explores business topics such as the good economics of going organic; the losing battle in the use of pesticides; the importance of a restructured Farm Bill; mad cow disease; and fairtrade. Camille, meanwhile, offers anecdotes and recipes. Readers frustrated with the unhealthy, artificial food chain will take heart and inspiration here.

Called Home     1
Waiting for Asparagus: Late March     23
Springing Forward     43
Stalking the Vegetannual     63
Molly Mooching: April     70
The Birds and the Bees     86
Gratitude: May     100
Growing Trust: Mid-June     111
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Late June     124
Eating Neighborly: Late June     148
Slow Food Nations: Late June     154
Zucchini Larceny: July     173
Life in a Red State: August     196
You Can't Run Away on Harvest Day: September     219
Where Fish Wear Crowns: September     242
Smashing Pumpkins: October     259
Celebration Days: November-December     277
What Do You Eat in January?     296
Hungry Month: February-March     315
Time Begins     334
Acknowledgments     353
References     355
Organizations     358
Sidebar Resources     364

Book review: The Security Development Lifecycle or Linear System Theory and Design

Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity

Author: David H Rosen

In this groundbreaking book, David H. Rosen, M.D., offers depressed individuals, their families, and therapists a lifesaving course in healing the soul through creativity. This is a book about transforming depression and its powerful pull toward suicide into a meaningful alternative. In Transforming Depression, Dr. Rosen applies Carl Jung's method of active imagination to treating depressed and suicidal individuals. Having dealt with depression in his own life and the suicides of loved ones, Dr. Rosen shows that when people learn to confront the rich images and symbols that emerge from their struggles, they can turn their despair into a fountain of creative energy. He details the paths of four patients whose work in painting, pottery, and dance - in conjunction with psychotherapy - led them from depression to a more meaningful life. Their dramatic paintings illustrate the text.

Part One presents an overview of the biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual factors involved in the diagnosis of depression.

Part Two provides a new therapeutic approach to treating depression, focusing on the symbolic death and rebirth of the ego (ego-cide) as an alternative to suicide.

Part Three presents in-depth case studies from Dr. Rosen's practice.

Part Four discusses how we can recognize crisis points and how creativity can transform depression. The author pays particular attention to the problem of teen suicide.

Chi Kung or Runners World Complete Guide to Trail Running

2009-01-15T10:14:00.000-08:00

Chi Kung: Way of Power

Author: Lam Kam Chuen

"Benefits of stimulating the flow of chi are well known in Eastern cultures. Now, for the first time in print in the Western world, Master Lam Kam Chuen presents this advanced method for improving focus, breathing, and creativity." The practice of chi kung is founded on the five energies system of Chinese philosophy. Through Master Chuen's careful direction, you will master key positions and movements that will boost your energy, decrease stress, stave off illness, and enhance your overall fitness.

Interesting textbook: Low Fat No Fat Chinese Cooking or Enlightened Eaters Whole Foods Guide

Runner's World Complete Guide to Trail Running

Author: Dagny Scott Barrios

Runner's World Complete Guide to Trail RunningTrail Running is one of the fastest growing segments in the sport of running. And it's easy to understand why:"To run on the road is a staccato one-two, one-two. Insistent. Hurried. Relentless. Once you reach the trail, footfalls become muffled, silent even, and instead you hear your breath. On the trail, the rhythm comes from a deeper place inside you--your lungs, your heart, and your head--as you hear your breath enter and leave your body. It's a slower metronome, one infintely more relaxed, than on the road."--Dagny Scott BarriosFrom the worldwide authority on runing, Runner's World Complete Guide to Trail Running is the comprehensive guide to the sport. Inside you'll find everything you need to know to:Choose the right shoes and gearGain confidence on the trailsTrain for any distanceRace like the prosFollow an optimal nutrition planPrevent and treat injuriesStay safe in the wildernessSurvive the elementsMake the leap to ultras With trail-specific strength workouts, training schedules for all race distances, and cross-training advice for maximum performance, Runner's World Complete Guide to Trail Running gives you the tools you need to follow the trail, wherever it may take you.

100 Questions and Answers About Rheumatoid Arthritis or Pain Free for Life

2009-01-14T22:02:00.000-08:00

100 Questions and Answers About Rheumatoid Arthritis

Author: Campion Quinn

Whether you've been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis or care for someone with this disease, 100 Questions & Answers About Rheumatoid Arthritis, offers help. Written by a prominent physician, this book provides authoritative, practical answers to 100 of the most common questions asked by arthritis patients, including diagnosis, underlying causes, treatment options, sources of support, and much more.

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Pain Free for Life: How to Heal Yourself Naturally without Drugs or Surgery

Author: Darrell J Stoddard

Pain Free for Life challenges Western medicine in its treatment of pain. It offers millions suffering from pain effective alternatives to invasive surgery and drugs. Using traditional Chinese medical principles, Darrell Stoddard, founder of the Pain Research Institute, identifies the real cause of pain. Having performed over 18,000 bioelectrical and auricular therapy treatments, he is now sharing his knowledge and experience to help you become pain free for life.

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Foreword	xv
	Introduction	3
Chapter 1	The Real Cause of Pain (Why it still hurts when the doctor can find nothing wrong)	13
	Failure to Define What Pain Is	14
	Pharmaceutical Treatments for Pain	18
	Surgery for Pain	19
	Exercise as a Treatment for Pain	19
	What Pain Is	20
	Bioelectric and Auricular Therapy	24
	Case Studies	26
	Is it Anecdotal or Placebo?	29
	When Bioelectric and Auricular Therapy Do Not Work	32
	Has Electrical Stimulation Been Proven?	34
	Summary on Treating Pain	35
Chapter 2	Why Surgery and Medication Are Not the Best Answers to Pain	39
	$3.3 Billion Each Year Wasted on Useless Knee Surgery	40
	Preventing Knee Pain	40
	Surgery for Low Back Pain	43
	Preventing Low Back and Leg Pain	49
	Pain Medication (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs [NSAIDs])	52
	Is Tylenol the Answer to Pain?	53
	Steroids (Cortisone) for Pain	58
	Opioids (Narcotics) for Pain	59
	Is There a Better Way?	61
Chapter 3	The Only Way to Heal Pain (Connecting the "Broken Chi" that Causes Pain)	65
	Pain Healed "Immediately" by Applying Biotape, a Highly Conductive, Patented, Polymer Membrane	66
	Treating Pain and Other Diseases with Scar Therapy, Prolotherapy and Biotape	70
	Banana Peels Will Stop Headaches, Ann Landers	77
	Conductive Headache Bands	80
Chapter 4	It is Better to Wet Your Pants than to Live with Chronic Pain (Dehydration and/ or lack of minerals is the number one cause of non-injury pain)	85
	It is Better to Wet Your Pants than to Live with Chronic Pain	86
	Confessions of a Soft Drink	88
	Back Pain, Mountain Dew, and Biotape	91
	Preventing High Blood Pressure, Edema, Congestive Heart Failure, and Pain	93
	Fountain of Youth	96
	Guidelines for the Kind of Water to Drink	97
Chapter 5	More Preventable Causes of Pain (Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Alzheimer's Disease)	101
	Synopsis	102
	What are Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?	102
	What is Alzheimer's Disease?	103
	Possible Cause--the Aluminum Factor	104
	Diet and Prevention--Confirming Scientific Research	105
	Why are Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome New?	110
	Summary	114
Chapter 6	Conclusion	119
	Appendixes	127
1	The Author	129
2	The Pain Research Institute	130
3	Directions for Applying Biotape	131
4	Where to Get Biotape and Biotape Hydration Formula	140

Dr Folkmans War or Marilu Henners Total Health Makeover

2009-01-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

Dr. Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer

Author: Robert Cook

In 1961, twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Judah Folkman saw something while doing medical research in a United

States navy lab that gave him the first glimmering of a wild, inspired hunch. What if cancerous tumors, in order to expand, needed to trigger the growth of new blood vessels to feed themselves? And if that was true, what if a way could be found to stop that growth? Could cancers be starved to death? Dr. Folkman had ample reason to be self confident — second in his class at Harvard Medical School, he was already considered one of the most promising doctors of his generation. But even he never guessed that his idea would eventually grow into a multibillion-dollar industry that is now racing through human trials with drugs that show unparalleled promise of being able to control cancer, as well as other deadly diseases.

For the creation of this book, Dr. Judah Folkman cooperated fully and exclusively with acclaimed science writer Robert Cooke. He granted Cooke unlimited interviews, showed him diaries and personal papers, and threw open the doors of his lab. The result is an astonishingly rich and candid chronicle of one of the most significant medical discoveries of our time and of the man whose vision and persistence almost single-handedly has made it possible.

Dr. Folkman's radical new way of thinking about cancer was once considered preposterous. So little was known about how cancer spreads and how blood vessels grow that he wasn't even taken seriously enough to be considered a heretic. Other doctors shook their heads at the waste of a great mind, and ambitious young medical researchers were told that accepting a position in Folkman's lab would be thedeath of their careers. Now, though, the overwhelming majority of experts believes that the day will soon come when antiangiogenesis therapy supplants the current more toxic and less-effective treatments — chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery-as the preferred method of treatment for cancer in patients around the world, and Dr. Folkman's breakthrough will come to be taken for granted the way we now take for granted the polio vaccine and antibiotics.

Dr. Folkman's War brilliantly describes how high the odds are against success in medical research, how vicious the competition for grants, how entrenched the skepticism about any genuinely original thinking, how polluted by politics and commerce the process of getting medicine into patients' hands. But it also depicts with rare power how exalted a calling medicine can be and how for the rare few—the brilliant, the tireless, and the lucky — the results of success can be world-changing.

New York Times Book Review - Howard Markel

How Judah Folkman progressed to his meteoric rise as a world-renowned cancer researcher is the subject of Dr. Folkman's War, a rich account of modern medicine, scientific research and one man's magnificently obsessive quest for truth. ..While Cooke has portrayed Folkman as a noble scientist, he does not deny that Folkman's style was controversial . . .

What People Are Saying

James D. Watson
Judah Folkman's answer--stop cancers by cutting off their blood supplies--has much too long been thought of as too simple to ever work. Now, however, a broad set of antiangiogenic agents based on Judah's ideas are coming on line. The verdict 'cancer' need no longer be synonymous with fear and despair. Our country's 'war against cancer' at last has found its general.
— James D. Watson, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of The Double Helix

Robert A. Weinberg
Rarely in the history of modern biomedical research has a major advance been attributable directly to the energies and vision of a single individual. This is such a story, about one man's vision, drive, indeed obsession with an idea that will one day dramatically change cancer therapy.
— Robert A. Weinberg, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT, author of One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins and Racing to the Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer

Jonathan Harr
It is said that genius disdains the beaten path, and that's certainly true of Dr. Judah Folkman. He has suffered for it, but his imagination, his persistence--and yes, his glorious obsession--will benefit us all. We owe him our boundless gratitude.
— Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Nation

Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover

Author: Marilu Henner

Now's the time to create the healthy, balanced life you want—and become the truly vibrant, happy person you were meant to be. Combining good humor with solid science, Marilu Henner provides essential information on every aspect of health and fitness, including:

Detoxing your body
Preventing or alleviating health conditions from obesity to cancer
The secrets of stress reduction

Real food and the organic way to fuel your body Free yourself forever from diets and disease-causing toxins, boost your energy, lower and maintain your weight—and change your life.

About the Author:
Marilu Henner is an actress who is best known for her roles on the hit TV series Taxi and Evening Shade. She is also the bestselling author of Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover and The 30-Day Total Health Makeover. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, Robert Lieberman, and their two sons.

What People Are Saying

Fran Drescher
Marilu is my mentor. Her philosophies about health changed my life as well as my figure.

Tony Danza
If changing your body and looking great are qualifiers, then Marilu is definitely qualified to write this book.

Relax Quick or Breathing Space

2009-01-14T00:40:00.000-08:00

Relax-Quick!: Simple, effective relaxation processes you can do in moments...anytime, anywhere!

Author: Nancy Hopps

If you have even 5 minutes, RELAX-Quick! can help! The exercises on this tape are simple to learn, effective, even FUN! For the few moments you spend learning these techniques, you will be rewarded many times over with the ability to "plug them in" when you really need them. Among the many benefits are: deeper sleep, increased energy, mental clarity and a general sense of well-being.

Stressed-out executives use her recordings to sharpen their mental clarity; perpetually busy moms get a mini-vacation with Nancy's RELAX-Quick! exercises; students release anxiety and focus their concentration while studying or before an exam; and toddlers (and adults!) are able to naturally and fully relax before a nap or at bedtime. Others use the recordings for pain relief, emotional healing, or simply to enjoy the centering calmness and resulting sense of well-being.

Nancy's techniques work for everyone, regardless of prior experience. Her recordings have earned great reviews and acclaim in a variety of newspapers and magazines, and she continues to receive letters of thanks and praise from health professionals and individuals across the country.

Soothing, gentle voice.

Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes

Author: Gregg Mitman

Allergy is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. More than fifty million Americans suffer from allergies, and they spend an estimated $18 billion coping with them. Yet despite advances in biomedicine and enormous investment in research over the past fifty years, the burden of allergic disease continues to grow. Why have we failed to reverse this trend?
Breathing Space offers an intimate portrait of how allergic disease has shaped American culture, landscape, and life. Drawing on environmental, medical, and cultural history and the life stories of people, plants, and insects, Mitman traces how America’s changing environment from the late 1800s to the present day has led to the epidemic growth of allergic disease. We have seen a never-ending stream of solutions to combat allergies, from hay fever resorts, herbicides, and air-conditioned homes to numerous potions and pills. But, as Mitman shows, despite the quest for a magic bullet, none of the attempted solutions has succeeded. Until we address how our changing environment—physical, biological, social, and economic—has helped to create America’s allergic landscape, that hoped-for success will continue to elude us.

Whats Your Dosha Baby or A Field Guide to Buying Organic

2009-01-13T15:28:00.000-08:00

What's Your Dosha, Baby?: Discover the Vedic Way for Compatibility in Life and Love

Author: Lisa Marie Coffey

Thousands of years ago, philosophers and scientists in ancient India devised a system called Ayurveda, or "the science of life," which explains the nature of everything in the universe. Now, in What's Your Dosha, Baby?, author Lisa Marie Coffey applies this ancient wisdom to modern-day relationships, offering readers an exciting new way to measure their compatibility with lovers, friends, co-workers, and family, and arming them with the insight they need to make all their relationships work. After determining their personal dosha—one of three personality types based on physical features and personality traits—readers can learn how their dosha interacts with the others, their physical and emotional communication styles, instinctual preferences regarding food, travel, lifestyle, and work, and much more. Perfect for those looking to end the squabbling with their mate, resolve a conflict with their boss, or get the man or woman of their dreams to commit, What's Your Dosha, Baby? will help readers find true happiness and achieve great success in life, love, and relationships.

Library Journal

Coffey, a lifestyle and relationship expert, takes a fun and stimulating look at Hindu Ayurvedics, a "science of life" designed to increase productivity and creativity as well as identify love matches. Taking a mainstream, upbeat approach that will help Americanize this unfamiliar subject, Coffey describes three personality types (doshas)-Vata, Pitta, and Kapha-which are made up of different combinations of the five basic elements (i.e., air, space, fire, water, and earth). Everyone has one dominant dosha, but Coffey asserts that "all three doshas express themselves in some way for everyone." Although initially reminiscent of "typing" books like Tom Maddron's Living Your Colors: Practical Wisdom for Life, Love, Work, and Play, this book doesn't waffle as much. Nine chapters explore the basics of each combination (e.g., Vata man and Pitta woman), while the rest of the text addresses topics like parenting, relationships, and even diet. Recommended for larger public libraries. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Book about: Fables Fashions and Facts About Advertising or Governing the Firm

A Field Guide to Buying Organic

Author: Luddene Perry

The definitive guide to healthful, affordable food shopping in the Organic Age—from a pioneer in the organic movement

What does it really mean when a food is labeled organic? While many of us believe there are good reasons to buy organic, what exactly are they? The authors of this indispensable handbook sift fact from fiction to help you make informed decisions that are right for you. Here is everything you need to know, including when paying more for organic is worth it—and when it’s not. A Field Guide to Buying Organic provides you with:

·Self-tests to determine your current organic-shopping habits—and the type of organic shopper you want to become

·A primer on organic food standards, labels, and seals

·Health and quality comparisons of organically grown versus conventionally grown produce

·An aisle-by-aisle supermarket guide to information about the most popular organic produce, dairy, meat and poultry, baked goods, nuts, seeds, grains, convenience foods, and drinks

·The truth about pesticides, hormones, genetically modified foods (GMOs), toxins, and bacteria

…Plus illustrations featuring product logos and contact information, and a fascinating overview of the evolution of organics

Publishers Weekly

Perry, a teacher and consultant to the organic food industry, and freelance writer Schultz skillfully guide readers through the complexities of organic food production, distribution and consumption to help informed purchasing decisions. They begin by detailing the history of organic farming; federal regulations and the U.S.D.A. certification process; nonorganic practices of concern for consumers (pesticides, hormones, genetically engineered organisms and crops, etc.); and the effects of current production methods on the environment and society. Then, they give an aisle-by-aisle guide to supermarket and health food store shelves. Useful tools-such as label and ingredient comparisons, a brand guide, explanations of processing methods-will allow readers to confidently choose between conventional and organic products. In each section, the authors offer quizzes for readers to pinpoint the concerns that drive their choices: health, economic, environmental, social or culinary. Readers whose main motivation is to safeguard health may be surprised to learn that some organic products don't have clear advantages over conventional ones, while those who seek the freshest, best-performing products may be inspired to select organic items more frequently. Similarly, price-conscious shoppers will discover that some organic products do offer definite advantages for only a few cents more. The authors' balanced approach should appeal to those committed to organics and skeptics alike. (Aug. 30) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

With organic food turning into big business, savvy consumers will appreciate this guide to groceries. Beginning with explanations of organic labeling, certification, and pricing, Perry, a consultant to the organic food industry, and Schultz, a freelance writer, go on to explain the evolution of the organic movement in terms of environmental, societal, and health concerns. In chapters devoted to each major store aisle, the authors use easy-to-interpret tables to explain how food is produced and brought to market, highlighting important points about conventional vs. organic production, best bets, and guides to brands. They debunk common misconceptions along the way, just as Steve Meyerowitz did in The Organic Food Guide: How To Shop Smarter and Eat Healthier. Although well documented, Buying Organic may overwhelm more casual shoppers owing to the array of covered topics. Recommended for larger public libraries.-Bonnie Poquette, Boerner Botanical Gardens Lib., Milwaukee Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Fitness Walking For Dummies or Schwarzbein Principle Vegetarian Cookbook

2009-01-13T03:16:00.000-08:00

Fitness Walking For Dummies

Author: Liz Neporent

Call it power walking, fitness walking, or just plain walking. Indoors or out, walking is one of the healthiest and most rewarding forms of exercise available to all sorts of people, young and old. In fact, walking burns about the same number of calories per mile as running (and it's a lot easier on your knees). Walking is one of the most adaptable workout activities around – you can walk for an hour straight to make your walking program effective and to achieve your goals, or you can accumulate this hour over the course of a day.

Fitness Walking For Dummies is for anyone who wants to start an exercise program but may not have the knowledge or motivation to do it. If you're already a walking fanatic, you'll find out how to become a better fitness walker. This easy-to-understand guide is also for those who are on track to

• Lose weight

• Decrease blood pressure

• Control cholesterol

• Relieve stress

• Prevent heart disease

• Deal with depression

Explore what it takes to begin an exercise program by setting goals, choosing shoes, and considering nutrition to optimize your workout. Fitness Walking For Dummies also covers the following topics and more:

• Warm-up and cool-down routines

• Strength training

• The four levels of walking: Lifestyle, Fitness, High-Energy, Walk-Run

• Weight-training routines and stretches that add variety

• Buying and using a treadmill

• Age, pregnancy, and walking with your dog

• Dealing with pain and injuries

Like 67 million other people in the United States who log over 201 million miles a year, you want to take advantage of all of the great things a regular walking program can do for you. Whether your goal is to improve your health or your appearance, lose weight, get stronger, feel good about yourself, or all of the above, walking can help you get to where you want to go. This book can help you do that by showing you everything you need to know about starting and maintaining a walking program.

Schwarzbein Principle Vegetarian Cookbook

Author: Diana Schwarzbein

For the millions of readers who have adopted a vegetarian lifestyle, this cookbook contains 371 healthful and delicious recipes. Sample items include: risotto with sun-dried tomatoes and gorgonzola cheese, Middle Eastern lentils with vegetables, Szechwan tofu with green beans, mushrooms and peanuts, tempeh tacos, mealtess moussaka, quesadillas, tofu enchilladas and artichoke chowder.

What People Are Saying

Suzanne Somers
This is the cookbook to use to lose weight. Dr. Schwarzbein is in the vanguard of the new medicine. Her Five Step approach to balancing the hormones of the body and staving off the accelerated aging process works! Anyone who has battled weight problems, addictions, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes or high cholesterol levels should read this incredible book and benefit.

Larry Hagman
When I had my liver transplant four years ago, I was diagnosed as diabetic and knew I had to make some serious eating and lifestyle changes. To my relief, after reading The Schwarzbein Principle I found that those changes were going to be pretty easy. I could eat all the red meat, eggs, butter and cream I wanted. I lost 25 pounds in five months and I look and feel better. My cholesterol level is the best it's ever been and I am healthier than I have been in years. I no longer have to inject insulin because my diabetes is under control.

Stretching Flexibility or When Words Are Not Enough

2009-01-12T18:04:00.000-08:00

Stretching & Flexibility

Author: Kit Laughlin

Everyone knows that stretching is good for you, for all sorts of reasons -- but the most important one is rarely mentioned. Stretching feels great to do and leaves you feeling wonderful. How to get the most out of this aspect of stretching is part of what the book is about.

No matter whether you're an office worker wondering how to stretch that tight spot between your shoulders and neck or a martial artist wanting to do side-splits, this is the book for you. Or possibly you're a weekend athlete and you want to know how to get more whole-body rotation to improve your golf swing. Perhaps you've just finished gardening or the housework and you want to know how to relax your back. Or maybe you simply want to know what's the best way to stretch your hamstrings.

Whatever your interest in stretching, this book will provide the techniques you need, from the easiest exercises to the most difficult. It is organised into 15 lessons, plus an 'unnumbered' one which you can do anytime to check your progress. The book features:

* 96 stretching exercises, plus additional warm-up movements

* exercises which use the Contract-Relax (C-R) method

* advanced stretching movements

* exercises for all parts of the body, including hands and feet

* exercises for athletes, grouped by sports

* exercises shown in partner and solo versions

* over 700 photographs

* many illustrations of key anatomical details

Interesting book: Principles of Brewing Science or New Womans Day Cookbook

When Words Are Not Enough

Author: Valerie Raskin

One in four women will experience clinical depression, anxiety, or premenstrual depression in her lifetime. The good news is that popular new prescription drugs like Prozac and Xanax bring much needed relief. The bad news is that many physicians and therapists are unaware of common issues for women. As medical treatment for depression and anxiety has become simpler, more and more general practitioners are prescribing antidepressants, often with little background in the nonmedical alternatives or complex mind-body interactions.

Emphasizing women's family roles as well as their unique biological/hormonal sensitivities, Dr. Raskin explains contemporary integrated treatment options. Raskin pays special attention to how birth control, menstrual cycles, childbearing, and menopause impact treatment choices. Raskin empowers women to take an active approach in dealing with common side effects, including weight gain and diminished sexual responsiveness. Using revealing case studies, Raskin offers a wealth of hands-on advice.

At a time when trends in health care have led to less personalized contact between doctor and patient, When Words Are Not Enough provides the facts and reassurance women need to be in control of their own health.

Healthline.com - Paul Insel

...[A] definitive guide that speaks to...women [who suffer from depression] by providing the practical and reassuring information women need to make empowering choices about their treatment options....At a time when trends in health care have led to less personalized contact between doctor and patient, When Words Are Not Enough provides the facts and reassurance women need to be in control of their own health.

Paul Insel Ph.D.

...[A] definitive guide that speaks to...women [who suffer from depression] by providing the practical and reassuring information women need to make empowering choices about their treatment options....At a time when trends in health care have led to less personalized contact between doctor and patientWhen Words Are Not Enough provides the facts and reassurance women need to be in control of their own health. —Healthline.com

Publishers Weekly

Talk therapy is often enhanced when combined with antidepressant and antianxiety medications and mood stabilizers, says Raskin, a Chicago psychiatrist who specializes in women's psychopharmacology. Her guidebook details the many treatment options now available for women with anxiety and depressive disorders. Raskin (This Isn't What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression) first explains in nontechnical language the various causes of these disorders, their common symptoms, how diagnoses are made and how various medication works. In the more extensive Part Two, she discusses how psychotherapeutic medications may affect women's bodies during menstruation, pregnancy and breast-feeding, and advises on such side effects as weight gain and diminished sex drive, concerns that women may hesitate to bring up with their physicians. Getting women to talk openly to their doctors and to ask the right questions is clearly one of Raskin's aims. Her bibliography includes a section of professional readings, which she suggests women share with their doctors. Appendices provide handy summaries of information on numerous psychotherapeutic drugs, making this a useful reference for both women patients and their doctors. (June)

Healthline.com - Paul Insel, Ph.D.

What People Are Saying

Martha Manning
When Words Are Not Enough combines an unusually compassionate approach to women's experiences of depression and anxiety with expert interpretation of the wide array of treatments that can help. Dr. Raskin lets women know that their concerns are valid, shared by many others, and deserving of careful consideration and discussion. As a clinical psychologist, I have great respect for Dr. Raskin's command of the psychiatric research and her ability to integrate it with her significant clinical experience. As a writer, I admire her ability to communicate so much information in such a well-organized and engaging way. But most important, as a depression sufferer, I am grateful to her for a book that I will turn to time after time for my own enlightenment and reassurance. (Martha Manning, Clinical Pyschologist and Author, Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface and Chasing Grace: Reflections of a Catholic Girl Grown Up)

Tracy Thompson
An invaluable resource, When Words Are Not Enough is a book for women who, by seeking an understanding of their illness, win for themselves the power to overcome it. This is the voice of the wise and compassionate older sister we all wish we had -- the really bright one who went to medical school.

Rita Baron-Faust
Valerie Raskin provides the best "prescription" a physician can give: information and insight, laced with empathy, humor, and solid advice. Dr. Raskin's book is must reading for women considering medication for anxiety or depression.

Nada L. Stotland
This book is full of important information and practical suggestions for the millions of women suffering from anxiety and depression.

Kenneth R. Kellner
Once again, Dr. Raskin spans disciplines and provides a wealth of information for women in need and the professionals who care for them. The appendices alone are worth the purchase. Organized around the questions most on a woman's mind, it reads like the author is sitting beside you. As an obstretician-gynecologist, I think it will be a valuable resource and I recommend it to anyone who wishes to provide complete care to women.

Jane Honikman
At last, direct answers to complex questiions, written with the warmth a woman needs to hear.

New Bach Flower Body Maps or Gary Nulls Ultimate Lifetime Diet

2009-01-12T06:51:00.000-08:00

New Bach Flower Body Maps: Treatment by Topical Application

Author: Dietmar Kramer

Dietmar Kramer, one of Germany's most innovative practitioners of Bach Flower Therapy, has developed powerful new therapeutic applications that remain true to Edward Bach's wish for simplicity and ease of use. New Bach Flower Body Maps details Kramer's unique system of diagnosis, in which 242 areas of the body are correlated with each Bach Flower Remedy, and are mapped out in diagrams indicating the relationship between remedy and body zone. By reading the body maps, one can treat both physical symptoms and their emotional causes more directly. Physical ailments are relieved when the flower essences are applied to the skin, and underlying emotional problems improve more rapidly after topical treatment than after taking the drops orally. Preventive treatments are also possible using the body maps.

The author demonstrates that the effectiveness of the flower remedies is greatly increased when they are applied in the form of compresses or ointments.

Kramer's procedures are illustrated by many case studies which confirm the effectiveness of this significant new extension of Bach Flower Therapy.

Bach Flower Remedies are also used in beauty therapy. Many practical examples illustrate the use of Bach Flowers in skin care.

New interesting textbook: Scoliosis SourceBook or Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults Workbook

Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet: A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body

Author: Gary Null

Slim down the natural way! America's leading health expert offers a revolutionary, proven program to help you shed those unwanted pounds--forever.

Grapefruit, hormones, blood types, protein. With so many of today's trendy diets being hailed as the weight-loss solution, it's hard to know what really does work, let alone what's actually good for you. But what if there was a simple, enjoyable way to lose weight without eliminating food groups or counting calories—one that not only melted away the pounds but dramatically improved other aspects of your life as well?

Leading natural health expert Gary Null has devoted his life to helping people feel better about their bodies, and in this ground-breaking new book he presents a surefire plan to help you lose weight—and keep it off. Based on Null's research with over a thousand volunteers and more than twenty-five years as a health educator, Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet explores the science behind weight gain and provides and easy-to-follow weight-loss regimen based on nutrition, exercise and holistic therapies. Complete with a 31-day eating plan packed with delicious, all-natural, low-fat recipes that can be tailored to your individual needs, Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet shows you how to jump-start your metabolism and develop healthier, lifelong eating habits. You will learn how to:

Listen to your body and determine your unique dietary needs
Use detoxification as the key to weight-loss success—safely and effectively
Reduce with juice and blend a variety of slimming, health-enhancing beverages
Use the 125 recipes in the eating plan to prepare appetizing, slenderizing dishes—from breakfast to dessert
Choose vitamins and supplements that will boost your weight-loss efforts
Develop a personalized exercise regimen—and stick with it
Use stress management and self-actualization techniques to set personal goals, improve your body image, and stay positive and energized

Best of all, with Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet the inches and pounds you lose are secondary to what you gain: a lifetime of confidence, happiness, good eating and good health.

Publishers Weekly

In Part One of his new book, talk-show host Null (Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program) explains in lengthy detail what he considers to be the negative effects of many diets, including hormonal imbalances and eating disorders. Although some readers will find this amount of information helpful, others may become discouraged by the lengthy explanations and clinical terminology used. In Part Two, Null offers his solution, which combines behavior modification, "detoxifying" one's system with specific foods and liquids instead of dieting and pages of recipes that support a healthier lifestyle. The honest and realistic success stories in Part Three are likely to inspire the reader to take Null's advice. Ultimately, Null asks readers to analyze their relationship to food (whether eating masks depression and anxiety, for example). The extensive appendixes--profiling foods, chemicals and medical terms--are a very helpful reference. Readers already familiar with alternative medicine and/or holistic living will benefit from Null's vision, but, due to its size, the book may overwhelm those addressing their diet and weight issues alone or for the first time. One Spirit BOMC selection. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Beth Amos

January 2000

Nearly 100 million adults in this country are overweight, and most of them are in search of the Holy Grail of permanent weight loss. Current fads focus on cutting fats, carbohydrates, or calories. Some involve taking pills, or eating and drinking all sorts of diet supplements. A few who try these diets are successful, but judging from the growing incidence of obesity in this country, that success is the exception rather than the rule and often only temporary. All too often, those lost pounds find their way back home again.

Now, Gary Null, Ph.D., the author of more than 50 books on healing, diet, and anti-aging techniques, as well as the host of a nationally syndicated health radio show called "Natural Living with Gary Null," has developed a natural, long-term solution to weight loss. He documents his program in his new book, Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet. Despite the word "diet" in the title, Null's program is less of a diet than it is a lifestyle -- there is no plan of deprivation and no calorie counter. Rather, it is an integrative and holistic approach that addresses both physical and mental well-being. Null developed the program after reviewing the combined results of several studies he conducted -- studies that focused on how diet, detoxification, exercise, supplements, and mental health influence the ability to lose weight and keep it off. After combining his findings with current scientific knowledge about the causes and effects of obesity and the intricacies of the human body, Null came up with a long-term plan for weight loss that he calls a "body and mind clean-up and refueling program."

Null's advice is basic, simple, and sound. What makes it unique is his combination of elements, beginning with a program of behavior modification designed to alter established (and often damaging) eating habits. There is the prerequisite exercise component, but the "diet" differs in that it focuses less on calorie and fat counts than on the use of organic foods, with strict avoidance of "bad" fats, sugar, processed carbohydrates, and animal proteins, which often contain hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, and other toxins. In conjunction, Null also advocates a detoxification process to rid the body of harmful toxins and potential allergens. According to Null, combining these elements and adhering to his program can result in weight loss even in the face of an increased intake of food.

While, on the surface, Null's program may sound complicated and time-consuming, and not all that different from other diet programs, it is different. The holistic approach and multifaceted focus make it an all-natural program that can easily be adopted as a permanent lifestyle, thereby avoiding the dreaded yo-yo dieting syndrome. And while the program may be more complex than some, Null has taken much of the work out of the process by providing detailed lists, tons of information, and step-by-step processes in his book. There are lists of "good" foods and "bad" foods, such as carbohydrates with a low glycemic index (meaning they digest more slowly and therefore don't cause hunger-inducing rises in blood sugar levels), and detailed detoxification programs for both beginners and those more experienced.

Null explains how to go about identifying possible allergens so they can be eliminated, how to avoid what he calls "dead" foods (processed foods that have been stripped of all their natural nutrient value), and suggests healthy organic foods such as fruits, legumes, and vegetables, including sea vegetables. The book also has nearly 100 pages of recipes and meal plans, everything from breakfast to dinner, from main dishes to dessert. One entire chapter explores various nutrients and vitamins, providing an overview of how each one benefits the body and how some can enhance the ability to lose weight. There is a step-by-step process for developing a personalized exercise program with point-by-point information on the benefits and limitations of various forms of exercise.

Null also offers ideas on how to detoxify one's environment, such as with the use of air and water filters, the removal of dust-collecting wall-to-wall carpeting, and the use of natural cleaning products such as baking soda and vinegar. And probably the most unique advice Null provides is how to work on detoxifying one's relationships. It is this emphasis on total well-being -- both mental and physical -- that makes Null's stand out from all the rest.

Null doesn't merely tell readers to follow his program; he walks them through the process step by step, offering sound research to explain why each step is important. He opens the book by first taking a long, hard look at the problem of obesity, providing current statistics and listing the many deleterious effects excess weight has on overall vitality, life expectancy, and general health. He then provides an overview of the primary diseases and disorders that are related to, caused by, or exacerbated by obesity, including the usual suspects like heart disease, stress, osteoarthritis, diabetes, and certain types of cancer. Then he examines our culture's attitude toward obesity, focusing on the stigma so often applied to those who are overweight and how that affects the mental health of the obese.

Null then takes a hard look at the causes of obesity, examining everything from our cultural tendency toward conspicuous consumption and fat-filled fast foods to the emotional tie-ins many associate with food. He dissects some of the most popular diet plans, such as the no-fat diet and the high-protein diet, and provides clear, logical, and scientifically supported explanations for why they inevitably fail and may, in fact, do more damage than good. He looks at the effects allergies can have on weight gain and weight loss and provides some fascinating case studies to back up his claims. There is a chapter devoted to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, and a chapter that discusses the ills of diet pills, including the latest development -- drugs that block the absorption of fat.

Gary Nulls Ultimate Lifetime Diet is more than just a diet book. It's a valuable resource chock full of information and facts. In fact, Null.s overview of the many aspects of obesity in this country is one of the most comprehensive to be found anywhere. For those who are sincere about losing weight and changing their lifestyle to live healthier, longer, and more happily, this is the most sensible and comprehensive plan to come down the pike in ages.

--Beth Amos

Beth Amos, R.N., spent 20 years working as a nurse in various medical settings before becoming a novelist and medical freelance writer. She has authored more than 100 articles in medical and lay journals around the country.

Lisas Story or Asperger Syndrome and Your Child

2009-01-11T20:39:00.000-08:00

Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe

Author: Tom Batiuk

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

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

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

Publishers Weekly

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

School Library Journal

Look this: The Best of Virginia Farms Cookbook and Tour Book or My Tuscany

Asperger Syndrome and Your Child: A Parent's Guide

Author: Michael D Powers

Asperger's Syndrome and Your Child, an informative, empathetic, and comprehensive guide to this elusive condition, answers the most common questions and offers an encouraging outlook for your child's future. Dr. Michael Powers weaves together a compassionate account of everything related to AS, offering such practical advice from getting the right diagnosis to helping your child develop social skills. Infused with voices of real children who offer insights about their own conditions, the book gives perspective on how children live with the disorder. Asperger Syndrome and Your Child is an indispensable book for parents as well as teachers and other professionals who have someone with Asperger Syndrome in their lives.

Publishers Weekly

Powers, an assistant professor at the Yale Child Study Center and director of the Center for Children with Special Needs in Connecticut, teams up with co-author Poland (The Sensitive Child) to offer a much-needed resource for parents and professionals looking to understand more about Asperger Syndrome. A neurological disorder characterized by difficulty with social interactions, communication issues, unusual patterns of behavior and interests as well as trouble integrating sensory information (children with AS often have acute senses of touch, taste and hearing), AS is part of the "autism spectrum" of disabilities. Part I of Powers's clearly written and reassuring text discusses the syndrome in general-what we know about it, what it feels like to have it-while Part II goes into greater detail about what parents can do to nurture AS children to help them "become their finest selves." Unlike people with autism, those with AS can communicate what life is like for them, and Powers includes their reflections along with case studies, FAQs and an abundance of caring and wise advice. For new parents of children with AS, this is an essential volume. (Oct.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Exercise Testing and Prescription or Nutritional Neuroscience

2009-01-11T11:27:00.000-08:00

Exercise Testing and Prescription: A Health-Related Approach

Author: David C Nieman

This comprehensive text provides coverage of fitness assessment concepts, hands-on prescription applications, and a thorough preparation for ACSM certification exams. Exercise testing and prescription are presented within a health-related context that provides the latest research findings on exercise and nutrition, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and aging.

Preface

PART I. TRENDS AND DEFINITIONS

1. Health and Fitness Trends

2. Physical Fitness Defined

PART II. SCREENING AND TESTING

3. Testing Concepts

4. Cardiorespiratory Fitness

5. Body Composition

6. Musculoskeletal Fitness

PART III. CONDITIONING FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS

7. The Acute and Chronic Effects of Exercise

8. Exercise Prescription

9. Nutrition and Performance

PART IV. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND DISEASE

10. Heart Disease

11. Cancer

12. Diabetes

13. Obesity

14. Psychological Health

15. Aging, Osteoporosis, and Arthritis

16. Exercise Risks

Appendix A Physical Fitness Test Norms

Appendix B Calisthenics for Development of Flexibility and Muscular Strength and Endurance

Appendix C Major Bones, Muscles, and Arteries of the Human Body

Appendix D Compendium of Physical Activities

Glossary

Index
See also: The Green Building Revolution or The City Reader

Nutritional Neuroscience

Author: Harris R Lieberman

Scientific and commercial interest in the field of nutritional neuroscience has grown immensely over the last decade. Today, a broad range of dietary supplements, foods for weight loss, functional foods, nutraceuticals, and medical foods are widely available. Many of these products are marketed for their effects on behavior or brain function, which relates directly to nutritional neuroscience and raises issues regarding their safety and efficacy. The only comprehensive reference on this subject, Nutritional Neuroscience discusses the relationship of nutrition to behavior and neuroscience. Following a review of fundamental issues and methods, the book covers the effects of macronutrients and micronutrients on brain function and behavior. Chapters are devoted to the effects of a wide range of foods, specific nutrients, food constituents, and food additives on cognitive behavior and development. The final section examines foods and supplements that modulate brain function. With a broad range of information presented in a simple and straightforward manner, this book provides an ideal introduction to nutritional neuroscience. The depth of information and comprehensive coverage also make this an essential reference for specialists involved in nutrition, neuroscience, pharmacology, psychology, and related disciplines.

Good Carb Bad Carb for a Healthy Lifestyle or Body Sculpting Bible for Abs

2009-01-10T23:16:00.000-08:00

Good Carb, Bad Carb for a Healthy Lifestyle: Improve Your Diet, Nutritional Facts, Step-by-Step Recipes

Author: Wynnie Chan

From Atkins to South Beach, here's the fascinating lowdown on low-carb. It explains exactly what carbohydrates are, how they work, and how we interact with them-as well as the role of the glycemic index. The information-packed guide features dozens of fact boxes, a comfort eating diary, nutritional charts, and recipe ideas. Those with diabetes or who have lactose intolerance will even find special information devoted to their needs, too.

Interesting textbook: Curveball or Rebuilding Native Nations

Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: For Men Only

Author: James Villepigu

Get ripped! It's six-pack time with this hardcore muscle-building ab routine designed just for men. You'll learn how to carve your upper and lower abs, as well as your obliques, into a stunning stomach that will turn every head on the beach. 100 b/w photos.

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs or Positive Energy

2009-01-10T13:04:00.000-08:00

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals

Author: Leslie Taylor

Rainforests contain an amazing abundance of plant life--just two and a half acres of the Amazon rainforest are believed to house approximately 900 tons of botanicals. What's most exciting is that scientists and researchers have only just begun to uncover the medicinal qualities of these plants--treasures of nature that offer new approaches to health and healing. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs is a valuable guide to these herbs and their uses.

Detailing more than fifty rainforest botanicals, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs is the result of years of extensive research by naturopath Leslie Taylor. In it, she explains the medicinal properties of each herb and the natural chemicals involved, as well as preparation instructions. The author has also included the history of the herbs' use by indigenous peoples, and their current usage by natural health practitioners throughout the world. Helpful tables provide a quick guide for choosing the most useful botanicals for specific ailments. Illustrations of plants and recipes for herbal remedies complete the wealth of information found in this resource.

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs is a unique book that offers a blend of ancient and modern knowledge in an accessible reference guide. It incorporates the healing practices of shamans with scientific research for anyone seeking to discover the medicinal secrets of the rainforest.

Books about: America the Vulnerable or The Gendered Society

Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear Into Vibrance, Strength, and Love

Author: Judith Orloff

Are you forever rushing around, fending off chronic exhaustion? Are you desperately overcommitted, afraid to say no? Do you have fang marks from being bled dry by energy vampires? Does the onslaught of violence in the news leave you drained? If so, you're the victim of a hidden energy crisis. To resolve it you need more than traditional solutions such as eating well, getting a good night’s sleep, and exercising. Here at last is the complete prescription to stop you from feeling constantly drained and enables you to live a more vibrant life: the Positive Energy Program created by Judith Orloff, M.D.

Dr. Orloff is the pioneer behind Energy Psychiatry, a new field that addresses the subtle energetic components of health and behavior. Energy Psychiatry blends the practice of mainstream medicine with an emerging scientific understanding of subtle energies, revered by many cross-cultural healing traditions as our life force. In Positive Energy, Dr. Orloff explains this exciting new discipline and how it led her to formulate ten essential prescriptions for boosting energy, improving relationships, and combating energy vampires. The prescriptions are:

• Awaken your intuition and rejuvenate yourself—and learn the cure for technodespair and overload from emails, computers, and phones
• Find a nurturing spiritual path that fits your own beliefs and inner stirrings
• Design an energy-aware approach to diet, exercise, and health—and learn how to avoid the "energetic overeating" that sabotages attempts to lose weight
• Generate positive emotional energy to counter negativity
• Develop a heart-centeredsexuality
• Open yourself to the flow of creativity and inspiration to achieve greater joy
• Celebrate the sacredness of laughter, pampering, and the replenishment of retreat—it’s not selfish to take care of yourself
• Discover how to attract positive people and situations
• Protect yourself from energy vampires with specific
shielding techniques
• Create abundance and a continuing flow of energy

The purpose of this program is to make your life easier. Each prescription has clear instructions for practicing the simple, powerful exercises Dr. Orloff gives her patients and uses herself—plus, there’s a "Treat Yourself" section to help you relax and enjoy the program’s full benefits. Following each chapter are Dr. Orloff’s interviews with luminaries who share their personal secrets about how they use a specific prescription to generate more energy. You'll discover how Quincy Jones’s intuition opened up after brain surgery, Larry King honed his interviewing techniques, Naomi Judd recovered from hepatitis C, and Jamie Lee Curtis deals with draining people.

Dr. Orloff says, "We can't stop the negative circumstances of our time—our cell phones will keep ringing, e-mails will keep coming, people will be rude, our children will be demanding, and bad things will happen in the world. But we can learn ways to protect our energy so that we can stay centered in dealing with the stresses that arise." Positive Energy shows you how to slow down time to match your natural rhythms, allowing you to be fully present for your life. Learning this can make the difference between an exuberant life and one you're always recovering from. Filled with Dr. Orloff's warmth, humor, and compassion, Positive Energy is your tool kit for transforming fatigue, stress, and fear into an abundance of vibrance, strength, and love.

Chicken Soup for the Soul in Menopause or Four Levels of Healing

2009-01-10T01:51:00.000-08:00

Chicken Soup for the Soul in Menopause: Living and Laughing through Hot Flashes and Hormones

Author: Jack Canfield

A laugh-out-loud, pick-me-up collection of stories for the millions of women who are battling hot flashes, mood swings and mental lapses.

As baby boomers hit their late forties and fifties, a record number of women are going through menopause. Whether they're in "active" menopause or just beginning to experience their first gray hairs and the hot nights of perimenopause, they'll find support, comfort and advice in this collection of stories from women who've been there and have survived.

With chapters such as What's Age Got to Do with It?; This Is Not Your Mother's Menopause; Mental-Pause; Hormones, Schormones; and Who Turned Up the Heat?, women will gain renewed perspective on reaching the milestone of middle age, feel empowered by their changing identity and realize the innumerable ways in which menopause can impact them in a positive manner.

Chicken Soup for the Soul in Menopause will show millions of women that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Books about: Chakra Healing or New Wine

Four Levels of Healing: A Guide to Balancing the Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical Aspects of Life

Author: Shakti Gawain

In this profoundly exciting and challenging time, individuals may find they are involved in a difficult yet fascinating learning process -- both their personal evolution and the evolution of human consciousness. In this book, best-selling author Shakti Gawain describes the four levels of human existence -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical -- and explains the importance of developing all four. She also provides the meditations and exercises readers need to begin their own healing journeys.

The Four Levels of Healing contain powerful meditstions and exercises to assist you on your healing journey.

Library Journal

A best-selling author, frequent talk-show guest, and renowned speaker and workshop leader, Gawain here offers a new workbook for healing. She claims that humans are living spiritually and emotionally empty lives that are dangerously unbalanced. Only by balancing the four aspectsspiritual, mental, emotional, and physicalcan people be successful and fulfilled. Each chapter investigates one of these aspects and ends with appropriate spiritual exercises. A minister for over 30 years who has conducted seminars on spiritual healing, Grayson by contrast stresses 13 principles for self-healing. Emphasizing that everyone has the ability to lead a happy, fulfilled life, Grayson claims that most people's lives are instead run by lack, loss, and limitation as well as resistance, rejection, and rebellion. Likening it to training for a marathon, Grayson discusses the great effort required to release past negativity and to prepare the path for spiritual healing. The appendix is complete with positive affirmations for spiritual treatments and a glossary of terms. Gawain's work is essential for public library collections for general readers; Grayson's book may be more satisfying for academics and could be considered additional reading for public library patrons.Lisa S. Wise, Broome Cty. P.L., Binghamton, N.Y.

Internet Book Watch - Internet Book Watch

Teacher and best-selling author Shakti Gawain says that "it has helped me greatly to understand that there are four very different aspects of life--the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. Each of these areas needs to be healed and developed in specific, and sometimes very different, ways." In The Four Levels Of Healing, she describes the techniques needed to heal each of those aspects, or levels of life. She starts by defining each aspect and the rewards of developing it. For example, the spiritual aspect is the "inner essence, our soul, the part of us that exists beyond space and time." It's the foundation for the other levels. The mental aspect is the ability to think, the emotional aspect deals with feeling; and the physical aspect is the body. Gawain says that "all four of these levels are equally important. In the long run, we can't afford to neglect any of them." She finishes the general discussion with a simple exercise designed to help individuals determine which of their levels are the most developed and which need healing. Each level then has its own chapter, in which she fully explains what happens when that aspect of life isn't fully developed. For example, many people have learned to fear their emotions, and "have learned, to one degree or another, to hide and deny our feelings--even from ourselves." She says that denial never works. Each chapter includes a discussion of how healing is achieved, and exercises to help accomplish self- healing. Gawain has also written meditations designed specifically for spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical healing. She also provides suggestions for healing through journal writing and sample questions that individuals can askthemselves and answer in their journals. Gawain encourages people to "look at the areas of our lives in which we may be out of balance, and take steps to develop the aspects of ourselves we haven't yet explored or fully expressed." In The Four Levels Of Healing, she provides readers with all the tools they need to accomplish this.

Mostly Macro or Natural Relief for Your Childs Asthma

2009-01-09T16:40:00.000-08:00

Mostly Macro: A Guide to Healthy Cuisine for the Discriminating Palate

Author: Lisa Turner

Healthy food doesn't have to be boring! In this cookbook, Lisa Turner adapts macrobiotic principles to the way we cook today, and turns healthy eating into a sensory delight. From Shrimp with Cilantro Walnut Pesto to Berry Peach Tart, you will find a wealth of creative recipes for every course of a "mostly macro" meal.

Preface
Introduction
Part One The Principles of Macrobiotics
1. How Opposites Attract: The Concept of Yin and Yang
2. Modern Life and the Macrobiotic Mandates
3. More on Macro: Basic Principles and Modern Practices
Part Two The Principles of Macrobiotics
4. Getting Started: Stocking the Kitchen
5. Cooking Techniques and Traditions
Part Three Making Macrobiotics Work for You
6. "Forbidden" Foods: The Traditional Approach
7. Getting Real
8. Eating Out and Entertaining
9. A Month of Macro: Daily Meal Plans
Part Four Recipes
10. Appetizers and Party Dishes
11. Salads
12. Soups and Stews
13. Meatless Main Dishes and Fish
14. Vegetables and Side Dishes
15. Dressings and Sauces
16. Quick Fixes
17. Just Desserts
Appendix A: Glossary of Terms and Ingredients
Appendix B: Grocery Shopping List
Appendix C: The Macrobiotic Makeup
Appendix D: Mail-Order Guide and Resource List
Bibliography
Index

Natural Relief for Your Child's Asthma: A Guide to Controlling Symptoms and Reducing Your Child's Dependence on Drugs

Author: Steven J Bock

A groundbreaking, practical, and holistic approach to treating children with chronic asthma

From two physicians with fifteen years of experience in treating asthma comes the only book for children with asthma that supplements conventional approaches with effective and proven natural remedies. Parenting a child with asthma is often scary, unpredictable, frustrating, and expensive. Through controlling symptoms, decreasing attacks, and eventually reducing the need for prescription drugs, the Drs. Bock will help you and your child regain control of your lives. This book will show you how to:

reduce attacks by dealing with the underlying causes
reduce the need for conventional drugs, making them safer to use for emergencies
help your child's body heal itself
avoid permanent lung damage and encourage healthy new lung tissue to grow
minimize emergency room visits, time lost from school, and time lost from work
detoxify your environment, minimizing the effects of pollen, dust mites, and mold
identify foods that can trigger attacks
properly use nutritional supplements
build a treatment and prevention program tailored to your child's needs

This medically up-to-date, practical, and supportive book focuses on stopping asthma symptoms and attacks before they start. It is a must-have reference for any parent of a child with asthma.

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Fibroids or Healthy Obsession Program

2009-01-09T04:27:00.000-08:00

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Fibroids: New Techniques and Therapies--Including Breakthrough Alternatives to Hysterectomy

Author: Scott C Goodwin

Fibroids are benign tumors in the uterus that can grow large enough to cause bleeding, pain, or infertility. They are the leading reason for over 300,000 hysterectomies performed each year. Now Scott C. Goodwin, M.D., a pioneer in fibroid embolization treatment, and Michael Broder, M.D., a renowned women's health researcher, explore all the lifestyle strategies, medical therapies, and less invasive forms of surgery that may be able to control fibroids without a hysterectomy.

Library Journal

Both of the UCLA School of Medicine, Goodwin (radiological sciences) and Michael Broder (obstetrics and gynecology) team up with medical writer David Drum to produce a highly informative guide to fibroids and their treatment. As they grow, these benign tumors on the uterus can cause bleeding, pain, or infertility. Although fibroids affect 40 percent of women, the authors note that a review of the medical literature "painted a rather disappointing and dismal picture of uterine fibroids research," and the most standard treatment has been hysterectomy. This book thoroughly discusses how fibroids grow, the diagnostic tests used to distinguish them from other conditions, and major symptoms. The roles of diet, exercise, stress reduction, and alternative treatments such as homeopathy and acupuncture are also covered. The book's greatest strength lies in the final chapters, which explain uterine fibroid embolization, myomectomy, and new alternative treatments, both invasive and drug-based. A glossary, bibliography, and lists of organizations, books, and web sites complete the volume. Highly recommended for most women's health collections.-Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn. Lib. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

	Foreword	xv
	Introduction	xix
xix
xxi
Chapter 1	Fibroids	1
	Advice and Consent	5
	Unnecessary Surgeries	7
	Financial Costs	9
	About This Book	11
	Moving Ahead	12
Chapter 2	What are Fibroids?	14
	What Are Fibroids?	16
	The Amazing Uterus	18
	How Big Are They?	19
	Types of Fibroids	21
	Female Hormones	23
	Cancer and Fibroids	24
Chapter 3	Diagnosing Fibroids	31
	A Question of Trust	32
	Medical Tests	35
	Similar Conditions	42
Chapter 4	Managing Symptoms	48
	Symptoms of Fibroids	50
	Bleeding	51
	Pain	55
	Pressure	57
	Bloating/Feeling of Fullness	59
	Sexual Dysfunction	59
	Infertility	62
	Pregnancy Complications	69
	Pain	69
	Preterm Labor	70
	Cesarean Delivery	71
	Urinary Problems	74
	Depression	75
Chapter 5	Watchful Waiting	77
	Treating Fibroids	78
	Evaluating Symptoms	79
	Managing Symptoms	81
	Monitoring Fibroids	82
	Menopause	84
	Watchful Waiting	86
Chapter 6	Diet	87
	A Healthy Diet	90
	Estrogen	92
	Low-Fat, High-Fiber Diets	93
	Phytoestrogens	98
	Foods That May Help Bleeding	99
	Foods That May Help Pain	103
	Nutrients: Replacing Animal Products	105
Chapter 7	Exercise	108
	Controlling Pain	111
	Choosing an Exercise	113
	Yoga as Exercise	114
	Exercise after Surgery	114
Chapter 8	Stress	118
	Research on Stress and Fibroids	119
	Mind/Body Therapies	121
Chapter 9	Alternative Medicine	125
	Complementary Treatment of Uterine Fibroids	126
	Traditional Chinese Medicine	127
	Western Herbal Medicine	130
	Herbs for Bleeding	131
	Herbs for Pain	133
	Herbs to Help the Liver	135
	Homeopathy	136
	Natural Progesterone	137
Chapter 10	Drug Treatments	140
	Medical Therapies That Control Symptoms	141
	Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)	142
	Birth Control Pills	144
	Progestins	146
	Tranexamic Acid	147
	Progestin-Releasing IUD	148
	Medical Therapies That Shrink Fibroids	150
	Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH)	151
	Mifepristone (RU-486)	156
	Raloxifene and Tamoxifen	158
	Androgen Therapy	160
	Interferon	161
Chapter 11	Uterine Fibroid Embolization	163
	Who Chooses This Procedure?	165
	How It Works	172
	Variations in the Uterine Artery	174
	Variations in Technique	176
	Embolic Particles	177
	Distinguished History	178
	UAE or UFE?	180
	Results	180
	Large Fibroids	182
	Risks of the Procedure	184
	Realistic Outcome Expectations	188
	Fertility	189
	Leiomyosarcoma	190
	Preoperative Preparation for UFE	191
	After Embolization	195
Chapter 12	Myomectomy	197
	Life-Saving Surgery	200
	Myomectomy History	201
	Fibroid Recurrence	202
	Surgical Technique	207
	Abdominal Myomectomy	208
	Laparoscopy	214
	Hysteroscopy	216
	How to Prepare for Surgery	218
	Postoperative Care	223
	Continued Problems after Surgery	227
	Choosing a Doctor	231
	Good Choices	233
Chapter 13	Hysterectomy	235
	Overuse of Hysterectomy	236
	Approaches to Hysterectomy	238
	Laparoscopic Hysterectomy	240
	Removing Ovaries	241
	Removing the Cervix	244
	Quality of Life	245
	Sex after Hysterectomy	246
	Complications and Side Effects	248
	Before Surgery	250
	After Surgery	250
	Hormone Replacement Therapy	253
Chapter 14	Into the Future	256
	New Drugs	256
	New Forms of Invasive Therapy	257
	Uterine Fibroid Embolization	258
	Endometrial Ablation	258
	Myoma Coagulation (Myolysis)	259
	High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFUS)	261
	Gamma Knife	262
	Alternative Therapy	262
	Genetics	263
	Final Thought	264
	Glossary	265
	Bibliography	279
	Additional Resources	297
	Books	297
	Organizations	298
	Websites	302
	Index	305
	About the Authors	321

Interesting textbook: Strategy Synthesis or Optimal Database Marketing

Healthy Obsession Program: Smart Weight Loss Instead of Low-Carb Lunacy

Author: Daniel S Kirschenbaum

Seeking to dispel the myths surrounding low-carb diets, this instructional guide reveals the flaws in logic behind such eating methods while helping weight watchers develop a healthy and satisfying lifestyle. With both short- and long-term research indicating that consuming excess fat and protein increases the chance of heart disease, osteoporosis, cancer, and liver and kidney diseases, this book provides readers with an alternative weight-loss program that has a proven track record. Based on the principles of monitoring all foods eaten, watching the fat content of each meal, and exercising—no less than 10,000 steps a day—this guide allows readers to understand that the biological forces they are up against in their desire to lose weight are not necessarily their destiny.

Obsessive Complusive Disorder for Dummies or Healthy Eating during Pregnancy

2009-01-08T19:15:00.000-08:00

Obsessive-Complusive Disorder for Dummies (For Dummies Series)

Author: Charles H Elliott

Arguably one of the most complex emotional disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is surprisingly common. Furthermore, most people at some time in their lives exhibit a smattering of OCD-like symptoms.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder For Dummies sorts out the otherwise curious and confusing world of obsessive compulsive disorder. Engaging and comprehensive, it explains the causes of OCD and describes the rainbow of OCD symptoms. The book shows readers whether OCD symptoms represent normal and trivial concerns (for example, a neat freak) or something that should be checked out by a mental health professional (for example, needing to wash hands so often that they become raw and red). In easy to understand steps, the authors lay out the latest treatments that have been proven to work for this disorder, and provide practical and real tools for living well long-term. Whether you or someone you care about has this disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder For Dummies gives you an empathic understanding of this fascinating yet treatable mental disorder.

New interesting textbook: Prostate Cancer for Dummies or Survival Sewing

Healthy Eating during Pregnancy (A Harvard Medical School Book)

Author: W Allan Walker

No strict diets, no scary guidelines--just the essential nutrition expectant moms need to start their babies on the road to lifelong health

All parents know that kids need nutritious foods as they grow. But new research confirms that what you eats during pregnancy can also profoundly affect the health of your baby when that baby becomes an adult--for better or for worse. Endorsed by the Harvard Medical School and written by one of the world's leading experts in nutrition for pregnant women and babies, this guide offers more solid information and medically sound advice on prenatal nutrition than any other book on the market.

W. Allan Walker, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics and the director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School. He is a recipient of the prestigious Murray Davidson Award for Excellence in Pediatric Nutrition from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Courtney Humphries is a professional writer specializing in health topics.

Library Journal

Walker (pediatrics, Harvard Medical Sch.) presents the latest findings on the connection between fetal health and the later health of individuals. Tips on what to eat (whole grains, protein, vegetables), what to avoid (caffeine, alcohol, nicotine), supplements to take (folate, iron), and safe exercises before, during, and after pregnancy are presented. The author extensively addresses the question of a mother's weight both in terms of appropriate weight gain and the proper rate at which to lose weight after childbirth. A chapter on nursing concludes the book, discussing the debate between breast feeding and bottle feeding as well as explaining lactation and providing information about the correlation between breast feeding and reduced likelihood of allergies in infants. Readers will appreciate the sidebars with basic pregnancy information and bulleted chapter conclusions that clarify Walker's points. Because the information presented here represents the current thinking of the medical establishment, items like herbal supplements and vegan diet plans are discouraged, and Walker ignores the question of whether organic food is better for pregnant women than nonorganic. For patrons interested in alternative and holistic approaches, Aviva Jill Romm's The Natural Pregnancy Book: Herbs, Nutrition and Other Holistic Choices is a good bet. Walker's book is recommended for consumers and public libraries.-Elaine M. Bergman, Healthcare Assocs. of New York State, Rensselaer Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Cutting and Self Harm or Why I Jumped

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

Cutting and Self-Harm

Author: Heather Barnett Veagu

A person who engages in self-harm causes damage to his or her body. Such behavior is often a symptom of mental illness. Some types of self-injury are impulsive, while other types may be symptomatic of a neurological or psychotic disorder. Often, people who hurt themselves impulsively are using self-harm as a way to cope with painful and intense emotions. People who practice deliberate self-harm put themselves at risk of serious illness, injury, or death. Cutting and Self-Harm explores the nature of self-injury, its history, its diagnosis, its treatment, and possible causes.

The Psychological Disorders series explores the symptoms, causes, and effects of the most common psychological disorders. Highlighting the brain chemistry and psychological processes behind the disorders, these books explain how various pharmacological and psychotherapy treatments can help ease or eliminate symptoms. Case studies illustrate how mental health problems impact everyday life so that readers can better understand the signs of psychological disorders and recognize the need for professional help.

Foreword     vi
What Is Self-Harm?     1
Who Engages in Self-Harm?     17
Self-Harm and Mental Illness     28
What Are the Causes of Self-Harming Behavior?     51
Identification and Treatment of Self-Harm     70
Prevention: How Do We Prevent Self-Harm?     87
Notes     94
Glossary     96
Further Resources     102
Index     105

Interesting textbook: Politics of Regulatory Change or International Marketing

Why I Jumped: My True Story of Postpartum Depression, Dramatic Rescue and Return to Hope

Author: Tina Zahn

On July 19, 2004, an amazing story, accompanied by incredible video footage, broke across network and cable news programs. After a high-speed chase to the top of Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a young woman stopped, calmly stepped out of her car, walked to the edge of the bridge--and jumped. State trooper Les Boldt raced over, thrust out his hand, and in a miracle of timing and determination, snagged the woman's wrist as she started the plunge. Other officers ran to his aid, and they pulled the woman to safety while the on-dash police cam captured the action. That woman on the edge was Tina Zahn, and in Why I Jumped she tells her story for the first time. In this gripping book, readers are given a glimpse of what led to such severe depression that suicide seemed the only answer. Readers won't be able to put down this powerful, true story of postpartum depression, dramatic rescue, and a return to hope.

The Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema Handbook or Gluten Free for a Healthy Life

2009-01-07T21:51:00.000-08:00

The Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema Handbook

Author: Francois Haas

"Dr. François Haas is an unusually gifted scientist and a compassionate human being."–HOWARD A. RUSK, M.D. Founder and Chairman, Rusk Institute

The bestselling guide for chronic bronchitis and emphysema sufferers–newly revised and expanded. For the millions of people diagnosed with chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema, this bestselling guide is now revised and expanded to offer the most up-to-date information available. From helping you understand your disease and its proper care to showing you how to restore vitality and satisfaction to your relationships, Dr. François Haas and Dr. Sheila Sperber Haas provide you with the facts and information needed to find the right treatment and take full advantage of it. Written in a clear and helpful style, The Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema Handbook now includes current information on useful complementary approaches–including herbal therapy–plus effective exercises and the latest medical advances. You’ll discover:

How to find the right doctor for you and discuss your treatment options
How to deal with HMOs and the companies that provide supplemental oxygen
Which new surgical techniques are most promising
How to manage stress and anxiety
How to slow your disease and substantially improve your quality of life
A variety of helpful resources accessible by phone or web
The newsletters written by experts that will keep you up-to-date

Booknews

Written by a cardiopulmonary rehabilitation researcher and a medical writer, this guide for patients and their families presents information needed when living with chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema (COPD). A sampling of topics includes an overview of the respiratory system, the symptoms and progression of COPD, finding a doctor, stopping smoking, bronchodilators, oxygen therapy, the emotional and psychological consequences of COPD, alternative therapies, and surgical options. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

You and COPD: An Introduction.
The Respiratory System: What It Is, How It Works, and What Goes Wrong in COPD.
COPD: The Damage, the Symptoms, the Progression.
Seeking Help.
How Do I Know I Have COPD?.
Stop Smoking!.
Bronchodilators.
The Rest of the COPD Drugs.
Oxygen Therapy.
COPD and....
Conquering the Emotional and Psychological Consequences of COPD.
Physical Therapies for COPD.
Daily Living.
Work and Play.
COPD and Sex.
COPD and Successful Travel.
The Final Phase.
Thoughts on the Present and Future.
Appendix.
Glossary.
Index.

Book about: The Dieters Calorie Counter or Restaurant Confidential

Gluten-Free for a Healthy Life

Author: Kimberly A Tessmer

Gluten-free for a Healthy Life provides all the information needed to make understanding and following a gluten-free diet easier and healthier. The book explains why certain people need to follow a gluten-free diet and what types of foods and ingredients contain gluten. It includes tips on planning gluten-free meals and on dealing with children on gluten-free diets. It also provides recipes, a listing of cookbooks, and numerous helpful resources, including Websites, support groups, and food companies. Tessmer answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding celiac disease and living a gluten-free life. Gluten-free for a Healthy Life will help take the frustration and confusion out of following a gluten-free diet and make it an easy part of everyday living.

Real Boys Workbook or Why Do Men Have Nipples

2009-01-07T12:40:00.000-08:00

Real Boys Workbook

Author: William S Pollack

The Real Boys' Workbook is a unique, instructive workbook, full of advice, exercises, and stories to help parents, professionals, and boys themselves understand boys—and how to make life with them better. How to listen to boys, talk and be with them, exercises to teach you new ways to handle situations, and strategies for coping with problems (drug and alcohol abuse, gender identity, depression, bullies) are addressed, as readers are encouraged to respond to questions and situations, to learn how to think about boys with new understanding, and to react more creatively. Through writing down responses in the workbook, using the charts and summaries, and taking part in the provocative question-and-answer sections, you will gain insight into boys and their problems and be better able to be with them in effective and powerful ways.

See also: Mercadotecnia Internacional

Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor after Your Third Martini

Author: Mark Leyner

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Say you're at a party. You've had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you're introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you'd like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You're filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .

•How do people in wheelchairs have sex?

•Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?

•Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?

•Why does asparagus make my pee smell?

•Why do old people grow hair on their ears?

•Is the old adage "beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . ." really true?

. . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.

Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.

About the Authors
MARK LEYNER is the author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog; I Smell Esther Williams; Et Tu Babe; and The Tetherballs of Bougainville. He has written scripts for a variety of films and television shows. His writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, Time, and GQ.

BILLY GOLDBERG, M.D., is an emergency medicine physician on faculty at a New York City teaching hospital. He is also a writer and artist whose paintings have been exhibited in New York City.

Power to the Patient or A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion

2009-01-07T00:28:00.000-08:00

Power to the Patient: The Treatments to Insist on when You're Sick

Author: Isadore Rosenfeld

Health care is not what it used to be. Today doctors spend little time with their patients and health insurance companies are more concerned with their budgets than with your well-being. Now here's a book that arms you with the facts you need to make sure you're getting the proper health care you need and deserve.

	Introduction	xi
1.	Acne: When Zits Are the Pits	1
2.	AIDS: Serious Monkey Business	9
3.	Alzheimer's Disease: Forget About It	22
4.	Arthritis: How Do I Hurt Thee? Let Me Count the Ways	37
5.	Asthma: When You Aim to Wheeze	56
6.	Atrial Fibrillation: When in Your Heart You're Not a Regular Guy	69
7.	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses	79
8.	Depression: When There's No Light at the End of the Tunnel	86
9.	Diabetes: When Life's Too Sweet	94
10.	Diverticular Disease: Forbidden Fruit?	119
11.	Endometriosis: Not Tonight, Dear, I Have Endometriosis	125
12.	Fibromyalgia: It's Not "All in Your Head"	131
13.	Gallbladder Disease: When You're 5F, Not 4F	139
14.	Gout: A Royal Pain	151
15.	Hair Loss: Is Bald Beautiful?	162
16.	Heart Disease: When Your Ticker Isn't Tocking	171
17.	Hemorrhoids: No Thanks, I'd Rather Stand	188
18.	Hepatitis: Better Never Than Late	195
19.	High Blood Pressure (Hypertension): When Ignorance Isn't Bliss	215
20.	Infertility: When Your Stork Won't Fly	237
21.	Irritable Bowel Syndrome: You Are Not Alone (Although Those Around You May Wish You Were!)	249
22.	Kidney Stones: A Rocky Road	255
23.	Lyme Disease: It Can Really Tick You Off	266
24.	Menopause: His and Hers	276
25.	Migraine: The Mother of All Headaches	284
26.	Mitral Valve Prolapse: Smoke but No Fire	294
27.	Multiple Sclerosis: When Your Nervous System Short Circuits	302
28.	Osteoporosis: Bone Up on This	310
29.	Ovarian Cancer: Seek and Ye Shall Find	322
30.	Parkinson's Disease: Shaking Hands	331
31.	Phlebitis: Oy Vein	342
32.	Premenstrual Syndrome: Madam President!	350
33.	Psoriasis: Itching to Be Cured	358
34.	Rosacea: Rembrandt Was Not a Drunkard	371
35.	Sexually Transmitted Diseases: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways	377
36.	Shingles: Not the Kind You Hang Out	387
37.	Stroke: A Brain Attack by Any Other Name	396
38.	Thyroid Disease: Gland Central	407
39.	Urinary Incontinence: Voiding When Prohibited	423
	Checkup or Checkout	431
	Epilogue	437
	Index	439

Book about: 8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control or ABCs of Human Behavior

A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern

Author: Mary Brooks Picken

Fascinating, fact-filled compendium defines over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion. From bateau necklines to trilbys and vamps, individual terms are assembled alphabetically in groups according to dress parts, fabrics, and other style categories. Enhanced with over 750 clearly detailed illustrations, this comprehensive guide will be welcomed by writers, designers, and historians.

Complete Diabetic Cookbook or Nutrition for Life

2009-01-06T14:16:00.000-08:00

Complete Diabetic Cookbook: Healthy,Delicious Recipes the Whole Family can Enjoy

Author: Mary Jane Finsand

The Joy of Cooking for diabetics, this huge collection of more than 2,000 recipes ensures healthy, delicious meals for the whole family that are safe for diabetics. A large portion of the book focuses on diabetics' biggest problem area, desserts.

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Nutrition for Life: A No Fad, Non-Nonsense Approach to Eating Well and Reaching Your Healthy Weight

Author: Lisa Hark

The complete guide to healthy eating, including advice on using food as medicine and real-life examples of how improved nutrition can remedy health problems, this book is an authoritative and essential reference tool.

Soft Targets or The Psychospiritual Clinicians Handbook

2009-01-06T03:03:00.001-08:00

Soft Targets: A Woman's Guide to Survival

Author: Michael L Varnado

Crime-prevention tips from a veteran investigator.

Violence against women and girls has reached epidemic proportions in America. Now, a twenty-year veteran detective shares hard-won lessons from the front line of crime-scene investigation. Using actual case studies from his own career, Detective Michael Varnado advises women on how to avoid becoming a "soft target" for violent predators. Soft Targets also includes hot lines, Web sites, and other resources for crime survivors.

Michael L. Varnado, known across Southeast Louisiana as "Detective Mike," solved the heinous murder of Faith Hathaway, the basis for Sr. Helen Prejean's apologetic polemic on the criminal mind and the Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon movie Dead Man Walking. Detective Varnado's first book, Victims of Dead Man Walking ($22.00), is his response to Sr. Helen Prejean's book.

	Acknowledgments	9
	Author's Note	11
	Prologue	15
Part I	Predators
Chapter 1	Predators at a Glance	23
Chapter 2	The Predator's First Victim	24
Chapter 3	The Predator Strikes a Second Time	29
Chapter 4	The Release of a Predator	32
Chapter 5	The Predator Learns to Kill	38
Chapter 6	At the Point of Abduction	49
Chapter 7	Linda Magee	52
Chapter 8	Interview with a Purse Snatcher	61
Chapter 9	Fight or Flight?	68
Chapter 10	Dancing with the Devil	73
Chapter 11	Internet Dating	79
Chapter 12	Date Rape	84
Chapter 13	Dorothy Jenkins	89
Part II	Domestic Violence
Chapter 14	The Heartbreak of Domestic Violence	95
Chapter 15	Deputy Denver Miller	96
Chapter 16	Murder by Ambush	105
Chapter 17	James Brumfield and Susan Detillier	109
Chapter 18	The Killing of Hal Slade	116
Chapter 19	Through the Eyes of a Killer	128
Chapter 20	Virgil, James, and Brenda	132
Chapter 21	Janice Pittman and Mark Quinn	135
Chapter 22	Pumpkin	140
Chapter 23	Sam	146
Chapter 24	Killed by the Ones We Love	151
Part III	Infamous Crimes
Chapter 25	Notorious	157
Chapter 26	Crimes of Derrick Todd Lee	159
Chapter 27	A Washington Parish Murder Mystery	165
Chapter 28	The Video Poker Murders	177
Part IV	Other Soft Targets
Chapter 29	Not Just Women	187
Chapter 30	Overkill	189
Chapter 31	Stand Brave	192
Chapter 32	The Fishermen	195
Chapter 33	Ghost and Tadpole	199
Chapter 34	The Killing of Richard Spears	203
Chapter 35	My Brother's Keeper	208
Chapter 36	Seek, and Ye Shall Find	211
Part V	Advice from the Professionals
Chapter 37	Commonsense Advice	217
Chapter 38	Advice from the FBI	222
Chapter 39	Violent Crime Statistics	225
Chapter 40	Refuse to Become a Victim	228
Chapter 41	Contact Information for Support and Self-Help	235
	Epilogue	238

New interesting book: How to Make Almost Any Diet Work or The Hot Zone

The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook

Author: Sharon G Mijares

This essential handbook is a window on the quiet revolution now sweeping the field of psychology, that of locating the whole human being in the center of the therapeutic process. The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook helps you effectively treat the whole person by providing a practical introduction to psychospiritual worldviews and effective practices, such as yoga, meditation, and humanological therapy, that are used by psychospiritually oriented therapists. Helpful illustrations of body positions used in yoga and meditation plus photographs, tables, figures, and detailed case studies illustrate the process.

What People Are Saying

Daniel Deslauriers PhD
Daniel Deslauriers, PhD, Director, East-West Psychology Program, California Institute of Integral Studies
Psychotherapy is undergoing a quiet revolution by integrating spiritual perspectives with modern diagnostic know-how. This handbook provides a wide range of clinical cases, innovative techniques, and illuminating discussions on how to treat the whole person. It is ESSENTIAL READING FOR THERAPISTS, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS interested in integrative approaches.

Soft Targets or The Psychospiritual Clinicians Handbook

2009-01-06T03:03:00.000-08:00

Soft Targets: A Woman's Guide to Survival

Author: Michael L Varnado

Crime-prevention tips from a veteran investigator.

	Acknowledgments	9
	Author's Note	11
	Prologue	15
Part I	Predators
Chapter 1	Predators at a Glance	23
Chapter 2	The Predator's First Victim	24
Chapter 3	The Predator Strikes a Second Time	29
Chapter 4	The Release of a Predator	32
Chapter 5	The Predator Learns to Kill	38
Chapter 6	At the Point of Abduction	49
Chapter 7	Linda Magee	52
Chapter 8	Interview with a Purse Snatcher	61
Chapter 9	Fight or Flight?	68
Chapter 10	Dancing with the Devil	73
Chapter 11	Internet Dating	79
Chapter 12	Date Rape	84
Chapter 13	Dorothy Jenkins	89
Part II	Domestic Violence
Chapter 14	The Heartbreak of Domestic Violence	95
Chapter 15	Deputy Denver Miller	96
Chapter 16	Murder by Ambush	105
Chapter 17	James Brumfield and Susan Detillier	109
Chapter 18	The Killing of Hal Slade	116
Chapter 19	Through the Eyes of a Killer	128
Chapter 20	Virgil, James, and Brenda	132
Chapter 21	Janice Pittman and Mark Quinn	135
Chapter 22	Pumpkin	140
Chapter 23	Sam	146
Chapter 24	Killed by the Ones We Love	151
Part III	Infamous Crimes
Chapter 25	Notorious	157
Chapter 26	Crimes of Derrick Todd Lee	159
Chapter 27	A Washington Parish Murder Mystery	165
Chapter 28	The Video Poker Murders	177
Part IV	Other Soft Targets
Chapter 29	Not Just Women	187
Chapter 30	Overkill	189
Chapter 31	Stand Brave	192
Chapter 32	The Fishermen	195
Chapter 33	Ghost and Tadpole	199
Chapter 34	The Killing of Richard Spears	203
Chapter 35	My Brother's Keeper	208
Chapter 36	Seek, and Ye Shall Find	211
Part V	Advice from the Professionals
Chapter 37	Commonsense Advice	217
Chapter 38	Advice from the FBI	222
Chapter 39	Violent Crime Statistics	225
Chapter 40	Refuse to Become a Victim	228
Chapter 41	Contact Information for Support and Self-Help	235
	Epilogue	238

New interesting book: How to Make Almost Any Diet Work or The Hot Zone

The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook

Author: Sharon G Mijares

What People Are Saying

The Thai Massage Manual or Today I Will Do One Thing

2009-01-05T17:51:00.000-08:00

The Thai Massage Manual: Natural Therapy for Flexibility, Relaxation, and Energy Balance

Author: Maria Mercati

Thai Massage is the touch that enhances health, happiness, and wholeness--and with more than 150 expertly demonstrated sequences unfolding on these pages, everyone can enjoy its benefits.

Sometimes called "yoga in action," Thai massage has worked its relaxing wonders for more than 1,000 years. Explore its secrets with a detailed program that includes ten complete lessons, each concentrating on a particular part of the body. Like other forms of massage, it employs a flowing sequence of stretches, but instead of using only your fingers, pressure is applied with the thumbs, palms, elbows, knees, and feet. Full-color photographs of every move match still shots with superimposed artwork that indicate the direction of the movements. Each technique is clearly explained and its benefits--from improved flexibility to increased vitality--detailed.

"All of the techniques are shown in sharp color photographs that are pleasing to the eye. Descriptions of the techniques are clear."--Massage Therapy Journal.

Books about: Anatomy of Anorexia or When the Body Says No

Today I Will Do One Thing: Daily Readings for Awareness and Hope

Author: James Jennings

Each of these groundbreaking meditations is specifically designed to integrate recovery from addiction with the treatment of emotional or psychiatric illness. Each meditation focuses on a task or goal to be completed each day.

Bach Flower Remedies for Animals or How to Ride a Motorcycle

2009-01-05T05:39:00.000-08:00

Bach Flower Remedies for Animals

Author: Helen Graham

Offers descriptions of 38 Bach Flower Remedies and their application to the treatment of a range of domestic animals, including horses.

Look this: Genius and Heroin or Where the Germs Are

How to Ride a Motorcycle: A Rider's Guide to Strategy, Safety and Skill Development

Author: Pat Hahn

A beginner's manual especially geared to the needs of entry-level riders, this book provides all the basic instruction necessary to become a motorcycle rider with an emphasis on the challenges faced by neophyte riders. Starting at neophyte level and evolving into a serious, intelligent expert, How to Ride a Motorcycle tells the reader how to be a motorcycle rider with a strong emphasis on safety and big-picture strategy ("think about it this way" as opposed to "do this.")

Preface	ix
1. When Plagues End	3
2. Virtually Abnormal	89
3. If Love Were All	175
Select Bibliography	254

Vitamins Book

Gluten Free Diet or Radiculopathy a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Gluten-Free Diet: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Radiculopathy - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Table of Contents:

Free Yourself from Headaches or La Revolucion de la Nutrimedicina

Free Yourself from Headaches: The Natural Drug-Free Program for Prevention and Relief

La Revolucion de la Nutrimedicina

The Natural Approach to Attention Deficit Disorder or Home Remedies

The Natural Approach to Attention Deficit Disorder (Add) (Good Health Guides)

Home Remedies

Nature Spirits and What They Say or How To Get In Football Shape

Nature Spirits and What They Say: Interviews with Verena Stael Von Holstein

How To Get In Football Shape: Strength Training

Solved or The Energy Edge

Solved: The Riddle of Weight Loss: Restore Healthy Body Chemistry, Lose Weight, and Overcome Chronic Fatigue

The Energy Edge: How to Keep Pace with Your Life

Ayurveda Wisdom or Morning Cup of Qigong

Ayurveda Wisdom

Morning Cup of Qigong: One 15-Minute Routine to Rebuild Your Life

Table of Contents:

Tylers Herbs of Choice or Every Womans Guide to Eating During Pregnancy

Tyler's Herbs of Choice: The Therapeutic Use of Phytomedicinals

Healthline Magazine - Paul Insel

Doody Review Services

Library Journal

Booknews

Internet Book Watch

Healthline Magazine - Paul Insel, Ph.D.

Haworth Press Incorporated The

Table of Contents:

Every Woman's Guide to Eating During Pregnancy

Publishers Weekly

Pilates or The Memory Advantage

Pilates: Vistoso, intenso y agil

The Memory Advantage: Improve Your Memory, Mood and Confidence Throughout Life

Age Well or Fat Burner Workout

Age Well!: A Cleveland Clinic Guide

Fat-Burner Workout: Fit and Fabulous in 30 Days

Natural Menopause or Morning Cardio Workouts

Natural Menopause: Discover the Alternatives to HRT

Morning Cardio Workouts

What People Are Saying

Table of Contents:

The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Sugar Energy or Lillian Toos 168 Feng Shui Ways to a Calm and Happy Life

The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Sugar & Energy: The Authoritative Guide to the Sugar-Glycemic Index Connection--and How to Use It to Your Advantage

Lillian Too's 168 Feng Shui Ways to a Calm and Happy Life

Understanding Cancer or Venus Envy

Understanding Cancer: A Patient's Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment

Doody Review Services

Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery

Library Journal

Michelle Goldberg

Kirkus Reviews

Table of Contents:

Colour Forecasting or Qigong A Legacy in Chinese Healing

Colour Forecasting

Table of Contents:

Qigong - A Legacy in Chinese Healing: The Eight Treasures and Meditations

What People Are Saying

Delicious Desserts When You Have Diabetes or ABC of Smoking Cessation

Delicious Desserts When You Have Diabetes: Over 200 Recipes

Table of Contents:

ABC of Smoking Cessation

Your Critically Ill Child or Sleep Deprivation

Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face

Sleep Deprivation

Chasing Life or Fitness in American Culture

Chasing Life: The Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today

Publishers Weekly

Susan B. Hagloch - Library Journal

Table of Contents:

Fitness in American Culture: Images of Health, Sport, and the Body, 1830-1940

Booknews

Fatigue as a Window to the Brain or Neurogenic Bladder a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Fatigue as a Window to the Brain

Neurogenic Bladder - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Table of Contents:

The One Minute or The Omega Rx Zone

The One Minute (or so) Healer: 500 Simple Ways to Heal Yourself Naturally