Liver Disorders or Sly Moves

Liver Disorders: A Cleveland Clinic Guide

Author: M D Zein

If you're examining this book, chances are that you've been diagnosed with a liver disease or you suspect that you have a liver-related illness. Perhaps someone you care about has a liver ailment. Maybe you're simply curious about the workings of this essential organ and want to know how you can keep it healthy.

Liver Disorders: A Cleveland Clinic Guide has answers to your questions. This book will help you understand how the liver aids digestion, fights infections, and regulates many of our hormones. It will explain what happens if the liver becomes fatty or hardened with scars, and it will show how our other organs depend on healthy liver function.

Offering simple explanations and real-life examples, Liver Disorders: A Cleveland Clinic Guide describes the symptoms of liver malfunction and outlines how liver diseases are treated. You'll read about how physicians are conquering liver cancer, which medications hold the most promise against liver infections, and what you can do to avoid liver damage. This book will also answer such questions as: Which vitamin supplements can injure the liver? How does the liver influence our mental effectiveness? What can we do to avoid catching hepatitis? How does obesity affect liver function? Can the liver regenerate itself? When is a liver transplant appropriate?

About the Author:
Nizar N. Zein, M.D., holds the Mikati Foundation Endowed Chair in Liver Diseases and is Chief of the Section of Hepatobiliary Diseases and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Cleveland Clinic

About the Author:
Kevin M. Edwards, M.S.N., C.N.P., is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Nurse Corps of the Ohio Army National Guard

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Sly Moves: My Proven Program to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Gain Will Power, and Live your Dream

Author: Sylvester Stallon

Are you ready to be a contender? Sylvester Stallone's action–oriented program for getting fit and eating right is also a revealing portrait of one of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Sly Moves is more than just a handbook on fitness and nutrition. It's a provocative and candid inside look at the trials and triumphs of one of Hollywood's most famous stars. Throughout his career, Sly has always been body conscious, and as he experimented with intense training methods for various films, he has learned – often the hard way – what works and what definitely doesn't. His goal here is to help readers change harmful fitness habits, learn to counter reckless eating, and appreciate who they are even when they don't feel much like action heroes.

Part 1 is a history of Sylvester Stallone's physique, as the Rocky star shares stories about his being bullied as a child, finding comfort and strength at the gym, and then later, the wild ride of fad diets, crash–training regimens and workout disasters that fringed on obsession.

Part 2, The Sly Moves workout, outlines four exercise programs: classic, advanced, women's and hardcore. The workouts only require a commitment of about three hours a week (exactly the same amount of time Sly works out).

The Sly Moves eating plan (Part 3) is Sly's nutrition guide, highlighted by a unique meal plan for a lifetime of good eating.

Part 4 gives Sly an opportunity to inspire and encourage readers to make Sly Moves part of a long–term picture of health, fitness and wellbeing, with tips on everything from keeping goals and relaxation techniques to lessons learned from The Contender.

Publishers Weekly

Is there a more inspiring song for a workout than the theme from Rocky? Is there anyone who could better embody the ultimate action hero physique than Stallone? Of course not, which is why this guide to getting buff hits the nail on the head. Tales of the struggling young actor eating raw eggs in a kitchenless New York apartment give way to an explanation of how Stallone got in shape for the Rocky movies and Rambo. His routine boils down to doing cardiovascular activity; eating a balance of proteins, carbs and fats; and pumping a lot of iron. Stallone explains why diets don't work and lists what's in his refrigerator (buckwheat waffle mix) and freezer (ice cream). As a workout guide, the book isn't perfect; it's general and, while it does offer a substantial number of weight-lifting exercises, certain sections are puzzling (e.g., Stallone says, "forget StairMaster, it's a waste of effort," yet the accompanying photo shows a woman poised on one of those very machines). But Stallone wants to make every reader a winner, and he's incessantly empowering. Photos of him doing pushups and bench presses are inspiring, and the book wisely includes a number of photos of a female model doing exercises, too. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.