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Sports and Exercise Nutrition or The Fast Food Diet

2009-12-05T21:27:00.000-08:00

Sports and Exercise Nutrition

Author: William D McArdl

This highly researched text teaches interactions between nutrition and exercise concepts and practical applications. Readers receive a strong foundation in the science of exercise nutrition and bioenergetics, plus insight about how the principles work in the real world of human physical activity and sports medicine. The text is logically organized with fundamental information about nutrient digestion, absorption and assimilation presented first, followed by how nutrients provide energy to the body.

Julie A. Patten

This book is an historical perspective and a six-component model for a cross-disciplinary field of exercise nutrition. The model is focused on the areas of nutritional enhancement, peak physiologic function, health and longevity, safety, energy balance and body composition, and optimal growth. The authors skillfully present an historical perspective and their ideas for the creation of the field they call exercise nutrition. The book is designed for a one-semester course that logically sequences concepts of exercise physiology, energy metabolism, and nutrition. It is written primarily as an upper division college course text for students who need nutrition content integrated with concepts of exercise physiology and energy metabolism. The authors provide an excellent historical overview linking the fields of nutrition and exercise to bolster their proposed model of a discipline of ""Exercise Nutrition"" that integrates data from chemistry, exercise physiology, nutrition, biochemistry, medicine, and physiology. They adeptly integrate current, research-based exercise and nutrition-related information relevant to physically active individuals. Numerous color figures, tables, and equations are expertly used to illustrate and elucidate text content. The extensive appendix provides current, reliable information and sources to support the content of the text. The authors have a web site to support the text. The authors' effort to integrate exercise and nutrition-related information along with an historical overview of the two disciplines is unique and commendable. There is in-depth, valid information for those desiring an integrated approach to the study of human nutrition and physicalactivity. Regardless of whether a discipline of ""Exercise Nutrition"" is established or not as proposed by the authors, this book demonstrates the successful integration of valid nutrition-related topics and exercise information.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Jude Christopher Sullivan, MS (University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics)
Description: This book is a condensed compilation of centuries of our cumulative understanding of human function in health and disease and the role nutrition assumes in this process. In addition, it strives to endorse an integrated understanding of this body of science and, in turn, promote a positive impact on how one can use this information where it is necessary:ultimately in the care of a practitioner's clients and/or patients. This book is the second edition of a book originally published in 1999.
Purpose: The implied and discussed intent of this book is to skillfully blend many different contributing existing scientific disciplines (e.g. biochemistry, exercise physiology, medicine, etc.). The authors promote their agenda to recognize a new field referred to as "exercise nutrition." It is meticulously prepared in order to describe our basic understanding of the role nutrition has on normal human biology and function, but also strives to describe the many different paths that result in the course of our lives (e.g., aging and resulting osteoporosis) and the decisions we might make to eat and live a certain way (e.g., a healthy athlete vs. one with a disordered eating profile). The authors' efforts are worthwhile and they meet their stated objectives in that they provide the necessary scientific background to augment one's fundamental understanding and then take it one step further by providing very real and necessary practical application points.
Audience: The book is written by pre-eminent experts in the field of nutrition and exercise physiology and it would serve as a useful resource for a diverse group. It provides excellent fundamental information for nutrition, exercise physiology, and normal health required by an undergraduate in virtually any health-related course. Its comprehensive literature review at the end of each chapter serves as an excellent resource to any research scientist. And, there are basic concepts of identification and guidelines that would be useful to a clinical healthcare practitioner.
Features: This is designed to be a "cutting edge" teaching tool, learning tool, and reference resource. It provides such information as the latest Dietary Reference Intakes, normative tables (e.g., standards for overweight and obesity), up-to-date indices for monitoring change in health status (e.g. regional body fat distribution and health risks), as well as expanded chapters addressing the nutritional needs of physically active people and those in sports competition. The authors take steps to build on each previous section in order to develop a logical line of thought that ultimately evolves into practice. Although it is impossible for one to become an expert in a single semester (which is the length of time recommended for completion of this text), it provides a sound template from which a practitioner could work. The additions and modifications to the original publication serve to provide an updated list of resources for reference as well as hands-on ideas and methods to be used for immediate practical application situations. In particular, two companion interactive CD-ROM discs are provided along with technical support. The first disc is a nutritional analysis program which can also be used as a reference of nutrition data as well as a report generator which can be used to assist with client counseling. The second disc is a study guide providing 300 multiple choice and true/false questions along with an annotated answer key. It would be advantageous for the authors to expound on the notion of body composition as a "relatively exact" science. They correctly point out that error does exist with in vivo measurement, but this point is all too frequently glossed over in practice. I would recommend addressing the need for continued validation of currently accepted field modalities (e.g. skinfolds, BIA and Bod Pod) against a multicomponent criterion. The authors make an important point regarding the need for extensive practice in administering such technology. It would also be helpful to emphasize the need to expertly, delicately, and honestly interpret results for an individual such as an obese client on a weight reduction program, or an excessively lean athlete striving to lose additional weight/fat in order to enhance performance. Their use of case studies might be valuable here to provide a basic framework of useful dialogue that could be engaged in by the practitioner.
Assessment: This second edition publication is an improvement over its predecessor. It is a valuable teaching tool for the instructor, learning tool for the student, and information resource for the healthcare provider.

Booknews

A textbook for a one-semester course, arranged so as to build each discussion on previous ones. Covers the digestion, absorption, and assimilation of food nutrients; nutrient bioenergetics in exercise and training; making informed and healthful choices about optimal nutrition; thermoregulation and fluid balance during heat stress; purported ergogenic aids; and body composition, weight control, and disordered eating. Colorfully illustrated throughout. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

The Fast-Food Diet: Quick and Healthy Eating at Home and on the Go

Author: Mary Donkersloot

Whether you wish to eat Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Continental, or something from your local deli, The Fast Food Diet will help you make the right choice. A guide to eating healthfully at home, The Fast Food Diet provides you with an inventory of healthy foods to keep on hand. Best of all, The Fast Food Diet contains 100 quick and healthy recipes that even the inexperienced cook can follow.

The Fast Food Diet rates the best breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, using a simple system from 1 to 10, along with a list of calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium, and fiber. You can see at a glance which are the best food choices - 10 representing the best choice and 1 the worst.

Personal Training or Cross Training for Sports

2009-12-04T17:16:00.000-08:00

Personal Training: Individual Fitness Programs & Training Plans For Every Body Type

Author: Jennifer Wad

Have your own personal trainer--without the cost! Jennifer Wade, head of one of Europe's best Step Reebok programs, developed these seven innovative plans so that there's something for every body, lifestyle, and fitness goal. Cover every body part and type of exercise, from stretching to cardiovascular; restructure training techniques to improve results and prevent injuries; and eat sensibly without dieting. All the strong, toned models in these great-looking, easy-to-follow color photos have trained with Wade.

Book about: Management or Tuna

Cross-Training for Sports

Author: Gary T Moran

About the Authors

Gary Moran is a research, medical, and forensic biomechanist at Davies Medical Center in San Francisco, and he is the president of Biosports, Inc. He has been a coach, lecturer, and researcher in the areas of running, strength training, and cross-training for more than 30 years. Not only has he worked with athletes at the high school, college, postgraduate, and professional levels, but he has competed on all levels in running, triathlons, weightlifting, and martial arts. He is also a former member of the U.S. Military Pentathlon Team.

Moran received an MA in exercise physiology from San Diego State University in 1971 and a PhD in anatomy and kinesiology from the University of Oregon in 1975. In addition to writing numerous scientific papers on sports medicine and exercise science, he is the coauthor of Getting Stronger and Dynamics of Strength Training, highly acclaimed books on weight training and physical fitness. A fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, Dr. Moran has served as director of research at the Nike Shoe Company, associate director of biomechanics at Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of biomechanics at the University of San Francisco.

Dr. Moran lives in Alameda, California, where he continues to compete in running, triathlons, and martial arts. His other interests include reading and traveling.

George H. McGlynn is a professor and chair of the Exercise and Sports Science Department at the University of San Francisco (USF). In addition, he is director of the USF Human Performance Laboratory and he played a key role in establishing the school's graduate program in sports management and fitness. An exercise physiology professor since 1959, McGlynn has written extensively on the subjects of cardiorespiratory fitness and strength training. He is the author of numerous professional articles and five books, including Dynamics of Fitness (Fifth Edition), which is one of the most popular fitness texts on the market. He also has worked as a fitness consultant for many college and professional athletic teams and for state and local government agencies.

McGlynn received an EdD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966. He was presented the Distinguished Teaching and Research Award by the University of San Francisco in 1989 and became a member of the New York State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987. A resident of San Francisco, California, McGlynn's leisure activities include skiing, cycling, and oil painting.

Part II: Cross-Training Programs
Section 1. Aerobic-Sports Programs
Chapter 6. Distance Running
Chapter 7. Distance Cycling
Chapter 8. Distance Swimming
Chapter 9. Triathlon and Duathlon
Chapter 10. Cross-Country Skiing
Chapter 11. Soccer
Chapter 12. Rowing, Kayaking, and Paddling
Chapter 13. In-Line and Speed Skating

Section 2. Sprint-Sports Programs
Chapter 14. Sprint Running
Chapter 15. Sprint Cycling
Chapter 16. Sprint Swimming
Chapter 17. Alpine Skiing
Chapter 18. Ice Hockey

Section 3. Power-Sports Programs
Chapter 19. Football
Chapter 20. Field Events
Chapter 21. Gymnastics
Chapter 22. Weight and Power Lifting
Chapter 23. Wrestling
Chapter 24. Martial Arts
Chapter 25. Boxing

Section 4. Throwing and Striking Programs
Chapter 26. Volleyball
Chapter 27. Basketball
Chapter 28. Baseball
Chapter 29. Tennis
Chapter 30. Golf
Chapter 31. Racquetball, Handball and Squash
Chapter 32. Multisport Athletes

Sex Health and Long Life or Chasing Life

2009-12-03T13:05:00.000-08:00

Sex, Health, and Long Life: Manuals of Taoist Practice

Author: Thomas F Cleary

     The benefits of sexual bliss were not lost on the ancients, who knew well its powers to enhance health, concentration, and peace of mind. These ancient Chinese Taoist texts explain the transformative effects sex can have when properly and wisely practiced, demonstrating Taoism's emphasis on cultivating life's "three treasures"—vitality, energy, and spirit—in all the activities of daily life.

     The texts are part of the famous Mawangdui finds, Han Dynasty tombs that yielded the richest cache of ancient medical manuscripts ever found in China. The first three texts, Ten Questions, Joining Yin and Yang, and Talk on Supreme Guidance for the World, deal with physical health and sex lore, including diet, exercise, sleep, and techniques of lovemaking. The last two, A Course in Effectiveness and A Course in Guidance, concentrate on the psychological factors of good health and well-being, especially the reduction of stress and cultivation of wholesome social relations.

Interesting book: Moo Baa La La La or The Cat in the Hat

Chasing Life: New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today

Author: Sanjay Gupta

For centuries, adventurers and scientists have believed that not only could we delay death but that "practical immortality" was within our reach. Today, many well-respected researchers would be inclined to agree. In a book that is not about anti-aging, but about functional aging--extending your healthy, active life--Dr. Sanjay Gupta blends together compelling stories of the most up-to-date scientific breakthroughs from around the world, with cutting-edge research and advice on achieving practical immortality in this lifetime. Gupta's advice is often counterintuitive: longevity is not about eating well, but about eating less; nutritional supplements are a waste of your money; eating chocolate and drinking coffee can make you healthier. CHASING LIFE tells the stories behind the breakthroughs while also revealing the practical steps readers can take to help extend youth and life far longer than ever thought possible.

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.

Natural Menopause or THE ADHD HANDBOOK

2009-12-02T08:54:00.000-08:00

Natural Menopause: The Complete Guide

Author: Susan Perry

Written by women, for women, this empowering book views menopause as a natural passage in life - not as a disease. In this newly revised edition, authors Susan Perry and Kate O'Hanlan include all the latest information on hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer, as well as new studies on menopause and osteoporosis, heart disease, Alzheimer's, depression, exercise, diet and nutrition, natural remedies, skin patches, and much more. Without minimizing the discomfort many women experience, Perry and O'Hanlan show that good nutrition, a good exercise program, and good sex are often the best prescriptions - and that hormone replacement therapy carries risks and should be taken only after careful and informed deliberation. Natural Menopause is the comprehensive reference every women should turn to before and during menopause for a safe and healthy passage.

THE ADHD HANDBOOK

Author: Alison Munden

The ADHD Handbook provides a comprehensive account of current knowledge of ADHD and offers practical advice to parents, teachers, social workers and other professionals working with young people and their families. The authors also look at the long-term prospects for children with ADHD and the difficulties they may face. A chapter on ADHD in adults is included, as there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that ADHD can affect people of all ages. The book will act as a signpost to all those trying to address the difficulties faced by young people with ADHD, directing them to appropriate sources of help. Focusing on the provision of practical help and a clear approach, The ADHD Handbook is the ideal introduction for parents and professionals.

	Acknowledgements	6
	Preface	9
1	What is ADHD?	13
2	What are Children with ADHD Like?	19
3	Other Conditions That May Look Like ADHD	31
4	How Common is ADHD?	49
5	Evolutionary and Biological Explanations of ADHD	51
6	Scientific Evidence About the Causes of ADHD	57
7	How is the Diagnosis of ADHD Made?	67
8	The Treatment Team	79
9	Medical Treatment	85
10	Psychological Treatments	99
11	Education	113
12	Social Services and Voluntary Agencies	119
13	Long-Term Prospects for Children with ADHD	123
14	ADHD in Adults	125
	App. I: Some Useful Assessment Instruments	135
	App. II: Useful Contacts	137
	App. III: Books and Videos	143
	Bibliography	149
	Subject Index	153
	Author Index	160

Body Speaks or Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning Disabilities

2009-12-01T04:43:00.000-08:00

Body Speaks

Author: James L Griffith

For decades, health care providers have worked as though there were a monolithic wall dividing the ailments of the mind from those of the body. Theorists on either side developed separate languages and philosophies to explain symptoms. This distinction has left many clinicians unable to treat successfully patients whose symptoms—such as headaches, conversion paralysis, and seizures—arise from the place where mind and body meet. In this book, the authors describe a powerful narrative therapy, one that relies on the wisdom and everyday language of patients’ real-life stories instead of the expert knowledge and professional language of the clinician. This approach can be used across all categories of somatic symptoms, from factitious ones to medical illnesses such as asthma or migraine headaches.The authors show how somatic symptoms are often related to unspeakable dilemmas, as in the case of a child who, after discovering a parent’s marital infidelity, is afraid to disclose the secret and begins having blackout spells for which a neurologist can find no physiological basis. These dilemmas can be understood only if a clinician creates the kind of relationship in which privately held stories of fear, shame, and threat can be told safely. Detailed case studies and numerous brief examples vividly illustrate techniques for helping patients escape the dilemmas that bind their bodies by finding new language and stories that can free them.In an innovative section, the authors rethink the current ideas and practices of psychopharmacology. Rather than “treating” a brain disease, a clinician uses medications to recalibrate brain systems that register alarm,thereby opening new possibilities for therapeutic change through speaking, listening, reflecting, and relating.This book offers all clinicians—psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, nurses, physicians, and family therapists—a way to use language to help patients resolve bodily symptoms. It avoids the stigmatization that patients and families so often experience—and the frustration clinicians feel—when struggling to find answers for mind-body problems.

Booknews

The authors show how somatic symptoms are often related to unspeakable dilemmas, which can be understood only if a clinician creates the kind of relationship in which privately held stories of fear, shame, and threat can be told safely. Detailed case studies and numerous brief examples illustrate techniques for helping patients escape the dilemmas that bind their bodies by finding new language and stories that can free them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning Disabilities: Reality, Myths, and Controversial Treatments

Author: Barbara D Ingersoll

Two experts on these much-misunderstood, debilitating problems explain how parents can spot telltale symptoms and select the best treatment for their children—a practical handbook for parents, teachers, and medical professionals alike.

	Authors' Note
	Introduction: Are "Alternative Treatments" Good Alternatives?	1
Ch. 1	What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?	11
Ch. 2	What Are Learning Disabilities?	41
Ch. 3	How New Treatments Are Evaluated: Science, Pseudoscience, and Quackery	73
Ch. 4	Effective Treatments for ADHD	87
Ch. 5	Effective Treatments for Learning Disabilities	107
Ch. 6	Pills and Potions	121
Ch. 7	Dietary Interventions	149
Ch. 8	Training Approaches to Treatment	171
Ch. 9	Miscellaneous Approaches	199
	Concluding Remarks: Where Do We Go from Here?	209
	References	213
	Addenda	235
	Index	241

Body of Health or Pampered Pregnancy Bliss Box

2009-11-30T00:32:00.000-08:00

Body of Health: The New Science of Intuition Medicine for Energy and Balance

Author:

Body of Health explores the power of personal energy, describing levels of awareness that can facilitate healing on many levels: spiritual, physical, and mental. The techniques covered here are designed to help people increase their understanding of intuition, color, the chakra system, meditation, and other theories and methods as they work in healing. The author has developed these techniques over many years of helping nurses, doctors, and other medical practitioners discover the source of pain and disease and guiding patients to more effective healing therapies. The areas covered in this wide-ranging yet accessible book include aura, color, meditation, kundalini, male/female energy, and affirmations and their role in healing. Each chapter examines one practice or theory of energy and offers examples, stories, and simple techniques that readers can use to "test" the concept. Included are descriptive charts, journal writing exercises, success stories, and step-by-step meditations.

	Foreword	xiii
	Introduction: Intuition Medicine	1
Chapter 1	It is in My Blood	11
Chapter 2	Indications of Intuitive Awareness	21
Chapter 3	Assessing Our Intuitive Abilities	31
Chapter 4	Intuition and Grounding: Grounding Is Good Medicine	39
Chapter 5	The Grounding Meditation Practice	61
Chapter 6	Meditation Sanctuary: Meditation Is a Location	71
Chapter 7	The Meditation Sanctuary Practice	99
Chapter 8	Life-Force and Earth Energy: Your Personal Healing Energy	105
Chapter 9	The Life-Force and Earth-Energy Meditation Practice	131
Chapter 10	The Chakra System: Physical and Spiritual Health	141
Chapter 11	The Chakra System Practice	167
Chapter 12	The Aura: Halo of Light	177
Chapter 13	The Aura Meditation and Healing Practice	201
Chapter 14	Color: The Language of Energy	211
Chapter 15	The Color Meditation and Healing Practice	237
	Afterword	245
Appendix 1	Intuition Medicine Health Issues Reference Chart	249
Appendix 2	Chakra System Reference Charts	257
	Acknowledgments	279
	Endnotes	281
	Bibliography	293
	Index	301
	About the Author	315

Pampered Pregnancy Bliss Box: An Aromatherapy Kit for Wellness and Comfort

Author: Valerie Ann Worwood

Despite the popular notion that women look and feel marvelous during pregnancy, the body actually goes through extraordinary hormonal changes, dramatic emotions, and challenging physical strains at this time. Containing a 32-page guidebook, aromatherapy recipes, a 60-minute relaxation audio CD, and two scented candles in travel tins, The Pampered Pregnancy Bliss Box helps expectant mothers navigate these changes. Topics include back pain, morning sickness, stretch marks, indigestion, nausea, cramps, and exhaustion; preparing for the birth; essential oils for the delivery room; breast care and breastfeeding; and postpartum depression (with a recipe for postpartum "pick-me-up" oil).

Through the Dark Woods or Herbs against Cancer

2009-11-28T20:21:00.000-08:00

Through the Dark Woods: A Young Woman's Journey Out of Depression

Author: Jo Swinney

A compassionate and practical look at depression and how it affects not only daily but spiritual life.

Herbs Against Cancer

Author: Ralph W Moss

A comprehensive and indispensable guide to the use of herbs in preventing and treating cancer. Acclaimed science writer Ralph Moss thoroughly explores the most potent anti-cancer herbs and their uses and offers both practical guidelines as well as the intriguing background of the subject.

Elijahs Cup or 100 Questions and Answers about Prostate Disease

2009-02-20T17:44:00.000-08:00

Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

Author: Valerie Paradiz

Faced with her two-year-old toddler's precipitous bout with epilepsy and his puzzling behaviors, Valerie Paradiz took a bold and unusual path, coming to terms with and ultimately embracing the strange beauty of her son Elijah's special neurological disorder, which was diagnosed as Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism.

In Elijah's Cup, Paradiz tells the powerful story of her family's struggle with her son's disease, one characterized by social awkwardness, literal-mindedness, and a fixation with particular subjects and interests. Like attention deficit disorder (ADD), dyslexia, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, Asperger's has exploded in diagnosis in the last decade, reconfiguring the known incidence of autism in the population with estimates as high as one in fifty people.

Ever since autism was "discovered" by researchers in the 1940s, the disability has been under the strict purview of professionals in medicine, psychiatry, and education. Like the deaf community, autistics themselves have had little voice in expressing their real experience and needs. They were framed as too "sick" to be conscious of their own internal lives, too "mentally ill" to possess an identity. All this has changed.

Today there is a blossoming movement of autistic self-advocacy groups and alliances that pose challenging questions to the medical status quo. A fascinating, independent expression of another way of life, full of quirkiness, hardship, and humor, has emerged. Elijah's Cup is a provocative and pioneering book that pushes the envelope of what we know about autism. Were Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, and the comedian Andy Kaufman, whom we usually think of as brillianteccentrics, autistic? Can these figures serve as role models to this community?

Elijah's Cup offers a refreshing take on mental disability from the perspective of civil rights, history, and the arts. From encounters with the founders of the first civil rights organizations for autistics, who guide Paradiz and her son toward a sense of community and self-respect, and with visual artists, who share with Elijah their special ability to "think in pictures," Elijah reaches extraordinary heights in his sociability and emotional well-being.

In this utterly absorbing and inspiring narrative, Paradiz also reveals her own shadow syndrome, which afflicts many family members of autistics. She is a "cousin," a genetic link to her son's autism. Standing as she does on this cultural borderline, Paradiz is a sensitive translator between two worlds, revealing a groundbreaking insider's view of the beauty of minds hidden in the shadows of autism.

Publishers Weekly

This expressive and deeply felt memoir explores how the diagnosis of the author's son, Elijah, with Asperger's syndrome (a high-functioning autism) changed her life. As a young child, Elijah had delays in language and motor skills, and also suffered seizures. Paradiz, an assistant professor of German studies at Bard College, details the subsequent dissolution of her marriage (although she and her ex-husband are now friends) and her own depression, events triggered by the problems of coping with Elijah's needs. After Paradiz hired a babysitter with Asperger's syndrome and read several accounts written by people diagnosed as autistic, she understood that her son was a visual rather than a verbal thinker. (According to the author, Albert Einstein and Andy Warhol both had Asperger's syndrome.) This realization led her to provide Elijah with the repetitive activities he needed to enjoy his life. She describes their time together at Autreat, a camp for autistics that emphasizes self-advocacy, an idea that has been rejected by more traditional parents and teachers, who believe that autistics cannot know their needs. This is a moving personal story that highlights a new way of thinking about people diagnosed as autistic. (Apr.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

This insightful memoir by the mother of a boy with a high-functioning form of autism includes a history of the disorder, a look at present-day activists, and psychological profiles of well-known people the author believes were autistic. Paradiz (German Studies/Bard Coll.) views autism not as a mental illness but as a way of life with its own deep culture. While eloquently chronicling day-to-day experiences from her son Elijah's birth to age 12, she also records her struggle to understand the nature of autism and the unique way in which autistic people experience the world. By chance, she hires as caretaker for her son a woman with Asperger's Syndrome who recognizes that Elijah has the same condition and helps Paradiz cope with it. Her research leads her to the revelatory writings of two articulate, high-functioning autistic women, Donna Williams and Temple Grandin. When Paradiz learns that autism has a genetic component, she scrutinizes her family tree and concludes that her grandmother, her father, and she herself possess shadow traits that constitute what geneticists call "broader autism phenotype": intense preoccupations, a preference for solitary activities, a need for sameness in certain aspects of life. Searching for historical role models for her son, who develops a consuming interest in television, especially comedy and animated cartoons, she finds autistic traits in Einstein, whose language development was delayed and whose visual thinking was extraordinary, and in Andy Warhol, another visual thinker whose social interactions were often bizarre; similarly, while perusing a biography of Andy Kaufman, she sees signs of autism in the comedian's childhood obsession with televisionperformances. Not everyone will accept Paradiz's view that these individuals' talents and idiosyncrasies can be explained by autism, but her descriptions of her son's world and of the autism activists she comes to know are perceptive and enlightening. A valuable addition to the growing literature on this neurological condition.

100 Questions and Answers about Prostate Disease

Author: Kevin R Loughlin

By providing both the doctor's and patient's view, this book gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options.

Staying Connected While Letting Go or Power Tennis Training

2009-02-19T13:33:00.000-08:00

Staying Connected While Letting Go: The Paradox of Alzheimer's Caregiving

Author: Sandy Braff

This book, laced with poignant stories, focuses on the emotional impact of this disease on the caregivers and offers specific coping strategies they can use to keep them emotionally sane in this chaotic time.

Publishers Weekly

In their unflagging dedication to caregiving, spouses of an Alzheimer's patient often neglect their own emotional needs, say the authors of this compassionate volume. Braff, a therapist, and Olenik, formerly a research associate in an N.I.H.-funded study of Alzheimer's caregivers, chart the course of the disease from the caregivers' perspective, gathering stories of how they coped with the diagnosis, the painful progression and finally, their spouse's death. It is these stories that form the backbone of this book. Just as members of a support group share tales of grappling with fear, stress and isolation, so do the voices in this volume: Carolyn mourns the loss of meaningful conversation with her husband; Al misses the physical intimacy; Mamie comes to terms with the fact that her husband no longer recognizes her. The authors eschew direct advice in favor of vignettes that model, they hope, healthy ways of coping. This may frustrate some looking for concrete actions to take, phone numbers to call or other resources to peruse; the overwritten commentary, too, might grate (e.g. the authors want to "clip the wings of and enfeeble the predatory emotional effects" of the disease). But Braff and Olenik care deeply about their subject, and their book will help people struggling with a failing spouse feel part of a large and strong community. Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

A licensed marriage family therapist, Braff facilitated a weekly Alzheimer's support group for 14 years. Coauthor Olenik interviewed over 300 spousal caregivers over a six-year period in her research capacity at the University of California's Alzheimer's Caregiver Research Study. Their book explores the emotions that spousal caregivers of Alzheimer's patients experience as the disease progresses. In narratives arranged by the different stages of the disease, the participants manifest surprising resilience, problem solving, and coping behaviors. In addition, they are remarkably frank about discussing loss of sexual intimacy and dating before a spouse's death. This title, which effectively demonstrates that "the result of caregiving and grieving is often an initiation into a deeper, more meaningful life experience," is well suited to the comprehensive consumer health collections of large public, medical, and hospital libraries. Libraries in remote areas without local Alzheimer's support groups also will want to buy it for the benefit of isolated caregivers. Nancy Mace and Peter Rabins's The 36-Hour Day would be a better choice for small libraries looking for a single resource as it offers practical hints and guidelines for caregivers who are not necessarily spouses. (Index not seen.)-Cleo Pappas, La Grange Memorial Hosp. Lib., IL

Power Tennis Training

Author: Donald A Chu

Don Chu, training consultant to the United States Tennis Association and top tennis pros, presents an easy-to-follow, balanced conditioning program specifically designed to help tennis players at all levels put more power into their game. Through a regimen of stretching, weight training, plyometrics, medicine ball exercises, and court drills, you'll become faster and able to hit the ball harder. You'll also find that you're less injury-prone and can bounce back from injury sooner.

Let Power Tennis Training put more power into your game.

About the Author:
A frequent contributor to the National Strength and Conditioning Association Journal, Don Chu is a leading authority on power training and conditioning. In addition to serving as a consultant for the United States Tennis Association, Chu has been a conditioning consultant for the Golden State Warriors, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Lions, and Chicago White Sox. He is owner, director, and consultant to individual athletes at the Ather Sports Injury Clinic in northern California.

Dr. Chu earned his PhD in physical therapy and physical education from Stanford University and is a professor emeritus of kinesiology and physical education at California State University, Hayward. In 1978, his only year as a head coach, Dr. Chu was named the Far Western Conference Track and Field Coach of the Year. He is a registered physical therapist, a certified athletic trainer through the National Athletic Training Association, and an National Strength and Conditioning Association-certified strength specialist.

Foreword by Todd Martin

Part I: Power Tennis Training Components

Chapter 1. Exercise Principles for Tennis Players
Chapter 2. Warm-Up and Stretching Exercises
Chapter 3. Weight Training and Trunk Exercises
Chapter 4. Plyometric and Medicine Ball Exercises
Chapter 5. Court Drills

Part II: Power Tennis Training Workouts

Chapter 6. Building Blocks Approach to Workouts
Chapter 7. Block 1--Strength Endurance Workout
Chapter 8. Block 2--Strength Workouts
Chapter 9. Block 3--Power Workouts

Appendix: Fitness Testing Worksheet
Exercise Index

Brendas Wardrobe Companion or Moms with ADD

2009-02-18T09:20:00.000-08:00

Brenda's Wardrobe Companion: A Workbook for Getting the Look You Want, with the Clothes You Love

Author: Brenda Kinsel

A fashion expert and image consultant for real women with real bodies, Brenda Kinsel helps readers match their clothes to their personal style. Brenda's Wardrobe Companion walks the reader through the same affirming process that the author's clients experience before they go shopping. Readers assess the qualities they wish to project through clothes, analyze nonclothing clues to their personal message, and learn how to focus on what works — all in preparation for the ultimate goal: buying the right clothes and dressing on their own. With color illustrations throughout, this series of "private" sessions with a leading image consultant work as a companion book to the author's popular fashion bibles.

Moms with ADD: A Self-Help Manual

Author: Christine A Adamec

Guaranteed to make moms with ADD happier at home and at the office.

Library Journal

It's tough enough to live with attention deficit disorder (ADD), but adding motherhood to the mix can be overwhelming. Adamec (How To Live with a Mentally Ill Person, LJ 7/96) offers sound advice on how a mother with ADD can deal with the everyday tasks of running a home, working with teachers, juggling work, and solving family problems. Regarding school issues, the author shares tips on preparing for a conference, helping that includes homework, and considering such alternatives as charter schools. Helpful diets, prescribed medications, and support groups are also covered.Above all, for ADD moms plagued with guilt and self-blame, Adamec gives positive, it's-gonna-work-out advice. A highly helpful, practical guide for all public libraries that indludes web sites, organizations, camps, and school info.--Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, PA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

<br>&#151 ADDvance magazine - Kathleen Nadeau

Chris Adamec does a great job of describing the dilemmas faced by women with ADD as they try to keep up with the juggling act of raising children and managing a household, often while holding down a full-time job...At times she is sympathetic and humorous, at other times, very serious as she reviews a wide range of concerns.

After opening chapters that focus more on women's ADD issues, Chris turns to parenting---from pregnancy and new motherhood, to the elementary school years, to high school. At each step of the way she offers quotes from mothers with ADD as well as from female professionals in the field, almost giving the reader the feeling that she is sitting in a support group for moms with ADD.

What People Are Saying

Colleen Alexander-Roberts
Extremely valuable and empowering...A MUST-READ for mothers with ADD who are trying to raise a family, balance a career, and maintain a home while dealing with this syndrome. This book is a gold-mine resource filled with practical information, advice, and valuable suggestions for the reader. I enthusiastically recommend it. (Colleen Alexander-Roberts, author of The ADHD Parenting Handbook.)

Sari Solden
Finally, the life instruction manual women with ADD have waited and wished for. Full of helpful and specific suggestions as well as emotionally validating and guilt reducing! (Sari Solden, MS, author of Women with Attention Deficit Disorder)

Terry Matlen
This refreshing, easy-to-navigate book is a must-have for any mom touched by attentional difficulties. (Terry Matlen, MSW, ACSW, vice president of the national ADDA.)

Part Four Getting Outside Help 165
Professional Help 167
Medications That May Help 175
Support Groups, Coaching and Other 187
Appendix A: Recommended Books 191
Appendix B: Magazines and Jounals 193
Appendix C: National Organizations 195
Appendix D: Support Groups for Adults with Add 197
Appendix E: Websites and Listservs 201
Appendix F: Summer Camps with Programs for Kids with Add 203
Appendix G: State Contacts for Charter School Information 205
Appendix H: Products That May Be Helpful 209
Bibliography 211
Index 217

New Hope for People with Lupus or Run Strong

2009-02-17T05:09:00.000-08:00

New Hope for People with Lupus: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions

Author: Theresa Foy Digeronimo

Discover Exciting New Ways to Manage Lupus
Now you can take control of lupus and begin living a healthier, better life—today! This thoughtful, cutting-edge book can help you manage the flare-ups, symptoms, and side effects of lupus and put you back on the path to a more enjoyable, active lifesyle. Inside is compassionate, practical, and immediate guidance for anyone affected by lupus, including:
·Promising alternative therapies such as DHEA, essential fatty acids, and herbs
·Conventional drug treatments, including corticosteroids and antimalarials
·Easy methods to reduce stress and boost energy
·Important lifestyle requirements, such as diet and exercise
·And much, much more!
"A great resource for people with lupus, especially those recently diagnosed. New Hope for People with Lupus gives valuable and credible information about the many aspects of lupus which, as most of us know, can be very confusing."
—Gloria M. Spadaro, R.N., executive director, Lupus Foundation Inc. of New Jersey

"Reading New Hope for People with Lupus helps you become a central player in the colaborative diagnostic and therapeutic process that is what medical care is all about. This book gives hope because there is hope, particularly after absorbing the pearls in this new partner in your medical care."
—From the Foreword by Stephen A. Paget, M.D.

New interesting textbook: Vietnam or Nazi Germany

Run Strong

Author: Kevin Beck

Run faster and longer with less effort than ever before! Putting in the miles is only one part of the training equation. You can become a much stronger overall runner by improving leg turnover, efficiency, body alignment, muscle balance, and running-specific muscle strength, and by finding your most effective range of motion.

Expert coaches and runners show you how to assess what you need and implement these training methods into your current program. And if you're returning from injury, you can bounce back stronger and faster than ever before.

Make your base miles pay off by improving your efficiency and economy. With Run Strong you'll maximize your current fitness level and see results at the very next race!

What People Are Saying

Keith Dowling
Keith Dowling, 2003 USA World Championship Marathon team member Top American finisher of 2002 Boston Marathon
Run Strong is unlike anything else on the running shelf for improving performance. This book shows runners how to train to become faster, stronger, and more efficient."

Ellen O'Neil
Ellen O'Neil, Head cross country coach, Smith College
The varied topics in Run Strong, ranging from training principles to nutritional advice to prerace strategies, are thoroughly explored but easily digested. Beck has done an exemplary job of assembling the ideas and wisdom of experienced and esteemed authors.

Daniel Browne
Daniel Browne, 2004 US Olympic team member, 2002 USA Marathon champion
Comprehensive and entertaining, this book unlocks the secrets to running your personal best!

Primary Biliary Cirrhosis or Brain Development

2009-02-16T00:56:00.000-08:00

Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References (3-in-1 Medical Reference Series)

Author: James N Parker

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to primary biliary cirrhosis. 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 primary biliary cirrhosis.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 Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Overview
The Combined Health Information Database
Federally Funded Research on Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
E-Journals: PubMed Central
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Nutrition and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Overview
Finding Nutrition Studies on Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Federal Resources on Nutrition
Additional Web Resources
Chapter 3. Alternative Medicine and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Overview
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Additional Web Resources
General References
Chapter 4. Dissertations on Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Overview
Dissertations on Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Keeping Current
Chapter 5. Books on Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Overview
Book Summaries: Federal Agencies
Chapters on Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Chapter 6. Periodicals and News on Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Overview
News Services and Press Releases
Newsletter Articles
Academic Periodicals covering Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Chapter 7. Researching Medications
Overview
U.S. Pharmacopeia
Commercial Databases
Researching Orphan Drugs
Appendix A. Physician Resources
Overview
NIH Guidelines
NIH Databases
Other Commercial Databases
Appendix B. Patient Resources
Overview
Patient Guideline Sources
Associations and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
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
PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS DICTIONARY
INDEX

Book review: Faith of Our Sons or The Last Lion

Brain Development: Normal Processes and the Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine

Author: Michael W Miller

This is the first book about both normal development of the nervous system and how early exposure to alcohol and nicotine interferes with this development. The developing nervous system is highly dynamic and vulnerable to genetic and epigenetic factors that can be additive or synergistic. Disruption of normal brain development leads to an array of developmental disorders. One of the most common of these is mental retardation, the prime cause of which is prenatal exposure to alcohol. As chapters in this book show, alcohol has direct effects on the developing neural system and it affects genetic regulation. Another common neurotoxin is nicotine, and it is discussed in this book for three reasons: (1) the number of adolescents who smoke cigarettes is rising in some populations; (2) prenatal exposure to nicotine affects neurotransmitter systems that are critical for normal brain development and cognition; and (3) prenatal exposure to nicotine is often accompanied by prenatal exposure to alcohol.LThe mature brain is the culmination of an orderly sequence of the basic ontogenetic processes--cell proliferation, migration, differentiation, and death. Neural stem cells and progenitors proliferate in discrete sites; then, young neurons migrate long distances to their residences where they form neural networks. During this sequence many immature cells die, presumably eliminating unsuitable or non-competitive cells. Each process is regulated by genetic and environmental factors. When this regulation goes awry, a dysmorphic and dysfunctional brain results. Though this can be tragic in clinical settings, in experimental contexts it provides keen insight into normal braindevelopment.LThe book is divided into three parts. The first describes neural ontogeny in the normal brain. The second and third deal with the consequences of early exposure to alcohol and nicotine. Though there are similarities in the effects of these two toxins, there are also intriguing differences. The commonalities reflect the plasticity and resilience of the developing brain while the differences point to the targeted effects of the two toxins. Exploring these effects brings a richer appreciation of brain development. The book will be of interest to neuroscientists, developmental biologists, teratologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, and to their students and trainees.

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Reviewer:Scott D Phillips, MD(University of Colorado School of Medicine)
Description:This book first reviews the normal process of brain development, then details the pathophysiology and neurotoxicity of ethanol on brain development, and concludes with a detailed look at the effects of nicotine on brain development.
Purpose:The purpose was to contrast normal brain development, and the effects of alcohol and nicotine on the growing brain. With the marked prevalence of ethanol and nicotine abuse in our society, this is a welcome review of the topic. The book accomplishes these goals and provides an excellent review of the topics that will be useful to many physicians and scientists.
Audience:This in-depth book is most suitable for practitioners or researchers in the field of alcohol and nicotine developmental effects. The chapter authors have extensive research experience.
Features:The introductory section on normal development is important to help readers get up to speed on the topic. The authors then take readers through epidemiological considerations of alcohol and nicotine use and include a discussion on socioeconomic status and the interplay in development. At the end of each chapter there is a useful listing of abbreviations. This is a very detailed and in-depth look at the topic and may be too technical for some readers. However, for the targeted audience, it is an excellent review.
Assessment:This excellent book will be very useful to many readers including pediatricians, toxicologists, substance abuse specialists, researchers, and many others.

Cuidate or Complete Book of Stretching

2009-02-14T20:44:00.000-08:00

Cuidate: Una Guia Completa y Ilustrada Para El Autocuidado Medico

Author: Donald M Vickery

Cuidate es la guia de salud mas vendida en el mundo y la unica que ayuda a reducir las visitas al medico.

Look this: Menschliche Dienstleistungen im Zeitgenössischen Amerika

Complete Book of Stretching

Author: Tony Lycholat

This guide explains the principles of safe stretching which improves fitness, health, posture and sports performance. This book details simple flexibility assessment, outlines sample programmes and provides progressive exercises for all parts of the body and explains PNF techniques. All the exercises are fully illustrated and the muscles and joints used in each stretch are explained. The book should be an aid to those who suffer from tension and back pain.

The Book of Skin or The Right to Die

2009-02-13T16:32:00.000-08:00

The Book of Skin

Author: Steven Connor

Skin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible. The Book of Skin explores the multiple functions of the skin in the cultures of the West. In this vividly illustrated book, Connor draws on evidence from a variety of sources, including literary and other forms of public and private writing (especially medical texts), as well as film, folklore, painting, photography, and popular song. Because of its newfound visibility, skin has never been at once so manifest and so in jeopardy as it is today. This dilemma becomes evident, in Connor's view, if we examine how skin is displayed and manipulated as a site of inscription. In order to trace our culture's anxious concerns with the materiality and mortality of skin, Connor's analysis ranges from the human body itself to photography, from Medieval leprosy, Renaissance flaying, and eternal syphilis to cosmetics, plastic surgery, and skin cancers.

Connor examines the chromatics of skin color and pigmentation, blushing, suntanning, paleness, darkening, tattooing, cutting, the Turin shroud, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man. He also offers engaging explanations for why particular colors are ascribed to feelings and conditions such as green for envy, purple for rage, and yellow for cowardice. Connor's insights into the obvious and yet unfamiliar terrain of the skin and its place in Western culture ameliorates the intensities and attenuations of touch in cultural history. The Book of Skin bears out James Joyce's claim that "modern man has an epidermis rather than a soul."

Books about: Comparative Planning Cultures or Argentina and the Fund

The Right to Die?: Caring Alternatives to Euthanasia

Author: Marvin Snider

Journalists have dubbed it the "Death with Dignity" movement but what does the Bible have to say about euthanasia or physicianassisted suicide? Mark Blocher exposes the philosophy behind euthanasia, tracing the movement's history from the legalization of abortion to the present debate. He presents alternatives and shows readers how they can help protect the sanctity of life.

Men Are Stupid and They Like Big Boobs or Understanding Skin Problems

2009-02-12T12:20:00.000-08:00

Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery

Author: Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers is uniquely qualified to talk about plastic surgery — because she's one of the few celebrities unafraid to admit to the world what she's "had done" to keep looking so great. Now, with no-holds-barred, she gives women straight-talking advice on better living through looking better.

Joan Rivers's abiding life philosophy is simple: in the appearance-centric society of the twenty-first century, beauty is key — especially where men are concerned. Men like pretty women. And so, getting something lifted, tightened, adjusted, or removed is as fundamental as wearing makeup or using hair conditioner. Now, for any woman considering her options, Joan Rivers takes the mystery out of cosmetic surgery. Informed by the country's top plastic surgeons, she takes listeners step-by-step through the entire process, from finding the right doctor to the bruising truth about recovery and the facts about cosmetic surgery's very real risks.

But don't worry — there's dish, too. Men Are Stupid...And They Like Big Boobs is rife with Hollywood gossip about who's done what and how often...and is filled with Rivers's personal anecdotes about life under the knife. Part comic musing, part bitch-fest, and part hands-on advice, this is a funny, wildly frank, and genuinely passionate argument for a woman's right to do whatever it takes to be beautiful, to feel better about herself, and be happy. Take it from the woman who enjoys having it all — done.

Understanding Skin Problems: Acne, Eczema, Psoriasis and Related Conditions (Understanding Illness & Health Series)

Author: Carl Walker

As suffers will know, any dermatological condition can have a devastating effect leading to feelings of isolation and depression.

Filling the gap between medical advice and lay knowledge, Understanding Skin Problems provides crucial information to help you understand the various aspects of your condition - psychological and social as well as medical - so that you can improve the quality of your life and learn to cope better with the problem.

Written in easy-to-understand language, it offers a positive, hopeful outlook and includes lists of organizations for further help.

Broad coverage relevant to a wide range of skin conditions
Written in a very accessible style
Lists of further help, organisations etc included
Linda Papadopoulos is a Reader in Psychology and a chartered counselling and health psychologist. She currently works as a course director at London Guildhall University. She has published extensively in the fields of medical and counselling psychology and has been invited to present her research at various international conferences. She has also appeared on a variety of television programmes such as 'Big Brother' as their expert psychologist.

Carl Walker is a Research Psychologist at London Guildhall University where he is currently finishing a PhD in psychodermatology. He comes from a biological background, having graduated in biology from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.

Tabla de calor as or Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine

2009-02-11T08:08:00.000-08:00

Tabla de calorнas

Author: Neil Stevens

Estas tablas ponen a disposiciуn del lector esta importante informaciуn, mostrando las calorнas y la aportaciуn de grasas, hidratos de carbono, proteнnas, colesterol, sodio y fibra de mбs de 1.500 alimentos diferentes, relacionados por orden alfabйtico para facilitar su consulta.

Go to: Fine English Cookery or Chafing Dish Possibilities

Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine

Author: Harvey Max Max Chochinov

This work complements the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine and The Handbook of Psychooncology. Topics include the role of psychiatry in terminal care, diagnosis and management of depression, suicide in the terminally ill, pain management, the nature of suffering in terminal illness, and psychotherapeutic interventions. The book also takes into consideration new directions for psychosocial palliative care research.

Part I: Psychiatric Complications of Terminal Illness

1. Hospice: A Psychiatric Perspective, Colin Murray Parkes, M.D.

2. Care and Management of the Patient at the End of Life, Edwin H. Cassem, M.D.

3. Diagnosis and Management of Depression in Palliative Care, Keith G. Wilson, Ph.D., Harvey Max Chochinov, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC, Barbara J. de Faye, M.A., William Breitbart, M.D.

4. Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Terminally Ill, Barry Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Suzanne Krivo, M.D., William Breitbart, M.D., Harvey Max Chochinov, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC

5. Anxiety in Palliative Care, David K. Payne, Ph.D., Mary Jane Massie, M.D.

6. Delirium in the Terminally Ill, William Breitbart, M.D., Kenneth Cohen, M.D.

7. Palliative Care in the Chronically Mentally Ill, David Goldenberg, M.D., Jimmie Holland, M.D., Sherry Schachter, R.N., M.A.

Part II: Symptom Management

8. Physical Symptom Management in the Terminally Ill. An Overview for Mental Health Professionals, Russell K. Portenoy, M.D.

9. Psychiatric Aspects of Pain Management in Patients with Advanced Cancer and AIDS, William Breitbart, M.D., David Payne, Ph.D.

10. Psychiatric Management of Eating Disorders in Palliative-Care Management of Cancer Patients, Lynn M. Kesko, M.D., Ph.D.

11. Psychiatric Aspects of Fatigue in the Terminally Ill, S. Abbey, M.D.

Part III: Psychotherapeutic Intervention and Palliative Care

12. Individual Psychotherapy for the Patient with Advanced Disease, Gary Rodin, M.D., Laurie a. Gillies, Ph.D.

13. Existential Psychotherapy in Palliative Care, James L. Spira, Ph.d., M.P.H.

14. The Supportive Relationship,The Psychodynamic Life Narrative, and the Dying Patient, Milton Viederman, M.D.

15. A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Symptom Management in Palliative Care: Augmenting Somatic Interventions, Dennis C. Turk, Ph.D., Caryn S. Feldman, Ph.D.

16. Group Psychotherapy and the Terminally Ill, David Speigel M.D.

Part IV: Pediatric Palliative Care

17. Psychiatric Care of the Terminally Ill Child, Margaret L. Stuber, M.D., Brenda Bursch, Ph.D.

18. Psychotherapy with the Dying Child, Barbara M. Sourkes, Ph.D.

Part V: Family and Staff Issues

19. Family Issues and Palliative Care, David K. Wellis, Ph.D.

20. Communication with Terminally Ill Patients and Their Relatives, Peter Maguire, M.D.

21. Burnout and Symptoms of Stress in Staff Working in Palliative Care, Mary L.S. Vachon, R.N., Ph.D.

22. Understanding and Managing Bereavement in Palliative Care, Sid Zisook, M.D.

Part VI: Ethical and Spiritual Issues

23. Ethical Issues in Palliative Care, Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.

24. Addressing the Needs of the Patient Who Requests PAS or Euthanasia, Margaret V. McDonald, M.S.W., Steven D. Passik, Ph.D., Nessa Coyle, R.N., M.S.

25. Spiritual Care of the Dying Patient, Michael Kearney, M.D., Balfour Mount, M.D.

26. The treatment of Suffering in Patients with Advanced Cancer, Nathan I. Cherny,MBBS, FRACP

Part VII: Research Issues

27. Quality Assurance and Audit in Palliative Care, Irene J. Higginson, Ph.D.

28. New Directives for Psychosocial Research in Palliative Medicine, Eduardo Bruera, M.D.

Index

Running on Ritalin or Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Counseling and Psychotherapy

2009-02-10T03:55:00.000-08:00

Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill

Author: Lawrence H Diller

In a book as provocative and newsworthy as Listening to Prozac and Driven to Distraction, a physician speaks out on America's epidemic level of diagnoses for attention deficit disorder, and on the drug that has become almost a symbol of our times: Ritalin.

In 1997 alone, nearly five million people in the United States were prescribed Ritalin--most of them young children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Use of this drug, which is a stimulant related to amphetamine, has increased by 700 percent since 1990. And this phenomenon appears to be uniquely American: 90 percent of the world's Ritalin is used here. Is this a cause for alarm--or simply the case of an effective treatment meeting a newly discovered need? Important medical advance--or drug of abuse, as some critics claim?

Lawrence Diller has written the definitive book about this crucial debate--evenhanded, wide-ranging, and intimate in its knowledge of families, schools, and the pressures of our speeded-up society. As a pediatrician and family therapist, he has evaluated hundreds of children, adolescents, and adults for ADD, and he offers crucial information and treatment options for anyone struggling with this problem.

Running on Ritalin also throws a spotlight on some of our most fundamental values and goals. What does Ritalin say about the old conundrums of nature vs. nurture, free will vs. responsibility? Is ADD a disability that entitles us to special treatment? If our best is not good enough, can we find motivation and success in a pill? Is there still a place for childhood in the performance-driven America of the late nineties?

Time Magazine

In the past 18 months a flurry of ADD and ADHD books have hit the shelves...Lawrence Diller's Running on Ritalin is the book most people are talking about.

Los Angeles Times

Anyone with doubts [about Ritalin] should read this thoughtful book by child psychiatrist Dr. Lawrence H. Diller.

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Counseling and Psychotherapy

Author: Roy Moodley

"If you are a student, professor, or practitioner of the 'talking cures' -- buy this book, read it, use it, and experience the difference it makes in your thoughts and actions." --Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D., D.H.C., University of Hawaii, Honolulu, for PsycCritiques (Contemporary Psychology), APA, November 15, 2005 issue

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy critically examines ethnic minority cultural and traditional healing in relation to counseling and psychotherapy. Authors Roy Moodley and William West highlight the challenges and changes in the field of multicultural counseling and psychotherapy by integrating current issues of traditional healing with contemporary practice. The book uniquely presents a range of accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing students, professional counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, researchers, and others who use multicultural counseling or transcultural psychotherapy as part of their professional practice.

Key Features:

Contributes to the wider debates about ethnic minority health care by focusing on how ethnic minority groups construct illness perceptions and the kinds of treatments they expect to solve health and mental health problems
Analyzes traditional healing of racial, ethnic, and religious groups living in the United States, Canada, and Britain to consider the diffusion of healing practices across cultural boundaries
Explores contemporary alternative healthcare movements such as paganism, New Age Spirituality and healing, transcendental meditation, and new religious movements to increase the knowledge and capacity of clinical expertise of students studying in this field

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students studying multicultural counseling or psychotherapy. The book is also a valuable resource for academics, researchers, psychotherapists, counselors, and other practitioners.

Heart Disease or Trauma Centered Group Psychotherapy for Women

2009-02-08T23:43:00.000-08:00

Heart Disease

Author: Jack Canfield

Endorsed and supported by the Hope Heart Institute!

This new series from Chicken Soup for the Soul - inspirational stories followed by positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients - is the perfect blend of emotional support and vital information about heart disease including:

Understanding your diagnosis
working with your doctor
blood pressure and cholesterol
the DASH diet
smart exercise
alternative treatments
surgery and other options
attitude and health
cardiac rehab
living better with heart disease than you ever have before

	Introduction: From the Heart	ix
	Drop-Dead Gorgeous	1
	With Every Beat of Your Heart
	Think about ... am I at risk for heart disease?
	The Angina Monologues	10
	Blood Pressure: Silent but Dangerous
	Think about ... questions to ask my doctor
	Life in the Fast-Food Lane	17
	Cholesterol: It's All in the Numbers
	Think about ... my cholesterol
	Ticked Off	25
	The Diabetes Connection
	The Appointment	32
	Two Opinions Can Be Better Than One
	Think about ... questions to ask about my diagnosis
	Kicked Off the Merry-Go-Round	40
	Lessen the Stress
	Think about ... how well I deal with stress
	Singing His Heart Out	48
	Get Off on the Right Foot ... and Then the Left
	Think about ... which exercise is right for me?
	Serious as a Heart Attack	57
	DASH-Your Heart-Healthy Eating Plan
	Tips on How to Make Heart-Healthier Meals
	Mission Possible: Healing One Heart from Baghdad	69
	What's My Alternative?
	Think about ... my complementary practices
	In a Heartbeat	78
	Classic Signs of Heart Attack
	Classic Signs of Stroke
	Take One Minute, Ask Three Simple Questions
	A Shocking Start	84
	Six Minutes to Save a Life
	Think about ... my emergency plan
	Thanks for the Miracle, Sis	91
	Think about ... living day to day
	Cradled in God's Hands	98
	Cardiac Rehab: One Way to Save Your Life
	Think about ... ways to prevent (another) heart attack
	A Damaged Heart Finds Love	108
	Planning for Major Health Events
	Dying Was Never an Option	114
	Resources	119

Look this: Motion Picture Mega Industry or Network and Netplay

Trauma-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Women: A Clinician's Manual

Author: Hadar Lubin

The awareness of psychological trauma has grown exponentially in the past decade and clinicians in many areas have increasingly found themselves confronted with the need to provide trauma-related services to clients. Still, there remains a serious lack of manuals that guide clinicians using group therapy to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trauma-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Women: A Clinician's Manual is the important, "how-to" resource that fills this void with a successful theory-based, field-tested model of group therapy for traumatized women. Concise and full of clinical examples, this helpful text includes a session-by-session guide for clinicians and a workbook for clients.

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Reviewer:Nicholas Greco IV, MS, BCETS, CATSM(College of Lake County)
Description:This wonderful book explains the tools and skills necessary to perform successful trauma-centered group psychotherapy with women. Despite the recent advances in treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the female group psychotherapy experience is an area in much need of further exploration, and this book provides the map.
Purpose:The focus is on providing clinicians with the authors' own 16-week method for conducting weekly outpatient group psychotherapy with women suffering from trauma. The authors present the theory, excellent case discussion, and appropriate evidence of success.
Audience:Clearly, mental health professionals working with trauma-exposed women will benefit the most, as this is not only a great teaching tool but also a clinical guide for immediate implementation into practice. Both authors clearly demonstrate their wealth of knowledge and experience.
Features:The highlight is the structure of the manual that walks readers through the 16 weeks of this therapeutic model. I particularly appreciated the discussion of therapists being guided by the three basic principles of immediacy, engagement, and emotionality. These three principles have applicability across the field of mental health and are just one great example of how beneficial this guide is both clinically and academically. The case examples are realistic; any therapeutic manual worth its weight has to have clear, concise, and meaningful vignettes. The authors know their material and bring the book and their therapeutic model to life with these cases. Astandout chapter is how to manage traumatic reenactments, as any clinician knows that discussing trauma is never easy for a patient. The book is more than mere explanation; it is a guide to helping the therapist bring together a group of women who may not normally have met if not for their shared conditions.
Assessment:If one word could sum this book up it would have to be outstanding! Clinicians need solid, usable models for treating PTSD, especially in women, and we now have one.

The Sonoma Diet or Fiber and Your Health

2009-02-07T19:31:00.000-08:00

The Sonoma Diet

Author: Connie Guttersen

Top 10 Sonoma Diet Power Foods for weight loss and health.

Portion sizes made easy with The Sonoma Diet Plate and Bowl guidelines.

Detailed meal plans for surefire weight loss success.

Smart Food Combinations that make each food even healthier.

The science behind the diet—learn why it works!

Mouthwatering recipes, rich in flavor and nutrition.

Bonus: Diet guide pullout to make following the diet a breeze when on the go.

Fiber and Your Health

Author: Jeanette Parsons Egan

Millions of Americans suffer from heart disease, are overweight, diabetic, or have gastrointestinal problems, and are trying to balance their diets. Here are 100 recipes to help them live healthier lives, complete with up-to-date nutritional information on fiver in foods.

About the Author:
Jeanette Parsons Egan is a registered dietitian and nutrition expert. She teaches heart-healthy cooking classes at the Tucson Heart Institute.

Identifying and Treating Blockages to Healing or Help My Child Is Struggling in School

2009-02-06T09:14:00.000-08:00

Identifying and Treating Blockages to Healing

Author: Beate Strittmatter

With chronic illnesses on the rise, many of which are resistant to therapy, attention is increasingly focused on new ways of understanding disease processes. Regions of minimal chronic stress are often neglected as potential causes of disease due to their lack of symptoms, when in fact they may be the actual blockage to the healing process. These blockages are known as focal disturbances. In many cases, where such foci were found and treated with ear acupuncture or neural therapy, chronic ailments that previously resisted conventional treatments subsided.

This book addresses the basic concepts and information about this revolutionary approach to healing:
• the definition of focal disturbances
• how to diagnose, locate, and treat foci
• the role of ear acupuncture in treating focal disturbances

Profit from the author's years of international teaching experience and learn the basics and application of this important diagnostic tool to expand your treatment and remove blockages to healing.

	Foreword
Pt. A	The Basics
	The Focus	5
	Potential Foci	15
	Test Procedures for Focal Disturbances	41
Pt. B	Practical Application
	Learning and Mastering Knowledge Level 1	54
	Focus Diagnosis by Means of Ear Reflex Zones	54
	Focus Therapy Via Ear Reflex Zones	77
	Learning and Mastering Knowledge Level 2
	Focus Diagnosis under Vascular Autonomic Signal Control	101
	Focus Therapy under Vascular Autonomic Signal Control	144
	VAS Method: Case Histories from My Practice	158
	Optimizing the Methods	166
	The Laser in Focus Diagnosis and Therapy	178
	Other Applications of the Vascular Autonomic Signal	196
	Other Applications of Ear Acupuncture	204
	Ear Acupuncture: Case Histories From My Practice	209
	Focus-Relevant Reflex Localizations on the Auricle	216
Pt. C	Training, Equipment, and Practical Aids
	Training	232
	Courses for Focus Therapists at the German Academy of Acupuncture and Auriculomedicine	233
	Training Institutions	236
	Supply Sources	237
	Market for Second-Hand Equipment	238
	Experienced Acupuncturists	239
	Patient Information Leaflets	240
	Index	253

Interesting book: Oltre la vendita del valore: Un processo dimostrato per evitare la presa del fornitore

Help! My Child Is Struggling in School

Author: Grant I Martin

The HELP! series provides highly practical, to-the-point advice for parenting and marriage problems identified as high felt needs from the Focus on the Family audience. The intent of the HELP! series is to offer quick, accessible, practical advice, an overview of the important elements of the topic, and realistic take aways for readers to immediately apply. Also includes additional resource referrals for where to get more help.

Renewed Each Day Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomy or Listening to Patients

2009-02-05T05:01:00.000-08:00

Renewed Each Day--Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Meditations Based on the Bible, Vol. 2

Author: Kerry M Olitzky

Using a seven day/weekly guide format, a recovering person and a spiritual leader who is reaching out to addicted people reюect on the traditional Jewish weekly Bible reading. They bring strong spiritual support for daily living and recovery from addictions of all kinds.

"Meets a vital need; it offers a chance for people turning from alcoholism and addiction to renew their spirits and draw upon the Jewish tradition to guide and enrich their lives." - Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, President, CLAL

Volume I (ISBN 1-879045-12-5)
Volume II (ISBN 1-879045-13-3)

Interesting book: Health Program Planning or Napoleon as a General

Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy

Author: Richard G Druss

In this gem of a book, master teacher and psychiatrist Richard G. Druss stresses a flexible and humane approach to psychotherapy. Using clinical anecdotes as a method of teaching, Druss presents some of his own early cases--failures as well as successes-and through these moving vignettes gives us fresh insights into both the therapeutic process and the healing relationship between therapist and patient. As he has to generations of supervisees, Druss describes the value and beauty of learning how to listen to patients. The chapters in this volume follow a logical and chronological sequence--from the initial establishment of rapport with a new patient to the realization of goals at the end of therapy. Along the way, Druss examines such topics as "Conflict, Personality, and Culture in Psychotherapy," "The Spiritual Life of Patients," and Patients Who Return to Psychotherapy After Termination." This book is written for psychiatry residents, medical students, and practitioners of clinical psychology, social work, nursing, and primary care medicine. This beautifully written volume, totally free of jargon and arcane terminology, would be of equal interest to any educated person who wishes to know more about modern dynamic psychotherapy.

"Dr. Richard Druss is one of psychiatry's most humane and eloquent teachers on the value and healing power of the psychotherapies. This accessible and inspiring book describes crucial aspects of the therapy process and the lives of people who are transformed by it. Its wisdom and insights deserve to be savored by a wide audience of those in the helping professions, students, and interested laypersons." - Kathryn Zerbe, MD, Jack Aron Professor ofPsychiatric Education and Women's Mental Health, the Menninger Clinic
"The thesis of Richard Druss' book is simple: that therapeutic effectiveness is directly dependent on the working alliance between the patient and clinician and that the alliance can only be accomplished by listening to patients. A simple assertion, but one increasingly overlooked in this era of one-hour evaluations, DSM-IV "formulations" and fifteen minute "med checks." Dr. Druss' method of teaching is by clinical anecdote and in doing so he documents his thesis. But he teaches more than listening skills and how they aid psychodynamic understanding. In his case histories he presents a role model for the good clinician: warm, empathic, flexible and thoughtful. He states that the book is directed at psychiatric residents, medical students, and trainees in clinical psychology, social work and nursing, but I think this book will be read with pleasure, and quite possibly profit, by the experienced clinician as well." - Paul H. Wender, MD, University of Utah School of Medicine
"The author epitomizes what a true teacher is. His credibility and knowledge are unquestionable, and his warm compassion for patients shines ever so brightly through his writing. The author guides readers in a logical and chronological sequence from the establishment of rapport to more complicated issues of psychotherapy such as conflict and transference. In an era where clinicians are pressured to be both efficient and provide quality care, the importance of listening may sometimes be neglected. This book is a back-to-basics approach in an easy-to-follow format, and the author reminds clinicians to listen and promote empathy, flexibility, and imagination in therapy. A book such as this is rare; it is one which I found personally difficult to put down, and one which I had to read from cover to cover. I was moved and inspired by the author and would wholeheartedly recommend this book to any clinician."--Doody's
"This excellent journey into modern dynamic psychotherapy emphasizes the various and sometimes overlooked facets of the working alliance between patient and therapist. ... Readers are guided in a logical and chronological sequence from the establishment of rapport to more complicated issues of psychotherapy such as conflict and transference. ... This book is a back-to-basics approach in an easy-to-follow format, and the author reminds clinicians to listen and promote empathy, flexibility, and imagination in therapy. A rare book; this reviewer found it difficult to put down. Readers will be moved and inspired by the author. Targeted toward psychiatry residents, medical students, and trainees in clinical psychology, social work, and nursing, this book is an exceptional piece of psychiatric work. The author epitomizes what a true teacher is. His credibility and knowledge are unquestionable, and his warm compassion for patients shines ever so brightly through his writing."--Choice

Nicholas Greco IV

This book is an excellent journey into modern dynamic psychotherapy in which the author emphasizes the various and sometimes overlooked facets of the working alliance between patient and therapist. The author's purpose is to demonstrate that the working alliance between patient and therapist is necessary to achieve therapeutic effectiveness. In turn, therapeutic effectiveness can only be achieved through listening to patients. The author guides the clinician into relearning the art of listening to patients and covers the basic tenets of warm, empathic psychotherapy. The author's objectives are undeniably achieved. Targeted toward psychiatry residents, medical students, and trainees in clinical psychology, social work, and nursing, this book is an exceptional piece of psychiatric work for any level clinician. The author epitomizes what a true teacher is. His credibility and knowledge are unquestionable, and his warm compassion for patients shines ever so brightly through his writing. The author guides readers in a logical and chronological sequence from the establishment of rapport to more complicated issues of psychotherapy such as conflict and transference. Highlights include the termination of psychotherapy and the knowledge and experience that come with supervision. Actual case histories are provided in each chapter to demonstrate the author's successes and failures in practicing psychotherapy. In an era where clinicians are pressured to be both efficient and provide quality care, the importance of listening may sometimes be neglected. This book is a back-to-basics approach in an easy-to-follow format, and the author reminds clinicians to listen and promote empathy,flexibility, and imagination in therapy. A book such as this is rare; it is one which I found personally difficult to put down, and one which I had to read from cover to cover. I was moved and inspired by the author and would wholeheartedly recommend this book to any clinician.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Nicholas Greco IV, M.S., BCETS, CATSM, CCRA (Abbott Laboratories)
Description: This book is an excellent journey into modern dynamic psychotherapy in which the author emphasizes the various and sometimes overlooked facets of the working alliance between patient and therapist.
Purpose: The author's purpose is to demonstrate that the working alliance between patient and therapist is necessary to achieve therapeutic effectiveness. In turn, therapeutic effectiveness can only be achieved through listening to patients. The author guides the clinician into relearning the art of listening to patients and covers the basic tenets of warm, empathic psychotherapy. The author's objectives are undeniably achieved.
Audience: Targeted toward psychiatry residents, medical students, and trainees in clinical psychology, social work, and nursing, this book is an exceptional piece of psychiatric work for any level clinician. The author epitomizes what a true teacher is. His credibility and knowledge are unquestionable, and his warm compassion for patients shines ever so brightly through his writing.
Features: The author guides readers in a logical and chronological sequence from the establishment of rapport to more complicated issues of psychotherapy such as conflict and transference. Highlights include the termination of psychotherapy and the knowledge and experience that come with supervision. Actual case histories are provided in each chapter to demonstrate the author's successes and failures in practicing psychotherapy.
Assessment: In an era where clinicians are pressured to be both efficient and provide quality care, the importance of listening may sometimes be neglected. This book is a back-to-basics approach in an easy-to-follow format, and the author reminds clinicians to listen and promote empathy, flexibility, and imagination in therapy. A book such as this is rare; it is one which I found personally difficult to put down, and one which I had to read from cover to cover. I was moved and inspired by the author and would wholeheartedly recommend this book to any clinician.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Low Salt Cooking or Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and Pain Free Labor and Delivery

2009-02-04T00:50:00.000-08:00

Low-Salt Cooking: Over 70 Recipe Provide Healthy and Tasty Solutions to Cooking without Salt

Author: Michelle Berriedale Johnson

This informative book not only has healthy and tasty low-salt recipes, but is packed with tips on avoiding salty foods, understanding nutritional labels, and using alternative flavorings to make sure you palate is stimulated.

	Introduction	6
	The Role of Salt in Good Health	8
	Why We Eat So Much Salt	10
	High-salt Manufactured Foods	12
	Reducing the Salt in Your Cooking	14
	Low-salt Cooking Methods	15
	Alternative Flavourings	16
	Menu Planning	20
	Soups and Starters	22
	Salads and Vegetable Accompaniments	36
	Main Meals	48
	Pasta, Pizza and Grains	66
	Breads and Baking	80
	Stocks and Basic Recipes	92
	Index	96

Book review: Fingame Online 30 or Taking Sides

Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and Pain-Free Labor and Delivery

Author: Winifred Conkling

Pregnancy is filled with many joys and much wonder. But this miraculous journey can also be accompanied by a good deal of fear and anxiety. Will my pregnancy be difficult? Will my labor be painful? Will I be a good mother?

While Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and Pain-Free Labor and Deliver will not be able to provide answers to all of the unknowns, this unique and innovative book can teach you how to lessen the common complaints of pregnancy and ease the pain of childbirth. Step-by-step, you will learn how to use hypnosis to induce a state of calm and comfort during any stage of the journey. Hypnosis is a natural form of anesthesia, providing the added bonus is that you may get to fully experience the joy of childbirth, without the use of an epidural or narcotics.

Discover:
- Are you a good candidate for hypnosis...will it work for you?
- Creative scripts for inducing a hypnotic state.
- How to put together a birthing team, including finding a qualified hypnotherapist.
- Tricks to treating morning sickness, heartburn, excessive weight gain, insomnia, leg cramps, and other discomforts of pregnancy
- When things don’t go as planned; what to do if anesthesia is necessary.

Isn’t it time you learned about all of your options? Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and Pain-Free Labor and Delivery arms you with what you need to know to make the best decision for you and your unborn baby.

Racing to a Cure or Teach Yourself Stop Smoking

2009-02-02T20:38:00.000-08:00

Racing to a Cure

Author: Neil Ruzic

In 1998 Neil Ruzic was diagnosed with mantle-cell lymphoma, the deadliest cancer of the lymph system. Unhappy with the success rates of standard chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Ruzic took control of his destiny and began to investigate the cutting-edge cures being developed in research laboratories. Racing to a Cure provides a scathing critique of the chemotherapy culture as well as of unscientific "alternative" therapies and endorses state-of-the-art, molecularly based technologies, making it an illuminating and necessary read for anyone interested in cancer research, especially patients and their families and physicians.

1	Into the pit	1
2	Watch and learn	12
3	The chemo culture	23
4	Life before cancer	38
5	Our war within	51
6	A half-billion for proof	63
7	The language of medicine	76
8	Cancer vaccines	88
9	Premature results	101
10	Co-stimulating T cells	110
11	Do they have to die?	125
12	Alternative magic	139
13	Allies in the quest	154
14	False alarm	169
15	Does prayer work?	184
16	Project indolence	195
17	Cure cancer in ten years	207
18	Think tanks	219
19	Transplants : risk vs. cure	232
20	Pathways to success	245
21	From India with results	254
22	Anti-angiogenesis	266
23	The mystery of splenectomy	282
24	The strep connection	294
25	Patient rage	307
26	The biotherapy revolution	321
27	Detour	332
28	Cure!	352
29	Waiting for Bexxar	364
30	The end of the race	372

Teach Yourself Stop Smoking

Author: Matthew Aldrich

Take the first step to breathing easier and improving your health

Written by a former smoker, now personal trainer and health guru, Teach Yourself Stop Smoking is a practical, no-nonsense guide for anyone who wants to commit to quitting.

This book demolishes all the rationalizations you may have for smoking--fear of gaining weight, increased stress, etc.--and replaces them with good reasons and reasonable strategies for kicking the habit forever. This guide arms you with:

Proven tips for getting into a quitting mindset
Sure-fire physical and mental techniques for quitting

Matthew Aldrich has been teaching and working withthin the health industry for over 15 years.

The Coachs Strength Training Playbook or Conscious Seeing

2009-02-01T16:26:00.000-08:00

The Coach's Strength Training Playbook

Author: Joe Kenn

Strength and conditioning specialist Joe Kenn draws upon the three strength disciplines; weightlifting, powerlifiting, and body building, as well as training principles of traditional periodization and high-intensity training, to define the Tier System of athletic-based strength training. The tier system promotes training athletes on a rotation of movements (total body, upper body, lower body) rather than training body parts. The result is an integrated, whole-body strength training program with greater real-world and sport-appropriate applicability.The book explores an overview of the system, and provides annual plan development, training cycles, and daily and weekly plans. Ideal for coaches and trainers of football, basketball, track & field, wrestling, gymnastics and any sport requiring maximum and explosive strength.

Interesting textbook: Direction de Construction

Conscious Seeing: Transforming Your Life Through Your Eyes

Author: Roberto Kaplan

Conscious Seeing asks readers to look beyond the clinical diagnosis of their eye problems and see symptoms as valuable clues to their true nature. By developing an awareness that how they see is a reflection of their deepest selves, readers can gain the skills to modify their perceptions.

Let Them Eat Prozac or Lessons from Joan

2009-01-31T12:14:00.000-08:00

Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression

Author: David Healy

Prozac. Paxil. Zoloft. Turn on your television and you are likely to see a commercial for one of the many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on the market. We hear a lot about them, but do we really understand how these drugs work and what risks are involved for anyone who uses them?

Let Them Eat Prozac explores the history of SSRIs—from their early development to their latest marketing campaigns—and the controversies that surround them. Initially, they seemed like wonder drugs for those with mild to moderate depression—patients take just one daily dose, and unlike the tranquilizers that were popular in the 1960s, they supposedly did not lead to addiction. When Prozac was released in the late 1980s, David Healy was among the psychiatrists who prescribed it. But he soon observed that some of these patients became agitated and even attempted suicide. Studies were soon published, citing numerous cases in which patients became anxious and reported increased suicidal thoughts while taking Prozac. Could the new wonder drug actually be making patients worse?

Healy draws on his own research and expertise to demonstrate the potential hazards associated with these drugs. He intersperses case histories with insider accounts of the research leading to the development and approval of SSRIs as a treatment for depression. Let Them Eat Prozac clearly demonstrates that the problems go much deeper than a disturbing side-effect of a particular drug. Current FDA regulations encourage drug companies to patent a specific compound and market it effectively to a large population on the basis of minimal effectiveness in a handful of trials.

The pharmaceutical industry would like us to believe that SSRIs can safely treat depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental problems. But as Let Them Eat Prozac reveals, this "cure" may be worse than the disease.

David Healy is a former secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and author of over 120 articles and 12 books, including The Antidepressant Era and The Creation of Psychopharmacology.

Library Journal

Recent Food & Drug Administration hearings have explored links between antidepressant use and suicide. Expert testimony on the safety of these drugs conflicts, and pharmaceutical companies have been accused of covering up evidence of serious side effects. In his timely new book, psychiatrist Healy (Univ. of Wales Coll. of Medicine, U.K.; The Antidepressant Era) chronicles these very issues at length, drawing on his extensive experience in antidepressant studies and involvement in legal actions against drug manufacturers. (He was fired from a position at the University of Toronto for his outspokenness.) In effect, Healy is continuing the conversation started by Peter D. Kramer (Listening to Prozac) and Peter Breggin (Talking Back to Prozac; The Anti-Depressant Fact Book), both of whom are psychiatrists concerned with the way antidepressants are being marketed and what the current love affair with mood-altering drugs means in our culture. Healy has the advantage of access to internal pharmaceutical industry documents and makes a strong case. Somewhat academic in tone, his book includes extensive notes to relevant case law as well as medical literature. Recommended for larger public libraries and special collections in public policy, medicine, and public health.-Eris Weaver, Redwood Health Lib., Petaluma, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Jonathan Cole
The author is an excellent historian who offers a gripping interpretation of the role of the pharmaco-industrial complex in the introduction of SSRIs. His recommendation for a funded agency that would carefully evaluate the benefits and harms of marketed drugs is a superb idea and much needed.
—Harvard Medical School

John Le Carrй
This very important book will demonstrate beyond your worst dreams that the commercial needs of Big Pharma are the natural-born enemy of independent scientific research.

Lessons from Joan: Living and Loving with Cancer, a Husband's Story

Author: Eric Kingson

In the thirty-two months following Joan's cancer diagnosis she and her family experienced a journey that changed their lives immeasurably. With unflinching honesty, Eric R. Kingson recounts the ensuing medical treatments, their hopes and fears, their advocacy, and everyday struggles. But at the heart of the book is Joan's warmth and courage. Her observations on life and death, more philosophical than clinical, are honest and abundant. Drawing on her wisdom, Kingson has written a powerful and enriching book. Unexpectedly, it proves to be not so much a memoir as a love story. Lessons from Joan is not intended as a "how-to" book, but within its pages readers will find lessons about how to deal with unexpected life-threatening illnesses, how to identify and assess treatment options, and how to communicate with health care providers and deal with managed care.

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

"[O]ffers far more than the usual memoir, however: its most valuable contribution lies in its lessons on how to navigate the medical system, how to obtain results in the face of obstacles, and how families can endure both diagnosis and treatment. This powerful story holds many lessons and much advice for any facing similar struggles, and is a high recommended pick."

for the the COLON CANCER ALLIANCE - SUZANNE LINDLEY

"For those living with or touched by a diagnosis of cancer, "Lessons from Joan" will be a comfort and a help. For anyone seeking understanding in the presence of the mystery of disease, this book will be a flowing river of perception. It will provide laughter, thought, tears, and above all hope. I recommend it wholeheartedly."

CEO, Hospice & Palliative Care Associates of Central New York - DALE JOHNSON

This "book is, by turns, a valentine to Joan, a thank-you note to friends and family, and a how-to manual for families encountering a bewildering health care system in the face of terminal disease. Kingson manages a deft balancing act, crafting a work that is philosophical at times but never dense, inspirational without being overly sentimental, and instructive while much more than merely technical. Lessons from Joan presents a set of thoughtful reflections about struggle, loss and grief in a family turned upside down by the unanticipated illness of a youthful and vibrant wife and mother."

What People Are Saying

Newsletter Of The Rosalynn Carter Institute Caregiver Program
"This courageous look into the day to day triumphs and tragedies of dealing with a life-threatening illness is a thought-provoking, helpful and hopeful book for caregivers, family members, professional caregivers, and students."
—RECOMENDED BOOK IN CARGIVING TIMES (January 2006)

Karen Davis
From the Foreword by Karen Davis, President and CEO of the Commonwealth Fund:
Joan's experience with the health care system has lessons for all of us. . . . It illustrates the importance of "the heart" in our health care system -- for our patients, family members, health care providers, and our culture.

Robert L. Kane
Robert L. Kane, M.D., University of Minnesota Chair in Long-term Care and Aging and author of It Shouldn't Be This Way: The Failure of Long-term Care:
Provides both inspiration and insight. . . . [Kingson offers] many useful ideas on how to deal with terminal cancer.

Niki Tsongas
Niki Tsongas, wife of the late Senator Paul Tsongas:
In the end, it is the dignity, and ultimately the great humanity with which Joan and her family faced her illness that comes through in this remarkable book and [which] enriches us all.

Sidney Winawer
Sidney Winawer, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, author of Healing Lessons:
Many of us will find ourselves in an unexpected crisis of illness. . . . Lessons from Joan will be extraordinarily helpful. [This book] is not only engaging and tender but also informative.

Micromiracles or Breaking the Headache Cycle

2009-01-30T08:02:00.000-08:00

Micromiracles: Discover the Healing Power of Enzymes

Author: Ellen W Cutler

The only definitive resource on enzyme therapy by the nation's leading expert, a pioneering medical doctor who has used enzymes to treat allergies, asthma, fatigue, chronic pain, and many other ailments-with astonishing success!

The scientific evidence continues to mount, pointing to enzyme deficiencies as the cause of a vast majority of health problems. In this important, groundbreaking book, Dr. Ellen Cutler-who has been prescribing enzymes to her patients, and taking them herself for more than 20 years-shows readers how to assess their bodies' unique enzyme needs and create totally personalized enzyme regimens.

Enzyme Power also explains how enzyme supplements:
- Reduce food cravings and promote significant weight loss
-·Sharpen memory and mental alertness
-·Strengthen the immune system to prevent and fight illness, from colds and flu to heart disease and cancer
- Offset the effects of stress and replenish energy stores
-·Heal the cellular damage that fuels the aging process

Enzyme Power promises to be the most complete, authoritative resource on enzyme therapy, which a growing number of health professionals identify as the next frontier in medicine and self-care.

Go to: Savoring Mexico or Soy Soy Soy

Breaking the Headache Cycle: Steps to Treating and Preventing Recurring Headaches

Author: Ian Livingston

Two headache specialists offer their innovative Headache Reduction Program, for treating and preventing recurring headaches

Twenty-eight million people in the United States suffer from chronic, recurrent, often disabling headaches-half of them forgoing medical attention in favor of analgesics that do nothing to prevent the next one. In Breaking the Headache Cycle , the authors-migraine sufferers themselves-present the integrated Headache Reduction Program (HARP) that they developed at the Princeton Headache Clinic.

Based on the central insights that the predisposition to headaches is a sign of an unusually sensitive nervous system and that drugs are only one component of the most successful treatment plans, this remarkable program instructs readers in a range of techniques, including:

- how to relieve the pain of migraines
- how to detect and ward off oncoming headaches
- how to prevent migraines from even threatening

The innovative solutions detailed in Breaking the Headache Cycle range from simple breathing exercises and dietary changes to support groups and the latest medications. In this thorough and accessible guide, the authors promise new relief for those already being treated for recurring headaches and for those who currently suffer in silence.

Library Journal

It is estimated that 28 million Americans experience chronic severe headaches that disrupt their lives daily. Over half are incorrectly diagnosed and thus do not receive appropriate treatment. At least 95 percent of migraine, tension, and cluster headache sufferers are viewed as having an enhanced, biologically based response to stress that is stronger than that of the general population. Livingstone and Novak, medical director and cofounder of Princeton University's Headache Reduction Program (HARP), respectively, believe this enhanced response to stress can be harnessed to recognize stressors in life as well as to adapt and change for overall headache reduction. Here, they outline the HARP program, an incorporation of prescription drugs (when necessary) and aspects of complementary medicine; nondrug methods (e.g., relaxation techniques, deep breathing, and yoga) can be used without attending the program. Consequently, the authors dedicate several pages to instructions for each method. Paul Drucko's Taking Control of Your Headache takes a more integrative approach, emphasizing the need for complete and thorough diagnosis, and offers more complete coverage of headache causes; it also includes a wider scope of nondrug therapies (e.g., behavioral therapy). Recommended with reservations for medium to large public and consumer libraries.-Janice Flahiff, Medical Coll. of Ohio Lib., Toledo Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Stage II Relationships or Emotionally Free

2009-01-29T03:50:00.000-08:00

Stage II Relationships: Love Beyond Addiction

Author: Earnest Larsen

Offers clear and practical techniques for couples and families who have faced the issue of addiction and are now striving to bring health and vitality to their relationships.

Interesting book: Walk Away the Pounds or Atkins for Life

Emotionally Free: A Prescription for Healing Body, Soul, and Spirit

Author: Grant Mullen

More and more individuals every year suffer the devastating effects of depression. In this forthright and compassionate study, Grant Mullen, a medical doctor, helps readers identify symptoms of depression and understand three viable paths of treatment—medication, deliverance, and inner healing.

Dr. Mullen explores the medical, spiritual, and inner healing aspects of this disabling and often misdiagnosed condition. From a sound scriptural foundation, he discusses physical causes of depression, exposes Satan's part in deceiving those who are suffering, and offers principles to help the reader learn to "reconnect" head and heart, find self-acceptance, and learn to trust our heavenly Father in a new and joyful way.

Healing by Design or Fitness Ball Drills

2009-01-27T23:39:00.000-08:00

Healing by Design

Author: Scott Hannen

Radically restore your body's health by tapping into its built-in healing mechanisms. Learn how your body works, how to take control of your healing, and how to maintain your God-given health like never before. This is good health made easy! Whether you have a chronic degenerative condition, ADHD, a neurological problem, or are dealing with trauma, childhood obesity, or any other type of health issue, Dr. Hannen demonstrates how your body can heal itself when proper balance is restored. Updated and expanded to include in-depth personal application, this revised edition arms you with the tools you need to make better health choices for yourself and your family. Get ready! Everything you once believed regarding health care is about to change.

Fitness Ball Drills: Get Fit on the Ball with Australia's Body Coach

Author: Paul Collins

Fitness Ball Drills is a user-friendly exercise guide for achieving a stronger, leaner and more flexible body. The Fitness Ball (or Swiss Ball) has been designed specifically for the demands of rigorous exercise. Today, it is one of the most utilized pieces of gym and fitness equipment used throughout the world to tone, stretch and strengthen the whole body. It is widely used by individuals involved in exercise, sports, personal training and rehabilitation, as well as Pilates, yoga and group exercise classes.

Body Coach Paul Collins provides step-by-step instruction to improve posture, balance, coordination, strength and flexibility. More than 50 exercises that can easily be carried out at home or in the gym are illustrated. These exercises are ideal for athletes and amateur fitness enthusiasts alike. Fitness Ball Drills also includes a series of fitness ball routines for the whole body with special attention given to the abdominal and lower back regions.

Introduction     5
About the Author     8
Fitness Ball Introduction     9
Sitting on the Ball     16
Abdominal Exercises     22
Lower Back, Hip and Leg Exercises     46
Chest and Arms     68
Balances     88
Strength Training     100
Functional Body Rotations     118
Stretching on the Ball     125
Developing a Fitness Ball Routine     131
General Fitness Ball     134
Beginner Level Abdominal Core     136
Intermediate Level Abdominal Core     137
Advanced Level Abdominal Core     138
Fitness Ball Index     140
Photo & Illustration Credits     143

Run Fast or ADD and Creativity

2009-01-26T19:27:00.000-08:00

Run Fast: How to Beat Your Best Time Every Time

Author: Hal Higdon

Train for Speed...Feel Great!

Are you looking for better race times, whether you run 5-Ks or marathons? Searching for that ultimate, exhilarating moment when you're running faster than ever before? Or do you just want to get healthy and have more fun when you run?

You can run faster, and this book will show you how. Much more than a training guide, this classic volume-- completely revised and updated for runners of every caliber-- spells out a complete program to help you increase your speed, improve your times, and motivate yourself to achieve your running goals. You'll see how to:

* Shave time off your Personal Record
* Make speedwork count-- and avoid the risk of associated pain and injuries
* Make the most of limited training time
* Build more muscle to boost your speed
* Achieve a smooth stride and an efficient, economical running form
* Listen to yourself and be your own best coach

You'll discover magic workouts that both improve your speed and make training fun. And, if you've taken an exercise break, you'll see how to get back in shape and back on track, with faster times than ever before.

Packed with stories and tips from coaches, record holders, and average runners alike, Run Fast is brimming with inspiration. Experience the thrill of better race times, the satisfaction of running strong, and the sheer joy that comes from running faster than ever before.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1:
Flying without Wings
The Thrill of Running Fast
Chapter 2:
First Base
"Legging Up" Gets You in Shape
Chapter 3
Slow Down to Speed Up
Speed Training without Speedwork
Chapter 4
Speed Endurance
Where Time Meets Intensity
Chapter 5
Juggling Workouts
Make the Most of Training Time
Chapter 6
Good Form
Smooth Out Your Stride
Chapter 7
Speedwork
Fine-Tune Your Training
Chapter 8
The Magic Workout
Interval Training Can Improve Your Speed
Chapter 9
Speed Play
Fartlek and Tempo Training
Chapter 10
Pure Speed
Improve Your Kick
Chapter 11
Dynamic Flexibility
Speed in Motion
Chapter 12
Hit the Hills
Climb Your Way to the Top
Chapter 13
Strength Does It
More Muscle Means More Speed
Chapter 14
The Polishing Touch
Be Your Own Best Coach
Chapter 15
Detraining and Retraining
The Best Way to Get Back in Shape
Chapter 16
Ready to Race
Test Your Ability to Run Fast
Epilogue
Index

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A.D.D. and Creativity: Tapping Your Inner Muse

Author: Lynn Weiss

Identify and free your creative abilities.

Good Doctors Guide to Colds and Flu or The CFIDS Fibromyalgia Toolkit

2009-01-25T15:15:00.000-08:00

Good Doctor's Guide to Colds and Flu

Author: Neil Schachter

The latest and most effective information on preventing and treating colds and flu

Under the weather? Eminent lung specialist Neil Schachter, M.D., arms you with the knowledge you need to boost immunity and avoid illness. And when colds, flu, and other respiratory infections do strike, you'll know exactly how to relieve uncomfortable symptoms like congestion and fever.

In this book you'll find:

Treatment plans for the most common respiratory infections, including colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis, and strep throat
The right way to use vitamin C and zinc to combat a cold
The important difference between a head cold and chest cold
The five best ways to quiet a cough
Three signs that indicate if it's a cold or flu
Three symptoms that signal it's time to call a doctor
Why humming five seconds a day can reduce risk of sinus problems
The surprising reason why women catch more colds
And much more

With Dr. Schachter's guidance, you'll stay one step ahead of colds and flu.

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The CFIDS/Fibromyalgia Toolkit: A Practical Self-Help Guide

Author: Bruce F Campbell

This book offers hope to the 4 million Americans coping with CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome) and fibromyalgia. Even though there is no cure for either illness, there are many things you can do to take charge of your condition and your life.

This manual for personal change offers a framework to help you understand your illness better, as well as many practical tools you can use to control symptoms and create a more stable life. The approach is based on the belief that you can change the effects of your illness and perhaps its course through your efforts.

Lipid Metabolism and Health or Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies

2009-01-24T11:02:00.000-08:00

Digital SLR Photography with Photoshop CS2 All-In-One For Dummies

Author: Robert J Moffatt

5 books in 1 -- your key to terrific digital photos

Your one-stop, full-color guide to Photoshop CS2 and your digital SLR

You've just bought a brand-new digital single lens reflex camera and Photoshop CS2. Congratulations! Now the question is, "How do I make great photos?" You're in luck! The first two minibooks cover everything you want to know about using your new camera to capture images. The last three explore the wonders of digital photography using Photoshop CS2.

Discover how to
* Set your camera for the right exposure
* Select the right lens for the job
* Choose the better format--JPEG or RAW
* Tweak exposure and white balance images in Photoshop
* Use layer masks in retouching and special color effects

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Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies

Author: Lakshmi C Mishra

Ayurveda may be the oldest form of health care in the world and is often referred to as the "Mother of All Healing." In Ayurveda, body, mind and consciousness work together in maintaining balance. Published studies have documented reductions in cardiovascular disease risk factors, including blood pressure and reaction to stress, in individuals who practice Ayurvedic methods. Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies is the first book to analyze and synthesize research supporting Ayurveda. It reviews the current scientific information on major Ayurvedic therapies, evaluates the research data and presents it in an easily understandable form for Western researchers and Ayurvedic practitioners.

Ch. 1	Ayurveda - A Potential Global Medical System	1
Ch. 2	Health Care and Disease Management	31
Ch. 3	Clinical Research Design: Limited Systematic Review of Five Diagnosis Categories	31
Ch. 4	Panchakarma Therapy in Ayurvedic Medicine	43
Ch. 5	Immunomodulation: Therapeutic Strategy Through Ayurveda	63
Ch. 6	Ayurvedic Bhasmas	83
Ch. 7	Diabetes Mellitus (Madhumeha)	101
Ch. 8	Ayurvedic Therapies for Thyroid Dysfunction	133
Ch. 9	Obesity (Medoroga) in Ayurveda	149
Ch. 10	Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, and Gout	167
Ch. 11	Ayurvedic Therapies of Sciatica (Gridhrasi)	185
Ch. 12	Allergic Reaction	203
Ch. 13	Bronchial Asthma	209
Ch. 14	Hepatic Disorders	231
Ch. 15	Antimutagenic Effect of Ayurvedic Therapies	255
Ch. 16	Benign Growths, Cysts, and Malignant Tumors	273
Ch. 17	Indigestion (Ajirna)	307
Ch. 18	Constipation (Vibandha)	323
Ch. 19	Hyperacidity (Amlapitta)	339
Ch. 20	Irritable Colon (Grahani)	355
Ch. 21	Diarrhea (Atisara) and Dysentery (Pravahika)	371
Ch. 22	Gastroduodenal Ulcers	393
Ch. 23	Alzheimer's Disease	411
Ch. 24	Epilepsy	427
Ch. 25	Psychiatric Disorders	439
Ch. 26	Parkinson's Disease (Kampa Vata)	453
Ch. 27	Male Reproductive Dysfunction	459
Ch. 28	Raktaja Krimis (Dermatophytes)	479
Ch. 29	Eye Diseases	491
Ch. 30	Ischemic Heart Disease	511
Ch. 31	Urolithiasis (Mutrashmari)	535
Ch. 32	Gynecological Diseases	551
App. 1	Ayurvedic Words and Their English Meanings	575
App. 2	Ayurvedic Herbs and Botanical Names	591
App. 3	List of Ayurvedic Scientific Journals	601
App. 4	Ayurvedic Product Manufacturers	603
	Index	607

Help for Eating Disorders or Physical Activity Interventions in Children and Adolescents

2009-01-23T06:49:00.000-08:00

Help for Eating Disorders: A Parent's Guide to Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Author: Debra K Katzman

Straightforward solutions to difficult problems.

Most teenagers have a friend who has been affected by an eating disorder. Such disorders affect almost 20% of teenage girls in North America at some point in their development.

Magazines and movies constantly stress a thin body image as the defining force for popularity. The message teenagers get is that thin is the only route to popularity and happiness.

Through the Eating Disorder Program, Drs. Katzman and Pinhas, at The Hospital for Sick Children, have developed a program that helps young people and their parents deal with the problems of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia.

First, the book shows parents how to identify an eating disorder and when to become concerned about it.

Second, there is vital information for parents on how to become informed users of the health care system and how to collaborate in their child's treatment.

Third, practical support for parents, family members and coaches enables them to participate in the recovery of a child or adolescent with an eating disorder.

Worksheets, diaries and first-person case studies assists parents and caregivers to help youth overcome an eating disorder.

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Reviewer: Amer Smajkic, MD(Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book describes diagnosis and treatment of, and recovery from, eating disorders. It offers a basic understanding of eating disorders, specifics on how they affect children and adolescents, how to recognize if they need help, how to perceive the assessment and treatment of children with eating disorders, and what to expect from recovery and treatment.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a detailed book that organizes clinical knowledge and personal experience about all the major areas of eating disorders. The book is organized into three parts including diagnosis, treatment, and family and community roles in recovery and prevention.
Audience: The targeted audiences are mainly parents and families, but professionals whose daily life involves working with children and adolescents with eating disorders could also benefit.
Features: The book outlines description, myths, misconceptions, risk factors, causes, how to identify and how to recognize complications related to eating disorders. It describes care and treatment, focusing on treatment resources in the community, getting assessment, choosing a treatment strategy, learning to eat again, coping with relapses, and making the transition from adolescent to adult. Information about focusing on roles of family and community in recovery and prevention of eating disorders detail how to help yourself and your child, how to look for resources in social networks, how to educate professionals working with your child, and what to expect from recovery are included. The text is strengthened with tables, handyexplanations, tips, and valuable cases with two personal testimonials written by a parent and by a young person with anorexia. References are up to date.
Assessment: This is a good functional book targeting parents, but also useful to professionals and clinicians. It is written in clear and structured manner. The book does highlight all the important issues in the area of eating disorders.

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Physical Activity Interventions in Children and Adolescents

Author: Dianne S Ward

With modern conveniences and technology always beckoning, today's children are less active and more obese than ever—which leads to an ever-increasing need for more effective interventions to help them become more active. Physical Activity Interventions in Children and Adolescents addresses this problem by helping professionals in schools, health departments, recreation centers, state agencies, and not-for-profit organizations design, implement, and evaluate interventions to promote and increase physical activity among children and adolescents.

Part of the Physical Activity Intervention Series, Physical Activity Interventions in Children and Adolescents provides information on current levels of youth physical activity and presents a basic understanding of the issues associated with it. The book offers a clear and reader-friendly overview of theories of behavior change that have been used in developing physical activity interventions in a variety of settings and methods for program evaluation. Specific recommendations for physical activity from various professional and health organizations are included as well. The book also provides

descriptive epidemiology of youth physical activity that helps identify the changes in activity as children age;
insights into the potential role of the family and the community in providing physical activity opportunities for youth;
guidance for the development of collaborative relationships among agencies and organizations to promote physical activity in the community; and
a review of available instruments for measuring physical activity in youth populations, including self-report instruments and step counters.

Practical application of the information covered in Physical Activity Interventions in Children and Adolescents is demonstrated through real-world interventions that have been implemented in various settings. The programs were selected based on their demonstrated effectiveness, potential for success, or unique features. Strengths and weaknesses of each intervention are highlighted. In addition to the presentation of existing programs, guidelines for the development of new programs are presented. Sample worksheets serve as valuable tools in evaluating and designing interventions in areas where proven programs are not yet available.

The text follows a three-part progression. Part I provides an orientation to activity in young people, describing how to change behavior and introducing the settings in which such behavior change programs might be developed. In part II, documented interventions are examined for programs in schools, community organizations, and home and health care settings. Part III explores intervention design, assisting those who want to design their own interventions for specific populations. Descriptions of program evaluation, including useful measurement instruments, are detailed as well.

The result is a book that professionals can use for learning about physical activity and the role it plays in the lives of youth. It will guide readers in designing successful interventions that can change physical activity behavior for the children and adolescents with whom they work.

Angry Gut or Conception Pregnancy and Birth

2009-01-22T02:38:00.000-08:00

Angry Gut: Coping with Colitis and Crohn's Disease

Author: W Grant Thompson

The New England Journal of Medicine lauds Dr. W. Grant Thompson as "a gifted teacher and clinician with a talent for clear exposition." In the spirit of the highly acclaimed Gut Reactions, Dr. Thompson shares his expertise on how to cope with two widespread and debilitating diseases - colitis and Crohn's disease. These two chronic, nonfatal yet devastating ailments typically strike the young and may develop into a lifetime burden. Most patients are traumatized by their diagnosis and become frustrated and depressed by the recurring nature of these illnesses. As a result, caring and open communication between patient and doctor is essential. Perhaps more so than a physician in any other specialty, a gastroenterologist must be in tune with the mind and body of his patient. Dr. Thompson, an international expert and chief of a hospital gastroenterology unit, epitomizes this valuable quality and bestows the fruit of his knowledge and compassion on the reader. In addition to highlighting the significant similarities and differences of these two syndromes and stressing the importance of a correct diagnosis, Dr. Thompson broaches more sensitive topics that seem to be ignored by the medical profession. He explores the unique psychosocial and sexual concerns, as well as the effects of pregnancy on those women who suffer from these conditions. His gift for writing and warm, caring style make the daily struggles of these illnesses seem easier to bear. One of the worst consequences of these stubborn ailments is the accompanying reduction in the quality of life. Dr. Thompson addresses common worries about body image due to illness or surgery, loss of sexual drive or ability to perform, pain andsuffering, possible effects of medication, and concern over the ominous relationship between ulcerative colitis and cancer. In accessible and supportive prose, Dr. Thompson examines the pros and cons of all possible treatments including drug therapy, nutrition, and surgery. He outlines

Library Journal

While rarely fatal, inflammatory bowel diseases, or IBD (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), are chronic illnesses that can radically alter a person's life. In this book, Thompson, author of Gut Reac tions (Plenum, 1989), offers a wonderful resource for people trying to understand and cope with IBD. Describing how IBD can disrupt the normal digestive tract functions, he explores surgical and medical therapy options. Thompson's strength is his acknowledgment of the psychological and lifestyle issues a patient must face, issues rarely addressed by physicians. But though his book will be readily welcomed by those with some background knowledge in IBD, at times it may be difficult for some readers. As introductory texts, two works offered by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (formerly the National Foundation for Ileitis & Colitis) may be better choices: People Not Patients (NFIC, 1985) and The Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Fact Book (Scribner, 1983). Nevertheless, Thompson's book is an excellent addition to consumer health collections.-- KellyJo Houtz Parish, Harrison Memorial Hosp., Bremerton, Wash.

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A popular monograph on these nonfatal, devastating diseases by a medical doctor and lucid writer (Gut Reaction, Irritable Gut). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Conception, Pregnancy and Birth: The Childbirth Bible for Today's Parents

Author: Miriam Stoppard

Widely accepted as the definitive guide to pregnancy and childbirth, Dr. Miriam Stoppard's Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth has sold well over a million copies since it was first published. This new edition has not only been given a completely new look with stunning new photography but it has also been updated and re-written with 20-25 percent new material. New information will cover the latest developments in pregnancy and birth, from up-to-date research on how your stress levels can affect your unborn baby to new developments in delivering your baby.

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Despite the overall professional tone of this revised edition, Stoppard's background as a popular U.K. broadcast personality and writer comes through in an advice-columnist style that some readers will find charming. She warns parents, for example, against bestowing the name Phoebe, which can be difficult to spell, and cautions single parents about the "rather intense" relationships they will form with their babies. Of course, all of the pregnancy basics are covered as well, from conception through birth, including current information on obstetrics, infertility, and premature baby care. Although edited for the U.S. consumer, the text remains geared toward the U.K. experience. Frequent references to midwife teams, the norm in England, may confuse American readers, and Stoppard makes no mention of doulas, assistants during and after childbirth, who are increasingly popular in the United States. This well-produced book, chock-full of good information and beautiful pictures, is a worthy choice for larger public libraries that carry a wide selection of contemporary works on the childbearing year. Libraries with fewer selections may want to consider purchasing books that are likely to have broader appeal, e.g., Joel M. Evans's The Whole Pregnancy Handbook.-Noemie Maxwell Vassilakis, King Cty. Lib. Syst., WA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Introduction     8
Preparing for pregnancy     14
Fit for parenthood     16
Miriam's casebook: The importance of folic acid     20
What is a gene?     22
Genetic counseling     26
Conceiving a baby     28
The man's role     30
Fertilization     32
Having problems?     34
Seeking advice     36
Male infertility     38
Male tests     40
Female infertility     42
Female tests     44
Treatments for female infertility     46
ART (assisted reproduction technology)     48
The typical pattern of an IVF treatment     50
Advanced ART     52
Using donors     54
Miriam's casebook: Infertility     56
You and your developing baby     58
Pregnant!     60
Your rights     64
First trimester     66
Second trimester     68
Third trimester     70
First six weeks     72
Up to ten weeks     74
Up to 14 weeks     76
Up to 18 weeks     78
Up to 22 weeks     80
Up to 26 weeks     82
Up to 30 weeks     84
Up to 34 weeks     86
Up to 40 weeks     88
Preparing for fatherhood     90
Becoming a dad     92
The expectant father     94
Dads at the birth     96
Getting to know your new baby     100
The birth of your choice     104
The choices for childbirth     106
Childbirth philosophers     112
Birthing centers     114
Hospital birth     116
Professional attendants     120
Birth plan     122
Childbirth classes     124
Food and eating in pregnancy     126
Food in pregnancy     128
Miriam's casebook: The vegetarian mother     136
Miriam's casebook: The diabetic mother     140
A healthy pregnancy     142
Stay active for a fit pregnancy     144
Massage for relaxation     152
Emotional changes     154
Body care     158
Avoiding problems     160
What to wear     162
A working pregnancy     164
Miriam's casebook: Choosing single parenthood     166
Avoiding hazards     168
Your prenatal care     172
Prenatal care     174
Ultrasound scan     180
Miriam's casebook: Twins     182
Special tests     184
Miriam's casebook: Testing for abnormalities     188
Caring for your unborn baby     190
In touch with your baby     192
Fetal problems     196
Fetal surgery     200
Miriam's casebook: Rhesusnegative mother     202
Complaints in pregnancy     204
Common complaints     206
Miriam's casebook: Mother with MS     214
Emergencies in pregnancy     216
Medical emergencies     218
Miriam's casebook: After a miscarriage     220
Miriam's casebook: A mother with preeclampsia     226
A sensual pregnancy     228
Your relationship     230
Sensual massage     232
Making love     234
Sexual problems     236
Getting ready for your baby     238
Preparing for your baby     240
Choosing equipment     242
Your baby's clothes     244
Breast or bottle?     246
Choosing a name     248
Preparing siblings for a new baby     252
Arranging for help     254
Miriam's casebook: A working pregnancy     256
The late stages of pregnancy     258
Are you overdue?     260
Managing your labor     262
Getting ready for the birthing center     264
Going to the hospital     266
Comfort aids for labor     268
Pre-labor and labor     270
The first stage     272
Hospital procedures     274
Partner's role in labor     276
First stage positions     278
Pain relief     280
The second stage: delivery     284
Giving birth     286
Partner's role at the birth     288
The third stage     290
Baby's first hours     292
Special deliveries     294
Special labors     296
Induction of labor     300
Miriam's casebook: An induced birth     302
Sudden birth     304
Complications at delivery     306
Cesarean section     308
Miriam's casebook: An emergency cesarean      310
If a baby dies     312
Getting to know your newborn baby     314
Your new baby     316
What your new baby can do     320
Your hospital stay     322
Holding and handling     324
Beginning to breast-feed     326
Breast-feeding your baby     328
Bottle-feeding     332
Giving the bottle     334
Choosing diapers     336
Changing a diaper     338
Washing your baby     340
Newborn health     342
Special care baby     344
Special care unit     346
Miriam's casebook: Premature baby     348
Adjusting to parenthood     350
The first weeks     352
Postpartum health     354
Your changing emotions     360
Miriam's casebook: The depressed mother     362
Making love again     364
Changes to your lifestyle     366
Miriam's casebook: First-time dad     368
Useful addresses     370
Index     371
Acknowledgments     376

Turning Suffering Inside Out or Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations

2009-01-20T22:26:00.000-08:00

Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach for Living with Physical and Emotional Pain

Author: Darlene Cohen

Darlene Cohen discovered the secret to finding happiness in the midst of debilitating pain. She shares her knowledge in her popular workshops and now in this book. Cohen, who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for eighteen years, was hobbling painfully to her local Zen center one day, when she made a discovery that changed her life: if she focused on the foot that was in the air rather than the one that was hitting the pavement, her stamina increased enormously. It was the beginning of a completely different approach to the crippling pain that had beset her for so long. As she demonstrates here, this approach can be expanded to all types of pain: physical, psychological, and spiritual. Cohen—a certified massage and movement therapist and Zen teacher—proposes a radically liberating alternative to the usual desperate search for pain relief: paradoxically, she says, release from suffering lies in paying closer attention to it. When we keep pain at bay, we keep pleasure at bay, too. The two are interdependent, and our ability to experience each is totally dependent on our understanding of the other. "Enrich your life exponentially," Cohen advises. If your pain is one of the ten things you are aware of, then it constitutes a tenth of your total awareness. Expand your awareness to a hundred things, however, and your pain is only a hundredth of your awareness. With stories, strategies, exercises, and an awareness born of long Zen practice, Cohen shows us how to tap into that enrichment—and how we can lead a satisfying and even joyful life in the very midst of pain. This book was published in hardcover under the title Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain.

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

Author: Philip J Flores

Be more effective in group therapy with addicted clients

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

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

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

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

What People Are Saying

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

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

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

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

Celebrity Skin or Ancient Way to Keep Fit

2009-01-18T12:20:00.000-08:00

Celebrity Skin: Tattoos,Brands,and Body Adornments of the Stars

Author: Jim Gerard

What did Johnny Depp do with his "Winona Forever" tattoo after she dumped him? What is the ritual surrounding the Dixie Chicks and the little birdies on their feet? How many times does Angelina Jolie have "Billy Bob" tattooed on her body and where? Celebrity Skin has the answers and much more in this ultimate photo collection of the tattoos and body art of celebrities—from Drew Barrymore, and Sean Connery to Dennis Rodman, the Backstreet Boys, and Eminem. With over 100 pages of full-color photographs, Celebrity Skin gets the inside story (and inside look) at the beauty marks of the beautiful people.

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Ancient Way to Keep Fit

Author: Zong Wu

Chi gung is a 3,000-year-old physical discipline that practitioners consider to be more essential to health than cardiovascular exercise. The ancient system, called the "internal martial arts," emphasizes improving the life force flow, chi, by opening the body's energy centers. These simple exercises derive their power from repetition. They are illustrated in more than 300 watercolors based on ancient Chinese scrolls and cave paintings.

Bald Truth or Moving Beyond Depression

2009-01-18T01:09:00.000-08:00

Bald Truth: The First Complete Guide to Preventing and Treating Hair Loss

Author: Spencer David Kobren

With the introduction of Propecia™ the drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of male pattern baldness, and Rogaine™ 5%, regrowth of regular or "terminal" hair—not peach fuzz—is finally a reality. Yet thousands of products in the $7 billion hair-loss treatment and restoration industry claim their effectiveness too. Now in The Bald Truth, consumer advocate Spencer David Kobren offers the antidote to decades of hair-raising hype. In this comprehensive, authoritative book, Kobren examines the largely unregulated baldness treatment industry and tells how, after years of research, he successfully treated his own hair loss—and how you can too.

IN THE BALD TRUTH YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:

* the latest in hair restoration—including a thorough review of the breakthrough drugs Propecia and Rogaine 5%, and how they work

* how to keep from getting scalped by botched surgical procedures

* how nutrition can supercharge treatment—the diet that helps hair grow

* the power of herbal treatments

* hair systems—what they are and where to find the good ones

Exploring case histories, the latest scientific studies, and new treatments being developed, The Bald Truth proves that male pattern baldness can be combated—and helps you make an educated decision about the best alternatives available today.

Interesting book: Personalmanagement

Moving Beyond Depression: A Whole-Person Approach to Healing

Author: Gregory L Jantz

You Can Hope Again

You may feel as if you will never find a way out of the darkness of depression. Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D. believes that because people’s paths into depression are uniquely their own, their paths out of depression will be unique as well. In Moving Beyond Depression, he takes an insightful and honest look at the emotional, environmental, relational, physical, and spiritual causes of this disease. Here you will find practical help that will lead you to true freedom.

Publishers Weekly

"There is no one answer for depression and no single path to recovery," writes Jantz, a psychologist. Because depression can arise from a myriad of factors-physical, relational, financial, environmental, hormonal or spiritual-it doesn't make sense to treat it with a one-size-fits-all system, he insists. Jantz weighs the pros and cons of counseling and medication, and is sharply critical of the recent trend to dispense with counseling in favor of "a pharmaceutical solution." He advocates a whole-person approach to overcoming depression, a program that is tailored to the patient's individual needs and circumstances. While medication is one avenue, it should be used cautiously. (This is a theme throughout the book; Jantz spends a section outlining how numerous medications for physical illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes can foster depression as an unintended side effect.) The book includes a twelve-week "personal recovery plan" with practical suggestions and notes on keeping a journal. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Hooponopono or Sunrise Tai Chi

2009-01-17T15:57:00.000-08:00

Ho'oponopono: Contemporary Uses of a Hawaiian Problem Solving Process

Author: E Victoria Shook

H'oponopono, a traditional Hawaiian family problem-solving process, is experiencing a current revival. Found to be a valid and useful method of resolving family and group conflict by both Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians, it has recently been adapted and successfully used in both old and new ways. This book demonstrates how eight individuals applied this ancient practice to situations ranging from social work with Hawaiian families to drug abuse treatment programs and wilderness courses. Background information on the hisotryand context of the practice and a review of related cultural and mental health issues set the focus. In Ho'oponopono, E. Victoria Shook has provided us with a rare example of a non-Western cultural practice being used successfully in a Western culture and has opened the door for consideration of alternative models of cultural exchange.

Book review: The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages or Making Sense of Wine

Sunrise Tai Chi: Awaken, Heal and Strengthen Your Mind, Body and Spirit

Author: Ramel Rones

Each day, millions of people worldwide practice Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan), which has been known for centuries to promote deep relaxation and excellent health, to prevent injuries and illnesses, and to improve martial skills. Tai Chi has steadily become a popular form of mind/body exercise as more and more people in the west discover the rich rewards of living in a holistic way. Tai Chi is a journey through the mind, the body, and the spirit, that can be practiced by everyone. Increasingly, you can see people practicing in the park - moving slowly in a meditative state, or even perfecting their martial arts skills. But what is Tai Chi really? This book clearly introduces the history and underlying principles of Tai Chi Chuan from a modern and unique perspective. For the beginner, this program is a comprehensive introduction to authentic Tai Chi, allowing you to fine-tune your mind/body skills and create balance among them. For the intermediate and advanced, it includes important instructions and refinements, helping you expand your knowledge of the internal arts. In the end, you will understand and experience the ultimate goal of Tai Chi: the harmonizing of the three forces - human, earth, and heaven. * Develop symmetry and balance between strength and flexibility * Loosen and strengthen muscles, tendons, and ligaments * Improve circulation of blood and Qi energy * Learn how to increase bone density * Massage internal organs with gentle movement * Boost your immune system to help heal chronic conditions, including arthritis, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and cancer * Improve your quality of life and daily physical performance * Tap into the abundant energy of the universe * Learn andimprove your martial arts skills

The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Peak Performance or The Paranoids Pocket Guide to Mental Illnesses You Can Just Feel Coming On

2009-01-17T03:46:00.000-08:00

The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Peak Performance

Author: Helen OConnor

Written by the world's leading authorities on the glycemic index (GI), The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Peak Performance recommends what to eat to boost athletic performance, enhance stamina, and prevent fatigue. It presents success stories profiling athletes and others who have improved their performance by eating low—and high—GI foods at the appropriate times. It also answers the questions asked most frequently by athletes and others about the GI and includes a complete table with the GI, glycemic load, and carbohydrate values of more than 800 foods and drinks. Other subjects include energy charging with carbohydrate, eating for competing, refueling hints, and menu plans. Filled with fun, easy, and practical suggestions, it is ideal for weekend warriors, serious athletes, and everyone who wants to perform at their maximum.

	Preface	ix
1	How This Book Can Help You	1
2	Is Your Diet Fit for Peak Performance?	3
3	Sports Nutrition in a Nutshell	7
4	Energy-Charge Your Body with Carbohydrata	17
5	Which Carbohydrate Foods Are Best?	21
6	Understanding the Glycemic Index	26
7	What's Your Activity Level?	34
8	Using the Glycemic Index to Boost Sports Performance	38
9	The Pre-Competition Meal	44
10	During an Event	49
11	Recovery: The Case for High-GI Foods	53
12	The Importance of Weight Control	57
13	Case Study #1: Jim	65
14	Case Study #2: Analise	70
15	Case Study #3: Ian	76
16	Case Study #4: John	84
17	Your Questions Answered	89
18	Let's Talk Glycemic Load	93
19	A to Z GI Values	97
20	Low to High GI Values	115
	Glycemic Index Testing	133
	For More Information	134
	Acknowledgments	135
	About the Authors	136

Book about: The Spirit of Democracy or Sick

The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Illnesses You Can Just Feel Coming On

Author: Dennis DiClaudio

Hot on the heels of the wildly successful The Hypochondriac’s Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have comes The Paranoid’s Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On, Dennis DiClaudio’s hilarious look at fifty disturbingly familiar maladies you just know are buried deep in your psyche. This inspired new collection profiles the most nerve-wracking, harebrained, loopy, life-threatening and totally out-there mental disorders you could imagine—and some you could never imagine.

With complete descriptions of the symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and treatment for psychosis, this book could convince even the most rational readers that something—or someone—is out to get them. From the slightly odd Stendhal Syndrome (the fear of artwork) to the mentally debilitating Athazagagoraphobia (the feeling that you’ve forgotten something important) and the downright bizarre Windigo Psychosis (the belief that you are a wild and ravenous monster), The Paranoid’s Pocket Guide to Mental Illnesses You Can Just Feel Coming On is a fascinating compendium of psychological illnesses for all of us to fret and agonize over.

Natural Answers for Womens Health Questions or How to Protect Your Children on the Internet

2009-01-16T18:35:00.000-08:00

Natural Answers for Women's Health Questions

Author: D Lindsey Berkson

One-Stop Problem Solving...Naturally

With the increased popularity of natural remedies, more and more women are looking for clear, authoritative information on how to use these applications for specific health problems. What will help severe allergies? How do the major hormonal events in a woman's life -- from puberty to post-menopause -- affect symptoms and treatments? What's the real story on hormone-replacement therapies? Do birth-control pills increase the risk of breast cancer or not?

In this one-stop reference, D. Lindsey Berkson provides clear explanations and natural solutions. Organized in a straightforward A-Z format and covering more than 200 health conditions with advice focused entirely on women's distinctive needs, entries include discussions of:

anorexia • arthritis • cancer
heart disease • hormone-replacement therapy • insomnia
lupus • menopause • pregnancy
STDs • stress • thyroid problems

Each entry provides an explanation of the condition, lists common and uncommon symptoms, notes likely causes, and includes a section of uniquely female concerns highlighting the role of hormones. Sensible health-promoting strategies are spelled out: which foods to eat, which foods to avoid, which dietary supplements to take, and which exercises to do, as well as how meditation and visualization can help. Each section includes complementary medicine tests to discuss with your doctor.

Library Journal

A nutritionist, chiropractor, and women's health advocate, Berkson (Healthy Digestion the Natural Way) is a "DES daughter" i.e., her mother was administered the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol early in pregnancy. Having been exposed to such a powerful chemical at a crucial stage in gestation, she has faced hormonal problems and gynecological procedures and is unable to bear children. Those medical issues led Berkson to dedicate herself to understanding women's health problems and finding practical, drug-free solutions. Her latest book is firmly grounded in both her experience and her expertise and offers clear guidance to more than 200 health conditions that concern women (e.g., anorexia, cellulite, and menopause), particularly those that affect women differently from men; special attention is paid to issues concerning women's hormones. Each entry includes an explanation, a section of female concerns, supplements to take, exercises, and a list of common and uncommon symptoms and causes. The treatment suggestions are primarily nutritional and natural. Berkson emphasizes that her recommendations should be followed only with a physician's supervision, and she recognizes the utility of medications and medical procedures. Recommended for consumer health and large health sciences collections as a potential tool for empowering women to take some measure of control over their own health. Linda M.G. Katz, MCP Hahnemann Univ., Philadelphia Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

How to Protect Your Children on the Internet: A Road Map for Parents and Teachers

Author: Gregory S Smith

The Internet has transformed the way people research, shop, conduct business, and communicate. But the Internet and technologies that enable online interaction and access to a variety of content can be a perilous place for minors 8 to 18. The dangers are real, and parents and teachers today are confronted with many threats they simply do not understand. This book shares the risks of the Internet by detailing recent, real-world tragedies and revealing some of the secrets of online activities. It provides a pragmatic approach to help parents and teachers protect children against the threats of going online.

Parents and teachers are often ill-equipped to deal with the variety of devices and applications such as email, instant messaging, browsing, blogs, cell phones, and personal digital assistant devices (PDAs) that can facilitate the dangers lurking online. How to Protect Your Children on the Internet offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which youth use such technologies and exposes the risks they represent. At the same time, it provides a roadmap that will enable parents and teachers to become more engaged in children's online activities, arming them with techniques and tips to help protect their children. Smith underscores his arguments through chilling, real-life stories, revealing approaches people are using to deceive and to conceal their activities online. Filled with practical advice and recommendations, his book is indispensable to anyone who uses the Internet and related technologies, and especially to those charged with keeping children safe.

Suzanne Somers Slim and Sexy Forever or Bounce Your Body Beautiful

2009-01-16T07:23:00.000-08:00

Suzanne Somers' Slim and Sexy Forever: The Hormone Solution for Permanent Weight Loss and Optimal Living

Author: Suzanne Somers

Who says you can’t sizzle in the second half of life?

At last, a solution! In Slim and Sexy Forever, Suzanne Somers outlines a program speci?cally designed to address the needs of women and men who want to lose weight and replace the lust for life that naturally wanes with age. In this “baby boomer’s recipe for the fountain of youth,” Suzanne shows you how to:

• melt away the unwanted pounds

• reinvigorate your sex drive

• capture youthful vitality

• develop a more positive outlook on life

• sharpen memory

• eliminate hot flashes

• achieve optimum health from the inside out

In her runaway New York Times bestseller The Sexy Years, Suzanne changed the way we look at our health and hormones, showing how replacing hormones lost in the aging process with natural bioidentical hormones can eliminate symptoms associated with aging.

Now, in Slim and Sexy Forever, Suzanne combines her cutting-edge information on natural hormone replacement with her successful weight loss program, Somersize, for a one-two punch that is the only proven solution to the problems associated with aging. Working with innovative doctors, Suzanne has created a program that alleviates symptoms such as mood swings, sleepless nights, hot flashes, and diminished sex drive that are so common as we get older. Simultaneously, her phenomenally successful Somersize program shows you how to beat a stalling metabolism and stay lean and trim while eating remarkably delicious food. With millions of people losing weight on the program, it is a proven formula forsuccess.

Suzanne makes clear in this fascinating new book that if your hormones are out of balance, you will not be able to lose weight. Weight loss must be approached with a twofold strategy as you get older: balance your hormones the bioidentical way and eat correctly. One doesn’t work without the other.

In Slim and Sexy Forever you’ll also learn:

• The truth about carbs: Depriving yourself of too many carbs will lead to hormonal imbalance and weight gain. Eat the right carbs to lose weight!

• Plateau-busting tips: Suzanne explains why you hit plateaus and exactly how to push past them to achieve your goal weight.

• The connection between adrenals and weight gain: If you blow out your adrenals trying to be Superwoman, you are going to gain weight and feel fatigued. Find out how to prevent that from happening.

And, as always, Suzanne makes losing weight easy with more than 100 delicious new recipes, including Crab Bisque with Sweet Corn and Crab Relish, Somersize Tex-Mex Chicken Drumettes and Meatballs, Peppered Pork Chops with Fried Sage Leaves, Warm Chocolate Soufflé Cakes, and Wild Berry Crostada. These are Suzanne’s best recipes yet!

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Bounce Your Body Beautiful: Six Weeks to a Sexier, Firmer Body

Author: Liz Ann Applegat

Join the Hottest Trend in Fitness
Would you like a firmer, sexier body in just 6 weeks? Who wouldn't! With this book, you'll learn how to use the fitness ball for amazing results in only 30 minutes a day. Exercise balls are not only fun, they're also fast becoming the hottest trend in fitness, but few people know how to use them beyond basic abdominal crunches and back stretches. In Bounce Your Body Beautiful, athlete and nutrition and fitness expert Liz Applegate shows you how anyone can exercise with a fitness ball. You'll learn easy-to-master exercises to firm your belly, butt, thighs, and every inch of your body. In just 6 weeks, you'll:
·Tone and tighten your muscles
·Feel stronger, look more radiant
·Strengthen and flatten your abdomen
·Improve your balance and posture
·And increase your coordination
You'll also learn foolproof motivational secrets to sticking with the program for life. Bounce Your Body Beautiful offers tips and menus—including a no-deprivation "dessert diet." By following Liz Applegate's proven program, you'll see great results—fast! So bounce on board this fun, safe, and effective total body workout program that can be done in the comfort of your own home!

Plant A Geranium In Your Cranium or The Structure House Weight Loss Plan

2009-01-15T21:11:00.000-08:00

Plant A Geranium In Your Cranium

Author: Barbara Johnson

Best-selling humorist Barbara Johnson is back - and getting back to her roots - with a candid look at life and discovering joy in the midst of trials, including her own unexpected battle with cancer. Using excerpts from inspiring articles and extraordinary letters from her mailbag, Johnson presents one big package of humor, comfort, and encouragement that her beloved audiences have come to expect.

New interesting book: Animal Vegetable Miracle or Transforming Depression

The Structure House Weight Loss Plan: Achieve Your Ideal Weight Through a New Relationship with Food

Author: Gerard J Musant

REDEFINE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD -- AND REACH YOUR IDEAL WEIGHT!

Obesity expert Dr. Gerard Musante and his residential weight loss center, Structure House, have helped more than thirty thousand people lose weight. A stay at Structure House costs thousands of dollars. Now Dr. Musante's innovative ideas and effective treatment methods are yours for the price of this book.

IT'S NOT FOOD THAT MAKES YOU FAT -- IT'S YOUR EATING BEHAVIOR.

During his thirty years of practice, Dr. Musante has shown that it is your relationship with food that determines your ability to reach your ideal weight. His system targets behaviors resulting from habit, boredom, or stress that lead to unstructured eating -- eating for nonnutritional reasons -- and presents concrete methods for designing new, structured eating patterns. You'll learn to isolate your unhealthy eating, recognize and neutralize the food triggers that cause your unstructured eating, and stop using food to satisfy needs other than hunger. Dr. Musante's method gets to the root of these behaviors by completely reconstructing your daily experience with food and therefore the choices you make about what to eat.

The Structure House Weight Loss Plan presents Dr. Musante's Structured Eating system. You will learn to eat nutritious food in appropriate portions three times a day -- the food that you need to meet your nutritional requirements and to reach and maintain the level of weight you desire. The Structured Eating program is presented in three sections.

The first section, "Get Structured," guides you through making the changes that willincrease success, including understanding your eating behaviors that emerge from habit, boredom, and stress; learning how the organization of your refrigerator and cabinets can lead to weight loss or weight gain; and analyzing the attitudes toward food of the people who surround you at work and at home.

In the second section, "Be Structured," you learn about food choices; meal planning, including grocery shopping and food preparation; and identifying the right kinds of exercise that will enhance your success.

In the final section, "Stay Structured," Dr. Musante shares all the secrets of lifestyle change that will help you take and, more important, keep the weight off. The strategies are both large and small, simple and profound, immediate and long lasting. Using the Structure House approach, you'll be in control of food -- not controlled by it. You'll gain power by taking responsibility -- and then you can take credit for your successes.

Florence Scarinci - Library Journal

Clinical psychologist Musante bases his Structure House program on the idea that it is a person's relationship with food that causes weight gain (as when one eats to relieve boredom or stress). Unlike diets forbidding certain foods, his plan denies dieters nothing. Instead, its mainstays include such time-honored principles as eating three properly proportioned meals a day composed of foods from all the major food groups and exercising. Participants plan their meals in advance (they may count calories or use an exchange system), shop accordingly, and record what they eat and--if applicable--their reasons for deviating from the plan. Suggestions for avoiding the pitfalls of dining out or entertaining as well as sample recipes for home preparation are included. Easily accessible to the layperson and full of sensible advice, this is recommended for public and academic nutrition collections.

Introduction     ix
Get Structured: Understand and Prepare for the Structure House Weight Loss Plan
The Structure House Program     3
Assess Your Health and Medical Issues     14
Get Ready for Structure     25
Be Structured: Implement the Behavioral Principles of the Structure House Weight Loss Plan
Be Structured: Structured Eating and the Structure House Diary     51
Be Structured at Home: Eating Well and Losing Weight in Your Own Kitchen     82
Be Structured at the Supermarket: Eating Well and Losing Weight by Shopping Wisely     111
Understand the Importance of Exercise     133
Stay Structured: Maintain the Structure House Weight Loss Plan
Stay Structured Away from Home: Eating Well and Losing Weight in Restaurants and While on the Road     165
Maintain the Structured Mind-set: More Tools for the Structure House Toolbox     191
Explore Lifestyle Change     218
Conclusion: Take the Journey     264
Appendices
Understanding Your Body Mass Index     275
Understanding Metabolism     278
Sample Exchange Lists     281
A Structure House Menu Sampler     288
Notes     299
Acknowledgments     305
Index     309

The Healing Path of Yoga or Yoga in Your School

2009-01-15T11:55:00.000-08:00

The Healing Path of Yoga: Time-Honored Wisdom and Scientifically Proven Methods That Alleviate Stress, Open Your Heart, and Enrich Your Life

Author: Nischala Joy Devi

Stress is now considered the foremost contributor to poor health and a major factor in causing heart disease, cancer, and a myriad of chronic and acute diseases. This book will make yoga a fundamental part of your quest for wellness and well-being, whether you are a novice or a current pactitioner.

Nischala Joy Devi, a pioneer in the field of alternative healing and a renowned yoga expert, has spent years helping people realize the healthful and stress-controlling benefits of yoga. In 1982 she developed yoga-based retreats for Dr. Michael Lerner's now famous Commonweal Cancer Help Program. That same year Dr. Dean Ornish asked her to create a program of yoga practices for patients suffering from heart disease. Yoga's contribution to the success of both programs has been astounding.

Devi shares her years of experience working with the healthful benefits of yoga, teaching visualizations, breathwork, and meditation, as well as providing the classic steps and illustrated instructions for yoga's physical poses. The Healing Path of Yoga uses timeless Indian-based yoga techniques and philosophy, along with Devi's lifestyle-altering regimen, to create one extraordinary program with the power to rejuvenate and heal. The Healing Path of Yoga presents the key to:

preventing disease and stress in healthy people
aiding in recovery from heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses
physical conditioning and weight loss
deep, healing relaxation techniques
heightened overall wellness of body, mind, and spirit

Yoga Journal - Phil Catalfo

Devi's devotion to the wellness of her clients and readers is evident on every page, as is her devout vision of life as an inescapably spiritual pursuit.

New interesting textbook: Ein Kurzes Öffentliches Sprechen-Handbuch

Yoga in Your School: Exercises for Classroom, Gym, and Playground

Author: Teressa Asencia

Dozens of simple, yoga-based exercises tailored for daily classroom use fill this educator's resource. Each featured posture or breathing technique can be practiced in as few as three minutes, so that they can be inserted into the regular school day as needed or combined to create longer sequences for physical education classes, playgrounds, athletic/recreation centers, camps, and dance schools. The simple movement exercises develop concentration, improve motor skills, and boost strength, flexibility, and balance as they enhance relationships and inspire a joyful and effective learning process. Additionally, breathing exercises expand lung capacity and increase endurance as they energize and harmonize body and mind. By taking a few moments to stop between activities to lead students in these breathing and stretching exercises, teachers can inspire a calm, harmonious, and centered classroom.

Ministry of Education newsletter (British Columbia)

Recommended book.

Giant Book of Kitchen Counter Cures or Nutricion Y Salud

2009-01-14T23:43:00.000-08:00

Giant Book of Kitchen Counter Cures: 117 Foods that Fight Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Memory Loss, Bad Digestion and Hundreds of Other Health Problems!

Author: Karen Cicero

The healing powers of favorite foods are leveraged in the recipes and cooking tips in this guide to using food to alleviate serious diseases and common ailments. Fighting colon cancer with cheese, preventing heart disease with green beans and chocolate, and curing urinary tract infections with blueberries are examples of the preventative measures and homemade cures that will help readers slash medical expenses and minimize doctor visits. Shopping advice and menu recommendations are provided that offer healthy, nutritional meals designed for sufferers of specific diseases.

Author Biography: Karen Cicero is the nutrition director of Child Magazine. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Colleen Pierre, M.S., R.D. is a nutritionist and syndicated columnist. She lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

New interesting textbook: The Georgetown Ladies Social Club or The Illustrated Guide to Forensics

Nutricion Y Salud (Nutrition and Health): Principios Practicos Para Una Vida Saludable

Author: Josi Caruci

Lograr una salud completa requiere dedicacion, conocimiento de como mantener el cuerpo en condiciones fisicas optimas y una comprension de los principios basicos sobre la salud y el acondicionamiento. Los doctores Jose y Nelly Caruci exponen en su libro Nutricion y salud, la importancia de conservar el cuerpo en una buena condicion fisica y de como crear buenos habitos que le ayuden a lograr una salud optima.

Diabetes and Hypoglycemia or Beyond Brawn

2009-01-14T13:32:00.000-08:00

Diabetes and Hypoglycemia: Your Natural Guide to Healing with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Exercise, and Other Natural Methods

Author: Michael T Murray ND

Frequent headaches, fatigue, irritability, and depression may be symptoms of a sugar imbalance—diabetes or hypoglycemia. Conventional treatments often focus only on specific symptoms; this book takes a whole-body approach relying on natural, healthful methods.

New interesting textbook: Disordered Eating among Athletes or 30 Day Low Carb Diet Solution

Beyond Brawn: The Insider's Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle & Might

Author: Stuart McRobert

Covers topics such as designing a personal training program, maximizing strength potential, setting up a home gym, and avoiding injuries.

Pilates Perfect or More Chicken Soup and Other Folk Remedies

2009-01-14T02:20:00.000-08:00

Pilates Perfect: The Complete Guide to Pilates Exercise at Home

Author: Dianne Daniels

Improve your posture, increase your flexibility, flatten your abs, and boost your energy with Pilates Perfect--The complete guide to Pilates exercise at home.

Fitness professional and Pilates instructor Dianne Daniels has combined two cutting-edge exercise methods, Pilates and Feldenkrais, to create a revolutionary workout program that produces real results for people of all fitness levels--from Pilates veterans to those who thought they’d never be able to do a Pilates routine--in just three workouts a week.

With Pilates Perfect you will:
• Develop a stronger core
• Increase your energy levelsBuild longer, leaner muscles
• Stand taller with better posture
• Improve your flexibility

Pilates Perfect is for everyone! These exercises that can be done at home--with little or no need to purchase equipment. With its "Power It Up" or "Power It Down" options, every exercise can be customized to your current fitness level. Everyone from beginners to serious exercisers will find a workout that’s just right.

More Chicken Soup and Other Folk Remedies

Author: Joan Wilen

Is there a way to soothe dry eyes without eye drops?
Can you relieve stress by using clothespins on your fingers?
Is there a simple exercise to ease carpal tunnel pain?
Can raisins soaked in gin relieve arthritis pain?

The answer is yes! All those remedies and more are at your fingertips, including an all-new chapter on the seven super foods most essential to your health and well-being. Everyone who loved the Wilen Sisters' first book will want to have this sequel in their home. That is, if you want a healthier heart; need to boost your immune system; care to lose weight, stop smoking, become more attractive, and improve your sex life!

Joan Wilen and Lydia Wilen will have you using the kitchen as your pharmacy; the fridge as your medicine cabinet; and the supermarket, greengrocer, and health food store as your dispensaries.

Publishers Weekly

Picking up where they left off with Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies, the Wilens have included in this book some of the more esoteric healing substances to be found at health-food stores and herb farms, even furriers and sand pits. (They write, for example, that yucca is good for arthritis and flaxseed for constipation.) A wide range of common and not-so-common ailments are addressed, including asthma and back pain, body odor and gallbladder disorders, hair, weight and sleep problems. The authors' style is folksy, and they emphasize that they are merely reporting on practices, not endorsing them. All in all, this makes for an intriguing collectionand the worst thing the remedies will do is nothing. (November)

Yoga for Pregnancy Birth and Beyond or Hildegard of Bingens Medicine

2009-01-13T17:09:00.000-08:00

Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

Author: Francoise Barbira Freedman

With step-by-step photos of classic yoga postures especially adapted for each trimester, this book demonstrates how the regular practice of yoga provides many physical and emotional benefits that can enhance the whole experience of parenting. Featuring a unique section of special yoga and relaxation exercises to do with or without the baby up to 16 weeks after birth, Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond is the only book that identifies the real benefits of yoga for both mother and baby throughout pregnancy and beyond.

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Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine

Author: Wighard Strehlow

HOLISTIC HEALTH

“Hildegard’s knowledge can help Western herbal medicine return itself to an equal level of sophistication with the Eastern systems that are becoming popular today. Hildegard’s medicine, therefore, has a special import today for this regeneration of our own, older, natural-healing tradition.”
--David Frawley, O.M.D, co-author, with Dr. Vasant Lad, of Yoga of Herbs

Hildegard of Bingen, a major twelfth-century mystic and prophet, began having divinely inspired visions at the age of six. These visions continued throughout her life, and were the source of highly honored information on healing through a multidimensional approach to the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Widely accepted by physicians and religious healers of her time, Hildegard’s work was lost over the centuries, and has only recently been reborn through the work of the authors of this book.

Hildegard of Bingen’s Medicine is a groundbreaking contribution to medicine and healing. It contains translations of Hildegard text which reflect the high point of medieval, alchemical, and healing science. In addition, these translations are commented upon by authors who have worked clinically with Hildegard’s wisdom for thirty years. Many will find this book to contain profound, long lost spiritual teachings. Hildegard’s deep understanding of nature--trees, herbs, and animals--inspires a new vision of balance and planetary attunement.

DR. GOTTFRIED HERTZKA is a medical doctor in Germany, and author of the bestselling book on Hildegard medicine, So heilt Gott. He has worked clinically with Hildegard’stheories for thirty years. DR. WIGHARD STREHLOW was a research chemist in the pharmaceutical industry in West Germany, and now works with Dr. Hertzka in the Hildegard Practice at Konstanz, West Germany.

Dr. Wighard Strehlow is a noted scholar of Hildegard of Bingen who promotes her nutrition methods, medical treatments, and body-soul connection worldwide. Formerly a research chemist in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Strehlow directs and practices at the Hildegard Center in Allensbach on Lake Constance in southern Germany.

Dr. Gottfried Hertzka is a medical doctor in Germany, and author of the bestselling book on Hildegard medicine, So heilt Gott. He has worked clinically with Hildegard’s theories for thirty years.

Complete Book of Jumps or Adult Bipolar Disorders

2009-01-13T04:56:00.000-08:00

Complete Book of Jumps

Author: Ed Jacoby

Maximize your jumping potential with Complete Book of Jumps! Coaches Ed Jacoby and Bob Fraley draw on their combined 60 years of coaching experience to help long jumpers, triple jumpers, high jumpers, and pole vaulters achieve new personal records. They break down each event into key phases - from approach to landing - to teach proper jumping technique and to show jumpers how to avoid common technical flaws. They also provide a strength and development program specifically for jumpers and 16 event-specific workouts that fine-tune skills. Use the practical, proven techniques in Complete Book of Jumps to go higher and farther than the competition.

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Adult Bipolar Disorders: Understanding Your Diagnosis and Getting Help

Author: Mitzi Waltz

Bipolar disorders are changes in the brain and nervous system that cause severe mood swings, from the deepest suicidal depression to the most elevated euphoria. Approximately 2 million adults in the US have a bipolar disorder, according to the latest figures from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). Worldwide prevalence hovers around 1 percent. Left untreated, bipolar disorders can plunge a person into absolute hell. Suicide is a possible outcome, as are school failure, limited job prospects, legal difficulties, and hospitalization. Families and communities pay a heavy toll when this disorder is not recognized and treated. Many traditional treatments, investigational medications, and complementary therapies can address symptoms and improve the lives of people with bipolar disorders. In some cases, the results are spectacular. Adult Bipolar Disorders: Understanding Your Diagnosis and Getting Help covers the range of topics that people need to know about in order to help themselves or a loved one:

Describes the range of bipolar disorders

Explains how to get a diagnosis, including descriptions of all diagnostic tests and checklists used by professionals

Dispels myths and misconceptions about this very misunderstood disease

Describes all medications, therapy, and other interventions, such as improving sleep patterns, preventing seasonal mood swings, diet, and supplements

Explores family life with bipolar disorders

Suggests ways to cope with diagnosis and treatment, including advice on support systems, insurance, and employment

Lists extensive resources

Author Mitzi Waltz, an advocate for adults and children with neurological disorders, hasincluded the stories of dozens of people with bipolar disorders.

Booknews

This book describes the range of bipolar disorders, considers their impact on family life, and offers advice on treatment, support, insurance, and employment. It also explains diagnoses, describes diagnostic tests, and provides details on therapy, medication, and other interventions. Extensive resources are listed, including advocacy and support groups. Waltz is affiliated with the University of Sunderland's Autism Research Unit. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Heft on Wheels or The Zen Path Through Depression

2009-01-12T19:45:00.000-08:00

Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing A 180

Author: Mike Magnuson

Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time.

Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described lummox with a bicycle. In the space of three months, he lost seventy-five pounds, quit smoking, stopped drinking, and morphed from the big guy at the back of the pack into a lean, mean cycling machine. Today, Mike is a 175-pound athlete competing in some of the most difficult one-day racing events in America. This irreverent and inspiring memoir charts every hilarious detail of his transformation, from the horrors of skin-tight XXL biking shorts to the miseries of nicotine withdrawal.

Heft on Wheels is an unforgettable book about getting from one place to another, in more ways than one.

Publishers Weekly

Lance Armstrong has shown the world what tremendous athleticism it takes to be a champion cyclist. Now Magnuson weighs in on the sport, from the point of view of a regular guy. The author of Lummox: The Evolution of a Man is a 255-pound, pack-a-day 40-year-old who's desperate to get his life back into shape. And he chooses the challenge of cycling to achieve that, largely because of its total lack of mercy. "I needed the crap beaten out of me," Magnuson explains. So he launches into his own journey, one where he succeeds in spades, drops pounds and quits smoking to become a true road warrior. It's a compelling premise, made all too real by the cover image of a mostly nude, overweight man on a bike. Magnuson approaches the book with that kind of humor, and a rapid pace that mirrors the sport he's fallen in love with. The downfall is that the colloquial fun often drifts into silly superficiality (on reading Samuel Beckett: "I'm like totally wow, blown away, this stuff rocks!"). And although Magnuson, a university creative writing professor, occasionally tries to inject a bit of intellectual heft, dropping in Kafka and Camus references alongside his racing stories, it just never works as a thrilling narrative. This life makeover is an admirable achievement, but doesn't make for great reading. (On sale June 15) Forecast: Cross-promotions with local bike groups nationwide might stir up interest. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Throughout his adult life, Magnuson (creative writing, Southwestern Illinois Univ.) has used bicycling as a way to deal with his drinking problems. In his compelling memoir, he recounts how, at 250-some pounds, he joined a biking club and over the course of a year became consumed with cycling, training three times a week and ditching his chips-and-beer diet for a healthier lifestyle. His twin obsessions clearly demonstrate the addictive personality of many substance abusers, which pushes them to do things to the extreme. While recuperating from a cycling accident, Magnuson finally realizes a fuller life is one in which exercise, eating, family, and work are in balance; he concludes what all long-term recovering addicts know: "No one in recovery ever recovers. That's why they call it in recovery, meaning it's ongoing, it's not over yet, there is no end game to recover." Highly recommended for both recovery and fitness collections in public and consumer health libraries. Howard Fuller, Stanford Health Lib., Palo Alto, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Book about: Short and Sweet or Cooks Companion

The Zen Path Through Depression

Author: Philip Martin

Drawing on his own struggle, Philip Martin reveals another path people can travel to get through depression – one that not only eases the pain, but mends the spirit. Extremely accessible to people with little or no Zen experience as well as to longtime students of Buddhism,The Zen Path Through Depression shows how the insights and exercises of Zen offer relief for those suffering from depression.This groundbreaking guide shows how to cope and heal, and even how to see the experience as an opportunity for spiritual growth and learning. Leading readers step-by-step through a recovery process that uses walking meditation and other meditative ways of enhancing awareness, koans, and other Zen teachings, Martin offers true help and spiritual guidance on the path to healing and contentment.

What People Are Saying

Harold H. Bloomfield
"Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression."

Essence of Tai Chi Chuan or Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana

2009-01-12T08:32:00.000-08:00

Essence of T'ai Chi Ch'uan: The Literary Tradition

Author: Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo

A handbook of the classical Chinese literature on which the art of t'ai chi is based. First English translation of the classic texts of T'ai Chi Ch'uan. This is required reading for practitioners of every style.

New interesting book: Alfred Portale Simple Pleasures or Out of This Kitchen

Deleites De LA Cocina Mexicana: Healthy Mexican American Cooking

Author: Maria Luisa Urdaneta

Mexican food, Tex-Mex, Southwestern cuisine—call it what you will, the foods that originated in Mexico have become everyone's favorites. Yet as we dig into nachos and enchiladas, many people worry about the fats and calories that traditional Mexican food contains.

Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana proves that Mexican cooking can be both delicious and healthy. In this bilingual cookbook, Maria Luisa Urdaneta and Daryl F. Kanter provide over 200 recipes for some of the most popular Mexican dishes-guacamole, frijoles, Spanish rice, chiles rellenos, chile con carne, chalupas, tacos, enchiladas, fajitas, menudo, tamales, and flan-to name only a few. Without sacrificing a bit of flavor, the authors have modified the recipes to increase complex carbohydrates and total dietary fiber, while decreasing saturated and total fats. These modifications make the recipes suitable for people with diabetes-and all those who want to reduce the fats and calories in their diet. Each recipe also includes a nutritional analysis of calories, fats, sodium, etc., and American Diabetic Association exchange rates.

Because diabetes is a growing problem in the Mexican-American community, Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana is vital for all those who need to manage their diet without giving up the foods they love. Let it be your one-stop guide to cooking and eating guilt-free Mexican food.

What People Are Saying

Melissa Bardsley
Melissa Bardsley, M.S., R.D. Nutritionist

Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana is wonderful! It shows that a traditional Mexican or Mexican-American diet can be very sound nutritionally.

Customizing the Body or No More Digestive Problems

2009-01-11T22:20:00.000-08:00

Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing

Author: Clinton R Sanders

Originally published in 1989, this ground-breaking ethnographic exploration of tattooing-and the art world surrounding it-covers the history, anthropology and sociology of body modification practices; the occupational experience of the tattooist; the process and social consequences of becoming a tattooed person; and the prospects of "serious" tattooing becoming an accepted art form. This updated edition offers a new preface by the author and a new chapter focusing on the changes that have occurred in the tattoo world and the scholarly literature that focuses on it.

About the Author:
Clinton R. Sanders is a Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Connecticut

About the Author:
D. Angus Vail is Associate Professor of Sociology at Willamette University in Salem, OR. He is also co-editor (with Erich Goode) of Extreme Deviance

Booknews

Sanders (sociology, U. of Connecticut) discusses tattooing as a symbolically meaningful and social act. Of particular interest are interviews with tattoo artists and fans. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition     vii
Preface to the First Edition     xxi
Introduction: Body Alteration, Artistic Production, and the Social World of Tattooing     1
Becoming and Being a Tattooed Person     36
The Tattooist: Tattooing as a Career and an Occupation     62
The Tattoo Relationship: Risk and Social Control in the Studio     117
Conclusion: Tattooing and the Social Definition of Art     149
Epilogue 2008: Body Modification Then and Now   Clinton R. Sanders   D. Angus Vail     164
Methodological Appendix     189
Selected Tattoo Artist Websites     203
Notes     205
References     221
Index     239

Go to: Southeast Asian Food or Backstage with Julia

No More Digestive Problems: A Leading Gastroenterologist Provides the Answers Every Woman Needs

Author: Cynthia M Yoshida

A staggering one in four women suffers some kind of gastrointestinal disorder. Some conditions, like irritable bowel syndrome, afflict more than twice as many women as men. Yet all too often, women suffer in silence—or fail to benefit when they receive the same treatment as men.

Now, in this accessible, comprehensive guide, one of the country’s leading
gastroenterologists, Dr. Cynthia Yoshida, provides the answers every woman needs, starting with a tour of the female GI system and the profound role sex hormones play. Brought to you by the American Gastroenterological Association, the book features the newest breakthrough medical treatments, plus advice on diet and gentle natural therapies that really work. No More Digestive Problems includes:

• Handling the effects of PMS, pregnancy, and menopause

• The surprising influence of weight on digestion—with vital information
on eating disorders

• Combating common ills from bloating, belching, and heartburn
to the runs and constipation

• Meeting the challenges of reflux (GERD), food intolerances, irritable bowel
syndrome (IBS), and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

• The crucial facts about women and colon cancer—and how to reduce your risk

Filled with revealing patient anecdotes, self-help tips, information on standard tests, and important questions you may want to ask your physician, here is an invaluable—and potentially lifesaving—resource for women of all ages.

Publishers Weekly

Yoshida, a gastroenterologist, points out that "a decade ago women weren't included in clinical trials." It was assumed that diseases in women were the same as in men and that their reactions to medications would be the same. Once in private practice, Yoshida recognized the fallacies of those assumptions and established a Women's GI Clinic. The first portion of this extensive book explains women's GI problems and the role of sex hormones in digestive health, discusses current medical remedies and offers a slew of treatments readers can implement for problems associated with PMS, pregnancy and menopause. Linking America's obesity epidemic to the GI tract, Yoshida lays out sensible diets that will improve digestion and assist in weight loss. The book's second part matter-of-factly presents strategies to combat the various ills that can afflict women daily, from heartburn and constipation to irritable bowel syndrome and gas. And all readers, regardless of gender, will learn something from the information provided in the book's third section, on dealing with doctors. Yoshida offers detailed planning suggestions so that readers may obtain maximum benefit from a doctor visit, including questions to ask and information to provide. A "Know your belly pain" chart and diagram provides instructions on how to explain symptoms to health care providers. For Yoshida, "celebrating yourself as a woman is a vital part of staying healthy," and in this astonishingly comprehensive and well-written work, she offers many ways to do that. (Apr.) Forecast: Patients and doctors alike will be drawn to Yoshida's book. Given that one in four women suffers some kind of gastrointestinal disorder, its potential market is huge. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Natural Way to a Healthy Heart or American Medical Association Guide to Talking to Your Doctor

2009-01-11T13:08:00.000-08:00

Natural Way to a Healthy Heart: Lessons from Alternative and Conventional Medicine

Author: Stephen Holt

An exploration of mind/body medicine in relation to the heart, Holt's pluralistic medicine encompasses both the conventional and the alternative, embracing any and all treatments that are safe and effective.

Publishers Weekly

Holt (The Soy Revolution) provides an overview of heart disease, focusing on the problems related to high cholesterol and the various available treatments. Citing medical studies, Holt stresses the need to lower cholesterol as part of a comprehensive program to alleviate other causes of heart problems, including obesity and diabetes. While he clearly advocates therapies that utilize natural remedies, he doesn't proselytize; in fact, he is quick to cite other "experts" including Dean Ornish and Larry Dossey. The book is organized by subject (vitamins and supplements; weight control; emotional and spiritual health), which makes it easier for readers to digest the information, and those unfamiliar with medical terminology will find the chapter explaining cholesterol especially helpful. The chapters on lifestyle and nutrition are also useful. (More controversial is the weight-control chapter in which Holt criticizes many popular diets.) The second half of the book discusses the many natural remedies, including soy, fish oils and supplements. While readers should consult with their own physicians before abandoning current treatments in favor of Holt's approach, the book provides an instructive overview of the many different therapies available to treat heart disease. (Dec.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

"Natural" methods of controlling or preventing heart disease are exploding in the consumer health field, and these two books add their own unspectacular interpretations to the mix. Holt's (The Soy Revolution) objective is to assist the reader in lowering cholesterol, controlling body weight, improving general well-being, and adding to longevity--all through diet. Using the philosophy of Dr. Andrew Weil (e.g., Eight Weeks to Optimum Health), Holt explores the mind-body connection in terms of health and disease. His recommendations for exerting self-control and changing unhealthy behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse are good. But he dismisses most popular diets--even the American Dietetic Association's food pyramid, which he criticizes for its emphasis on breads and other carbohydrates made with refined flours and chemical additives. Also problematic is the book's high reading level. A better choice for libraries is still Seth J. Baum's The Total Guide to a Healthy Heart (LJ 7/99). DeFelice, an endocrinologist, introduces carnitine as a centerpiece of his "cardiac elixir" (which also includes vitamins B and E, folic acid, magnesium, and alcohol as supplements to healthy eating). His controversial statements--such as the assertion that there is little clinical evidence that low-fat diets help prevent coronary artery disease and that all alcohol (not just red wine) protects against heart attacks--will raise eyebrows. He also "discovers" a dubious "Fat Machine"--a conspiracy on the part of the federal government, academic medicine, and the pharmaceutical and food industries to reveal only one side of the diet/heart disease connection. Not recommended.--Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans' Hosp., Tampa, FL Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

New interesting book: The Unknown American Revolution or The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

American Medical Association Guide to Talking to Your Doctor

Author: The American Medical Association

The last time you visited your doctor, did you . . .

hesitate to ask a question–and leave without the answer you needed?
not understand your doctor’s explanation of your illness or its treatment?
wish you could be more in control of your healthcare?

You can take control. The more you know about your healthcare needs and the more actively you work with your doctor, the better healthcare you will receive. In this concise, easy-to-understand book, the American Medical Association–the world’s most prominent organization of physicians–demystifies the relationship between patient and doctor and guides you in building an ongoing dialogue with your healthcare provider.

Using nontechnical language and a reassuring tone, the American Medical Association Guide to Talking to Your Doctor explains:

What your doctor needs to know about you and what he or she looks for in an examination
How to understand a diagnosis and discuss treatment options and goals
When and how to ask for a second opinion
How to speak for a child or older person in your care
How to discuss sensitive subjects such as sexuality, drug dependence, depression, and family violence
Your rights and responsibilities as a healthcare consumer
Where to go for more help and information

Encouraging, authoritative, and thorough, the American Medical Association Guide to Talking to Your Doctor empowers you to communicate better with your doctor so that you can work together to achieve a common goal–your good health.

For more than 150 years, the American Medical Associationhas been the leading group of medical experts in the nation and one of the most respected health-related organizations in the world. The AMA continues to work to advance the art and science of medicine and to be an advocate for patients and the voice of physicians in the United States.

	Introduction	1
1.	Choosing a Doctor	5
	What are you looking for?	5
	Other issues to consider	6
	How to go about choosing a doctor	8
	Your rights and responsibilities as a healthcare consumer	9
2.	What Your Doctor Wants to Know about You	13
	Personal health history	14
	Your child's health history	23
	Family health history	27
	Medications	29
	Self-treatment	31
	Lifestyle	33
3.	Talking about Your Health and Medical Care	37
	Planning in advance what to say to the doctor	37
	Making the most of an office visit	40
	Learning about medical tests and treatments	42
	Surgery	45
	Understanding a diagnosis	49
	Using medications correctly	50
	Making lifestyle changes	55
	Clearing up misunderstandings	64
4.	Talking for others	67
	Accompanying your child to the doctor	67
	Accompanying your older parent to the doctor	75
5.	Talking about Sensitive Subjects	81
	Sexually transmitted diseases	83
	Homosexuality and bisexuality	86
	Sexual problems	87
	Alcohol dependence	89
	Drug addiction	91
	Family violence	91
	Depression	92
	Incontinence	95
	Self-treatments	98
	Dissatisfaction with treatment	100
	End-of-life healthcare issues	103
6.	Special Situations	111
	Specialists and subspecialists	112
	Getting a second opinion	115
	At the hospital	117
	In an emergency	124
	Rare diseases	128
	Participating in clinical trials	131
	Doing your own research	137
	Resources	141
	Advocacy	141
	Clinical trials	148
	Diseases and conditions	150
	General health information	171
	Government agencies	175
	Health information Web sites	181
	Home-care services and hospice	186
	Long-term care and housing	189
	Mental health	191
	Rehabilitation	195
	Self-help and support	197
	Miscellaneous	201
	Glossary	205
	Index	235

Nutrition for Sport and Exercise or Bach Flower Remedies

2009-01-11T00:56:00.000-08:00

Nutrition for Sport and Exercise

Author: Marie Dunford

Insightful, well organized, and clearly written, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise integrates nutrition and exercise physiology principles, emphasizing scientific reasoning and examining research studies to illuminate the evidence for current nutritional recommendations. Dunford and Doyle carefully illustrate the links between training, the increased demand for nutrients as a result of training, the translation of nutrient goals to the intake of an appropriate amount and type of foods, beverages and/or supplements, and, the ultimate goal, excellent performance. The book focuses on critical thinking as it provides you with the tools you need to make good decisions regarding your own training, nutrition, and performance, to prepare you as practicing professionals to guide the decisions of others. The book includes numerous examples and practical applications.

Interesting book: The Technological Economy or The Craft of Corporate Journalism

Bach Flower Remedies

Author: David Lord

A wealth of information is contained in these compact guides to new age methods of self-help, healing, and renewal. Addressing methods of self-exploration, from dream interpretation to the I Ching, and avenues of healing for the self and others, such as Bach Flower Remedies and chakras, these guides introduce novices to an array of life-changing techniques in a concise and readable manner.

Divine Healing or 12 Step Approach to the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius

2009-01-10T14:45:00.000-08:00

Divine Healing

Author: Andrew Murray

In the ministering of the apostles, forgiveness and healing complemented each other, allowing the Spirit of God to flow freely. Andrew Murray answers these questions scripturally, showing how to walk victoriously in divine health.

New interesting textbook: Los Fundamentos de Correlación de Proceso

12-Step Approach to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

Author: Jim Harbaugh

Campus Minister and Chemical Dependency Counselor Jim Harbaugh, S.J., utilizes the 12-step format of Alcoholics Anonymous as a means of introducing the reader to the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius.

Skin or Conquering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

2009-01-10T03:33:00.000-08:00

Skin: A Natural History

Author: Nina G Jablonski

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. Skin: A Natural History celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Jablonski begins with a look at skin's structure and functions and then tours its three-hundred-million-year evolution, delving into such topics as the importance of touch and how the skin reflects and affects emotions. She examines the modern human obsession with age-related changes in skin, especially wrinkles. She then turns to skin as a canvas for self-expression, exploring our use of cosmetics, body paint, tattooing, and scarification. Skin: A Natural History places the rich cultural canvas of skin within its broader biological context for the first time, and the result is a tremendously engaging look at ourselves.

Publishers Weekly

This amply illustrated rhapsody to the body's largest and most visible organ showcases skin's versatility, importance in human biology and uniqueness: human skin is hairless and sweaty, has evolved in a spectrum of colors and is a billboard for self-expression. Penn State's anthropology chair, Jablonski nimbly interprets scientific data for a lay audience, and her geeky love for her discipline is often infectious. At her most compelling, Jablonski demonstrates that our hairlessness didn't evolve after humans adopted clothing or because our distant hominid relatives splashed through an aquatic phase like dolphins and whales; rather, it's inextricably linked to our abundance of sweat glands. Similarly intriguing are the notions that indigenous people of the hot tropics are tall and lean because mammals with a high ratio of skin surface area to body weight keep cool in intense heat, and that women have lighter skin color than men because females need to maximize vitamin D production during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Much less successful is a chapter entitled "Wear and Tear," which briefly discusses but sheds little light on such skin conditions as birthmarks, scabs, burns and acne, and serves up the same visual guide to checking moles for melanoma that is found in countless doctors' offices. Color and b&w illus. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The most elementary anatomy or biology presentation teaches that skin is the body's largest organ. Drawing on this fact, Jablonski (anthropology, Pennsylvania State Univ.; ed., The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World), who taught human anatomy for many years, provides a guidebook (her term) replete with topics "that have most engaged [her] in [her] work over the years." The result is a marvelous exploration of the organ we ignore until an abnormality prompts us to seek professional help. The chapters skillfully lead from one topic to the next and cover the history and physiology of skin, sweating, color, touch, tattoos and painting, and more. Jablonski's writing is clear; her enthusiasm for the topic, evident. Illustrations appropriately support discussions. Skin's mix of science, society/culture, and anthropology makes it easily read by and useful for all patrons. Highly recommended for all collections.-Michael D. Cramer, Schwarz BioSciences, RTP, NC Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Interesting book: Questões Morais em Negócio

Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Newest Techniques for Overcoming Symptoms, Regaining Hope, and Getting Your Life Back

Author: Victoria Lemle Beckner

More than 13 million Americans experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and one out of 13 adults will develop it in their lifetime. Recent worldwide crises and events including the Iraq war; the September 11th attacks; numerous Columbine-like events; the Catholic Church child molestation scandal; and the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, continue to present thousands more PTSD cases each year in all age groups. This book helps victims make sense of the events that led to their illness and teaches them how to create a new reality with specific advice and action plans that put them on the road to recovery and long-term healing.

Introduction     9
What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Six Trauma Survivors: Their Stories     14
What is Post-Traumatic Stress?     25
Overcoming Anxiety, Avoidance, and Depression
Reduce Anxiety by Modifying Your Stress Responses     44
Overcome Avoidance by Stepping Out     66
Fight Depression by Challenging Negative Thinking and Getting Active     83
Taking Care of Your Brain and Body
Sleeping, Eating, and Medication: Ways to Promote a Healthy Brain     114
Reducing Your Dependence on Alcohol and Drugs     139
Healing Trauma by Improving Relationships
From Withdrawal to Embrace     154
From Explode to Explain     176
From Trauma to Growth
How Trauma Challenges Your Beliefs     200
Processing the Trauma by Putting It into Words     227
How to Talk about Trauma and PTSD with Others     243
Using Trauma as an Opportunity to Grow     265
Acknowledgments     290
About the Authors     292
Index     294

Lifter of My Head or Treating Bulimia in Adolescents

2009-01-09T18:20:00.000-08:00

Lifter of My Head: How God Sustained Me during Postpartum Depression

Author: Susan McRoberts

Are you suffering from postpartum depression? Do you know someone who might be? With transparency and encouragement, Sue McRoberts shares her traumatic experience with postpartum depression. The Lifter of My Head offers medical guidance and spiritual insight to women who may be plagued with this disorder. Sue explains in her memoir, the phases of illness, recovery, and the Scriptures that sustained her throughout her healing. Women with PPD will easily relate to her candid story and be comforted by her compassionate words. The Lifter of My Head offer information, bring tears, dispel myths, inspire hope, and ultimately point the reader to the true Healer.

Foreword     19
In the Beginning     25
Pregnancy and Other Risk Factors     41
The Cliffs of Insanity     51
The 5th Floor     67
Post-Traumatic Stress     91
The Unquiet Mind     97
Friends God Gave Me     111
Healthcare Professionals God Used     133
The Lifter of My Head     145
Life After the Psych Ward     161

Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach

Author: Daniel le Grang

An indispensable clinical resource, this groundbreaking book is the first treatment manual to focus specifically on adolescent bulimia nervosa. The authors draw on their proven approach to treating anorexia nervosa in the family context and adapt it to the unique needs of this related yet distinct clinical population. Evidence-based strategies are presented for helping the whole family collaborate to bring dysfunctional eating behaviors under control, while also addressing co-occurring psychological problems and parent-child relationship conflicts. Highly practical, the book shows exactly how to carry out this time-limited therapy and what to do when problems arise. Special features include annotated session transcripts and answers to frequently asked questions.

Contact or Rebooting

2009-01-09T06:09:00.000-08:00

Contact: The Yoga of Relationships

Author: Tara Guber

Contact: The Yoga of Relationships presents an inspiring new vision of yoga created to deepen your relationships with lovers, friends, family and other intimates in your life. Contact explores that mysterious and dynamic edge where two people connect: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Tara Lynda Guber and Anodea Judith offer valuable insight into the dynamics of all loving relationships, using poses designed for two participants that bridge the "Seven Points of Contact."
Contact brings these seven points (trust, passion, commitment, love, communication, vision, and union) into focus as points on the body, allowing patterns of connecting and distancing, loving and protecting, giving and receiving to be revealed at their deepest levels. Contact will appeal to all who seek depth and fulfillment in their relationships.
Contact also features over one hundred striking tri-tone photographs by award-winning photographer, filmmaker and director Norman Seeff. His vivid images capture candid portraits of renowned yoga teachers such as Patricia Walden, Anna Forest and Shiva Rae as well as celebrities in dynamic yoga poses including Cheryl Tiegs, Carrie Otis, Daphne Zuniga, Catherine Oxenberg, Linda Grey, Elizabeth Berkley, Harry Hamlin, and Lisa Rinna.
" [Contact] inspires us to take on yoga as others take on mountain climbing: as a training for the warrior of the spirit who needs courage every moment. This book will inspire you to see the world though the eyes of truth, integrity and passion. And you will discover an original aspect of Yoga where relating becomes easy yet sublime all at once." - Margot Anand, author of The Art ofSexual Ecstasy

Go to: Beautiful Skin or 50 Splenda Recipes

Rebooting: Defeating Depression with the Power of Kabbalah

Author: Yehuda Berg

“Absence of desire” or "lack of interest" are often listed as symptoms of depression, a medical condition that affects nearly 20 million Americans. A myriad of drugs, herbal remedies, and therapies are now available to treat this condition, and although they may ease the symptoms, none have managed to cure this devastating affliction. In his clear, strong, and heartfelt new book, noted scholar and author Yehuda Berg offers a new “prescription” for those who suffer from depression: the healing energies of Kabbalah. This simple yet profound treatment allows depression sufferers to take back their lives. Readers learn to use Kabbalah’s ancient tools to reconnect with desire, reemerge from the debilitating darkness, and overcome depression once and for all. Berg suggests specific Kabbalistic tools for readers to use on the path to recovery, while case histories provide further illumination and inspiration.

Everything Health Guide to Migraines or Breathe

2009-01-08T20:56:00.000-08:00

Everything Health Guide to Migraines: Professional Advice to Help Ease the Pain and Find the Solution That's Right for You

Author: Paula Ford Martin

If you are one of the 28 million Americans suffering from migraines, you know how hard it is to find relief. The Everything Health Guide to Migraines is your perfect resource for information about symptoms, coping methods, and both medicinal and natural treatment options for your migraines. This handbook provides clear, concise information to help you understand the problem and find a solution.

In this helpful guide, you'll find the knowledge you need to:

Identify the different types of migraines
Determine migraine myths and misconceptions
Get a proper diagnosis-the first step toward relief
Avoid migraine triggers
Choose traditional or alternative treatment options

This book will assist you in accurately diagnosing your condition and managing your physical and emotional health. It is your compass on the road to recovery and the future of your migraine care. With The Everything Health Guide to Migraines, you can say goodbye to migraine pain!

Paula Ford-Martin is a health writer with more than twelve years of experience who has suffered from migraines since childhood. She is the author of several Everything health guides. Paula has written extensively for traditional and alternative medicine publications. She lives in Connecticut.

Daniel Lachance, M.D., is a neurologist with more than twenty years of experience. A graduate of the Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Lachance is appointed in the Division of Regional Neurology at the Mayo Clinic. He runs his own practice in his hometown of Rochester, Minnesota.

Introduction     xi
Migraine Basics     1
Migraine by the Numbers     1
Types of Migraine     4
Anatomy of a Migraine     7
What Is Known, and Not Known     10
All about Auras     12
Migraine Myths and Misconceptions     14
When It's Not a Migraine     17
Cluster Headaches     17
Tension Headaches     23
Sinus/Nasal Problems     25
Central Nervous System Disorders     26
Cardiovascular Disorders     28
Vision Problems     30
Other Migraine Mimickers     31
Diagnosis     33
Keeping a Headache Diary     33
Screening Assessments     34
Medical History and Physical Exam     36
Neurological Evaluation and Workup     38
Neuroimaging     39
Lab Tests     42
Putting It All Together     43
Getting Help     45
Finding a Doctor     45
When It's Time for a Second Opinion     48
Migraine Specialists     49
Headache Clinics     51
Working Together     52
When It's anEmergency     55
Headache Diaries     59
Why Keep a Headache Diary?     59
What You Should Track     61
Making It Easy     64
Identifying Patterns     66
Sharing with Your Doctor     68
Assessing Effectiveness of Treatment     69
Avoiding Triggers     73
What Is a Trigger?     73
Lifestyle Triggers     74
Food Triggers     76
Weather Triggers     79
Travel Triggers     82
Sensory Triggers     83
Drug and Chemical Triggers     85
Hormonal Triggers     86
Acute Treatment Options     89
Pain Relievers (Nonopioid)     89
Pain Relievers (Opioid)     91
Ergot Derivatives     92
Triptans     94
Antinausea Medications     96
Avoiding Rebound Headaches     98
Bed Rest, Compresses, and Cold Packs     99
Biofeedback     100
Prophylactic Medications     105
Antiepileptic Drugs (AEDs)     105
Antidepressants     108
Beta-Blockers     109
Calcium Channel Blockers     110
Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)     112
Angiotensin Blockade Agents     113
Other Migraine Preventatives     115
Alternative and Complementary Medicine     119
Vitamin B[subscript 2] (Riboflavin)     119
Niacin     121
Magnesium     122
Coenzyme Q10     124
Herbal Supplements     125
Smart Supplementation     128
Acupuncture     129
Avoiding Quackery     131
Recovery     135
A Safe Space     135
Comfort Measures     137
Sleep     137
Minimizing Stress     139
When You're Away from Home     142
Migraine "Hangover"     143
Women and Migraines     147
The Female Connection     147
Adolescence and Adulthood     151
The Menstrual Migraine     153
Birth Control Pills     156
Migraines During Pregnancy     157
Migraines and Menopause     159
Children and Headaches     161
The Youngest Patients     161
Getting a Diagnosis     162
Figuring Out Triggers      164
Treatment Safety     167
Nausea and Vomiting     170
School and Migraines     173
Helping Kids Cope     175
Men and Migraines     177
The Silent Minority     177
Migraine or Cluster Headache?     179
Testosterone and Male Headache     181
Heart Disease Connection     183
Overcoming Stereotypes     184
Special Issues     185
Living Life     189
Healthy Sleep Patterns     189
Exercise-Why It Works     191
Sex and Intimacy     193
Migraines in the Workplace     195
Seasonal Strategies     198
Travel     200
Inspiration: Famous Migraineurs     202
Family and Friends     205
Not "Just a Headache"     205
Educating Family and Friends     207
Peer Support Groups     208
Sanity Strategies for Parents     211
Putting Yourself First     215
When They Just Don't "Get It"     217
Your Emotional Health     219
Coming to Grips with a Chronic Disease     219
Coping Strategies     221
Stress Management     222
Psychological Triggers     225
Taking Time to Relax     226
Being an Empowered Patient     228
Headache-Free Diet     233
Avoiding Food Triggers     233
Reading Labels/Recognizing Hidden Triggers     236
Sugar and Sweeteners     238
Comfort Foods     240
Eating Out     242
Supermarket Tips     243
Drinking Smart: Alcohol and Caffeine     245
Advocacy and Your Rights     247
Disability     247
Facing Discrimination     251
Medical Records and Your Rights     254
Paying for Your Care     256
Dealing with Insurance Issues     258
Medicare and Migraines     261
Beyond Migraine: Comorbidities     265
Comorbidities: An Overview     265
Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease     266
Depression     269
Epilepsy     270
Asthma     273
Raynaud's Disease     274
Other Conditions     275
The Future of Migraine Care     279
Drugs in the Pipeline     279
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)     281
Occipital Nerve Stimulation     283
Identifying Genetic Connections     284
Clinical Trials-Are They for You?     286
Advances in Migraine Diagnosis     291
Additional Resources     293
General Migraine Information     293
Finding Your Health Care Team     293
Advocacy Organizations     294
Patient Assistance Programs     294
Support Groups     294
Sample Headache Diary     295
Emergency Patient Forms     297
Migraine Glossary     301
Index     306

Breathe: A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy

Author: Mason Brown

Finally, a book for guys that solves the riddles of pregnancy.

Do you think that newborn babies can eat Doritos? That they can't scream very loudly since they just have tiny little baby lungs? That you will still be able to golf on weekends after your baby is born?

If so, you need this book!

Breathe takes guys misstep-by-misstep through the stages of pregnancy and the early days of childhood. Considered by many to be the unofficial pregnancy handbook of the NBA, Breathe is filled with useful tips such as these:

Brown's First Law of Conception: The odds of conception are inversely proportional to its desirability. High school virgins experimenting behind bleachers are guaranteed to get pregnant; financially secure married men hoping for children are doomed to spend their weekends in fertility clinics masturbating into cups.
Picking a doctor: Never use a gynecologist whose Medical School Diploma has palm trees on the side.
Pre-Natal Music: Mozart, yes. Wagner, No!
Common Concerns: If your baby is born with dark hair that covers its head, back, neck, temples and forehead, don't panic. This is perfectly normal. It just means your baby was born Italian.

Child experts from all over the world agree -- if you're a first time father, drop your baby and pick up this book!

No te des por Vencido or Healing Presence

2009-01-08T09:44:00.000-08:00

No te des por Vencido

Author: David Wilkerson

Everyone experiences sadness and pain once in a while. Sometimes the problems are so big that we want to give up. David Wilkerson knows how to help us solve our feelings of hopelessness and despair about life. He examines despondency. He looks at the things that afflict us and offers resources to overcome the problems. Learn to let God heal and rebuild your faith and give you genuine peace.

New interesting textbook: The Caregiver or Yoga Journals Yoga Basics

Healing Presence: The Essence of Nursing

Author: JoEllen Goertz Koerner

An invitation for all nurses to re-engage with the passion and commitment that originally inspired them!

"...represents an act of passion for the profession, a window to a personal journey, and an invitation to view the nursing profession's contribution to healing in a Jungian context....The work's value comes from its integration of scientific, creative, and spiritual philosophies as a core context for the complex nurse-patient interaction involved in the promotion of a healing environment....Recommended."--Choice

Nursing is at a crossroads, facing shortages of unparalleled proportion at a time when society is experiencing health care challenges of great magnitude. At the center of professional nursing lies the authentic presence of the nurse, the intention and commitment that brings nurses to the profession in the first place. When there is congruence between who nurses are and what they do, nurses bring their souls to work. This balance is experienced as a healing presence that encourages the patient's self-healing capacity.

Throughout this book, JoEllen Koerner explores ways--scientific, creative, and spiritual--of understanding the power and impact of this "healing presence" on both the caregiver and those receiving care.

Wisdom from the field is presented in a series of reflections from multiple areas of practice. For all nurses and nursing students, the book offers practical application strategies for integrating the nursing process with the nurse's presence and a framework for personal and professional development.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Vicki Ann Moss, DNSc, MS, BSN, RN(University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description:The author explores ways -- scientific, creative, and spiritual -- that the nurse can use to understand and implement the "healing presence" both for patients and for self. "It is a celebration of the human spirit that is manifest everywhere [nurses] practice," the author states.
Purpose:The purpose of this book is to place 21st century nursing into a paradigm "that transcends the economic, political, and technological culture of the day," and to invite nurses to remember why they were initially called to the profession.
Audience:Nurses and nursing student are the audience.
Features:The 10 chapters are grouped into four sections: Nursing: A Sacred Work; The Healing Field: The Context for Nursing Practice; A Healing Presence: The Power of One; and A Healing Path: Weaving a Purposeful Life. The book includes sayings and poems of some of the finest minds such as Mother Theresa, Einstein, and Carl Jung, as well as Eastern and Western philosophical thought.
Assessment:This book would appeal to any nurse who wants to learn and reflect on the spiritual aspect of nursing. It would be a good book to use as a stepping-stone to discussion about issues that are not black and white. I would suggest it be read slowly, perhaps one chapter at a time followed by reflection. It is not a book that could be skimmed or read quickly. It should make all nurses more aware of the meaning of their presence and the healing power of that presence to others. It is a much-needed book as technology continues toexpand and a patient's humanity often becomes of secondary importance to their cure.

Home Safe Home or Aveda Rituals A Daily Guide to Natural Health and Beauty

2009-01-07T23:32:00.000-08:00

Home Safe Home

Author: Debra Lynn Dadd

Home Safe Home offers more than 400 tips, including do-it-yourself formulas for inexpensive, safe products to replace harmful substances we are exposed to in our own homes. Whether you suffer from unexplained headaches, fatigue, or depression, or if you worry about the link between increased use of toxics and the rising rate of cancer, the many suggestions in this book can make your life virtually toxic-free!

Library Journal

Responding to the increasing interest in the effects of chemicals in the myriad products used every day, nontoxic-living advocate Dadd offers a combined revised and expanded edition of two of her titles, published in the mid-1980s as Nontoxic & Natural (LJ 2/1/85) and The Nontoxic Home (LJ 11/1/86) and updated later as Nontoxic, Natural & Earthwise (Tarcher, 1990) and The Nontoxic Home & Office (Tarcher, 1992), respectively. This listing of toxic materials and how to avoid them uses the manufacturers' warnings and mostly resists sensationalism. Dadd's suggestions are reasonable and not too difficult to accomplish. Like Lynn Marie Bower in The Healthy Household (LJ 7/95), Dadd includes extensive resource lists, though Bower covers a wider range of products. An excellent choice for libraries not owning the Bower title.Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, Ohio

Aveda Rituals: A Daily Guide to Natural Health and Beauty

Author: Horst Rechelbacher

A lushly illustrated guide to holistic beauty and health by the founder of AVEDA(r)cross promotion with AVEDA.

The understanding that our beauty and health are depent on the environment around us as well as the personal landscape of our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls, is the foundation of Horst Rechelbacher's holistic guide. More than 100 color photographs complement the practical text in AVEDA Rituals, which highlights the interconnectedness of all things: of health and beauty; of mind, body, and spirit; of our bodies and the larger body we must care for, Earth.

Horst Rechelbacher founded AVEDA by creating pure plant-based beauty products in his own sink. Over the past twenty years he has developed it into a multimillion-dollar company with a conscience. Now he has written AVEDA Rituals, which provides a broad new holistic approach to health, beauty, and wellness. First, the author introduces and discusses Ayurveda, aromatherapy, and his own personal philosophies for life. Then he goes on to provide a wide array of daily rituals derived from them that touch on every aspect of life, including cleansing, nutrition, meditation, aromatherapy, relaxation, body movement, massage, goal setting, and stress management. Readers are invited to incorporate each of their elements into their own individual daily regimen, one that will leave them feeling their best and most beautiful inside and out!

Library Journal

Rechelbacher, founder of AvedaTM Cosmetics, shows how his routine of meditation, massage, aromatherapy, natural foods, and ecologically friendly habits (including business habits) contribute to his holistic well-being. The book describes rituals that calm and re-energize the body, including self- and partner massage and, briefly, the Ayurvedic medicine (the three doshas and their respective needs). The section on herbs is extremely basic and without much instruction--and the beauty chapters are a thinly veiled commercial for Aveda products. A pleasant introduction to Ayurvedic principles but of limited value overall.--Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Swiss Ball or Swiss Ball

2009-01-07T14:20:00.000-08:00

Swiss Ball: For Total Fitness

Author: James Milligan

The Swiss Ball is rapidly becoming an essential piece of exercise equipment — combined with a few weights and a medicine ball you can now use it to provide a total fitness regime. Swiss Ball For Total Fitness show readers how to utilize its full potential beyond improving core strength, with exercises to strengthen muscles in the midsection, chest, back, shoulders, arms, and legs. Suitable for both men and women, it features a range of different exercises for the beginner through to the advanced, plus a section of 20-minute workouts to make maximum use of limited training time.

Swiss Ball: For Strength, Tone and Posture

Author: Maureen Flett

They're the ultimate in core training, the key to increased muscle isolation, improved balance, greater dexterity, and enhanced strength. Swiss balls--colorful balls that come in various sizes to suit different bodies and routines--are today's hottest workout trend, and here's the complete guide to the phenomenon. Packed with more than 300 color photos, Swiss Ball shows each routine from a variety of angles with concise captions that describe exactly how to perform each one for maximum results. General information covers choosing the right ball; gentle warm ups; and exercises for each area of the body, plus cardiovascular routines. Boost the effect of abdominal curls by doing them while gripping the ball with both legs. Or do a two-legged bridge with feet resting on the ball to tone the hamstrings, buttocks and lower back. The programs incorporate yoga and pilates to enhance mind/body awareness too. Once you've mastered the basics, try more advanced routines that use additional equipment such as weights and an elastic resistive band. You'll notice the difference immediately!

The Diabetes Dictionary or Being Human at Work

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

The Diabetes Dictionary: What Every Person with Diabetes Needs to Know

Author: American Diabetes Association

The portable dictionary that's everything you need to understand diabetes

The Diabetes Dictionary contains easy-to-understand, conciseentries that explain diabetes and diabetes-related terminologycommonly used by physicians, endocrinologists, registered dietitians,and certified diabetes educators.

Never again will you have to waste time or riskembarrassment during appointments by asking for explanationsof basic concepts. The Diabetes Dictionary explains each entry inshort, simple language that can be understood by everyone.

You will no longer need a medical degree to understand diabetes.The Diabetes Dictionary has everything you need—andit’s pocket-sized for easy carrying!

Book review: The Great Awakening or Triumph

Being Human at Work: Bringing Somatic Intelligence Into Your Professional Life

Author: Richard Strozzi Heckler

This anthology of interdisciplinary writings looks at the integration of mind, body, and spirit as it plays out in the workplace—whether in birth coaching, teaching parents, assisting the terminally ill, or working in the military, the classroom, or the corporation. These essays reveal what gets in the way of our humanity in the work world and how to rediscover that humanity. Written by leading professionals in business, education, medicine, technology, finance, psychology, and the military, this collection of essays explores how reconnecting with one’s humanity can result in true leadership in any field.

Esperando a Mi Bebe or Listening to Prozac

2009-01-06T15:57:00.000-08:00

Esperando a Mi Bebe: Una Guia del Embarazo Para la Mujer Latina

Author: Lourdes Alcaniz

Esperando a mi bebé es la única guía que aborda las cuestiones específicas de las mujeres latinas embarazadas.

El embarazo en nuestra cultura latina es un gran acontecimiento familiar, y por generaciones, madres y abuelas han impartido sus consejos a sus hijas. Hoy en día, a medida que las hijas trabajan y se mudan lejos de sus familias, este enlace de apoyo familiar está desapareciendo. Durante su embarazo, Lourdes Alcañiz reconoció la necesidad de un libro que se enfocara claramente en las dificultades que confrontan las futuras madres latinas. De ahí la inspiración de Esperando a mi bebé, que toma una perspectiva personal y amigable sin dejar de ser una fuente de información médica sólida y precisa. En él encontrará temas concretos, tanto fisiológicos como culturales, que afectan a las mujeres latinas durante el embarazo, tales como:

• Cómo llenar el vacío cultural entre pacientes hispanos y doctores que no los son, tanto como las maneras de sentirse cómoda en la consulta médica.

• Información actualizada sobre la diabetes del embarazo, hipertensión, enfermedad de la vesícula, depresión y otras condiciones que afectan más a las mujeres latinas.

• Dietas ideales para mujeres embarazadas que no privan el sabor de los platos latinos.

• Ejercicio apropiado durante el embarazo y cómo incorporarlos a la rutina diaria.

• Qué hierbas son seguras y cuáles no.

• Cómo reconciliar las creencias populares del embarazo con los procedimientos médicosmodernos.

• La gama de emociones durante y después del embarazo, y cómo reconocer la diferencia entre un simple malestar de humores y una depresión de posparto.

• Recursos para mujeres latinas embarazadas sin seguro médico.

Salpicado de anécdotas de madres latinas acerca de sus experiencias físicas y emocionales durante todo el proceso del embarazo, Esperando a mi bebé es una verdadera guía de confianza.

Yolanda J. Cuesta, Cuesta MultiCultural Consulting, Sacramento, CA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - Criticas

An Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor for Univision, NBC, CNN, CBS-UPI, and the Hispanic Radio Network, Alcaniz has put together a well-researched, comprehensive pregnancy guide for Latinas. Like every other book on the subject, the guide covers such topics as how to prepare for pregnancy; medical insurance and health care options; proper diet and nutrition; diseases and illnesses to watch out for; available medical and clinical tests; what to expect during each trimester of pregnancy; giving birth; and what to expect after birth. What makes this book unique, though, is the way it tackles the physiological, cultural, and economic issues that affect Latinas during pregnancy. Alcaniz discusses diabetes and other diseases that are significantly more common and more dangerous for Latinas, and combines solid medical information with Latin natural remedies. Diet and nutrition warnings include specific information about favorite Latin foods. Alcaniz ends the book with a fitting chapter on cultural myths and beliefs. Her friendly, practical, and intimate tone combined with the book's appealing layout and illustrations will engage Latinas of all ages and backgrounds. A list of contacts and resources, and a detailed index, further enhance the book's utility. An essential purchase for all public and academic libraries, and bookstores serving the Latino community.

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Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self

Author: Peter D Kramer

Over 5 million Americans have taken the antidepressant Prozac. Many have become more confident, popular, mentally nimble, & emotionally resilient. The author looks at evidence from a variety of disciplines — cellular biology, animal ethology, medical ethics, literature, & at his own patients stories — to explore the implication of drugs that reshape temperament. A major contribution to late 20th century psychiatry & an extraordinarily eloquent, provocative, & moving tale about ourselves. A fascinating & beautifully written overview of the biology & psychology of mood-state. A richly philosophical meditation upon the basic nature of human nature.

Publishers Weekly

Tracing the development of mood-altering drugs, in particular the widely used antidepressant Prozac, psychiatrist Kramer ( Moments of Engagement ) synthesizes recent biochemical research, psychological and biosocial theories in a comprehensive, provocative study. Citing cases from his practice and the conclusions of such researchers as Donald Klein, Jerome Kagan and Robert Post, among others, he examines current thinking about what determines personality traits and character. Observing the effectiveness of Prozac in releasing confidence and energy in patients who are somewhat inhibited by depression, compulsiveness or timidity, he raises important questions about the way drugs can influence diagnoses. He sees application of medication as particularly valuable in cases where a patient's symptoms become functionally autonomous, appearing independent of their originating stimuli. Calling for an approach that combines psychotherapy with psychopharmacology, Kramer urges careful, studied use of Prozac with continuing attention given to the philosophical, moral and sociological issues its effectiveness raises. (June)

Library Journal

Kramer, a practicing psychiatrist, finds that the antidepressant Prozac is a powerful drug that lifts the veil of depression from most patients without significant side effects. While he unquestionably supports the use of medication to alleviate illness, he questions using drugs to make a person feel ``better than well.'' It is the remarkable ability of Prozac to create personality changes that he finds disturbing. Is it ethical to prescribe a drug that increases a person's self-confidence, resilience, and energy level without any ill effect, when there is no underlying manifestation of illness? What is the essence of personhood and what are the philosophical implications of using drugs to alter personality? Both Kramer's unequivocal endorsement of Prozac for the treatment of depression and the questions he raises about the use of drugs for mood alteration are controversial. A glossary would have been a useful addition for lay readers. Recommended.-- Carol R. Glatt, VA Medical Ctr. Lib., Philadelphia

Booknews

Kramer (psychiatry, Brown U.) writes on "the capacity of modern medication to allow a person to experience, on a stable and continuing basis, the feelings of someone with a different temperament and history," as "one born with a different genome and exposed to a more benign world in childhood"--p.195. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kirkus Reviews

A provocative volume that sets up the mood-altering Prozac as a tool to examine the growing—and often troubling—use of drugs in the treatment of psychological illness. Brown University professor Kramer (Moments of Engagement, 1989—not reviewed) is a practicing psychiatrist who uses traditional techniques of therapy but also prescribes Prozac and other psychopharmaceuticals for his patients when they seem appropriate. Thanks to exposure on TV talk shows, Prozac is associated in many people's minds with suicide and violence, but only in the last chapter here—an appendix, really—does the author argue directly against these charges. What he explores instead are the far-reaching implications of the generally positive changes in temperament triggered by Prozac and other drugs prescribed to relieve anxiety and depression, and what these medications have taught us about how character and temperament are shaped. Prozac relieves mild depression, for instance, by elevating levels of serotonin in the brain. Knowledge of that fact opens the door to further investigation of chemical pathways in the brain, individual variations in levels of serotonin and other neurotransmitters, and perhaps even to early diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders. But, as Kramer points out, it also opens the possibility of altering brain chemistry to order, perhaps transforming a shy, sensitive individual into a sociable, assertive personality—the kind that present society most values. Acquisition of such a temperament, in fact, is the effect that Prozac has on many of Kramer's patients. But what has been lost when sensitivity is replaced by assertiveness? What is the "real" personality?Such thoughtful questioning is supported throughout by case histories and meaty reports on recent research. Some of the material suggests that if Freud was wrong about the content of childhood trauma (the Oedipal attachments), he was not wrong about its far-reaching effects. A wise and unflinching examination of the ramifications for society—and for the individual—when the capsule replaces the couch.

Mindless Eating or The Cardiac Recovery Handbook

2009-01-06T04:44:00.000-08:00

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

Author: Brian Wansink

In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you’re eating, what you’re eating–or why you’re even eating at all.

• Does food with a brand name really taste better?
• Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did?
• Does the size of your plate determine how hungry you feel?
• How much would you eat if your soup bowl secretly refilled itself?
• What does your favorite comfort food really say about you?
• Why do you overeat so much at healthy restaurants?

Brian Wansink is a Stanford Ph.D. and the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab. He’s spent a lifetime studying what we don’t notice: the hidden cues that determine how much and why people eat. Using ingenious, fun, and sometimes downright fiendishly clever experiments like the “bottomless soup bowl,” Wansink takes us on a fascinating tour of the secret dynamics behind our dietary habits. How does packaging influence how much we eat? Which movies make us eat faster? How does music or the color of the room influence how much we eat? How can we recognize the “hidden persuaders” used by restaurants and supermarkets to get us to mindlessly eat? What are the real reasons most diets are doomed to fail? And how can we use the “mindless margin” to lose–instead of gain–ten to twenty pounds in the coming year?

Mindless Eating will change the way you look at food, and it will give you the facts you need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices atthe dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the office–even at a vending machine–wherever you decide to satisfy your appetite.

Publishers Weekly

According to Wansink, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, the mind makes food-related decisions, more than 200 a day, and many of them without pause for actual thought. This peppy, somewhat pop-psych book argues that we don't have to change what we eat as much as how, and that by making more mindful food-related decisions we can start to eat and live better. The author's approach isn't so much a diet book as a how-to on better facilitating the interaction between the feed-me messages of our stomachs and the controls in our heads. In their particulars, the research summaries are entertaining, like an experiment that measured how people ate when their plates were literally "bottomless," but the cumulative message and even the approach feels familiar and not especially fresh. Wansink examines popular diets like the South Beach and Atkins regimes, and offers a number of his own strategies to help focus on what you eat: at a dinner party, "try to be the last person to start eating." Whether readers take time to weigh their decisions and their fruits and vegetables remains to be seen. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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The Cardiac Recovery Handbook: The Complete Guide to Life after Heart Attack or Heart Surgery for Patients and Their Families

Author: Paul Kligfield

Maybe a suspicious angiogram has the doctor suggesting bypass surgery. Maybe a major heart attack has you confined to the ICU. After a heart attack or heart surgery, you have a hundred questions and your family has more. How long will I be in the hospital? What are the side effects of that medication? Why do I feel so depressed? What can I eat? Can I exercise?

One of the nation's most respected cardiologists answers all your questions in The Cardiac Recovery Handbook. In clear, everyday language, the book covers all aspects of cardiac recovery—from the initial diagnosis of heart disease to medications and surgical options, from hospitalization to rehabilitation, from diet and exercise to keeping your spirits up. No question is left unanswered.

Filled with a wealth of vital information, The Cardiac Recovery Handbook is an invaluable resource for the millions of Americans suffering from heart disease, as well as their families, healthcare providers, and friends.

Liver Disorders or Sly Moves

2009-01-05T19:32:00.000-08:00

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.

Fibromyalgia or Your Pregnancy Quick Guide to Labor and Delivery

2009-01-05T07:20:00.000-08:00

Fibromyalgia: Fact VS. Fiction: As Explained by an American Authority

Author: Don L Goldenberg

Fibromyalgia is indicated by a group of symptoms including chronic generalized muscle pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches, and irritable bowel. But the medicalcommunity is only now putting the pieces together to discover what might cause it-and what will or won't help the millions who suffer from it. This book separates fact from fiction, and addresses causes, symptoms, medication, and natural remedies, using a patient case history to help illustrate each subject.

Author Biography: Don L. Goldenberg, M.D., is the Chief of Rheumatology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. An international authority in the fields of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, he has published more than 150 papers in scientific journals, as well as books on arthritis and rheumatism. Dr. Goldenberg has been interviewed on national and local television, and his work has been covered in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The New Yorker. He is the author of Chronic Illness and Uncertainty: A Personal and Professional Guide to Poorly Understood Syndromes.

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Your Pregnancy Quick Guide to Labor and Delivery

Author: Glade B Curtis

Tips for preparing mentally and physically for the big day How to recognize the onset of labor When to go to the hospital after labor begins Guidance on choosing between natural childbirth and one with medical intervention What you need to know about Cesarean delivery Information on the different pain relief options Advice for your partner or labor coach An overview of the tests you'll go through during and after delivery

Raw Transformation or Pilates For Dummies

2009-01-04T22:08:00.000-08:00

Raw Transformation: Energizing Your Life with Living Foods

Author: Wendy Rudell

This visually lively gourmet raw food recipe book provides all the information you need for increasing your health and well-being through a raw foods diet. The recipes will motivate anyone who wants to have more energy, vitality, and abundant health without feeling deprived of their former cuisine. In addition, the book introduces readers to the ways that we can transform our physical bodies and our consciousness through a combination of living foods, yoga, meditation, breath work, and much more.

The first third of the book introduces raw cuisine, giving information on nutrition and the benefits of adopting this lifestyle. It connects raw food to other modalities, to enable the whole process of physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation.

The next two thirds of the book features over 300 raw food recipes that are surprisingly diverse and easy to make. These recipes include entrees such as Indian Vegetable Curry and Pad Thai, desserts such as Banana Coconut Cream Pie, and a wide variety of salads, breads, crackers, side dishes, shakes, smoothies, soups, dressings, marinades, dips, and much more. Unlike many natural foods recipe books, this one uses only familiar, easy-to-find ingredients.

The book ends with a list of sources for blenders, juicers, kitchen gadgets, organic and specialty foods, as well as health retreat centers. It also includes a glossary and recommended reading list.

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Pilates For Dummies

Author: Ellie Herman

Once the secret fitness weapon of professional dancers, athletes, and movie stars, Pilates is sweeping the country with a vengeance. And if even half of what its many fans claim is true, then it’s easy to see why. Combining elements of yoga, dance, gymnastics, and boxing, along with many original movements, Pilates exercises build muscle tone, improve flexibility and balance, lengthen the spine, increase body awareness, and repair past injuries. Most people who’ve done it, even for a short time, say they feel stronger and more energized, centered and physically confident than ever before. They also like having the flat tummies, tight buns, and long lean thighs of a dancer.

Pilates For Dummies lets you get on board with the Pilates method , without the high cost of private instruction. Packed with step-by-step exercises, photos, and illustrations, it helps you develop your own Pilates fitness program to do at home or in the gym. Top Pilates trainer Ellie Herman shows you how to use eight basic Pi lates principles to get the most out of your mat-based routines and:

Look and feel better than ever
Get stronger, more flexible, in control and less prone to injury
Target and tone problem areas
Get movie star abs, buns, thighs and arms
Repair chronic stress and sports injuries

Calmly, clearly, and with quirky good humor, Ellie explores the origins and basic philosophy of the Pilates method, and helps you set realistic fitness goals and custom-tailor a program. She also covers:

Basic, intermediate , and advanced mat exercises
Using Pilates exercise equipment and accessories
Targeting specific areasincluding the stomach, back, thighs, and chest
Pilates for the pregnant and recently pregnant body
Using Pilates to heal injuries, reform posture
Ten simple ways to incorporate Pilates into your everyday life
Combining Pilates with other forms of exercise, including yoga, swimming, aerobics, and more

Why let the rich and famous have all the fun? Your complete, friendly, step-by-step guide, Pilates For Dummies shows how Pilates can offer a fitness program for the rest of us.

Husband Coached Childbirth or The Good Mood Diet

2009-01-04T10:56:00.000-08:00

Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method Of Natural Childbirth

Author: Robert A Bradley MD

Laughter in the birthing room, dramatically shorter labor, a reduction of pain, an absence of drugs, fewer complications, robust newborns, and a spirit of pride and joy are the common experiences of couples who use The Bradley Method of childbirth. Developed by renowned obstetrician Dr. Robert A. Bradley, this completely natural method, based on a calming pattern of relaxation, abdominal breathing, and loving teamwork between husband and wife, is now preferred by thousands of physicians and used by couples all over the world. It allows expectant mothers to enjoy the total support of their partners, gives fathers a chance to fully participate in the birth of their children, and provides babies with the best, and healthiest, of all possible starts. Now fully revised and updated, Husband-Coached Childbirth takes parents-to-be step-by-step through the prenatal stages and moment-by-moment through first- and second-stage labor and the actual birth.

	Author's Preface to the Fourth Edition	1
	Foreword	3
1	Introduction	7
2	The Theory of Natural Childbirth	15
3	"It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature"	21
4	Where Do Fathers Fit In?	48
5	Preparation and First-Stage Labor	57
6	Second-Stage Labor and Birth	86
7	The Coach's Training Rules	110
8	Psychological Rules, or How to Live with a Pregnant Wife	137
9	"Does My Wife Have to Be 'Cut' (Have an Episiotomy)?"	163
10	When Will the Baby Come?	170
11	Postpartum and Family Relations	185
12	The Husband's Role in Breast-Feeding	196
13	The Nature of Instinct	205
14	Research Catches Up with The Bradley Method	211
15	Obstacles to Overcome	215
16	Natural Pregnancy Loss	224
17	"Daddy Helped Born Me"	229
18	Pregnancy Problems: Natural Prevention	236
19	Pregnancy Problems: Natural Healing	248
20	Comments on Using The Bradley Method	257
	Index	269

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The Good Mood Diet: Feel Great While You Lose Weight

Author: Susan M Kleiner

The first diet that will help you feel good while losing weight written by a respected nutritionist and author of the bestselling books Power Eating and Power Food. Dr. Kleiner is a leading nutrition authority on eating for strength who has put together a diet that has already been successfully tested in a Seattle weight-loss group and documented in a series by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This book proves that you can choose healthy foods that both make you feel great and, when eaten according to the plan, help you lose weight. Most diets cause chemical changes in the brain that make the dieter feel depressed. The typical plan is often too low in calories. In THE GOOD MOOD DIET the participants eat feel-good foods with both ideal timing and ideal combinationsa balance of protein and fats to go with carbohydrates. Eating from a list of feel-good foods, including fish, flax seed and eggs, and eliminating feel-bad foods including refined sugar, helps dieters feel better and lose weight. However, sweets and alcohol are not taboo. Eating a bit of chocolate and drinking a glass of red wine a day is okay once youre two weeks into the diet.

Library Journal

What you eat affects how you feel; you can even eat in such a way that will maximize your energy levels and improve your mood while helping you lose weight. This is the basic premise of the Good Mood Diet, as presented by nutritionist Kleiner (Power Eating) and Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Condor. The authors break food down into "feel great foods" and "feel bad foods," explaining each food type's effect on your body and energy levels. The key is the right combination of "feel good foods" at each meal. Those looking for a diet that doesn't make them give up coffee or diet soda will appreciate the tips offered on how to enjoy coffee, alcohol, chocolate, and fast food in moderation while still following the plan. The various real-life experiences and success stories shared will encourage readers to give the plan a try, and the nearly 50 pages of recipes, which cover breakfast to dessert, along with the 14 days' worth of menus, will help them get started. Suitable for all public libraries.-Mindy Rhiger, Sagebrush Books, Minneapolis Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

The Science of Staying Young or Baby Matters

2009-01-04T00:45:00.000-08:00

The Science of Staying Young: 10 Simple Steps to Slowing the Aging Process

Author: John E Morley

Can exercise prevent gray hair?

Is wine consumption better than drinking beer or hard liquor?

Is testosterone important only for men?

How much fish should you eat each week?Just because your chronological age is going up, it doesn’t mean aches and pains, weight gain, and lack of energy have to get you down. You can prevent and reverse the symptoms of aging! Combining Dr. John Morley’s research on aging, hormones, and disease management with Dr. Sheri Colberg’s expertise in exercise science and sports nutrition, this comprehensive guide breaks everything down into ten simple steps for maintaining an optimal quality of life. Follow the suggestions in this book, and in a matter of weeks you’ll begin to experience:

An upsurge in your energy levels
An enhanced enjoyment of your life and daily activities
A noticeable increase in the sharpness of your mind
A stronger sex drive

You can pick and choose among hundreds of antiaging tips to find what’s right for you. You’ll discover the best foods to eat, why alcohol can be beneficial (and how much to drink), what types of exercise are important, which hormones are a waste of your money and which really work, how to keep your mind sharp, and why weight loss may not be advisable at certain ages. In addition, you’ll find all the latest information you need to keep your heart healthy, prevent cancer, strengthen your bones, keep your joints limber, and stay on your feet.

The Science of Staying Young is not just about aging gracefully—it’s about living and feeling your best for the rest of your life.

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Baby Matters: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Caring for Your Baby

Author: Linda Folden Palmer

Baby Matters is a groundbreaking new book from a mother with both rigorous scientific training and an extensive alternative health background. Dr. Linda Palmer exhaustively lists the scientific evidence behind natural, attachment parenting, breastfeeding, immune support, and food allergies. She brings the truth behind colic, SIDS, ADHD, and cow's milk, and shows the harm incurred by 'modern' pediatric, science-conquering-nature practices.

Preface     xi
Prologue     1
Finding Out What Matters     5
The Attachment Advantage     17
Bonding: The Inside Story     41
Crying & Caring     65
Brighter Babies, Not Super Babies     99
Immune Protection Matters     113
Digestion Matters     149
In the Womb & the First Few Days     169
Baby's Nutritional Beginnings     191
Baby Feeding: Facts & Fallacies     217
The Dangers of Cow's Milk     241
Colic to Ear Infections, Behavior to Bedwetting     275
Allergy Matters     311
Discovering, Preventing & Treating Food Allergies     331
Epilogue     359
Notes     361
Recommended Reading     399
Index     403

Tattooing New York City or Confronting Your Spouses Pornography Problem

2009-01-03T15:33:00.000-08:00

Tattooing New York City: Style and Continuity in a Changing Art Form

Author: Michael McCab

This book is an exploration into the unique continuity that exists in New York City between the past and present of the intriguing art form of tattooing. Here the electric tattoo machine was developed, and has had a unique influence in modern tattooing worldwide. The technical and artistic values that first coalesced here during the early 20th century now are intrinsic to the art form. This creative process was pushed underground in the early 1960s when tattooing was banned in New York. After 35 years of marginalization, the city re-legalized tattooing in 1997 in response to the unprecedented surge in public enthusiasm and demand. Today, tattoo artists explore their trade as never before in the five boroughs of New York City; such rapid growth and change has put pressure on an art that continues to emphasize the values formalized over 100 years ago. Hundreds of color photos illustrate this fascinating text, which includes commentary from artists past and present.

Confronting Your Spouse's Pornography Problem

Author: Rory C Reid

Addressing the modern issue of addiction to Internet pornography, this evaluation guides spouses struggling to find ways to confront this problem in their married lives. Calling on years of counseling experience and clinical study, the authors cover the most concerning issues of this addiction, from understanding the importance of disclosure to reestablishing trust for the success of a long-term marriage. Containing valuable information gathered from experience, research, and the testimonies of clients struggling to overcome these issues, this guide helps couples confront and overcome the hurdles of related activities such as illicit chat rooms, cybersex, and predatory behavior towards minors.

Library Journal

While compulsive viewing of hard-core pornography is a prevalent and relationship-damaging problem, little has been written for those suffering its effects. Licensed therapists Reid and Gray, who specialize in sexually compulsive behavior and addictions, respectively, have developed a guide for partners or spouses wanting to put an end to the pornography issues. The authors frankly and respectfully address the emotional issues involved and help both the addict and the injured spouse set attainable goals and make realistic compromises to restore the relationship. Timely material highly recommended for all libraries. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

First Year Sobriety or New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder

2009-01-03T03:22:00.000-08:00

First-Year Sobriety: When All That Changes Is Everything (Harper Sobriety Series, Volume 1)

Author: Guy Kettelhack

The first in a series of three recovery guides for the first three years of sobriety, First-Year Sobriety uses the voices of many women and men who are struggling in the often baffling territory of their first year of sobriety to show that despite their differing experiences, all are united in the process of giving life without alcohol or other drugs a chance.

These are people who are alternately amazed, appalled, delighted, depressed, illuminated, disturbed, or simply thrown by their first days, weeks, and months of sobriety. Kettelhack explores the challenges all seem to face: learning to break through loneliness, isolation, and fear; finding ways to deal with anger, depression, and resentment; and learning how to deal with a new and sometimes overwhelming happiness.

Guy Kettelhack has written seven books on recovery. He is completing a Master's degree in psychoanalysis, and is an analyst-in-training at the Boston and New York Centers for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. A graduate of Middlebury College, Kettelhack has also done graduate work in English literature at Bread Loaf School of English at Oxford University. He lives in New York City.

New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions

Author: Jan Fawcett

The second edition of this groundbreaking guidebook provides up-to-date treatments and compassionate guidance for anyone affected by bipolar disorder—from the recently diagnosed to chronic sufferers and their families. You’ll receive tips from world-renowned experts—including coauthor Nancy Rosenfeld, herself a bipolar survivor—and learn about vital new options and innovations in bipolar treatment and research, such as:

•New precautions: why some patients can get worse rather than better when taking antidepressant medication

•The inside story on atypical antipsychotic medications, antidepressants, and other medications that affect neurotransmitters

•New genetic research, studies on serotonin, studies into childhood and adolescent bipolar disorder, and results of neuron imaging and neuropsychological testing

•Advice on making instant, effective lifestyle changes, coping with stigma, and deciding whether or not—and how—to disclose your illness to others.

•A guide to the many evolving forms of psychotherapy

Mary Ann Hughes - Library Journal

There are a number of self-help titles for people with bipolar disorder, but this one has several singular features. For starters, it's written by a full-treatment team-a psychiatrist (Fawcett), a psychologist (Bernard Golden), and a patient (Nancy Rosenfeld)-so readers are given a unique combination of expertise and practical tips for daily coping. Medications, forms of therapy, suicide prevention, childhood and adolescent bipolar illness, how to deal with the stigma of mental illness, and information for family members and friends count among the topics covered. This revised edition includes a new chapter titled "Questions and Answers Regarding Bipolar Disorder," updated resources, and new information on medications; the latter alone justifies the price of updating for those libraries that own the first edition (2000). This book, along with E. Fuller Torrey and Michael Knable's Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers, should be in every public library, no matter how small.

Back to Eden or Light Emerging

2009-01-02T17:10:00.000-08:00

Back to Eden

Author: Jethro Kloss

Now in its expanded, updated revised edition, this is the original classic text (with more than 5-million copies sold) that helped create the natural foods industry. It remains today one of the major texts on herbs, natural diet and lifestyle and wholistic health.

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Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing

Author: Barbara Ann Brennan

Barbara Ann Brennan's bestselling first book, Hands of Light, established her as one of the world's most gifted healers and teachers. Now, in her long-awaited new work, she continues her ground-breaking exploration of the human energy field, or auro - the source of our experience of health or illness. Drawing on many new developments in her teaching and practice, she shows how we can be empowered as both patients and healers to understand and work with our most fundamental healing power: the light that emerges from the very center of our humanity

In a unique approach that encourages a cooperative effort among healer, patient, and other health-care providers, Light Emerging explains what the healer perceives visually, audibly, and kinesthetically and how each of us can participate in every stage of the healing process.

Presenting a fascinating range of research, from a new paradigm of healing based on the science of holography to insights into the "hara level" and the "core star", Light Emerging is at the leading edge of healing practice in our time. You'll discover:

How each of us can tap our innate power to heal ourselves and others

A complete patient's guide to working with a healer: How a healer's technique and goals differ from those of a physician or a therapist and how these professinals can best cooperate to facilitate healing

The seven layers of the healing process: how to meet your needs on each level, plus step-by-step instructions for creating your own healing plan

Startling new information about energy interactions in relationships and how to break through negative patterns to new, positive contracts with those closest to us

The crucial connection between healing, creativity, and transcendence

And much more

Complete with case histories, exercises, and both black-and-white and full-color illustrations, Light Emerging offers a new path to healing, wholeness, and expanded consciousness.

Library Journal

Research physicist and founder of her own school, Brennan is a leading New Age healer. She provides here a useful introduction to the scientific background behind her laying-on-of-hands technique. Brennan offers an explanation of her healing perspective and its use in conjunction with medical therapy, the stages and importance of self-care, and healing relationships through auric field interaction and higher spiritual realities. She encourages taking personal responsibility for one's health through a holistic approach and consultation with nontraditional specialists as well as a physician. This self-help book may become a New Age classic. Highly recommended.

	Introduction. A New Paradigm: Healing and the Creative Process
Pt. I	An Overview of Healing in Our Time
1	The Gift of Healing	3
2	The Four Dimensions of Your Creative Energies	13
3	A New View of Healing - The Holographic Experience	31
4	Honoring Your Balancing System	43
Pt. II	The Techniques of Healing in Our Time
	Introduction. My Personal Perspective As a Healer	53
5	What Your Healer Will Do That Your Physician or Therapist Will Not	57
6	The Healer-Physician Team	67
Pt. III	The Personal Experience of Healing
	Introduction. Time to Take Care of Yourself	81
7	The Seven Stages of Healing	83
8	The Seven Levels of the Healing Process	91
Pt. IV	Creating a Healing Plan
	Introduction. Creating Your Personal Healing Plan	103
9	The Energies of the Earth As Foundation to Life	105
10	Your Physical Body As Spiritual Habitat	119
11	Healing Yourself with Love by Letting Go of Perfectionism	131
12	Healing Through Self-Awareness	145
Pt. V	Healing and Relationships
	Introduction. The Importance of Relationships to Your Health	159
13	Creating Healthy Relationships	161
14	The Three Types of Auric Field Interactions in Relationships	177
15	Observations of Auric Interactions During Relationships	203
Pt. VI	Healing Through Our Higher Spiritual Realities
	Introduction. Integrating Your Higher Spiritual Aspects and Deeper Dimensions into Your Healing Plan	261
16	The Process of Guidance in Your Life	263
17	Our Intentionality and the Hara Dimension	287
18	Our Divine Core	305
	Appendix A. Healing Session with Richard W.	319
	Appendix B. Types of Health-Care Professionals	325
	Appendix C. The Barbara Brennan School of Healing	329
	Bibliography	331
	Index	335

	Preface
1	What Are Bipolar Disorders?	1
2	Getting a Diagnosis	27
3	Differential Diagnosis	41
4	Medical Care	67
5	Talk Therapy	142
6	Complementary Therapies	161
7	Healthcare and Insurance	210
8	Living with Bipolar Disorders	250
	A: Resources	297
B	The Genetics of Bipolar Disorders	332
C	Diagnostic Tests	336
	Notes	340
	Index	347

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Sports and Exercise Nutrition or The Fast Food Diet

Sports and Exercise Nutrition

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The Fast-Food Diet: Quick and Healthy Eating at Home and on the Go

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Sex Health and Long Life or Chasing Life

Sex, Health, and Long Life: Manuals of Taoist Practice

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Natural Menopause or THE ADHD HANDBOOK

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Body Speaks or Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning Disabilities

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Body of Health or Pampered Pregnancy Bliss Box

Body of Health: The New Science of Intuition Medicine for Energy and Balance

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Pampered Pregnancy Bliss Box: An Aromatherapy Kit for Wellness and Comfort

Through the Dark Woods or Herbs against Cancer

Through the Dark Woods: A Young Woman's Journey Out of Depression

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Elijahs Cup or 100 Questions and Answers about Prostate Disease

Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

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Staying Connected While Letting Go or Power Tennis Training

Staying Connected While Letting Go: The Paradox of Alzheimer's Caregiving

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Brendas Wardrobe Companion or Moms with ADD

Brenda's Wardrobe Companion: A Workbook for Getting the Look You Want, with the Clothes You Love

Moms with ADD: A Self-Help Manual

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New Hope for People with Lupus or Run Strong

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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis or Brain Development

Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References (3-in-1 Medical Reference Series)

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Brain Development: Normal Processes and the Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine

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Cuidate or Complete Book of Stretching

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The Book of Skin or The Right to Die

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The Right to Die?: Caring Alternatives to Euthanasia

Men Are Stupid and They Like Big Boobs or Understanding Skin Problems

Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery

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Tabla de calor as or Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine

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Running on Ritalin or Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Counseling and Psychotherapy

Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill

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