Able Bodies Balance Training or Is It Love or Is It Sex

ABLE Bodies Balance Training

Author: Sue Scott

ABLE Bodies Balance Training offers an activity-based program to improve balance and mobility for both fit and frail older adults. This practical instructor's guide provides more than 130 balance and mobility exercises that consider flexibility, strength, and cardiorespiratory endurance. The exercises enhance older adults' abilities to maintain balance in completing their everyday tasks, thereby fostering increased self-confidence, reducing the occurrence of falls, and improving quality of life.

The text is based on ABLE Bodies techniques, which were proven effective in a randomized, controlled study funded by the National Blueprint and Active Aging Partnership. Results showed that ABLE Bodies training significantly improved balance, mobility, activity levels, gait speed, flexibility, and strength for participants 70 years of age and older living in retirement and assisted living facilities.

ABLE Bodies Balance Training uses current research and a component-based approach to balance training. Instructors are encouraged to use activities covering all five components of the program: flexibility, posture and core stability, strength, cardiorespiratory endurance, and balance and mobility. The exercises and activities are easily implemented with the use of existing facilities and inexpensive equipment. They also encourage fun and social interaction, helping instructors to create and maintain an energized and positive environment that improves communication, motivation, and overall progress. The program may be used in group or individual settings and can be customized according to level of experience:

• Beginning instructors can follow the 16-week sessionplan as a well-balanced training program that safely progress older adults through the exercises. The material is complete and may extend to a yearlong program.
• More experienced instructors may select exercises and activities from each of the five component categories to meet the individual needs of their older adult clients. The component-based organization of the text allows instructors to easily incorporate both exercises and conceptual ideas in fun, engaging, and creative ways into their existing programs.

As a bonus, access to a dedicted ABLE Bodies Balance Training Web site is included with the book. It offers 15 downloadable activity handouts that instructors can print out and distribute to patients or clients for use at home. It also offers downloadable handouts of all the balance training activities in the book-over 130 conceptual ideas and activities to choose from either for planning their own sessions or for aiding their delivery of the 16-week session plan. The text also offers a variety of tools, including step-by-step instructions, sample phrasing to use when encouraging participants, ideas on making activities progressively more difficult, and tips on promoting safety while performing the exercises.

The proven exercises and conceptual activities found in ABLE Bodies Balance Training offer both fit and frail seniors increased independence in daily living. By incorporating the ABLE Bodies Balance Training program into their work, fitness and health care professionals will educate and motivate older adults to increase stability and improve self-confidence and health.

Table of Contents:

Part I: All About ABLE Bodies Balance Training

Chapter 1: Components of ABLE Bodies Training
There's more to balance training than just balance! This chapter outlines the five components that make up an ABLE bodies training program: flexibility, posture and core stability, strength for a purpose, balance and mobility, and cardiorespiratory endurance.

Chapter 2: Setting Up ABLE Bodies Training Sessions
You know the components, but how do you combine them to create a solid training program? This chapter explains how to set up classes, how to select and progress activities, and how to be a more effective instructor.

Chapter 3: Ensuring Safety in ABLE Bodies Training
No matter how well you set up your training sessions, they aren't any good without the proper safety guidelines in place. This chapter outlines how to create plans and establish rules, ensure the mental and physical well-being of your participants, and prepare for emergencies.

Part II: ABLE Bodies Balance Training Activities

Chapter 4: Flexibility
Flexibility offers a greater range of motion, and that is key in older adults. In this chapter, you'll find flexibility activities that can be done while seated or standing, as well as conceptual activities.

Chapter 5: Posture and Core Stability
A strong core is key to good posture and overall balance. This chapter offers activities specific to both posture and core stability, as well as activities that progressively increase strength in these two areas.

Chapter 6: Strength for a Purpose
Overall strength is a goal, but there are also specificareas that need more attention in older populations. In this chapter, you'll find lots of strength activities for the legs, back, chest, and triceps.

Chapter 7: Balance and Mobility
If you want activities that focus on balance, then this chapter is for you! Activities in this chapter focus on gait, activities of daily living, vision, and motor coordination. You'll also find games that target all areas.

Chapter 8: Cardiorespiratory Endurance
Adding cardiorespiratory elements to balance training is easy! This chapter offers lots of ideas for setting up sessions dedicated to cardiorespiratory endurance or adding cardiorespiratory endurance activities to your balance classes.

Appendix A: Sample Balance Training Sessions
Appendix B: Template for ABLE Bodies Balance Training Sessions
Appendix C: Certificate of Completion

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Is It Love or Is It Sex?: Why Relationships Don't Work

Author: Carla Wills Brandon

With the help of Is It Love Or Is It Sex?, Carla Wills-Brandon assists readers in examining why we may be experiencing difficulty in our primary love relationship. Problems of sex, intimacy, communication, loneliness and frustration can be resolved. Relationships do not have to fail and intimacy is possible. Love can blossom again.

Author Biography: Carla Wills-Brandon has authored numerous self-help books and has worked for close to two decades as a licensed marriage and family therapist, educator and lecturer. In her private practice, she and her husband, Michael Brandon, Ph.D. work with couples as a couple. Wills-Brandon has an MA in Psychology and a Ph.D. in nutrition.

Saving Your Skin or Tamilee Webbs Defy Gravity Workout

Saving Your Skin: Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment of Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers

Author: Barney J Kenet

An all-around guide, "Saving Your Skin" includes information on how to detect melanoma in its early stages--with descriptions of what it is and what causes it--how to fight sun, the skin's worst enemy; how to perform a skin self-exam at home; how to pick a dermatologist; patient support networks; and more. Color photos. Illustrations.

Library Journal

Despite continued warnings about sun exposure, melanoma ``is increasing at a faster rate than any other cancer in the U.S.'' By the year 2000, one percent of all Americans will be affected; approximately 32,000 citizens were diagnosed with this cancer in 1993. Kenet, a dermatologist at Cornell Medical Center, and Lawler, a former consumer reporter and cofounder of the American Melanoma Foundation, provide statistics, history, a list of risk factors, and sobering vignettes in this comprehensive guide. Especially helpful is their information on identification, screening, treatment, and prevention of the disease. Experimental therapies and techniques such as vaccine therapy and biopsies through computer imaging are clearly explained. The authors' practical and thorough advice on such topics as choosing a physician and the stages of melanoma will answer worrisome questions faced by cancer patients and their families. Most books available on melanoma are expensive clinical texts; this is an excellent medium-priced selection. Recommended for popular health collections.-Catherine Greene, Bethesda Memorial Hosp. Lib., Boynton Beach, Fla.

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Tamilee Webb's Defy Gravity Workout: The Revolutionary Workout Program that Lifts and Tones Your Entire Body

Author: Tamilee Webb

What do you do when you're renowned for being the "Buns of Steel woman" and you turn 40?

Gravity works against all of us as we age, even the fittest among us. Tamilee Webb knows firsthand how to use exercise to combat the drooping, sagging effects of gravity, and in this book she presents a comprehensive plan for lifting and toning your entire body.

This is the first book to address this need head-on, and who better to do it than Tamilee Webb, famous worldwide for her buns, thighs, and abs "of steel," now in her forties and looking more sensational than ever! Tamilee Webb's Defy Gravity Workout combines walking with resistance exercise to create a "miracle workout" for women over 40 who, despite doing aerobics and yoga, still face a droopy figure when they catch a glimpse in the mirror. This program does what other fitness programs can't because it works the muscles in the right order at the right time, helping women of all shapes and sizes truly defy gravity!

Yoga of the Nine Emotions or Detox Manual

Yoga of the Nine Emotions: The Tantric Practice of Rasa Sadhana

Author: Peter Marchand

HINDUISM / SELF-HELP

Rasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the mind. The tantric tradition recognizes nine Rasas that represent our basic emotions: Love, Joy, Wonder, Courage, Calmness, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Disgust. A study of the Rasas provides us with an objective language for examining our emotions and increasing our emotional intelligence. Those who practice Rasa Sadhana learn to overcome negative emotions in order to pursue better health, enhanced spiritual growth, and enduring happiness.

Our emotions are continuously affected by the interplay of our senses, the elements, food, and the life force in our body. In The Yoga of the Nine Emotions, Peter Marchand presents the “technology” for changing our emotional patterns in the form of practical physiological and philosophical tools from tantric and ayurvedic traditions. He explains the nature and purpose of each Rasa and how we can strengthen or weaken one Rasa through another. He also offers ayurvedic cooking guidelines and daily routines for balancing sensory input and strengthening emotional health, including fasting from negative emotions as well as how to energize positive ones. In addition, The Yoga of the Nine Emotions provides guidelines for integrating a Rasa Sadhana practice with other yoga practices. As we master our emotions through the practice of Rasa Sadhana, we gain true control of our lives and our relationships with others.

PETER MARCHAND became a student of Harish Johari in 1983 and is one of the founders of Sanatan Society, a networking organization of family and students of Harish Johari. He travels to Indiaannually and teaches Rasa Sadhana in Europe, America, and Asia. He lives in Belgium. Harish Johari (1934-1999) was a tantric scholar, poet, musician, composer, artist, and gemologist. He authored twelve books, including Chakras, Tools for Tantra, and Ayurvedic Healing Cuisine.

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Detox Manual: Achieving Optimal Health through Natural Detoxification and Lifestyle Therapies

Author: Suzannah Olivier

Do you suffer from cellulite, headaches, rashes, fatigue, bad breath, non-arthritic joint aches or nausea? Beat them by following The Detox Manual.

Hal Higdons Smart Running or Allergies

Hal Higdon's Smart Running: Expert Advice on Training, Motivation, Injury Prevention, Nutrition and Good Health

Author: Hal Higdon

Your running questions answered.

As the expert on Runner's World magazine's Web site, Hal Higdon receives nearly 1,000 questions a month from runners around he world. Questions from how to heal shinsplints to how to use running to safely shed pounds. Hal taps into 40 years of running experience and a wide network of exercise scientists and doctors to bring readers sound advice. And in Hal Higdon's Smart Running, he brings this same experience and knowledge to new and veteran runners.

You'll discover:

* How to fit running into a busy lifestyle
* What the best program is to lose weight
* How to run a faster 5-K
* How to motivate yourself to exercise consistently
* If you are ready to run a marathon
* What the best types of running shoes are
* What the difference is between muscle soreness and an injury
* What to eat before a race
* How to run safely at night
* How much cross-training should be in your running program
* If you should run less as you get older
* How to train for a marathon
* If your diet should be high in carbohydrates
* How much speedwork should be in your workouts
* What the newest fabrics in running clothes are

Kick!

...[C]hock full of solid advice that makes it a worthy addition to the bookshelf. While the experience of reading the book is a bit like scrolling through an online discussion board, Higdon somehow manages to make it all hang together.

Interesting textbook: Abortion and Life or Our Undemocratic Constitution

Allergies: Disease in Disguise

Author: Carolee Bateson Koch

Learn how to achieve complete and permanent recovery from allergies and gain invaluable understanding of health and well being. This book provides insight into why allergy is becoming more common, how it relates to environmental factors, food additives, diet, digestion, body chemistry, addiction, yeasts, molds, parasites and childhood illnesses - and why enzymes are the key to healing.

Younger by the Day or AARP Living with Heart Disease

Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Author: Victoria Moran

Inspiring advice and tips for the reversal of aging-mentally and physically-with the promise that readers will look and feel younger after one year's time.

"Wouldn't it be delicious if, even for a little while, I could age in reverse? What if I could short-circuit time and gravity and those psychopathic molecules that oxidize and make the years show up bigger than life? How great would it be if I could get absolution for the suntans and sundaes, the late nights and worrying I indulged in once upon a time, or two weeks ago Thursday?"

With a resounding "Yes!" Victoria Moran's Younger by the Day: An Enlightened Guide to Aging in Reverse, Inside & Out, One Day at a Time, answers these questions and details the physical habits, mental attitudes, and spiritual disciplines that make this not just a lovely dream, but a dream come true.

While we believe we're worried about gray roots and smile lines, the truth is that we're really worried about what these represent: loss of identity, diminished regard from the culture at large, and less time to make the rest of our dreams come true. Younger by the Day does not gloss over this inner angst. Instead, it meets it-with empathy, compassion, humor, and immediately usable information from West and East, medicine and metaphysics. At the end of a year, the reader will look and feel like a younger woman. This book can deliver that promise. One might think of it as Simple Abundance for middle-age: designed to be used over a year's time, directed to women, and coming straight from the heart.

Younger by the Day is light, friendly, honest and witty. More importantly, it's both a practical guide to the adventure of growing younger and an inspiring companion for the journey. While many of the books are written by physicians or models, Victoria is much more like the reader herself. She's a big sister, a best friend, and she knows what it's like to be afraid of entering a new phase of life, has overcome those fears, and looks substantially younger because of it. The reader benefits from Victoria's experience with 365 select techniques to help her love her age instead of look it.

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AARP Living with Heart Disease

Author: Larry Katzenstein

Chronic heart disease—heart attacks and strokes—causes more than 40 percent of all deaths in the United States. That’s 950,000 people each year or one person every 33 seconds. Statistically more vulnerable with age, hundreds of men and women begin the struggle to manage or prevent its occurrence every day. So naturally it’s on the mind of older Americans and the family members who cherish them. What exactly is heart disease—and what forms does it take? Who gets it, and how is it diagnosed? What steps can you take to prevent the problem from worsening? Which are the best therapies? How can you best reduce stress, lower weight, control blood pressure? AARP has the answers.
The superbly organized and authoritative text includes chapters covering key issues, which range from definition to diagnosis and from treatment to lifestyle changes that address issues specifically identified with heart disease. These include: nutrition, high cholesterol, prevention, smoking, and sex and intimacy. The book casts an eye on the future, too, with information on medicines and treatments currently under development or on the horizon. The appendix offers useful point-by-point checklists for managing your treatment, information on handling medical emergencies, and resources.
This guide provides expert medical information and valuable advice that no older adult will want to do without!

Table of Contents:

Biographies     viii
Credits     x
Editorial Board     xi
Introduction     xiii
The Healthy Heart     1 The Heart Is a Muscle A Fantastic Voyage through the Heart
What Is Heart Disease?     11
The ABCs of Coronary Artery Disease
What Is a Heart Attack?
The Warning Signs of Angina
Cardiomyopathy
Heart Failure
Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
Heart-Valve Disease
The Risk of Stroke
Recognizing the Symptoms of a Stroke
Heed the Signs of Impending Attack
Reducing Your Risk     33
Assessing Your Risk
Damn the Torpor!
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Cholesterol
Strategies to Control Cholesterol
Cigarette Smoking
Metabolic Syndrome
Diabetes
Being Overweight
The Dangers of Stress
Summarizing Your Risk Factors
Do You Have Heart Disease?     59
When Symptoms Matter
Patient, Heed Thyself
Health History & Physical Exam
Living Well with Heart Disease     87
Improving Heart Health with Exercise
Heart-Healthy Eating
If You Smoke, Stop!
Be Smart for Your Heart
Less Stress Is Best
Combining Lifestyle Measures to Control Hypertension & Cholesterol
When You Need Treatment     151
Medications
High Cholesterol
The Benefits of Drug Therapy
Treating Angina
Treatment for a Heart Attack
Treating Heart Failure
Treating Heart-Rhythm Problems
Treatment for Heart-Valve Disease
Recovering Physically & Emotionally     217
Cardiac Rehab & Secondary Prevention: A Second Chance for Your Heart
Who Needs Cardiac Rehab?
Recovering Emotionally from Heart Disease
Sex, Intimacy & Heart Disease
Treatment Advances on the Horizon     235
New Angina Treatment
Heart-Valve Improvements
Success in Stopping Failure
Hypertension & Its Newfound Nemeses
Patches for Damaged Hearts
Let's Build a Better Blood Vessel
The Stem-Cell Promise
A Scaffold for Heart Repair?
New Insight into an Old Drug
Appendices     251
Resources
Additional Resources from AARP
Dealing with Emergencies
Index     263

Expert Guide to Oncology or Yoga for Men

Expert Guide to Oncology

Author: Jacob D Bitran

Expert Guide to Oncology provides the primary care physician with the essential knowledge of clinical oncology to address the needs of cancer patients and to build the framework for continuing dialogue with the oncology/hematology specialist, surgeon, and radiation oncologist. This book is designed to demystify cancer medicine and provide solid advice to physicians who care for cancer patients.

Kathleen A. Havlin

This book is an overview of the essentials of clinical oncology with the case presentations of some of the more complex issues and decision-making in oncology, The purpose is to provide the essentials of oncologic diagnosis and treatment through didactic material and case presentations. These are appropriate objectives, particularly in view of our aging population and with malignancy as the second highest cause of mortality in the U.S. The author's objectives are successfully met. The audience, according to the author, includes medical students, residents, and family practice and internal medicine practitioners. The audience is appropriate. The author is a credible authority in the field of hematology/oncology. In the first half of the text, general information regarding the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and staging of malignancy is presented, with specific topics related to the care of the patient with malignancy. In the second half there is a discussion of the presentation, evaluation, and treatment of specific malignancies. The use of case presentations and flow diagrams (evaluation of breast lump, lung nodule) are particularly instructive and demonstrate major concepts end salient points important to the management of oncology patients. Shortcomings include a somewhat liberal list of indications for PET scanning in Table 3-12 (not currently recommended for staging in NCCN guidelines for lung cancer); Table 5-4 has reversed dosages for granisetron and ondansetron; Table 12-3 lists CMF or MF as equivalent therapy for LN- ER- breast cancer, which is no longer accurate (updated data from 1997 NSABP meeting reveal statistically significant benefits for DFS and OS for CMF over MF). Inaddition, staging tables in Chapter 3 are repeated in subsequent chapters of specific malignancies and do add to the chapter. Although presenting a comprehensive guide to the approach of the patient with malignancy for the non-specialist is a daunting task for one author, Dr. Bitran is successful. The book contains useful information regarding the presentation, evaluation, and treatment of common malignancies. Flow diagrams and case presentations are instructive for any level practitioner. Although not as complex or in-depth as edited texts with multiple authors such as Weiss' Clinical Oncology (Appleton & Lange, 1993), students, residents, and primary care practitioners will find this a handy addition to their libraries.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Kathleen A. Havlin, MD (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description: This book is an overview of the essentials of clinical oncology with the case presentations of some of the more complex issues and decision-making in oncology,
Purpose: The purpose is to provide the essentials of oncologic diagnosis and treatment through didactic material and case presentations. These are appropriate objectives, particularly in view of our aging population and with malignancy as the second highest cause of mortality in the U.S. The author's objectives are successfully met.
Audience: The audience, according to the author, includes medical students, residents, and family practice and internal medicine practitioners. The audience is appropriate. The author is a credible authority in the field of hematology/oncology.
Features: In the first half of the text, general information regarding the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and staging of malignancy is presented, with specific topics related to the care of the patient with malignancy. In the second half there is a discussion of the presentation, evaluation, and treatment of specific malignancies. The use of case presentations and flow diagrams (evaluation of breast lump, lung nodule) are particularly instructive and demonstrate major concepts end salient points important to the management of oncology patients. Shortcomings include a somewhat liberal list of indications for PET scanning in Table 3-12 (not currently recommended for staging in NCCN guidelines for lung cancer); Table 5-4 has reversed dosages for granisetron and ondansetron; Table 12-3 lists CMF or MF as equivalent therapy for LN- ER- breast cancer, which is no longer accurate (updated data from 1997 NSABP meeting reveal statistically significant benefits for DFS and OS for CMF over MF). In addition, staging tables in Chapter 3 are repeated in subsequent chapters of specific malignancies and do add to the chapter.
Assessment: Although presenting a comprehensive guide to the approach of the patient with malignancy for the non-specialist is a daunting task for one author, Dr. Bitran is successful. The book contains useful information regarding the presentation, evaluation, and treatment of common malignancies. Flow diagrams and case presentations are instructive for any level practitioner. Although not as complex or in-depth as edited texts with multiple authors such as Weiss' Clinical Oncology (Appleton & Lange, 1993), students, residents, and primary care practitioners will find this a handy addition to their libraries.

Booknews

Provides primary care physicians with knowledge of clinical oncology essential for addressing the needs of cancer patients and for building a continuing dialogue with oncology/hematology specialists, surgeons, and radiation oncologists. Features detailed case histories that highlight the diagnosis and management of cancer in situations typical of those frequently encountered by physicians in the office setting. The author is director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Lutheran General Hospital and Cancer Care Center. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

William L. Medd
An outstanding book for the general internist. It is succinct and to the point. (William L. Medd, MD, FACP)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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Yoga for Men: Postures for Healthy, Stress-Free Living

Author: Thomas Clair

Here is a comprehensive introduction to yoga geared to men of all ages and backgrounds-whether they're athletic or sedentary, young or old, or devotees of yoga who seek new information to enhance their existing practices or neophytes just starting out on their yoga journeys.

The information is presented in simple, how-to form so that you can perform a basic, yet complete, yoga session on your own. It provides an overview of all the major styles of yoga so that you can custom tailor a practice to suit your needs. In addition, Yoga for Men includes information specific to men-yoga and male health concerns, yoga for all phases of a man's life, how yoga can enhance performance for athletic activities (and your sex life!), and how yoga can be enjoyed with a partner.

Yoga for Men provides today's man with a prescription for a lifestyle that unites body, mind, and spirit.

Table of Contents:

	Epigraph	13
	Preface	15
	Getting Started: How to Use This Book	17
	Introduction	23
Part I	Overview: Yoga as a Living Tree	31
Chapter 1	The Tree of Yoga	33
Part II	Hatha Yoga: The Main Traditions	41
Chapter 2	Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy: Swami Rama's Scientific Approach to Training the Mind Through the Body	43
Chapter 3	Integral Yoga: Sri Swami Satchidananda's Meditation for the Body	49
Chapter 4	Iyengar Yoga: B.K.S. Iyengar's Dynamic Precision	55
Chapter 5	Sivananda Yoga: Swami Vishnu-devananda's Classical Five-Point System	61
Chapter 6	Ashtanga Yoga: Power Yoga	67
Chapter 7	Kundalini Yoga: Igniting the Fire Within	75
Part III	Contemporary Adaptations of Yoga	85
Chapter 8	Kripalu Yoga: Breath, Meditation, and Motion	87
Chapter 9	Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy: Yoga Therapy Meets Talk Therapy	93
Chapter 10	Endless Yoga: Other Traditional Approaches and Contemporary Syntheses of Yoga	99
	A Complete Yoga Practice Session for Men	112
Part IV	Yoga for a Man's Special Needs	141
Chapter 11	Yoga for the Phases of a Man's Life	143
Chapter 12	Yoga for Athletics and Sports: How to Use Yoga to Make the Most of Your Fitness Activities	153
Chapter 13	Yoga for Men's Health: How Yoga Can Help You Maintain Your Health/Address Specific Men's Health Concerns	159
Chapter 14	Yoga and a Man's Sex Life: Enhancing Your Sexual Life With Yoga	181
Chapter 15	Partnered Yoga: Yoga Exercises, Stretches, and Poses You Can Do With a Friend, Lover/Partner/Spouse, Family Member, Coworker, or Workout Partner	193
Part V	The Yoga Lifestyle	203
Chapter 16	The Yoga Lifestyle: Yoga as a Way of Being a Man	205
Part VI	Supplemental Resource Information	223
Chapter 17	Resources for Further Exploration	225
	Afterword: The Yoga Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together	239
	Chapter Notes	245
	Bibliography	251
	Postscript	255
	Index	257
	About the Author	264

Fed Up or Stitch in Time Lifes Most Essential Hand Sewn Repairs

Fed Up!: Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity

Author: Susan Oki

Once dismissed by the medical profession as a purely cosmetic problem, obesity represents an ominous health threat for our children. Obesity is now second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death. Without early intervention, overweight children often become overweight adults - and we know that at any age obesity can lead to diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, and other life-threatening conditions. Diabetes and heart disease alone cause more than 780,000 deaths each year. In fact today's kids may be the first generation in U.S. history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Publishers Weekly

Drawing on up-to-date research as well as personal stories, Okie presents the astounding statistics on what she calls "the fattest generation" and the dire health risk the obesity epidemic poses. Okie, a Harvard-trained family physician and Washington Post medical reporter, tackles obesity's causes methodically and without sensation, explicating the biology of body mass and appetite regulation and the relationship between calorie intake and energy expenditure. She also examines some of the rare hormone problems and genetic disorders that, in a tiny minority of children, can cause obesity. Having explored how obesity lowers self-esteem, the author persuasively shows that recent shifts in the environment are most likely to blame for today's childhood obesity epidemic: sprawling suburban neighborhoods that discourage walking, ballooning portions in restaurant food, poor choices in school lunches, a decline in home cooking and the resulting tendency to snack rather than sit down for a family meal are among the factors she cites. Commenting analytically on pediatricians' reluctance to deal with obesity, Okie documents the innovative efforts of certain states and schools to engineer healthy eating and exercise programs. She also meets and describes several families who have put diet and exercise plans into action, or whose children have been hospitalized for obesity. Never preachy or patronizing, Okie will inform and empower all concerned parents about a problem whose time has come (as shown by a New York Times Magazine piece on the subject and recent books like Generation Extra Large. (Feb.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Stitch in Time ... Life's Most Essential Hand-Sewn Repairs (Finishing Touches Series)

Author: Clarice Taylor

The basic skills of homekeeping once were at everyone's fingertips. But the days when a girl sat at her mother's knee and observed the proper way to sew on a button or a young boy learned how to shine his shoes are long gone. Today, we are more likely to pay someone else to perform these minor repairs, or worse, toss something away simply because we don't know how to mend or clean it.Finishing Touches is a new series of small and stylish guides to the home arts. Easy to understand and clearly illustrated, each book offers complete instruction in the most essential techniques of each topic, beginning with a basic materials guide that details all the basic tools and products one should have on hand at all times. A Stitch in Time… demonstrates the seven basic sewing stitches that everyone should know, along with thirteen emergency fixes-from catching a hanging hem to repairing a torn pocket or ripped zipper-all completed without a machine. Author Bio: CLARICE TAYLOR is passionate about needle arts and handicrafts. Working in humanitarian affairs she has, during her assignments, learned about sewing arts from all over the world.

Savvy Patient or Bach Flowers

Savvy Patient: The Ultimate Advocate for Quality Healthcare

Author: Mark Pettus

The American health care system is an overwhelming and intimidating system to navigate. This is made even more challenging as we confront an illness or crisis in our lives or in the life of someone we love. For many patients and their families itâЂ™s like being cast adrift in the open sea during a storm. In his book, The Savvy Patient, Dr. Mark Pettus provides the information needed to understand the health care system in a caring and compassionate manner. Dr. Pettus helps you understand how to obtain the knowledge you need, communicate with health care workers, and negotiate and resolve conflicts as they come up. The Savvy Patient also provides question templates to guide you in acquiring the necessary information. If you ever wanted to just pick up the phone at any time of day or night and have a frank and caring talk with your doctor, The Savvy Patient is that conversation.

What People Are Saying

Daniel Goleman
"Dr. Mark Pettus has done us all a magnificent favor. In The Savvy Patient he shares the insider's view of medicine we need to get the care we want - a vitally important book that every patient should keep by the bedside."
—Author Emotional Intelligence.

Roger Fisher
"Excellent. Contains the best advice I know on doctor-patient negotiations. "
—Co-author Getting to Yes

Bernie Siegel
"An incredible source of information, which in the hands of an inspired patient, will help accomplish true healing."
—MD, Author Love, Medicine, and Miracles, Help Me to Heal and 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

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Bach Flowers

Author: Susan Holden

Innovative natural and holistic methods of healing are the subjects of these handy, portable guides to an improved body, mind, and spirit. From advice on how vitamins, minerals, and herbs can soothe the body, to information on the ability of plant oils, flowers, colors found in nature, and crystals to remedy both physical and emotional stress, these essential guides provide a fresh approach to self-healing.

Osteoarthritis or Yoga for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle

Osteoarthritis

Author: Nigel K Arden

Osteoarthritis is a common disorder of the joints that affects more than 2 million people in the UK, and studies suggest that this number will double in the next 20 years. The condition is strongly associated with ageing and is believed to affect up to 30% of people over 60 years of age. There are a number of misconceptions surrounding osteoarthritis and this, combined with the lack of effective drug treatments, often leaves patients dispirited and confused about their condition.
Osteoarthritis: The Facts helps patients and their carers better understand their condition with a view towards self-management. The text is designed to be easy to read and is organized into two main parts. Part 1 details what osteoarthritis is, what causes it, who it affects, what the main symptoms are, how it is diagnosed and what the long-term outcome is. Part 2 summarises the current management of osteoarthritis, including the role of exercise, diet, medication, "nutriceuticals", alternative therapies, and surgery. The book also includes a useful resources section, including information on support groups, websites, and further reading.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1 The background to osteoarthritis

1 What is osteoarthritis? 3

2 Why do we get osteoarthritis? 9

3 Joints and osteoarthritis 17

4 What are the symptoms and signs associated with osteoarthritis? 31

5 How is osteoarthritis diagnosed? 39

6 The long-term outlook for osteoarthritis 47

Pt. 2 The management of osteoarthritis

7 The management of osteoarthritis 57

8 Which health professionals are involved in osteoarthritis management? 69

9 Exercise 79

10 Diet 91

11 Glucosamine, vitamins, and osteoarthritis 103

12 Medicines used in osteoarthritis 109

13 Injection therapies 119

14 Pacing and maintaining activities 125

15 Device use and other therapies 135

16 Thoughts and emotions 141

17 Surgery 155

18 Complementary therapies 171

Useful addresses 183

Glossary 187

Index 193

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Yoga for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle

Author: Linda Sparrow

This book offers a complete program of yoga poses designed for menstrual health, new medical information on diet and lifestyle, and instruction on meditation and breathing techniques that relieve common symptoms experienced by many women, including: Premenstrual syndrome; Menstrual cramps; Heavy periods; Bloating and pain from uterine fibroids; Pain from endometriosis and pelvic inflammatory disease.

Library Journal

These two books discuss how yoga can be incorporated into women's overall wellness routines. In Yoga for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle, Sparrowe (The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health) openly discusses this traditionally sensitive health topic in light of current medical information and provides instructions for the accompanying yoga sessions, which were designed by Walden, an internationally recognized yoga teacher. The photographs of her executing the poses are clear and easy to follow. The idea is to relax during this physically and mentally stressful time, which may relieve some of the common complaints associated with menstruation or reproductive disorders. In Yoga for Healthy Bones, Sparrowe uses a similar approach, except the aim is to help women prevent bone loss (osteoporosis) related to aging and to maintain lifelong healthy bones. She does not claim that yoga can prevent or reverse bone loss (which has not been proven), only that it can contribute to better general bone health. Both are recommended for health and wellness collections in public libraries. Academic libraries may find Yoga for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle especially informative and therapeutic for their female students.-Deborah Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll., Dunwoody Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

The Essential Atkins for Life Kit or Sexuality and Fertility after Cancer

The Essential Atkins for Life Kit: Tools, Tips and Techniques for Maintaining a Low Carb Lifestyle for Permanent Weight Loss and Optimal Health

Author: Robert Atkins

A complete, easy-to-use program for sustaining lifelong weight loss from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atkins for Life

The Essential Atkins for Life Kit Includes:

Eating for Life: 144-page book
- Menu Plans: 120 menu plans with controlled carbohydrate counts of 45, 60, 80, and 100 grams
- Carb Gram Counter: Listings and information on protein and fat grams for each entry
- Daily Carb Log: Pages to record your Net Carb intake

100 Recipe Cards: Delicious controlled carb recipes with important nutritional information

Staying -On-Track Card Deck: Hundreds of tips and strategies for Lifetime Maintenance

Choosing The Rich Carbs: Foldout guide with easy-to-use Atkins Glycemic Rankings

Compact Disc: 60 minute Motivation for Life CD with special introduction by Dr. Robert C. Atkins

Wallet-Size Dining Out Guide: Tips for eating out at Chinese, Italian, Mexican, and other restaurants

New interesting textbook: Affaires internationales :la Stratégie, la Direction et les Nouvelles Réalités

Sexuality and Fertility after Cancer

Author: Leslie R Schover

"Finally! Such a comprehensive resource for survivors has been long overdue." —Michelle Melin, M.P.P., Director of Patient Services Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization

"An excellent, well-researched book that responds to the needs of survivors." —Anna Meadows, M.D. Director, Division of Oncology and Children's Cancer Research Center Children's Hospital of Phildadelphia.

Now as never before cancer survivors are discovering their potential for renewed sexuality, which many may never have thought possible. In this comprehensive new book, the leading authority in the field carefully and reassuringly explains your options and gives you the accurate, up-to-date information you need to take advantage of them. Now you can make the decisions that are best for you based on recent medical advances and the newest perspectives. This unique guide covers:

• The kinds of sexual problems both men and women are likely to face after treatment —and state-of-the-art solutions
• The most effective infertility treatments
• How to assess the risks of pregnancy
• The latest information on body image, low sex drive, performance anxieties, medications, sex aids, and reconstructive surgery
• Special topics such as sex after breast or prostate cancer, and the specific problems facing gays, singles, and survivors of childhood cancers.

Booknews

Addresses the needs of people who have sexual problems as the result of cancer and cancer treatments. Covers emotional and communication issues as well as the particular needs of those who have had breast, prostate, and many other types of cancer. Also discusses female and male infertility, survivors of childhood cancer, gay and lesbian cancer survivors, and sex after radical surgery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	How to Use This Book
1	Sex, Cancer, and Your Emotions	3
2	Am I Normal? Men's Sexual Health	14
3	Greater Expectations: Women's Sexual Health	21
4	Getting the Words Out: Talking about Sex	30
5	Going Back to Bed	42
6	Safer Sex after Cancer: Preventing Disease and Unwanted Pregnancy	52
7	Getting the Help You Need for a Sexual Problem	61
8	Where Did My Libido Go?	64
9	Enhancing Sexual Desire after Cancer	71
10	Causes of Erection Problems	79
11	How to Mend a Broken Part: Restoring Erections	86
12	The Bells Aren't Ringing: No Orgasms, Slow Orgasms, and Dry Orgasms	106
13	Causes of Painful Sex	112
14	Overcoming Pain during Sex	116
15	Empty Arms: The Pain of Infertility	135
16	Maybe a Baby? Researching Your Options	139
17	Sperm Manufacture: When Cancer Treatment Shuts Down the Line	145
18	Special Delivery: Getting the Sperm to the Egg	151
19	Women's Fertility: A Nonrenewable Resource	157
20	Pregnancy and Cancer: What Are the Risks?	165
21	Postcancer Kids: Are They Healthy?	168
22	Having Whose Baby? Third-Party Reproduction	176
23	Myths about Sex, Women's Health, and Breast Cancer	187
24	It's Not Prostrate Cancer	199
25	Sex with a Part Missing	207
26	Survivors of Childhood Cancer	220
27	Gay and Lesbian Cancer Survivors	226
28	Sex and the Single Survivor	234
	A Final Thought	244
	Resources	245
	Bibliography	251
	Glossary	273
	Index	281

Comprehensive Cancer Care or Super Nutrition for Women

Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies

Author: James S Gordon

Based on the findings of the annual conference co-sponsored by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and the National Cancer Institute, a uniquely authoritative guide to the integration of conventional, complementary, and alternative medicines for cancer care.

Of the 1.5 million Americans diagnosed with cancer annually, fully half will seek alternative or complementary care for their disease. Drawing on the studies and critiques of many of the world's most gifted researchers and clinicians, this book scientifically explores the most promising complementary and alternative therapies -- and sifts through the often frustrating and confusing barrage of information and misinformation about them -- to provide readers with the direction and help they need to create an individualized cancer-care strategy. A powerful tool for making wiser decisions and more sensible choices to both treat and prevent cancer, the book includes:

• Reports on the most accepted and researched complementary and alternative practices, including assessments of their efficacy, side effects, and cost effectiveness, and how they can best be integrated with conventional care
• Empowering advice for patients with clear action steps for speaking to doctors and evaluative guidelines for researching available treatment approaches
• Critical discussion of cutting-edge interventions-nutrition, Chinese medicine, herbal therapies, mind-body approaches, and energy medicine-that have undergone clinical trials and those which are now beginning to be employed.

Dean Ornish

This book represents truly pioneering work. It brings much needed information about the best of new cancer treatments to those who need it most and it does so with compassion and an inspired bedside manner.

Library Journal

Gordon (Manifesto for a New Medicine), a former chair of the Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine, and Curtin, a former cancer patient and medical writer, base their book on the findings of the annual Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference, created by Gordon and cosponsored by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and the National Cancer Institute. Their text begins with a chapter on cancer types, diagnosis, and treatment, followed by chapters on mind-body therapies, nutrition, exercise, group support, acupuncture and Chinese herbs, and evaluation of the most promising alternative therapies. Each chapter presents stories of real cancer patients and how they made complementary and alternative therapies part of their treatment. While the book does not focus on step-by-step guidance but on presenting scientific research data and history of alternative medicine, cancers patients will still find it informative. Recommended for large public libraries.--Lily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Lib., Little Rock Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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Super Nutrition for Women

Author: Ann Louise Gittleman

Winner of the Excellence in Medical Communications Award, SUPER NUTRITION FOR WOMEN is the first scientifically based nutrition program to take into account women's distinct body chemistry and dietary needs—and reveals the best way to incorporate them into any weight-loss or workout plan.

This newly revised edition includes the latest nutritional studies and addresses the unique health and dietary concerns that women are facing today. Whether they're on a vegetarian or a meat-and-potatoes regimen, no matter what their age or lifestyle, SUPER NUTRITION FOR WOMEN will show readers:

* How to evaluate which weight-loss plan is best for them—from low carb to low fat—and how to stay healthy and happy while shedding pounds

* How to prevent and combat a variety of illnesses, including osteoporosis, breast cancer, heart disease, yeast infections, and allergies

* Easy menus, recipes, and Super Female Foods—staples that should be on every woman's shopping list

SUPER NUTRITION FOR WOMEN is a revolutionary program that works with today's popular diet and exercise plans—to help every woman look better, feel better, and live longer.

Workbook Std Trng F Estheticians or Backache

Workbook-Std Trng F/Estheticians

Author: Milady

Milady's Standard Comprehensive Training for Estheticians Student Workbook is designed to reinforce key information and concepts found in the corresponding textbook. This popular student workbook contains detailed, interactive exercises designed to reinforce learning and increase student comprehension and retention. Exercises range from fill-in-the-blank questions to more challenging word puzzles, and discussion questions that encourage the student to apply theoretical knowledge to real-life situations. Following the last chapter are two 100-item multiple-choice practice tests that will help the student to identify those areas in which further study is needed.

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Backache: What Exercises Work

Author: Dava Sobel

What is the most powerful backache treatment ever developed to help prevent recurring back pain and restore you to a healthy, pain-free life?The answer is exercise.Exercise has:Helped more bachage sufferes than drugs, surgery, or any other treatment--without dangerous side effectsBeen widely prescribed by medical doctors and other health practitioners.Been rated the best source of relief by backache sufferers themselvesBeen uniformly supported by current medical researchEach exercise is explained in words and diagrams so that even a beginner can put together an individualized exercise program that works. Included are:Exercises to relieve acute and chronic plain, plus preventative measuresSelf evaluation checklistsInstructions for increasing activity levelsTips on performing everyday activities without painLet Backache: What Exercises Work work wonders in ending your back pain. Only this book has the techniques you need.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
Ch. 1	Exercise by Prescription	3
Ch. 2	Alternatives to Exercise	11
Ch. 3	A Program for Permanent Improvement	21
Ch. 4	A Special Message for People with Chronically Disabling Back Pain	29
Ch. 5	How to Work Exercise into Your Life	37
Ch. 6	How to Assess Your Exercise Readiness and Assemble Your Tailor-Made Program	43
Ch. 7	How to Sustain Your Motivation to Exercise	65
Ch. 8	Exercises for Low-Back Pain	73
Ch. 9	Exercises for Upper-Back and Neck Pain	111
Ch. 10	Exercises for General Fitness	135
Ch. 11	Exercises for Specific Conditions	143
Ch. 12	Yoga	155
Ch. 13	Meditation, Imagery, and More	167
Ch. 14	Positioning Yourself	177
Ch. 15	Accomplishing Tasks	187
Ch. 16	Enjoying Life	195

Hour That Changes the World or Tattoos of the Floating World

Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

Author: Dick Eastman

The Hour That Changes the World, first published by Baker in 1978, is a classic book on prayer that offers practical suggestions on how readers can revitalize their prayer lives. Dick Eastman challenges Christians to spend one hour each day in prayer, and he outlines a twelve-step prayer program to help them accomplish the task.

By dividing one hour into twelve five-minute "points of focus," such as praise, waiting, confession, and Scripture praying, believers will develop a more consistent habit of daily prayer. The Hour That Changes the World draws heavily on Scripture and classic devotional writers and includes an appendix titled "Scriptural Intercession."

This 25th anniversary edition features a new introduction by Eastman and a new foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada, in which she writes: "The Hour That Changes the World may appear small and modest, but don't let its size fool you. Full of biblical insights about prayer, packed with testimonies of prayer warriors from years past, brimming with practical suggestions that will help you carve out a purposeful time of praise and intercession, Dick Eastman's book is arguably the most significant book on prayer written in modern times."

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Tattoos of the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Motifs in the Japanese Tattoo

Author: Katie M Kitamura

This unique book by tattoo artist Takahiro Kitamura (Horitaka, a pupil of Horiyoshi III) discusses the art of the Japanese tattoo in the context of Ukiyo-e, concentrating on the parallel histories of the woodblock print and the tattoo. Through high quality illustrations it shows that the Japanese tattoo is highly reliant on and linked to the woodblock print and that it deserves a position among the other art forms. A range of typical ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo are discussed and illustrated by the original Japanese prints, and sketches, drawings and tattoos by tattoo master Horiyoshi III. The book ends with a special essay by Don Ed Hardy.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	6
	Preface	8
	Introduction	10
1	A brief history of Japanese tattooing	14
2	The popular arts of ukiyo-e and irezumi	22
3	Triumvirate in arts	30
4	The artist's circle	40
5	The tattoo as higher art	46
6	Separate ways	49
7	Ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo	51
8	The Japanese tattoo: a personal view	102
	Short Biography: Horiyoshi III	106
	Short Biography: Don Ed Hardy	108
	Notes	110
	Bibliography	111
	Glossary	116
	Acknowledgements	118

Lowfat Cooking for Dummies or Ashtanga Yoga for Beginners

Lowfat Cooking for Dummies

Author: Lynn Fischer

If a skimpy salad doused with a tasteless dressing is your idea of lowfat dining, hold on to your calorie counter. Lowfat cooking has come a long way. In fact, many of your high-calorie food favorites have an enticing, healthier equivalent in a lowfat version. Think chili. Potato pancakes. Or even cheesecake. It’s true. If done right, bite for bite, lowfat cooking can be as generous in flavor as its high-fat counterpart. And once you (and your body) have begun to sample the benefits of a lowfat menu, chances are you’ll turn lowfat cooking into a permanent lifestyle change.

With the help of Lynn Fischer, celebrated host of two TV cooking shows, Lowfat Cooking For Dummies helps you prepare meals worthy of a high-class health spa. In practically no time, you’ll see how simple and fun it is to slenderize your kitchen pantry and get your cooking regimen in gear. From finding hidden fats to reading labels, the book gives you the skinny on:

• Cholesterol, saturated fats, trans fatty acids—what they are and where they come from
• What “lowfat,” “fat-free,” and “reduced fat” really mean
• Tips on stocking a lowfat pantry—including what canned and packaged foods to keep (including pretzels, popcorn, chips, and cookies!)
• What oils, condiments, and flavorings to use—including a table of oils indicating saturated fat content and a comprehensive list of herbs and their uses
• Meat, poultry, fish, and eggs—tips on finding sources of lowfat red meat, what lean really means, and telling “good” eggs from “bad”

Plus Lowfat CookingFor Dummies brings you quickly up to speed on the joys of lowfat cooking—making your transition into a lowfat menu as delicious as it is painless. You’ll reexperience old favorites like French Toast or a BLT or Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and discover how cutting calories in no way impairs taste. And you’ll get a fresh reinvigorating take on traditionally healthy salads, as well as a host of entrees:

• One-pot Soups and Casseroles—including Chicken Soup with Vegetables, Lentil Soup, Chili, and Pork and Garbanzo Bean Stew
• Fish and shellfish—including Cod with Ginger-Orange Sauce, Herbed Mahi Mahi, and Shrimp and Crab Gumbo
• Meat and poultry—including Meat Loaf, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Roast Chicken
• Sandwiches—including Chicken Salad, Deviled Ham, Egg Salad, Feta Cheese Hamburgers, and Grilled Cheese

The book is chockfull of hints on how to turn usually high-fat fare like Hollandaise Sauce and White Sauce into something light and tasty. Desserts such as Strawberry Cheesecake and Peach and Blackberry Tart can, at last, be enjoyed as a guilt-free pleasure. Brimming with suggestions for healthy, lowfat eating on every page.

Table of Contents:

Foreword.

Introduction.

PART I: Getting Started with Lowfat Eating.

Chapter 1: Where Fat Really Lurks.

Chapter 2: Reading Labels.

PART II: Setting Up a Lowfat Kitchen.

Chapter 3: Slenderizing Your Kitchen Pantry.

Chapter 4: Cooking with Oils, Condiments, and Other Flavorings.

Chapter 5: Using Meat, Poultry, Fish, and Eggs in a Lowfat Eating Plan.

Chapter 6: Dairy Products: The Easiest Foods to Change to Lowfat.

PART III: Over 150 Delicious and Lowfat Recipes Made Easy.

Chapter 7: Breakfasts and Brunches.

Chapter 8: Appetizers and Snacks.

Chapter 9: Salads and Salad Dressings.

Chapter 10: One-Pot Soups and Casseroles.

Chapter 11: Fish and Shellfish.

Chapter 12: Meat and Poultry.

Chapter 13: Pasta, Grains, Beans, and Rice.

Chapter 14: Sandwiches.

Chapter 15: Vegetables.

Chapter 16: Sauces and Gravies.

Chapter 17: Desserts.

Chapter 18: Beverages.

PART IV: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: The Ten Most Important Steps in Lowering Your Fat Intake.

Chapter 20: Ten Myths about Fat.

Chapter 21: Ten Terrific Web Sites on Healthy Eating.

Chapter 22: Ten Healthful Newsletters.

Appendix: Glossary.

Index.

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Ashtanga Yoga for Beginners

Author: Michaela Clark

Everyone who's wanted to try Ashtanga Yoga, the fast-paced "power yoga" so many celebrities enjoy, will welcome this new beginner's course. In 14 core lessons that combine meditation with energy-packed workouts, students practice, at their own pace, a sequence of postures that develop flexibility, strength, and endurance. Fully illustrated with 250 color photos, it features advice on contraindications; alternatives for working safely and strain-free; quick-reference sheets to use without interrupting the workout's flow; and intermediate and advanced options. If you want to be healthy, happy, and youthful throughout your life, this is the way to go!

Damp Indoor Spaces and Health or Natural and Herbal Family Remedies

Damp Indoor Spaces and Health

Author: Institute of Medicin

Damp Indoor Spaces and Health covers a broad range of topics. The book not only examines the relationship between damp or moldy indoor environments and adverse health outcomes, but discusses how and where buildings get wet, how dampness influences microbial growth and chemical emissions, the ways to prevent and remediate dampness, and the elements of a public health response to the issues. A comprehensive literature review finds sufficient evidence of an association between damp indoor environments and some upper respiratory tract symptoms, coughing, wheezing, and asthma symptoms in sensitized persons. This book will be of interest to a wide-ranging audience of science health, engineering and building professionals, government officials, and members of the public.

Table of Contents:

1	Background and methodologic considerations	17
2	Damp buildings	29
3	Exposure assessment	90
4	Toxic effects of fungi and bacteria	125
5	Human health effects associated with damp indoor environments	183
6	Prevention and remediation of damp indoor environments	270
7	The public health response	311
App. A	Workshop presentations and speakers	333
App. B	Committee, consultant, and staff biographies	336

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Natural and Herbal Family Remedies

Author: Cynthia Black

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

The Road to Immunity or Kickboxing Fitness

The Road to Immunity: How To Survive and Thrive in a Toxic World

Author: Kenneth A Bock

By blending traditional medical treatments with proven alternative therapies, Dr. Kenneth Bock tells us exactly how to boost our immune systems to their maximum effectiveness. With treatments that range from nutritional supplements to hormone balancing, from homeopathic remedies to the latest bio-oxidative therapies, his cutting-edge approach helps dramatically reduce the risk of getting sick or developing allergies - and bolsters the power of antibiotics, cancer protocols, AIDS therapies, and medications for other chronic or acute illnesses.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Introduction	1
I	Your Best Defense: Understanding the Immune System	7
1	Progressive Medicine	9
2	The Immune System Kettle	26
3	Immunology 101	47
II	The Immune System Empowerment Program: A Comprehensive Approach to Strengthening Your Immune System	75
4	Modern Life and Immune System Overload	77
5	The Immune Empowering Diet	127
6	Immune System Boosters	166
7	Alternative Therapies	211
8	Stress Management Techniques	231
9	Gut and Liver Function: What's the Story?	261
III	Finding Your Way Back to Health: Essential Steps Toward Well-Being	293
10	Immune System Super Boosters	295
11	Redox Medicine	337
12	Getting the Right Diagnosis	356
13	Healing Begins with Acceptance	373
	Endnotes	391
	Resources	405
	Index	411

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Kickboxing Fitness: A Guide for Fitness Professionals from the American Council on Exercise

Author: Tony Ordas

ACE's Guides for Fitness Professionals provide the latest research and information on the most important aspects of the fitness industry. Each title picks up where ACE's Personal Trainer Manual and Group Fitness Instructor Manual leave off, providing the specific knowledge and skills fitness professionals need to develop effective and safe exercise programs or group fitness classes.

Kickboxing Fitness provides all the tools you need to safely integrate kickboxing fitness into a training program or group fitness class. Proper technique for each offensive and defensive kickboxing movement is described in detail. Smooth combinations and transitions are also emphasized, as is the importance of understanding exercise science as it applies this fitness modality. This book, which covers equipment-based and non-equipment-based classes, will remain a valuable resource throughout your career in the fitness industry.

Tattoo Road Trip or Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners

Tattoo Road Trip: Southern California

Author: Robert E Baxter

Get up close and personal with Southern Californias most legendary and trend-setting tattoo artists. Join Skin & Ink magazine editor, Bob Baxter, as he drives from shop to shop in his 94 azure-blue Mustang. Follow along as he chats it up with Southern Californias living tattoo legends. Gather the inside info. Hear the spicy gossip. See the gorgeous gals and lusty men sport their traffic-stopping ink. Turn the pages. See their work in 565 color photos. Meet the artists. Take the trip! The Tattoo Road Trip! Featured artists include: Dave Gibson; Danielle Oberosler & Robert Atkinson; Shannon OSullivan; Mike Pike & Jojo Ackerman; Bob Roberts, Bryan Burke & Joe Vegas; Pat Fish; Jack Rudy; Judy Parker; Baba & Odie; Dottie M.; Corey Miller; Greg James; Patty Kelley; Fip Buchanan; Ethan Morgan; Steve Smith; Emelio Cusidor & Kerri Hodsdon; Kari Barba & Jeremiah Barba; Tennessee Dave James; John Saletra & Colin LaRocque; Riley Baxter; Shawn Warcot; Juan Puente, Mark Mahoney, Small Paul, & Chris Conn; Rori Keating; Baby Ray; and Eric Maaske.

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Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners

Author: William W Dunmir

Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners is the second book in a series by Dunmire and Tierney exploring native plant uses. Following the much-acclaimed Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province, this new book emphasizes prehistoric uses of plants in the Four Corners area, focusing on Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Aztec Ruins, Hovenweep, and other major sites of the region once occupied by the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, Hopi, and Apache peoples.

Dunmire and Tierney are able to eloquently illustrate the importance of the people-plant relationship that has existed throughout the ages among native peoples and how ancient traditional uses of these plants inform contemporary uses today. Through vignettes of background information drawn from lore and cultural traditions and interviews with tribal elders, Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners describes uses for edible, medicinal, and dye plants, as well as plants used for making baskets, tools, and shelters. Complementing these essays are profiles of fifty new trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and grasses common to traditional Native America.

AyurVeda and the Mind or SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR PARENTING

AyurVeda and the Mind

Author: David Frawley

This book explores how to heal our minds on all levels to create wholeness.

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SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR PARENTING

Author: George T Lynn

"Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder tackles the most difficult decisions parents can face, including whether to involve police or consider hospitalization if their children are a danger to themselves and their families. At the same time, it emphasizes the positive qualities these children often have and illustrates how their gifts and abilities can build their self-esteem and help them function better in society. However severe the child's symptoms, George Lynn's book will provide guidance, support and inspiration for parents and carers as well as being a useful resource for professionals working with the families who suffer as a result of this disorder."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements	8
	Introduction: The Broken Necklace Rage	9
I	Bipolar Disorder in Children: Dealing with sudden rage, aggressive depression, oppositionality, and crazy thinking
1	Enter the Warrior: How to Identify the Presence of Bipolar Disorder in Children	18
2	The Brain Chemistry of Bipolar Disorder and the Drugs Used to Treat It	40
3	Martha's Story: Understanding and Managing Rage in Children with Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder	50
4	Tom's Story: Charting a Change Strategy for a Teen with Bipolar Disorder	73
5	Compassion Makes a Big Difference: The Empathy Factor in Children with Bipolar Disorder	87
6	Innovative Non-Pharmacological Treatment Approaches for Bipolar Disorder, ADD, and Depression in Children	110
II	Asperger's Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder in Teens: Managing inertia, school resistance, stimulus-craving, and lack of common sense
7	The Hermit: Asperger's Syndrome - Helping the Brilliant, Anxious and Oppositional Child Find His Way and Express His Gifts	120
8	Sean's Case: Helping a Child with the Dual Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome	145
III	Soothing the Hurt of Tourette Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder
9	Tourette Syndrome: The Wild Heart of the Restless Explorer	164
10	A Shoulder to Scream On: How to Help Children Living with the Fiery Extremes of Tourette Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder	178
IV	ADHD at Its Extremes
11	A Matter of Degree: How to Know the Difference between ADHD and Bipolar Disorder	190
V	Hard Decisions: Schools, professionals, psychiatric hospitals, and police involvement
12	How to Choose the Best Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Therapists, Schools, and Teachers for the Child with Wild and Extreme Behavior	198
13	The Hardest Decisions: How to Make Police Involvement or Psychiatric Hospitalization Part of Your Healing Plan	209
	Conclusion: When All Is Said and Done: Six Keys to Personal Wellness for Families of Children with Bipolar Disorder	219
	Appendix: Ten Essential Online Sites	223
	References	225
	Index	231

Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine or Feed Your Tiger

Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine

Author: Barry Clark

The most thorough, detailed and systematic reference for Tibetan medicine.

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Feed Your Tiger: The Asian Diet Secret for Permanent Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

Author: Letha Hadady

Forget about restrictive fad diets and "feel-the-burn" workouts. Drawing on Eastern healing principles that date back thousands of years, this is a decidedly different—and superbly effective—approach to weight control through energy balance

Feed Your Tiger is the first book to establish a connection between weight loss and energy type. Author Letha Hadady shows readers how to drop extra pounds through a combination of natural remedies and techniques that draw on both contemporary scientific research and traditional Chinese medicine.

By completing a short questionnaire, readers determine their own energy type: tiger, bear, dragon, or crane. With this information, they learn how to choose healing foods for their energy type; how to tailor their eating plans to their individual cravings; and how to further support their weight-loss efforts with specific natural remedies—including herbal and nutritional supplements, massage techniques, and stretches.

Feed Your Tiger was the subject of a controlled observational study, conducted at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. The findings confirmed that Hadaday's methods are as effective as they are unique.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     vi
Preface     viii
Introduction     xii
Your Food Karma     1
Foods and You     3
The Baseline Diet     24
What's Your Energy Type?     57
Get Ready, Get Set     83
The Animal You     101
Feed Your Tiger     103
Balance Your Dragon     137
Soothe Your Bear     172
Free Your Soaring Crane     209
Get It Off, Keep It Off     245
Weight Loss Insurance     247
After 40     275
Your Weight Loss Lifestyle     295
Be a Winner!     297
Eating Out     312
Holiday Fitness     323
Conclusion     341
Stock These Healthy Foods     343
Natural Products and Information Resource Guide     348
Index     353

Take It off and Keep It Off or The Complete Idiots Guide to Detoxing Your Body

Take It Off and Keep It Off

Author: Anonymous

The inspirational diet program for followers of Overeaters Anonymous.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Detoxing Your Body

Author: Delia Quigley

Cleansing for good health.

Toxic substances find a way into our bodies through air, water, food, and even household products. When these toxins build up in our bodies faster than we can get rid of them, we may experience premature aging, lethargy, chronic illness, and weight gain. This indispensable guide explains the why's and how's of detoxification and gives readers the tools to rid their bodies of toxins and enjoy a more vibrant, healthy life.

Secrets of Great Skin or Fit to Live

Secrets of Great Skin: The Definitive Guide to Anti-Aging Skin Care

Author: David J Goldberg

At INNOVA we pride ourselves on publishing books that meet the highest standards. We concentrate on lifestyle topics such as parenting, health, nutrition, and self-improvement, recognizing that when changes in lifestyle occur, people turn to books for answers. Whether you're planning for a new baby, a new home, or a new you, INNOVA publishes intriguing books that inform and inspire at incomparable value.

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Fit to Live: 5 Steps to a Lean, Strong, Fearless You

Author: Pamela Peek

Dr. Pamela Peeke's New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life for Women has helped thousands of women transform their bodies. Now, in Fit to Live, she shines light on our 21st century lifestyle, with its fake food, desk jobs, clutter, and endless stress, and asks listeners, “If your life depended on it, could you run up four flights of stairs right now? Are you Fit to Live, not only to survive, but to enjoy life?” For most people, the answer is no and they don't know it.

Combining her trademark in-your-face wit with heart-stopping reality checks, Peeke offers an active health/lifestyle assessment and helps listeners gauge just how much fat—mental, nutritional, physical, financial, environmental—to cut to become Fit to Live. After following the plan, listeners will adjust better to life's stresses; get a stronger, leaner body; enjoy greater financial security; and create a healthier living space. Help Peeke help you become Fit to Live and lead a dynamic and exciting life, both now and for the future.

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The Art of Breathing and Centering: Discover the Powerful Gifts of the Air You Breathe!

Author: Gay Hendricks

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Everyday, you breathe over 20,000 times! This automatic, unconscious action can be more than simply life-sustaining—it can be life-enhancing. You can manage stress and pain, boost energy, improve concentration and promote your overall well-being. Gay Hendricks has taught these proven effective methods to thousands of clients and workshop participants around the world. Easy to learn, these exercises require no special equipment and can be used anywhere.

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Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer

Author: Annabel Clark

With heart-rending honesty, in bittersweet moments as beautiful as they are difficult, yet with humor and optimism throughout, Annabel Clark's photographs and her mother Lynn Redgrave's journal entries illustrate a mother-daughter journey through the leading cause of cancer diagnosed in women today.

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Acclaimed actress Redgrave kept her 2002 breast cancer diagnosis a secret from all but her closest family and friends. She followed surgery with chemotherapy and radiation and still managed to appear Off-Broadway in Alan Bennett's play Talking Heads. Her treatment and recovery are documented here through her daughter Clark's photographs and her own journal entries. The raw and honest photos present the intimate side of a disease that makes no exception for celebrity. The result is both inspirational and heart-tugging. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Stop Living Life Like an Emergency or Embracing Our Mortality

Stop Living Life Like an Emergency!: Rescue Strategies for the Overworked and Overwhelmed

Author: Diane Sieg

Stop Living Life Like an Emergency is for anyone caught up in the fast lane of life, who feels under the gun, and doesn't know how to live any other way. We have too much to do and not enough time to do it. We're overwhelmed, we're feeling the stress, our days are in chaos, and we don't know how to change the toxic habits that ruin our lives. Diane Sieg, a 20-year emergency room veteran and certified Lifestyle Counselor, says that it's time we deal with stress as the life-threatening affliction it is. After seeing thousands of crisis situations, she has come to realize that we create a lot of our own emergencies by trying to do too much, too fast, too often. Stop Living Life Like an Emergency explains how you can rejuvenate your life, increase your time, and rediscover the joy of living. Sieg shows you how to overcome your life-threatening lifestyle and build the future you want.

Stop Living Life Like an Emergency is a no-non-sense, down-to-earth guide. It's full of anecdotes, case studies, self-assessment quizzes, personal experiences, and proven action plans that Sieg has developed for her clients. Emergency living stirs up spiritual crises, too. We don't have the time or energy for the things that matter most -- our loved ones, our passions, our own souls. Sieg explains how to find "The Agonizing Gift" that opens the door to healing your pain and reclaiming your spirit. In this book Sieg shares the secrets that over 30,000 people have praised at her lectures and keynote addresses across the nation. Finally -- an antidote for emergency living that makes sense!

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	xiii
Chapter 1	Emergency Living	1
Chapter 2	Triage	15
Chapter 3	Assessment	29
Chapter 4	Hyperventilation	41
Chapter 5	Changing Status	51
Chapter 6	The Treatment Plan	61
Chapter 7	The Overdose	73
Chapter 8	The Adrenaline Junkie	89
Chapter 9	Inserting a Pacemaker	99
Chapter 10	The Disaster Plan	107
Chapter 11	Universal Precautions	117
Chapter 12	Take a Break	129
Chapter 13	The Pain Scale	143
Chapter 14	Discharge Instructions	155
	Recommended Reading	173
	Bibliography	177
	Index	181

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Embracing Our Mortality: Hard Choices in an Age of Medical Miracles

Author: Lawrence J Schneiderman

While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? In Embracing Our Mortality, Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman, a physician who is our leading expert on medical ethics at the end of life, urges all of us, including health care professionals caring for people at the end of life, to face these decisions with sensitivity and realism informed by both the latest medical evidence as well as the oldest humanistic visions. Dr. Schneiderman vividly demonstrates the wisdom of this approach by interweaving true stories of his patients, current empirical research in care at the end of life, displays of the power of empathy and imagination as embodied in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Chekov, and examples of how the distortion of medical research by media, and its misunderstanding even by health care professionals, cloud the ability to think, feel, and decide clearly about mortal concerns. He ends by addressing the question implicit in all of this which is how to achieve a just and universal health care.
Dr. Schneiderman proves a refreshingly honest, astringent, and life-affirming guide to thinking about the choices that we or people we love will face when we dienot if, as the technological imperatives of modern medicine can suggestand to making decisions at the end of life that respect all that has preceded it.

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Reviewer:Sarah Hetue Hill, MA(St. Louis University Center for Health Care Ethics)
Description:Dr. Lawrence Schneiderman, respected physician and well known expert on ethics at the end of life, presents this book as a guide for wading through the chaos that occurs when having to make difficult decisions at the end of life.
Purpose:The book provides readers with the tools necessary to navigate treatment decisions that will occur during our own serious illnesses and those of our loved ones. As suggested in the preface, although most of us would prefer to die at home, a large majority of us will die in a healthcare facility hooked up to a myriad of machines and devices. This book is a timely and needed response to society's current immersion in the milieu of the technological imperative.
Audience:This is appropriate for a broad audience and is written in a manner that will be accessible to many, including those unfamiliar with medical terminology or ethics. The book also provides enough relevant information on the topics of empathy and empirical research to be useful to healthcare professionals whose patients are facing these intricate decisions.
Features:Throughout the book, the author recounts cases from his own practice as well as famous cases to illuminate his points. He provides a useful chapter on completing advance directives and another on how to accurately assess facts and statistics on treatment outcomes. He also incorporates literary references from Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Tolstoy into the text, and provides an appendix with poems by William Carlos Williams and Anne Sexton. The author concludes with achapter addressing additional recent concerns in healthcare, including the need to provide universal healthcare and the inexorableness of rationing healthcare.
Assessment:This book is engaging, due in large part to the case studies and literary references. The concise arrangement of short chapters with numerous references makes the book manageable, but substantial enough to be valuable. The honest and realistic information is a welcome alternative to the inaccurate depictions of the end of life provided by the media.

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As medical advances and lifestyle changes carry more and more Americans beyond the age of 80, decisions about quality of life and manner of death grow increasingly unavoidable. Schneiderman (Univ. of California at San Diego Medical Sch.) and geriatrician McCullough (The Little Black Book of Geriatrics ) remind us that the issues surrounding decline and death are not isolated, spectacular events happening to others, as in the Terri Schiavo case, but a part of all our lives. Here, they each discuss the need for advanced planning and thoughtful communication and care.

Schneiderman emphasizes the need for clear and current advance directives to balance the tendency of modern medicine, abetted by hopeful loved ones, to continue treatments to the detriment of the patient's comfort. Using many literary references (this M.D. is also a novelist, a short story writer, and a playwright) and calling on philosophy as well as science, Schneiderman argues that physicians need to work from an "ethic of care" that gives equal status to the relief of suffering and the restoration of health.

McCullough's concept of "slow medicine" is an example of that ethic of care in action. Having worked through these issues himself with his own mother's death, he here guides families as they move with an aging relative along what he calls the "eight stations of late life" preceding death. McCullough believes communication at this time is essential, and he emphasizes gentle, low-impact, and thoughtful care from the first signs of the body or mind's decline. Often, he points out, elderly patients can benefit more from attentive listening, conversation, touch, and a reduction in medications than fromacute interventions. Good additions to such works as Ira Byock's Dying Well , both these books are recommended for public libraries.-Dick Maxwell, Porter Adventist Hosp. Lib., Denver

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