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.

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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