The Sierras Weight-Loss Solution for Teens and Kids
“The renowned Academy of the Sierras has helped hundreds of children–many severely overweight–achieve significant weight loss and keep it off for good. The first year-round weight-loss program for children and teens in the country, AOS teaches students how to make healthy eating and exercise priorities in their lives forever. For AOS students, losing weight not only helps them look and feel better, it fundamentally transforms their lives–encouraging them to build self-esteem, combat depression, and increase their academic performance. In The Sierras Weight-Loss Solution for Teens and Kids, the founders and program leaders of AOS offer parents everywhere a 12-week proven program based on the school’s curriculum. The program gives week-by-week meal plans, recipes, and an exercise regimen, as well as crucial advice for getting the whole family involved in maintaining long-term weight loss. And, it helps kids change their thinking about food, and stay focused and committed to a new healthy lifestyle forever. With inspiring stories from AOS graduates throughout, this book provides the most effective blueprint to ensure lasting success. Academy of the Sierras has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, People, the Sacramento Bee, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as on CNN, Dateline, The Dr. Phil Show, and NPR. In addition to their original school near Fresno, California, AOS is opening a second school in Brevard, North Carolina, in the spring of 2007. In 2008, they are opening a school in the northeast. AOS is operated by Healthy Living Academies, which also runs six Wellspring summer weight-loss camps across the country.”

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The Dietary Cure for Acne
With 174 scientific references, The Dietary Cure for Acne clearly explains the ultimate causes of acne, and details a dietary program that will begin to clear up your skin within 30 days or less. Written by internationally recognized author and researcher Loren Cordain, Ph.D., this is the only scientifically documented program that directly addresses all four known causes of acne, and the only program shown to clear acne blemishes in a human clinical trial. In chapter four you will learn how The Dietary Cure for Acne heals your skin from the inside by preventing all four known causes of acne. You will learn how the foods you eat affect hormones called IGFBP-3 and IGF-1, and how that affects pore blockage. You will learn how the type of fat you eat can affect bacteria proliferation in your skin. And you will understand how an enzyme called ZAG, that normally works to help keep pores open, is inactivated when you eat certain common foods. Chapter six reveals the 11 types of food to avoid, along with a clear explanation of how that particular food promotes acne. The rest of the chapter provides a specific action plan. The diet is divided into two distinct phases. In Phase 1, which lasts 30 days, you will be attacking the causes of acne with every nutritional tool that can improve acne symptoms. By closely following the diet, your acne will rapidly improve. Phase 2 covers the next 3 months and beyond. Chapter seven is titled The Good Foods, has a sample menu and complete information on all the food that you will be eating on this program. After reading The Dietary Cure for Acne, you will understand how the right foods can prevent the pore blockage, excess oil production, inflammation, and bacterial infection that characterize acne. But most importantly, you will learn specifically which foods to eat, and which foods to avoid, so you can take action and get results.
Customer Review: a great starting point yet not quite complete
I have eaten pretty well since I was a teenager, but when my daughter began to develop acne, we discovered this book which cut to the chase even beyond eating organically. She had already not eaten sugar for about a year when we bought the book, but it was very informative for her and so very inspiring. I have also been eating the diet pretty closely and feel great too. As was mentioned in other reviews, it was disappointing not to have more menu suggestions and the website only had a very few offerings of recipes. I consulted the Paleo Diet book and although it was a little helpful, there was contradicting information to the Acne book (about sweet potatoes and nuts, for instance) so we weren’t sure what to do in those cases. Additionally, Dr. Cordain suggests adding one food group back in at a time each month, but instead of a specific food given as an example, he gives pizza as the example which has flour and cheese together….??? two very likely candidates to cause acne. I was also surprised that Dr. Cordain didn’t even give mention to the fact that there might be a link between the problems people are experiencing with grains and the fact that we are not soaking the grains ahead of time, which breaks down phytates (the part of grains that make them quite indigestible). Soaking grains is an ancient practice as well and might very well help many people have a plant-based source of protein that there bodies can then assimilate. The amount of protein in ratio to veggies and fruits has been a big question for me about this diet. My daughter seems to want to eat a lot of meat (mostly chicken) and fruit. And she does always seem hungry, constantly foraging. So, although I can see that this is very helpful and finally provides a scientifically-based explanation for acne, it really seems like there is a lot more to further this research as well as being far from a complete resource. I’ve had to purchase many more diet books, and search out interesting recipes as the months pass. And that, too, should be mentioned: my daughter has improved skin but she is still getting some new lesions and it has been almost 3 months. A great starting point yet not quite complete.
Customer Review: an essential foundation
the dietary cure for acne makes it clear what you may be doing wrong with your diet, and why, and what you can do to truly affect the health of your skin. I purchaced the book along with the paleo diet for athletes 9 monthes ago and have been following the diet fairly stictly, with good results for my skin and outstanding results for my overall health and athletic performance.although this book is a very good overview of the process of acne and a general guideline how and why to change your diet to improve your acne,i would highly recomend puchacing the paleo diet or the paleo diet for athletes. that being said, i also feel if you already have one of those books the dietary cure for acne dosn’t offer any new advise and realy would only be useful to understand the prossess of acne, giving one more motivation to follow the paleo diet.Also i feel diet is the most important cure, however in some cases not a total cure. my recomendation for the person truely looking to improve thier overall health would be to skip the dietary cure, purchase the paleo diet and follow it, and purchase The Acne Cure by Terry J Dubrow. however, for a qick read that just may change your life, the dietary cure for acne can do wonders on its own

The Magic Pill: A Mental Health Companion for the Gastric Bypass Patient
The Magic Pill - A Mental Health Companion for the Gastric Bypass Patient was first released in 2002 and is back for a limited time due to patient and practice demand. This is the book that continues to inspire support group discussions, and urges every patient to practice weight loss management and maintenance successfully.

Not only has the author used research and personal experience to demonstrate the behavioral connection between your health and your happiness. But she’s taken that research to the next level by explaining how for many postoperative patients- the cycle of overeating and imbalance in your eating lives cannot be broken by a surgical intervention alone.
Customer Review: Absolutely Horrible!
This book is so disappointing! It is terribly written, much more like a pamplet than a book. There is so little information that the book contains a 2 inch margin at the top and bottom of every page, plus repeats the complete name of the book and author on every page, then also has many pages that are almost completely blank! The 107 pages could easily be covered in 25 pages, but even then it would not be worth reading!
Customer Review: Needed a proofreader!
It is unfortunate that Holtzclaw’s important message is lost in such a mess. The main problem with this book is that it is so riddled with spelling, gramatical and punctuation errors, that it is impossible to read without becoming irritated. Did she not have an editor? Didn’t anyone bother to actually read through the manuscript before sending it off to a printer? Also, there is not enough substance here for a book in the first place and the author ends up saying the same things over and over again to fill up the pages. I found this to be a very frustrating read on many levels and I’m sorry I wasted my money on such an amateur effort!

Naturally Slim and Powerful
Customer Review: Vive la Difference!
Oh, how nice it is to be naturally slim and powerful! Made my day! This book is dedicated to the ‘goddess’ in every woman. Take someone else’s opinion about you in stride. Remember,you’re multidimensional — what they’re commenting on is a single facet of your rich and fascinating personality.

It has been proven that exercise relieves stress, even just walking around the block; helps prevent depression; corrects imbalances in blood sugar and insulin; helps inhibit fat formation; and elevates seratonin. To become powerful, you need to exercise thirty minutes each day. It increases endorphins to relieve pain.

Women’s brains have much more seratonin than men. It is like a surrogate parent, discouraging negative actions and comforting us during hard times such as I have had since April 21 or so. It is important for proper functioning of appetite, sexuality, impulsive behavior and aggression. Seratonin gives women the power to better understand stress, to be peaceful and serene, and more intuitive.

Those with low seratonin cannot experience a sense of well-being. It creates a sense of panic, anxiety, and depression. Small problems become large, out of proportion to the intention of the one (or more) who caused them. This is called a ‘nutritional’ disease. Seratonin depletion can cause oversensitivity to some medicines.

High seratonin levels enrich the female emotional life. Older men can benefit from the weight-loss program listed because, as the male hormones decline, it has a feminizing effect on men. Some sensitive women are oversensitive to drugs, certain foods, and our environment due to seratonin depletion. All women need the right foods to sustain their unique seratonin balance.

Good luck to those who have to lose weight. This book was written using the IBM Voice-Type dictation system, which allows spoken words to automatically appear on the computer screen. This is the first in many systems which will in the next decade totally transform the way we interact with computers. This makes information and power easily available to anyone who can speak.

Customer Review: About The Book
In their groundbreaking book, Naturally Slim and Powerful, Philip Lipetz and Monica Pichler describe this crucial relationship as follows: “Insulin controls serotonin synthesis. Tryptophan, the amino acid that is made into serotonin, is ordinarily stored in reserves that are not available for serotonin synthesis. Insulin causes stored tryptophan to be released and transported into the brain where it is converted into serotonin. Insulin’s primary function is to control the blood sugar created when you digest carbohydrates. Therefore, eating carbohydrates elevates serotonin. This is why dieting women with low serotonin develop uncontrollable carbohydrate cravings.”

Lipetz and Pichler go on to give evidence that this is not true for men. A man’s serotonin level is not affected when he skips meals, or goes on a diet. What the research validates is what women have complained about for a long time; namely, that men can lose weight easily and with less effort than women. Furthermore, men are not nearly so subject to the depression that accompanies low serotonin levels in the brain.

What is going on here? The answers arise from compelling scientific advances. Fundamental differences show up in the brains of men and women. To begin with, women’s brains have much more serotonin. Next, female sex hormones enhance serotonin activity; male sex hormones inhibit serotonin activity. Scientists today use Biological Evolutionary Theory to explain why this occurs. This theory states that our biology today is a product of our evolutionary past. In effect, our bodies are still subject to the same forces and genetic drivers as when we were living in prehistoric times.

Ten thousand years ago, before the advent of agriculture, humans were hunter-gatherers. When prehistoric man got up early in the morning, and had nothing to eat, his body signaled, “We are in a famine! Get out there and start hunting!” His serotonin level, and hence his mood, was relatively unaffected. Nature designed his body to protect the species. Consequently, he could go without food all day, and still have the strength, speed, and stamina to carry out the hunt. His ability to think was not at its peak, but he could still function without feeling depressed and lethargic. Today’s male still carries the ability to miss breakfast and lunch, yet go like crazy all day as long as he stays task-focused. At times like these, he is running on adrenaline and testosterone. At night, he comes home to immediately clean out the refrigerator and recharge his batteries on the couch. His cognitive illusion is that he is thinking efficiently despite his poor eating habits.

A woman’s scenario in prehistoric times was very different. As a gatherer, when prehistoric woman got up in the morning and did not eat within the hour, the body signaled, “We are in a famine! Shut all systems down and conserve energy! Start storing fat!” Her serotonin levels would begin to plunge, making her depressed, lethargic, and less likely to move around. In contrast to a man’s body, nature has designed a woman’s body to preserve the species, thus insuring that she stays close to her offspring and keeps them safe. Lipetz and Pilcher state, “Depression also makes women more likely to care for their young because nursing and nurturing children alters brain chemistry and relieves depression. This mechanism favoring the feeding of babies is so perfect that low serotonin even alters critical hormones to increase the production of milk and fat.” The ramifications of this theory for today’s modern woman are clear. Skipping breakfast for women is a sure-fire method to gain weight and feel depressed. Going on a diet can prove so disastrous to a woman’s mood and motivation that low self-esteem develops. According to Lipetz and Pichler, “Dieting just a little - eating about 1575 calories per day - can result in impaired vigilance, poorer immediate memory, and longer reaction times.”

What is the leverage point here? Women need to keep in mind that men and women have critically different nutritional requirements. Diets that work for men do not work for women. If women are to stay mentally sharp, they require lots of breaks and frequent meals. Above all, they must monitor the carbohydrates they are eating. In case you have concluded that men seem to have all the benefits here, be aware that the story is not over yet. Scientists believe that lower levels of serotonin are the cause of much higher rates of suicide and violence for men. On the other hand, higher levels of serotonin in men are correlated with social dominance, approaching others, and other forms of social cooperative behaviour. —- by Sonia Herasymowych, PhD

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Body Balance: Vitalize Your Health With Ph Power

Alkamax PH Balancing 90 Caps By Trimedica
AlkaMax Alkaline Booster is a patent pending, one-of-a-kind all natural antacid and alkaline booster that can put an end to heartburn, indigestion, and excess acid in the body. Unlike chemically-saturated over the counter products that only mask the underlying problems of excess acid, AlkaMax penetrates the source of acid build up and promotes long lasting alkaline balance throughout the entire body.Peak performance athletes looking to achieve their maximum potential are often frustrated by the limitations caused by muscle burn and soreness due to lactic acid buildup, but now they can shorten their recovery time with daily use of AlkaMax. The powerful nutrients in AlkaMax actually inhibit the buildup of lactic acid.

Practical Applications in Sports Nutrition
Practical Applications in Sports Nutrition provides an introduction to Sports Nutrition including general nutrition concepts and a thorough explanation of the macronutrients. Students will gain an understanding of the principles of nutrition as they relate specifically to sport and exercise and then learn to apply their concepts to athletes while communicating effectively.
Customer Review: Great text
This is a very useful textbook. Even though I purchased it for school, I’m holding onto it as a reference.

Sleep Right in Five Nights: A Clear and Effective Guide for Conquering Insomnia
Customer Review: Finally: Something besides “Sleep Hygiene” “Cures”
I was having a terrible time with insomnia in 1994/5. I read every article I could find, and several books. All suggested about the same “sleep hygiene” methods of sleeping better. Finally I found this book which discussed better attitudes towards sleep, and what worked for me…temporary sleep depriviation, and I haven’t had much of a problem since. I’ve recommended it to others, and most of them were helped too.

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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A Survival Guide
People who suffer from multiple chemical sensitivity (or MCS) develop severe allergic reactions to their environments. Solvents, pesticides, fresh paint, new carpets, perfumes, and air fresheners are just a few of the substances that can trigger an MCS attack. The condition is often hard to diagnose, and frustrated patients are frequently shuttled from doctor to doctor. This survival guide is based on the latest MCS research-and on the data that the author accumulated over five years researching the impact of MCS on its victims. She reviews what is known about MCS and its symptoms and provides step-by-step advice for coping with the condition, including taking steps to make your home safe, getting professional help, and mobilizing the support of family and friends.
Customer Review: Excellent Book!
This is an excellent book. I highly recommend it. It is great for people who are new to the MCS/Chemical Sensitivity world. It also takes you allot further. There are so many things in this book that others do not cover. There is also a nice resource listing of where to buy special products just for the Chemically Sensitive individual, I found that very useful as well. I would say if your new to MCS then this is the book for you. It is the most comprehensive, straight forward easy to read version. I would start here and then move on to others by Bonnye L. Matthews Or William Rea.
Customer Review: One of the best books on MCS
My wife suffers from MCS. As such, I have read most of the books available concerning MCS. Most books are from a medical professional covering a particular medical theory or treatment plan for MCS. What makes this book different is that it really explains the impact of MCS on people’s lives. It dispells the myths surrounding the various treatments. The book is based upon surveys and interviews with hundreds of MCS patients. As such, the advice is based upon their experiences. When discussing treatments, statistics are provided on how many people were helped, how many harmed, how many uncertain. This books is great for those new to MCS, those who have been around a long time, those who are patients, those who know someone with MCS. I would recommend this book be added to anyone’s library. This is not the only excellent book on MCS … it is now simply the first book I recommend that people read.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vitamins and Minerals, 3rd Edition (Complete Idiot’s Guide to)
The most up-to-date lowdown on vitamins and minerals.

Updated and revised for the first time since 2000, this new edition of The Complete Idiot?s Guide to Vitamins and Minerals covers all the latest research and developments in vitamins, minerals, and supplements in the last six years. It features significant new information on Vitamins A and E, folate, and glycosamine, among many others, and sets the record straight on much of the conflicting information out there on this subject.
–Covers all research and developments in vitamins, minerals, and supplements in the last six years
–Significant new information on Vitamins A and E, folate, glycosamine, and others

Customer Review: comprehensive & simple
It was all I expected and more. Very simple to use and yet with extensive info if you are seriously interested in health.
Customer Review: A Complete and Handy Reference Guide
Part 1: The Vital Keys to Good Health Part 2: The A to K of Vitamins Part 3: Minerals: The Elements of Good Health Part 4: Exploring Other Supplements Appendix A: A quick reference chart for common health problems such as acne, colds and insomia Appendix B: Resources (includes addresses and phone number of that company/organization) for Finding nutritionally oriented physicians and other health care professionals in your location, Nutrition and the elderly, Testing labs, Supplement manufacturers, Supplement infomation and regulation, Federal Regulation and Industry association & help for medical problems Appendix C: Includes a in-depth glossary of the terms throughout the book. This book is packed with infomation and I found this book very useful. In its introduction, the author explains briefly on why vitamins and minerals are so important for us to stay alive. Throughout the book there are plenty of charts, including many that list good food sources for the various vitamins, minerals, and other supplements. The book also gives tips on how to get the most from your foods and supplememnts, how to avoid problems like overdoses or bad interactions with other drugs or supplements. It also includes a sidebar with a duck character letting you know what supplements don’t work or what to avoid because it dosen’t work.

Aging Well: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health
In this definitive, prescriptive guide to all aspects of aging, the authors-both top experts on aging at Harvard Medical School-offer a complete and highly accessible reference focused on the physical and emotional issues that affect seniors and their loved ones. Here is invaluable advice on a range of topics, from lifestyle choices to retirement and insurance options to coping with loss and other life concerns. Aging Well addresses such increasingly important subjects as:

•Safety risks associated with growing older

• Alternative medicine and the right questions to ask

• Assisting aging parents and other challenges of the “sandwich generation”

• Mail-order products for seniors

• Healthy-aging research and potential therapies

•How to optimize and strengthen your health if your body is affected by illness or disease

Aging Well contains what you need to know to help you and your loved ones live fuller, healthier lives, whether you’re 40, 50, or older-because aging well is living well.
Customer Review: Simply great!
I am an avid reader of books on health and I found this book to be a real gem for my library collection. I have presented it to many of my friends over the age of 40 - for I believe that “aging well” should start early. This book has helped me and my parents, and all other relatives and friends enormously. It should be on everyone’s bookshelf.
Customer Review: A Great book
This book is an excellent reference for anyone interested in the aging process. It is easy to read and yet provides a depth of knowledge not readily available in other books. It is also a superb gift for anyone who enjoys life and desires to continue doing it, by aging well!

The California Wine Country Diet: The Indulgent Guide To Managing Your Weight
The California Wine Country Diet: The Indulgent Approach to Managing Your Weight makes choosing wellness a pleasure. Readers learn how to lose and maintain weight while enjoying the delicious, healthy cuisine of the California wine country. In this diet, wine is not a footnote but an integral part of the daily meal plans for those who choose to drink wine.
While sampling recipes from some of California’s most renowned chefs, readers will also learn how to deal with the complex emotional issues which may have sabotaged their weight loss attempts in the past. The nutritional and exercise recommendations of the new USDA Guidelines are presented in an easy-to-understand manner and in the context of wine country delights. From being just a way to lose weight, The California Wine Country Diet will easily become the lifestyle readers will choose.

Customer Review: Not overly impressed
Some good ideas, but it just wasn’t enough for me. Seemed to be lacking, you can get most of the info online if you look hard enough.

Customer Review: A well-written reducing/lifestyle plan!
Finally, a well-written reducing/lifestyle change plan. Dr. Logan compiles everything you need in one comprehensive book without being `way out there’ or a `silver bullet’. The California Wine Country Diet is truly an enjoyable lifestyle change. It is do-able, enjoyable, straightforward and sensible. I have done many diet plans and have found them to be impracticable or impossible to follow in the real world. Dr. Logan’s plan is easy to follow; so easy that any gourmet recipe can easily fit into the meal plan guidelines provided one exercises portion control. I have been able to eat well and still enjoy my Castello blue cheese, Kashi TLC crackers and glass of local Chambercin. Ching, Ching to you Dr. Logan!

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Healthy Habits: Total Conditioning for a Healthy Body and Mind
Customer Review: Good Book
I find this book to be helpful. It touches on alot that we go through in our lives. Sometimes we forget that we can change and this book is a good tool to help. I found this book helps me to see more of who I am and it also gives me motivation to change some of the unhealthy habits I picked up during my life. Enjoy!

The Essentials of Yi Jing: Translated, Annotated, and With an Introduction and Notes
The Yi Jing (I Ching or Book of Changes) is a classic in Chinese literature that provides a philosophy and also a practical way to anticipate the future by means of divination. Most students of the Yi Jing have focused on one aspect and ignored the other. Historically, advances in classical Chinese culture were made by academics, not by diviners. Modern Chinese scholars study this classic for the wealth of its philosophical thought and literary style in the same manner they study other Confucian classics. In the West, since its introduction in the eighteenth century, however, it has aroused more interest as an aid for divination, like Tarot, than as a work of scholarship or philosophy. This book integrates these long separated strands.

Working with the original text and with the historical treatments of the Yi Jing in both Chinese and Western culture, Dr. Wu has translated and annotated this ancient classic for students and serious readers. He corrects past misinterpretations, omissions, and foreign ideas that were introduced to the original text. He provides the reader useful charts and commentaries, making this the most unified, comprehensive, and detailed explanation of the Yi Jing.

Taking Control: Living With the Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome
New 2007 3rd edition. Revised and updated - More Chapters, More Resources This book will help you:Learn the latest research on MVPS. Discover how to control your symptoms without medications. Understand what works for thousands of other MVP’ers. Explore herbal therapy solutions.Find out how to evaluate Internet MVPS resources. Plus-More stories from fellow MVP’ers and more references for MVP’ers
Customer Review: Excellent resource
I bought this book a few years ago after being diagnosed with MVP. I read the personal stories and felt great sympathy for the people who were experiencing so many symptoms which I didn’t have. However, in the past two years, I have experienced many new symptoms and this book has been so reassuring and helpful in giving me ideas about how to control them. I have found Dr. Scordo to have much more knowledge about MVP than any of the primary care physicians I have visited. This book has been immensely helpful to me and I would highly recommend it to anyone diagnosed with MVP.
Customer Review: EXCELLENT!
At first I was a little concerned because of some of the negative reviews. But I did my research and found Dr. Scordo’s information at the faculty site of her university. The book will speak for itself. It is excellent with excellent information. Love the stories of other people with MVPS and love all the helpful advice. I too am a teacher and appreciated the additional references in the book. Without any doubts, this is a great book for those who want to learn more about MVP!

Toward Active Living: Proceedings of the International Conference on Physical Activity, Fitness, and Health

Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP): A Super Nutraceutical (Basic Health Guides)
Modified citrus pectin (MCP) is an amazing substance backed by impressive research. In this book, you’ll learn that in addition to have the same beneficial effects as pectin, from which it is derived MCP also has the extraordinary added benefit of protecting against cancer, cance progression, and heart disease. Of all diseases, MCP has been studied mos extensively for prostate cance, one of the most common cancers in men. MCP has been shown to slow PSA doubling time, to stop the spred of prstate cancer, and to kill prostate cancer cells. Moreover, you’ll learn how it may lower cholesterol, reduce atherosclerosis, remove heavy metals and environmental toxins from the body, and prevent and reduce the sumptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

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The Essentials of Yi Jing: Translated, Annotated, and With an Introduction and Notes
The Yi Jing (I Ching or Book of Changes) is a classic in Chinese literature that provides a philosophy and also a practical way to anticipate the future by means of divination. Most students of the Yi Jing have focused on one aspect and ignored the other. Historically, advances in classical Chinese culture were made by academics, not by diviners. Modern Chinese scholars study this classic for the wealth of its philosophical thought and literary style in the same manner they study other Confucian classics. In the West, since its introduction in the eighteenth century, however, it has aroused more interest as an aid for divination, like Tarot, than as a work of scholarship or philosophy. This book integrates these long separated strands.

Working with the original text and with the historical treatments of the Yi Jing in both Chinese and Western culture, Dr. Wu has translated and annotated this ancient classic for students and serious readers. He corrects past misinterpretations, omissions, and foreign ideas that were introduced to the original text. He provides the reader useful charts and commentaries, making this the most unified, comprehensive, and detailed explanation of the Yi Jing.
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The Smallest Things Make the Biggest Difference SMART WEIGHT LOSS
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Healthy and Delicious: 400 Professional Recipes
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Evaluating HIV/Aids Treatment Programs: Innovative Methods and Findings
Evaluating HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs offers new strategies for providing care for substance abusers with HIV/AIDS. This volume offers specific, proven programs designed to help underserved populations–including women, Latinos, Haitians, adolescents, and rural people–overcome linguistic, cultural, racial, and economic barriers to obtaining health care. It also offers specialized medical care models that work within the context of a continuum of services in a medical clinic.

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Complete Idiot’s Guide to ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (The Complete Idiot’s Guide)

You’re no idiot, of course. You call your doctor for regular check-ups, see your dentist at least once a year, and make sure your children are up to date with their immunizations. But when it comes to trying any kind of alternative medicine, you don’t know the diffference between a healing tea and a healing bath. Don’t rip up your herb garden yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Alternative Medicine gives detailed descriptions of different kinds of treatments and explains what they’re all about. You’ll learn what to expect when you consult an osteopath, a reflexologist, or a Chinese herbalist. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide, you get:

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Customer Review: Cross Reference
This book is excellent for cross referencing material as well as a basic understanding of terminology.

The Diet and Health Benefits of Hca: How This All-Natural Diet Aid Promotes Weight Loss and Inhibits Fat Production (Hydroxycitric Acid : How This All-Natural … Weight Loss and Inhibits Fat Production)
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Customer Review: A good start
This was a good place to start learning about HCA. If you use this book to understand basically how HCA can be used to prevent excess calories from being stored as fat, and to aid in appetite suppression by increasing glycogen stores in the liver, you can then reference the most recent clinical trials (there are now 18 of them) showing that if you take the *proper amount* of HCA, you WILL lose weight with it. The only problem with this book is it is dated, since the new research indicates a daily dosage of 4000 to 6000 mg of HCA for effective weight loss. This book doesn’t reflect this new knowlege. But again, a good place to start learning about this wonderful herb.
Customer Review: complete humbug
It reads like completely scientifical, but especially when you are not trained, it’s difficult to understand where the writer is wrong and where he’s right. HCA for weight loss is complete nonsens. I tried it myself with no result and recently a scientific study pointed out that HCA has zero effect.

Practical Psychology for Diabetes Clinicians: How to Deal With the Key Behavioral Issues Faced by Patients and Health-Care Teams (Practical Approaches in Diabetes Care)
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Customer Review: Treating the behavioral aspects of diabetes
This book consists of chapters written by a variety of authors. They address common emotional, family and behavioral problems that one might encounter when treating inviduals with diabetes. There sections relevant to the very young as well as the elderly. I liked the sections on dealing with hypoglycemia. They did a good job of addressing how fear of hypoglycemia can influence behavior. Most of the psychological principles are still quite relevant and valuable. Some of the specific suggestions for diet and insulin management are out of date, because of the introduction of ultra-rapid insulin and because of the increase in the use of the insulin pump. I would enjoy seeing an updated version. Dr. Cox could then incorporate driving data into his sections on hypoglycemia.

Pain Relief: How to Say No to Acute, Chronic and Cancer Pain
Pain Relief, How to Say No to Acute, Chronic and Cancer Pain will teach you how to communicate your pain to doctors using a simple Pain Assessment Scale. The keys to pain relief are prevention, individualizd care, and flexibility of drug and non drug treatment. Explains the importance of discussing the pain with doctors before undergoing medical and surgical treatments. Cancer pain and HIV pain covered.

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The California Wine Country Diet: The Indulgent Guide To Managing Your Weight
The California Wine Country Diet: The Indulgent Approach to Managing Your Weight makes choosing wellness a pleasure. Readers learn how to lose and maintain weight while enjoying the delicious, healthy cuisine of the California wine country. In this diet, wine is not a footnote but an integral part of the daily meal plans for those who choose to drink wine.
While sampling recipes from some of California’s most renowned chefs, readers will also learn how to deal with the complex emotional issues which may have sabotaged their weight loss attempts in the past. The nutritional and exercise recommendations of the new USDA Guidelines are presented in an easy-to-understand manner and in the context of wine country delights. From being just a way to lose weight, The California Wine Country Diet will easily become the lifestyle readers will choose.
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Customer Review: Not overly impressed
Some good ideas, but it just wasn’t enough for me. Seemed to be lacking, you can get most of the info online if you look hard enough.
Customer Review: A well-written reducing/lifestyle plan!
Finally, a well-written reducing/lifestyle change plan. Dr. Logan compiles everything you need in one comprehensive book without being `way out there’ or a `silver bullet’. The California Wine Country Diet is truly an enjoyable lifestyle change. It is do-able, enjoyable, straightforward and sensible. I have done many diet plans and have found them to be impracticable or impossible to follow in the real world. Dr. Logan’s plan is easy to follow; so easy that any gourmet recipe can easily fit into the meal plan guidelines provided one exercises portion control. I have been able to eat well and still enjoy my Castello blue cheese, Kashi TLC crackers and glass of local Chambercin. Ching, Ching to you Dr. Logan!

Prevention of Cancer (The Biology of Cancer)
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Lose Weight, Feel Great
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Tired - So Tired!: And the “Yeast Connection”
Every day, millions of people complain that they are tired. In fact, studies show that fatigue is one of the most common problems for which people seek help from a physician. But tests often fail to provide an explanation of chronic fatigue. Tired–So Tired! explains why so many people experience exhaustion and, more important, presents easy-to-follow steps for boosting energy and regaining health.

After years of research, Dr. William G. Crook discovered that sugar and yeast, along with other foods and chemicals to which people can develop sensitivities, are major dietary culprits, and can cause everything from headaches to chronic fatigue syndrome. He also found a connection between fatigue and certain nutrient deficiencies. With this information in mind, the doctor developed a diet and vitamin plan that can eliminate fatigue and related symptoms. Tired–So Tired! presents the doctor’s treatment program as well as his research on this important subject.
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Customer Review: Very helpful in getting one’s hands around the medical problems
I would politely differ with the person who labeled this book “poorly written”. It is, from my perspective, more conversational and ‘individual case description’ based, rather than being a heavy tome. In my current (albeit confused) mental state thanks to many of the conditions Dr. Crook describes in the book, an ‘easy read’ that helps me understand what’s going on, why such disparate symptoms coexist, and what the steps are to start dealing with the problem is (though I hate to say it in these terms) “exactly what the doctor ordered”. I am seeing a specialist in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome who studied with Dr. Crook, and this book helped give me context for specific vitamins/minerals/supplements that are being recommended to me. So, is this the perfect book for everyone? Probably not. Is it a good summary and explanation in plain terms, for the effects of Candida, CFS, and other interrelated conditions? Absolutely.
Customer Review: Poorly Written
Whereas what he has to say is important, he doesn’t say it very well. This was a poorly written book of important information. I’ve read several books on the subject and found this to be one of the least helpful. Smart man, poor writer.

The Teenage Human Body Operator’s Manual
The Teenage Human Body Operator’s Manual is a book for teens and parents to share. What’s in it for teens? A lot. One, it gives vital information about health issues they face every day. Two, it shows teens a way to learn how to maintain a healthy body-mind. This highly illustrated book is easy to read with its hundreds of jazzy cartoons. Teens will relax with its humor and honesty. What’s in it for parents? A really important key. The Teenage Human Body Operator’s Manual opens doors to parent-teen communication. Parents want to talk to their teens about sex and other health matters, but how many actually do? Not many. It’s not a “time” problem, either. Parents need a plausible premise, a way to break the ice that doesn’t turn teens off. This book can do it. Parents and teens will start talking by laughing and looking at this funny collection of pictures and facts.

Customer Review: Every teenager needs the information in this book
There is a reason “The Teenage Human Body Operator’s Manual” is in its 5th printing. This is an easily accessible and entertaining manual for preteens and teenagers tackling the tough issues facing today’s adolescents. It provides candid and helpful information on topics including nutrition, hygiene, communication, physical health, stress, anger, depression, substance abuse, STDs, sexual assault, abusive relationships, steroids, eating disorders, tattoos, piercing, and branding, safer sex, condoms, sexual preference, [...], birth control, and pregnancy. It also presents a helpful 5 step process for changing bad habits. As a school-based behavioral health psychologist who has worked with over 1,000 adolescents in the past decade, I highly recommend this book for teenagers, teachers, health educators, counselors, parents, and anyone else who has the opportunity to work with kids.

Customer Review: Just what the doctor ordered…
This book–printed to look like an automobile owner’s manual–is just the right blend of humor and seriousness. I use it to help teach groups of foster children about basic lifeskills. We always start with the last half of the book, that includes the “Routine Checkup.” This is a questionnaire (multiple choice) that helps kids get in touch with their habits, and helps them learn how to change a habit and develop good ones.

Kids often laugh at the book when they get it, but it is there for them with accurate information when they have a question about anything that comes up in their teenage years–peer pressure, drugs and alcohol, sexuality, exercise, eating right, taking care of themselves, anger, body changes, etc.

Some of the illustrations (all ink drawing/cartoons by the illustrator) were a bit goofy looking for my taste, but my son says, “Dad, you’re trippin’. They’re cool.” It’s the best $12 I ever spent for my own son, and I highly recommend this book.

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Physical Dimensions Of Aging
The physical aging process progresses every day—and so does our understanding of it. Physical Dimensions of Aging, Second Edition, will keep students and professionals up to date on the outcomes of the latest research studies and their implications for the elderly in the real world. Physical aging affects us cognitively, psychologically, socially, and spiritually. The book discusses how people age physically and how this aging affects other dimensions of life.

The second edition of Physical Dimensions of Aging has been updated to integrate research findings on physical aging from more than 100 different journals in myriad fields, creating interdisciplinary coverage on the topic. It provides students and professionals with what they need to know about physical aging in order to conduct clinical research and to work with clients and patients. In doing so, it retains its landmark status as the definitive reference on aging.

Moreover, Physical Dimensions of Aging, Second Edition, focuses less on explaining the measurement techniques and research design and more on the outcome of the studies and their practical implications for everyday living. This approach will enable professionals and students to do the following: - Understand the physical aging process and its effects on other dimensions of life. - Apply the latest research in working with adults and the elderly. - Become more effective in their professions.

The structure of this new edition is more conducive to learning and features the following: - Chapter objectives - Key terms - Sidebars of capsule research studies - Testimonials, vignettes, and other tidbits that tie the research information to the real world - Review questions to assist students in synthesizing and remembering the information - Short lists of recommended reading in each chapter for those who want to pursue the topic in more detail - A glossary at the end of the book

This second edition is organized into five parts. Part I provides an introduction to aging, to the field of gerontology, and to the research process for studying individual differences. Part II describes the physical changes in structure, capacity, and endurance. Part III overviews the factors related to motor coordination, motor control, and skill learning for older adults. Part IV addresses physical-psychosocial relationships, including health, exercise, and cognitive function as well as health-related expectations of quality of life for older adults. Part V highlights physical performance and achievement especially to showcase the results from consistent effort and hard work of physically elite older adults as inspiration for others.

At a time when many people are telling older adults what they can’t do, professionals should be telling them what they can do. Physical Dimensions of Aging, Second Edition, will equip professionals to do so.
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Customer Review: A textbook resource and reference especially for students and professionals
Now in an updated second edition, Physical Dimensions Of Aging by the team of Waneen W. Spirduso, Karen L. Francis, and Priscilla G. MacRae is a textbook resource and reference especially for students and professionals in need of the latest research concerning the physical process of aging and the practical ramifications for anyone working with the elderly, particularly in the field of health care. Chapters discuss changes physical structure, capacity, and endurance; motor coordination and motor control; psychosocial relationships; what distinguishes “physically elite” older adults; and much more. Charts, graphs, and the results of the most recent studies fill this serious-minded text, which avoids an excess of overly technical medical jargon despite its focus upon professionals and field trainees. Highly recommended.

Edmund’s Food Ratings for Dieters
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Foundations and Clinical Applications of Nutrition: A Nursing Approach (With CD-ROM for Windows 3.1+ or Macintosh 7.1+)
Foundations and Clinical Applications of Nutrition: A Nursing Approach approaches the study of nutrition and diet therapy from the personal and professional perspective of nursing students. It emphasizes the role of nursing in health promotion and primary prevention, as well as in medical nutrition therapy. Skills essential for nursing professionals are emphasized for implementation and education of patients and clients about prescribed dietary patterns. A special feature entitled The Nursing Approach ends each chapter, demonstrating the continual application of the nursing process to each content area, and nursing-related content is integrated throughout the text.
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Customer Review: Excellent book
Great details and explainations. A perfect guide for those in the nursing field as well as nursing students. I give it an A+.

Feeding the Brain: How Foods Affect Children
An informative look at how the foods we feed our children can shape the course of their growth, development and behavior.
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Customer Review: great alternative to meds!
If you have a child who is sensitive to different foods that may be affecting behavior, this is the book for you. Was very helpful in addressing behavior that can be caused by foods. I used it for my child and found good results. It is not the easiest thing to change your child’s diet, but if the behavior difference becomes apparent even to the child, then you have won half the battle. A must try before you put your child on meds!!

Bragg Healthy Lifestyle - Vital Living to 120! (Formerly Titled: Toxicless Diet, Body Purification & Healing System)
Proven throughout history for physical, mental and spiritual rejuvenation, fasting promotes cleansing and healing; helps normalize weight, blood pressure, cholesterol; rebuilds the immune system; and helps reverse the aging process.

Customer Review: LIke all Bragg books
They couldve written everything on one page, thne rest are just random helth facts. Like all Bragg books.

Customer Review: not alot of information, tons of repeating
This book should only be about 10 pages for the amount of information in it. The information is good but if you buy the companion cookbook, almost none of the recipes follow the diet they prescribe. There are recipes for liver in their cookbook! That’s one of the most toxic foods, so basically it appears as if they just want to make money off of you(they’re certainly not altruistic health crusaders). And Paul Bragg is dead but they don’t mention how he died or how old he was(certainly not 120 as promised), I read somewhere it was in a body surfing accident, but I’m skeptical. Don’t buy this book, borrow it from the library because clearly they just want to make lots of money off of you buy trying to lure you in with their promises of good health that their cook book does not support, and all the information you need is on their website.

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Physical Dimensions Of Aging
The physical aging process progresses every day—and so does our understanding of it. Physical Dimensions of Aging, Second Edition, will keep students and professionals up to date on the outcomes of the latest research studies and their implications for the elderly in the real world. Physical aging affects us cognitively, psychologically, socially, and spiritually. The book discusses how people age physically and how this aging affects other dimensions of life.

The second edition of Physical Dimensions of Aging has been updated to integrate research findings on physical aging from more than 100 different journals in myriad fields, creating interdisciplinary coverage on the topic. It provides students and professionals with what they need to know about physical aging in order to conduct clinical research and to work with clients and patients. In doing so, it retains its landmark status as the definitive reference on aging.

Moreover, Physical Dimensions of Aging, Second Edition, focuses less on explaining the measurement techniques and research design and more on the outcome of the studies and their practical implications for everyday living. This approach will enable professionals and students to do the following: - Understand the physical aging process and its effects on other dimensions of life. - Apply the latest research in working with adults and the elderly. - Become more effective in their professions.

The structure of this new edition is more conducive to learning and features the following: - Chapter objectives - Key terms - Sidebars of capsule research studies - Testimonials, vignettes, and other tidbits that tie the research information to the real world - Review questions to assist students in synthesizing and remembering the information - Short lists of recommended reading in each chapter for those who want to pursue the topic in more detail - A glossary at the end of the book

This second edition is organized into five parts. Part I provides an introduction to aging, to the field of gerontology, and to the research process for studying individual differences. Part II describes the physical changes in structure, capacity, and endurance. Part III overviews the factors related to motor coordination, motor control, and skill learning for older adults. Part IV addresses physical-psychosocial relationships, including health, exercise, and cognitive function as well as health-related expectations of quality of life for older adults. Part V highlights physical performance and achievement especially to showcase the results from consistent effort and hard work of physically elite older adults as inspiration for others.

At a time when many people are telling older adults what they can’t do, professionals should be telling them what they can do. Physical Dimensions of Aging, Second Edition, will equip professionals to do so.
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Customer Review: A textbook resource and reference especially for students and professionals
Now in an updated second edition, Physical Dimensions Of Aging by the team of Waneen W. Spirduso, Karen L. Francis, and Priscilla G. MacRae is a textbook resource and reference especially for students and professionals in need of the latest research concerning the physical process of aging and the practical ramifications for anyone working with the elderly, particularly in the field of health care. Chapters discuss changes physical structure, capacity, and endurance; motor coordination and motor control; psychosocial relationships; what distinguishes “physically elite” older adults; and much more. Charts, graphs, and the results of the most recent studies fill this serious-minded text, which avoids an excess of overly technical medical jargon despite its focus upon professionals and field trainees. Highly recommended.

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Self-Management of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema & Others
Drawing on input from people with long-term ailments, this book points the way to achieving the best possible life under the circumstances.
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Customer Review: I trained in this program and it helped tremendously
This book started the Self-Management approach to chronic illness. I trained in the Self-Management program and have led groups for years, and have seen people make wonderful changes. This experience and knowledge inspired me to write my book, The Art of Getting Well. Drs Lorig, Holman, Sobel and the other authors lay out all you need to know to develop your programs of exercise, relaxation, emotional support, and healthy eating. They also teach how to deal successfully with medical systems and treatments. The book stresses living the best possible life, not just following medical orders or watching everything you eat. It’s an excellent complement to my book, which will provide some inspiration to attempt the behavior changes that “Living a Healthy Life” explains so well.
Customer Review: Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions…
This book does an excellent job of presenting how chronic illness patients are overwhelmed and how they can aggressively confront the debilitating cycle and successfully manage the lifestyles they must lead. Everyone with a chronic illness is forced to live differently than all others, no matter their age. The book analyzes and describes the depleting cycle that anyone with a chronic, dibilitating illness encounters, and offers proven solutions on how to break the debilitating cycle and progress outward inspite of the illness.

Skin Cancer (The Biology of Cancer)
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La Solucion Definitiva Al Sobrepeso/the Ultimate Weight Solution: 7 Claves Para Alcanzar Tu Peso Ideal
Dr. Phil wants to lead you to weight loss freedom. He’s spent over thirty years working with overweight patients to get results that last. Now, in The Ultimate Weight Solution, he sounds his loudest wake-up call yet, giving the bottom-line truth and his unprecedented 7 Key approach to permanent weight loss. You know all too well that the “diet” experience can be bitterly disappointing. In this landmark book, Dr. Phil delivers an action-oriented plan to give you immediate results, results that will last a lifetime. Forget counting calories or tracking carbs or fat; you’ll get the real reasons you’ve lost control of your weight, with tools to identify what to eat, when to eat, how to eat, and why you eat when you don’t want to.

Description in Spanish: Quienes enfrentan los problemas del sobrepeso anhelan librarse de la pesada carga f?sica y emocional que representan pero no tienen las herramientas suficientes ni la orientaci?n adecuada para lograrlo, la mayor?a de las veces pasan de una dieta a otra sin obtener buenos resultados y acrecentando sus malestares f?sicos y emocionales. Con La soluci?n definitiva al sobrepeso el doctor Phil McGraw ofrece un programa comprobable para perder peso en forma permanente y empezar a vivir con pasi?n y poder renovados.

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Trimedica Alkamax PH Balancing Powder 200 GM
AlkaMax Alkaline Booster is a patent pending, one-of-a-kind all natural antacid and alkaline booster that can put an end to heartburn, indigestion, and excess acid in the body. Unlike chemically-saturated over the counter products that only mask the under
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Body Balance: Vitalize Your Health With Ph Power
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Save Your Life with the Power of Alkaline Acid pH Balance
What a great resource, and to the point!

An easy read and within the hour you will have the basics of healthy pH balance to make subtle - but profoundly effective! - shifts in your habits.

Here are just a few of the benefits of pH Balance that Save Your Life With the Power of Alkaline Acid pH Balance addresses:

?€? Watch weight melt off without hardly trying

?€? pH Balance assists your body to cure illness/disease

?€? pH Balance contributes to being happier

?€? Stimulates brain function - more mentally alert

?€? Physically stronger

?€? Banishes depression

?€? Stimulates creativity

?€? Stimulates productivity

?€? Health & happiness in children

?€? Improves Health and well-being of elderly loved ones

Includes actions you can take NOW to initiate healthy pH Balance.

Blythe Ayne, Ph.D.’s writing is engaging and accessible. You’ll be up and running - mentally, emotionally and physically - in no time. Read Save Your Life with the Power of Alkaline Acid pH Balance now!

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Fitness and Rehabilitation Programs for Special Populations
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