The Teenage Human Body Operator’s Manual

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!!