I Can Make You Sleep: Overcome Insomnia Forever and Get the Best Rest of Your Life

Offers a system to help reset the body's natural sleep mechanism in order to improve both the quantity and quality of sleep.
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100 Questions & Answers About Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)

One in every 20 Americans over the age of 50 has peripheral artery disease, or PAD, a disease that affects the arteries outside the heart. If you or someone you know suffers from this painful and often debilitating condition, this book can offer help and hope. 100 Questions and Answers About Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) provides clear, authoritative answers to common questions raised by patients and their families as they navigate the world of PAD. Renowned experts Drs. Alan Hirsch and Emile Mohler, III have written an accessible and informative book for patients who want to understand their illness more clearly. Featuring information about common symptoms, the diagnosis process, treatment options, and risk factors for related conditions such as atherosclerosis and claudication, this text is an invaluable resources for anyone coping with the physical and emotional aspects of PAD.
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Welcome to the Departure Lounge: Adventures in Mothering Mother

A witty account of one woman's struggle to care for her aging parents finds her family's life thrown into turmoil by the antics of her mother and stepfather as dementia and Alzheimer's take their toll, transforming the duo into a pair of unruly "teens," as she struggles to manage her parents' lives and her own as both spiral out of control.
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Gillian McKeith's Food Bible: How to Use Food to Cure What Ails You

A comprehensive health resource by the author of You Are What You Eat offers valuable information on the health effects, benefits, and uses of food and how nutrition affects one's overall well-being, aging, ability to fight disease, and quality of life, with specific food-based remedies for common diseases and ailments.
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Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Brain

A tour of brain science and the latest understandings about the human mind explores the disparity between the brain's seemingly endless capacity and its tendency to fail at even simple tasks, in an account by a famous autistic savant that incorporates elements of his own story.
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Jane Brody's Guide to the Great Beyond: A Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for the End of

A guide to proactively prepare for the end of life covers topics ranging from financial planning and medical issues to emotional considerations, with advice on health care proxies, wills, funeral preparations, and palliative care.
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The Body Fat Solution: Five Priciples for Burning Fat, Building Lean Muscles, Ending Emotional Eating, and Maintaining Your Perfect Weight

A program for permanent weight loss and building muscle explains how to break overeating habits, reveals why it is so challenging to balance calories and exercise appropriately, and shares guidelines for eating nutritionally without eliminating food groups.
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Preventing Type 2 Diabetes: Beyond Diet and Exercise

Describes the link between metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes, and discusses treatment options and complications of diabetes.
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Fighting Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: Practical Ways to Create New Habits and Increase Your Energy

Lowenstein is an occupational therapist who has worked with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for ten years, and she has written this guide for MS patients who hope to overcome the fatigue that is common to this condition. The author describes "energy conservation techniques" that provide a natural and healthy alternative to caffeine, sugar and medications such as invigorating exercise regimens, methods for simplifying everyday tasks and even behavior modification techniques. This book uses easy-to-understand charts, checklists and other exercises to reinforce new habits that will allow MS patients expend less energy on non-productive tasks and have more fun with their daily lives.
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The End of My Addiction

An alcoholic cardiologist traces his failed efforts to conquer his addiction before submitting himself as a test subject for a drug that had been effective in animal testing, a two-year process that he credits with enabling his subsequent sobriety.
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Muscular Dystrophy

The muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that severely affect children and adults. For sufferers and their family, the illness presents enormous physical and psychological challenges. This new edition answers many of the questions asked about how and why it occurs, and how it affects the life of a recently diagnosed child.
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I Can Make You Thin: The Revolutionary System Used by More Than 3 Million People

Presents a weight-loss system that discusses how to re-pattern thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs about one's self, health, and food in order to take control of one's diet and achieve permanent weight-loss.
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The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First : The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Overcome Anxiety, and Sharpen Your Min

Outlines a six-week program for detoxifying and fortifying the body in order to maximize brain function, bolster energy levels, and treat a variety of mood disorders.
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Time: Your Body: A Visual User's Guide

A richly illustrated introduction to human anatomy and physiology examines the diverse systems and organs of the body and furnishes a comprehensive guide to keeping oneself healthy and energetic for a lifetime, covering such areas as nutrition, exercise, sexuality, mental health, the mind-body link, spirituality, and alleviating the effects of aging.
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Why Dirt Is Good: 5 Ways to Make Germs Your Friends

Provides a look at the benefits of being exposed to germs and dirt in relation to building up the immune system, with a look at how the immune system operates, how to make one's immune system stronger, the overuse of antibiotics, and the growing fear surrounding "super bugs."
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Spent: End Exhaustion and Feel Great Again

Explains how stress, light deprivation, and poor diet are contributing to low energy levels, insomnia, digestive problems, and other life-quality dysfunctions, and outlines an alternative nutritional and exercise program to restore the body's natural rhythms.
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The Praeger Guide to Hearing and Hearing Loss: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

Beginning with an overview of hearing anatomy and physiology, this book for general readers explains how we hear, the different types of hearing loss, tests that diagnose and evaluate adult hearing loss, and what can be done to prevent hearing loss or improve hearing. It describes many types of hearing rehabilitation services, devices, and technology, such as cochlear implants and hearing aids, and outlines factors to consider when purchasing a hearing aid. It also discusses the psychological, social, and emotional effects of untreated hearing loss.
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The Great Life Makeover: A Couples Guide to Weight, Mood, and Sex for the Best Years of Your Life--and Your Relationship

Addresses health and sexual issues of relevance to middle-aged couples, from reduced libido and slower metabolism to stress management and mood imbalances, in a guide that makes strategic recommendations for diet and fitness.

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