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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Quick Facts Lung Cancer: What You Need to Know--now


Educate yourself about lung cancer

What are your risk factors for lung cancer? Can you prevent it? How is lung cancer treated? What should you ask your doctor? QuickFACTS Lung Cancer is both a comprehensive and a quick read, with highlighted cover tabs for quick reference of specific topics.

QuickFACTS Lung Cancer:

  • Covers everything from risk factors to living well after cancer treatment
  • Provides critical questions to ask your healthcare team
  • Educates and empowers you right from the start
  • Completely updated with the latest patient treatment guidelines
  • Includes a lung cancer dictionary
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Quick Facts Advanced Cancer: What You Need to Know -- Now


Educate yourself about advanced cancer

Advanced cancer is not likely to be cured, but it can frequently be controlled. The physical symptoms can almost always be well managed. QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer emphasizes that every person’s cancer is unique, and you have the right to be well-informed and to be the decision-maker in planning treatment to offer the best possible quality of life. QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer is both comprehensive and a quick read, with highlighted cover tabs for quick reference of specific topics.

QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer:

  • Covers everything from risk factors to living well after cancer treatment
  • Provides critical questions to ask your healthcare team
  • Educates and empowers you right from the start
  • Completely updated with the latest patient treatment guidelines
  • Includes an advanced cancer dictionary
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Breast Cancer Clear & Simple: All Your Questions Answered

A guide to breast cancer features a question and answer format, and includes questions such as, "How serious is my cancer?", "Who will help with my cancer treatment?", and "What's the best way to treat my breast cancer?"
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Knack Weight Training for Women: Step-by-step Exercises for Weight Loss, Body Shaping, and Good Health

Covering both home programs and gym routines, an easy-to-follow weight training guide combines photos of exercises with anatomical illustrations depicting where muscles are, how they work, and why strengthening them will yield results for shaping and/or slimming.
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The Metabolism Miracle: 3 Easy Steps to Regain Control of Your Weight--Permanently

Provides a comprehensive plan for reprogramming the liver and pancreas in order to stimulate rapid fat loss and long-term weight management via three specific stages; offers sample menus, recipes, and exercise recommendations; and includes informative answers to frequently asked questions.
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American Medical Association Guide to Preventing and Treating Heart Disease: Essential Information You and Your Family Need to Know about Having a Hea

A leading group of medical experts presents an authoritative guide to preventing and treating heart disease, discussing risk factors for both genders, the causes of and therapeutic options for common heart problems, strategies for lifestyle changes, warning signs and symptoms of a problem, heart-healthy nutrition and exercise, and other important topics.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

The Game On! Diet: Kick Your Friend's Butt While Shrinking Your Own

Outlines a competitive method for losing weight and pursuing fitness goals without extreme methods, in a guide co-authored by Body-for-LIFE's million-dollar prize winner and a Grey's Anatomy writer that provides meal plans, exercises, and recommended lifestyle changes.
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Fantastic Water Workouts

Have fun, get fit, and stay healthy with Fantastic Water Workouts.

With more than 130 exercises that use the natural resistance of water, you will improve your body’s composition and tone, strengthen muscles, increase aerobic and muscular endurance, and improve flexibility, coordination, and agility—all with minimal stress on your body.

In addition to the unique and creative individual exercises, Fantastic Water Workouts includes 14 step-by-step programs that can be tailored to your personal needs, interests, and fitness goals.

Whether you’re seeking general programs for overall fitness, cross-training, and improved performance or more specific routines for pregnancy, physical rehabilitation, cardiac recovery, or older adults, it’s all here. You can even add variety to your program by trying the tai chi, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing, country line dancing, street dancing, and noodle workouts.

Jump into Fantastic Water Workouts and discover the complete water workout guide.
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Hospice Care at Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Dying Loved One at Home

Hospice Care at Home was written for the family caregiver who wants to care for their dying loved one at home but lacks the confidence to do so. It is written in a heartfelt, simplistic, instructional style rather than with a more technical vocabulary. Topics include hands-on care tips, financial and legal matters, mixed emotions, hospice roles, caregiver burn-out, physical signs of impending death, the funeral, and more.
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