The Complete Idiot's Guide to Natural Childbirth

A midwife helps expectant mothers make all the important decisions regarding the delivery of their child, including what factors to weigh, choosing the type of professional they want present, and how to prepare mentally.
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Explains how simple checklists have prompted striking and immediate improvements in surgical and hospital settings, then goes beyond the field of medicine to explore how checklists have improved everything from homeland security to investment banking.
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Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic

A definitive survey of the frequently undiagnosed autoimmune disease describes the signs and symptoms, available diagnostic procedures, treatment options and diet and lifestyle issues, with special sections on medical contact information and national support groups.
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Danger to Self: On the Front Line With an ER Psychiatrist

The psychiatric emergency room, fast-paced as a combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs, paranoid, and physically sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers. He describes a profession under siege from the outside-health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even "patients' rights" advocates-and from the inside-biomedical and academic psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets, Danger to Self also injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry.
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The Calorie Counter for Dummies

Lists the nutritional and caloric value in basic, brand-name, and fast foods.
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Slim for Life: The Ultimate Health and Detox Plan

Emphasizing a total approach to food and health, the author of You Are What You Eat introduces her twenty-eight-day program for cleansing the body, eliminating bad habits, and establishing new eating patterns designed to keep one healthy and slim for life, accompanied by nutritional information, detailed eating plans, practical tips, and more.
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The Program: The Brain-Smart Approach to the Healthiest You: The Life-Changing 12-Week Method

Outlines a scientific approach to fitness that provides recommendations for adapting the mind to prefer healthy food and exercise, sharing the success stories of patients who have reported cholesterol, blood pressure, and body fat improvements.
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Presents a set of rules for eating wisely in accordance with a variety of ethnic and cultural traditions, sharing guidelines for making grocery choices and dining out.
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Cook This Not That!: Kitchen Survival Guide, The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution

Counsels readers on how to lose weight and save money by cooking at home, sharing recipes for healthier adaptations of favorites ranging from cheeseburgers to squash soup and steak fajitas.
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The Spark: The 28-Day Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life

Discusses how to lose weight by combining goal setting, nutrition, exercise, and community to help motivate readers to change their lifestyles as well as become healthier.
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The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook: Breakfasts, Entrees, and More

A collection of no-gluten, lightly sweetened, quick-and-healthy recipes made with almond flour offers delicious, nutritious, and whole-foods recipes that will benefit anyone, with or without dietary restrictions.
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The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook: How to Bake Without Gluten, Wheat, Dairy, Eggs, Soy, Peanuts, Tree Nuts, and Sesame

Features 100 allergen-free recipes, as well as color photos and explanations of alternative foodstuffs, advice about choosing safe products and sources for buying them.
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Yoga for Pain Relief: Simple Practices to Calm Your Mind & Heal Your Chronic Pain

McGonigal presents a mixture of theory and practice. Within the textual pieces, she explores and explains topics such as the differences among chronic, acute physical, and emotional pain. Wherever possible, she cites written research, although she occasionally talks of wisdom and the practice of mindfulness, which may seem obscure to some readers. With approachable step-by-step instructions and photos one person standing, the other sitting or doing an alternate pose appropriately if one has pain or physical restrictions the book also includes individuals' stories to illustrate practical application and success. The overall tone is gentle and informative. This thorough explanation of specific yoga practices and poses designed for pain relief will best suit those already familiar and comfortable with the purpose and meaning of yoga.
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Yoga: Your Home Practice Companion

A full-color guide to yoga details the essential roles of meditation and breathing exercises, strategies to develop powers of concentration and in-depth advice on a healthier diet, including more than 40 recipes.
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Menopause Matters: Your Guide to a Long and Healthy Life

Menopause Matters is a complete guide for improving a woman's physical and mental health from age 35 and on.
Gynecologist and menopause specialist Dr. Julia Schlam Edelman has helped thousands of women feel better and enjoy healthier lives. Scientifically sound and clinically tested, Dr. Edelman's advice is a welcome alternative to the often misleading, conflicting, and confusing sound bites in media reports on women's health issues. Menopause Matters covers the full spectrum of topics of vital interest to perimenopausal and postmenopausal women: hot flashes, vaginal dryness, memory loss, mood changes, depression, hormone replacement therapy, sleep, diet, exercise, healthy sex, and contraception.
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Living Well Beyond Breast Cancer: A Survivor's Guide for When Treatment Ends and the Rest of Your Life Begins

An updated edition by the founder of breastcancer.org contains a wealth of new information on such topics as breast reconstruction, fertility options and diagnostic technologies while providing additional chapters on chemotherapy, bone health and sleep.
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Getting What We Deserve: Health and Medical Care in America

In this assessment of the state of public health in America, Sommer, former dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, argues that human behavior has a stronger effect on wellness than almost any other factor. He asserts that misleading pharmaceutical marketing and the interests of the medical insurance industry are responsible for the divide between scientific evidence and the way medicine is practiced. Writing in a humorous and acerbic style, he reminds general readers that "most premature deaths in the US are caused by known and preventable factors; greater expenditures on basic research are not needed to solve these problems, nor are increases in health care spending." A list of books, films, and web sites is included. Sommer is professor of epidemiology and international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Herbal Medicine of the American Southwest: The Definitive Guide

Improved, revised and expanded, Herbal Medicine of the American Southwest details the essentials of more than 200 desert and mountain growing medicinal plants. Along with geographic distribution and botanical description, medicinal use, chemistry, collection, preparation technique, dosage and cautions are specifically discussed for each plant. More than 200 color plates (photographs and illustrations), bibliography, glossary and an index are included. Kane is regarded for his understandable, no-nonsense approach in a field known for the opposite.
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The Calorie Counter for Dummies

The fun and easy way® to keep track of your caloric intake
The Calorie Counter For Dummies provides you with vital information on the nutritional and caloric value of the foods that you eat everyday-at home, the supermarket, and restaurants.
Whether you're trying to lose weight, eat healthier, or control and prevent diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, this take along guide provides you with a portable, quick, and easy way to get nutritional information whenever and wherever you need it.

• Provides access to the calorie, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, fiber, protein, and sodium counts found in thousands of fast-food, chain-restaurant, and prepared food products
• Increase the amount of protein and fiber in your diet and reduce your sodium intake

Tuck this compact guide into your glove box, briefcase, or purse, and have key calorie information at your fingertips at all times!
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Slim for Life: The Ultimate Health and Detox Plan

Emphasizing a total approach to food and health, the author of You Are What You Eat introduces her twenty-eight-day program for cleansing the body, eliminating bad habits, and establishing new eating patterns designed to keep one healthy and slim for life, accompanied by nutritional information, detailed eating plans, practical tips, and more.
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The Program: The Brain-Smart Approach to the Healthiest You: The Life-Changing 12-Week Method

Outlines a scientific approach to fitness that provides recommendations for adapting the mind to prefer healthy food and exercise, sharing the success stories of patients who have reported cholesterol, blood pressure, and body fat improvements.
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The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight

A simple healthy diet from a leading authority in health and nutrition is divided into two phases--"Lose It!", where the readers can lose 6 to 10 pounds in two weeks, and "Live It!", where readers learn how to keep the pounds off through healthy living--in a book that includes meal planners, recipes, exercise tips and more.
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Notes Left Behind

Details the life of Elena, a young girl who died of brain cancer, through journal entries written by her parents, with descriptions of an experimental treatment in Memphis, their conflicting feelings about her disease, and Elena's wish list.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Glycemic Index Weight Loss

This updated and expanded guide explains how a glycemic index diet works; offers advice on eating the right foods; provides easy recipes, food lists and sample meal plans; and features an appendix with glycemic index counts.
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The Easy Way for Women to Stop Smoking: A Revolutionary Approach Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method

Now women can kick the cigarette habit, too, using a version of Allen Carr’s revolutionary Easyway (TM) Method created expressly for them.

Carr’s The Easy Way to Stop Smoking sold nine million copies worldwide; his method succeeds because it helps smokers eliminate the psychological craving for a cigarette even before they throw away that last pack. Filled with inspiring stories and quotes from real women who have battled nicotine addiction, this follow-up addresses the unique difficulties females face when they decide to quit. Carr and Francesca Cesati focus on those issues of special concern to women, such as weight gain, increased stress, and smoking during pregnancy—making this the perfect gift for any woman who lights up…and wants to stop.

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Your Skin, Younger: New Science Secrets to Naturally Younger Skin

World-renowned dermatologists' expert nutrition advice for attaining naturally younger-looking skin
Your Skin, Younger presents clear, scientific evidence of the skin's aging process and how it is directly impacted by diet, stress, intestinal function, and even cooking techniques. Written by top dermatology and nutrition experts, the book reveals what you can do naturally to reverse bad effects for nourished, younger-looking skin.
Loaded with delicious recipes, creative food preparation techniques, stress-busters, exercise and personal training tips, and other habits that promote sound, restful, restorative sleep and better overall skin care, this is the one-stop resource for expert, need-to-know advice.
Your Skin, Younger also exposes many skin care myths and the major chemical offenders in cosmetics and topical skincare products, as well as what to look for and what to avoid in oral dietary supplements and topical ingredients.
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You on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management

Presents a comprehensive guide to losing weight, with discussions on nutritional food choices to optimize loss and the importance of exercise and waist size in a healthy lifestyle.
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Eat This, Not That! 2010: The No-diet Weight Loss Solution

A revised edition of a popular nutritional reference counsels consumers on how to make informed dietary choices, in a guide complemented by a list of the "20 Worst Foods in America," tips for patients with diabetes, and foods that may help bolster energy levels, metabolism, and sex drives.
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Prescription for Drug Alternatives: All-Natural Options for Better Health without the Side Effects

The best-selling authors of Prescription for Natural Cures offer a guide to effective, natural alternatives to sometimes dangerous pharmaceutical treatments for common ailments, ranging from ADHD and asthma to diabetes, heart disease, and PMS, detailing each condition and the prescription, over-the-counter, and natural treatment options available.
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Black's Medical Dictionary

A best-selling reference lists more than 5,000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts, incorporating into the latest edition new coverage of such areas as coronary angioplasty, stem-cell research and the HPV vaccine.
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ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, Getting Really Healthy

Integrating nutritional science with culinary expertise, a physician explains how to prevent disease, shed pounds, and promote overall health by using foods that tempt the palate while promoting the body's immunity.
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100 Questions & Answers About Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: A Lahey Clinic Guide

Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient or a loved one of someone with Chrohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, this book provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their loved ones, including questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more.
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Weekends at Bellevue

Documents a psychiatrist's employment at New York City's Bellevue Hospital while sharing the life lessons she learned from her patients and colleagues, describing some of the more remarkable cases of her career and their influences on her family life.
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100 Questions & Answers About Your Child's Depression or Bipolar Disorder

Over 2 million children of all ages suffer from depression; ranging from mild and chronic to significant impairment which can present a huge challenge to parents and other loved ones. 100 Questions & Answers About Your Child's Depression or Bi-Polar Disorder answers the most common questions posed by parents of kids with depression (or suspected depression). This title includes expert advice on highly controversial subjects including drug treatment of children and adolescents, suicide, and other issues of acute importance to parent.
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Quiet Your Mind & Get to Sleep: Solutions to Insomnia for Those With Depression, Anxiety or Chronic Pain

A busy and hectic life can profoundly affect your ability to get a good night's rest. And it's even more difficult to feel relaxed when you stay awake worrying that you won't fall asleep. This vicious circle can quickly rob you of your quality of life, which is why it is so important to seek the most effective treatment for your insomnia.
This workbook uses cognitive behavior therapy, which has been shown to work as well as sleep medications and produce longer-lasting effects. Research shows that it also works well for those whose insomnia is experienced in the context of anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. The complete program in Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep goes to the root of your insomnia and offers the same techniques used by experienced sleep specialists.
You'll learn how to optimize your sleep pattern using methods to calm your mind and help you identify sleep-thieving behaviors that contribute to insomnia. Don't go without rest any longer-get started on this program and end your struggles with sleep.
[This book] will no doubt help millions… as it clearly explains not only what to do, but also why.
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You: Having a Baby: The Owner's Manual to a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy

A respected health expert for The Oprah Winfrey Show and the cofounder of RealAge present a latest entry in the popular series that includes YOU: On a Diet to counsel readers on all aspects of pregnancy, in a reassuring volume that addresses key topics in accessible ways.
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The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes: The 5-step Program That Removes Metabolic Roadblocks, Sheds Punds Safely, and Reverses Prediabetes and Diabetes

The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes gives readers a 5-step program for shedding unwanted pounds safely and effectively. It outlines the unique metabolic challenges faced by diabetics and how they can be overcome with an integrated plan of diet, specific nutritional supplements and exercise regimens, lifestyle modification, and medication. Special nutritional concerns of diabetics are addressed as is the effect of dieting and weight loss on glucose levels and insulin. The latest information on new medications is also included.
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Reversing Diabetes

In REVERSING DIABETES, Dr. Julian Whitaker offers a comprehensive lifestyle program that has helped more than 10,000 diabetic patients at the Whitaker Wellness Institute. The good news is that many diabetics can control their condition--naturally and effectively--with diet and exercise. Along with helping you reduce or even eliminate dependency, it can help you lose excess wight and lower your cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and risk of heart attack. Readers will find:

• An updated, flexible meal plan--includes new information on which types of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats you should be eating
• More than 100 new kitchen-tested recipes--with full nutritional breakdowns
• The latest findings on the dangers of insulin resistance--and how to correct it
• Up-to-the-minute information on the pros and cons of insulin and oral diabetic drugs
• New shopping lists and details on salt and sugar substitutes
• Nutritional supplement suggestions that may reduce the need for drugs and help prevent eye problems and other diabetic complications.

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Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

A first woman winner of The Biggest Loser recounts her weight-loss journey and personal transformation, describing her commitment to achieving a healthy life that enabled her to overcome stress and self-esteem issues and lose more than 100 pounds.
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The Biggest Loser Simple Swaps: 100 Easy Changes to Start Living a Healthier Lifestyle

A newest addition to the best-selling series inspired by the popular show features advice from The Biggest Loser experts, as well as tips and advice from the contestants themselves, in a book to be released to coincide with the show's eighth season.
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What Do I Eat Now?: A Step-by-step Guide to Eating Right With Type 2 Diabetes

The DIY approach to a diabetes diet!
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What Do I Eat Now? is the single best resource for people with diabetes to learn how to eat right and eat healthy with diabetes. Each chapter explains a vital concept of diabetes nutrition in easy-to-understand language. Tell me what to eat meal plans and recipes at the end of each chapter get readers started on a lifetime of healthy eating. Don't waste time trying to figure everything out from scratch when What Do I Eat Now? gives readers a step-by-step plan for understanding how to eat right. Learn as you go by cooking healthy, nutritious, and flavorful diabetic meals!
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Transformative Yoga: The Five Keys to Unlocking Inner Bliss

Morissette, who has studied yoga for over 17 years and teaches it internationally, focuses on yoga as a spiritual practice. He explains five steps-physicality, energy, meditation, awareness, and inner peace-to lead the practitioner to an inner connection with Atman, God, and truth. Physicality consists of mainstream yoga sequences-beginner, intermediate, and advanced-which are insufficiently illustrated here. The book concludes with an appendix that classifies the yoga postures used in the book. Verdict Yoga has become Westernized as an exercise regimen; readers curious about its philosophical aspects will find much to enjoy here. Those interested in yoga as exercise will benefit more from a better illustrated work such as Martin Kirk's Hatha Yoga Illustrated.
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Type 2 Diabetes, Your Healthy Living Guide: Tips, Techniques, and Practical Advice for Living Well With Diabetes

A completely revised edition of an authoritative and top-selling resource features a more comprehensive, reader-friendly, and two-color design that imparts key information without using confusing clinical language.
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Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death in the ER

An ER doctor's memoir describes the psychological impact of his profession, explaining how his daily exposure to critical illness, injury, and tragedy in the industrial setting of a modern hospital rendered him bitter and estranged from his family.
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The Hair-Loss Cure: A Self-help Guide : Find the Cause Choose the Right Treatment Monitor Improvement Cope with Emotional Effects

Dr. David Kingsley is the world's only trichologist (hair/scalp specialist) named as a member of the prestigious American Academy of Dermatology. He is author of the new book, "The Hair Loss Cure: A Self Help Guide" in which Dr. Kingsley points hair loss sufferers in the right direction to discover why they are losing their hair and offers help to find the best treatment for their problem.
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The 10-Minute Total Body Breakthrough

Presents instructions for a series of workout routines which can be completed in ten-minute intervals on a daily basis and which can lead to an improvement in overall fitness and health.  Check Catalog

The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes

Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer and the author of the best-selling Best Life books provides a comprehensive plan for living well with diabetes that encourages gradual change for lasting results, in a resource that covers diet--including meal plans and recipes, health and medication--as well as information on diabetes in children and teens.
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Dangerous or Safe?: Which Foods, Medicines, and Chemicals Really Put Your Kids at Risk

Addresses the abundance of contradictory and complicated information being delivered to parents, explains the latest understandings, and provides "bottom line" recommendations on how to make the best-possible choices.
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The Pregnancy Care Book

For pregnant women, Farrugia et al., obstetricians and gynecologists at Mount Sinai Hospital and the U. of Toronto, Canada, offer a practical and easy-to-understand guide to pregnancy that covers the process from preconception to birth and care of the newborn. They cover pregnancy planning and fertility, nutrition, exercise, fetal development, high-risk pregnancies, spontaneous and assisted labor and delivery, and managing medical and environmental risks. Included is a pregnancy diary.
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The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook

A comprehensive health care resource provides information on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of almost two hundred diseases and disorders as well as health issues affecting men, women, children, and the elderly.
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