Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child

by  victoria Maizes    (Find this book)
From an internationally recognized integrative physician, a thorough guide to fertility that encompasses all aspects of female well-being to help women prepare their bodies for easy conception, pregnancy, and the delivery of healthy babies.
The increase in environmental toxins, processed foods, and stress, as well as the advancing ages at which couples seek to have children, have made it more difficult for women to conceive. In "Be Fruitful," Dr. Victoria Maizes, an expert on women's health and the executive director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, delivers all the information women and their partners need in order to conceive with ease and confidence, and to bear healthy children.
Warm, friendly, and hands-on, "Be Fruitful" offers a comprehensive self-assessment to help identify any potential physical, emotional, and practical roadblocks that may interfere with conception, as well as clear and easy-to-follow dietary, supplemental, and exercise recommendations proven to increase optimal fertility. Dr. Maizes details how nutrition, mind-body practices, elimination of environmental toxins, and traditional Chinese medicine can all contribute to a successful pregnancy.
Unique in its integrative approach, "Be Fruitful" acknowledges that wellness comes from caring for the entire person--not just the physical body--a crucial factor for the countless women trying to conceive and committed to transforming their overall health.  --  Publisher Marketing

Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance

by Matt Fitzgerald    (Find this book)

Racing Weight is a proven weight-management program designed specifically for endurance athletes.

Revealing new research and drawing from the best practices of elite athletes, coach and nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald lays out six easy steps to help cyclists, triathletes, and runners lose weight without harming their training.

This comprehensive and science-based program shows athletes the best ways to lose weight and avoid the common lifestyle and training hang-ups that keep new PRs out of reach.

The updated Racing Weight program helps athletes:

•    Improve diet quality
•    Manage appetite
•    Balance energy sources
•    Easily monitor weight and performance
•    Time nutrition throughout the day
•    Train to get—and stay—lean

Racing Weight offers practical tools to make weight-management easy. Fitzgerald’s no-nonsense Diet Quality Score improves diet without counting calories. Racing Weight superfoods are diet foods high in the nutrients athletes need for training. Supplemental strength training workouts can accelerate changes in body composition. Daily food diaries from 18 pro athletes reveal how the elites maintain an athletic diet while managing appetite.

Athletes know that every extra pound wastes energy and hurts performance. With Racing Weight, cyclists, triathletes, and runners have a simple program and practical tools to hit their target numbers on both the race course and the scale.

Shred: The Revolutionary Diet: 6 Weeks 4 Inches 2 Sizes

by Ian K Smith    (Find this book)

Dr. Ian K. Smith's Shred is the answer to every dieter's biggest dilemmas: how to lose that last twenty pounds? How to push through that frustrating plateau? What to do when nothing else is working? Here, Smith has created a program that uses all he knows about strategic dieting in one plan—like putting all the best players on the field at once to create a can't lose combination. Shred combines a low GI diet, meal spacing, and meal replacements. Those who follow Shred will constantly be eating (every three and a half hours!), four meals or meal replacements (soups, smoothies, shakes) and 3 snacks a day, over a six week program. Shred also introduces Dr. Ian's concept of "Diet Confusion". Diet Confusion, like muscle confusion, tricks the body and revs up its performance. In the same way you need to vary your workout to see results, switch up your food intake to boost your metabolism.

No matter how often or how unsuccessfully you've dieted before, Shred: The Revolutionary Diet will change your life. Shred has taken the internet by storm, and thousands have already joined Dr. Ian's Shredder Nation, losing an average of four inches, two sizes or twenty pounds in six weeks. Utilizing the detox from Fat Smash Diet, the intense cleanse of Extreme Fat Smash, and varying food of The 4 Day Diet, Shred is a six week plan to a new way of life!

Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss

by Jillian Michaels    (Find this book)

Stop battling your weight and slim down for life with this no-nonsense, insider’s plan from America’s health, wellness, and weight-loss guru: Jillian Michaels. She has helped millions lose weight and feel great, and now she can help you, too.

Bestselling author and Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels swore she’d never write another diet book. But she realized that with all of the conflicting, overly complicated information being thrown at you each day, what you need is a clear, simple plan that cuts through all the confusion to deliver amazing results, fast. This book distills all she’s learned about diet, fitness, and a healthy lifestyle to provide anyone seeking to be slim, strong, and healthy with an easier path to achieving dramatic body transformation.

You’ll learn to:

• Utilize Jillian’s insider secrets for optimizing your fat-burning potential

• Dispel myths and avoid diet trends that will damage your metabolism and make it harder for you to lose weight

• Banish self-sabotage, build support, and cultivate lasting motivation

• Navigate and circumvent every possible pitfall presented by any situation or circumstance you could come up against—from weight-loss plateaus to travel, budget, and time constraints

• Eat, move, and live in manageable, and even enjoyable, ways that facilitate a slim, sexy physique

• Supplement strategically, manage stress, and even purchase the proper home and beauty products—all to help ignite your metabolism
No nonsense, no gimmicks, just actionable advice that gets incredible results fast!  --  Publisher Marketing

Meals That Heal Inflammation: Embrace Healthy Living and Eliminate Pain, One Meal at at Time

by Julie Daniluk    (Find this book)
Inflammation is on the rise. Conditions such as allergies, skin disorders, asthma, heart disease, arthritis and any other condition ending in '-itis' all have an inflammatory component. This text shows how to change our immune response through diet.  --  Publisher Marketing

The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes

by Joel Fuhrman    (Find this book)
The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and Super Immunity and one of the country's leading experts on preventive medicine offers a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse diabetes -- without drugs. At last, a breakthrough program to combat the rising diabetes epidemic and help millions of diabetics, as well as those suffering with high blood pressure and heart disease. Dr. Joel Fuhrman, the research director of the nutritional research project of the National Health Association, shows you how to live a long, healthy, and happy life -- disease free. He offers a complete health transformation, starting with a diet with a high nutrient-per- calorie ratio that can be adapted for individual needs. Dr. Fuhrman makes clear that we don't have to "control" diabetes. Patients can choose to follow better nutritional guidelines that will control it for them, even before they have lost excess weight. The end result is a medical breakthrough -- a comprehensive reversal of the disease.  --  Publisher Marketing

7 Years Younger: The Revolutionary 7-Week Anti-Aging Plan

by Good Housekeeping Magazine    (Find this book)
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER! "Follow this plan - it works!" says Dr. Mehmet Oz, Professor and Vice-chair of Surgery, NYP-Columbia Medical Center, and Host of "The Dr. Oz Show.
"Look younger, stay slimmer, feel sexier...no matter what your age! This revolutionary plan to reverse the signs of aging kicks off with a 7-day Jumpstart plan offering all the tools you need to start your total rejuvenation. Then you'll follow the 7-week, science-based program with a holistic approach to looking and feeling younger. Its 7 age erasers cover every base with special regimens for skin care, makeup, hair care, nutrition and diet, fitness, brain fitness, and emotional health. With this program you can "de-age" your skin, use makeup and hair smarts to get a youthful look, rehab your diet and exercise habits to lower your risk of age-related diseases and to lose weight, learn to sharpen your mind, and nurture your emotional health. You'll be surprised at how much you can turn back the clock on your own-without stepping near a plastic surgeon's office, or spending a fortune on expensive beauty products.
The scientists at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute rigorously tested more than 400 beauty products and conducted more than 5,000 lab tests over the course of two years to find the anti-aging products that really work. Then ten test panelists went on the plan. The life-transforming results? One woman lost 12 pounds, another lost an amazing 10 inches from around her waist, and a third restored the glow and smoothness of her skin-improvements that were confirmed by scientific testing. Yet another tester emerged looking more glamorous than she'd looked since she first had kids. As one of the testers said, "There are a lot of diet and exercise programs out there on the market. And there are a lot of beauty tips you can get, but '7 Years Younger' has taken all of those things and put them into a one stop shopping experience for your overall beauty and health and mindset."
"What's great about the program," says "Good Housekeeping" editor in chief Rosemary Ellis, "is that you can treat it like a tool kit. You can pick and choose which elements of the program you want to focus on."   -- Publisher Marketing

It Starts with Food

by Dallas Hartwig    (Find this book)

It Starts With Food outlines a clear, balanced, sustainable plan to change the way you eat forever—and transform your life in profound and unexpected ways. Your success story begins with the Whole30, Dallas and Melissa Hartwig's powerful 30-day nutritional reset.

Since 2009, their underground Whole30 program has quietly led tens of thousands of people to weight loss, enhanced quality of life, and a healthier relationship with food—accompanied by stunning improvements in sleep, energy levels, mood, and self-esteem. More significant, many people have reported the "magical" elimination of a variety of symptoms, diseases, and conditions in just 30 days.

• diabetes
• high cholesterol
• high blood pressure
• obesity
• acne
• eczema
• psoriasis
• chronic fatigue
• asthma
• sinus infections
• allergies
• migraines
• acid reflux
• Crohn's
• celiac disease
• IBS
• bipolar disorder
• depression
• Lyme disease
• endometriosis
• PCOS
• autism
• fibromyalgia
• ADHD
• hypothyroidism
• arthritis
• multiple sclerosis

Now, Dallas and Melissa detail not just the "how" of the Whole30, but also the "why," summarizing the science in a simple, accessible manner. It Starts With Food reveals how specific foods may be having negative effects on how you look, feel, and live—in ways that you'd never associate with your diet. More important, they outline their lifelong strategy for eating Good Food in one clear and detailed action plan designed to help you create a healthy metabolism, heal your digestive tract, calm systemic inflammation, and put an end to unhealthy cravings, habits, and relationships with food.

Infused with the Hartwigs' signature wit, tough love, and common sense, It Starts With Food is based on the latest scientific research and real-life experience, and includes testimonials, a detailed shopping guide, a meal-planning template, a Meal Map with creative, delicious recipes, and much more. 

Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

by Deepak Chopra    (Find this book)
A manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, "Super Brain "shows you how to use your brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth. The authors are two pioneers: bestselling author and physician Deepak Chopra and Harvard Medical School professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer's. They have merged their wisdom and expertise for a bold new understanding of the "three-pound universe" and its untapped potential.
In contrast to the "baseline brain" that fulfills the tasks of everyday life, Chopra and Tanzi propose that, through a person's increased self-awareness and conscious intention, the brain can be taught to reach far beyond its present limitations. "We are living in a golden age for brain research, but is this a golden age for "your" brain?" they ask.
"Super Brain" explains how it can be, by combining cutting-edge research and spiritual insights, demolishing the five most widespread myths about the brain that limit your potential, and then showing you methods to:
-Use your brain instead of letting it use you
-Create the ideal lifestyle for a healthy brain
-Reduce the risks of aging
-Promote happiness and well-being through the mind-body connection
-Access the enlightened brain, the gateway to freedom and bliss
-Overcome the most common challenges, such as memory loss, depression, anxiety, and obesity
Your brain is capable of incredible healing and constant reshaping. Through a new relationship with your brain you can transform your life. In "Super Brain," Chopra and Tanzi guide you on a fascinating journey that envisions a leap in human evolution. The brain is not just the greatest gift that Nature has given us. It's the gateway to an unlimited future that you can begin to live today.  --  Publisher Marketing

The Perfect Gene Diet: Use Your Body's Own Apo E Gene to Treat High Cholesterol, Weight Problems, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's...and More!

by Pamela McDonald    (Find this book)
This comprehensive work by nurse practitioner Pamela McDonald reveals the latest breakthrough in health and nutrition focusing on the APO E gene, which affects cholesterol levels, heart and Alzheimer's disease, and much more.It is widely known that each genotype requires its own balance of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins for optimal health. Within these pages, Pamela presents the latest information so that you can make appropriate diet and exercise choices relevant to your particular APO E genotype. The result will be an ideal level of health and well-being, which will reduce your likelihood of developing so many of the debilitating diseases that are prevalent in our society today.As Pamela says, "You have a choice for your health . . . backpack or bedpan?"    --  Publisher Marketing

The Lupus Book: A Guide for Patients and Their Families

by Daniel J Wallace    (Find this book)
Lupus, a disease of the immune system, can be quite deadly, claiming the lives of thousands of patients yearly. Dr. Daniel J. Wallace is one of the world's leading authorities on this disorder, an eminent clinician who has treated over 3000 lupus patients, the largest such practice in America. His The Lupus Book, originally published in 1995, immediately established itself as the most readable and helpful book on the disease. Now Dr. Wallace has once again completely revised The Lupus Book, incorporating a wealth of new information. This Fifth Edition discusses new drug information and newly discovered information about the pathology of the disease--all laid out in user-friendly language that any patient could understand. In particular, Wallace discusses the first drug for Lupus to be approved by the FDA-- belimumab (Benlysta)--as well as other drugs in clinical trials. Readers will also discover fully updated sections on the science of lupus and breakthroughs in research. And as in past editions, the book provides absolutely lucid answers to such questions as: What causes lupus? How and where is the body affected? Can a woman with lupus have a baby? And how can one manage this disease? Indeed, Dr. Wallace has distilled his extensive experience, providing the most up-to-date information on causes, prevention, cure, exercise, diet, and many other important topics. There is also a glossary of terms and an appendix of lupus resource materials compiled by the Lupus Foundation of America. Over a million Americans have lupus. The new Fifth Edition offers these patients and their families an abundance of reliable, up-to- date information that will help them manage the disease and live a happier life.  --  Publisher Marketing

Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

by Martin Makary    (Find this book)

Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress and efforts to curb expenses. Why?

To patients, the healthcare system is a black box. Doctors and hospitals are unaccountable, and the lack of transparency leaves both bad doctors and systemic flaws unchecked. Patients need to know more of what healthcare workers know, so they can make informed choices. Accountability in healthcare would expose dangerous doctors, reward good performance, and force positive change nationally, using the power of the free market. Unaccountable is a powerful, no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and reforming our broken healthcare system.  --  Publisher Marketing

The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning

by Daniel Bor    (Find this book)
Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science.

In The Ravenous Brain, neuroscientist Daniel Bor departs sharply from this historical view, and builds on the latest research to propose a new model for how consciousness works. Bor argues that this brain-based faculty evolved as an accelerated knowledge gathering tool. Consciousness is effectively an idea factory—that choice mental space dedicated to innovation, a key component of which is the discovery of deep structures within the contents of our awareness.

This model explains our brains’ ravenous appetite for information—and in particular, its constant search for patterns. Why, for instance, after all our physical needs have been met, do we recreationally solve crossword or Sudoku puzzles? Such behavior may appear biologically wasteful, but, according to Bor, this search for structure can yield immense evolutionary benefits—it led our ancestors to discover fire and farming, pushed modern society to forge ahead in science and technology, and guides each one of us to understand and control the world around us. But the sheer innovative power of human consciousness carries with it the heavy cost of mental fragility. Bor discusses the medical implications of his theory of consciousness, and what it means for the origins and treatment of psychiatric ailments, including attention-deficit disorder, schizophrenia, manic depression, and autism. All mental illnesses, he argues, can be reformulated as disorders of consciousness—a perspective that opens up new avenues of treatment for alleviating mental suffering.
 A controversial view of consciousness, The Ravenous Brain links cognition to creativity in an ingenious solution to one of science’s biggest mysteries.

Cancer Survivors' Stories

by Jonathan Chamberlain    (Find this book)
In this book you will find the stories of 25 people who have cured themselves of cancer - some by combining conventional and alternative therapies, but the vast majority by means of alternative therapies alone. These stories demonstrate the important role complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can play in helping people with cancer recover fully and completely from this terrible disease - the incidence of which is rising year on year.  --  Publisher Marketing

Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine

by Trent D Stephens    (Find this book)
In this riveting medical detective story, Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner recount the history of thalidomide, from the epidemic of birth defects in the 1960's to the present day, as scientists work to create and test an alternative drug that captures thalidomide's curative properties without its cruel side effects. A parable about compassion-and the absence of it-Dark Remedy is a gripping account of thalidomide's extraordinary impact on the lives of individuals and nations over half a century.  --  Publisher Marketing

Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

by Eric Manheimer    (Find this book)
Bellevue's former medical director offers unusual clarity, empathy, and insight in these stories from the bedside at the nation's oldest hospital and, Manheimer notes, perhaps its most famous public one. Yet Manheimer offers far more than remarkable medical dramas: he blends each patient's personal experiences with their social implications. Juan, an addict with a long criminal record, shows indomitable strength in battling cancer in the hospital's prison unit as the hospital presses for his compassionate release. For Manheimer, his case illustrates a broken prison system. For Tanisha, an emotionally damaged teen, one caring foster family gives her a last shot at happiness and demonstrates the problems of psych treatment for kids. Equally gripping tales include that of addict Arnie, a former Wall Street success story whose demons nearly destroyed his son, and whose slow slog to recovery highlights the nature of forgiveness. But perhaps the most moving tale of all is Manheimer's own as a cancer patient, he learns far more about despair and hope than most physicians can imagine. Manheimer offers a window onto a unique hospital and the wisdom of a healer who tends with equal skill to patients and the world. Agents: Jim Levine and Lindsay Edgecombe, Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. (July 10) Copyright 2012 Reed Business Information.  -- Publishers Weekly

Exercise for Mood and Anxiety: Proven Strategies for Overcoming Depression and Enhancing Well-Being

by Michael W Otto    (Find this book)

Exercise has long been touted anecdotally as an effective tool for mood improvement, but only recently has rigorous science caught up with these claims. There is now overwhelming evidence that regular exercise can help relieve low mood-from feelings of stress and anxiety to full depressive episodes.

With Exercise for Mood and Anxiety, Michael Otto and Jasper Smits, well-known authorities on cognitive behavioral therapy, take their empirically-based mood regulation strategy from the clinic to the general public. Written for those with diagnosed mood disorders as well as those who simply need a new strategy for managing the low mood and stress that is an everyday part of life, this book provides readers with step-by-step guidance on how to start and maintain an exercise program geared towards improving mood, with a particular emphasis on understanding the relationship between mood and motivation. Readers learn to attend carefully to mood states prior to and following physical activity in order to leverage the full benefits of exercise, and that the trick to maintaining an exercise program is not in applying more effort, but in arranging one's environment so that less effort is needed. As a result readers not only acquire effective strategies for adopting a successful program, but are introduced to a broader philosophy for enhancing overall well-being. Providing patient vignettes, rich examples, and extensive step-by-step guidance on overcoming the obstacles that prevent adoption of regular exercise for mood, Exercise for Mood and Anxiety is a unique translation of scientific principles of clinical and social psychology into an action-based strategy for mood change.  --  Publisher Marketing

The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!

by John A Mcdougall    (Find this book)
John A. McDougall, M.D., is the coauthor, with his wife, Mary, of numerous bestsellers, and is featured in the documentary and book Forks over Knives. This, their 12th collaboration, promotes a scientifically proven, plant-based regimen aimed at successful weight loss and an end to diet-related illnesses like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and inflammatory arthritis. Although the concept seems counterintuitive to yoyoing, lifelong dieters who have been told that carbohydrates are verboten, the McDougall approach offers filling, comforting, nutrient-dense starches combined in a nonfat, nonanimal food plan with vegetables, nuts, and fruits to deliver a sense of satisfaction, an end to cravings, and much-improved overall well-being. Part I, “Healing with Starch,” discusses why starches have been key since ancient times, alerts readers to toxins found in animal foods, cites examples of spontaneous healing on a starch-based diet, and raises the issues of food plant ecology and politics. Part II, “The FAQs,” lists reliable and beneficial sources of dietary protein and calcium; reveals reasons to avoid eating fish; and shows that vitamin and mineral supplements are unnecessary. Part III, “Living the Solution,” presents the 7-Day Sure-Start Program and instructs how to turn the book’s advice into a lifestyle (which may include the authors’ prepared, commercially available foods). Recipes for 100 basic, delicious everyday dishes like tofu tacos, Tunisian sweet potato stew, and mushroom stroganoff are a bonus, as are thumbnail portraits of successful dieters. The book’s solid scientific information and feasible regimen make the McDougall case for starches quite persuasive and promising.  -- Publishers Weekly

The Foot Book: A Complete Guide to Healthy Feet

by Jonathan D Rose    (Find this book)

Aching or painful feet make it hard to stand or walk—not to mention dance, play sports, and take part in other activities. To keep you on your feet, this book offers a rich resource for understanding what can go wrong and how disorders, diseases, and injuries to the foot are diagnosed and treated.

In this readable guide to common conditions that affect the foot and ankle, podiatrists Jonathan D. Rose and Vincent J. Martorana outline the professional and self-care treatment options available. What works for one person’s foot pain does not necessarily work for someone else’s, so Doctors Rose and Martorana discuss proper foot care practices in a way that helps readers make good decisions about which treatment option will work best for them.

Often called a marvel of biomedical engineering, the human foot is a complex and astonishingly versatile part of our anatomy. This book addresses the entire foot, inside and out, describing in plain English its special design characteristics and biomechanical operations. Everything is covered—from corns and calluses to cancer and skin and nail problems, including special sections on children’s feet, sports injuries, footwear, and orthotics.

The Foot Book is an all-inclusive resource for everyone suffering from foot and ankle disorders, as well as physicians and other medical personnel who care for them.

Johns Hopkins University Press  --  Publisher Marketing

Delavier's Stretching Anatomy

by Frederic Delavier    (Find this book)

Get an inside view of the muscles in action during every stretch you perform!

Delavier’s Stretching Anatomy is your guide for increasing flexibility, improving range of motion, toning muscles, and relieving pain and discomfort. The very best stretches for shoulders, chest, arms, torso, back, hips, and legs are all here, and all in the stunning detail that only Frédéric Delavier can provide.

With over 550 full-color photos and illustrations, you’ll go inside more than 130 exercises to see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how variations, progressions, and sequencing can affect muscle recruitment, the underlying structures, and ultimately the results.

Delavier’s Stretching Anatomy includes 13 proven programs for increasing muscle tone, releasing tension and stress, and optimizing training and performance in 13 sports, including running, cycling, basketball, soccer, golf, and track and field.The former editor in chief of PowerMag in France, author and illustrator Frédéric Delavier is a journalist for Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to Men’s Health Germany and several other strength publications. His previous publications, Strength Training Anatomy and Women’s Strength Training Anatomy, have sold more than 2 million copies. -- Publisher Marketing

The Women's Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts

by Selene Yeager    (Find this book)

Time is every woman’s most precious commodity—and a lack of it is the number one reason, in

survey after survey, that women give for why they don’t exercise. But research now shows that as

little as 15 minutes of resistance training is just as effective in spiking one’s metabolism as a

workout lasting more than twice as long. All it takes is 15 minutes to achieve lifelong results—and

women are more likely to stick to an exercise plan if it’s chopped down to those 15 minutes.

The Women’s Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts is both an introduction to the fundamentals

of short workouts and a comprehensive collection of hundreds of the most effective ones. These

workouts have been designed for every fitness goal, from total body conditioning to targeting trouble

spots with exercises like the 15 Minute Flat-Belly-without-a-Single-Crunch Workout. Other highlights

include:

-an eating plan with delicious meals that take 15 minutes or less to prepare

-workouts for when you’re stuck in traffic or traveling and can’t make it to the gym

-hundreds of tips from America’s best trainers, nutritionists, and exercise scientists -- Publisher Marketing

The Men's Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts: A Leaner, Stronger Body--In 15 Minutes a Day!

by Selene Yeager    (Find this book)
Men love shortcuts. If there’s a way to accomplish a job quicker and more efficiently, they’re all for it. That goes for work and working out. Now, new research shows that as little as 15 minutes of resistance training is just as effective in spiking a man’s metabolism—his fat-burning furnace—as a workout lasting more than twice as long. All it takes is 15 minutes to achieve lifelong results—and men are more likely to stick to an exercise plan if it’s chopped down to those 15 minutes.
 The Men’s Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts contains fast-paced circuit training and interval workouts that boost calorie burn, build muscle, and fry belly fat in half the time of regular workouts.
Readers can choose from at-home, body-weight-only workouts and total-body barbell programs to exercises that target major muscle groups—the chest, arms, legs, and back—and sport-specific workouts. Other highlights include:
-a special section of 15-minute core workouts to build a rock-hard six-pack
-an eating plan with delicious meals that take 15 minutes or less to prepare
-workouts for the office or when you’re traveling and can’t make it to the gym
-hundreds of tips from America’s best trainers, nutritionists, and exercise scientists  --  Publisher Marketing

Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide: Treatment and Management of Diabetes

by Christopher D Saudec    (Find this book)
Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide: Treatment and Management of Diabetes is organized into over 150 topics, written by more than 40 clinicians spanning many different specialties. Expert authors include physicians, pharmacists, podiatrists, dieticians, and nurse educators.

This evidence-based, quick-reference guide is easy to navigate and provides essential diabetes information that is difficult to find in other reference books. Topics are categorized into sections: Overview, Management, Complications and Comorbidities, Medications, and Clinical Tests. An expert commentary section provides a unique insight into how diabetes can be effectively treated and managed in clinical practice.

Selected topics include
• New glucose-lowering therapies
• Cardiovascular disease screening
• Depression and diabetes
• Bariatric surgery
• Complementary & alternative medicines
• Insulin pump management
• Continuous glucose monitoring systems
• Gender-specific complications
• Social and legal issues
• Education and nutrition
• Historical studies in diabetes care and more -- Publisher Marketing

Our Bodies, Ourselves

by Boston women's Health Books Collective   (Find this book)
Our Bodies, Ourselves is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions -- accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences. This new edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves includes the latest vital information on: * CHANGES IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM -- especially how health care reform affects women and how to get the care you need. * SAFER SEX -- how to engage in pleasurable, satisfying sexual experiences while protecting your health and the health of your partner. * ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISKS -- including minimizing exposure to everyday pollutants that endanger reproductive health. * BODY IMAGE -- resisting negative media stereotypes and embracing healthier approaches to looking and feeling good. * LOCAL AND GLOBAL ACTIVISM -- using social media and organizing tactics to build community and advocate for policies that improve women's lives. * As well as crucial information about gender identity, sexual orientation, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and birth, perimenopause, and sexuality and sexual health as we age. Together with its companion website, ourbodiesourselves.org, Our Bodies, Ourselves is a one-stop resource for women of all generations.  -- Publisher Marketing

No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

by Peter  Piot    (Find this book)
When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, There's no future in infectious diseases. They've all been solved. Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease the Ebola virus was spreading. Later, Piot found himself in the field again when another mysterious epidemic broke out: AIDS. He traveled throughout Africa, leading the first international AIDS initiatives there. Then, as founder and director of UNAIDS, he negotiated policies with leaders from Fidel Castro to Thabo Mbeki and helped turn the tide of the epidemic. Candid and engrossing, No Time to Lose captures the urgency and excitement of being on the front lines in the fight against today's deadliest diseases." -- Publisher Marketing

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook ( Anxiety & Phobia Workbook )

by Edmund J Bourne    (Find this book)
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has already helped over one million readers make a full and lasting recovery from generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety-related issues. Packed with the most effective skills for assessing and treating anxiety, this workbook can be used alone or as a supplement to therapy to help you develop a full arsenal of skills for quieting worried thoughts and putting yourself back in control.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest anxiety research and medications, and also includes new therapeutic techniques that have been proven effective for the treatment of anxiety and anxiety-related conditions. Each worksheet in this book will help you learn the skills you need to manage your anxiety and start living more freely than you ever thought possible.
With this workbook, you'll learn a range of proven methods for overcoming anxiety, such as relaxation and breathing techniques, challenging negative self-talk and mistaken beliefs, and imagery and real-life desensitization. In addition, you will learn how to make lifestyle, nutrition, and exercise changes and cultivate skills for preventing and coping with and preventing panic attacks.

God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

by Victoria Sweet    (Find this book)
San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the "Hotel-Dieu" (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care-ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years.
Laguna Honda, lower tech but human paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. "God's Hotel" tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern "health care facility," revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for body and soul.  -- Publisher Marketing

Joy Fit Club: Cookbook, Diet Plan & Inspiration

by Joy Bauer    (Find this book)
Joy Bauer, the long-time on-air diet and nutrition expert for the 'Today' show, regularly tells the personal stories of people who have lost 100 pounds or more using her weight-loss plan. Now, you can take the Joy Fit challenge and use these delicious, bountiful recipes and meal plans at home to start losing weight today.

The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

by Ira Byock    (Find this book)
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life. It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a healthcare system ruled by high-tech procedures and a philosophy to "fight disease and illness at all cost." Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in the country, argues that end-of-life care is among the biggest national crises facing us today. In addressing the crisis, politics has trumped reason. Dr. Byock explains that to ensure the best possible care for those we love-and eventually ourselves- we must not only remake our healthcare system, we must also move past our cultural aversion to talking about death and acknowledge the fact of mortality once and for all. Dr. Byock describes what palliative care really is, and-with a doctor's compassion and insight-puts a human face on the issues by telling richly moving, heart-wrenching, and uplifting stories of real people during the most difficult moments in their lives. Byock takes us inside his busy, cutting-edge academic medical center to show what the best care at the end of life can look like and how doctors and nurses can profoundly shape the way families experience loss. Like books by Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, The Best Care Possible is a compelling meditation on medicine and ethics told through page-turning, life or death medical drama. It is passionate and timely, and it has the power to lead a new kind of national conversation.  --Publisher Marketing

Spontaneous Happiness

by Andrew Weil    (Find this book)
Everyone wants to be happy. But what does that really mean? Increasingly, scientific evidence shows us that true satisfaction and well-being come only from within.
Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr. Weil's pioneering work in integrative medicine, the book suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of happiness, discusses the limitations of the biomedical model in treating depression, and elaborates on the inseparability of body and mind.
Dr. Weil offers an array of scientifically proven strategies from Eastern and Western psychology to counteract low mood and enhance contentment, comfort, resilience, serenity, and emotional balance. Drawn from psychotherapy, mindfulness training, Buddhist psychology, nutritional science, and more, these strategies include body-oriented therapies to support emotional wellness, techniques for managing stress and anxiety and changing mental habits that keep us stuck in negative patterns, and advice on developing a spiritual dimension in our lives. Lastly, Dr. Weil presents an eight-week program that can be customized according to specific needs, with short- and long-term advice on nutrition, exercise, supplements, environment, lifestyle, and much more.
Whether you are struggling with depression or simply want to feel happier, Dr. Weil's revolutionary approach will shift the paradigm of emotional health and help you achieve greater contentment in your life.  -- Publisher Marketing

Warrior Cardio: The Revolutionary Metabolic Training System for Burning Fat, Building Muscle, and Getting Fit

by Martin Rooney    (Find this book)
In 'Warrior Cardio', world-renowned fitness expert Martin Rooney delivers the solution for what most people at the gym are seeking: an easy-to-follow workout and diet plan that burns fat and builds muscle in less time.  -- Publisher Marketing

20 Years Younger: Look Younger, Feel Younger, Be Younger!

by Bob Greene    (Find this book)
Greene offers readers a practical, science-based plan for looking and feeling their best as they age. The cutting-edge program is built around four essential pillars: exercise, nutrition, skincare, and sleep and details easy and effective steps to rebuild the foundation of youth.

Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee

by Rodney Yee    (Find this book)
Internationally renowned yoga instructor Rodney Yee is the instructor of more than 26 best-selling yoga videos. In Moving toward Balance, he outlines an eight-week program of yoga postures, meditation, and breath awareness designed to lead us toward the emotional and physical balance we all crave in life. Each week introduces a new category of poses--forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions shown with variations to accommodate different levels of strength and flexibility. Along with the instruction, the text explains the significance of each pose and how it contributes on physiological and psychological levels to a complete sense of balance.
At the core of "Moving toward Balance" is its emphasis on a home practice, enabling you to focus on what works best for your own body. Suitable for yoga students of any level, each lesson is illustrated with full-color photography and is laid out in sequential order, so there is no need to flip back and forth to follow along. There are also chapters on customizing your basic practice to address specific concerns such as lower back pain or PMS, as well as ideas to help keep your newfound practice thriving. Filled with years of Rodney's teaching expertise and more than 300 photographs, "Moving toward Balance" is the link that you've been searching for between the classroom and the home.   --  Publisher Marketing

The Drop 10 Diet: Add to Your Plate to Lose the Weight

by Lucy Danziger    (Find this book)
These days, we're constantly bombarded with trendy, restrictive diets that instruct us to "Eat only this" or "Give up that"--diets that ultimately fail when you find that you can't sacrifice the foods you love. But now you can lose weight "without "deprivation: Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of "SELF "magazine, and her team of nutrition experts have created the ultimate flexible plan for melting off ten, twenty, or more pounds at any age--you can see results in as little as a week! By eating "more" of thirty superfoods--everyday favorites like eggs, yogurt, steak, Parmesan, cherries, kiwi fruit, dark chocolate, and coffee (yes, chocolate and coffee!)--you can shed weight while naturally reducing your dependence on less healthful foods, lowering your risk for diabetes, heart disease, cancer, inflammation, and more. The food plan has room for all your can't-resist treats--you can eat them and still slim down!
This revolutionary diet isn't about denying yourself; it's about indulging in delicious, satisfying foods that help trigger weight loss and instill better body health. Guiding you every step of the way, "The Drop 10 Diet" includes
- 101 quick, tasty breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners. You choose your favorites. Each meal or snack incorporates at least one Drop 10""superfood and leaves your cravings and your stomach satisfied!
- 40 delicious family recipes that even a novice cook can fix. Your loved ones will never know they're eating healthfully!
- 1,400 extra "happy calories" each week to enjoy on top of your Drop 10 meals and snacks. Use your happy calories for daily splurges (ice cream!) or save them up to spend for a big night out (Mexican? Bring on the nachos!).
- 8 exercises you can do at home or in the gym to boost your metabolism and supercharge your weight loss.
- Inspirational stories of weight loss from women just like you!
Don't waste another bite on bland, strict diets that don't work. It's time to grab life by the fork! -- Publisher Marketing

The 17 Day Diet Cookbook: 80 All New Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss

by Mike Moreno    (Find this book)
Based on the "New York Times "bestselling book and revolutionary diet program that has swept the nation, a collection of easy, delicious, and healthy recipes that will help readers lose weight fast, and keep it off.
The #1 bestselling 17 Day Diet offers a lifetime plan for shedding pounds fast in a safe and lasting way. Now, "The 17 Day Diet Cookbook "is here to help you meet your weight loss goals in a healthy and delicious way. Packed with brand-new recipes, "The 17 Day Diet Cookbook "offers an easy way to prepare healthy meals at home that will appeal to the whole family. Organized to help you follow the diet's 17-day cycles, the cookbook contains easy recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and desserts. Designed for the busy home cook, these nutritious and tasty dishes take about half an hour of active preparation and do not taste like diet food. You will be able to craft great meals that will satisfy everyone you're feeding while helping you reach your weight loss goals.  -- Publisher Marketing

The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

by Mark Hyman    (Find this book)
Medical doctor Hyman (UltraMetabolism, 2008) convincingly argues that residents of the United States of Diabetes need to start saying no to processed junk food. Otherwise, the modern obesogenic environment will lead toward diabesity, an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. As Hyman clearly explains, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that damages the pancreas and causes a lack of insulin production. Type-2 diabetes, by contrast, is a disease of too much insulin. As Hyman notes, more than 70 percent of Americans are overweight, which puts them at great risk for pre-diabetes and earlier death. (Diabetics are four times more likely to die from heart disease and three to four times more likely to experience a stroke.) The book includes a quiz, patient success stories, diabetes myths, action tips, recipes, and links to recommended websites. Some doctors may not like his advice to try supplements and herbs (melatonin, passionflower, valerian-root extract) before bed. But overall, this passionate doctor gives solid advice about how to try to cure the modern plague of diabesity. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)  -Booklist

The 7-Minute Back Pain Solution: 7 Simple Exercises to Heal Your Back Without Drugs or Surgery in Just Minutes a Day

by Gerard Girasole    (Find this book)
"Banish back pain forever!"
Are you one of the millions of lower-back-pain sufferers who is desperate for relief? Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by pain so excruciating you were afraid to move? Have you spent countless hours seeing medical professionals? Now, with 7 easy stretches done in just minutes a day, you can finally relieve your back pain and prevent it from happening again. The exercises and tips in this book will teach you how to fight back pain anywhere, anytime, using the equipment you already have--your own muscles.
Orthopaedic spine surgeon Dr. Gerard Girasole and personal trainer Cara Hartman have teamed up to develop a proven program that will help you:
- Heal by doing the 7 stretches, which will take you no more than 7 minutes.
- Strengthen your core, which gives your spine the protection it needs.
- Protect your improved core strength to make future injuries much less likely.
The detailed photographs and helpful lists in this book will guarantee you see results, while the guide to daily activities will show you how to prevent injuries, whether you're exercising, doing the laundry or commuting to work. Say goodbye to back pain, starting today. -- Publisher Marketing

Answers for the 4A Epidemic

by Joseph A. Cannizzaro    (Find this book)
Answers for the new childhood epidemics...Autism ADHD Asthma Allergies The statistics are alarming. Diagnosed cases of autism, ADHD, asthma, and allergies are increasing exponentially, especially among children. If your child is struggling with any of these conditions, you know that the search for answers can be overwhelming. After thirty years in pediatric medicine, Dr. Joseph Cannizzaro has found an unmistakable web of interrelationship among the 4-A disorders and has learned to recognize many of the patterns behind them. In "Answers for the 4-A Epidemic "he lays a foundation for understanding this epidemic, including... - A comprehensive overview of each of the disorders, their causes, characteristics, and commonalities - A groundbreaking integrative treatment program that includes nutrition, supplementation, medication, and detoxification.  -- Publisher Marketing

Bending the Aging Curve: The Complete Exercise Guide for Older Adults

by Joseph F Signorile    (Find this book)
As we age, it's natural to see some loss of strength, flexibility, balance, and aerobic endurance. But today's aging population isn't willing to just sit back and accept these declines. They're looking for ways to maintain a high quality of life throughout their older years. "Bending the Aging Curve: The Complete Exercise Guide for Older Adults "offers a systematic approach to designing exercise programs that will help older adults bend or straighten these curves of decline, resulting in more years of strength, vitality, and independence.
"Bending the Aging Curve" provides fitness professionals with a multifaceted periodized training program specifically for older adults. With this book and DVD package, you will find the tools you need to help your clients slow the physical decline that can accompany aging:
-Training strategies for improving body composition, flexibility, bone density, muscular strength and power, and cardiovascular fitness that can be customized to fit each client
-73 translational exercises that simulate everyday activities and help older clients to translate their new strengths into improved daily function and increased independence
-A series of tests that will allow you to assess your clients' strengths and weaknesses, design programs that address their needs, and keep them motivated during their training
-A spreadsheet in which you can record clients' test results and view their percentile rankings for their sex and age groups
-Videos of the translational exercises that let you and your clients see these unique activities in action to ensure accuracy and safety
-Video case studies of four sample clients that show the progression from testing to targeted training to the translational exercise cycle to help you understand how to design programs that meet your clients' varying needs and goals
This one-of-a-kind resource presents a scientifically substantiated and practically proven training system that can extend the vitality of our aging population. Signorile offers an engaging explanation of the research behind his diagnosis and prescription model while maintaining a focus on the practical components of program design. You will learn to use tests to diagnose your clients' needs and then prescribe training cycles with the appropriate mix of work, active recovery, and skill practice to maximize functional improvements. The photos and step-by-step instructions for each of the tests and exercises found in the book and the video clips on the DVD make it easy to quickly implement this training system with your clients.
Maintaining independence as we age depends on a multitude of factors. "Bending the Aging Curve" offers a comprehensive approach to designing exercise interventions that address all of these factors. With its targeted strategies, you'll be able to help your clients stay active, energetic, and self-reliant, regardless of their age.  -- Publisher Marketing

The Definitive Guide to Prostate Cancer: Everything You Need to Know about Conventional and Integrative Therapies

by Aaron Katz    (Find this book)
The complete guide to coping with prostate cancer, with expert health advice for every man
This comprehensive handbook gives men the vital information they need to effectively navigate every step of dealing with prostate cancer. A newly diagnosed cancer patient faces a mind-numbing array of treatment options, including medical therapies that carry serious side effects--and determining the right course of action is an overwhelming task. In simple yet scientific terms, this book empowers readers with the tools they need to proactively fight cancer by making the most informed treatment decisions possible.
With groundbreaking developments recently emerging in both conventional and holistic prostate cancer research, it is imperative that men fighting this disease have the absolute latest information. As founder and director of the Center for Holistic Urology at Columbia University, Dr. Katz is uniquely positioned to guide readers through the new practices and breakthrough treatment options for every stage of the battle with cancer, from prevention to postdiagnosis.
One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime, and countless families will be
affected by this widespread but ultimately curable disease. Armed with Dr. Katz's expert guidance, patients will be equipped to actively participate in reclaiming their health and navigating this difficult diagnosis. -- Publisher Marketing

Basal and Squamous Cell Skin Cancer: What You Need to Know-NOW

by American Cancer Society    (Find this book)
Complete with the most up-to-date patient treatment guidelines, this medical guide covers every aspect of basal and squamous cell skin cancer, from what the risk factors are to the benefits of early diagnosis to living healthily after treatment. Critical questions to ask the health care team are provided, as is an advanced dictionary of cancer-related terms. This pocket-sized reference aims to raise public awareness of skin cancer to promote early detection and emphasizes that all patients should be well-informed and play an active role in planning their own treatment.  -- Publisher Marketing

Melanoma Skin Cancer: What You Need to Know-NOW

by American Cancer Society    (Find this book)
This pocket-sized reference covers everything from the risk factors of melanoma skin cancer to the diagnosis procedure to living well after treatment. With greater public awareness, early detection of melanoma skin cancer is on the rise and mortality rates are declining; this medical guide emphasizes that all patients should be well-informed decision makers in planning their own treatment and is updated with the latest patient treatment guidelines. An advanced dictionary of cancer-related terms and a list of critical questions to ask health care administrators are also included. -- Publisher Marketing

Baby & Child Health Everything You Need to Know

by Philippa Kaye    (Find this book)
When dealing with a sick baby or child, it is vital that parents have the information they need at their fingertips. Giving parents the knowledge and confidence to know when to contact a doctor or take their child to the hospital, "Baby & Child Health: Everything You Need to Know" is the most accessible at-home guide for parents.
Includes: More than 150 conditions Symptoms charts with clear "yes/no" answers to what might be wrong. Clear photography illustrating step-by-step practical instructions for first aid.  Checklist boxes and key topic boxes packed with additional information.   -- Publisher Marketing

The Everything Pregnancy Book: All You Need to Get You Through the Most Important Nine Months of Your Life!

by Paula Ford-Martin     (Find this book)
You just got that positive pregnancy test and suddenly you feel lost in a sea of questions, concerns, what-ifs, and what-nows? To navigate this new world of body changes, blood tests, mood swings, and baby gear, you need a helpful guide that's with you from the first positive test to the last push. Luckily, this is the ideal guide for soon-to-be moms who are unsure of what to do after they get the big news.
Completely revised and packed with even more information, this month-by-month resource walks you through the different phases of pregnancy and offers practical advice on:

• Understanding physical and emotional changes
• Selecting the right diet for you and baby
• Understanding prenatal tests and screenings
• Choosing the best labor and delivery options
• Budgeting for the new addition to the family

This new edition also includes the latest information on nutrition, finding alternative care and treatments (yoga, anyone?), and checklists and worksheets to help parents-to-be plan for any occasion. This indispensable guide gives you the inspiration, support, and advice you need to get through your pregnancy--and beyond! -- Publisher Marketing

Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need

by Marc Gillinov    (Find this book)
The definitive guide to heart health from two of America's most respected doctors at Cleveland Clinic, the #1 hospital for heart health in America.
Are you one of the eighty-two million Americans currently diagnosed with cardiovascular disease--or one of the millions more who think they are healthy but are at risk? Whether your goal is to get the best treatment or stay out of the cardiologist's office, your heart's health depends upon accurate information and correct answers to key questions. In "Heart 411," two renowned experts, heart surgeon Marc Gillinov and cardiologist Steven Nissen, tackle the questions their patients have raised over their decades of practice: Can the stress of my job really lead to a heart attack? How does exercise help my heart, and what is the right amount and type of exercise? What are the most important tests for my heart, and when do I need them? How do symptoms and treatments differ among men, women, and children?
Backed by decades of clinical experience and up-to-the-minute research, yet written in the accessible, down-to-earth tone of your trusted family doctor, "Heart 411" cuts through the confusion to give you the knowledge and tools you need to live a long and heart-healthy life.  -- Publisher Marketing

Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life!

by Mayo Clinic    (Find this book)
In "The Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life!, "Mayo Clinic provides up-to-date, clinically proven information that addresses the key causes of heart disease and provides clear, actionable advice in an easy-to follow format, including:
The three key actions you can taken in a quick-start plan to help you jump-start your way to heart health. A heart-health assessment to help you create your own customized plan. An easy-to-follow program designed for life-long heart health. Tools to help you determine your risk for heart disease. Information on how to recognize symptoms of heart disease-and what to do about them. Background on cholesterol's role and info on how you can minimize the effects of bad cholesterol and enhance your levels of good cholesterol. How to talk to your doctor about heart concerns and what to expect during a medical evaluation. How heart disease symptoms can be different in women, and other special concerns for women. How to raise heart-healthy children ...and more -- Publisher Marketing

The Dash Diet Action Plan: Proven to Lower Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Without Medication

by Marla Heller    (Find this book)
The complete guide to lowering blood pressure and cholesterol- without medication-through a proven diet, exercise, and weight loss program Finally, the #1 ranked DASH diet is popularized and user-friendly. Unlike any diet before it, DASH, which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, came out of groundbreaking NIH- funded research. Now, Marla Heller, MS, RD, who was trained by one of the primary architects of the DASH diet and is herself the leading dietician putting DASH into action for over ten years, shares the secret to making the diet easy and accessible, in THE DASH DIET ACTION PLAN. Rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat and nonfat dairy, lean meats, fish, beans, and nuts, DASH is grounded in healthy eating principles that lower blood pressure; reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancer; and support reaching and maintaining a healthy weight. No diet has a medical pedigree like DASH, and this book is a simple, actionable plan that can fit seamlessly into everyone's life and lifestyle. It includes: * 28 days of meal plans at different calorie ranges * Simple tools to help you personalize a DASH Diet Action Plan for guaranteed success * DASH-friendly recipes and shopping lists * Tips for eating on-the-run * Advice on healthy weight loss and exercise for every lifestyle. Now, you can revolutionize your health and change your life-without medication. There are no magical combinations, no forbidden foods- just fabulous, healthy eating! -- Publisher Marketing