Coping with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Guide for Families

by Cheryl A Roberts    (Find this book)
Roberts (applied linguistics, Univ. of Northern Iowa) updates her 2003 original book on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Admitting her nonclinical background, she explains how her marriage to a Vietnam veteran, interest in human behavior, and living and working in different cultures led to further investigating PTSD. Strongly directed at lay readers interested in or personally experiencing the disorder and its accompanying stress, Roberts explains the effects of PTSD on individuals and their families, including the trauma caused by noncombat violence and natural disasters. She nicely covers PTSD causes, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of the disorder, including counseling, medication, and alternative therapy. She also presents typical challenges faced by PTSD individuals and their families and provides helpful recommendations on how best to develop and implement a healthy, long-term approach to handling them. New here is information regarding Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, new policies and treatments used with military veterans, and information on female war vets, who represent a new demographic for combat PTSD. VERDICT Roberts includes helpful additional resources for PTSD survivors and family members and a handy guide to recommended reading, as well as key films that dramatically convey the reality of PTSD. Primarily focused on combat, this will be of great value to veterans or those in the armed services who may be experiencing PTSD and their family and friends.—Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2011 Reed Business Information. -- Library Journal

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

by Caldwell B, Jr. Esselstyn    (Find this book)
"Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" challenges conventional cardiology by posing a compelling, revolutionary idea-that we can, in fact, abolish the heart disease epidemic in this country by changing our diets. Drawing on the groundbreaking results of his twenty-year nutritional study, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former surgeon, researcher, and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, convincingly argues that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease, but also reverse its effects.
Furthermore, it can eliminate the need for expensive and invasive surgical interventions, such as bypass and stents, no matter how far the disease has progressed. Dr. Esselstyn began his research with a group of patients who joined his study after traditional medical procedures to treat their advanced heart disease had failed. Within months of following a plant-based, oil-free diet, their angina symptoms eased, their cholesterol levels dropped significantly, and they experienced a marked improvement in blood flow to the heart. Twenty years later, the majority of Dr. Esselstyn's patients continue to follow his program and remain heart-attack proof.
"Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" explains the science behind these dramatic results, and offers readers the same simple, nutrition-based plan that has changed the lives of his patients forever. In addition, Dr. Esselstyn provides more than 150 delicious recipes that he and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have enjoyed for years and used with their patients. Clearly written and backed by irrefutable scientific evidence, startling photos of angiograms, and inspiring personal stories, "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" will empower readers to take charge of their heart health. It is a powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart-disease therapy. -- Publisher Marketing

Green Medicine Chest: Healthy Treasures for the Whole Family

by Judith Boice    (Find this book)
Are pharmaceutical drugs making you or your family sick?
Do you want to use safe, earth-friendly medicine?
Do you know how to effectively use supplements and natural remedies to build optimal health?
66% of the U.S. population consults alternative health care providers and over 70% take supplements, but many people don't know how to use these methods effectively.
The Green Medicine Chest offers a well organized, easily accessible guide for effectively using natural remedies, reducing your doctor bills, and improving your overall health. This family health companion shows you how to address:
Acne, Bed-wetting, Childhood vaccinations, Colds, Depression, Diabetes, Fatigue, Food allergies, Headaches, Insomnia, Low libido, Low thyroid, Menstrual cramps, Prostatitis, Teething, and much more
Shortly after Patty was diagnosed with metastasized skin cancer, she began changing her diet, practicing qigong, and doing constitutional hydrotherapy treatment. These and several natural medicines helped her tolerate chemotherapy and radiation treatments -- and eventually restored her to full health. Patty has outlived her terminal cancer diagnosis by three years.
When Karen developed the symptoms of reactive airway disease, her pulmonologist gave her little hope for improvement. Using the natural therapies presented in The Green Medicine Chest(R), Karen has increased her lung capacity, improved her vitality, and dramatically reduced her sick days.
Dr. Judith Boice, award-winning author, international teacher, naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, is the author of nine books, including Menopause with Science and Soul: A guidebook for navigating the journey. Dr. Boice graduated from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine. She has lived and traveled around the world, fostering an understanding and respect for many cultures and traditions.
1% of the profits from this book are donated to support Green Medicine projects and organizations. -- Publisher Marketing

Colon & Rectal Cancer: From Diagnosis to Treatment

by Paul Ruggieri    (Find this book)
This handy, reassuring guide helps recently diagnosed patients answer pressing questions, such as "How""far advanced is the disease?""What tests are involved?" and "What treatments will be recommended? "and understand the often confusing and intimidating medical jargon. In addition, this fully updated second edition is a quick, reliable reference to the most current procedures and treatment options. Among these are the increasingly popular trend of using chemotherapy and radiation prior to surgery, targeted therapies involving newer drugs that limit their focus to the cancer cells, the use of laparoscopic surgery, and latest approaches in radiation therapy and chemotherapy drugs. This work also reviews symptoms and risk factors for colon cancer, how the disease may be prevented, and pros and cons of various treatments. -- Publisher Marketing

Delavier's Core Training Anatomy

by Frederic Delavier    (Find this book)
"Delavier's Core Training Anatomy" is your guide for increasing core strength, stability, flexibility, and tone.
Whether you're just beginning your routine or looking to enhance an existing conditioning program, "Delavier's Core" "Training Anatomy "presents the most effective exercises and workouts for the results you want. It's all here, and all in the stunning detail that only Frederic Delavier can provide.
With 460 full-color photos and illustrations, you'll go inside over 100 exercises and 60 programs to see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. You'll learn how variations, progressions, and sequencing can affect muscle recruitment, the underlying structures, and ultimately the results.
"Delavier's Core Training Anatomy "includes proven programming for sculpting your abs, reducing fat, improving cardiovascular health, and relieving low back discomfort. Targeted routines are presented for optimal training and performance in more than 20 sports, including running, cycling, basketball, soccer, and golf.
The former editor in chief of "PowerMag" in France, author and illustrator Frederic 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

Aging Our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond

by Meika Loe    (Find this book)
In 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "One-Hundredth-Birthday" cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000. America is rapidly graying: between now and 2030, the number of people in the U.S. over the age of 80 is expected to almost triple. But how long people live raises the question of how well they live.
Aging Our Way follows the everyday lives of 30 elders (ages 85-102) living at home and mostly alone to understand how they create and maintain meaningful lives for themselves. Drawing on the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on aging and three years of interviews with the elders, Meika Loe explores how elders navigate the practical challenges of living as independently as possible while staying healthy, connected, and comfortable. While most books on the subject treat old age as a social problem and elders as simply diminished versions of their former selves, Aging Our Way views them as they really are: lively, complicated, engaging people finding creative ways to make their aging as meaningful and manageable as possible. In their own voices, elders describe how they manage everything from grocery shopping, doctor appointments, and disability, to creating networks of friends and maintaining their autonomy. In many ways, these elders can serve as role models. The lessons they have learned about living in moderation, taking time for themselves, asking for help, keeping a sense of humor, caring for others, and preparing for death provide an invaluable source of wisdom for anyone hoping to live a long and fulfilling life. Through their stories, Loe helps us to think about aging, well-being, and the value of human relationships in new ways.
Written with remarkable warmth and depth of understanding, Aging Our Way offers a vivid look at a group of people who too often remain invisible--those who have lived the longest--and all they have to teach us. -- Publisher Marketing

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

by William Davis    (Find this book)

Cardiologist Dr. William Davis explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse myriad health problems. Over 200 million Americans consume food products made of wheat every day. As a result, over 100 million experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor rashes to high blood sugar to unattractive stomach bulges preventative cardiologist William Davis calls "wheat bellies." According to Davis, that excess fat has nothing to do with gluttony, sloth, or too much butter: it's due to the whole grain wraps we eat for lunch. After witnessing over 2000 patients regain health after giving up wheat, Davis reached the disturbing conclusion that wheat is the single largest contributor to the nationwide obesity epidemic-and that elimination of wheat is key to dramatic weight loss and optimal health. In Wheat Belly, Davis exposes the harmful effects of what is actually a product of genetic tinkering and agribusiness being sold to the American public as "wheat"-and provides readers with a user-friendly, step-by-step plan to navigate a new wheat- free lifestyle. Informed by cutting-edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who have experienced life-changing transformations in health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.

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