Hear and Understand
Hear AND Understand author Dr. Eric Frederick has one central message-you are in control of your hearing loss. Push past the anxiety, fear, and denial associated with hearing loss to open the floodgates to communication and better full-body health. Dr. Fredrick shares years of audiology experience to provide a comprehensive look at the common challenges and misconceptions of hearing loss, and more importantly, how to overcome its obstacles. Turn the pages of Hear AND Understand, and start turning the corner to a better you. Inside, you will gain the resources and knowledge to: - overcome anxiety and shake off the fear of hearing loss - act quickly to preserve your ability to hear and understand speech - ask the right questions when purchasing hearing aids - understand the link between untreated hearing loss and loss of mental function
The Acne Answer
New research indicates that microbiota make us who we are. The skin's ecosystem is inhabited by diverse microorganisms, most of which are harmless or even beneficial. A few are pathogenic and play a role in acne formation. The Acne Answer looks at treating inflammatory skin conditions such as teenage acne, adult acne and rosacea from the natural and organic perspective. It covers the whys and wherefores of how acne is formed and what can be done to improve problem skin based on scientific research.
Lost Your Teeth but Not Your Appetite?
Take A Bite Out Of Life Smile, Eat And Live With Renewed Confidence. Have you had any of these thoughts lately? Do people really still lose all of their teeth? I thought dentures are for older people? I don't know if I am a candidate for dental implants? Let prosthodontist Michael Scherer, DMD, MS, ease your mind, debunk the myths, and shed some light on the many health and lifestyle benefits of considering replacements for teeth that are missing or are soon to be missing due to decay, gum disease, or fracture. - How a new smile and dental implants reverse the aging process - Detailed information and treatment recommendations ranging from replacing one tooth to all of your teeth - The right dental solution really can be fast, painless, and affordable Lost your teeth but not your appetite? can help you get back to living a full and enjoyable life with dental implants.
Cataracts
If you have been diagnosed with cataracts or are concerned you may have them, get detailed and understandable answers to your questions with Cataracts: A Patient's Guide to Treatment, Third Edition, newly updated to include the latest information on rapidly-evolving cataract surgical and lens implant technologies.
User’s Guide to Policosanol & Other Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol
Millions of people have elevated blood levels of cholesterol, a major risk factor for coronary heart disease. Yet many supplements and foods can effectively - and safely - reduce cholesterol levels. This User's Guide to Polycosanol and Other Cholesterol-Lowering Nutrients explains what you have to do to reduce your risk of heart disease.
User’s Guide to Healthy Digestion
User's Guide To Healthy Digestion is an easy-to-read information-packed book that will teach you how to put an end to your digestive problems. Heartburn, indigestion, bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhoea, and other digestive problems affect nearly everyone at one time or another. Health writer Victoria Dolby Toews describes the most common digestive problems and diseases and recommends safe dietary, herbal, and nutrition remedies to improve digestive health.
User’s Guide to Glucosamine and Chondroitin
Explains how these supplements can help you overcome the pain of arthritis.
I Have Parkinson’s: What Should I Do?
A realistic, compassionate, supportive guide to living positively with a disease that is usually portrayed in depressing terms. Drawing on her own experience and that of others with early onset Parkinson's, the author combines clear information about the symptoms and treatments with practical strategies for adapting to the challenges of life with the disease.
A Victim No More
More than 30 million people in the United States suffer from IBS, a.k.a irritable bowel syndrome. Using the best of conventional and natural therapies, Dr. Berkowitz shows how an individualized program, one that treats all of the underlying causes, is the best way to heal IBS.
Asthma: Relax, You’re Not Going to Die
Dr. Berkowitz shows asthma sufferers how to breathe more easily by using natural remedies, including dietary changes, exercise, environmental controls, supplements, and herbs.
Living Well With Dystonia
Dystonia doesn'?繫t have to rule your life. This empowering and encouraging resource, written for dystonia patients and their families and caregivers, provides an overview of a variety of dystonias including cervical dystonia, spasmodic dysphonia, blepharospasm, and writer'?繫s cramp, and the breadth oftreatment options available. The authors also offer practical advice for improving quality of life and managing pain and other symptoms. This updatedsecond edition includes expanded discussions of new medications, chemodenervation with botulinum toxin, deep brain stimulation, genetic breakthroughs, andother areas. Written by three acclaimed neurologists with perspectives from patients that illuminate and inform, Living Well with Dystonia will help you: Understand your specific dystonia and how it progresses Determine the best treatment approaches Alleviate symptoms with rehabilitation exercises Address the '?繳hidden symptoms, '?羅 such as social embarrassment
The Oral Health Bible
An action plan for taking charge of oral health, this book details how many debilitating health problems--conditions such as arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, rheumatoid arthritis, and premature and low-birth-weight babies--are intimately linked to oral health and hygiene.
Healed Beyond The Symptoms
Healed Beyond the Symptoms is a testimony of miraculous healing written from a woman with Lupus. As she is diagnosed, she gains healing and encourages you to pray away any illness and maintain his or her faith in Christ, as she explains medical terminology and other healing options for readers. In this reading, she shares many insightful comments on traditional healing methods, such as aromatherapy for patience suffering a variety of aliments, plus emphasizes the importance of a positive attitude and prayer through turmoil. She shares how many define faith and gives you empowering Bible scriptures to help you connect her ideas with what God's Word says. You'll be motivated and inspired to sustain an uplifting attitude through her personal testimonial of God's hand in her life.
Healed Beyond The Symptoms
Healed Beyond the Symptoms is a testimony of miraculous healing written from a woman with Lupus. As she is diagnosed, she gains healing and encourages you to pray away any illness and maintain his or her faith in Christ, as she explains medical terminology and other healing options for readers. In this reading, she shares many insightful comments on traditional healing methods, such as aromatherapy for patience suffering a variety of aliments, plus emphasizes the importance of a positive attitude and prayer through turmoil. She shares how many define faith and gives you empowering Bible scriptures to help you connect her ideas with what God's Word says. You'll be motivated and inspired to sustain an uplifting attitude through her personal testimonial of God's hand in her life.
Prescription for Natural Cures
Hundreds of thousands of readers have relied on Prescription for Natural Cures as the source for accurate, easy-to-understand information on natural treatments and remedies for a host of common ailments. The new edition of this invaluable guide has been thoroughly updated to reflect the very latest research and recommendations. This revised edition prescribes remedies for almost 200 conditions, including new entries such gluten sensitivity and MRSA. You'll find easy-to-understand discussions of the symptoms and root causes of each health problem along with a proven, natural, customized prescription that may include supplements, herbal medicine, homeopathy, aromatherapy, Chinese medicine, hydrotherapy, bodywork, natural hormones, and other natural cures in addition to nutritional advice. This revised edition features: * Comprehensive reference contains natural remedies for almost 200 common health ailments organized by problem from A to Z * Scores of new supplements and many new conditions * Up-to-date information reflecting the latest natural health research and treatment recommendations * Clear, authoritative guidance on dietary changes, healing foods, nutritional supplements, and recommended tests Down-to-earth descriptions of each health problem and natural remedy If you and your family want to get better naturally, Prescription for Natural Cures is an essential health resource you can't afford to be without.
The Copd Solution
When you can't breathe, nothing else matters. If you are one of the 15 million Americans diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), you know what it's like to struggle to breathe. You know what it's like to sacrifice your favorite activities to a chronic illness that changes everything from your work life to how you take your meals. But there is help -- and hope. Respiratory Therapist Dawn Lesley Fielding shares the program she has used in her own practice -- with an astonishing 100% success rate--offering techniques and tools to make breathing easier and improve your overall health. This practical, accessible, step-by-step guide explains... what COPD is and how it affects your breathing the most up-to-date medication and treatment options how to track symptoms and medications essential breathing techniques to improve oxygen intake strategies for healthy nutrition and gentle exercise what to eat and what to avoid, with lists of key COPD foods With stories from others with this condition, easy charts for managing everything from your medications to your symptoms, as well as hands-on tips for you and your loved ones, The COPD Solution is your guide to reclaiming your life and living fully with COPD.
In Focus
Most optometrists will tell you glasses can help your eyesight and leave it at that. Dr. Michael Christian on the other hand considers vision in a more connected and dynamic manner. He has pioneered glasses that can also improve posture, balance and movement, even the clarity of your thoughts and intentions. As the inventor of Quantum Ophthalmic Optics (QOO), he has applied quantum physics and holographic principles to improve vision and to "focus" well being. He shares his comprehensive theory, including diverse case histories that provide insights into how manipulating the lens and prism can help the body redirect energy to improve much more than eyesight. He also seeks to answer questions such as: - What is good vision and who determines what that is? - Is vision based on genetic inheritance or is it an active, integrative, and motivational process? - How can you determine if you're at ease or under duress with your vision? Whether it's seeing that sign on the street, improving your golf swing or looking at life with a more positive attitude, you can realize your full potential by bringing it In Focus.
Dr. Lani's No-Nonsense Bone Health Guide
Part whistle-blower book, part bone health bible, Dr. Lani's No-Nonsense Bone Health Guide is the first consumer book to expose the shocking difficulty of getting an accurate bone density reading and the serious risks of long-term use of osteoporosis medications, which are often prescribed based on inaccurate readings. In addition to this vital information about bone density testing, Dr. Lani Simpson cuts through the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding osteoporosis and explains what readers can do now to build and maintain healthy bones for life. Dr. Simpson shares her well-rounded, whole-body approach to bone health, including discussions of digestive health, diet, supplements, exercise, and how aging affects the bones. Readers learn surprising facts about what foods and medicines might hurt bone health and which ones will help build strong bones. Also included is a thorough discussion of calcium supplementation and how to do it right. Dr. Lani's No-Nonsense Bone Health Guide is the key to long, healthy, fracture-free golden years.
Goodbye Parkinson's, Hello Life
Parkinson's Disease, a disorder of the central nervous system, affects 1 million people in America and 10 million worldwide. In Goodbye Parkinson's, Hello Life! Alex Kerten presents his breakthrough holistic technique that combines dance therapy, behavior modification, and martial arts, to prove that there is life beyond the diagnosis of PD. Goodbye Parkinson's, Hello life! received "Recommended Reading" status by the Michael J. Fox Foundation and listings on the National Parkinson's Association social media sites. Those who follow Kerten's techniques and are committed to becoming "Parkinson's warriors" can succeed in eliminating many, if not most, of their symptoms and return to a productive and fulfilling life. Instead of viewing themselves as Parkinson's victims, the methods in Goodbye Parkinson's, Hello life! will lead them to become healthy people with Parkinson's. Includes 20 easy- to -follow exercises.
Generic Alternatives to Prescription Drugs
With Generic Alternatives to Prescription Drugs, consumers will be able to: - Quickly identify generic alternatives to brand-name prescription drugs- Compare high-priced brand drugs to lower-cost generic medicines- Reduce out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs- Learn tips for communicating more effectively with doctors and pharmacists
User’s Guide to Preventing & Treating Headaches Naturally
Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
User’s Guide to Healthy Digestion
User's Guide To Healthy Digestion is an easy-to-read information-packed book that will teach you how to put an end to your digestive problems. Heartburn, indigestion, bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhoea, and other digestive problems affect nearly everyone at one time or another. Health writer Victoria Dolby Toews describes the most common digestive problems and diseases and recommends safe dietary, herbal, and nutrition remedies to improve digestive health.
A Victim No More
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a mysterious illness in which the large intestine fails to function normally. Its causes are not fully understood and treatments have often been ineffective. Now, Jonathan M. Berkowitz uses cutting-edge research to provide a compelling and effective approach to treat this complex illness. Using the best of conventional and natural therapies, Dr. Berkowitz shows how an individualised programme is the best way to heal IBS.
Asthma: Relax, You’re Not Going to Die
Dr. Berkowitz shows asthma sufferers how to breathe more easily by using natural remedies, including dietary changes, exercise, environmental controls, supplements, and herbs.
Epilepsy in Children
From a leading neurologist, experienced nurse practitioner, and registered dietitian comes the complete guide to managing your child's life with epilepsy.Epilepsy in Children offers the practical advice and information you need to respond to your child's seizures safely and effectively, understand the latest treatment options, and find hope for a seizure-free future. Get the right diagnosis for your child and the correct treatment to reduce the frequency of seizures faster Learn the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical, surgical, and alternative therapies, including the ketogenic diet Help your child maintain a normal life at school, with friends, and in sports and other activities Navigate the transitions from infancy and childhood to puberty and becoming a young adult "Epilepsy in Children is an indispensable starting point and guide for parents and families. Orrin Devinsky is a leading clinician, researcher, and teacher who takes down walls and engages deeply with patients and families. He and his colleagues have created a resource that is clearly written and yet covers the breadth of epilepsies, therapies, and resources available." WARREN LAMMERT, CHAIRMAN OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS "When a child is first diagnosed, it's a bleak, isolating time for families. This book sheds light in the darkest corners and gives parents a crucial playbook to help both their children and themselves. The authors leverage their medical, nursing, and nutrition backgrounds to address the most difficult issues with a uniquely collaborative approach. It's a game changer." KATE COONEY PICCO, PARENT "As an advocate, I am grateful that Orrin Devinsky has taken his immense talent and decades of experience to help parents address the critical and diverse needs of children with epilepsy. As the father of a child with epilepsy, there are no words adequate for me to thank him for dedicating his life to helping our children. In Epilepsy in Children Dr. Devinsky and his team give families an opportunity to transform a sense of fear, isolation, and helplessness, into hope, confidence, and strength. PHILIP M. GATTONE, MEd., PRESIDENT AND CEO, EPILEPSY FOUNDATION ORRIN DEVINSKY, MD, is a professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, and director of the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers and the Saint Barnabas Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INN). He has published widely on the subject of epilepsy, with more than 400 articles and chaptersand more than 20 books and monographs. He has served on the board of the National Epilepsy Foundation and the American Epilepsy Society. He cofounded epilepsy.com, the Epilepsy Therapy Project, and the journals Epilepsy and Behavior and Reviews in Neurological Diseases. ERIN CONWAY, MS, RN, CPNP is a pediatric nurse practitioner at the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. COURTNEY S CHNABEL GLICK, MS, RD, CDN is a registered dietitian at the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
La raz鏮 por la que salto / The Reason I Jump
Cuando, con trece a簽os, Naoki Higashida empez籀 a comunicarse a trav矇s de una parrilla de ideogramas dise簽ada por su madre, estaba haciendo historia. Nunca antes un ni簽o aquejado de un grado de autismo tan severo hab穩a conseguido expresarse. Naoki consigue traducir su experiencia a un lenguaje comprensible para cualquier lector a trav矇s de preguntas como: 聶por qu矇 los autistas habl獺is tan alto y tan raro?; 聶por qu矇 os gusta poner vuestros coches de juguete en fila?; 聶por qu矇 salt獺is? Sus respuestas son optimistas y transmiten alegr穩a de vivir, ternura y, sobre todo, nos presentan a alguien admirable de quien hay mucho que aprender. «Naoki nos hace de gu穩a por su mundo, que puede ser tan extra簽o al nuestro como la distancia que hay entre un neoyorquino y un habitante del Amazonas: salimos de nuestra realidad y nos damos cuenta de que hay realidades muy diferentes dependiendo de c籀mo tus sentidos los perciben.罈 Miguel Gallardo, autor de Mar穩a y yo ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "One of the most remarkable books I've ever read. It's truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid."--Jon Stewart, The Daily Show NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR - The Wall Street Journal - Bloomberg Business - Bookish FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE FIRST BOOK AWARD - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You've never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: "Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?" "Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?" "Why don't you make eye contact when you're talking?" and "What's the reason you jump?" (Naoki's answer: "When I'm jumping, it's as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.") With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights--into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory--are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again. In his introduction, bestselling novelist David Mitchell writes that Naoki's words allowed him to feel, for the first time, as if his own autistic child was explaining what was happening in his mind. "It is no exaggeration to say that The Reason I Jump allowed me to round a corner in our relationship." Praise for The Reason I Jump "This is an intimate book, one that brings readers right into an autistic mind."--Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice) "Amazing times a million."--Whoopi Goldberg, People "The Reason I Jump is a Rosetta stone. . . . This book takes about ninety minutes to read, and it will stretch your vision of what it is to be human."--Andrew Solomon, The Times (U.K.) "Extraordinary, moving, and jeweled with epiphanies."--The Boston Globe "Small but profound . . . [Higashida's] startling, moving insights offer a rare look inside the autistic mind."--Parade
Optimal Health With Parkinson's Disease
For many with Parkinson's disease, adding complementary, alternative, and lifestyle therapies to a care plan can result in symptom relief and a higher quality of life without compromising conventional treatment. Written by a board-certified neurologist and expert in mind-body medicine, Optimal Health with Parkinson's Disease provides a thorough and up-to-date guide to a variety of therapies so that you and your health care team can make informed decisions to help you achieve optimal health. Learn the benefits of a holistic approach Find effective, low risk therapies for symptom relief such as tremor, muscle rigidity, depression, constipation, and insomnia Understand the pros and cons of popular diet and exercise approaches Determine which integrative therapies are best for you Personalize your treatment plan to help meet your goals Dr. Giroux shares her experience and insights after many years of listening to the challenges faced day-to-day by her patients with neurological disorders. She combines her conventional medical training with mindfulness practice and integrative medical philosophy to provide a unique healing approach that empowers patients for optimal living. This excellent guide fully explains the value of this integrative approach, even when one is dealing with complex, chronic disease. I recommend it as a must-have for anyone living with Parkinson's disease. Andrew Weil, MD, author of Healthy Aging And 8 Weeks to Health Navigating Parkinson's diagnosis, progression, and care is challenging. Dr. Monique Giroux provides a roadmap not only of the therapeutic options - medicinal and complementary - but also of the perspective that patients and their loved ones can use to live their best life with Parkinson's disease. Todd Sherer, CEO, The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research If you or someone you love has Parkinson's disease, this book will become an essential resource. Dr. Giroux uses her vast clinical experience and encouraging philosophy to guide you to evidence-based integrative approaches that can help you thrive. Victoria Maizes MD, Executive Director, University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Family Medicine, and Public Health
Heal Your Hips
The best-selling guide to hip health is now new and improved.When Heal Your Hips was first published in 1999, its practical and long-overdue guidance was a revelation for the millions enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury. This updated edition of Heal Your Hips includes even more groundbreaking content. Fundamental concepts from the original are still included, such as innovative preventative and rehabilitative measures and step-by-step exercises with instructional images. The up-to-date version now includes many breakthroughs in the orthopedic field including the author's own KlapperVision(R)-using common household objects to explain intricate anatomical structures in a way accessible to anyone. The result is the same: Heal Your Hips is still the only comprehensive hip health guide you will ever need.
What's Stressing Your Face
Dermatologist an cosmetic surgeon Dr. Glynis Ablon provides a comprehensive list of reasons a person may develop a problem that appears symptomatically in the face. This four part book provides clear explanations of facial maladies and treatments as well as case histories to illustrate the conditions and procedures.
From Chaos to Coercion
In the 1980s and early 1990s, New York City experienced an unprecedented outbreak of tuberculosis. Inadequate healthcare services, an increase in social alienation of the poor, and the emergence of drug-resistant strains led city health officials to respond with draconian policies to ensure compliance, including the use of detention of non-infectious individuals--sometimes for up to two years--that violated individual civil liberties. The New York TB epidemic has since been controlled, but this public health triumph has come at great cost. This gripping narrative of medicine and morality raises ethical issues that are of increasing importance in the world of modern medicine. Richard J. Coker warns the international community against assuming a fortress mentality, advocating a more just balance between health, liberty, and the burdens society should be prepared to accept in the pursuit of both.
Deadly Outbreaks
CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS! "Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals."--Booklist This updated edition features a brand new section detailing important facts about the coronavirus and tips for keeping yourself and your family safe. Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes. Deadly Outbreaks recounts the scientific adventures of a special group of intrepid individuals who investigate these outbreaks around the world and figure out how to stop them. Part homicide detective, part physician, these medical investigators must view the problem from every angle, exhausting every possible source of contamination. Any data gathered in the field must be stripped of human sorrows and carefully analyzed into hard statistics. Author Alexandra Levitt, PhD, is an expert on emerging diseases and other public health threats. Here she shares insider accounts she's collected that go behind the alarming headlines we've seen in the media: mysterious food poisonings, unexplained deaths at a children's hospital, a strange neurologic disease afflicting slaughterhouse workers, flocks of birds dropping dead out of the sky, and drug-resistant malaria running rampant in a refugee camp. Meet the resourceful investigators--doctors, veterinarians, and research scientists--and discover the truth behind these cases and more.
Curbside Consultation in Oculoplastics
Curbside Consultation in Oculoplastics: 49 Clinical Questions, Second Edition contains new questions and brief, practical, evidence-based answers to the most frequently asked questions that are posed during a "curbside consultation" between surgical colleagues.
Ask a Nurse
Hands-on help from the experts on the front lines. Whether you call your doctor's office with a problem, make a visit, or are treated in a hospital, chances are a nurse will answer your questions, skillfully directing you to the care you need. That's because nurses provide more hands-on care than any other health care professional. "Ask a Nurse" draws on the collective expertise of more than 550 nursing schools and 100 practicing nurses nationwide to bring you treatment advice for a wide range of physical complaints, from acne to heartburn to wheezing. This exhaustive resource includes: -A comprehensive A-to-Z directory that answers questions about common ailments -Separate sections on health issues unique to men, women, and children -A complete guide to consumer rights Plus advice on choosing a reliable pharmacist, putting together a home medical kit, making a hospital stay more comfortable, and more! Every piece of advice was written by dedicated professionals who spend their days either caring for patients or training other nurses how to do so. They can tell you what works and what doesn't; when you need a doctor's care and what you can treat yourself. There is no better resource for practical health advice, so go ahead, ask a nurse!
The Great Cholesterol Myth + 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
Get proven, evidence-based strategies from the experts with The Great Cholesterol Myth Now Includes 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease.Heart disease is the #1 killer. However, traditional heart disease protocols--with their emphasis on lowering cholesterol--have it all wrong. Emerging science is showing that cholesterol levels are a poor predictor of heart disease and that standard prescriptions for lowering it, such as ineffective low-fat/high-carb diets and serious, side-effect-causing statin drugs, obscure the real causes of heart disease. Even doctors at leading institutions have been misled for years based on creative reporting of research results from pharmaceutical companies intent on supporting the $31-billion-a-year cholesterol-lowering drug industry.The Great Cholesterol Myth Now Includes 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease reveals the real culprits of heart disease, including: Inflammation, Fibrinogen, Triglycerides, Homocysteine, Belly fat, Triglyceride to HCL ratios, High glycemic levels, and offers 100 recipies that will help reduce the risk of heart disease.Bestselling health authors Jonny Bowden, Ph.D. and Stephen Sinatra, M.D. give readers a 4-part strategy based on the latest studies and clinical findings for effectively preventing, managing, and reversing heart disease, focusing on diet, exercise, supplements, and stress and anger management. Then enjoy delicious, heart-healthy meals from nutritionist Deirdre Rawlings, Ph.D., N.D.Get proven, evidence-based strategies from the experts with The Great Cholesterol Myth Now Includes 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease.MYTHS VS. FACTSMyth: High cholesterol is the cause of heart disease. Fact: Cholesterol is only a minor player in the cascade of inflammation which is a cause of heart disease.Myth: High cholesterol is a predictor of heart attack. Fact: There is no correlation between cholesterol and heart attack.Myth: Lowering cholesterol with statin drugs will prolong your life. Fact: There is no data to show that statins have a significant impact on longevity.Myth: Statin drugs are safe. Fact: Statin drugs can be extremely toxic including causing death.Myth: Statin drugs are useful in men, women and the elderly. Fact: Statin drugs do the best job in middle-aged men with coronary disease.Myth: Statin drugs are useful in middle-aged men with coronary artery disease because of its impact on cholesterol. Fact: Statin drugs reduce inflammation and improve blood viscosity (thinning blood). Statins are extremely helpful in men with low HDL and coronary artery disease.Myth: Saturated fat is dangerous. Fact: Saturated fats are not dangerous. The killer fats are the transfats from partially hydrogenated oils.Myth: The higher the cholesterol, the shorter the lifespan. Fact: Higher cholesterol protects you from gastrointestinal disease, pulmonary disease and hemorrhagic stroke.Myth: A high carbohydrate diet protects you from heart disease. Fact: Simple processed carbs and sugars predispose you to heart disease.Myth: Fat is bad for your health. Fact: Monounsaturated and saturated fats protect you from metabolic syndrome. Sugar is the foe in cardiovascular disease.Myth: There is good (HDL) cholesterol and bad (LDL) cholesterol. Fact: This is over-simplistic. You must fractionate LDL and HDL to assess the components.Myth: Cholesterol causes heart disease. Fact: Cholesterol is only a theory in heart disease and only the small component of LP(a) or "bb shot" LDL predisposes one to oxidation and inflammation.
The Acid Reflux Escape Plan
Break free from painful heartburn with The Acid Reflux Escape Plan, a practical 2-week meal plan that empowers you to control your symptoms with smart dietary choices. The most painless approach to adopting a GERD-friendly diet. It helps you cut out aggravating triggers without sacrificing flavor or taste. Unlike other acid reflux cookbooks, this book includes detailed food lists and easy-to-understand explanations that arm you against acid reflux attacks. Delicious recipes--100 low-acid, low-fat, low-irritant recipes that won't trigger or exacerbate symptoms.Step-by-step meal plan--Meal plans and shopping lists ease your transition to a GERD-friendly lifestyle.Personal trigger guide--this guide helps you customize your diet to your body's unique needs.With The Acid Reflux Escape Plan, you're on the road to better health and a happier, symptom-free lifestyle.
Not Tonight I Have a Headache
A major work in the ongoing science of headache treatment. "Not Tonight I Have a Headache" is the most comprehensive and exhaustive book to date integrating both Western and Eastern treatments of this widespread malady. Within you will find all categories of headache identified, with treatments that have helped people find comfort and relief from this devastating and life interrupting condition. So much productive time is lost every year due to headaches. The emotional and financial losses are huge. Reading "Not Tonight I Have a Headache" will get you on the road to recovery and help you reclaim the time lost to this epidemic. Both the conventional and natural approaches are fully discussed and explained in this manual for dealing with this pervasive problem. Imagine freedom from headaches! "Not Tonight I Have a Headache" can help make this a reality for you!
Survival Medicine
No one knows what the next disaster will be: earthquake, Coronavirus, flu epidemic, flood, terrorist attack. But everyone should know how to survive a medical emergency if a medical professional isn't available. From Dr. Joe Alton and Amy Alton ARNP comes an updated edition of their bestseller The Survival Medicine Handbook. This unique medical book is meant to enable the average person to handle injuries and illness in situations in which modern medical facilities and professionals aren't available due to a disaster. This book is written by America's top medical preparedness experts: Joe Alton, MD, and Amy Alton, ARNP. Their mission: to put a medically prepared person in every family for when medical help is not on the way. Using decades of medical experience, they address, in plain language, dozens of medical issues associated with surviving disasters and epidemics. The Altons also discuss the medical supplies needed to become a medical asset to your family and community as well as alternative and natural strategies for when pharmaceuticals aren't available. Topics include: Appendicitis and Conditions that Mimic ItUrinary Tract InfectionsMosquito-Borne IllnessesAllergic Reactions and AnaphylaxisHead InjuriesAnimal BitesSnake BitesHead injuriesKidney StonesDislocations and FracturesNosebleedsPain MedicationsNatural Pain ReliefAnd much much more!Most medical books will send you to the doctor or hospital when an emergency happens. The Altons assume that the worst might actually happen--that the average person could be left without medical help in a disaster. With their book, you can keep your family healthy in times of trouble.
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data With R
Focusing on modeling survival data, longitudinal data, and error using the R programming language, this book demonstrates the analysis of data at repeated time points as well as on the occurrence of a related event. Suitable for statisticians, epidemiologists, and medical researchers, it highlights software implementation of both flexible random effect joint models and an alternative transformation model. To enhance understanding, the book includes R programs for implementing the methods and offers examples using publically available data sets and simulated data.
Pain Is Really Strange
Answering questions such as 'how can I change my pain experience?', 'what is pain?', and 'how do nerves work?', this short research-based graphic book reveals just how strange pain is and explains how understanding it is often the key to relieving its effects. Studies show that understanding how pain is created and maintained by the nervous system can significantly lessen the pain you experience. The narrator in this original, gently humorous book explains pain in an easy-to-understand, engaging graphic format and reveals how to change the mind's habits to transform pain.
Multiple Sclerosis from Both Sides of the Desk
"Dr. Macaluso has written the Iliad and the Odyssey of multiple sclerosis while playing the part of Odysseus. Amazing!" Carlo Tornatore, MD, vice chairman, Department of Neurology Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC Vincent F. Macaluso was in medical school when he got the news: he had multiple sclerosis. He soon learned that almost a half million people in the United States have multiple sclerosis--and millions more worldwide. Many have obvious symptoms, such as trouble with walking, balance, and coordination, but the most insidious aspect of the disease is how it affects the mind. Macaluso shares insights from his vantage point as a doctor and an MS patient, helping his peers understand symptoms they may not grasp and offering wisdom for those who live with the disease. Learn how to - anticipate and overcome problems concentrating; - manage swirling emotions; - understand MS from a neurological standpoint; - preserve and continue to enjoy an active sex life; and - prevent the disease from ruining family life. Laced with humor and filled with diagrams and the author's own recollections about how he's kept MS from controlling his life, this account is essential reading for doctors, patients, and anyone who has an MSer in his or her life.
Multiple Sclerosis from Both Sides of the Desk
"Dr. Macaluso has written the Iliad and the Odyssey of multiple sclerosis while playing the part of Odysseus. Amazing!" Carlo Tornatore, MD, vice chairman, Department of Neurology Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC Vincent F. Macaluso was in medical school when he got the news: he had multiple sclerosis. He soon learned that almost a half million people in the United States have multiple sclerosis--and millions more worldwide. Many have obvious symptoms, such as trouble with walking, balance, and coordination, but the most insidious aspect of the disease is how it affects the mind. Macaluso shares insights from his vantage point as a doctor and an MS patient, helping his peers understand symptoms they may not grasp and offering wisdom for those who live with the disease. Learn how to - anticipate and overcome problems concentrating; - manage swirling emotions; - understand MS from a neurological standpoint; - preserve and continue to enjoy an active sex life; and - prevent the disease from ruining family life. Laced with humor and filled with diagrams and the author's own recollections about how he's kept MS from controlling his life, this account is essential reading for doctors, patients, and anyone who has an MSer in his or her life.
The Pain Antidote
Chronic pain is not a life sentence If you are one of the 100 million people who suffer from chronic pain, you may be feeling hopeless and helpless, relying on endless medications that don't work, feeling worse and worse. But there is hope -- and help. The innovative program at the acclaimed Las Vegas Recovery Center, at which Dr. Mel Pohl is Medical Director, has helped thousands of sufferers to reduce chronic pain without the use of painkillers. The Pain Antidote shares this program's concrete tools and strategies, offering: Cutting-edge research on how pain affects your brainHow your emotions affect your experience of pain A comprehensive program, including a four-week Jump Start plan Pain-reducing gentle exercises and health-supporting foods And much more.
Brain Maker
The bestselling author of Grain Brain uncovers the powerful role of gut bacteria in determining your brain's destiny. Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise-from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revolution is underway that can solve this problem: Astonishing new research is revealing that the health of your brain is, to an extraordinary degree, dictated by the state of your microbiome--the vast population of organisms that live in your body and outnumber your own cells ten to one. What's taking place in your intestines today is determining your risk for any number of brain-related conditions. In Brain Maker, Dr. Perlmutter explains the potent interplay between intestinal microbes and the brain, describing how the microbiome develops from birth and evolves based on lifestyle choices, how it can become "sick," and how nurturing gut health through a few easy strategies can alter your brain's destiny for the better. With simple dietary recommendations and a highly practical program of six steps to improving gut ecology, Brain Maker opens the door to unprecedented brain health potential.
Hashimoto's Cookbook and Action Plan
A cookbook and 28-day action plan for leading a Hashimoto's healthy lifestyle.Despite the fact that Hashimoto's is the most common thyroid disease in the United States affecting nearly 14 million Americans, there are few references for reducing symptoms with dietary changes. No one understands this better than Karen Frazier, who has been living with Hashimoto's for more than 20 years, and knows firsthand how hard it is to give up gluten, corn, soy, and dairy-inflammatory foods. Laying out a month-long action plan with over 125 recipes to help you start and stick to a Hashimoto's approved diet, this cookbook is your go-to guide to living a Hashimoto's friendly life.In this Hashimoto's cookbook and action plan, you will find: A Month-Long Hashimoto's Action Plan for eliminating problem foods, broken down into a 3-day cleanse and a 3-week meal planOver 125 Recipes serving Hashimoto's friendly meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and snacksHelpful Aids helping your transition to a Hashimoto's lifestyle with symptom trackers and shopping listsAn Essential Introduction covering need-to-know information about Hashimoto'sRecipes include: Banana Muffins, Asian Meatball Soup, Stuffed Zucchini, Ginger Salmon with Sweet Potato Mash, Mustard and Herb Leg of Lamb, Vanilla-Chamomile Poached Plums, and much more!Take action with this 28-day plan and feel for yourself the benefits of a thyroid-friendly diet.
Macular Degeneration
In this newly revised and updated second edition patients and their loved ones can turn to one easy-to-understand and authoritative source for up-to-date information about macular degeneration. A wealth of insights into what the disease is and the array of contemporary treatment options.
The Wills Eye Strabismus Surgery Handbook
Although residents and pediatric ophthalmology fellows examine patients in the clinic, they may not be involved in surgery on the same patients and even less often get to follow the progress of these patients postoperatively.
