Bikini Bootcamp or Chill

Bikini Bootcamp: Two Weeks to Your Ultimate Beach Body

Author: Melissa Perlman

Get in shape for beach season! This super-slimming, body-sculpting makeover takes off ten pounds and gets you bikini-ready—in just two weeks.

Bikini Boot Camp creators Melissa Perlman and Erica Gragg know that the secret to losing weight and getting fit is not another diet or endless hours at the gym. Instead, it’s a highly targeted exercise plan combined with healthy, delicious, all-natural foods that jump-start your metabolism and melt away the pounds. At the elite Amansala Eco-Chic Resort and Spa in Mexico, their Bikini Boot Camp program has become the destination of choice for celebrities and women everywhere who want to change their bodies and their lives. Now, this book gives you everything you need to recreate the Bikini Boot Camp experience at home—from the signature workouts to the low-cal, Latin-flavored dishes—and achieve the same incredible results.

Capturing the spirit of the spa and Mexico’s sunny shores, each day of Bikini Boot Camp provides you with:

A total-body workout that combines walking, circuit training, core strengthening, and yoga to target trouble spots and sculpt you head to toe
Energy-enhancing meal plans with slimming, easy-to-follow recipes—a mouthwatering mix of Mexican, Yucatán, and Asian cuisines—straight out of Amansala’s kitchen and available here for the first time
Mindfulness exercises to relax and restore you, and to help you stay focused on your fitness goals
Do-it-yourself spa treats, from easy facials to herbal baths With more than 75 mix-and-match recipes, and a lifestyle plan to keep you going after the firsttwo weeks are up, Bikini Boot Camp is the fastest way to whip your body into shape—and have fun doing it! So don’t panic now that summer is here. No matter how long you’ve been putting it off, this book gives you everything you need to achieve a bikini body all year round.

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Chill: Stress-Reducing Techniques for a More Balanced, Peaceful You

Author: Deborah Reber

Your day starts at 6am and ends at midnight--if you're lucky.
You keep up with all two hundred of your friends on Facebook.
You practically invented the word "multitasking."
Sound familiar?  You're not alone.  You are part of the most overscheduled, overprogrammed, and overwhelmed generation on the planet.  And CHILL can help you manage it all!  It's just a matter of having the right frame of mind.  So relax, take a deep breath...and chill.

KLIATT

This book takes teenagers through a plan, a good simple system to reduce stress and to basically chill, hence the title. My copy looks quite colorful since I tabbed all the pages I wanted to use with my teenage reading group, and there are just so many good ideas. There are techniques, anecdotes and the beloved quizzes to help readers manage their days. Every problem is taken seriously, and the author gives realistic, simple management tools for teenagers. There is a great section on seeing the entire picture and putting the stress levels into perspective. Chill ends with pertinent information on exercising and nutrition. Everyone will enjoy taking the quizzes and reducing their blood pressure levels. Reviewer: Sherri Forgash Ginsberg

School Library Journal

Gr 8 Up- This book has just the right combination of smart wit, know-it-all bravado, and advice from a pseudo big sister. The pages speed by, moving from topic to topic: time management, support systems, self-help therapy, exercise, nutrition, and more. Advice is free-flowing, complete with examples, exercises, and quizzes on such topics as which workout style fits your personality. While Reber does not dwell on some of the more serious issues her audience faces, she does mention anorexia, cutting, and serious depression, advising readers to seek professional help. Although much of this information can be found in a number of other sources, the presentation is appropriate and friendly. The text is broken up with simple line drawings, almost exclusively of white girls. Nevertheless, this helpful resource will appeal to a wide variety of young women.-Wendy Smith-D'Arezzo, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

Table of Contents:

Introduction     1
What Is Stress?     6
Time-out: Stress Through the Years     12
What's Eating You?     13
Taking Action
Time Management     28
Time-out: College Admissions Survival Guide     45
Organization     50
Speaking Up and Saying No     67
Time-out: Gotta Work? Finding Balance When You Have a Job     82
Looking Out
Creating a Support System     86
Time-out: The Friendship Survival Guide     101
Getting Perspective     107
Time-out: More Than Stress? When It's Time to Get Professional Help     121
Looking In
DIY Therapy     126
Journaling     141
Time-out: Five-Minute Stress Busters     151
Zoning Out and Tuning In     152
Time-out: Going Zen     165
Getting Physical
Exercise     170
Nutrition     184
Epilogue     196

First Year IBS or Overcoming Addiction

First Year--IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome): An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

Author: Heather Van Vorous

Like the other titles in the "First Year" series, The First Year—IBS offers two distinct advantages. First, it is written by a patient-expert, Heather Van Vorous, who has managed her IBS for more than fifteen years and knows firsthand what's required to manage her condition. Second, it guides readers through their first seven days following diagnosis, then the next three weeks of the first month, and finally the next eleven months of their first year, offering answers and advice to guide those with IBS into their new lifestyle. Starting with the day of diagnosis, Van Vorous provides detailed information about trigger foods, safe foods, soluble versus insoluble fiber, tips for eating and cooking, traveling, eating out, exercise, and much more. The First Year—IBS will inspire and educate those with IBS as no other guide does.

Publishers Weekly

Statistics show that Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the second leading cause of worker absenteeism in the U.S., according to Van Vorous (Eating for IBS), who has lived with the condition since she was nine, but because her severe abdominal pain was dismissed by her pediatrician, was not diagnosed until seven years later. And although IBS studies are currently underway, sufferers in the past found themselves either ignored or stigmatized. Because she had to work out her own strategy for dealing with IBS, Van Vorous is a "patient-expert" in other words, she's well qualified to write this informative and reassuring guide. She advises those suffering from IBS symptoms abdominal pain, constipation or diarrhea, for example to first obtain an accurate diagnosis. Once other illnesses are ruled out and the syndrome has been properly diagnosed, a patient with IBS can lead a normal life by maintaining proper eating habits, learning to manage stress, using prescription medication and dietary supplements when necessary, and even utilizing alternative therapies such as acupuncture. Van Vorous draws on medical research, her own experience with IBS, and other patient anecdotes to support her suggestions. Accessible and clearly written, with recipes for colon-kind foods and advice for parents who have children with IBS, this is an excellent resource for people learning how to live with the syndrome. (Jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

The second installment of the publisher's new "The First Year" series, this text on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) walks the reader through the first year of diagnosis. As with the authors of other titles in the series, Van Vorous is a "patient-expert"; she is also the author of Eating for IBS and founder of eatingforibs.com. In a conversational style, she explains how to manage symptoms by breaking the year into manageable steps. She includes diet guidelines that feature some appetizing recipes and suggestions for eating out. She also discusses relaxation techniques and some alternative therapies. Personal stories from other IBS sufferers are sprinkled throughout, as are tips for children with IBS. An especially useful chart on medications is also provided. This book differs from William Salt's Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the Mind-Body Brain-Gut Connection (LJ 10/15/97) and other guides to IBS by prescribing a first-year-only timetable of steps, focused mainly on diet. Salt's book focuses more on lifestyle and stress management issues. Recommended for any health collection. KellyJo Houtz Griffin, Eatonville, WA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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Overcoming Addiction: The Spiritual Solution

Author: Deepak Chopra

Praise for Deepak Chopra, M.D.:

"A new medicine is in the making, one in which mind, consciousness, meaning, and intelligence play key roles. One of the architects of the new medicine is Dr. Chopra, a credentialed, respected physician who has 'paid his dues' as a modern doctor."
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words

"Deepak Chopra is being hailed as a modern-day Hippocrates for his novel approach of combining ancient healing traditions with modern research."
Irv Kupcinet, Chicago Sun-Times

"We can't help wishing he lived close enough to make house calls."
Judith Hooper, New York Times Book Review

"Dr. Chopra's writing has great beauty, great power, great delight, and much common sense"
Courtney Johnson, author of Henry James and the Evolution of Consciousness

"Dr. Chopra presents us with information that can help us live long, healthy lives."
Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

Table of Contents:

1	The Misguided Seeker	3
2	Nurturing the Spirit	7
3	Action, Memory, Desire	12
4	Discovering Your Mind Body Type	22
5	Alcohol Addiction	39
6	Addiction to Illegal Drugs	58
7	Tobacco Addiction	72
8	Food Addiction	82
9	Other Sources of Addiction	94
10	Meditation	107
11	Exercise	112
12	Vata-Balancing Diet	120
13	Joy - The Real Answer	122
	Bibliography	129
	Sources	131
	Index	133

ABC of Mens Fashion or The Panic Free Pregnancy

ABC of Men's Fashion

Author: Hardy Amies

"A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them."

For all men—and indeed all women who are interested in men's clothes—here is an alphabetical guide to men's fashion written with wit and expert knowledge. From the etiquette of dressing for all occasions to the meaning of technical terms, Hardy Amies's skillful eye guides you safely through style decisions on everything from blazers and brogues to skiing and sandals. No man can afford to be without this classic style bible.

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Victoria and Albert Museum, London, September 22, 2007-January 6, 2008

"There's no such thing as a designer of menswear-—it's only history. The suit around the world is based on the english suit, which began in about 1670.

Any man, whether he's american, japanese, french or whatever, who wants to be seriously well dressed, looks to the englishman's suit for how to achieve it."—from abc of men's fashion

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The Panic-Free Pregnancy

Author: Michael S Broder

While most pregnancy books only address the stages of the baby's development, The Panic-Free Pregnancy comprehensively covers the lifestyle issues and questions that confront every mom-to-be. Dr. Broder separates fact from fiction, media hype from old wives tales, and drawing on the latest scientific research offers an accessible, comprehensive reference book that answers questions about...

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Exercise
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Flying
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Prescription and over-the-counter medications
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Sex
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Cosmetics
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Alcohol
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Herbal remedies
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Organized in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, this book will help women have the safest, healthiest, most anxiety-free pregnancy possible.

Evidence of Harm or The Second Brain

Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy

Author: David Kirby

In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained a little-known preservative called thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury.

Evidence of Harm explores the heated controversy over what many parents, physicians, public officials, and educators have called an "epidemic" of afflicted children. Following several families, David Kirby traces their struggle to understand how and why their once-healthy kids rapidly descended into silence or disturbed behavior, often accompanied by severe physical illness. Alarmed by the levels of mercury in the vaccine schedule, these families sought answers from their doctors, from science, from pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines, and finally from the Center for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration-to no avail. But as they dug deeper, the families also found powerful allies in Congress and in the small community of physicians and researchers who believe that the rise of autism and other disorders is linked to toxic levels of mercury that accumulate in the systems of some children.

An important and troubling book, Evidence of Harm reveals both the public and unsung obstacles faced by desperate families who have been opposed by the combined power of the federal government, health agencies, and pharmaceutical giants. From closed meetings of the FDA, CDC, and drug companies, to themysterious rider inserted into the 2002 Homeland Security Bill that would bar thimerosal litigation, to open hearings held by Congress, this book shows a medical establishment determined to deny "evidence of harm" that might be connected with thimerosal and mercury in vaccines. In the end, as research is beginning to demonstrate, the questions raised by these families have significant implications for all children, and for those entrusted to oversee our national health.

Kirkus Reviews

A sympathetic account of parents battling the government the and pharmaceutical industry because they're convinced a form of mercury used in vaccines is the principal cause of their children's autism. Kirby, a science contributor to the New York Times, acknowledges that while there is no proof that mercury in vaccines causes autism, neither is there any proof of its safety. Parents of children, mostly boys, who developed autism after being inoculated with vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal have been gathering data that they believe demonstrates a link between the increase in thimerosal-containing vaccination and the increase in U.S. rates of autism-from 1 in 5,000 in the 1980s to 1 in 166 today. One side calls this an epidemic; the other claims it's the result of better diagnosis and reporting. Kirby creates warm portraits of parents trying desperately to find treatments for their damaged children while, at the same time, carrying on a war with both big government and big business. With a wealth of detail, he shows the activists waging battle on four fronts: in the scientific literature and at science meetings, in the courts, in Congress and with powerful government health agencies-the Centers of Disease Control and the FDA. Although he presents evidence for both sides, the parents, who willingly talked to him, appear in a more favorable light than the bureaucrats, who did not grant him interviews. Kirby points out that while the government agencies and the drug companies reject the activists' theory that mercury causes autism, its use in pediatric vaccines, except flu shots, is rapidly being phased out in the United States. Further, he notes that an unfortunateresult of this affair is the refusal of some parents to allow their children to receive any vaccinations against serious diseases. With knocks to bureaucrats and kudos to parents, Kirby does a good job of explaining the scientific issues in an unresolved controversy.

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The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine

Author: Michael D Gershon

Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains -- the one in our head and the one in our bowel -- must cooperate. If they do not, then there is chaos in the gut and misery in the head -- everything from "butterflies" to cramps, from diarrhea to constipation. Dr. Gershon's work has led to radical new understandings about a wide range of gastrointestinal problems including gastroenteritis, nervous stomach, and irritable bowel syndrome. The Second Brain represents a quantum leap in medical knowledge and is already benefiting patients whose symptoms were previously dismissed as neurotic or "it's all in your head."

New York Times Book Review

Persuasive, impassioned... hopeful news [for those] suffering from functional bowel disease.

Kirkus Reviews

The nature of a so-called second brain in the gut is revealed in exquisite detail by a neurogastroenterologist who has spent some 30 years researching the subject. Gershon, professor of anatomy and cell biology at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, is enthralled by the sophistication of the enteric nervous system. He calls this system, which operates the bowel, a second brain, pointing out that it contains all the classes of neurotransmitters found in the brain. For nonbiologists entering his world, a whole new vocabulary with terms like neural crest, 5-HT1P receptor, and functional ligand must be acquired. While the terminology can be daunting and the exhaustive details sometimes overwhelming, Gershon has wisely included lots of clear line drawings to help the novice understand the nervous system and the complexities of the digestive system that it runs. Happily, he also tells his story in human terms, paying homage to those whose discoveries enabled his own, good-humoredly sharing the exhilaration of jousting with colleagues over his theories, and generously describing the skills and inventiveness of researchers in his own laboratory and those of other neurobiologists. As this research sheds light on how the "brain in the belly" controls the behavior of the bowel, progress can be expected in the prevention, treatment, and control of gastrointestinal disease. When patients present with gastrointestinal problems for which doctors can find no specific cause, too often they are dismissed as neurotic complainers. That answers may be found in the enteric nervous system offers new hope for the 20 percent of Americans diagnosed with functional bowel disorders. An authoritativework that makes abundantly clear the value of basic research; unfortunately, it's encumbered with an intimidating amount of technical detail that may discourage interested readers.

What People Are Saying

Raj K. Goyal
Michael Gershon has been a lifetime student of the enteric nervous system and the role of serotonin as one of its many neurotransmitters. This book, The Second Brain, displays his outstanding ability as a teacher and storyteller. It beautifully, simply and accurately summarizes many difficult scientific concepts about the enteric nervous system in a manner that is so lively and engaging that you won't want to put it down. This book can be enjoyed on many levels -- it is a must read for anyone interested in the workings of the autonomic nervous system, and also a fascinating read for those interested in the gut or even general biology.

Ronald A. Ruden
Dr. Gershon spills his guts in an entertaining and highly informative book about how smart our gastrointestinal tract is. He writes with a fatherly love about his research and that of his colleagues, and engages our sense of wonder about something we almost never think about. Great any room reading!

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Preface	xi
Part I	The Early Breakthroughs	1
Chapter 1	The Discovery of the Second Brain	2
Chapter 2	The Autonomic Nervous System and the Story of Chemical Neurotransmission	8
Chapter 3	The Turning Point	37
Chapter 4	The Workshop	57
Part II	The Travelogue	81
Chapter 5	Beyond the Teeth: The Domain Stalked by Heartburn and Ulcer	82
Chapter 6	Onward and Downward	113
Chapter 7	"It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over"	145
Chapter 8	A Bad Bowel	176
Part III	The Origin of the Second Brain and Its Disorders	189
Chapter 9	The Enteric Nervous System Now	190
Chapter 10	Immigrants and the Lower East Colon	236
Chapter 11	Location, Location, Location	275
Chapter 12	The State of the Bowel	306
	Endnote: Animals in Biomedical Research	312

Pain Free at Your PC or The Ultimate Omega 3 Diet

Pain Free at Your PC

Author: Pete Egoscu

Using a computer doesn't have to hurt.

• Prevent or reverse repetitive stress injuries
  
• Cure carpal tunnel syndrome
  
• End chronic wrist, shoulder, and neck pain
  
• Ease eyestrain
  
• Avoid surgery, drugs, and wrist braces
  

Using a computer should challenge your mind, not your body.

As computers become a larger part of our daily lives both at work and at home, complaints of painful wrists, sore shoulders, stiff necks, and blurry vision associated with computer use continue to soar.

But the good news is that this chronic pain can easily be prevented or cured without surgery or drugs—or expensive "ergonomic" equipment. There's no need to move your monitor, wear wrist braces, or sit in a specially designed chair.

Instead, Pete Egoscue, using the techniques and principles developed at his renowned clinic, shows you how to keep pointing and clicking for hours—pain free.

You'll learn how to:

• Avoid or treat common but debilitating repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome
  
• Recognize and remedy problems in posture and movement before they cause pain
  
• Do easy-to-perform exercises at your desk to eliminate chronic hand, wrist, shoulder, back, and neck pain
  
• Quickly and easily correct damaging patterns of motion
  
• And much more
  

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Based on a very sound understanding of human physiology...Shows how we can break the circuit of pain and naturally heal one of the most significant disabilities of our times.

Library Journal

The author of Pain Free returns to address the subject of pain caused by computer work. His philosophy is that carpal tunnel surgery, ergonomic chairs, and pain-killing medicines are poor choices for the treatment of this pain and that only the realignment of the body and correction of muscle weakness can fix computer-related stiff necks, headaches, and carpal tunnel syndrome. In plans for low, moderate, and heavy users of computers, Egoscue offers well-illustrated stretches and strengthening exercises. Though it is difficult to believe that all ergonomic devices are bad and that surgery is never necessary, some library patrons may be clamoring for alternative approaches to overuse injury. Otherwise, try more mainstream sources like Sandra Peddie's The Repetitive Strain Injury Sourcebook (LJ 12/97) or Deborah Quilter's The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book (LJ 2/1/98), which were both written with the assistance of an M.D. This book is recommended only for public libraries where demand warrants.--Elizabeth A. Williams, Houston Acad. of Medicine-Texas Medical Ctr. Lib. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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The Ultimate Omega-3 Diet: Maximize the Power of Omega-3s to Supercharge Your Health, Battle Inflammation, and Keep Your Mind Sharp

Author: Evelyn Tribol

Learn to boost the health benefits you get from miraculous omega-3 fats

Omega-3 supplements can help you prevent cancer, reduce depression, stave off memory loss, and improve over-allhealth. But did you know that the benefits are limitedor blocked in the body if the supplements are taken without the proper diet? To gain full advantage of these miraculous "good fats," you need to eat the right foods and strike the proper balance with the less healthyomega-6 fats.

In The Ultimate Omega-3 Diet, bestselling authorand nutritionist Evelyn Tribole offers simple, step-by-step strategies to lower the ratio of omega-6s toomega-3s and achieve a diet that works for--not against--your body. She also includes complete menu plans, real-life eating scenarios, and recipes for more than 40 mouthwatering dishes.

Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., is an award-winning registereddietician with a nutrition counselingpractice. The author of six booksthat have together sold more than amillion copies, she is currently thenutritionist for lifetimetv.com andappears frequently on nationaltelevision. She was the nationalspokeswoman for the AmericanDietetic Association for six years.

American Medical Association Concise Medical Encyclopedia or More Proficient Motorcycling

American Medical Association Concise Medical Encyclopedia

Author: American Medical Association

From the Most Trusted Name in Medicine: The American Medical Association

·The only new major medical encyclopedia of the century, completely written by the American Medical Association, America's top medical authority.
·Organized in easy-to-use A-Z format, it covers thousands of medical terms from the common cold to the Lyme Disease. Hundreds of different surgical procedures and tests are explained, as well as the benefits and potential side effects of drugs and treatments.
·Also includes timely information on issues such as bioterrorism, genetic research, robotic surgery, brain imaging, and bionic people.
·Includes cutting-edge topics in alternative medicine, nutrition, mental health, and cosmetic surgery.
·Written and reviewed by top medical doctors and specialists, the Complete Medical Encyclopedia sets a new standard for consumer medical reference.
·Medical editors for this AMA-authored book were Jerrold B. Leikin, MD, and Martin S. Lipsky, MD, both on the faculty of Northwestern University medical school.

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More Proficient Motorcycling: Mastering the Ride

Author: David L Hough

Following in the tracks of Proficient Motorcycling's tremendous success, comes More Proficient Motorcycling. Offering new situations, entertaining anecdotes, practical instruction, and fresh photographs and diagrams, More Proficient Motorcycling teaches you how to keep yourself-and your bike-safe from hidden risks and potentially harmful situations. Author David Hough helps you negotiate the road better than you ever have before by covering a wider variety of motorcycling topics, from fine tuning your skills to traveling tactics to safe motorcycle maintenance. He also details ways to control your machine as well as emphasizes how mental preparation can help you control the situation around you.

Without taking the pleasure and freedom out of biking, David's experience, talent, dedication, and plain talk make this one of the most accessible and practical guides available. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned campaigner, reading this book will kick-start your quest of mastering the ride.

The 12 Second Sequence or The Wisdom Paradox

The 12 Second Sequence: Shrink Your Waist in 2 Weeks!

Author: Jorge Cruis

The 12-Second Sequence™ is fitness superstar Jorge Cruise’s newest revolutionary method of resistance training that burns fat, shrinks your waistline, and gets you into the best shape of your life—and all it takes is two twenty-minute workouts each week. Based on the latest groundbreaking research in exercise physiology, the 12-Second Sequence™ proves that the key to success is not in exercising more, but in exercising smarter.

By following Jorge’s plan, you’ll train your body to burn hundreds of calories on its own every week—all the time, even when you are not working out. Body fat melts away, lean muscle develops, and you’ll look and feel better than you ever thought possible.
Why you need The 12-Second Sequence™:

• You’ll follow a simple eight-week plan that reconfigures your body to burn 20 percent more calories—every day

• You’ll learn how to eat to accelerate results

• You’ll minimize your efforts and maximize your benefits

• You’ll be inspired by the success stories of other 12-Second stars

• You’ll target belly fat (the worst kind!), so you’ll start looking great almost immediately

• You’ll find a special bonus workout routine: the no-gym, no-fuss, do-it-anywhere way to keep on track wherever your busy schedule takes you

You can do this. Say good-bye to wasting time in the gym doing endless repetitions or spending hours on the treadmill. If you’ve got a few minutes to spare each week, you’ve got what it takes to start feeling healthier and strongerwhile looking absolutely amazing—for life. Get started today!

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The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older

Author: Elkhonon Goldberg

"Impressive. . . Wide-ranging. . . . The Wisdom Paradox makes a compelling case forthe possibility of maintaining a sharp mind far into old age."
—KENNETH SILBER, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND

The Wisdom Paradox explores the aging of the mind from a unique, positive perspective. In an era of increasing fears about mental deterioration, world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg provides startling new evidence that though the brain diminishes in some tasks as it ages, it gains in many ways. Most notably, it increases in what he terms "wisdom": the ability to draw upon knowledge and experience gained over a lifetime to make quick and effective decisions. Goldberg delves into the machinery of the mind, separating memory into two distinct types: singular (knowledge of a particular incident or fact) and generic (recognition of broader patterns). As the brain ages, the ability to use singular memory declines, but generic memory is unaffected—and its importance grows. As an individual accumulates generic memory, the brain can increasingly rely upon these stored patterns to solve problems effortlessly and instantaneously. Goldberg investigates the neurobiology of wisdom, and draws on historical examples of artists and leaders whose greatest achievements were realized late in life.

Praise for The Wisdom Paradox:
"Good news: Our brains can and do improve with age. The evidence Goldberg presents is thorough and indisputable . . . Informative and entertaining."
—Diane Stressing, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"[A] graceful exposition of the latest findings in developmental neuropsychology, brain mapping, and computational neuroscience. . . Goldberg overturns stale assumptions about the different functions of the two sides of the brain and about the roles of the frontal lobes. . . It is still cheering, in an era that worships youth, to be reminded that age can bring its own intellectual gifts."
—Emma Crichton-Miller, The Telegraph (London)

"The Wisdom Paradox is unusually easy and enjoyable to read for a book loaded with information and ideas about the brain. . . [Goldberg] is a gifted explicator and a talented writer."
—Cerebrum

Author Biograpy:
ELKHONON GOLDBERG, Ph.D., is a clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine. His time is divided between private practice in neuropsychology, teaching, and research in cognitive neuroscience.

Suzanne Somers Fast Easy or The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder SourceBook

Suzanne Somers' Fast & Easy: Lose Weight the Somersize Way with Quick, Delicious Meals for the Entire Family!

Author: Suzanne Somers

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The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder SourceBook

Author: Glenn R Schiraldi

For the millions who suffer from the effects of a traumatic experience, this book offers help and hope and provides the diverse elements needed for lasting recovery. Trauma can take many forms, from the most disturbing of circumstances such as witnessing a murder or violent crime to the subtle trauma of living with the effects of abuse or alcoholism. Deep emotional wounds often seem like they will never heal, but Schiraldi has helped and witnessed survivors recover, grow, and find happiness.

By helping people recognize the coping mechanisms and by dealing directly with the effects of a traumatic experience, there is a great reason for hope. The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook is a guide for both survivors and their loved ones, helping them to see that on the other side of their pain is recovery and growth.

• Explains the psychic defenses that can go into effect to protect a victim from further emotional harm
• Provides information on triggers and the debilitating effects of post-traumatic stress disorder
• Addresses how the healing process can begin and how fear diminishes through a variety of medic and nonmedicinal treatment methods

Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D., has served on the stress management faculty at the U.S. Pentagon and the University of Maryland, where he received the Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Health and Human Performance. He is the author of various articles and books on human mental and physical health, including Conquer Anxiety, Worry and Nervous Fatigue: A Guide to Greater Peace; Hope and Help for Depression: A Practical Guide; Facts to Relax By: A Guide to Relaxation and StressReduction; and Building Self-Esteem: A 125-Day Program. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and holds graduate degrees in Health Education from Brigham Young University and the University of Maryland.

The Twelve Steps and Dual Disorders or Grub

The Twelve Steps and Dual Disorders: A Framework of Recovery for Those of Us with Addiction and an Emotional or Psychiatric Illness

Author: Tim Hamilton

With compassion and encouragement, this book helps us to begin and strengthen our recovery from our addictions and emotional or psychiatric illnesses. A gentle, spiritual and supportive approach to bolster our recovery, The Twelve Steps and Dual Disorders provides an adaptation and discussion of each of the Twelve Steps of Dual Recovery Anonymous.

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Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen

Author: Anna Lapp

A savvy and practical guide to organic eating for urban dwellers.

In the past few years, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of hippie food co-ops and into three-quarters of conventional grocery stores. Concurrent with this growth has been increased consumer awareness of the social and health-related issues around organic eating, independent farming, and food production.

Combining a straight-to-the-point exposй about organic foods (organic doesn't mean fresh, natural, or independently produced) and the how-to's of creating an affordable, easy-touse organic kitchen, Grub brings organics home to urban dwellers. It gives the reader compelling arguments for buying organic food, revealing the pesticide industry's influence on government regulation and the extent of its pollution in our waterways and bodies.

With an inviting recipe section, Grub also offers the millions of people who buy organics fresh ideas and easy ways to cook with them. Grub's recipes, twenty-four meals oriented around the seasons, appeal to eighteen-to forty-year-olds who are looking for fun and simple meals. In addition, the book features resource lists (including music playlists to cook by), unusual and illuminating graphics, and every variety of do-it yourself tip sheets, charts, and checklists.

Publishers Weekly

This smart, engaging work deftly blends polemic, lifestyle guidance and cooking expertise. The daughter of writer Francis Moore Lapp (Diet for a Small Planet) and medical ethicist Marc Lapp , coauthor Lapp wears her pedigree well, arguing passionately and articulately for the organic lifestyle (Terry is a chef and food justice activist). Early chapters explore how the advent of commercial agriculture and mass-manufactured food has led American eaters down a path to obesity and disease while undermining the local economies of farming communities and, in many cases, encouraging the exploitation of both labor and natural resources. The answer: to adopt a "grub" lifestyle that is both healthy and ethical. The "Seven Steps to a Grub Kitchen" chapter suggests readers commit more time to cooking and eating, and use local resources like co-ops and farmers markets, while describing how to best prep a kitchen with tools and pantry supplies. The recipes portion offers seasonal, international, health-conscious menus aimed at young, hip readers, with themes like "Afrodiasporic Cookout" (Grilled Corn and Heirloom Tomato Salad, Shrimp and Veggie Kabobs, Fresh Green Beans, Good Grilled Okra, Ginger Beer) and "Straight-Edge Punk Brunch Buffet (DIY)" (Spicy Tempeh Sausage Patties, French Toast with Blueberry Coulis). (Apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Bobbi Brown Beauty or High Blood Pressure Solution

Bobbi Brown Beauty

Author: Bobbi Brown

Celebrated makeup artist and the Today show beauty editor Bobbie Brown share the secretes that have made her one of the most sought-after names in makeup today. In this straightforward, refreshingly honest guide to makeup, no one "perfect" beauty standard is promoted; Bobbie knows that every woman has her own look, and her mission is to help readers maximize their individual potential.

Learn the essential techniques necessary for any woman who wants to look and feel her best--day or night.

• Learning to appreciate your own beauty

• How to do makeup fast

• How to handle bad beauty days

• How to get out of a makeup rut

• How to make lipstick last

• How to wear foundation correctly

With Bobbie Brown Beauty, women will quickly learn what makes their face unique and how to play up their particular strengths. Never before has a beauty book tackled the pressing concerns of a woman's everyday beauty routine--what every woman, fromm fifteen to seventy-five, really wants to know.

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High Blood Pressure Solution: A Scientifically Proven Program for Preventing Strokes and Heart Disease

Author: Richard D Moor

HEALTH

The High Blood Pressure Solution presents a natural approach to controlling hypertension and dispels many of the myths surrounding the treatment of this silent killer. In clear, simple language, backed by sound scientific research, Dr. Moore explains how:

• Hypertension is completely preventable without reliance on synthetic drugs
• Artificially lowering blood pressure to “normal” levels with drugs fails to prevent many strokes and heart attacks
• The vast majority of strokes could be eliminated by balancing dietary potassium and sodium
• Based on the principles in this book, the entire country of Finland has reduced strokes and heart attacks 60% nationwide

Dr. Moore’s approach is simple: by maintaining the proper ratio of potassium to sodium in the diet, blood pressure can be regulated at the cellular level, preventing the development of hypertension and the high incidence of strokes and heart attacks associated with it. Dr. Moore updates this edition of The High Blood Pressure Solution with a new preface reporting on the latest scientific research in support of his program. The most striking results come from Finland, where table salt has been replaced nationwide with a commercial sodium/potassium/magnesium mixture. Between 1972 and 1992, Finland saw a 60 percent decline nationwide in deaths attributed to strokes and heart attacks.

Dr. Moore makes it clear that high blood pressure is only one symptom of an entire systemic imbalance. He outlines a safe, effective program that focuses on nutrition, weight loss, and exercise to bring the entire body chemistry intobalance. He also includes a chapter on working with your physician to ensure that reduction of any hypertension drugs you might be taking can be effected safely.

RICHARD MOORE holds an M.D. from the Indiana University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Purdue University. He has been a professor of biophysics at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and a visiting professor at the University of Vermont’s medical school. He has been active in the field of biomedical research for over thirty years.

Richard Moore holds an M.D. from the Indiana University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Purdue University. He has been a professor of biophysics at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and a visiting professor at the University of Vermont’s medical school. He has been active in the field of biomedical research for over thirty years.

Larry Dossey

This is the finest blend of science and healing I've seen in a very long time. . . . this is the medicine of the future!

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
	How to Use This Book	ix
	Preface to the Second Edition	xi
	Introduction: Why Haven't You Heard of These Developments?	1
Part 1	The Problem	15
Chapter 1	What Is High Blood Pressure?	19
Chapter 2	Drugs--The Usual Treatment	25
Part 2	The Answer: Moving From the Myth of Control to a Balance with Nature	43
Chapter 3	Hypertension: Much More than Just High Blood Pressure!	49
Chapter 4	The Action at the Cell Membrane	56
Chapter 5	High Blood Pressure Is Not Inevitable: Cultural Evidence	88
Chapter 6	Working with the Wisdom of the Body: An Adequate K Factor Lowers Blood Pressure and Prolongs Life	100
Chapter 7	Hypertension: A Variation of Syndrome X	119
Chapter 8	Other Factors that Influence Blood Pressure	127
Part 3	The Program	141
Chapter 9	Step One: See Your Doctor	147
Chapter 10	Step Two: Eat Right	153
Chapter 11	Step Three: Exercise	184
Chapter 12	Step Four: Help Your Body Find Its Proper Weight	210
Part 4	The Workbook	225
Chapter 13	The Workbook	226
Part 5	Additional Considerations	249
Chapter 14	Why the Emphasis on Drugs?	250
Chapter 15	Additional Evidence: Low Dietary K Factor--A Main Cause of Primary Hypertension	260
Part 6	Salt, Blood Pressure Regulation, and Drug Action	277
Chapter 16	How Important Is Salt?	278
Chapter 17	How the Kidneys, Hormones, and Nervous System Work Together to Control Blood Pressure	283
Chapter 18	Antihypertensive Drugs	299
Part 7	For the Physician	311
Chapter 19	Information for the Physician	312
	References	331
	Index	367
	Web site	386

A New IBS Solution or Mariel Hemingways Healthy Living from the Inside Out

A New IBS Solution: Bacteria-the Missing Link in Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Author: Mark Pimentel

A New IBS Solution offers a revolutionary look at the way Irritable Bowel Syndrome is currently being treated.

Today, over 60 million people of all ages across the country are suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome(IBS), which is characterized by abdominal pain, bloating, and altered bowel habits. But because patients may find it difficult to discuss their bowel problems with their physicians, they often suffer in silence or even worse, "learn to live it".

According to Dr. Mark Pimentel, Director of the Gastrointestinal Motility Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the majority of IBS cases can be treated successfully. Dr. Pimentel believes that the "missing link" or root cause of most IBS symptoms can be attributed to an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine. A New IBS Solution takes you through the historical evolution of conventional medicine's view on IBS in a way that can be easily understood. In addition, Dr. Pimentel presents a simple treatment protocol that will not only help you resolve your IBS symptoms, but will also prevent their recurrence.

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Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out: Every Woman's Guide to Real Beauty, Renewed Energy, and a Radiant Life

Author: Mariel Hemingway

Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out is an accessible, down-to-earth guide that shows us what our bodies and minds truly need. Dividing the program into four foundational areas, we can isolate the issues we all face and start making the necessary changes.

Food: What we eat and drink affects every part of our lives, from your energy level to your body shape. First by distinguishing what foods make us feel and act our best, we can then learn how to integrate a flavorful yet super nutritious diet part of our regular life.

Exercise: By putting the emphasis on quality not quantity, we learn to nurture ourselves, stay grounded, and transform our mental, emotional, and physical state a little bit each day.

Home: Too often where we live echoes the clutter and chaos of the outside world. Learn how to make our homes a place where we can rest, recharge, and refocus, a haven for the balanced life we (and our families) seek.

Silence: In our super noisy world, bringing quiet reflection into our lives slows down the rush, helps us learn the empowering skill of observation, and ultimately can guide us into healthier habits and behaviors.

Encouraging us to listen to ourselves and do things differently, Mariel Hemingway's unique program shows us how we can make the best decisions for our own lives, look amazing, and feel fantastic from head to toe. The results are immediate and will last a lifetime.

Library Journal

Too many of us seem to be living in Alice's Looking Glass: it takes all the running we can do to stay in the same place. Actress/ model Hemingway, long a proponent of holistic living, here outlines her 30-day program for eating well, exercising, detoxifying one's home (both physically and spiritually), and cultivating serenity using yoga techniques. The advice exercise regularly, meditate, and eat whole foods, preferably organic is similar to that found in many other books, but Hemingway's book stands out by telling us not to push too hard to achieve perfection in any area. It's in the striving that we create more stress for ourselves, thereby defeating the purpose. The whole idea behind her suggestions is being good to oneself. This would be a fine addition to most libraries' self-help collections. Susan B. Hagloch, formerly with Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Against Happiness or Sailor Jerrys Tattoo Stencils

Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy

Author: Eric G Wilson

Americans are addicted to happiness. When we’re not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling on Happiness; Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment; The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. The titles themselves draw a stark portrait of the war on melancholy.

More than any other generation, Americans of today believe in the transformative power of positive thinking. But who says we’re supposed to be happy? Where does it say that in the Bible, or in the Constitution? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving culture, that it is the muse of great literature, painting, music, and innovation—and that it is the force underlying original insights. Francisco Goya, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, and Abraham Lincoln were all confirmed melancholics. So enough Prozac-ing of our brains. Let’s embrace our depressive sides as the wellspring of creativity. What most people take for contentment, Wilson argues, is living death, and what the majority takes for depression is a vital force. In Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson suggests it would be better to relish the blues that make humans people.

Publishers Weekly

This slender, powerful salvo offers a sure-to-be controversial alternative to the recent cottage industry of high-brow happiness books. Wilson, chair of Wake Forest University's English Department, claims that Americans today are too interested in being happy. (He points to the widespread use of antidepressants as exhibit A.) It is inauthentic and shallow, charges Wilson, to relentlessly seek happiness in a world full of tragedy. While he does not want to "romanticize clinical depression," Wilson argues forcefully that "melancholia" is a necessary ingredient of any culture that wishes to be innovative or inventive. In particular, we need melancholy if we want to make true, beautiful art. Though others have written on the possible connections between creativity and melancholy, Wilson's meditations about artists ranging from Melville to John Lennon are stirring. Wilson calls for Americans to recognize and embrace melancholia, and he praises as bold radicals those who already live with the truth of melancholy. Wilson's somewhat affected writing style is at times distracting: his prose is quirky, and he tends toward alliteration ("To be a patriot is to be peppy" "a person seeking slick comfort in this mysteriously mottled world"). Still, beneath the rococo wordsmithing lies provocative cultural analysis. (Feb.)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

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Sailor Jerrys Tattoo Stencils

Author: Kate Hellenbrand

American tattoo master Sailor Jerry Collins of Hawaii is best known for his remarkable tattoo designs, blending the fluidity of Asian motifs into classic American tattoo imagery. Until now, most of Sailor Jerrys work has been controlled by a handful of collectors, seen only at museum or art gallery exhibitions or in short-run, self-published books. Here is a sizeable portion of Sailor Jerrys stencils, the newest tattoo collectible, spanning his tattoo career, from the 1940s to the early 1970s. The basic line work of hundreds of his staple and surprisingly beautiful designspin-ups, roses, bluebirds, hearts, and banners, and Jerrys infamous military/political cartoons. The stencils themselves were handcut in celluloid, vinyl or acetate sheets by the master himself for use during his day-to-day thriving tattoo trade in downtown Honolulu. They are, in the best sense, permanent tattoos carved in plastic, enduring through time. In their original condition, most carry residual charcoal dust from their last use. All are signed by Jerry with one of his several distinctive signatures. This is the only book of its kinda workbook for artists, and a design catalog for folk art historians. The value of the stencils is included, along with descriptions of stencils and their usage and a glossary of tattoo terminology.

Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training with DVD or Get to Know Your Gut

Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training with DVD

Author: NSCA Certification Commission

Beefed up from 38 to 57 exercises, this new edition of Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training is a must for any professional library. It will help readers prepare for the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist exam or the NSCA-Certified Personal Trainer exam. It will also serve as a valuable reference for personal trainers and fitness instructors. Also, college and university faculty who teach courses in resistance training can use the manual and DVDs to complement hands-on instruction and demonstration or to teach exercise technique without going to a weight room.

Developed by the NSCA Certification Commission, this resource provides clear descriptions for those performing resistance training exercises or for those who instruct others. The manual gives detailed explanations on technique for each free-weight and machine exercise, and the accompanying DVDs show the movements for each exercise in action. Readers using this manual to study for the CSCS or NSCA-CPT exams will find this resource particularly helpful as they prepare for exam questions relating to anatomy, biomechanics, program design, and exercise technique.

Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training, Second Edition contains the following features:

Extremely thorough checklists for 57 resistance training exercises, helping readers safely perform the exercises or oversee the safe and correct performance of them
Instruction from experts who were selected and approved by the NSCA Certification Commission
Over 140 photos that demonstrate proper execution of the exercises
Accurate exercise technique for each exercise on the DVDs, which also highlights some of the mostcommon incorrect techniques

The manual and DVDs supply 5 total-body, 14 lower-body, 36 upper-body, and 2 abdominal exercises. For each exercise, the manual details the type of exercise (e.g., whether it is a single-joint or multi-joint exercise), the predominant muscle groups and muscles involved, and technique guidelines from beginning to end, including starting position, downward movements, and upward movements. When appropriate, the manual also covers transitions, catches, and other phases. It offers spotting guidelines, safety suggestions, weight belt recommendations, and breathing guidelines.

The result is a complete manual with expert guidance in safely performing common resistance training exercises-something that both professionals and students can use to further their careers.

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Get to Know Your Gut: Everything You Wanted to Know about Burping, Bloating, Candida, Constipation, Food Allergies, Farting, and Poo but Were Afraid to Ask

Author: Joan Sauers

In Get to Know Your Gut, Joan Sauers and Joanna McMillan-Price take a candid, often hilarious look at the inner workings of our gut, explaining to readers why their stomachs act the way they do and how they can avoid many "uncomfortable" situations. This indispensable book breaks down the bathroom door on previously taboo subjects, from bad breath to flatulence and every other digestive function in between, and offers straight answers to those awkward questions we all want to ask but just don't have the nerve—such as, Why do I need to go to the bathroom when I get scared? Why do I get constipated when I travel? What color should my poo be? What makes my breath smell bad?—and much more. Illustrated with useful, easy-to-understand diagrams and filled with lists of what to do and what not to do for a wide variety of tummy troubles, Get to Know Your Gut will help readers understand how their gastrointestinal system works and what they can do to help it run more smoothly and work better.

Nothing to Wear or AgeLess Body Timeless Mind

Nothing to Wear?: A Five-Step Cure for the Common Closet

Author: Jesse Garza

At last, a revolutionary method to discover your style type and edit your wardrobe to project your most confident self!

Getting Things Done meets What Not to Wear in this stylish cure for the common closet, based on the five-step process that has made Visual Therapy™ a hit for over ten years with fashion editors and clients alike. In the book, Visual Therapy founders Garza and Lupo walk readers through the process of identifying their natural style (how their fashion "personality" aligns with the image they want to portray), then helps them perform a "love it or leave it" examination of their wardrobe, eliminating the out-of-date, too-tight, too-loose clutter, and reestablishing an authentic sense of style-getting them into their clothes and out of the house looking and feeling like a million bucks.

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Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old

Author: Deepak Chopra

There is nothing inevitable about aging--that is the inspiring message from Dr. Deepak Chopra. "Once again Dr. Chopra presents us with information that can help us live long, healthy lives. For all those interested in a long, full life, this book is a valuable resource."--Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles Over 1.5 million copies sold. National bestseller. Line drawings.

Conquer Your Food Addiction or Fix It and Enjoy It Diabetic Cookbook

Conquer Your Food Addiction: The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss

Author: Caryl Ehrlich

Conquer Your Food Addiction is not a diet book.

But if you're committed to losing weight, it's the right book for you!

Nobody can cajole, trick, or provoke you into shedding those excess pounds. But if you are genuinely ready to go for it, Caryl Ehrlich is here to lead the way with her 8-step program for permanent weight loss. The perfect solution for people who are overweight -- many of whom are compulsive eaters -- Ehrlich's is a behavioral approach to weight loss that teaches you how to change habits in order to overcome food addiction. As she observes, no deprivation diet will work for food addicts, because they use food the way other addicts use drugs or alcohol: not to satisfy physical hunger but to distract oneself from painful feelings -- loneliness, anger, boredom, sadness -- with a never-ending conveyor belt of food.

A former compulsive eater herself, Ehrlich developed this easy-to-understand program for herself more than twenty-five years ago and has taught it to others, with astounding results, for more than two decades. With the help of Conquer Your Food Addiction you will:

• Learn how to distinguish physical hunger from emotional hunger

• Become aware of your unconscious, ritualized eating habits

• Develop the skills necessary to approach food differently

• Change your behavior in order to change your body

• Awaken to an improved, realistic relationship with food Using original concepts and easy assignments, Ehrlich's proven 8-step program retrains your thought process so that you can begin to see food in a new and healthy way. Once you do, you'll be amazed at how the poundscome off!

Publishers Weekly

This behavioral approach to losing weight is divided into eight weekly sessions in which participants work to overcome their addictive eating habits and strive to meet a personal weight-loss goal. The author, a self-described compulsive eater, is a counselor who designed this nutrition program and currently uses it with clients. Although Ehrlich asserts that her rather complicated plan is not a diet with food prohibitions, no one who faithfully follows it will overeat. Based on limiting the number of food types that can be consumed at each meal, this system, according to Ehrlich, will change ritualized compulsive eating into planned, healthy consumption. For example, breakfast should consist of one or two items, lunch can include two to three items and dinner may contain three to four elements, such as a piece of meat, a starch and a vegetable. She also recommends drinking 10 glasses of water a day and prohibits diet sodas and finger foods. Above all, Ehrlich stresses that readers need to change their habits with regard to food: all meals should take at least 20 relaxed minutes to be consumed, each item should be entered in a food log the author details here and meals should be planned ahead of time. (June) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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Fix It and Enjoy It Diabetic Cookbook

Author: Phyllis Pellman Good

These cookbooks include: Recipes for appetizers, main courses, soups, vegetables, breakfast dishes, and snacks. Complete nutritional analysis and exchange values for each recipe. Timely healthy tips from the experts at the American Diabetes Association scattered among the recipes. A week of sample menus. Answers to the Ten Most Asked Questions About Diabetes. A recommended reading list from the American Diabetes Association.

Table of Contents:

About Fix-It and Enjoy-It Diabetic Cookbook     3
Healthy Choices When You Have Diabetes     5
Appetizers and Snacks     7
Breakfast and Brunch Dishes     16
Breads     32
Soups, Stews, and Chilis     48
Main Dishes     68
Beef     68
Pork     84
Lamb     94
Chicken     95
Turkey     109
Seafood     111
Meatless Main Dishes     117
Pastas and Pizzas     125
Vegetables     139
Salads     155
Desserts     184
Crisps, Cobblers, and Puddings     184
Cookies and Bars     202
Cakes     219
Pies     237
Snacks, Candies, and Beverages     246
Low Sodium Mixes and Sauce     254
A Week of Menus     255
10 Most Asked Questions about Diabetes     271
Index of Recipes     273
Recommended Reading List     283
About the Author     284

Yoga Games for Children or Staying Clean

Yoga Games for Children (Hunter House Smartfun Book Series): Fun and Fitness with Postures, Movements, and Breath

Author: Danielle Bersma

This introduction to yoga for children contains variations on traditional yoga postures that help children develop physical strength, flexibility, emotional calm, and self-expression. The games involve relaxation, trust, and cooperation. Included are over 50 illustrations and 16 completely structured lessons based on themes like the seasons, rain, snow, and animals.

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Staying Clean: Living Without Drugs

Author: Hazelden Foundation

Each section of this book focuses on one of 33 proven ideas for staying drug-free, such as seeking professional help, using meditation, attending support groups, and praying. An excellent introduction to understanding life in recovery.

Black Pain or The South Beach Diet

Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting

Author: Terrie M Williams

Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows because she's one of them.

Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief. For thirty years she kept on her game face of success, exhausting herself daily to satisfy her clients' needs while neglecting her own.

Terrie finally collapsed, staying in bed for days. She had no clue what was wrong or if there was a way out. She had hit rock bottom and she needed and got help.

She learned her problem had a name -- depression -- and that many suffered from it, limping through their days, hiding their hurt. As she healed, her mission became clear: break the silence of this crippling taboo and help those who suffer.

Black Pain identifies emotional pain -- which uniquely and profoundly affects the Black experience -- as the root of lashing out through desperate acts of crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, workaholism, and addiction to shopping, gambling, and sex. Few realize these destructive acts are symptoms of our inner sorrow.

Black people are dying. Everywhere we turn, in the faces we see and the headlines we read, we feel in our gut that something is wrong, but we don't know what it is. It's time to recognize it and work through our trauma.

In Black Pain, Terrie has inspired the famous and the ordinary to speak out and mental health professionals to offer solutions. The book is a mirror turned on you. Do you see yourself and your loved ones here? Do the descriptions of how the pain looks, feels, and sounds seemfar too familiar? Now you can do something about it.

Stop suffering. The help the community needs is here: a clear explanation of our troubles and a guide to finding relief through faith, therapy, diet, and exercise, as well as through building a supportive network (and eliminating toxic people).

Black Pain encourages us to face the truth about the issue that plunges our spirits into darkness, so that we can step into the healing light.

You are not on the ledge alone.

Ann Burns - Library Journal

Speaking from experience, Williams, a trained social worker now heading her own public relations firm, offers a compelling look at depression in the African American community. By chronicling her own battles with the debilitating disease, as well as the stories of other sufferers, from entertainers to athletes, she sheds light on the healing process.

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The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss

Author: Arthur Agatston

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Top 100 Recipes for Happy Kids or Zoneperfect Cooking Made Easy

Top 100 Recipes for Happy Kids: Keep Your Child Alert, Focused, Active, and Healthy

Author: Charlotte Watts

As experts pay closer attention to how junk food affects children’s behavior, it’s become increasingly clear that a well-nourished child is also a happy one. The great news is that it’s easy to make changes that will improve kids’ brain function, concentration, and outlook on life. Here are quick, delicious, and nutritious meals that will help grow a more contented, better behaved child, from an energy-boosting breakfast of blueberry and apple muffins to chicken dippers, a brown roll, and muesli munchies for the lunchbox. Try sweet potato wedges for an afternoon snack. Serve a smiley-face pizza for dinner, followed by banana and coconut ice cream. Children will love the food and parents will love the difference it makes in their kids.

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Zoneperfect Cooking Made Easy: Quick, Delicious Meals for Your Healthy Zone Lifestyle

Author: Gloria Bakst

From the cooking expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition, daily and weekly menus that make it easy for you to stay in the Zone

Offering a proven formula for permanent fat loss, optimal health and all-round peak performance, the Zone diet has an estimated over two million followers worldwide. Zone Perfect Cooking Made Easy shows you how to stay in the Zone while enjoying delicious, easy-to-fix meals. It features 150 recipes from Gloria Bakst, whose work as the cooking and lifestyle expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition appears in the "Cooking with Gloria" section of ZonePerfect's well-traveled website.

Zone Perfect Cooking Made Easy shows you how to adapt the Zone's 40-30-30 (carbs-fats-protein) formula to real food and your real life and supplies daily and weekly menus along with down-to-earth explanations of the latest nutrition research findings.

Easy and Tasty Recipes for Zone Living:

• Lettuce Wraps with Thai Peanut Sauce
• Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
• Tuna and Apple Salad
• Shrimp Scampi with Sun-Dried Tomatoes
• Scallops with Orange and Sesame
• Grilled Swordfish in Lime-Cilantro Sauce
• Grilled Mahi-Mahi with Strawberries
• Chicken Taco Salad
• Open-Face Avocado-Chicken Salad Sandwich
• Turkey Apple Quesadillas
• Grilled Lemon-Basil Pork Chops
• Chili-in-the-Zone
• Zucchini Lasagna
• Spicy Eggplant Stir-Fry
• Steamed Butternut Squash with Bok Choy and Mushrooms
• Sweet Crisps with Ricotta and Berries
• Apple Crisp or Fresh Fruit Crisp

Gloria Bakst is a nutritional lifestyle consultant and the founder of Balanced Nutritional Lifestyles. Gloria spent seven years as the food expertat ZonePerfect Nutrition and wrote the popular Cooking with Gloria column on the Zone Perfect website. Her recipes have been published in Weight Watcher cookbooks, The Jewish Vegetarian Year Cookbook and The Healing the Heart Cookbook.

Mary Goodbody is a nationally known food writer and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Taste: Pure and Simple. She recently worked with bestselling author Debra Ponzek on The Family Kitchen Mary also has collaborated on cookbooks with Williams-Sonoma and Art Smith, Oprah Winfrey's chef.

The Art of Expressing the Human Body or Pretty is What Changes

The Art of Expressing the Human Body

Author: Bruce Le

Beyond his martial arts and acting abilities, Bruce Lee's physical appearance and strength were truly astounding. He achieved this through an intensive and ever-evolving conditioning regime that is being revealed for the first time in this book. Drawing on Lee's own notes, letters, diaries and training logs, bodybuilding expert John Little presents the full extent of Lee's unique training methods including nutrition, aerobics, isometrics, stretching and weight training.

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Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

Author: Jessica Queller

A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?

Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian cancer in her lifetime. Thirty-four, unattached, and yearning for marriage and a family of her own, Queller faces an agonizing choice: a lifetime of vigilant screenings and a commitment to fight the disease when caught, or its radical alternative—a prophylactic double mastectomy that would effectively restore life to her, even as it would challenge her most closely held beliefs about body image, identity, and sexuality.

Superbly informed and armed with surprising wit and style, Queller takes us on an odyssey from the frontiers of science to the private interiors of a woman’s life. Pretty Is What Changes is an absorbing account of how she reaches her courageous decision and its physical, emotional, and philosophical consequences. It is also an incredibly moving story of what we inherit from our parents and how we fashion it into the stuff of our own lives, of mothers and daughters and sisters, and of the sisterhood that forms when women are united in battle against a common enemy.

Without flinching, Jessica Queller answers a question we may one day face for ourselves: If genes can map our fates and their dark knowledge is offered to us, will we willingly trade innocence for the information that could save ourlives?

Publishers Weekly

TV writer Queller (The Gilmore Girls) was 31, single and healthy when her mother succumbed to ovarian cancer at the age of 58, having battled breast cancer six years earlier. Queller chronicles her mother's long and anguished struggle in vivid detail. After her mother's death, at the suggestion of an acquaintance, Queller opted to discover whether she carries the breast cancer gene; indeed, she tested positive for the BRCA-1 gene mutation, which gave her an 87% chance of breast cancer before age 50 and a 44% chance of ovarian cancer in her lifetime. With this knowledge in hand, Queller began the journey toward her pivotal choice: a prophylactic double mastectomy at age 35. Along the way she traveled between the West Coast and New York City, seeking medical opinions, information and unsuccessfully-but not for lack of trying-a man she can love who will father her children before she follows up with voluntary surgery to remove her ovaries. This Hollywood writer's story is seamless and gripping; readers will be rooting for Queller and her heroic decision to confront her genetic destiny. (Apr.)

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Library Journal

Two weeks after Queller's maternal grandmother died from kidney failure, her mother was diagnosed with metastasized ovarian cancer. Eleven months after she, too, died, Queller, single and in her thirties, got tested for the "breast cancer gene" mutation (BRCA). Her results came back positive. Queller, who planned eventually to marry and have children, figured the cancer would come in the latter half of her life. But after doing some research and talking with medical experts and breast cancer survivors-many with her same genetic mutation, BRCA-1-she realized the cancer could strike at any time and that she would need either "vigilant surveillance and hope for the best" or undergo radical surgery. The experience of her mother's suffering-along with her own bravery and strong will to survive-led her to decide on a prophylactic double mastectomy (she has decided to put off having her ovaries removed until after she has the children for whom she hopes). Queller has written a vivid, powerful, informative account of a difficult situation and an almost impossible decision (hers is one with which not all medical authorities would agree) with honesty and grace. Highly recommended for all public library and consumer health collections.-Marcia Welsh, Dartmouth Coll. Libs., Hanover, NH

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Kirkus Reviews

Television writer Queller recalls testing positive at age 35 for the BRCA-1 gene mutation and her subsequent decision to undergo a double mastectomy. In 2002, the author accepted a job in New York to be closer to her dying mother, who after winning a battle with breast cancer was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Stephanie spent much of her final months with her two daughters; Queller recalls that her last discernible words were, "This is against my will." In the wake of her mother's death, Queller opted to take the blood test for BRCA; she had to make repeated phone calls before a gruff, harried doctor gave her the results, which meant that she had "up to an 85 or 90 percent chance of getting breast cancer." (Positive test results also signify a 44-percent likelihood of ovarian cancer, which increases after the age of 40.) Upon being advised by multiple physicians that aggressive surgery was her best option, she wrote about her radical choice of a double mastectomy in an op-ed piece for the New York Times and later discussed it on Nightline, personalizing a controversial and relatively new dilemma. Queller writes frankly about everything from overwhelming medical stresses to her desire for children. Scenes from her dating life show one man after another entering and quickly dropping out of the picture. Her decision, viewed by many as unnecessary and even crazy, was validated when the surgeon found pre-cancerous cells in her right breast. This discovery prompted the author's younger sister to reconsider her choice to remain in the dark. Other women who tested positive for the gene are also brought to life in stories that are by turns inspiring, sorrowful and profoundly moving.Queller's sense of humor and grace transform the most harrowing of situations into a riveting and heartfelt memoir. Wrenching, but surprisingly lively.

You Mean Im Not Lazy Stupid or Crazy or A Womans Way Through the Twelve Steps

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

Author: Kate Kelly

With over a quarter million copies in print, You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! is one of the bestselling books on attention deficit disorder (ADD) ever written. There is a great deal of literature about children with ADD. But what do you do if you have ADD and aren't a child anymore? This indispensable reference -- the first of its kind written for adults with ADD by adults with ADD -- focuses on the experiences of adults, offering updated information, practical how-tos and moral support to help readers deal with ADD. It also explains the diagnostic process that distinguishes ADD symptoms from normal lapses in memory, lack of concentration or impulsive behavior. Here's what's new:

• The new medications and their effectiveness
• The effects of ADD on human sexuality
• The differences between male and female ADD -- including falling estrogen levels and its impact on cognitive function
• The power of meditation
• How to move forward with coaching

And the book still includes advice about:

• Achieving balance by analyzing one's strengths and weaknesses
• Getting along in groups, at work and in intimate and family relationships -- including how to decrease discord and chaos
• Learning the mechanics and methods for getting organized and improving memory
• Seeking professional help, including therapy and medication

New interesting book: Dr Shapiros Picture Perfect Weight Loss Cookbook or Small Cakes

A Woman's Way Through the Twelve Steps

Author: Stephanie S Covington

This illuminating view of how women understand and process the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous explores such essential topics as spirituality, powerlessness, and the emergence of a woman's sense of feminine soul. A Woman's Way Through the Twelve Steps remains true to the underlying spiritual truths of the Twelve Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous while triumphantly overcoming the traditional male orientation of Alcoholics Anonymous. For every woman who has felt there are issues crucial to her recovery that just can't be brought up in a mixed-gender meeting, this book sheds encouraging feminine light on the wisdom of A. A.

Super Baby Food or Womens Bodies Womens Wisdom

Super Baby Food: Absolutely everything you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from starting solid foods to age three years.

Author: Ruth Yaron

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from beginning solid foods through age three years.  The Super Baby Food Diet is a super healthy lacto-ovo vegetarian diet composed only of the most wholesome foods, including whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits, and yogurt.  It is the most complete baby food reference book on the market today. 

Here's a list of the information included in the book. 

• How and when to start your baby on solid foods, with detailed information on the best and safest high chair, spoons, bibs, and other feeding equipment.
• Which foods to introduce to your baby during each month of his first year, with details on proper food consistency, amount, and temperature.
• How much you can expect your baby to eat and drink during the months of her first year with information on her digestive system at each age.
• Interesting details on your baby's physical, emotional, intellectual, and psychological development as it applies to self-feeding and mealtimes; how you can increase your baby's or toddler's self-esteem and self-confidence during mealtimes.
• The age you can expect your baby to start finger feeding, drinking from a cup, eating table foods, and self-feeding with a spoon and fork.
• If you choose to make homemade baby food, this book will give you the knowledge and confidence to make your own healthy and safe homemade baby vegetables, fruits, cereals, (meats--which are optional), and other Super Baby Foods.
• Extensive information on food allergies; foods considered choking hazards; foods likely to cause digestive problems in young babies; and safety precautions to prevent burns and poisoning.
• Thousands of money-saving and time-saving child care and kitchen tips.
• How to make meals fun! Food decorating! Cute cake patterns! Toddler party snacks and favors! Many other entertaining ideas!
• More than 350 quick, easy, delicious, nutritious, and sometimes entertaining recipes for babies and toddlers, including imitation homemade recipes for: Pop Tartsr, Grape Nutsr and other breakfast cereals, instant breakfast drinks, hot chocolate mix, Shake-N-Baker, Pamr, Fruit Roll-Upsr, Stove-top Stuffing Mixr, homemade vanilla extract, Hamburger Helperr, and more. So much cheaper and healthier (no preservatives needed!) to make for your toddler and family!
• Recipes for homemade play dough, finger paints and brush paints, bubbles for blowing, and dozens more children's arts and crafts recipes and ideas.
• Ideas for Halloween, Christmas, Easter, birthday parties, and homemade toddler toys and gifts.
• Extensive information on nutrition and your baby, including nutrient tables of all major vitamins and minerals with convenient baby-sized portions to help you be sure that your baby is getting proper nourishment.
• How to save money by making homemade yogurt, fruit leather, and how to grow sprouts, fruit plants, and herbs in your kitchen for fun and food.
• Easy, economical recipes for homemade baby accessories, such as baby wipes, diaper cream, and many more.
• Baby-safe and environmentally-friendly recipes for household cleaning products, such as baby-safe drain cleaners, furniture polish, window cleaners, and more. These recipes cost only pennies to make and are so safe that most are actually edible!!
• Tips for removing crayon, spit-up, and urine stains from baby clothes, carpets, and furniture.
• This book is the most complete and well-researched baby food book on the market today. Even though it is 600 pages, it is cleverly designed for the busy parent to read only a small part each month as baby grows.

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

Author: Christiane Northrup

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom powerfully demonstrates that when women change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they heal faster, more completely, and with far fewer medical interventions. Now Dr. Northrup brings us vital new information about the best techniques of Western medicine and the best alternative therapies, showing how to incorporate both into a complementary whole. She guides readers through the entire range of women's health problems, and offers strikingly new, positive perspectives on normal processes, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause.

Publishers Weekly

This guide goes far beyond standard self-help books [and] is as accessible as it is empowering.

Library Journal

While this book offers a great deal of sound and sympathetic advice about healthy living for women, it is accompanied by an excess of feminist rhetoric and New Age mumbo jumbo. (Do fibroids really "result when we are flowing life energy into dead ends, such as jobs or relationships we have outgrown''?) The reader might feel more comfortable skipping those parts of this otherwise excellent work. Northrup, the founder of a women's health clinic in Maine, takes up women's standard health problems and offers spiritual and philosophical counsel along with suggestions on dietary change, confronting one's feelings about disease, visualization practices, and other holistic remedies. Although much of this same advice can be found elsewhere, Northrup's approach is more casual. For example, she feels that the main reason for exercise should be that you enjoy it.
-- Natalie Kupferberg, Montana State University Library, Bozeman
-- Mark Guyer, Stark City District Library, Canton, Ohio

Library Journal

While this book offers a great deal of sound and sympathetic advice about healthy living for women, it is accompanied by an excess of feminist rhetoric and New Age mumbo jumbo. (Do fibroids really "result when we are flowing life energy into dead ends, such as jobs or relationships we have outgrown''?) The reader might feel more comfortable skipping those parts of this otherwise excellent work. Northrup, the founder of a women's health clinic in Maine, takes up women's standard health problems and offers spiritual and philosophical counsel along with suggestions on dietary change, confronting one's feelings about disease, visualization practices, and other holistic remedies. Although much of this same advice can be found elsewhere, Northrup's approach is more casual. For example, she feels that the main reason for exercise should be that you enjoy it.
-- Natalie Kupferberg, Montana State University Library, Bozeman

Booknews

New edition of a guide to women's physical and emotional well-being. Supports the viewpoint that when women change the basic conditions of their lives, they heal faster and more completely. Contains updated information on a range of subjects organized into three major sections -- from external control to inner guidance, anatomy, and how to integrate the best techniques of Western medicine with alternative therapies.

FGP - WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women

Through her clinical and personal experiences, Dr. Christiane Northrup came to see that negative circumstances in our lives often manifest themselves in our bodies as illness and pain. In Women's Bodies, she addresses each area of women's health and explains the potential problems that can arise, the possible treatments and the ways that each can be affected by a women's spiritual and emotional status. Examples from the lives of her patients illustrate how changes in attitude and life situations can affect a woman's health. She also gives advice on choosing a doctor, deciding on a treatment, nourishing ourselves and healing emotional scars. Christiane serves as an example of a doctor who has taken her conventional medical training and expanded it to address all aspects of health.

What People Are Saying

Carolyn Myss
A masterpiece for every woman.
-- Author of Anatomy of the Spirit

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction to the Revised Edition: Speaking Our Truth
	Introduction to the First Edition: Physician, Heal Thyself
1	The Patriarchal Myth and the Addictive System	3
2	Feminine Intelligence and a New Mode of Healing	25
3	Inner Guidance	50
4	The Female Energy System	67
5	The Menstrual Cycle	101
6	The Uterus	164
7	The Ovaries	210
8	Reclaiming the Erotic	241
9	Vulva, Vagina, Cervix, and Lower Urinary Tract	259
10	Breasts	327
11	Our Fertility	381
12	Pregnancy and Birthing	445
13	Motherhood: Bonding with Your Baby	495
14	Menopause	515
15	Steps for Healing	579
16	Getting the Most Out of Your Medical Care	642
17	Nourishing Ourselves with Food	674
18	The Power of Movement	740
19	Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World	757
App	Choices in Hormone Replacement	777
	Resources	787
	Notes	831
	Index	891