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There "is" hope in the fight against cancer, and for thousands of devoted cancer survivors, that hope goes by the name of a Houston, Texas, doctor named Stanislaw Burzynski. This book presents the astonishing story of Dr. Burzynski's revolutionary discovery of antineoplastons, the century's most promising cancer treatment--and the government's decade-long effort to suppress information about it. 30 photos.
A complete, full-color, illustrated guide for weight control, diet planning, and diabetes management in convenient pocket size format. Includes calorie/fat/carbohydrate figures for over 9,000 foods, complete data for 80 fast food chains (over 3,000 items), and bonus data for alcohol, caffeine, cholesterol, fiber, protein, iron, sodium, and calcium. Fully indexed.
Cancer survivor and founder of The Cancer Club®, Christine Clifford has been sharing her inspiring, humorous outlook on living with cancer with thousands of cancer patients and their families. Now she has gathered a collection of battlefield stories and anecdotes from her fellow survivors that go from the outright hilarious to the downright moving, and combined them with her own personal story of triumphant survival.
The morality of sexuality explored with references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Veritatis Splendor, Evangelium Vitae, and more.
From the authors of the bestselling ChiRunning comes a revolutionary program that blends the health benefits of walking with the core principles of T'ai Chi to deliver maximum physical, mental, and spiritual fitness. The low-impact health benefits of walking have made it one of the most popular forms of daily exercise. Yet few people experience all the benefits that walking can offer. In ChiWalking, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, teach the walking technique they created that transforms walking from a mundane means of locomotion into an intensely rewarding practice that enhances mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Similar to Pilates, yoga, and T'ai Chi, ChiWalking emphasizes body alignment and mindfulness while strengthening the core muscles of the body. The five mindful steps of the ChiWalking program will get anyone, regardless of age or athletic ability, into great shape from head to toe, inside and out. 1. Get aligned. Develop great posture and better balance. 2. Engage your core. Make back and knee pain disappear. 3. Create balance. Walk faster, farther, and with less effort. 4. Make a choice. Choose from a menu of twelve great walks such as the Cardio Walk, the Energizing Walk, or the Walking Meditation, to keep your exercise program fresh. 5. Move forward. Make walking any distance a mindful, enjoyable experience, whether you're a beginner or a seasoned walker.
The publication of Dr. Koch's book marks the 100th anniversary of Chiropractic. This anniversary does not commemorate the invention of a new treatment for disease or pain. Rather, it celebrates the discovery of a previously undiscovered principal of life which governs the fine line between health and disease. This timely and significant book explores that life principal.
After thirty years, Medical Ethics has matured to where a collection of core writings in the field is now possible. There is even a danger that some classic articles will cease to be known because they are no longer included in "issue of the moment" anthologies. This book offers classic, well-written articles that have stood the test of time and have something to teach. These are articles with good philosophical analysis dealing with important topics and making significant contributions to understanding of issues. There are no long, boring selections from government commissions or technical pieces from scientific journals. Many selections illustrate how and why philosophers contributed to the progress of medical ethics. The articles cluster around several broad philosophical questions: terminating the lives of dying patients; assisting human life to begin outside the womb; terminating the beginnings of human life; personhood and higher animals, fetuses, impaired newborns, comatose patients; individual rights against the greater social good; and allocating scarce medical resources.
The world of alternative disciplines and therapies is a vast maze -- there is overwhelming evidence of their benefits, but little guidance on getting started and knowing more. This series of no-nonsense guides introduces you to a wealth of alternative approaches, enabling you to maximise your personal well-being, improve your health, and develop the inner self.
A fully updated and expanded edition of a weight loss program that readers can count on. This fully updated and expanded edition clearly explains just how and why a glycemic index diet works by showing readers how to eat the right kind of foods-more complex carbohydrates, fiber, grains, and fruit. -The glycemic index diet is a solution for many people at risk for Type II diabetes or those with insulin-sensitivity or resistance -Includes information on supplements, easy recipes, food lists, and sample meal plans -Includes an appendix with glycemic index counts and loads for all sorts of food -Features a new study on how eating certain foods cold can make a big difference
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
The Biggest Names in the Adult Entertainment Biz in One Big Tell-All! "A fascinating peek into the sex lives of porn's top stars. A juicy read!"- Anka Radakovich, sex columnist, British GQ "I can't stop reading this! Enlightening and insightful, revealing, arousing, and tips from the pros! This is like the Kinsey Reports of adult entertainment for our generation."-Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, guitarist for Guns N' Roses "This is the only book that has kept our hands off each other and on the pages! Two peckers up!"-Sal Governale and Richard Christy, The Howard Stern Show "Confessions of the Hundred Hottest Porn Stars offers a rare and insightful glimpse into the minds of adult stars-their secret sexual fantasies, preferences, and vulnerabilities. Lainie Speiser has a unique rapport with adult industry actors that enables her to elicit heartfelt revelations from those who are used to hiding behind carefully constructed facades. No other book has ever shed so much light on the inner erotic world of the sexiest and most sexual women and men in the universe. A must-read for anyone who wants to learn about the origin of sexual disinhibition, become a better lover-or simply to get turned on!"-Victoria "Dr. Z" Zdrok, author of Dr. Z on Scoring "This book is a pleasurable romp into the secret lives of the most beautiful and intriguing women in the world of porn. As a fellow 'Sexpert, ' I found this book to be fascinating as it captures the naughty and nice secrets of porn stars who are usually very elusive. Lainie Speiser is a porn pioneer and this book of short-tales is packed full of secrets that are both sexy and surprising."-Kristin Davis, The Manhattan Madam, candidate for governor of New York 2010 "Lainie Speiser has fulfilled every porn fan's fantasy by getting inside the minds-and bedrooms-of the industry's most popular stars. An intimate, fun and sexy read!"-Eric Danville, author of The Complete Linda Lovelace The stories don't come any more sexy, funny, or raw than they do in Confessions of the Hundred Hottest Porn Stars. They're all here. One-hundred of the world's most famous porn stars-including Nikki Benz, Tera Patrick, Nick Manning, Jesse Jane, Sunny Leone, Tabitha Stevens, Ron Jeremy, Breanne Benson, Brooke Haven, Mr. Marcus, Brittany Andrews, Stoya, Joanna Angel, Lupe Fuentes, James Deen, Bree Olson, Kayden Kross, Kelly Divine, Misty Stone, Peter North, Taylor Wane, Phoenix Marie, Evan Seinfeld, Gina Lynn, and Sophia Santi-and they're not afraid to share their innermost thoughts on: -what really turns them on -their favorite sexual positions-both on- and off-camera -their innermost sexual fantasies -the fun of threesomes, foursomes, and orgies -the joys of double penetration -being married to another porn star and why open marriages and relationship work best Penthouse publicist and columnist Lainie Speiser, who has worked behind the scenes of the adult industry for 20 years, gets the hottest people in the business to open up and share their secrets, offer advice on sex, and tell you about their hidden desires and favorite toys. The stories are shocking, gripping, surprising, and fun, revealing what these porn stars really think about themselves and their sex lives. And each confession is accompanied by the star's favorite photo.
There are over a million angina sufferers in the UK and this is a self-help book to help them to live an active, pain-free and longer life. Attacks can be managed by controlling stress and taking a positive and healthy approach to life. Dr Louise Wallace and her colleagues at the South Birmingham Health Authority have done pioneering work on stress management and angina, and share their expertise using tips, exercises and log sheets designed to offer help and hope to the angina sufferer.
A revolutionary program that can indefinitely postpone the need for dialysis
If you've been diagnosed with kidney failure, this book could save your life. If you suffer from diabetes, hypertension, obesity, or any of a host of conditions that put you at risk for kidney disease, you owe it to yourself to read what is in this book. If you are among the 60,000 North Americans who go on dialysis each year, the information in this book could substantially improve your quality of life.
In Coping with Kidney Disease, a leading expert tells you, in plain English, what you need to know to:
* Understand kidney failure
* Recognize early warning signs of kidney failure
* Get a proper diagnosis
* Talk with your doctors about it
* Confidently evaluate treatment options
* Take charge of your treatment
* Delay dialysis or even avoid the need for it altogether
The centerpiece of Coping with Kidney Disease is Dr. Walser's revolutionary 12-step program for avoiding dialysis. Based on treatments he has pioneered with his own patients at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the program calls for a supplemented low-protein diet supported by treatments to control blood pressure and correct high cholesterol. So effective has this breakthrough strategy proven to be that in many patients it actually worked to slow or arrest the progression of kidney failure to the end stage.
Knowledge is power. Coping with Kidney Disease empowers you with what you need to take charge of kidney disease.
If you've been diagnosed with kidney failure, this book could save your life. If you suffer from diabetes, hypertension, obesity, or any of a host of conditions that put you at risk for kidney disease, you owe it to yourself to read what is in this book. If you are among the 60,000 North Americans who go on dialysis each year, the information in this book could substantially improve your quality of life.
In Coping with Kidney Disease, a leading expert tells you, in plain English, what you need to know to:
* Understand kidney failure
* Recognize early warning signs of kidney failure
* Get a proper diagnosis
* Talk with your doctors about it
* Confidently evaluate treatment options
* Take charge of your treatment
* Delay dialysis or even avoid the need for it altogether
The centerpiece of Coping with Kidney Disease is Dr. Walser's revolutionary 12-step program for avoiding dialysis. Based on treatments he has pioneered with his own patients at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the program calls for a supplemented low-protein diet supported by treatments to control blood pressure and correct high cholesterol. So effective has this breakthrough strategy proven to be that in many patients it actually worked to slow or arrest the progression of kidney failure to the end stage.
Knowledge is power. Coping with Kidney Disease empowers you with what you need to take charge of kidney disease.
With the potential for self-renewal and differentiation, the possibilities for stem cells are enormous. One specific type of stem cell, the hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC), which is derived from umbilical cord blood (as well as adult bone marrow and mobilized peripheral blood), holds particular promise. To make the most of these HPCs, the Institute of Medicine was asked to consider the optimal structure for a national cord blood program and to address pertinent issues related to maximizing the potential of stem cell technology. Cord Blood: Establishing a National Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program examines:
Distills the basic principles used by Native American healers to create miracles. - Explores the power of miracles in both traditional Native American healing and modern scientific medicine. - Cites numerous cases in which people whose conditions were deemed hopeless were miraculously healed. - Enables readers to start their own healing journey through the exploration of purpose, meaning, and acceptance. - By the author of Coyote Medicine. Native American healers expect miracles and prepare in all possible ways for them to occur. In modern medicine, miraculous recoveries are discarded from studies as anomalous cases that will taint the otherwise orderly results. Yet this small group of "miracle" patients has much to teach us about healing and survival. Coyote Healing distills the common elements in miracle cures to help people start their own healing journey. Looking at 100 cases of individuals who experienced miracle cures, Dr. Mehl-Madrona found the same preconditions that Native American healers know are necessary in order for miracles to occur. The author reveals what he learned from both his own practice and the interviews he conducted with survivors about the common features of their path back to wellness. Survivors found purpose and meaning in their life-threatening illness; peaceful acceptance was key to their healing. Coyote Healing also tells of another kind of miracle--finding faith, hope, and serenity even when a cure seems impossible.
In this groundbreaking book, nutritionist Joan Mathews Larson, Ph.D., founder of Minnesota's esteemed Health Recovery Center, offers her revolutionary formulas for healing your emotions--biochemically. Through proven all-natural formulas, Seven Weeks to Emotional Healing will help you find the emotional well-being you've been missing your entire life. Inside you'll discover how to - Screen yourself for emotional and behavioral symptoms
- Recognize the mental and physical clues that indicate biochemical imbalances
- Heal your depression and anxiety with the right vitamins and minerals
- Stabilize your mood swings and protect your well-being with essential fatty acids
- Choose the right foods for optimal mental fitness
- Rejuvenate your body with key natural hormones Safe, fast, more long-lasting and cheaper than prescription drugs or psychotherapy, Seven Weeks to Emotional Healing will help you find balance and well-being.
- Recognize the mental and physical clues that indicate biochemical imbalances
- Heal your depression and anxiety with the right vitamins and minerals
- Stabilize your mood swings and protect your well-being with essential fatty acids
- Choose the right foods for optimal mental fitness
- Rejuvenate your body with key natural hormones Safe, fast, more long-lasting and cheaper than prescription drugs or psychotherapy, Seven Weeks to Emotional Healing will help you find balance and well-being.
This best-selling portable resource provides authoritative definitions for all of the medical acronyms and abbreviations you can expect to encounter in medicine today. The new, 5th Edition features 10,000 completely new entries reflecting the most recent developments in health care-including new clinical trials, new technologies, and new advances. Highlights include the latest virus nomenclature, computer technology, medical informatics, and molecular biology, along with more from the ever-expanding list of organizations and associations.
It also includes a CD-ROM that makes the content accessible via computer. What's more, a handheld software version is available on CD-ROM-sold separately, or in a money-saving package together with the book.
It also includes a CD-ROM that makes the content accessible via computer. What's more, a handheld software version is available on CD-ROM-sold separately, or in a money-saving package together with the book.
Psychological symptoms are not always best explained psychologically!This volume is designed to help clinicians assess medical conditions which are "masquerading'Äù as psychological ones.The author provides essential clues to our understanding of organic disease and shows us how to look for these clues during the clinical interview process.Common clinical pitfalls, simple assessment tests, and over 100 case studies are included.An annotated bibliography to this practical guide make this an essential resource for mental health practitioners.
New to this edition: obsessive / compulsive disorders; the "love delusion"; postictal psychosis; an update on AIDS dementia complex; addition of atypical neuroleptics; SSRI's and newer general medications; an alternative medicine section; multiple sclerosis; ADHD; Lyme's disease; and an updated bibliography and references.
In Doctor, What Should I Eat?, Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D., one of America's most trusted doctors, gives you specific food recommendations for the conditions in which the role of diet has been clearly and scientifically established. Dr. Rosenfeld discusses how each disorder develops, what you should or should not eat to help your recovery or prevent a recurrence, and which medications will work best with your food prescription. Working with an experienced registered dietitian, he offers dozens of menus and tables to help put his nutrition prescriptions into action. Dr. Rosenfeld dispels many myths and misconceptions about food and illness and helps readers learn how to spot nutritional quacks. He demystifies the complexities typical of much nutritional advice (who wants to plan dinner with a calculator?) and offers straightforward, easy-to-follow advice. He combines his review of thousands of scientific studies with decades of experience from his own clinical practice, giving readers a full spectrum of nutritional solutions, all of which have been vetted by experts in the field. Too many traditional doctors don't pay enough attention to the importance of your diet in treating illness; too many holistic practitioners decry the use of medications. Proper medical treatment should never be a matter of either/or; it should include both sound nutritional advice and recommendations for the most effective medications - the vital combination you'll find in Doctor, What Should I Eat?
With more than 15 million copies in print, readers have made the Doctors Book series a hit! Each volume is written in an easy-to-use, A-to-Z format that is filled with the best doctor-recommended home remedies for every member of the family. Book dimensions are 6 1/2" x 9 1/8."
Now completely updated and revised, this is an expanded edition of the classic natural pet-care book by veterinarian Richard H. Pitcairn and his wife Susan Pitcairn-- both renowned specialists in chemical-free nutrition, treatment and natural healing for pets. Written with the warmth and compassion that have won the Pitcairns a nationwide following, this guide will help you select the most compatible dog or cat for your own lifestyle-- and show you how to provide the very best in companionship, healing, nutrition and lifelong care. Since its publication more than a decade ago, the Pitcairns' book has become the definitive guide to a natural lifestyle for dogs and cats.
A comprehensive, thorough reference, this pet-lover's companion will tell you:
* How to choose a healthy animal
* Dozens of recipes for delicious, economical, healthful pet food-- with completely updated tables, charts and nutritional guidelines
* How to give your pet a checkup
* What's really in pet foods-- and which ones to avoid to ensure your pet's best health
* Special diets for special pets
* A guide to handling emergencies that includes techniques for external heart massage, artificial respiration and control of bleeding
PLUS:
An in-depth, alphabetical "Quick Reference" section that gives specific instructions for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide variety of animal diseases and disorders-- from abscesses, allergies and behavior problems to vaccination risks, weight problems and worms. The Pitcairns' approach is drug-free and holistic-- with special attention to homeopathic and alternative remedies and treatments.
Julian Whitaker, M.D., is one of the nation's best-known clinical proponents of alternative healthcare methods. His newsletter, Health & Healing, reaches a circulation of nearly 700,000 devoted readers around the country. In this comprehensive guide to good health, Dr. Whitaker explains how to prevent heart attacks and strokes, reverse diabetes, lower high blood pressure, protect themselves from cancer, stop the symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease, end depression without drugs, and confront many other critical health issues.
Written to serve the needs of clinicians handling emergency problems, and the student seeking an introduction to abused substances, the fifth edition of this text offers a clinically oriented guide in the field of drug and alcohol abuse.
La organización que representa a los mejores pediatras de la nación, así como a las investigaciones y procedimientos más avanzados y actualizados en el área de los cuidados infantiles, responde a todas sus preguntas sobre la salud y educación de su hijo. Encontrará consejos útiles y tranquilizadores para educar y cuidar de su hijo, que abarcan desde los preparativos para el nacimiento del bebé y cómo enseñarle a su hijo a usar el baño, hasta cómo fomentar su autoestima. También encontrará una guía indispensable para identificar y tratar los problemas de salud más comunes durante la niñez, así como instrucciones detalladas para saber actuar en situaciones de emergencia. Completo, preciso y actualizado, El cuidado de su hijo pequeño le ofrece: - Recomendaciones fundamentales para cuidar de su hijo desde la lactancia hasta los cinco años - Una guía sobre los logros evolutivos en los aspectos físico, emocional, social y cognoscitivo - Una enciclopedia completa sobre salud infantil: lesiones, enfermedades, anomalías congénitas y otras discapacidades - Consejos útiles para la seguridad de su hijo, dentro y fuera de casa, y en el auto - Recomendaciones para elegir un buen programa de cuidado infantil - Reflexiones sobre temas familiares, como la rivalidad entre hermanos, adopción, formación de una segunda familia y consejos prácticos para las madres que trabajan fuera de casa - Y mucho más
A month-by-month guide that explains what parents need to know about the baby's first year.
Here is a sympathetic, yet objective appraisal of the concept of Qi (chee), the vital energy which is the unifying principle of Chinese medicine. Here are Chinese sages from the Yellow Emperor of 2700 B.C. to the very modern Dr. Fang, who remarks, "Acupuncture without Qi is only as effective as one man's sticking needles in another." And here are Chinese people from all walks of life as they seek relief, through a rebalancing of their Qi, their vital energy, for ailments from colds to cancer.
The instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller A groundbreaking plan to prevent and reverse Alzheimer's Disease that fundamentally changes how we understand cognitive decline. Everyone knows someone who has survived cancer, but until now no one knows anyone who has survived Alzheimer's Disease. In this paradigm shifting book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline. Revealing that AD is not one condition, as it is currently treated, but three, The End of Alzheimer's outlines 36 metabolic factors (micronutrients, hormone levels, sleep) that can trigger "downsizing" in the brain. The protocol shows us how to rebalance these factors using lifestyle modifications like taking B12, eliminating gluten, or improving oral hygiene. The results are impressive. Of the first ten patients on the protocol, nine displayed significant improvement with 3-6 months; since then the protocol has yielded similar results with hundreds more. Now, The End of Alzheimer's brings new hope to a broad audience of patients, caregivers, physicians, and treatment centers with a fascinating look inside the science and a complete step-by-step plan that fundamentally changes how we treat and even think about AD.
For the 40 million menopausal women in America, here is the breakthrough eating program that enables them to replace estrogen naturally--through the kitchen rather than the drugstore. Illustrations.
A resource for parents simplifies the potty training process by providing advice, tips, and techniques such as recognizing when a child is ready, developing readiness skills, and understanding the causes of bedwetting.
Outlines an exercise program designed to help increase bone strength and reduce the risk of osteoporosis, offering exercises targeted for specific high-risk areas of the body, exercises to improve balance, and individualized exercise plans.
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser, a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats.
Want to feel great, disease-proof your body, and live at your ideal weight? Then, eat your medicine.
Haylie Pomroy, celebrated nutritionist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet, shares a food prescription for the 7 most common ways your metabolism misfires and leads to exhaustion, excess weight, and illness. With her targeted eating plans you can feed your body back to a vibrant, energetic, and thriving state.
When multiple health challenges threatened the author's life, it set her on an investigative journey that was life-changing--and lifesaving. In this book, she shares her personal story for the first time, as well as the powerful food programs she created based on the methods and philosophies that saved her life and helped her thrive. For decades now, these same food therapies have provided profound clinical results in her clinics where she's treated thousands of others.
Our bodies are always talking, communicating their needs. We just need to learn how to listen. Sometimes they whisper to us--our energy is off, we just don't feel right, we have indigestion or IBS, or our body shape is morphing in ways we don't recognize or like. Sometimes our bodies speak up and change our biochemistry in order to get our attention, by pushing our cholesterol a little higher, making us irritable, reactive, or 'foggy.' At other times our bodies are screaming for help, we have become pre- or full-blown diabetic and our immune systems are confused and attacking us. Every one of these health signals hides a specific problem, and for which food, not drugs, is the answer.So, if you're suffering from GI issues, fatigue, out of whack hormones, mood and cognition difficulties, elevated cholesterol, blood sugar control problems, or an autoimmune problem, Food Rx has the solution for you.
Over the past ten years, many studies have directly linked a high-fat diet to hypertension, cancer, heart attack, stroke, and other degenerative diseases. Now nutrition-conscious readers no longer need be in the dark. The book contains the largest listing of foods among any available book on fats--over 20,000 entries.