Tuesday, May 8, 2012

500 Health and Nutrition Questions Answered

500 Health and Nutrition Questions Answered Review



I can't get going in the morning without coffee—what's the remedy? Is there a natural hangover cure? What's the solution to bad PMS? What supplements help depression? Is there an alternative to painkillers, for arthritis?
 
Top nutritionist Patrick Holford answers a selection of the most important health questions he has been asked. Armed with comprehensive knowledge of all things nutritional, he explains in simple, easy-to-follow terms the best way to deal with everything from common colds to unusual medical conditions, including those little complaints that people rarely take to the doctor. From how to children's nutrition to sports nutrition to nutritional tips for coping with skin conditions, depression, Alzheimer's, and Multiple Sclerosis, this reference makes clear what's good to eat, what's not good to eat—and why.


Sunday, May 6, 2012

Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick & Easy Guide for the Whole Family

Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick & Easy Guide for the Whole Family Review



Homeopathy Is Now as Easy as 1, 2, 3
Homeopathy is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. More and more people are realizing that it really does work, and can be used to treat a wide range of common health problems. Now, thanks to a new book by best-selling authors Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman homeopathy can be used easily, safely, and effectively by anyone.
In Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick and Easy Guide for the Whole Family, readers will learn to recognize and treat more than 70 specific conditions using a clear, step-by-step approach. It really can be as easy as 1, 2, 3 if you look, listen, and ask the right questions.
The book is clearly written, and organized in an easy-to-use format that will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about homeopathy. In addition, dozens of the most commonly used homeopathic medicines are listed; a glossary is included; and there are tips for obtaining a homeopathic self-care medicine kit.


Introduction to Health Behavior Theory

Introduction to Health Behavior Theory Review



Introduction to Health Behavior Theory is designed to provide students with an easy to understand, interesting, and engaging introduction to the theoretical basis of health education. Written with the undergraduate in mind, the text uses comprehensive and accessible explanations to help students understand what theory is, how theories are developed, and what factors influence health behavior theory. Covering the more frequently used health behavior theories, the author breaks each theory into concept and constructs to enhance comprehension and encourages students to discover how these theories can be put into practice. Its length makes it the perfect supplement to add depth to any introductory health theory course.


Friday, May 4, 2012

The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness: Recognizing Symptoms and Getting Treatment

The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness: Recognizing Symptoms and Getting Treatment Review



Over 50 million Americans have a mental illness, but as many as 20 million don't have their illness detected. And many others get substandard treatment. Family members play a crucial role in recognizing mental illness, and helping a loved one get the treatment they need. The early signs of mental illness are clear if you know what to look for, and getting rapid and effective treatment will help your relative get better faster. If you think a family member or friend may be struggling with a mental illness, or isn't getting effective treatment, this guide will help you recognize symptoms, get the right treatment, and work together as a family to help your loved one get better.

Inside you'll find step-by-step support and information for determining whether someone you care about is suffering from a mental disorder, and what you can do to help. The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness outlines the nine fundamental steps to recognizing, managing, and recovering from mental illness. It provides both diagnostic information and details about therapy options and useful medications. With the right advice, determined effort, and a lot of love, you can make a difference.


Thursday, May 3, 2012

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, 4e

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, 4e Review



A practical approach helps you learn and apply core concepts of community and public health nursing. This text emphasizes both community and family as client, so you'll gain a solid understanding of these important specialties. Numerous real-life examples demonstrate your roles and responsibilities as a community health nurse. Not only is this text your leading source for need-to-know information, it is the only community/public health book to devote a full chapter to screening and referral!
  • A unique chapter on screening and referral details the process of early detection of disease, a significant responsibility of community/public health nursing.
  • Coverage of the community as client includes each step of the nursing process as applied to the community.
  • Family coverage emphasizes the importance of viewing the family as a singular client.
  • A chapter on community assessment provides a complete assessment tool, with application to two different types of communities.
  • Healthy People 2010 boxes, including the Midcourse Review, reinforce the primary prevention aspect of community/public health nursing.
  • A unique discussion describes the difference between geopolitical and social communities.
  • Student-friendly features include Focus Questions, Chapter Outlines, Key Ideas, Learning by Experience and Reflection, and Suggested Readings.
  • Practical application features include Case Studies, Ethics in Practice, and The Nursing Process in Practice.
  • The companion Evolve website includes critical thinking questions, scenarios, and exercises challenging you to apply concepts to clinical situations.
  • The new ANA Standards for Public Health Nursing are addressed in detail, helping you prepare for population-focused practice.
  • The Minnesota Wheel of public health nursing interventions, a widely accepted framework for practice, offers a model for improving population health.
  • Expanded information about managed care, health care reforms, and universal health care initiatives addresses the current issues in health care delivery.
  • New content about Medicare Part D addresses prescription drug coverage and how it affects health care financing for elderly people.
  • Recent national disasters and lessons learned from them are highlighted in a Disaster Management chapter.
  • New coverage of human exposure to environmental chemicals and the impact of global warming on health explain important risks to public health.
  • Expanded coverage of health literacy helps you provide needed patient education.
  • A Study Aids section in each chapter lists the resources available on the companion Evolve website.


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing Review



More than an exercise program, Yoga and Scoliosis is a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical activity and is a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility and to address the spinal curvature of scoliosis without surgery. The book presents an evidence-based look at how this approach works. Dr. Fishman demonstrates in the introduction how the practice of Iyengar yoga leads to actual lessening of the degree curvature of the spine in patients with scoliosis.

Yoga and Scoliosis is a source of encouragement, knowledge, and healing for those who have scoliosis and need to treat it, but want to avoid braces and/or surgery. It briefly covers the history and treatment modalities of scoliosis and discusses the development of the spine in the embryo.

Yoga and Scoliosis explores the complexities of the concept of alignment in the body, with the main part of the book showing how to address scoliosis utilizing Iyengar yoga. Four chapters give instruction in yoga asanas for scoliosis, and another chapter discusses yoga practice in daily living. Finally there is a Foreword by B. K. S. Iyengar, the founder of Iyengar Yoga.


The Inside Tract: Your Good Gut Guide to Great Digestive Health

The Inside Tract: Your Good Gut Guide to Great Digestive Health Review



More than 60 million Americans suffer from digestive disorders such as gastroesophageal reflux disease and irritable bowel syndrome. In TheInside Tract, a comprehensive plan for overcoming these common digestive ailments, you’ll learn how a simple regimen of dietary changes, supplements, and a 7-step lifestyle modification program can help heal intestinal problems and get you on track to vibrant health!


Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers

The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers Review



In The Healthy Home, a father and son--Dr. Myron Wentz, well-known microbiologist and founder of the USANA Corporation, and Dave Wentz, CEO of the USANA Corporation--take readers on a tour of a specific home for a look at the surprising health risks posed by the everyday products and behaviors of a modern family. Beginning in the bedroom and ending in the garage and backyard, readers learn about the degenerative effects of toxins in the home and receive simple solutions to help minimize exposure without foregoing convenience.

The Healthy Home is not a comprehensive tome on modern health hazards; nor is it a treatise on eco-conscious living. Instead, the book focuses on the most important environment--the home--and the problems that can most easily be lessened or eliminated. Busy parents who suspect that they should be doing more to protect their family but don't know where to start will learn about practical changes they can make in the next fifteen minutes, fifteen days, or fifteen months to create a haven for healthier living.


Friday, April 27, 2012

Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios

Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios Review



Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe and Secure—No Matter What

Undaunted by the prospect of TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It), Lisa Bedford tackles every what-if and worst-case scenario head-on, offering practical advice on how to prepare your family for whatever might come your way. From a few days without electricity to an unexpected job loss or total chaos after the destruction of a tornado, Survival Mom provides everything you need to become self-reliant and establish plans for your family, including:

  • preparing the home for a natural disaster
  • alternative sources of energy in a power's-out situation
  • everything you need to know about food storage
  • personal protection (do I really need to learn how to shoot a gun?)

Deep inside every mom is a Survival Mom whose passion for her family drives her to make the best of the present and prepare for the future. So tap into your Mama Grizzly instincts and channel your worries into action. Whether you're a full-fledged "prepper" or just getting started, with real-life stories and customizable forms and checklists along with Lisa's "you can do it" attitude, Survival Mom replaces paranoia and panic with the peace of knowing YOU have the power to keep your loved ones safe and secure.


Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six

Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six Review



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This book tastes great and it's good for you, too. Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six is based on the principle of "metabolic programming," the scientifically rooted idea that foods eaten in early childhood directly affect the function of individual cells that control strength, intelligence, the immune system, and other vital functions. Think of it as a convoluted molecular take on the old maxim "You are what you eat." Genetics and other external factors also play a role, of course, but those factors are beyond our control. What goes on the dinner table, however, is not. The point of this book is to help parents teach their kids to like healthful foods, thus getting them into a lifelong habit of eating well and staying healthy.

There is a fair amount of science in this book, but the clear writing and good organization make it go down easy. Particularly helpful are the numerous graphs and boxes that highlight such topics as the best sources of calcium and iron (and why too much iron is dangerous), the differences between breast milk and formula, the eight key nutrients for different ages, and how to identify and even prevent allergies and intolerance to certain foods. The recipes, sample meals, healthy snacks, and tips for dealing with finicky eaters are alone worth the price of the book. Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health is an invaluable guide to ensuring that not only will your kids eat their vegetables, they'll even ask for seconds. --Shawn Carkonen How the new science of "metabolic programming" can help you:

Maximize your baby's IQ and development

Prevent allergies and obesity

Prevent or cure picky eating

Teach your child to enjoy healthy foods

Protect against family health problems

AND make mealtimes a pleasure for you and your child!


In this groundbreaking book, two leading pediatric nutritionists--and experienced parents!--introduce exciting new research into "metabolic programming" and make it accessible and practical for every busy parent. They explain:

How the foods you choose can optimize your baby's future development, IQ bone strength, and immunity

The eight key nutrients to focus on

Scientifically based "smart strategies" for working with your child's inborn instincts to build healthy eating habits

Food solutions for common problems--including colic, constipation, poor sleep, and hyperactivity

How to prevent or deal with food allergies or obesity

Easy ways to adapt family meals for kids--with menus and portion sizes for every stage from birth through age six, plus essential tips for food safety

What's more, you can teach your child to enjoy these healthy foods and banish food battles and picky eating forever.


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Health & Wellness Program: A Parenting Curriculum for Families at Risk [With CD-ROM]

The Health & Wellness Program: A Parenting Curriculum for Families at Risk [With CD-ROM] Review



Ideal for psychologists, nurses, social workers, home visitors, parent educators, and others who work with families at risk, this complete program gives professionals everything they need to support parents with a wide range of disabilities or learning challenges as they learn about child health and safety. The only validated program developed for use with this often overlooked population, this well-established curriculum from a respected expert offers effective, proven strategies tested for more than 30 years with over 800 families. Professionals will get a program manual with background information on parents with disabilities, guidance on establishing a program and assessing parents' skills, overviews of what to teach in parent education programs, and assessment tools with clear instructions and illustrations. To ensure learning, the program includes 15 printable workbook-style handouts to give to parents, each using clear, simple language and realistic colored illustrations to teach critical skills.


Saturday, April 21, 2012

NURSES AND FAMILIES: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention

NURSES AND FAMILIES: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention Review



The ideal "how-to" book! Innovative ideas to increase critical thinking Practical guidelines for family interviewing Clinical tools, skills and examples Harness the power of the nurse-family relationship! Use the thoroughly revised Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models to assess families effectively and know when and how to intervene to reduce suffering and promote health. From theory to practice...polish the skills you need to... Use questions in family interviewing more effectively New Chapter - How to Use Questions in Family Interviewing Consider issues of diversity, such as: Ethnicity, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, and socioeconomic class Assist families to manage complex health, social, and emotional problems such as genetics, terrorism, obesity, unemployment, etc. Conduct a fifteen minute (or shorter) family interview Avoid the three most common errors in family nursing Create genograms for families with multiple unions, parents and siblings Prepare, conduct, terminate and document family interviews


Thursday, April 19, 2012

Maternal and Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing and Childrearing Family, Sixth Edition: Text and Study Guide Package

Maternal and Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing and Childrearing Family, Sixth Edition: Text and Study Guide Package Review



Maternal and Child Health Nursing, Sixth Edition helps nurses understand wellness and illness as family-centered events. The author, Adele Pillitteri, views maternal-newborn and child health care not as two separate disciplines but as a continuum of knowledge. She presents the content of the two disciplines comprehensively with a holistic approach.The accompanying study guide includes chapter overviews, key terms, and learning objectives as well as case studies and a range of practice exercises matching, multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer. Readers will also learn to develop nursing care plans and patient teaching plans and explore nursing care priorities for clinical and community settings.


Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research (Hanson, Family Health Care Nursing)

Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research (Hanson, Family Health Care Nursing) Review



The latest edition of this popular text has been totally revised and reorganized with your student's success in mind. You will find new chapters, easy-to-read bulleted chapter summaries, and a new, more colorful design to capture your students' attention. And, an expanded Instructor's Manual will be posted to fadavis.com for easy access.


Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Colon Health Key to Vibrant Life

Colon Health Key to Vibrant Life Review



Dr. Walker focuses your full attention on this forgotten part of the body. He will lead you on a tour of each vital organ of your body explaining how it is affected by the condition of the large intestine, the colon. Learn how through proper care of the colon you can prevent and experience relief from constipation, asthma, colds, allergies, respiratory disorders, digestive problems and numerous other ailments.


Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Eat-Clean Diet for Family and Kids: Simple Strategies for Lasting Health and Fitness

The Eat-Clean Diet for Family and Kids: Simple Strategies for Lasting Health and Fitness Review



We have been hearing for years now about the obesity epidemic and other health issues facing children. In fact, the longevity trend is reversing with this generation - children born today are not expected to live as long as their parents. In The Eat-Clean Diet for Family and Kids, author Tosca Reno handles this issue with typical aplomb.


Healthy Women, Healthy Lives: A Guide to Preventing Disease, from the Landmark Nurses' Health Study (Harvard Medical School Book)

Healthy Women, Healthy Lives: A Guide to Preventing Disease, from the Landmark Nurses' Health Study (Harvard Medical School Book) Review



Since 1976, the world-famous Harvard Medical School Nurses' Health Study has followed more than 120,000 real women, leading real lives, to discover what factors contribute to improving the health of women. The most important findings are made accessible to the general public in this easy-to-understand book that will revolutionize the way women live.

Healthy Women, Healthy Lives goes beyond simply labeling preventive measures and risky behavior -- it provides practical tips and strategies from clinical experts at Harvard Medical School for making healthy lifestyle changes. Here are the best ways to lower the risk of a host of chronic diseases, as well as tips for losing weight, stopping smoking, eating healthily, and exercising regularly. With easy-to-read graphs that clarify complex information and personal stories from nurses who have contributed to the remarkable study, Healthy Women, Healthy Lives is an extraordinary health book that will prove invaluable to women everywhere.