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.


Sunday, April 15, 2012

The American Holistic Medical Association Guide to Holistic Health: Healing Therapies for Optimal Wellness

The American Holistic Medical Association Guide to Holistic Health: Healing Therapies for Optimal Wellness Review



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A Complete and Comprehensive Guide to Holistic Treatment

"Larry Trivieri beautifully illuminates the full spectrum of natural healing approaches, highlighting the unifying themes and distinctive features of health systems around the world and across the ages. This book is a valuable resource for individuals interested in their personal well being, as well as health professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of holistic medicine."-David Simon, M.D., Medical Director, the Chopra Center for Well Being, Author, Vital Energy and Return to Wholeness

Find reputable practitioners and put proven healing therapies to work in your life with this informative and reliable guide to holistic medicine and its primary treatment methods, including:
* Nutritional Medicine
* Environmental Medicine
* Mind-Body Medicine
* Traditional Chinese Medicine
* Osteopathic Medicine
* Chiropractic
* Botanical Medicine
* Bodywork/Massage
* Naturopathic Medicine
* Homeopathy
* Ayurvedic Medicine
* Acupuncture
* Yoga


and many more


Monday, April 9, 2012

Hepatitis C A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Health

Hepatitis C A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Health Review



Hepatitis C: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Health is the newest information I have compiled over the last 17 years. I have listed the supplements I have seen work best in over 200.000 hepatitis c suffers. I have cited numerous studies that show what works and what does not. I have listed the common drugs and vaccines that raise the viral load, ast and alt. You will learn what foods to eat, which are the best supplements for you to take and how to take them. Ansers to your frequently asked questions, blood tests you will need. How to treat the common complications of hepatitis C, Fibrosis, Cirrhosis, Varices, Ascites and Liver Cancer. How you can enhance your body's natural ablity to maintain and heal itself.


Saturday, April 7, 2012

Trace Your Genes to Health: Use Your Family Tree to Guide Your Diet, Enhance Your Immune System and Overcome Chronic Disease

Trace Your Genes to Health: Use Your Family Tree to Guide Your Diet, Enhance Your Immune System and Overcome Chronic Disease Review



What do cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, lupus, severe depression, celiac sprue, cystic fibrosis and dozens of other disease conditions have in common?

First, they all express genetic predispositions that can readily be traced within family genealogies. And second, they lend themselves to specific nutritional and dietary preventative measures -- all based on a clear understanding of who is at risk, what dietary and environmental factors are likely to trigger the conditions, and what specific nutrients can help to fortify the immune system against these conditions.

Trace Your Genes To Health offers hope to millions through its comprehensive approach to understanding medical genetics through family tree health diagrams and its dietary/nutritional protocols that relate to numerous common conditions that can typically be prevented, or at least carefully managed.

Read this book yourself. Share it with family members. Share it with your doctor -- or your patients! You may save a life -- perhaps even your own!


Wednesday, April 4, 2012

It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library)

It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library) Review



An updated, fifteenth anniversary edition of the definitive book on kids’ sexual health brings this trusted resource into the twenty-first century.

Now offering a brand-new chapter focusing on safe Internet use — one of parents’ key concerns — this universally acclaimed classic by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley is a cutting-edge resource for kids, parents, teachers, librarians, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of tweens and teens. Providing accurate and up-to-date answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puberty to birth control and AIDS, IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL offers young people the information they need — now more than ever — to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book of the Year
A BOSTON GLOBE-HORN BOOK Award Winner
An Association of Booksellers for Children Booksellers’ Choice
An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book
Five starred reviews (BOOKLIST, BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS, KIRKUS REVIEWS, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL)


Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Self-Healing Strategies: Simple Measures for Protecting Your Health, Staying Well, and Living Longer

Self-Healing Strategies: Simple Measures for Protecting Your Health, Staying Well, and Living Longer Review



Your body wants to be healthy, explains Dr. Andrew Weil - and its ability to heal itself is remarkable. The question is: Are you giving your body the opportunity to do so? With Self-Healing Strategies, this bestselling author and trusted expert on natural medicine invites you to attend a complete home audio program that can teach you the strategies you need to protect your health and support your body's own healing processes. Join Dr. Weil in six information-packed sessions to learn: How to activate your body's natural defenses against infection and illness How to use herbal remedies and supplements to boost your innate healing potential How to avoid heart attack, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and other chronic problems - often without turning to pharmaceutical drugs How to reduce your risk of age-related problems and stay healthy throughout your lifespan How to choose the most effective alternative healing strategies for your own specific health needs, and much more.


The Oral Health Bible

The Oral Health Bible Review



Another health revolution has arrived, says Dr. Michael Bonner in his well-researched new book The Oral Health Bible, and there is no longer any separation between mouth medicine and body medicine. The mouth is completely connected to the body, he says, and is a doorway to achieving peak health and wellness in all the body's systems.

This informative book contains an action plan for taking charge of our oral health and it educates us and our physicians and dentists by detailing how many debilitating health problems-conditions such as arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, rheumatoid arthritis, and premature and low-birth-weight babies-are intimately linked to oral
health and hygiene..

Dr. Bonner emphasizes the importance of finding and treating periodontal (gum) disease because, untreated, it can lead to heart attacks and strokes. He sees more gum disease now than he did twenty-five years ago, he says, largely because of the increasing availability of harmful oral hygiene products on the market. Mouthwashes, for example, are generally considered trustworthy, but in reality, they are the cause of 36,000 cases of oral cancer a year. Moreover, 500 people are killed annually from alcohol ingestion related to mouthwashes.

Dr. Bonner discusses safe, effective oral health techniques and products in order to reverse gum disease with its far-reaching negative consequences. He also outlines how nutritional supplements can help deliver potentially enormous benefits to oral, as well as overall, health. In 1910, the Mayo (clinic) brothers said, "A person with a healthy mouth will live ten years longer."


Sunday, April 1, 2012

Health Systems in Transition: Canada (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)

Health Systems in Transition: Canada (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies) Review



The health care system in Canada is much-touted in the international sphere, but often overlooked when it comes to an examination of its actual administration and regulation. Health Systems in Transition: Canada provides an objective description and analysis of the public, private, and mixed components that make up health care in Canada today. Published in co-operation with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Gregory P. Marchildon's study offers a statistical and visual description of the many facets of Canadian health care financing, administration, and service delivery.

This study's most distinctive feature is a comparative description and analysis. For international comparison, five other countries have been selected: The United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden. Because public health care administration and delivery is highly decentralized in Canada, Marchildon also analyzes the important health status and health care features within Canada by province and territory, and describes in some detail the unique constitutional, jurisdictional, and financial features of the Canadian system.

Balancing careful assessment, summary, and illustration, Health Systems in Transition: Canada is a thorough and illuminating look at one of the nation's most complex institutions.