Out of the Shadows or Feng Shui Principles for Building and Remodeling

Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis

Author: E Fuller Torrey

"Powerful. . . . The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger."—The New York Times Book Review

"Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames."—Phil Donahue.

"If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . . provides a five-year road map in Out of the Shadows."—New York Daily News.

"An important book . . . timely and very well written."—The New England Journal of Medicine.

"Controversial ideas, forcefully presented."—Kirkus Reviews

"Moving and vivid. . . . Torrey's powerful prescription for change challenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. His searing case examples will haunt the reader."—Laurie Flynn Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

Virginia Galloway

This is a concise, informative exploration of the mental illness crisis in America. The author provides the startling facts of our situation as an impetus for change, then catalogues the necessary steps to change. The aim of the book is simply to answer ""Why?"" Why do our mental illness problems exist? Why does the established system not work? Why has the crisis gotten worse, instead of better? What can we do? The book is needed because the current situation is depraved, inhumane, and not functional. The book answers these questions and offers a practical outline for change. The book is a valuable resource for mental health workers and the families of the mentally ill. The book is informative and pedagogic for anyone endowed with the power to invoke change. The author is learned about the state of America's mental illness crisis and has the clarity of vision and acumen to illustrate a solution. The illustrations are sufficient, but more would be useful. The references are expansive, almost overwhelming, yet necessary for a complete understanding of the gravity of the mental illness crisis. The table of contents is adequate and the index is superb. The book is attractive. The appendix detailing the magnitude of deinstitutionalization state by state is provocative, This is a palpable exploration of America's mental illness crisis. It humanely describes the privations of our mentally ill and methodically explores the economic, ideological, and legal reasons for such a state. The provided solution to the crisis is viable and informative. This book will provide mental health workers and the families of the mentally ill with insightful knowledge and has the potential to be acatalyst for change, if read by policymakers.

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Reviewer: Virginia Galloway, BA (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This is a concise, informative exploration of the mental illness crisis in America. The author provides the startling facts of our situation as an impetus for change, then catalogues the necessary steps to change.
Purpose: The aim of the book is simply to answer "Why?" Why do our mental illness problems exist? Why does the established system not work? Why has the crisis gotten worse, instead of better? What can we do? The book is needed because the current situation is depraved, inhumane, and not functional. The book answers these questions and offers a practical outline for change.
Audience: The book is a valuable resource for mental health workers and the families of the mentally ill. The book is informative and pedagogic for anyone endowed with the power to invoke change. The author is learned about the state of America's mental illness crisis and has the clarity of vision and acumen to illustrate a solution.
Features: The illustrations are sufficient, but more would be useful. The references are expansive, almost overwhelming, yet necessary for a complete understanding of the gravity of the mental illness crisis. The table of contents is adequate and the index is superb. The book is attractive. The appendix detailing the magnitude of deinstitutionalization state by state is provocative,
Assessment: This is a palpable exploration of America's mental illness crisis. It humanely describes the privations of our mentally ill and methodically explores the economic, ideological, and legal reasons for such a state. The provided solution to the crisis is viable and informative. This book will provide mental health workers and the families of the mentally ill with insightful knowledge and has the potential to be a catalyst for change, if read by policymakers.

Kirkus Reviews

The crisis, simply put, is that 2.2 million of the estimated 5.6 million Americans with serious mental illness are not being treated. Instead, these "walking time bombs" are often homeless in the community or incarcerated in prisons. Torrey, a clinical research psychiatrist, explores how this situation came to be and offers some radical proposals for remedying it.

Torrey ("Nowhere To Go", 1988; "Freudian Fraud", 1992, etc.) notes that for the majority of people with severe mental disorders treatments to effectively control their symptoms are already available, and with research, better ones would surely be found. To that end, he urges formation of a National Brain Research Institute. Meanwhile, however, Torrey sees much that can be done to provide humane and cost-effective services for the severely mentally ill. With numerous anecdotes and impressive statistics, he builds a dismaying picture of society's failure to care for the mentally ill. He then argues for major ideological, economic, and legal changes, as well as a change in how we think about serious mental illnesses. Too often they are seen as occupying one end of the spectrum of mental health, linked to social reform and liberal causes and thus highly politicized. Torrey asserts that when serious mental illnesses are properly viewed as neurological disorders of the brain, research funding, treatment resources, and professional expertise can be more readily obtained. To eliminate cost-shifting between levels of government, which he sees as the primary cause of the present situation, he would make the states responsible for providing services and accountable for treatment outcomes, with the federal government providing block grants. While these proposals may arouse polite debate, the legal remedies he calls for—changing the laws to permit involuntary treatment, including involuntary commitment to hospitals—raise some very troubling images and are likely to elicit loud objections.

Controversial ideas, forcefully presented.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:

1	People in the Shadows: The Many Faces of Mental Illness	1
2	Nowhere to Go: Homelessness and Mental Illness	13
3	Jails and Prisons	25
4	Walking Time Bombs: Violence and the Mentally Ill	43
5	Psychiatric Ghettos: Communities and Families	61
6	Looking Backward: Where We Have Been	81
7	New Initiatives in Funding	91
8	From Legal Folly to Common Sense: The Right to Get Well	141
9	From the Woody Allen Syndrome to Brain Disease	167
10	Looking Forward: Where We Should Be Going	193
Appendix	The Magnitude of Deinstitutionalization	205
	References	209
	Index	237

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Feng Shui Principles for Building and Remodeling: Creating a Space That Meets Your Needs and Promotes Well-Being

Author: Nancilee Wydra

Designed to help both professionals and novices utilize feng shui principles, Feng Shui Principles for Building and Remodeling provides you with practical floor plans and ideas for redesigning and creating living spaces. The authors explain why certain strategies are beneficial and show you how feng shui can improve your life as well as your living quarters. You will find the more than 100 blueprints included in the book to be helpful as well as inspirational in your search for balance and happiness in your life.

Nancilee Wydra, FSII, is the author of seven previous books, including Feng Shui: The Book of Cures, Feng Shui in the Garden, and Feng Shui for Children's Spaces. Founder of the Feng Shui Institute of America, she trains, lectures, and consults nationwide.

Lenore Weiss Baigelman, AIA, FSII, is a partner in the architecture and interior design firm of Full Circle Associates, LLC, where she integrates feng shui principles into her practice. She lectures and consults nationwide.

From Lifeguard to Sun King or Beauty by Nature

From Lifeguard to Sun King: The Man Behind the Banana Boat Success Story

Author: Robert Bell

From Lifeguard to Sun King is a compelling account of the life of Robert Bell; the founder of the Banana Boat sun care brand and one of America's most innovative entrepreneurs. Bell and his co-author Joe Carlen recount how and why his unique approach to product development, distribution, and marketing led him from the lifeguard chair to the throne of the "Sun King": The man who created the Sun Care industry and built a consumer products empire. However, with all its shocking and frequently humorous anecdotes, this business autobiography is about much more than dollars and cents. It is the story of a man who overcame all obstacles to reach "impossible" dreams while having plenty of laughs along the way!

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Beauty by Nature

Author: Brigitte Mars

Taking care of your self has never been so natural! Nature has and always will hold the answers to deep and radiant beauty. In Beauty By Nature author Brigitte Mars provides expert guidance to help you unveil your most beautiful self. Complete with easy-to-make recipes for luxurious hair, radiant skin, and beautiful nails that are good for you and good for the environment, this collection of useful and pleasurable health and beauty secrets is meant to be treasured. And they're fun!

Here are a few of the ways to invoke the blessings of natural beauty:

• relax in soothing baths infused with fragrant essential oils
• pamper yourself with moisturizers and facials made from herbs
• awaken your senses with stimulating body scrubs and toners
• rejuvenate with simple yoga postures and gentle acupressure
• nourish yourself with energizing nutrients
• maintain a healthful weight through eating the right food and herbs

Fundamentals of Spiritual Alchemy or Energy for Life

Fundamentals of Spiritual Alchemy

Author: Caroline Myss

This series, recorded live at the Association for Humanistic Psychology seminar in Miami Beach, Florida, in June 2000, focuses on identifying the influences in our lives that keep us from making changes, and understanding the wisdom that the ancients of the Mystery Schools of the Middle Ages had . . . teaching the insight necessary to begin changing your “lead” issues to “gold” (changing the “bad” in our lives to “good”).
Caroline delves into this rich field of inquiry by describing how you can begin to become a “Spiritual Alchemist”—being able to change the way you look at yourself and your contract through the chakra system—universal patterns of consciousness that influence your psychological spiritual development.
As part of this fascinating discussion, Caroline even illustrates the alchemical concepts present in the story of The Wizard of Oz!

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Energy for Life: Connect with the Source

Author: Colleen Deatsman

Lightning. Water. Sunshine. Apples. All matter is composed of energy, even ourselves. So what happens when our energy dissipates, becomes stagnant, or blocked? Imbalanced energy can jeopardize our quality of life and health-leading to fatigue, depression, or chronic illness. Colleen Deatsman's proven program for energy harmony demonstrates how to reignite and fortify one's vital life force energy.

This guide to energy work is full of easy energizing techniques to clear blockages, seal energy leaks, access universal life energy, and strengthen your energy field. Guided journeys, meditations, and other exercises can help you relax, de-stress, boost your energy, improve flow, and connect with spirit guides and other divine energies. Energy for Life also includes a handy audio CD of guided meditations.

The Shangri La Diet or Massage Basics

The Shangri-La Diet: The No-Hunger, Eat-Anything Weight-Loss Plan

Author: Seth Roberts

As seen in the New York Times and on Good Morning America-now updated by the author.

Imagine a diet that's as easy as "a spoonful of sugar" (or extra-light olive oil) twice a day. A diet that actually reduces appetite and cravings. A diet that's based on a wealth of scientific findings but is simple enough for anyone to stick to. A diet with results that amaze almost everyone who tries it.

Psychology professor Seth Roberts asks a simple question most weight-loss experts haven't thought to tackle: What makes people hungry? Based on a new understanding of how the human body regulates hunger, The Shangri-La Diet presents a strikingly simple and surprisingly effective way to lose weight-without giving up favorite foods.

Simple and counterintuitive, this extraordinary new diet is changing the way the world thinks about weight loss-one success story at a time.

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Massage Basics: How to Treat Aches and Pains, Stress and Flagging Energy

Author: Wendy Kavanagh

Ease stress and remedy everyday aches and pains with the techniques found in this comprehensive introduction to massage. All the basics are here, as well as instruction for individual areas of the body. Experiment with massage in the comfort of your own home, and pamper family and friends. Treat headaches, digestive problems, insomnia, and even asthma. Start the morning off right with an energizing massage, and continue throughout the day with self-massage and massages for the workplace. Athletes and trainers can benefit from massage techniques for strained knees, golfer’s and tennis elbow, and repetitive strain injuries. A section on recipes for oils, lotions, and compresses makes this an all-in-one resource to massage your way to better health.

Sundial or Melatonin in Psychiatric and Neoplastic Disorders

Sundial: Theoretical Relationship between Psychological Type, Talent, and Disease

Author: Barbara E Bryden

Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist, presented the theory of psychological types to the world not long after the First World War. Almost a century later, scientific research supports this theory, showing the connection between psychological type, talent and health. With this historical perspective of contemporary medicine and psychology, the author makes the case that cognition and behavior associated with personality type relates to certain kinds of diseases. Once this relationship is understood, an individual can best determine a course for prevention and health management. This book is a fascinating read for those interested in the mind-body connection.

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Melatonin in Psychiatric and Neoplastic Disorders, Vol. 55

Author: Mohammad Shafii

Provides psychiatrists, oncologists, endocrinologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals with a thorough examination of the most current research on the role of melatonin in psychiatric and neoplastic disorders. This unique textbook and clinical reference is divided into four sections:


• Evolutionary Development and Neurobiology of the Pineal Gland& mdash;discusses the synthesis of melatonin and the anatomy of the pineal gland
• Melatonin in Psychiatric Disorders in Adults& mdash;pioneers in the field of pineology outline their findings on melatonin in the areas of adult depression, sleep disorders, chronobiological mood disorders, bipolar disorders, eating disorders, panic disorders, shift work maladaptation, and jet lag.
• Melatonin in Children and Adolescents& mdash;examines the pineal gland and melatonin in healthy children and adolescents and reviews recent studies on serum and urine melatonin in major depression
• Melatonin and Neoplastic Disorders& mdash;examines melatonin& rsquo;s potential as an antioxidant in cancer cells and its diagnostic and therapeutic value in oncology

The final chapter looks at the role that mindful meditation plays in increasing nocturnal serum melatonin and examines meditation& rsquo;s potential as an adjunct treatment for breast, prostate, and gastrointestinal tract cancers or as a preventive measure for high-risk individuals.

With the expert knowledge and current research presented in Melatonin in Psychiatric and Neoplastic Disorders, clinicians can provide accurate information to their patients on melatonin's role in health and disease.

Giridhar G. Reddy

This book on the role of melatonin in psychiatric and neoplastic disorders is edited and written by prominent researchers in their respective fields from universities in the United States and Canada. The purpose is to review the current state of knowledge about the hormone melatonin and its potential role in psychiatric disorders such as depression, sleep and eating disorders, and the possible role of melatonin in neoplastic disorders. The primary audience includes adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrists, oncologists, endocrinologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals. Appropriate figures, graphs, and tables are included to illustrate the text. The article references are extensive and up-to-date. Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland. Receptors for melatonin are found not only in the brain but also in cells in other parts of the body. This book reviews the role melatonin plays in psychiatric disorders such as major depression, sleep disorders, chronobiological mood disorders, bipolar disorders, eating disorders, panic disorders, shift-work maladaptation, and jet lag. The possible role of melatonin in neoplastic disorders is also reviewed. Melatonin has been found to have antioxidant properties and thus could play a protective function in cancers of the breast, prostate, and gastrointestinal tract. This book provides a comprehensive update on this topic and is essential reading for all clinicians.

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Reviewer: Giridhar G. Reddy, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book on the role of melatonin in psychiatric and neoplastic disorders is edited and written by prominent researchers in their respective fields from universities in the United States and Canada.
Purpose: The purpose is to review the current state of knowledge about the hormone melatonin and its potential role in psychiatric disorders such as depression, sleep and eating disorders, and the possible role of melatonin in neoplastic disorders.
Audience: The primary audience includes adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrists, oncologists, endocrinologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals.
Features: Appropriate figures, graphs, and tables are included to illustrate the text. The article references are extensive and up-to-date.
Assessment: Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland. Receptors for melatonin are found not only in the brain but also in cells in other parts of the body. This book reviews the role melatonin plays in psychiatric disorders such as major depression, sleep disorders, chronobiological mood disorders, bipolar disorders, eating disorders, panic disorders, shift-work maladaptation, and jet lag. The possible role of melatonin in neoplastic disorders is also reviewed. Melatonin has been found to have antioxidant properties and thus could play a protective function in cancers of the breast, prostate, and gastrointestinal tract. This book provides a comprehensive update on this topic and is essential reading for all clinicians.

Booknews

A text and clinical reference which examines the most current research on the role of melatonin in psychiatric and neoplastic disorders. Eleven contributions are divided into four major sections to discuss evolutionary development and neurobiology of the pineal gland; melatonin in psychiatric disorders in adults, children, and adolescents; and melatonin and neoplastic disorders. The final chapter looks at the role that mindful meditation plays in increasing nocturnal serum melatonin and examines meditation's potential as an adjunct for the treatment and prevention of cancer. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rating

5 Stars! from Doody

Muscletown USA or Mouse Models of Human Blood Cancers

Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell

Author: John D Fair

From the 1930s to the 1980s, the capital of weightlifting in America was York, Pennsylvania, the home of the York Barbell Company. Bob Hoffman, the founder of York Barbell, propagated an ideology of success for Americans seeking physical improvement. Often called the "Father of World Weightlifting," Hoffman was a pioneer in marketing barbells and health foods. He popularized weight training and inaugurated a golden age of American weightlifting. Muscletown USA--part biography, part business history, and part sports history--chronicles how Hoffman made York the mecca of manly culture for millions of followers worldwide.Hoffman created his so-called muscle empire out of an oil-burner business that he started in the early 1920s. Within a decade, his passion for sport exceeded his need to produce oil burners and by the outset of the Depression he began manufacturing barbells at the factory. He soon discovered a willing public of aspiring weightlifters like himself who would buy not only barbells but also health and fitness products. Hoffman soon recruited a remarkable group of athletes, whom he tagged his "York Gang." He gave these men jobs in the factory, where they trained for national and international meets. Gradually, Hoffman emerged as one of the most prominent muscle peddlers in America, using his fame and fortune to promote competitive weightlifting, bodybuilding, and powerlifting. Muscletown USA reveals other innovations in which Hoffman played a major role, including weight training for athletes, health foods, bottled spring water, isometrics, and women's weightlifting. Even anabolic steroids, first used by weightlifters in the early 1960s, were a direct outgrowth of thefitness culture spawned by Hoffman.Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Fair's book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including anyone fascinated by American sports history and the iron game.

John D. Fair is professor of history and chair of the Department of History and Geography at Georgia College & State University in Milledgville, Georgia. He is the author of two books on modern British history. He has competed in more than fifty Olympic and powerlifting meets, coached several teams, taught weight-training classes, staged meets, been a national referee, served on the national weightlifting committee, and even judged a Mr. America contest.

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A cultural history of the golden age of weightlifting, a phenomenon largely created by Bob Hoffman (1897-1985), whose promotion of a remarkable group of weightlifters known as the York gang sparked an American fascination with the sport that lasted well into the 1960s. The author focuses on the gender constructs surrounding weightlifting during that era and how the sport contributed to traditional constructs of masculinity. Excellent b&w illustrations of the era's finest athletes, including John Grimek's classic Grecian pillar pose<- ->"the greatest muscle picture ever shown." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Mouse Models of Human Blood Cancers: Basic Research and Pre-Clinical Applications

Author: Shaoguang Li

In this book, Dr. Li and his author team plan to emphasize why mouse models are useful in vivo systems for understanding disease mechanisms and developing therapeutic strategies in blood cancers. The authors do not intend to cover all types of blood cancers; instead, they will focus on some major ones such as leukemias and lymphomas. However, the authors will try to cover as much as they can the cancer types and point out that many blood cancers need to be studied in mouse disease models although they are still not available at present. A major focus in the book will be to show what we can or cannot learn from mouse disease models and to also show the critical contributions of mouse models in therapeutic drug development.

African American Womens Health and Social Issues or New Medicines

African American Women's Health and Social Issues

Author: Catherine Fisher Collins

Written by a team of experts, including doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and chemists, this updated edition of this handbook focuses on the diseases that pose the greatest threat to African American women today. Topics include African American women and heart disease, sickle cell, breast cancer, diabetes, HIV and AIDS, as well as mental illness. Social issues that affect health are examined, including poverty, homelessness, stress, racism, sexism, and treatment disparities.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : commentary on the health and social status of African American women	1
1	African American women and heart disease	12
2	Breast cancer in African American women	36
3	Understanding sickle cell disease in African American women	46
4	Sickle cell disease : what's going on? : insights for women	65
5	Diabetes and African American women	82
6	HIV/AIDS : confronting the health risk factors	93
7	Social construction and social transmission of HIV/AIDS	109
8	Allowing illness in order to heal : sojourning the African American woman and the AIDS pandemic	130
9	African American women and depression	142
10	Homeless women : caught in a web of poverty	158
11	Informed decisions : paving the way to informed consent	177
12	Women in the shadows : seeking health, seeking self	189
13	Women of color and the roots of coping : a literary perspective	199

Look this: Human Resource Management or New Sources of Development Finance

New Medicines: How Drugs Are Created, Approved, Marketed and Sold

Author: Bernice Schacter

Today, most people use prescription medications. Every year, the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry produces new medicines that treat everything from arthritis to AIDS, from high cholesterol to depression. But, despite recent controversies regarding the safety of drugs, consumers know little about the medications that they ingest and inject. How are these new medicines invented? How do consumers know that drugs are safe and effective? How are they tested? Who regulates their production - and who watches the regulators? How do drug companies produce the vast quantities needed for the marketplace, and why do they market their drugs as they do? The New Medicines leads the reader through the maze of the modern drug industry - from bench to bedside - and provides consumers with a step-by-step understanding of how new medicines are created, approved, marketed, and sold.

Penis Pain a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or Women Confront Cancer

Penis Pain - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: Icon Health Publications

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to penis pain. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to penis pain.If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.

Table of Contents:

Forward
Chapter 1. Studies on Penis Pain
Overview
Federally Funded Research on Penis Pain
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Patents on Penis Pain
Overview
Patents on Penis Pain
Patent Applications on Penis Pain
Keeping Current
Appendix A. Physician Resources
Overview
NIH Guidelines
NIH Databases
Other Commercial Databases
Appendix B. Patient Resources
Overview
Patient Guideline Sources
Finding Associations
Appendix C. Finding Medical Libraries
Overview
Preparation
Finding a Local Medical Library
Medical Libraries in the U.S. and Canada
ONLINE GLOSSARIES
Online Dictionary Directories
PENIS PAIN DICTIONARY
INDEX

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Women Confront Cancer: Twenty-One Leaders Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies

Author: Margaret J Wooddell

"An outstanding contribution to the international debate over breast cancer. Women Confront Cancer not only focuses on exciting new non-conventional treatment options, but allows outspoken women cancer patients to describe their experiences and ordeals in their own words. A landmard in the struggle for patient autonomy."
--Ralph Moss, Ph.D., author of The Cancer Industry

"Without telling us what we ought to do, these women make it clear what we can do: Remember that miracles do occur and that no one, not even orthodox medicine, has all the answers."
--Susun S. Weed, author of Breast Cancer? Breast Health!, The Wise Woman Way.

"Women Confront Cancer offers more than case stories of hope triumphing over despair, more than options, alternatives and resources. Its message about individuality, empowerment and leadership makes it must reading for every woman diagnosed with cancer. Its quiet demand for medical freedom of choice and for a patient-driven shift in oncologic policy should be heard by every professional in the cancer field. If ever there was a time for this book, it is now."
--Susan Silberstein, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education

Each year hundreds of thousands of women are diagnosed with cancer, and more and more frequently, women are turning to alternative treatments to take control of their illnesses and their lives. Information, however, has been scarce for women navigating through conventional and unconventional medicine. Research funding continues to support traditional cancer therapies. Women Confront Cancer declares the need for new, less toxic therapies anddiagnostic procedures.

For the first time, Women Confront Cancer unites the voices of women leaders who have breast, cervical, ovarian, and other cancers. Documenting the decision process, the choices, and the dilemmas these women faced as they chose alternative and complementary cancer treatments, a powerful unity emerges, pointing the way to the future of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer by less toxic methods. Ann Frahm, the author of A Cancer Battle Plan, Susan Moss, the author of Keep Your Breasts, and Cathy Hitchcock, coauthor of Breast Cancer, are only three of the leaders who relate their personal experiences with cancer. All of the women featured in Women Confront Cancer share how and why they created treatment programs that combine the best of conventional and unconventional approaches, and how it has improved their health and their lives.

A call for patients' rights, for policy reform in cancer research, for better information about both conventional and alternative medicine, Women Confront Cancer will be both a source of inspiration for women who have cancer and an aid for them in creating their own approach to healing.

* Did you know that October is [ NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH ] and pink is the color that symbolizes breast cancer awareness?

Kathleen O'Connell

This is a collection of different women's experienceswith conventional and alternative/complementary medicine. The purposeis to present stories and information regarding patients' experienceswith breast cancer with conventional and alternative/complementarymedicine. This is a worthy objective. The personal stories at timesseemed more emotional than objective. This book is targeted at alarge audience of patients, doctors, health professionals, andadvocates, according to the editors. The contributors interviewed thepatients and did not attach any follow-up documentation of data thatshould be available to the medical community, Medical, psychosocial,and political aspects of breast cancer care are discussed. The bestaspects of the book are the personal reflections. The women seem quitecompassionate. The main shortcoming is the misleading data onconventional medical intervention. Alternative/complementary therapiescan be presented in a positive way alongside modern, conventionalmedicine. The women's stories about their breast cancer experiencesportray conventional medicine in a very negative light. The concludingchapter attempts to analyze both aspects of breast care, but it is notenough. Women need to decide on their care with strong, accurateinformation. My fear is that women will not heed the warnings againstusing this book for medical advice. It needs added accurateresearch-based information to back up each chaptertopic.

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Reviewer: Kathleen O'Connell, MSW (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Description: This is a collection of different women's experiences with conventional and alternative/complementary medicine.
Purpose: The purpose is to present stories and information regarding patients' experiences with breast cancer with conventional and alternative/complementary medicine. This is a worthy objective. The personal stories at times seemed more emotional than objective.
Audience: This book is targeted at a large audience of patients, doctors, health professionals, and advocates, according to the editors. The contributors interviewed the patients and did not attach any follow-up documentation of data that should be available to the medical community,
Features: Medical, psychosocial, and political aspects of breast cancer care are discussed. The best aspects of the book are the personal reflections. The women seem quite compassionate. The main shortcoming is the misleading data on conventional medical intervention. Alternative/complementary therapies can be presented in a positive way alongside modern, conventional medicine.
Assessment: The women's stories about their breast cancer experiences portray conventional medicine in a very negative light. The concluding chapter attempts to analyze both aspects of breast care, but it is not enough. Women need to decide on their care with strong, accurate information. My fear is that women will not heed the warnings against using this book for medical advice. It needs added accurate research-based information to back up each chapter topic.

Library Journal

A collection of profiles of women with breast and other cancers, this work stems from research funded by the National Cancer Institute to study the public's understanding of science. The selected women represent "the opinion leaders in the intersecting worlds of cancer, advocacy, the women's health movement and alternative/complementary medicine." Informal and open-ended interviews, based on a uniform series of questions, include personal experiences, how decisions were made, what role science or other factors played, advice for other women, and personal opinions on cancer research and publicly funded organizations. Written by a research biochemist (Wooddell) and a professor of anthropology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Hess), the book is informative but easy to read and even personable. Often-quoted references include Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book (LJ 6/1/95) and Susan Weed's Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (Ash Tree, 1996). As a call for patients' rights and partnership in medical care, this work is recommended for public libraries and consumer health collections.--Virginia Lingle, Hershey Medical Ctr. Lib., Pennsylvania State Univ., Hershey

What People Are Saying

Susun S. Weed
Without telling us what we ought to do, these women make it clear what we can do: Remember that miracles do occur and that no one, not even orthodox medicine, has all the answers. (Susun S. Weed, author of Breast Cancer? Breast Health!, The Wise Woman Way.)

Ralph Moss
An outstanding contribution to the international debate over breast cancer. Women Confront Cancer not only focuses on exciting new non-conventional treatment options, but allows outspoken women cancer patients to describe their experiences and ordeals in their own words. A landmard in the struggle for patient autonomy.
— Ralph Moss, Ph.D., author of The Cancer Industry

Susan Silberstein
Women Confront Cancer offers more than case stories of hope triumphing over despair, more than options, alternatives and resources. Its message about individuality, empowerment and leadership makes it must reading for every woman diagnosed with cancer. Its quiet demand for medical freedom of choice and for a patient-driven shift in oncologic policy should be heard by every professional in the cancer field. If ever there was a time for this book, it is now."
— Susan Silberstein, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

Rising from the Dead or Radical Ecopsychology

Rising from the Dead: Stories of Women's Spiritual Journeys to Sobriety

Author: Patricia D Nanoff

Help bridge the gap between the non-religious recovering community and the religious community

Rising from the Dead: Stories of Women's Spiritual Journeys to Sobriety details the recovery stories of alcoholic women in long-term sobriety and the role spirituality has played in transforming their life histories into healing narratives. This powerful book guides helping professionals to an understanding of how the 12-step spirituality practiced by women in long-term sobriety has helped them through difficult life experiences and how the stories of those experiences can act as a rich resource for communities of faith.

The stories told in Rising from the Dead demonstrate the catastrophic nature of alcoholism, illustrating models of therapeutic listening and pastoral counseling that can help pastors, pastoral counselors, and chaplains working in the Christian community assist those who suffer from addiction. The book examines barriers that are specific to helping professionals and pastoral counselors, offering suggestions for the use of story in pastoral ministry and strategies for counseling. It includes practical applications for constructing a spiritual life story and suggested journal questions.

Rising from the Dead examines:

• Narrative construction
• Stories as sacred containers
• Stories from a therapeutic perspective
• Shame and guilt
• Threshold experiences
• Finding a path through Christian traditions
• God language
• Constructing a life story and a soul story
• And much more

Rising from the Dead: Sobriety Narratives and Sacramental Encounters is a comprehensive professional resource for pastors, pastoral counselors, chaplains, parish nurses, and seminary faculty teaching in the area of addiction ministry.

What People Are Saying

James B. Nelson
Repeatedly etched throughout these women's stories are the themes of new life, new community, and new visions of the sacred, and Nanoff weaves these themes into an effective demonstration of narrative counseling. Particularly compelling is her understanding of healing from shame as a deeply incarnational process grounded in spiritual community. . . . A SPLENDID RESOURCE FOR BOTH THERAPISTS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS—and it is a joyful celebration of true resurrection in recovering women. (James B. Nelson, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities; Author, Thirst: God and the Alcoholic Experience)

Katherine van Wormer
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN REVEALING THE POWER OF REDEMPTION AND THE JOY OF HEALING. The women's stories are compelling as well as empowering to the reader. . . . MUST READING FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PRACTITIONERS, whether they are of the 12 Step tradition or as myself, of the harm reduction school; PASTORAL COUNSELORS WILL FIND MUCH OF VALUE HERE. Nanoff writes with conviction yet not dogmatically from the perspective of a feminist Christian theologian and clinical social worker as she takes us into the world of women who have found a 'pathway from hell to redemption.' Nanoff, through her skillful editing of interviews with women in recovery, maps the territory of their journeys so that others might follow the same path and find hope even in the most depressing of circumstances. Women battling the throes of addiction willing to embark on a spiritual journey will find many gems in this delightful volume on spiritual growth and recovery. Social work educators will find much of interest here for use in their teaching. Pastors will certainly want to keep copies on hand to share with members of the congregation dealing with issues related to alcoholism and drug use. Because the book is relevant to women's issues, counselors in women's shelters might well keep a supply on hand to share with residents who so often have a history of alcohol problems. (Katherine van Wormer, MSSW, PhD, Professor of Social Work, University of Northern Iowa; Co-Author of Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective)

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Part One: We Come to Tell Our Story
Chapter 1. A Conversation in Ordinary Time
Chapter 2. Entering Sacred Space
Part Two: We Come to Break the Bread
Chapter 3. From Story to Theory
Chapter 4. Descending into Hell: Shame and Guilt
Part Three: We Come to Know Our Rising from the Dead
Chapter 5. Standing Between Sin and Grace
Chapter 6. Navigating within Traditions
Chapter 7. To Speak Rightly of God
Chapter 8. Radical Brokenness and Radical Relationship
Chapter 9. On the Road to Emmaus
Chapter 10. More Conversations in Ordinary Time
Appendix
Notes

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Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life

Author: Andy Fisher

Personal in its style yet radical in its vision, Radical Ecopsychology offers an original introduction to ecopsychology-an emerging field that ties the human mind to the natural world. In order for ecopsychology to be a force for social change, Andy Fisher insists it must become a more comprehensive and critical undertaking. Drawing masterfully from humanistic psychology, hermeneutics, phenomenology, radical ecology, nature writing, and critical theory, he develops a compelling account of how the human psyche still belongs to nature. This daring and innovative book proposes a psychology that will serve all life, providing a solid base not only for ecopsychological practice, but also for a critical theory of modern society.

Author Biography: Andy Fisher is a psychotherapist in private practice.

Handbook on Dementia Caregiving or Appetite and Food Intake

Handbook on Dementia Caregiving: Evidence-Based Interventions for Family Caregivers

Author: Richard Schulz

This collection provides a comprehensive analysis of intervention approaches to dementia caregiving. It reviews the existing knowledge and provides a conceptual framework for organizing caregiver interventions of all types. Of special interest is the design of an intervention study for a culturally diverse community. The volume concludes with a discussion of how to translate intervention research into public policy, with an assessment of the future of caregiving and caregiving intervention research.

Table of Contents:

	Contributors
	Introduction and Overview
1	The Extent and Impact of Dementia Care: Unique Challenges Experienced by Family Caregivers	1
2	Understanding the Interventions Process: A Theoretical/Conceptual Framework for Intervention Approaches to Caregiving	33
3	Interventions for In-Home Caregivers: A Review of Research 1990 to Present	61
4	The Pragmatics of Implementing Intervention Studies in the Community	127
5	Development and Implementation of Intervention Strategies for Culturally Diverse Caregiving Populations	151
6	Measurement Issues in Intervention Research	187
7	Identifying Mechanisms of Action: Why and How Does Intervention Work?	225
8	From Intervention Studies to Public Policy: Translating Research into Practice	249
9	Future Directions in Caregiving: Implications for Intervention Research	283
	Index	320

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Appetite and Food Intake: Behavioral and Physiological Considerations

Author: Ruth BS Harris

Providing a unique integrative approach, Appetite and Food Intake: Behavioral and Physiological Considerations reviews the current status of basic and applied research, while considering behavioral and physiological influences on obesity and the regulation of food intake. Each covered topic is discussed in paired chapters that present the subject from the perspectives of basic scientists using animal models and clinical scientists studying humans. Chapters include coverage of eating motivation, orosensory properties of food, influence of the GI tract on food intake, and post absorptive factors. The book also covers macronutrients, micronutrients, and meal patterning.

Cuerpo limpio mente clara or Sibling Loss

Cuerpo limpio, mente clara: el programa de purificacion eficaz (Clear Body, Clear Mind)

Author: L Ron Hubbard

What keeps you from thinking clearly?

Do you sometimes feel tired or drained of energy for no apparent reason? Have you ever felt wooden or lifeless? Do you feel less alert and aware than you used to?

The truth is, our world is swimming in toxic substances that destroy life. Extensive studies show that pollutants, drugs and chemical residues remain in a person's body. These can dull the senses, cloud up thinking and even cause a wide range of illnesses. And worse, they block any stable advancement in mental or spiritual well-being.

There is a solution. In Clear Body Clear Mind, L. Ron Hubbard details his monumental breakthroughs and the resulting Purification program the only effective program that eliminates the devastating effects of drugs and toxins. Hundreds of thousands have done this program and lived happier, more perceptive and aware lives.

Publishers Weekly

"The planet has hit a barrier which prevents any widespread social progress drugs and other biochemical substances," warns L. Ron Hubbard in Clear Body Clear Mind: The Effective Purification Program (originally published in 1990). Hubbard outline a detoxification program aimed at eliminating the build-up of destructive chemicals in the body (including narcotics, prescription drugs, pesticides and preservatives). The program stresses exercises, sauna visits, vitamin supplements and plenty of water and fresh vegetables. The book also includes testimony from people who've successfully completed the program. (June) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Criticas

Arguing that the body stores toxic residues that affect health and mental performance, New York Times best-selling author Hubbard proposes a detoxification program that combines balanced nutrition with exercise, daily doses of niacin, and sauna sessions to release the toxins. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The late founder of the Church of Scientology and author of phenomenal best seller Dianetics (Bridge, 1950) created the detoxification regimen of running, saunas, natural oils, and specific vitamins and minerals that is clearly presented in this book. Included in the book are numerous testimonies from people who used this regimen to recover from substance abuse, radiation illness, Agent Orange-related diseases, and more. Still, readers should know that Hubbard's advocacy of megavitamins to detoxify the body has not been medically proven and is considered a controversial regimen by the regular medical community. Notwithstanding the footnoting (of common as well as technical terms--meant to promote accessibility but maddening to literate readers), a ``bibliography'' consisting of items available from Bridge (the official Church publisher), and a biographical note which virtually canonizes Hubbard, this title would be appropriate for large general-audience collections with subject demand in alternative therapies or Scientology.-- Judith Eannarino, George Wash ington Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.

What People Are Saying

Wheeler
William E. Wheeler, Ph.D. Registered Dietitian & Former White House Staff Nutritionist
I highly recommend the Clear Body, Clear Mind method of detoxification. It sets the standard.

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Sibling Loss

Author: Joanna H Fanos

This is a superb book. It is based on extensive interviews, careful and complete mastery of existing literature, and the research of others. It is a significant contribution to our understanding of mourning, childhood and adolescent psychology, and of specific diseases, particularly cystic fibrosis.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	The Problem	1
Ch. 2	The Family Setting	23
Ch. 3	The Sibling Relationship	34
Ch. 4	The Sibling's View of the Illness	45
Ch. 5	The Ordeal	57
Ch. 6	The Aftermath	70
Ch. 7	The Next Year	80
Ch. 8	Fear	91
Ch. 9	Waiting	103
Ch. 10	Guilt	113
Ch. 11	Resolution	126
Ch. 12	Recommendations	136
	Appendix: Methods	145
	References	163
	Author Index	173
	Subject Index	177

Confessions of an English Opium Eater or Emotional Healing with Homeopathy

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Author: Thomas de Quincey

Impressive account — admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness — of author's early years as a precocious student of Greek and Latin, his adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University, introduction to opium in 1804 and his longterm involvement with the drug.

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Emotional Healing with Homeopathy: Treating the Effects of Trauma

Author: Peter Chappell

When an individual has not resolved a negative experience, the stored trauma may lead to such physical problems as high blood pressure, asthma, headaches, gastritis, addictive behavior, and learning disabilities. This book adds form and substance to homeopathic healing, aligning older theories in the Organon with modern psychological theory about how disease takes hold in our body.

The Everything Birthing Book or Angel Medicine

The Everything Birthing Book

Author: Paula Ford Martin

Becoming a new parent is one of the most rewarding and joyous experiences in life, but naturally you have some fears and concerns about the birthing process. The Everything Birthing Book sets your mind at ease by providing you with a vast amount of available birthing options and guiding you toward making the most informed decision that's best for you and your unborn child.

Filled with expert advice and invaluable tips, this accessible guide looks at everything from Lamaze and water birth to managing pain and choosing a birthplace. The Everything(r) Birthing Book is your all-in-one reference to determine the healthiest way to bring your new baby into the world.

Learn all about:

• The risks and benefits of various techniques
• The Bradley and Leboyer Methods
• Techniques that involve both parents
• Ways to relax and enjoy the experience

Whether you're a first-time parent or a seasoned veteran, The Everything(r) Birthing Book is your straightforward approach to making the choices that are right for you and safest for your child.

Author Bio:Paula Ford-Martin is the author of The Everything(r) Pregnancy Book, 2nd Edition and The Everything(r) Diabetes Book. She is a member of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) and has written extensively on the topics of both traditional and alternative medicine. She lives in Warwick, RI.

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Angel Medicine: How to Heal the Body and Mind with the Help of the Angels

Author: Doreen Virtu

While researching her book Angel Medicine, Doreen Virtue uncovered methods used in the ancient healing temples of Atlantis. She began taking her audience members through a meditation so that they could experience a vicarious trip to an Atlantean healing temple. The results were so powerful that audiences began asking her to record the meditation.
The Angel Medicine CD is a deep-clearing meditation, designed to release stored emotional pain. Working with the archangels, you’ll be able to cut etheric cords to painful relationships, release past-life traumas and troublesome vows of poverty or suffering, open your chakras with the help of the Atlantean crystal healing bed, and increase your desire to exercise and eat healthfully. Beautiful music by Angel Earth evokes the sounds of angelic healing.
These meditations are discussed in the book Angel Medicine, and it is highly recommended that readers use this CD as an accompaniment to that work.

I Have Heard You Calling in the Night or Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005

I Have Heard You Calling in the Night

Author: Thomas Healy

It seems now like a different me, the years I spent with Martin, a Doberman dog, and before he came, another me; and it is a new me now, once again, writing this. I would have been dead long ago had I continued to live the way I had before he came.

I think someone would have murdered me, given how I drank and the dives that I drank in and that I was an aggressive, angry man. I had no money and no friends. I didn’t care, I couldn’t have.

Thomas Healy was a drunk, a fighter, sometimes a writer, often unemployed, no stranger to the police. His life was going nowhere but downhill. Then one day he bought a pup—a Doberman. He called him Martin. Gradually man and dog became unshakable allies, the closest of comrades, the best of friends. They took long walks together, they vacationed together, they even went to church together.

Martin, in more ways than one, saved Thomas Healy’s life.

Written with unadulterated candor and profound love, this soulful memoir gets at the heart of the intense bond between people and dogs.

Publishers Weekly

Novelist Healy was a raging, brawling drunk until, on a whim, he adopted a Doberman pinscher puppy he named Martin. He nursed Martin through illness and wounds; Martin in turn stood guard over him while he lay passed out in fields. Their bond, and the slight but persistent duty of caring for Martin enabled Healy to very fitfully begin to recover from his alcoholism and propensity to violence and gently nudged him toward an understanding of himself and God. Healy embeds the story in a memoir of his life in the slums of Glasgow, his relationship with his parents, his conflicted attitude toward the church and his many loves, from a youthful encounter with a whore with a heart of gold to a mature affair with a boss who fired him after he makes clear that Martin is more important to him than she is. "It was not right that a man should need a dog as much as I had needed him," Healy acknowledges, but he makes no apologies that "for whatever reason, my best pal possessed four legs instead of two." In Healy's heartfelt prose, this eccentric friendship becomes the core of a moving meditation on the mysterious nature of redemption. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Part Angela's Ashes, part A Million Little Pieces, Healy's memoir of sin and redemption through dog companionship tells a story far larger than its 208 pages would indicate. As a young man, Scotsman Healy seems headed for prison or violent death owing to his drinking and brawling. But then he meets Martin, a Doberman Pinscher pup that he pays 50 pounds for on a whim. What Healy receives in return from this extraordinary dog is invaluable. Not only does Martin help Healy regain some dignity and regard for his own life, but he also helps guide him through a series of adventures and romances. Even in death Martin helps Healy grow to be a better person. Healy sometimes brags about the women he beds, but mercifully his tale is free of explicit sex or violence. And while his is not a humorous book, it offers some amusing moments. More important, Healy's memoir manages to do what all the best books do: leave you wanting more. Recommended for all public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/06.]-Alicia Graybill, Southeast Lib. Syst., Lincoln, NB Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Glasgow-based novelist Healy makes his U.S. debut with an ode to his dog, "a gift from God, to keep me in the world."The author spent his early adult years roaming around Scotland, drinking, brawling, writing short stories, drinking, generally batching it, and, oh yes, drinking. Then, on a lark, he adopted a Doberman named Martin. This slender volume, marked by blunt, unadorned prose, is a paean to the dog whose devotion and dependence transformed his life. Healy got serious about earning money, so that he could pay Martin's veterinarian bills, and he gradually ditched the bottle. Though he wouldn't get sober until after Martin's death, Healy credits the dog with starting him on the path to sobriety: "I wanted to keep him and I could not have kept him had I continued to drink the way I had." The author and his elderly mother bonded over Martin. He began attending mass as a result of their more comfortable relationship and, over the years, gained strength from his Catholic faith. (The book takes its title from a Christian psalm.) Healy even embarked on a ten-day silent retreat at a monastery. The silence proved challenging only when he ran across a monk who used to tend bar at one of his hangouts. Dog-lovers who found Marley & Me too saccharine will welcome this darker-hued appreciation of a canine friend.

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Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005

Author: United States Government Printing Offic

Provides authoritative advice about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases. Gives action steps to reach achievable goals in weight control, stronger muscle and bones, and balanced nutrition to help prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.

Table of Contents:

Contents

MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARIES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

CHAPTER 1 Background and Purpose of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

CHAPTER 2 Adequate Nutrients Within Calorie Needs

CHAPTER 3 Weight Management

CHAPTER 4 Physical Activity

CHAPTER 5 Food Groups To Encourage

CHAPTER 6 Fats

CHAPTER 7 Carbohydrates

CHAPTER 8 Sodium and Potassium

CHAPTER 9 Alcoholic Beverages

CHAPTER 10 Food Safety

APPENDIX A Eating Patterns

APPENDIX A-1 DASH Eating Plan at 1,600-, 2,000-, 2,600-, and 3,100-Calorie Levels

APPENDIX A-2 USDA Food Guide

APPENDIX A-3 Discretionary Calorie Allowance in the USDA Food Guide

APPENDIX B Food Sources of Selected Nutrients

APPENDIX B-1 Food Sources of Potassium

APPENDIX B-2 Food Sources of Vitamin E

APPENDIX B-3 Food Sources of Iron

APPENDIX B-4 Non-Dairy Food Sources of Calcium

APPENDIX B-5 Food Sources of Calcium

APPENDIX B-6 Food Sources of Vitamin A

APPENDIX B-7 Food Sources of Magnesium

APPENDIX B-8 Food Sources of Dietary Fiber

APPENDIX B-9 Food Sources of Vitamin C

APPENDIX C Glossary of Terms APPENDIX D Acronyms

Fit Over 40 for Dummies or A Potters Notes on Tai Chi Chuan

Fit Over 40 for Dummies

Author: Betsy Nagelsen McCormack

Tired of feeling tired all the time? Do you find yourself thinking wistfully of the days when your belt-size was less than your age...your dress size less than your kid’s last birthday? Remember when the only spare tire you had to worry about was the one in your trunk? Do you find yourself gasping for breath at the top of the basement stairs? If any of this sounds familiar, then you’re ready for an over 40 fitness plan. And Fit Over 40 For Dummies is the place to start.

Your complete guide to being fit and fabulous over 40, it shows you step-by-step how to set up a personalized fitness routine and stick to it, no matter what your age, weight, or athletic ability. Packed with practical know-how and inspiring anecdotes it shows you how to:

• Lose weight and inches from your waistline
• Boost your energy levels
• Lower or prevent high blood pressure
• Reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes
• Improve your muscle tone
• Give your skin a healthy glow
• Have a more vibrant sex life
• Rebound from life-changing events more quickly
• Get fitter than couch potatoes half your age
• Live a longer, healthier life

Combing her own experiences with the latest scientific research, retired women’s tennis pro, Betsy Nagelsen McCormack explores what it takes to be fit over forty. And, step-by-step, she shows you how to:

• Assess your fitness level
• Eat right for maximum fitness
• Choose and buying exercise equipment
• Select the right gym
• Develop a balanced program of aerobics, weight training and stretching
• Integrate exercise into your daily routine
• Prevent andworking around common injuries and ailments
• Explore sports, outdoor activities, and more

Stop thinking about how great it would be to feel twenty-five again and do something about it. Fit Over 40 For Dummies helps you get on the road to health and well-being.

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A Potter's Notes on Tai Chi Chuan

Author: Margy Emerson

Margy Emerson draws on sixteen years as a professional potter and nine years studying Tai Chi to show what the process of making art and the practice of moving meditation have in common - and what they can teach us about an approach to life.

The Power of Makeup or Why Does Everything Have to Be Perfect

The Power of Makeup: Looking Your Level Best at Every Age

Author: Trish McEvoy

Trish McEvoy has created one of today's most successful skin care and makeup brands by relying on her instincts and the feedback of thousands of women who attend her workshops. the dream that has fueled her success has always been to teach every woman she meets how to look her personal best. now she presents her revolutionary new system that will help you define your makeup style and organize your makeup routine to fit your busy life, no matter what your age or ethnic background. Trish McEvoy: The Power of Makeup will arm you with the tools and knowledge you need to be your own makeup expert.

What's Your Level?

Level One: Makeup is not a driving passion in your life. You live in casual clothing, and you love the natural, simple look. Trish will help you find the bare necessities you need.

Level Two: For you, makeup is a lot like putting on clothes; it's an everyday essential. You wear makeup like a second skin. You feel more comfortable and confident with how you look in makeup than without it. Trish will help you refine your look.

Level Three: For you, makeup is a means of expression. You like to play and have fun with it, and you're game to try false eyelashes and other high-impact effects. Trish will show you how to pull out all the stops for your most glamorous look.

Once you know your level, Trish will tell you everything you need to know about selecting and applying your makeup, adjusting it for casual and formal occasions, and finding and organizing the tools you need. Learn the difference between sheer, shimmer, and matte and what each of these textures can do for your look. Get ready to dive into Trish'sstep-by-step application technique for each level, complete with clear, easy-to-understand instructions and, of course, Trish's secret tips. This is a book to cuddle up with; just like a friend who knows the secrets of the trade, Trish can help you look younger, understand the basics of skin care, and get the most out of your experience at any makeup counter.

In Trish McEvoy: The Power of Makeup, Trish McEvoy will give you the power to define your personal make-up style so that you have the confident glow a woman has when she knows she looks her level best every day.

Table of Contents:

Contents

1: A Passion for Makeup

2: Skin Care

3: Organization

4: Brushes

5: A Glossary of Textures

6: Three Levels of Beauty

7: The Age Factor

8: Beauty in Motion

9: Details, Details, Details

10: Attitude Is Everything

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Why Does Everything Have to Be Perfect?

Author: Lynn Shackman

Bad thoughts that won't go away...repetitive actions...feelings of guilt and shame...

Are you overwhelmed by a need to "get it right"? Do continual "what-ifs" prevent you from making decisions? Do you check again and again to see if the door is locked? Are your thoughts and habits causing you anxiety, guilt, or shame?

If so, you're not alone. You may be suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, a very specific and largely biochemical problem that affects over 5 million Americans. Now this compassionate, informative guide helps you break the tyranny of obsession and compulsions, providing the latest facts on why OCD occurs, its symptoms, and the breakthrough treatments that can dramatically improve the lives of OCD sufferers. Find out about:

• How to determine if you have OCD—and whether your problem is severe enough to warrant professional help
  
• How diet, stress, and other lifestyle conditions can trigger the symptoms of OCD
  
• The two most highly effective forms of treatment—and how to decide what's best for you
  
• The latest news in alternative therapies, including yoga, biofeedback, and herbal therapy, plus cutting-edge research that promises freedom from the chains of OCD forever
  

Every Body Has Parasites or The Dana Guide to Brain Health

Every Body Has Parasites: If You're Alive, You're at Risk!

Author: Valerie Saxion

Readers discover how to protect against ever becoming a parasitic host as well as the keys to eliminating any parasites that may have gained entrance.

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The Dana Guide to Brain Health: A Practical Family Reference from Medical Experts

Author: Floyd E Bloom

A child crashes to the ground from the monkey bars head-first. A high school student prepares for months to take the SAT. A grandmother slowly slips away from her family through the deadly progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. Whether we realize it or not, the importance of brain health to our daily lives goes far beyond just being able to walk and talk. The Dana Guide to Brain Health offers the first comprehensive home medical reference book on the brain, providing an unparalleled, authoritative guide to improving the fitness of our brains and, ultimately, enriching our lives.

With contributions from over one hundred of the most prominent scientists and clinicians in the United States, The Dana Guide to Brain Health is an extensive and wholly accessible manual on the workings of the human brain. This richly illustrated volume contains a wealth of facts and advice, on simple yet effective ways to take care of our brains; the intimate connection between brain health and body health; brain development from the prenatal period through adulthood; and how we learn, remember, and imagine.

The brain is far too important to be excluded any longer from our daily health concerns. The Dana Guide to Brain Health remedies this oversight with a clearly written, definitive map to our brains that reveals how we can take care of them in order to sustain a long and rich life.

Table of Contents:

Using Our Heads: A Foreword by William SafireIntroduction: Welcome to Your BrainHow to Read this BookContributorsYour Brain: A Primer Part I. Understanding Your Brain1. How to Think About the Brain2. How We Know: Learning the Secrets of the Brain3. Basic Brain Care: Protecting Your Mental Capital4. The Brain-Body Loop Part II. Your Brain Through Life5. Prenatal Development6. Brain Development in Childhood7. The Adolescent Brain8. The Brain in Adult Life and Normal Aging Part III. The Healthy Brain9. The Body Manager B1 The Major Senses: Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, and Touch B2 Body Regulation B3 Basic Drives: Eating, Sleeping, and Sex B4 Movement, Balance, and Coordination B5 Pain Perception B6 Consciousness 10. Emotions and Social Function B7 Emotions B8 Inhibition and Control B9 Temperament B10 Attention and Motivation 11. Learning, Thinking, and Remembering B11 Decision Making and Planning B12 Intelligence B13 Learning and Memory B14 Speech, Language, and Reading B15 Visualization and Navigation B16 Creativity, Talents, and Skills Part IV. Conditions of the Brain and Nervous System 12. Conditions That Appear in Childhood C1 Dyslexia C2 Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder C3 Mental Retardation C4 Cerebral Palsy C5 Autism C6 Metabolic Diseases C7 Neurofibromatosis C8 Hydrocephalus C9 Spina Bifida C10 Tumors of Childhood 13. Disorders of the Senses and Body Function C11 Sleep Disorders C12 Narcolepsy C13 Epilepsy and Seizures C14 Dizziness and Vertigo C15 Seeing Problems C16 Hearing Problems C17 Smelling and Tasting Problems C18Autonomous Disorders C19 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 14. Emotional and Control Disorders C20 Depression C21 Anxiety and Panic C22 Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder) C23 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder C24 Bipolar Disorder C25 Schizophrenia C26 Borderline Personality Disorder C27 Eating Disorders C28 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder C29 Substance Abuse and Addiction C30 Alcoholism C31 Violence and Aggression C32 Suicidal Feelings 15. Infectious and Autoimmune Disorders C33 Multiple Sclerosis C34 Shingles/Herpes Zoster C35 Neurological Complications of AIDS C36 Lyme Disease C37 Meningitis C38 Viral Encephalitis C39 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease C40 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 16. Disorder of Movement and Muscles C41 Parkinson's Disease C42 Parkinsonism Plus C43 Tremors C44 Dystonia, Spasms, and Cramps C45 Tourette's Syndrom and Tics C46 Ataxia C47 Huntington's Disease C48 Peripheral Neuropathy C49 Guillain-Barre Syndrome C50 Bell's Palsy C51 Myopathies C52 Myasthenia Gravis C53 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 17. Pain C54 Headache C55 Migraines C56 Back Pain and Disk Disease C57 Chronic Pain C58 Trigeminal Neuralgia 18. Nervous System Injuries C59 Ischemic Stroke C60 Hemorrhagic Stroke C61 Brain Trauma, Concussion, and Coma C62 Spinal Cord Injury C63 Paraneoplastic Syndromes C64 Brain Tumors C65 Nutritional Disorders C66 Chemicals and the Nervous System 19. Disorders of Thinking and Remembering C67 Alzheimer's Disease C68 Amnesias C69 Dementia C70 Trouble with Speech and Language C71 Apraxias C72 Agnosias Glossary Appendix A: Drugs Used to Treat the Brain and Nervous SystemAppendix B: Suggested ReadingAppendix C: Resource GroupsThe Dana Alliance for Brain InitiativesThe European Dana Alliance for the BrainAbout the EditorsIndex