The Health/Medicine Shelf
Rejuvenation
Ken Counts
Blue Dolphin Publi****ng
PO Box 8, Nevada City, CA 95959
9781577331575, $17.95, www (dot) bluedolphinpubli****ng (dot) com
"Rejuvenation: A Guide to Nutrition, Exercise, and Attitude" carries
the alternative title 'My Birthday-Suit Doesn't Fit Me Any More', a
fitting metaphor for how some people go through their lives. With tips
on improving one's physical, emotional, and psychological health, and
advice on how to exercise one's body and mind, "Rejuvenation" is a
guide to getting back into feeling right in one's own birthday suit. A
top pick for community library health collections.
Why People Get Sick
Darian Leader & David Corfield
Pegasus Books
45 Wall Street, Suite 1021, New York, NY 10005
9781933648811, $16.95, No Web Address Given
Is it all in the head? "Why People Get Sick: Exploring the Mind-Body
Connection" is a look into the power of the mind, explaining how
thoughts and feelings have a massive effect on one's health and well-
being. "Why People Get Sick" argues that grave and serious diseases
such as cancer, heart disease, and arthritis can be made worse by the
sufferer's head, but also suggests optimistically that beating illness
in one's mind is the first step to beating it in one's body. A clear
and comprehensive look at the mentality of health, "Why People Get
Sick: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection" is highly recommended for
community library health collections.
8 Weeks to Maximize Diabetes Control
Laura Hieronymous & Christine Tobin
American Diabetes Association
1701 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311
9781580402798, $16.95, www (dot) diabetes (dot) org
Diabetes is a life-changing condition. "8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes
Control: How to Improve Your Blood Glucose and Stay Healthy with Type
2 Diabetes" says that while diabetes is a serious condition, it can be
controlled. With wise advice from some of the most experienced medical
professionals on the subject, "8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control"
lets readers know how to manage their medications, find the right
doctors, plan their meals, exercise properly, and more. A gift for
anyone recently diagnosed with the condition and having trouble
adjusting, "8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control: How to Improve
Your Blood Glucose and Stay Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes" is highly
recommended for community library health collections.
Yoga for Arthritis
Loren Fishman, MD and Ellen Saltonstall
W.W. Norton
500 =96 5th Avenue, New York NY 10110
9780393330588, $18.95 www (dot) wwnorton (dot) com
Arthritis and yoga fit well: arthritis restricts movement, yoga
increases range of motion. Here science and theory combine into a
usable program to offer arthritis sufferers an op****tunity to use yoga
poses linked to flexibility. From the physiology of arthritis and how
yoga makes a difference to exercises for all levels accompanied by
black and white photos for step-by-step following, YOGA FOR ARTHRITIS
is an indispensable pick for any general-interest or new age health
collection.
Change in the Weather
Mark McEwen with Daniel Paisner
Gotham Books
375 Hudson, New York NY 10014
1592403714, $26.00 www (dot) penguin (dot) com
CHANGE IN THE WEATHER: LIFE AFTER STROKE tells of a news anchorman at
the peak of his life =96 and enjoying it =96 when he suffered a stroke.
Mistreatment and misdiagnosis nearly cost him his life =96 and this
memoir do***ents these issues, also following his rehabilitation from
a massive stroke in which he lost some of his greatest gifts. A
powerful account of triumph over harrowing physical issues evolves.
Menstruation Made Easy
J. Amore
Moorestown Publi****ng Company
PO Box 40394, Indianapolis, IN 46240
9780979905896, $19.95, www (dot) formenonlyperiod (dot) com
The menstrual cycle, an enigma to all men without a degree in
gynecology. "For Men Only! Menstruation Made Easy: Including Menopause
Made Simple" is a relation****p guide with a humorous twist focusing on
the strange time of a month where a man's significant other must deal
with this annoying occurrence called the period. Explaining why she's
so irritable during these days, and also noting difficulties that
menopausal women experience later in life, "For Men Only! Menstruation
Made Easy: Including Menopause Made Simple" is an ideal guide for any
man who has been burned far too often for being insensitive during
Aunt Flo's visit, and for community library relation****p collections.
Getting Fit & Staying Fit
Jim Laabs
First American Publi****ng
7606 Lindemann Trail, Madison, WI 53719
9780976759911, $14.95, www (dot) firstamericanpubli****ng (dot) com
The human body begins to stop caring physically around 40 =96 the
problem is, however, is that the mind still cares. "Getting Fit &
Staying Fit: In Your 40s, 50s, and Beyond" is a diet and exercise
manual aimed at those saddled with the metabolic slowdown of middle
age. Focusing on the needs of people of advancing age, "Getting Fit &
Staying Fit" is a complete and comprehensive guide anyone over 40
should acquire. A top pick for community library fitness collections.
Life Regained
Gino Tutera
SottoPelle Marketing Group
5410 N. Scottsdale Road, #B200, Paradise Valley, AZ 85253
9780980143102, $22.95, www (dot) sottopelletherapy (dot) com
Age happens, and menopause and andropause come with it. "Life
Regained: The Real Solution to Managing Menopause and Andropause" is a
look at recent developments in hormonal therapy that can help men and
woman who have reached an age where everything has slowed down to
recapture that spark of youth. Sure to brighten the many a midlife,
"Life Regained: The Real Solution to Managing Menopause and
Andropause" is a top pick for anyone who doesn't want to sit back and
take it, and for community library health collections.
Beating Gout
Victor Kon****n
Ayerware Publi****ng
PO Box 1098, Williamsville, NY 14321
9780981662442, $21.95, www (dot) ayerware (dot) com
Gout is a common disease, well understood by today's modern medical
professionals =96 but far too many of those afflicted fail to receive
proper treatment. "Beating Gout: A Sufferer's Guide to Living Pain
Free" is a complete and comprehensive guide for those who have gout,
covering how they can overcome the day to day pain how to prevent the
condition from leading to something far worse. Using up to date
research, and offering recommendations to help stop gout attacks
before they happen, "Beating Gout: A Sufferer's Guide to Living Pain
Free" is a top pick for long term sufferers and for community library
health collections.
Book of Alternative Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Time Inc. Home Entertainment Books
1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
9781933405926, $24.95, www (dot) mayoclinic (dot) com
It is never wise to completely shun a proven method, and it's never
wise to shun all alternatives as well. "Book of Alternative Medicine:
The New Approach to Using The Best of Natural Therapies and
Conventional Medicine" is a scholarly written and researched guidebook
to alternative medicine, combining natural therapies and the
conventional wisdom of modern science to find solutions when the
common method fails alone. A seminal piece that should be read by all
who want to keep their health up to snuff, "Book of Alternative
Medicine: The New Approach to Using The Best of Natural Therapies and
Conventional Medicine" is highly recommended for community library
medicine collections.
Markets Without Magic
Mark V. Pauly
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Wa****ngton, DC 20036
9780844742618, $15.00, www (dot) aei (dot) org
Could free market competition be what that saves medicine? "Markets
Without Magic: How Competition Might Save Medicine" is an examination
of the current health care epidemic with a focus on Medicare. Claiming
that promoting competition between private health care companies by
encouraging them to insure the uninsured could save American health
care as a whole, "Markets Without Magic" is a dissenting viewpoint
against America's problems that backs up what it says and offers a
solution. A scholarly take on the subject, recommended for any
community library collection covering the health care issue.
Fundamentals of Cancer Epidemiology, second edition
Philip C. Nasca & Harris Pastides
Jones & Bartlett Publishers
40 Tall Pine Drive, Sudbury, MA 01776
9780763736187, $89.95, www (dot) jbpub (dot) com
Cancer is something that many people fear, but what is truly known
about it? "Fundamentals of Cancer Epidemiology" is a scholarly text
examining this blight of mankind, and medical science's advancing
knowledge of it. Now in an updated second edition, "Fundamentals of
Cancer Epidemiology" includes new chapters on screening, drugs,
pediatric cancers, prevention strategies, and up to date information
just as the book went to press. Enhanced with glossaries and indexes,
"Fundamentals of Cancer Epidemiology" is highly recommended for
college medical science and health collections.
Recognizing and Surviving Heart Attacks and Strokes
Glenn O. Turner
University of Missouri Press
2910 LeMone Blvd., Columbia, MO 65201
9780826217943, $17.95, www (dot) press (dot) umsystem (dot) edu
Most deaths by heart attacks can be prevented with proper medical
treatment =96 but all too often that treatment is not administered in
time. "Recognizing and Surviving Heart Attacks and Strokes: Lifesaving
Advice You Need Now" is a compilation of invaluable and vital
information for those who are in serious danger of heart attack.
Claiming that if one acts on the early signs of the disease, one may
escape the heart attack with no long lasting damage, "Recognizing and
Surviving Heart Attacks and Strokes: Lifesaving Advice You Need Now"
is a must for anyone in danger and for community library health
collections.
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