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Essential Arms: An Intense 6-Week Program
: :Want rock-hard biceps? Start doing squats!Think we're kidding? Think again. In easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, best-selling fitness author Kurt Brungardt unveils some surprising new ways to build bulging, world-class arms. Brungardt draws on the latest in biophysical and nutritional research to present you with a 6-week plan that targets your arms while still giving you a challenging total-body workout. Whether you're a beginner or already halfway to Schwarzenegger-dom, Brungardt will have you popping veins in no time.YOU'LL LEARN:* How to schedule your meals and workouts* The ...
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The Scleroderma Book: A Guide for Patients and Families
: :An autoimmune disease in the family with Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Polymyositis, Scleroderma afflicts hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. And yet there are very few sources of information for men and women with this disease. Now, in The Scleroderma Book, one of the nation's leading authorities provides a comprehensive guide written specifically for patients and their families. Dr. Maureen Mayes has drawn on her extensive experience treating scleroderma to provide up-to-date, practical information that will help patients manage their symptoms and ...
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Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-Based Management
: :Public Health Administration gives you a solid grounding in the principles, practices, and skills essential to successful public health administration. When you use this comprehensive and authoritative reference, you get full coverage of traditional public health responsibilities--assessing the burden of disease, preventing and controlling health threats, and developing policies and constituencies to improve health--in a contemporary framework that fully reflects the ongoing transition from a public to a population health perspective. Public Health Administration covers the basics of administration, including organizational design law, human resources, ...
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Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools
: :The definitive book on improving healthcare quality, this book compiles the most current information on a vast array of quality issues, tools, and strategies. The book’s core premise is that the key to effective improvement is centering all efforts on the needs of patients. With the future of healthcare revolving around the patient, this book will be a valuable resource for years to come. The editors have assembled a nationally prominent group of contributors to provide the best available thinking in each area of quality. ...
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Taking Care of Your Child: A Parent's Illustrated Guide to Complete Medical Care (Taking Care of Your Child)
: :Over a million and a half families already use Taking Care of Your Child to help keep their children healthy. Updated with the most recent research and recommendations, this award-winning guide discusses common medical problems, as well as emotional issues such as new siblings and school challenges. The authors even provide forms for medical, growth, and immunization records. And unlike other children's health books, this comprehensive guide is useful from birth through a child's adolescence. Taking Care of Your Child is easy to use, even ...
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The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health
: :A medical breakthrough explained by the leading authority on the connection between health and your body clock.Chronotherapy -- adjusting the care of the body to coincide with the body's natural clock -- is poised to be the next major revolution in medical science. An understanding and awareness of these rhythms will enable us to maximize the effects not only of medications and other treatments but also of diets, exercise programs, and other daily routines. The Body Clock Guide to Better Health combines a detailed discussion ...
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The Journey from Heartbreak to Connection
: :Expanding on the ideas set forth in Anderson's first book, The Journey from Abandonment to Healing, this follow-up is a workshop in abandonment recovery-to help develop trust, build new relationships, and learn to love again. Inspired by her ever-growing readership, The Journey from Heartbreak to Connection offers accessible techniques, guidelines, and signposts for healing. A manual for individual or support group use, it includes exercises that the author has tested and developed throughout her years of expertise in abandonment recovery.
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The Liver Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery
: :It is the portal to total body wellness, the great purifier, and the only human organ that can regenerate itself. But what you don't know about the liver can hurt you! Now, in this complete and authoritative guide that anyone can use and understand, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra explains: The what, where, how, and why of the liver and its miraculous functions How doctors diagnose liver ailments Tests and screenings: what to expect and what they reveal Vital information on hepatitis B (the chronic condition that ...
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What's In Your Food?: The Truth about Additives from Aspartame to Xanthan Gum
: :With almost daily reports in the media about the questionable safety of chemicals and additives in food and cosmetics, buying organic is moving from cult status to the mainstream. The proof? Wal-Mart is going “green,” introducing organic foods chainwide. Label reading is way up-but how do you make sense of the information, particularly when ingredients have unpronounceable names and effects that can’t be easily researched by ordinary people? What’s in Your Food? includes all of the additives used in foods and cosmetics distributed in America. ...
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Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications
: :This state-of-the art health education methods book provides pre-service and current elementary and middle-level teachers with solid background information about health as well as practical, theory-based health education activities that encourage students to adopt health-enhancing behaviors. All the suggested teaching activities are aligned with the National Health Education Standards and include sample assessment strategies.
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