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The Heart Rate Monitor Book for Cyclists: A Heart Zones Training Program
: :Two fitness experts team up to show cyclists how to optimize training by incorporating heart rate monitoring into their workouts. Provided are 25 workouts at three training levels; a heart rate chart showing the five zones athletes should target; information on indoor bikes and trainers; and a sample log book. This new edition features enhanced workout regimens and new charts and tables.
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The Choose to Lose Diet: A Food Lover's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss
: :The authors of Eater's Choice apply their system for lowering cholesterol to a weight-loss program that helps readers change their lifestyles and design individual diets by measuring the fat and calories in favorite foods. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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The Pocket Doctor: A Passport to Healthy Travel
: :The classic reference for international travelers-completely updated. The Pocket Doctor provides travelers with all the information they need to prepare for a trip, to stay healthy while traveling, and to care for health problems that may arise during the journey. In this pocket-sized companion, Dr. Bezruchka covers a tremendous number of topics. Chapters include: Before You Go; Finding Medical Help Abroad; General Health Advice (discussing food, water, hygiene, special environments, and more); Common Illnesses; Less Common Illnesses and Problems; Life-Threatening Emergencies; and The Returning ...
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10 Essential Herbs/Everybody's Handbook to Health: Everybody's Handbook to Health
: :The classic reference for international travelers-completely updated. The Pocket Doctor provides travelers with all the information they need to prepare for a trip, to stay healthy while traveling, and to care for health problems that may arise during the journey. In this pocket-sized companion, Dr. Bezruchka covers a tremendous number of topics. Chapters include: Before You Go; Finding Medical Help Abroad; General Health Advice (discussing food, water, hygiene, special environments, and more); Common Illnesses; Less Common Illnesses and Problems; Life-Threatening Emergencies; and The Returning ...
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Polarity Therapy: The Complete Collected Works (Polarity Therapy)
: :Polarity Therapy is a healing science based on living energy fields which acknowledges and includes all dimensions of a human being: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Polarity Therapy is a way of working with the fundamental energies of life, a way of bringing these energies into a state of balance and free flow throughout the entire human energy field. Volume I includes the following major works by Dr. Stone and is reproduced from the original first editions: Energy: The Vital Polarity in the Healing ...
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause
: :For nearly as long as women have been around, they have been going through menopause. It is a bodily process as old as human birth, death, and of course, menstruation. Like many normal biological events, menopause was gradually medicalized, and with the rise of pharmaceutical medicine, women and their doctors were convinced that it was an 'estrogen deficiency disease' that could be treated by supplementing the body's declining estrogen levels with hormones. By 2002 hormone treatment had been on the market for more than ...
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The 10-Minute Rejuvenation Plan: T5T: The Revolutionary Exercise Program That Restores Your Body and Mind
: :The five tibetan rites of rejuvenation have long been practiced by monks to slow aging, calm the mind, and strengthen the body. In The 10-Minute Rejuvenation Plan, Carolinda Witt simplifies these ancient rites and combines them with breathing, yoga, and exercise philosophies to create T5T—an accessible, modern adaptation that can be done by anyone, at any skill level, in just ten minutes a day.T5T emphasizes the importance of the mind/body connection; the physical movement of each rite is a metaphor for the desired mental ...
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The Essential Net Carb Counter
: :THE NUMBER OF NET CARBOHYDRATES YOU EAT IS THE ONLY NUMBER THAT COUNTS!Anyone who follows a low-carb regime knows how confusing counting net carbs can be. Dieters are supposed to take the number of carbohydrates listed on nutritional labels and subtract the product's fiber and sugar content in order to get a net carbohydrate value. But who has the time and patience?Now, for the first time, dieters have access to a book that does all of the work for them. In this one-of-a-kind nutrition ...
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The American Yoga Association Beginner's Manual Fully Revised and Updated
: :The American Yoga Association has set the standard for Yoga instruction for more than thirty years. Its classic Beginner's Manual has sold close to 100,000 copies nationwide since its release in 1987. Now fully revised and updated with all new photographs and revised text, this essential step-by-step guide provides students with the information and guidance they need to learn Yoga safely and effectively.Now that there are an estimated 18 million Yoga enthusiasts in the United States, this influential resource is poised to inspire a ...
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Parkinson's Disease and the Family: A New Guide (The Harvard University Press Family Health Guides)
: : Parkinson's disease is a movement disorder characterized by tremor, stiffness, and slow gait. It affects 500,000 people in the United States, with approximately 50,000 new cases diagnosed annually. But its impact is much wider. Family members with little understanding of the disease often find themselves struggling to help their loved one navigate the complexities of the health care system. Patients wonder, Which treatments are best for me? Will I be able to live on my own? Should I join a drug trial? In ...
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